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In the secret goofy fantasy series I've started working on under a pen name, there's one central City Guard agency that guards all cities, regardless of country. Where they came from or who runs them isn't clear, but it appears to be a family operation run by the Skaarsgaard Family.

First up on the last up is yes, the Traveler's Guild I fleshed out during my #Juniplex is their larger defense force. Standing armies aren't much of a thing here. It was tried once upon a time, but they took their equivalent of a world war and went "wow this is terrible, actually never again."

A huge motivator for crime is to fulfill basic needs. By covering basic needs, a majority of the typical "visible" crime (I gag) would be incredibly uncommon here. Because of this, the role of police would be truly more like a civil servant and the requirements for the job would be far stricter.

Their academies require psychological evaluations throughout the process from acceptance to graduation to correct worrisome behavior before it sets in permanently or weed out those already unfit for servants to the public, not as enforcers above them who can shoot a guy and get a vacation for it.