The masquerade is one of the biggest stretches of Willing Suspension of Disbelief, leading to uncomfortable questions such as "how can a corrupt, inefficient bureaucracy hide countless magical species?" and "why doesn't anyone notice the dozens of murders every night?". Superpowered secret societies never seem to consider conquering a country, nor does the renegade vampire hunter ever consider collecting a ton of evidence and spreading it to the whole world. One begins to wonder if the masquerade is less a necessity and more a cultural anxiety disorder.