---
uai: "1.0"
type: domain-memory
status: active
project: iarpg.com
updated_utc: "2026-07-19T05:00:00Z"
domain: jurisdiction
---
# Jurisdiction, Exposure, and Procedural Consequences
Justice is a jurisdictional and evidence system, not a good-versus-evil meter.

## Dual axes

- **Severity** measures the operational or legal seriousness of an act.
- **Evidentiary certainty** measures how strongly the fictional world can attribute it to a player or cover identity.

## Case progression

Anomaly → Suspect File → Confirmed Warrant → Active Manhunt.

## Rules

- Monitored locations produce faster corroboration through witnesses, sensors, access logs, and institutional control.
- Unmonitored locations can contain severe events without immediate attribution.
- Minor matters use fines, bonds, service restrictions, or review.
- Major matters can deny services, constrain movement, create regional tasking, or trigger evidence-backed hunts.
- Rewards are funded by fines, forfeitures, seized value, escrow, or capped budgets rather than unlimited currency creation.
- Surrender, appeal, restitution, review, evasion, and reintegration remain playable paths.
- Detention is fictional legal containment, not a diagnosis or moral label.

## Deep links

- Comparable-system lessons: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/justice-system-and-warrant-escalation-for-rogue-intelligence#lessons-from-comparable-systems
- Recommended warrant architecture: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/justice-system-and-warrant-escalation-for-rogue-intelligence#recommended-warrant-architecture
- Economy and anti-exploit controls: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/justice-system-and-warrant-escalation-for-rogue-intelligence#economy-and-anti-exploit-controls
- Incarceration and player experience: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/justice-system-and-warrant-escalation-for-rogue-intelligence#incarceration-and-player-experience
- Telemetry and tuning: https://iarpg.com/docs/report/justice-system-and-warrant-escalation-for-rogue-intelligence#telemetry-and-live-ops-tuning