Global Bounty-Hunting Institution

The Global Bounty-Hunting Institution (GBI) is the primary system of criminal justice in the Nameless & Aimless universe. It was founded by Captain Ahab one century prior to the present events of the series.

History
Interestingly, the world of N & A was never dystopian despite the lack of a policing system in the vast majority of all established states. Often when a person's rights were violated by another, they would take it into their own hands to deal with the perpetrator. Vigilantism was essentially the only method that civilization relied on in order to maintain justice.

When former pirate Ahab began financially supporting himself as a sellsword, he discovered his own sense of justice somewhere down the line. It is understood that he and his two other mercenary companions (whom were collectively known as the 'Judicators') eventually gained political influence in the Commission, where they became the founding fathers of an international agency concerning criminal justice. The Global Bounty-Hunting Institution (or GBI) became its name, and the guilds that derived from it undertake the headhunting of outlaws whom the GBI have deemed fair game.

Roles
The main purpose of the G.B.I. is to officialize guilds and provide an initial fund for their establishment. The G.B.I. also monitors criminal activity in the world and may commission guilds to combat mismanaged/overlooked crime. There are instances where the G.B.I. will decree a strike: an operation against a single or collective criminal threat in which bounty hunters of the highest grade are commissioned to take part in.