(02-20-2017, 09:45 PM)Roavin Wrote: The CRS would be split into two pieces. One piece is the Defense Council (DC), which is per-region and represent trusted nations with high endorsements and high influence helping to secure the region (in a UCR, the founder would be part ex officio I suppose). The other piece is called (ominously) the South Pacific Intelligence Agency (SPIA) which takes care of the security aspects, and is a coalition-wide institution.

Can we bury already the idea of an intelligence agency? It would be a tremendous waste of resources, and coupled with your imperialist idea, a potentially dangerous institution. This is not the real world, where there would always be plenty of intelligence gathering and analysing to be conducted. Things work differently in NationStates, and I like to think those who are in the Committee, or have been in the Committee, have enough experience to know when and how intelligence is needed.

There is a reason why our intelligence in 2011/2012 was sometimes called "Belschaft has friends", rather than "South Pacific Intelligence Agency".