I work on the service desk of a New Zealand government department, for the Australian division of a large Japanese company.
It's a pretty good job, to be honest. The users we support are really good people, and for the most part, quite knowledgeable about IT themselves. We also have quite a bit of flexibility for level 1 support (if you've ever worked in an ITIL or ISO 20k type environment you know how restrictive policy can be sometimes), and I work with a really good group of people.
I don't know about all this. Sounds like some sort of Russian spy mischief to me....
I see you mention one thing about the "Motherland" we'll be on to you...

Computer programmer and systems administrator... or rather was. Eventually made myself ill with stress after many years of over-work and haven't managed to recover yet. Er, don't do that.
Where is it that you work?