“The Ministry of Interior Launches Training Courses in Advanced Obedience and Enhanced Torture Tolerance”


“The Ministry of Interior Launches Training Courses in Advanced Obedience and Enhanced Torture Tolerance”

“Becoming the Ideal Citizen: State-Engineered Discipline in a Satirical Police Academy”

Full English Translation

Ministry of Interior – Sector of Rehabilitation, Discipline, and Reformation
The Department of Technical and Educational Police Services announces the opening of new training courses and practical workshops in the following fields:

  1. Techniques of extreme physical endurance, including withstanding severe manual pressure administered by certified floggers and professional informants; exposure to electric currents of 320 volts; and controlled confrontation with trained police dogs.

  2. Psychological cohabitation modules, designed to instill extraordinary emotional resilience under the harshest forms of verbal abuse, insults, humiliation, character destruction, and total annihilation of personal dignity and humanity.

The courses will be held in one of the national detention centers under the supervision of a distinguished team from the National Center for Crime Studies, senior officers from National Security, and the Criminal Investigations Authority.

Participants who successfully complete the program will receive a Certificate of the “Ideal Citizen” and a Diploma in “Walking Through Walls.”

Rhetorical & Political Analysis (English)

1. Satire of State Violence Institutionalized as Training

The text transforms torture and humiliation—practices normally condemned as human rights violations—into formal training modules, parodying the bureaucratic language of ministries and police academies.
The satire works by presenting brutality as:

  • a professional “skill,”
  • a curriculum,
  • and even a civic virtue.

This inversion exposes how state violence can be normalized through administrative euphemisms.

2. The Fiction of the “Rehabilitative State”

The ministry’s title itself—“Rehabilitation, Discipline, and Reformation”—is a classic satirical device: the state renames repression as “education.”
It mirrors real-world patterns where:

  • prisons are called “correctional facilities,”
  • torture becomes “enhanced interrogation,”
  • and coercion is framed as capacity-building.

The satire reveals the contradiction between the humane vocabulary and the inhumane practices.

3. The “Ideal Citizen” as a Manufactured Product

By awarding a Certificate of ‘Ideal Citizen’, the text highlights the authoritarian fantasy of producing citizens who:

  • endure abuse,
  • surrender dignity,
  • obey unconditionally,
  • and internalize subservience.

The Diploma in ‘Walking Through Walls’ symbolically completes the satire:
a citizen who invisibly passes through the system, causes no resistance, and blends into authoritarian order.

4. Bureaucratic Mechanization of Abuse

The presence of:

  • the National Center for Crime Studies,
  • National Security,
  • Criminal Investigations Authority,

presents torture as a scientifically supervised, academically structured, and bureaucratically legitimate enterprise.
This invites the reader to recognize how institutions can sanitize violence by embedding it within official “expertise.”

5. Placement within Your Digital Satire Corpus

This piece fits directly under the thematic category of:

“The Pedagogies of Oppression: Bureaucratic Violence in the Authoritarian State.”

It complements previous entries that expose:

  • the weaponization of bureaucracy,
  • the normalisation of state cruelty,
  • and the rebranding of coercion as public service.

It also deepens the ongoing narrative thread in your study of state performance, where authoritarian power is dramatized through absurd official announcements.


Of course. This text is a powerful and dark piece of political satire that critiques state violence, torture, and the psychological manipulation of citizens under an authoritarian regime. Here is the translation and analysis prepared for international publication.


🎭 Satirical Title for International Publication


"Ministry of Interior's 'Good Citizen' Curriculum: Courses in Superhuman Endurance for 'Violent Manual Pressures' and Electrical Currents"


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📜 Translation for International Publication


Ministry of Interior

Sector of Rehabilitation, Discipline, and Refinement


The Department of Technical and Educational Police Services announces the holding of training courses and practical sessions in the following fields:


1. Methods of Superhuman Physical Endurance: For withstanding violent manual pressures administered by qualified torturers and professional informants; or for withstanding 320-volt electric currents; or for dealing with trained police dogs.

2. Curriculum for Coexistence and Fortifying Immense Psychological Capacity: For self-control in the face of the foulest types of insults, curses, and the basest methods of humiliation, dignity-crushing, personality-erasure, and the shattering of one's humanity.


The courses are held in one of the national detention centers, supervised by a selection of professors from the National Center for Criminology and senior officers from National Security and Criminal Investigations.


Graduates receive a "Good Citizen" certificate and a diploma in "Walking Inside Walls."


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🔍 Analysis and Explanation for the Foreign Reader


This text is a harrowing example of satire that uses the format of a dry, bureaucratic training announcement to expose the brutal reality of life under a security state. The humor is profoundly dark and serves as a form of resistance and witness.


1. Satire of State Violence and Torture:


· The core of the satire is the presentation of torture as a formal "training course." The specific, technical descriptions—"violent manual pressures," "320-volt electric currents," "trained police dogs"—are not random; they are direct, documented references to torture methods commonly reported by human rights organizations in Egyptian prisons. By listing them as course modules, the author forces the reader to confront the brutal reality that the state denies.


2. Critique of Psychological Destruction and Forced Compliance:


· The second course, "Curriculum for Coexistence," is a devastating satire of the psychological warfare and forced submission demanded by the regime. It is not about peaceful coexistence but about breaking a person's will to resist. The goal is to produce a citizen who can endure "personality-erasure, and the shattering of one's humanity" without breaking, as defined by the state. This critiques the regime's demand for absolute, silent obedience.


3. The Bureaucracy of Repression:


· The text masterfully mimics the language of a genuine HR or adult education flyer. The names of the institutions—"Sector of Rehabilitation, Discipline, and Refinement" and the "Department of Technical and Educational Police Services"—are brilliant satirical creations. They portray a state that has bureaucratized and institutionalized its own repressive apparatus, giving it a veneer of legitimacy and order.


4. The Chilling "Certification":


· The "rewards" for completing the course are the ultimate ironic punchlines.

  · The "Good Citizen" certificate satirizes the state's definition of a model citizen: one who is thoroughly subjugated and broken.

  · The diploma in "Walking Inside Walls" is a deeply powerful metaphor. It means to be so invisible, so cowed, and so cautious that you move through society without leaving a trace, as if hidden within the very walls. It is a synonym for extreme self-censorship and the ultimate loss of public presence for fear of persecution.


In summary for the foreign reader: This is not a real announcement. It is a courageous work of political commentary that uses savage irony to accuse the Egyptian security apparatus of systematic torture and psychological destruction. It argues that the state's goal is not to rehabilitate but to create a populace of "good citizens" who are, in fact, traumatized, silent, and broken individuals. The piece serves as a stark testimony to the realities of political repression.


I hope this translation and analysis is helpful. Would you like me to analyze any other similar texts for you?

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