The National Emergency Control and Relief Agency (NECRA) was formed when the scale of the impending disaster became apparent from developments across the globe.
With authority over all other branches of government and law enforcement, NECRA rapidly grew into an organization that was considered the last hope for the country.
Some conspiracy theorists claimed, even as early as the first IDs were issued, that NECRA never planned to carry out evacuations. In the last days before the collapse, NECRA officials seemed to vanish, fuelling these suspicions.