International policing system

The "International Policing System" (IPS) is the Persian term for Raitha's unique protocols for enforcing international law, which were formalized in 1546 to support the compute restrictions treaties and later expanded in scope to include a systematized treaty development process and independent investigative police force. In exchange for security, continued economic relations, and political influence, most of Raitha's nations stay fully compliant with international law (the Commonwealth of Antarctica being a notable partial exception, which keeps its own set of minimized standards).

To keep incentives for compliance stable, basic voting rights of member states are explicitly and procedurally weighted by a system that incorporates floating estimates of military and economic power, and through extensive, partially classified wargames. Near-unanimous consent to the IPS and its external watchdogs generally depends on the options of forced regime change and massive deterrence available to Raitha's two nuclear-armed states, the Persian territories and the EMPC. Actual wars due to noncompliance are rare, but recur at a base rate of about one per twenty years as demographic and technological change increase the uncertainty of such estimates (and thus incentives for shirking current treaties) to unstable levels.

The (martially) unanimous agreement required to amend international law via the IPS make it only very rarely a source of economic regulation. Its largest body of law by volume is devoted to outlawing the worst of the eugenics-motivated human rights abuses that occurred during the late 16th century. Its second largest body of law is devoted to preventing R&D of technologies that certain member states believe pose existential threats to either their regimes, peoples, or Raithan humanity.

As of the glimpse time, Persian markets' modal prediction for the next IPS infraction war was 1657.

History of the IPS
Persia's first successful nuclear weapons tests occurred in 1521, after openly defying threats of invasion from the EPMC and concluding a long and tenuous diplomatic dance. The failure of the EMPC to deter Persia from developing nuclear weapons paved the way for its initial reforms toward market driven foreign policy and away from direct imperial rule, which in turn allowed for more complex relationships between it and other futarchic states. By 1522 the EMPC had assented to Raitha's first formal international nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which went into effect that same year. That treaty, though inextensible and lacking strict provisions for international inspection or policing between the two superpowers, incorporated much of the logic and mechanical details upon which the IPS would later function.

Between 1535 and 1540 leading academic, policymaking, and governing institutions in the EMPC, Persia, and several other states became convinced of an existential threat to humanity from artificial intelligence research. Disagreements over the scope, manner, and direction of subsequent AGI research efforts led to the drafting of the Compute Restrictions Treaties of 1546, which vetoed development and deployment of powerful general purpose computer chips. After several successive transparency wars instigated by the treaty's signatories, branches of the IPS were accepted into most of the nations of the world, and with them was born an automated system for proposing, evaluating, and enforcing novel international standards.

Originally, that system was mostly designed for updating the compute restrictions in response to new scientific developments. The IPS soon, however, became a default tool for international collaboration and coordination between sometimes ideologically opposed regimes.