User blog comment:Martialmaniac/Why the Hunters Association?/@comment-10528819-20151205110311/@comment-14902757-20151206044036

I agree with MrPedroNorris, specifically with what he said second sentence in the first paragraph of his answer. I think in the HxH universe, the association started out as a school of martial arts which grew to something so much bigger and maintained the respect of national up to international leaders/community. Just like in any association under the watch of the government, they answer for every thing their hunters do. Why that is so depends really on the current leader who set the rules. I believe Netero, having been the Chairman for so many years, was the one responsible for the rules currently known to us. It could very well be a different world than what we know of if Netero wasn't the Chairman when Togashi wrote the story :D (does that make sense?)

I wonder though since the HxH world is very political, why is there no sort of hunters' association for each country/continent? I wish Togashi can still add that into the mix because when you think about how our real world leaders would use nen (if it actually existed) to each of their own country's advantage, you would think that Togashi must have lacked this kind of insight and maturity when he first created the Association.