The problem with names like those for government departments is they tend to go into dramatic inversions of their names. The DoD became a Department of Imperial Aggression; the Department of the Interior became a Department of Commercial Management of Raw Resources; the Department of the Treasury became the Department of Unconscionable Debt, and so on. A department NAMED the Department of Peace, given the nature of large government powers, would quickly circle on itself and find itself all inadvertently starting a war. At least when the DoD was more honestly called the War Department, it fulfilled its title.

I think we should have a Department of Beauty, too. They could plan housing developments and leveling mountains to build shopping malls.

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