International Permit Agencies

The International Environmental Agency (国際環境許可庁, kokusai kankyō kyoka-chō, lit. International Environmental Permit Agency) is an agency operating under the V6 (formerly V5).

Overview
The role of the IEA is to do research on travel worldwide and organize a database taking into account political and social landscapes, biodiversity and climate in order to calculate travel risk and conservation level and to ultimately assign countries a safety index. Ordinarily, applications to travel to the Dark Continent are forwarded to the IEA after being approved by all International Permit Agencies. In practice, the IEA has the unspoken duty to reject all such applications and, in the rare cases in which this should not be possible, to keep travellers on a short leash.

The IEA's involvement with the Dark Continent is deeper than he public is aware of. In its basement are stored the bodies of victims of the Five Great Calamities, off record. Not even the Deputy Secretary is normally aware of this side of the agency. Despite officially dismissing it as a work of fiction, the IEA utilizes Journey to the New World as its primary source of information concerning the Dark Continent.

Kakin's Journey to the New Continent
Following Kakin's announcement of an imminent, massive expedition to the Dark Continent with an open-door policy, the IEA received new duties and powers. Its Deputy Secretary was informed of the top secret side of the agency and put in charge of a unit coordinating all International Permit Agencies. After submitting to the V5 an analysis of the risks and benefits involved, the IEA was tasked with suggesting possible courses of action, which resulted in the distinction between Dark Continent and New Continent, the destination of regular civilians, the approval of Kakin's colonization project and its admittance in the Modern Nation Leaders. The Deputy Secretary and his team were assigned to joining Beyond Netero in the exploration of the actual Dark Continent, advising him with the knowledge gathered from Journey to the New World.