Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20130815164657/@comment-10390252-20130919142532

FWIW, I don't think that Vytal has any standing armies. There may be something similar to the National Guard, trained and equipped specifically to handle large scale 'bug hunt' Grimm infestations but I think primarily, defence against Monsters is solely the responsibility of the Guild of Hunters. There is no indication at this point that there is any international tension. I suspect that having a very real set of monsters threatening to annihilate humanity, petty squabbles over borders, resources and what someone else's grandfather's grandfather did to their grandfather's grandfather are all reduced to their proper level of irrelevance.

As this is an "unprecedented era of peace" even the national guard might have been reduced to the status of providing ceremonial guards for the political leadership. It's possible that the Grimm have been thoroughly contained for some time to the point where a reserve militia to back them up is considered a waste of resources.

They'll regret that conceit but I suspect that's how things are right now.