---
uai: "1.0"
type: domain-memory
status: active
project: iarpg.com
updated_utc: "2026-07-19T05:00:00Z"
domain: authorities
---
# Authorities, Mandates, and Motives
Authorities are fictional institutional customers, not alignment classes.

## Authority families

- **National Intelligence Service** — strategic warning, foreign intelligence, leadership support, liaison, and national decision advantage.
- **Defense Intelligence Command** — force protection, capability assessment, theater preparation, technical collection, and operational warning.
- **Corporate Intelligence Office** — competitive exposure, supply-chain risk, due diligence, asset protection, and commercial continuity.
- **Multinational Liaison Secretariat** — combined warning, source deconfliction, shared reporting, access negotiation, and coalition coordination.
- **Civic Continuity Bureau** — infrastructure resilience, crisis warning, public-system continuity, and institutional recovery.
- **Private Intelligence Service** — client protection, risk intelligence, due diligence, recovery, and commercial investigation.
- **Independent Intelligence Network** — source protection, distributed verification, public-interest collection, and non-state analysis.

## Required authority fields

Every authority record defines customer, mandate, jurisdiction, budget, collection priorities, legal or internal authorities, blind spots, red lines, preferred methods, liaison dependencies, and consequences of failure.

## Design rule

Different authorities can be simultaneously rational while issuing conflicting requirements. The site explains their motives without declaring one inherently good or bad.

## Deep links

- Geopolitical agnosticism: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/systemic-subterfuge-architecting-a-geopolitically-neutral-classless-espionage-mmo#architectural-pillar-i-geopolitical-agnosticism-and-dynamic-faction-ecology
- Dynamic reputation and loyalty: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/systemic-subterfuge-architecting-a-geopolitically-neutral-classless-espionage-mmo#dynamic-reputation-matrices-and-the-fluidity-of-loyalty
- Post-national faction framework: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/architectural-and-narrative-design-specifications-for-a-vr-first-post-national-espionage-mmo#the-ideological-faction-framework
- Global ecosystem taxonomy: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/the-global-intelligence-and-paramilitary-ecosystem-structural-taxonomy-and-operative-nomenclature