Guard created by Atlanta after stealing the presidency from her brother. Based on the original Praetorian Guard during the feudal era of Chalakanesia.
Heineman looked into the future, and saw what was likely to happen. The seven senates would meet, and Atlanta would dominate the proceedings, and would get herself elected President For Life. She had fryguns, she had the arts of forgery at her disposal, she was forming a Praetorian Guard to use the talents of impressionable young people like Sheridan, she had been ruthless enough to suggest making the Ema-Ema-Enji Holographic Geohistorical Research Team disappear - there was nothing which could stop her.
'If I left Chalakanesia,' said Heineman, 'where would I go?' [NoP Ch19]