The Economic Intelligence Unit is an agency under the command of the Department of Commerce. Its primary mission is to act as the covert intelligence mechanism of said ministerial department, obtaining economic data throughout the continent through the use of espionage, interrogation and infiltration, thus nulling attempts at fooling the Government. The agency maintains an especially close relationship with the Department of the Treasury (as the EIU's intelligence is used to locate tax evaders) and the Federal Bank (as one of the most important functions of the EIU is determining the nation's money supply, and locating sources of counterfeit).