Carin nodded. "The police don't know how to handle elementals, we do, and you pretty much just made my case for me," she said smoothly. "We need a guide, and you need help. THese 'rogues' as you call them are getting better organized by the week. The Triumvirate is recruiting, conscripting or outright brainwashing every meta they can get their hands on, and last I checked they have a full quarter of the world's population to sift through. That's a lot of metas."<br/><br/>The trio of Red China, India, a chunk of the middle east and North Korea got their act together and formed a loose, if very well insulated trading arrangement in defiance of Pacifica's stance on everything from their technology to the sharing of information regarding metas-- since they refused to comply with Pacifica's requirements to join their trading alliance, the chief tenant being 'an open, republican form of government' or in India's case, a fear reaction of all the otherworldly creatures popping up.