Not recently, no. But I see a lot of it in my work, as a Marine. It's a constant effort to try and keep the peace, and since my generation's the unlucky one to have been in what they call a "golden age of piracy" since birth, well... pirates don't make that job any easier.

[He doesn't bother keeping the frustration out of his voice as he says it. The World Government has always had a lot on its plate, whether that was intervening in island conflicts or trying to protect its member kingdoms from their rivals, he knows history well enough to know that. But the world is now more chaotic now than it ever was, surely.]