World peace has broken out. At least that’s what all the papers say.

It’s a shame, really. You remember a time when oversight committees knew what to overlook, when black ops really were invisible, and a license to kill was worth more than the paper it wasn’t printed on. These days it’s all about brotherhood and the global economy, outsourcing and immigration, everybody’s fingers in everybody else’s pies for ever and ever, amen.

At least that’s what all the papers say. You know better, though.

You know that with the right political backing, or the right money in the right pockets, the resources you need can be ‘saved’ from the wrong parties. That the agendas your government needs to forward -- the people, places and events upon which your position in the world swings -- can be protected by any means.

And the agendas of your...competitors? The investigative reporter who’s asked the wrong questions? That third-world election that’s going to choose the wrong candidate? The location whose removal the future of your economy depends upon? They can all be fixed with a phone call, their poisonous influence neutralized by the simple activation of one of your many agents.

You know better. You know the power of politics divorced from mere ideology.