The Royal Integration Corps was the primary and perhaps most important arm of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Integration in the Golden Empire. Created in response to the more than doubling of the Empire's size following the conquest of the Tetrarchy of Mezlagob in the Great Liberation, the RIC was tasked with helping the Empire's newly acquired worlds integrate to the Royal culture, and agents of the RIC had many responsibilities. Most notable among these was explaining the details of the Royal government to the existing leaders of new systems, especially as regarded the military, taxation system, government structure, and laws binding on all member systems. They were used to "smooth the transition" between whatever a system's previous state was and full, functioning membership in th