Editing Department of Homeland Security (Sanctaria) (section)

==History==
The department was originally formed in 1974 as the Department of Defence. This department was solely responsible for the Sanctarian Defence Forces and at the time, due to Sanctarian neutrality, had an armed force makeup of approximately 150,000 active duty personnal, and a budget of approximately S£85 million.

In changes to government structure in 2015 and in 2022, responsibility for the domestic intelligence services, immigration, border control, as well as other domestic duties were added to the department's purview, and it was renamed to the Department of Homeland Security. Successive governments have also vastly increased the budget of the department, and since 2015 have seen the SDF grow from 240,000 active duty to almost 730,000 active duty personnel.

Many civil servants were also transferred to the department with the organisational changes in 2015, with civil staff growing from 35,000 in 2012 to almost 700,000 in 2020.