The Multiverse Authority (MVA) is an interdimensional police agency responsible for preventing Quantum Tunneling (the technology that allows transit between parallal universes) from becoming a tool of crime and to apprehend all those who use it to escape justice and/or alter the affairs of parallel universes. The MVA was founded in a universe known as the "Alpha Universe". There it is under the authority of the United States with assistance from other high-technology nations.