Federal Emergency Management Agency

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is a United States government agency tasked with the effective management of major emergencies within the country, including ensuring the continuity of government during a large-scale disaster such as a nuclear war. It provides federal relief to areas afflicted by natural disasters, and has recently drawn a great deal of criticism for its face-palming incompetence in doing so.

FEMA has been the focus of a great number of nutbar conspiracy theories. Many of them center around Mount Weather, their headquarters in Virginia, which is a sort of spare Washington, D.C (in case the real one gets nuked) and the purported location of the US Shadow Government. FEMA also supposedly has the power to declare martial law and round up half a million American citizens into concentration camps so that the UN can take away everyone's guns.