International policing system

The "International Policing System" (IPS) is the Persian term for Raitha's unique protocols for enforcing international law, which were first formalized in 1546 to support the compute restrictions treaties and later expanded to cover systematized treaty development and monitoring. Raitha nations use the IPS as an automated platform for international coordination, generally for situations where policymakers view the price of failure as unacceptably high. 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).

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

Most states in Raitha are covered by either a Persian or EMPC nuclear umbrella, and so the standard of "martially unanimous" agreement required to amend international law via the IPS is only rarely met by economic regulation. The IPS's 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, such as indiscriminate weaponization of virology, nanotechnology, or AI.

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. Within four years of those tests the EMPC had assented to Raitha's first formal international nuclear nonproliferation treaty. That treaty, though inextensible and lacking strict provisions for international inspection or policing between the two superpowers, relied on much of the same and mechanical details as its successor protocols in the IPS.

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, the IPS was mostly designed for updating the compute restrictions in response to new scientific or political developments, but later it would became the world's default tool for international collaboration and coordination between sometimes ideologically opposed regimes.

Design
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List of major active IPS treaties and provisions
Compute restrictions treaties of 1546 - banning, among other things, the production of advanced computer chips, academic and private funding of artificial intelligence research, and some branches of computer science.

Virology treaties of 1552 - outlaws gain-of-function research for viruses and bacteria, and some other practices of medical research that pose unacceptably high risk of causing massive outbreaks of disease.

Atomically precise manufacturing treaty of 1555 - outlaws R&D and testing of destructive nanotechnologies and materials science.

Genetic enhancement treaties of 1590 - bans forced intra-vitro fertilization for children under the age of 16, forced sterilization of more than 1% of a nations populace within 20 years, certain aggressive gene editing and evaluation techniques.