Department of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Illuminatia Department of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (DEI) is an agency of the Illuminatian government responsible for managing relationships with potential intelligent species and civilizations originating from outside of the Neonisi planet. It is generally understood this domain includes the mediation of possible communication with any potentially remaining human civilization on the planet Earth.
The founding of the DEI was a preemptive bureaucratic move. The department was established long before outside contact between Illuminatia and any alien civilization had been imagined to be possible. It is generally understood that no official contact with any extraterrestrial entity has yet been made in Illuminatia. Furthermore, it was not yet understood whether resumption of contact with Earth would be possible and there had not yet been any public debate as to whether such contact would be desirable. However, general public opinion holds that the DEI is an important generator of scholarly activity relating to several social, political, biological, diplomatic,and technological areas of academic activity.
Shortly after the establishment of the DEI, some public debate took place to determine whether the DEI would also handle contact with any possible extraterrestrial Lucidus survivors. It has been theorized that there is a significant possibility that additional multiversal duplications of inhabitants of the Lucidus mission who may have been scattered amongst the cosmos in the interstellar vicinity of the Neonisi planet. In the event that these multiversal kin of Illuminatia's inhabitants do exist in the nearby universe and in case these fellow non-Earthly human civilizations are contactable, it is seen to be desirable to agree on a public policy relating to how to interact with these peoples, as well as whether to and how to integrate their social, political, and economic structures into Illuminatian civilization.
The DEI supports research and intellectual dialogue regarding interspecies interaction, including communication, cultural exchange, propagation and reproduction, and pathology, among other issues.
The DEI is headquartered in a relatively remote region of Illuminatian to ensure the administration of extraterrestrial exchange could be safely managed without interruption in the event of any domestic or foreign social, political, or diplomatic unrest.