Multipolar intelligence world
IARPG authorities are institutional customers with mandates, jurisdictions, budgets, interests, blind spots, and consequences. None is the permanent hero faction. None is the permanent villain faction.
Authority families
A useful product for one customer may be too classified, too late, too uncertain, too politically costly, or too operationally exposed for another. The player must understand the mandate before choosing the method.
One event, six requirements
The following tasking examples show how institutional motive changes the operation without declaring one authority morally correct.
Customer decision: diplomatic posture and strategic warning.
Customer decision: protection and operational preparation.
Customer decision: operations, insurance, and capital exposure.
Customer decision: combined warning and shared action.
Customer decision: continuity and public resilience.
Customer decision: investigation, disclosure, or client advice.
Mandate stack
The game avoids a universal morality meter, but it still models authority, constraints, evidence, and consequences.
An operative must know who issued the requirement, what that authority permits, which office owns the decision, what may be shared, and what follows if the operation is exposed. “Just doing the job” describes professional role-play; it does not erase institutional limits or the cost of poor judgment.
Deep research links
These reports informed the multipolar institutional model and the refusal to assign permanent hero or enemy status to a fictional authority.
Connected tools and standards
