A requirement for the position of Prime Minister of Parallels is a concentrated consciousness. The Prime Minister is not involved with the daily functioning of native local governments, but as the Chief Diplomat, maintains a working connection with world leaders in every parallel to provide education, support, and security. The PM is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Para Force, Chief Administrator, and Chief Magistrate.
Every parallel has respective global and local governments, which are not interfered with unless absolutely necessary. There are rare occasions where governments in multiple parallels voluntarily work in tandem, as with the covid pandemic raging through every parallel.
Interpara Border Enforcement, a division of Interstellar Security, manages paramigrant refugees and fleas. Those with divided consciousness are barred from unauthorized paratravel. It is crucial for the safety and security of all paraselves that they never cross paths.
High-priority individuals are known to take refuge at shared paralocations and are moved to heavily guarded, undisclosed facilities. If their paraself dies in their new para, these hidden doppelgangers are called into service to resume life. The option is preserved for elites. One famous recent example is Kim Jon Un, who notably presented a dissimilar appearance from his native counterpart.
If they are lucky enough to discover the existence and position of portals, refugees flee from war-torn dystopian paras, a harrowing quest. Interpara Border Enforcement relocates paramigrants to nearby planetary bases on the condition they do not procreate since provisions, including breathable air, are limited. Relocating paramigrants to a parallel with no confirmed paraselves is not feasible due to the enormity of the task and would break up families since the existence of paraselves varies from para to para.
Ordinary folk under no imminent threat that purposefully acquires the means to paratravel are called fleas for jumping to other parallels and become an annoyance. Fleas are sent back home. If they are repeat offenders, they are relocated to either an outpost city or forced to work at a refugee base camp.
As the Earth's climate continues to change at an alarming rate, the numbers of refugees have grown exponentially, becoming virtually unsustainable. Every para is experiencing the effects of climate change. Resources are already inadequate for accommodating evacuees. Many natural portals and anomalies are currently being shut down to reduce the access of large migratory populations.
Raider fleets quickly realized the reliability of stalking tier 1-4 solar systems equipped with firewalls that granted pirates considerable advantages, especially the predictability of freighter movements and the comparatively ineffectual air support of less advanced solar systems.
Freighter ships depart solar systems with as much cargo as they arrive with, so they are a consistently reliable target. The powerful guns they possess can't match the agility of the highly adept fighters.
The piratic fleets consist of feeders, ropers, g-sloops, mercenaries, mini-blasts, and goblarts. Ships are equipped with state-of-the-art hacking and communication jamming devices, as well as electromagnetic pulsators (EMPs), maintained and constantly updated by domomasters that are either highly revered crew members or forced labor from enemy ships.
Marauder forts are strategically placed just outside the firewalls of solar systems, with scouts stalking from concealed points for incoming shipments. They alert the raider fleet, which has ample time to position itself for the freighter's departure. Even in stealth mode, the firewalls betray a freighter's location upon exit with a plasmatic glow that resembles Earth's aurora borealis. The freighters can't reverse back through the firewall to escape without a new code. With communications jammed, systems down, and pinned against the firewall, they are easy targets.
Upon surrender of a merchant freighter, the mini-blasts, which are swift medium-capacity cargo-sprinters, complete the mission, with raiders sweeping the holds for commodities. Successful fleets have several mini-blasts working in tandem. Once loaded, the mini-blasts flee to a concealed point of refuge while the freighter recovers its functions which effectively disable any immediate reprisal.
Captains of vulnerable freighter ships seek the upper hand with their own domomasters and recently innovated deterrents. Outpost cities on barren planets and moons thrive on pirate trade and patronage. Some freighters even hire pirates from the outpost cities to navigate the most corsair-infested solar systems to achieve tactical leverage. The piracy industry keeps millions fed, leaving law enforcement agents little motivation to extinguish piracy altogether, knowing the alternative is the threat of poverty, famine, and war. The IS agents focus on capturing violent offenders and recovering stolen cargo.
A Para Force presence at Galactic Ports supports and protects UPA employees and multiverse infrastructure. Troops do not interfere with local law enforcement for civilian crimes unless the situation involves acts of terrorism or war. Law Enforcement is left to IS to ensure that there is always a presence on the base that will not be drawn away for civilian offenses.
The UPA has long been the target of terrorist attacks seeking to dismantle the multiverse, to "level the playing field" of all beings. There have been attacks on Galactic Ports and an effort to sabotage the system of firewalls around solar systems of tier 1-4 planets.
In the last few centuries, the anti-para effort has grown exponentially. Per the UPA, more employees work in the Firewall Utilities Cryptography Department (FUCD) than any other. Their assignment is to be ten steps ahead of any threats to the system. Even a seemingly benign attack on a susceptible system could wreak havoc, potentially causing mass chaos.
Agents are constantly assessing and safeguarding any perceived vulnerabilities. There has never been a breach in thousands of years, thanks to the foresight and vigilance of the UPA to focus resources on the security of government systems and networks. With so much at stake and so much less effort and danger than the disaster assistance and emergency relief from an avoidable catastrophe, there is little reason to leave such vital systems and network infrastructure to chance.