Regional Association for Looking-Up And Data Surveillance

The group known as the "Regional Association for Looking-Up And Data Surveillance" is an intelligence agency which operates out of The Hood in the region of The East, close to The Line, but holds no specific allegiance to any Region or Kingdom. The current leader of the Association is The Caramel King.

The group are most commonly referred to as the acronym "RaLads."

Work of the RaLads
The Association mainly passes information and intelligence between different Kingdoms within the two main Regions. Usually, The Caramel King works for the highest bidder, with no allegiance himself, he also keeps his Association independent.

The Association has a tiered system of command with The Caramel King himself at the top as "Master of Intelligence," often referred to informally as "The Knowledge Broker." Below him sit multiple aggregators and fact-checkers who use any means necessary to confirm any pending facts or rumours. Finally, the most common employees of the RaLads are known as runners. Runners work in the field under codenames, collecting information to bring back to The Hood. Runners don't have to have any discretion with their information collection, they simply take in everything, leaving the fact-checking to those back at the base. Many runners are freelance and almost none of them actually live in The Hood. They also operate all over both The West and The East. Finally, all employees of the RaLads must take an oath to be completely neutral and to "only have allegiance to the truth. And beours." as the oath, written by The Caramel King goes.

The RaLads also have a public side to their intelligence in the form of the famous Twitter account @FarranFacts.