Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter12 (section)

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'''Rank System

The rank system is used to rank and manage people’s abilities and to monitor and restrict their actions.

It was officially established in a UN resolution during September 1999, which makes it a very young system from a global perspective.

In addition to the ranks determined by social status and titles, this applied official ranks to people’s effective abilities – such as attack power, development ability, and speed – and it applies restrictions on the actions of anyone above a certain rank.

The system was a direct result of the lockdown of Tokyo in August 1999. At the time, the entire world pushed in on Japan in order to surrounded locked-down Tokyo.

They entered Japan on the pretext of providing aid and security for Japan after losing their capital.

The foreign armies of course never moved beyond the seven seas or the continent, but the great warriors who hold the most military might in each country entered Japan as representatives of their countries and took up positions around Tokyo.

This put individual warriors with greater power than entire armies around Tokyo, creating a powder keg.

The interim Japanese government sent a request to the UN order to put a stop to this.

The rank system was the result.

Global ranks for individual warriors were established and '''any individual warrior of sufficient strength had to be placed under UN management and registered as a weapon possessed by their country or that country could no longer receive certain rights. Also, if any individual warrior of sufficient strength who was not registered as a weapon were to harm a country they were staying in, all rank holders and UN forces were obligated to subdue them.''' These measures were meant to prevent nations from using those warriors as a convenient way of waging war.

Starting from the strongest, the ranks and the numbers of each are as follows:

*Heavenly: 1

*God (Dragon): 4

*Sage (Emperor): 8

*Master (Monarch): 16

*Supreme: 32

*King: Unlimited

Any rank holder is required to register with the UN and Master or higher are required to register as a weapon 
belonging to their country.

Also, countries can establish lower ranks if necessary.

These ranks are established separately for weapons, martial arts, technologies, and so on.

After the establishment of the rank system, the preexisting Ten War Generals, Four Land Generals, and New Five Great Peaks were incorporated into the system, but most wandering schools such as the Sixteen Sword Masters, the Three Emperors, and the Divine Tool Alliance chose to wander from country to country to avoid being bound to any one state.

The Heavenly rank is an exception in that it is given to someone who acts a symbol of the faction in question.

Also, the God, Sage, and Master ranks are all immortal. Through their training and battles, their Lives have grown distorted, giving them that quality. Some groups, like a martial arts school, will pass down the method of achieving this, and thus pass down the rank, which is said to help stabilize the number of people with each rank.

Monarch, Emperor, and Dragon are special ranks given to the very few people who reach those levels of power without also becoming immortal.