[quote=@Necrophage] Added Question - Is the federal government at all involved with monsters? [/quote] Certain officials are pawns of them, yes, but the institutions at large? Hell no. They have those pawns to make sure there are no 'monster hunting' or 'paranormal regulation' bureaus in the government, fearing another inquisition. The Courts have significant resources to subvert the government and they use them to make sure the right people are intimidated into shutting down anyone that tries to use government resources against the supernatural in any sort of meaningful way. Edit: Note that this sort of activity by the Court prevents the extremists from waging outright war on humanity to subjugate and rule them, it's a 'greater good' sort of thing. They do employ mortals to assassinate mortals, for reasons of plausible deniability.