Time Balance Department

The Time Balance Department, abbreviated as the TBD, is an organization run by the Director Timekeeper Cookie that constantly monitors the world with chronographs to check if the timelines are intact. The TBD was first introduced in the Operation Timeguard! update and has returned as a prominent location in future events since.

Updates
The Time Balance Department plays a major role in the following updates.

Protocols
The Time Balance Department is a confidential organization that takes rigorous extents to maintain both the safety of its employees and the privacy of its internal information. All matters regarding the Time Balance Department's inner workings is to be kept in the Time Balance Department only.

Cookies that engage in direct time travel have a mandatory requirement to wear TBD specific goggles as to not get lost in time. It is unknown what exactly are the side effects of not wearing the goggles, but the side effects are likely irreversible. Examined by Cosmos Gear, drastic physical changes can occur after even the slightest exposure to a time rift. Extensive exposure to time rifts without protection, as examined by Continuum Cog, can leave the exposed permanently changed both physically and mentally.

Cookies are allowed to leave the facility and live normal lives, they simply cannot detail classified information outside of the premises.

Miscellaneous Affiliates
While Hero Cookie and Sandwich Cookie are close friends and schoolmates of Croissant Cookie, Space Doughnut is merely lumped into the designated TBD section of the Cookie Trials map. Beyond that, it has no association or role in the TBD. It is unknown why Space Doughnut was lumped with the TBD section beyond it being an alien from another world.

Divisions
Following the Operation: Time Fixers update, numerous divisions within the Time Balance Department were revealed. These departments vary in importance and jobs, and employees of the Time Balance Department are sorted into these divisions.

Time Registry Division
The Time Registry Division is among the rarest division given to employees of the Time Balance Department. With Baguette Cookie being its head manager, The Time Registry Division. The Division's main focus is registering and documenting text records of occurrences found within different timelines. Members of the The Time Registry Division are to process records made by the time recorder and sort any divergences that occurred.

Baguette Cookie states a few instructions throughout the (Classified!) Operation: Time Fixers! story that must be followed by members of the Time Registry Division.

Cookie Resources Division
The Cookie Resources Division is a division that focuses on guiding new employees into the Time Balance Department and maintaining records of all employees in the TBD. Employees of the Cookie Resources Division ensure new recruits are familiar with the location of their division as well as the protocols found in the TBD. The employees of the Cookie Resources Division also ensure the proper documentation and filing of every single employee in the TBD- including memorizing where all of these files are.



Technology Development Division
The Technology Development Division is the division that prioritizes the development of technology found in the Time Balance Department. Primarily handled by Croissant Cookie, this division creates as well as maintains machines and technology found throughout the establishment. Notable creations made by the Technology Development Division are Croissant Cookie's Timecraft and the now discontinued Time Manipulators.

The Technology Development Division, as displayed by Croissant Cookie, is a versatile department that directly handles anomalies within timelines if need be.

Relic Management Division
The Relic Management Division is a niche and rather obsolete division run by Maple Taffy Cookie, for Maple Taffy Cookie. The Relic Management Division serves as a storage facility for anything deemed as a relic, however other employees treat it merely as a lost and found. The division has minimal funding due to its unimportant nature, Maple Taffy Cookie's lack of interest in any TBD activity beyond his own personal musings like dragon egg collecting does not help this.

Time Investigation Division
The Time Investigation Division is a division that focuses on investigating and thwarting any anomalies found within timelines. Being an anomaly of timelines himself, String Gummy Cookie is the primary handler of this division. Members of the Time Investigation Division are to constantly travel through timelines with his String Gummy Blaster to tie up anyone who even considers messing with the timeline. Croissant Cookie can be considered a member of this division as well, however this has not been directly stated by her.

Facility Management Division
The Facility Management Division is a division located in the Time Disposal Site that focuses on ridding of waste created throughout the Time Balance Department. Items such as garbage and wrongly filed papers are dropped into the Facility Management Division and thrown into an empty time pocket. Its only known employee, Marble Bread Cookie, maintains the drop shoot from a distance. Documents that are confidential are to be shredded due to their status.

As important as the division is, Baguette Cookie discovers in the events of the (Classified!) Operation: Time Fixers! story that the disposal machine itself is designed poorly for its maintainers had zero idea it had an emergency stop button.

The Director
While not exactly a division, The Director maintains the entirety of the Time Balance Department. The Director calls all the shots within the organization and her authority is the final say in any situation. The current Director of the Time Balance Department is Timekeeper Cookie, albeit she does not let her identity be known to employees of the Time Balance Department beyond her name and voice. Even though Timekeeper Cookie is sporadic at best, she can still sufficiently maintain the Time Balance Department while sufficing her fill of chaos.

As examined through the Director of the TBD costume, it is likely no matter what Croissant Cookie is destined to become the Director and future Directors as well. Her fate is the only thing differentiating this outcome. Even though the Operation Timeguard! update's story states only two Croissant Cookie's have become the Director across all timelines, most of this event story has been retconned and cannot be considered canon anymore.

Twizzly Gummy Cookie's Misfits
For more information on each individual member, see the following. Twizzly Gummy Cookie's Misfits are a band of dimension-hopping outlaws led by Twizzly Gummy Cookie herself. The five Cookies are constantly chased by the TBD, primarily Croissant Cookie, in order to arrest them for the havoc they have caused across numerous timelines.

Besides Twizzly Gummy Cookie, the remaining four members of the misfits are alternative timeline versions of already existing Cookies. Peeled Carrot Cookie is the alter ego of Carrot Cookie, Toothpaste Cookie is the alter ego of  Mint Choco Cookie, Wild Strawberry Cookie* is the alter ego of  Strawberry Cookie, and Half-Avocado Cookie is the alter ego of  Avocado Cookie. While these five have posed a great thread for the Time Balance Department, they have yet to appear in the game the Time Balance Department originated from.

While an alter ego for Dr. Wasabi Cookie is mentioned, Bad Grad Wasabi Cookie, this alter ego is never shown beyond name.

*The Wild Strawberry Cookie found in Twizzly Gummy Cookie's Misfits is not the same one as found in CookieWars. The misfit is merely a homage to this Wild Strawberry Cookie.

Costumes
The following Costumes either play a major role in stories involving the Time Balance Department or simply bases itself off of the Time Balance Department's aesthetics and ideas.

Trivia

 * In the Save the Future! update, simplistic jobs are given to describe NPCs within the event: Delivery, Mender, and Office Clerk. It is unknown which divisions these jobs would be placed into.