Central banks are responsible for overseeing the monetary system for a nation, along with a wide range of other responsibilities, from overseeing monetary policy to implementing specific goals such as currency stability, low inflation, and full employment through use of tools such as: targeted interest rate adjustments, purchase and sale of bonds, targeted lending policies to different sectors of the economy, and requiring disclosure of risks associated with various activities.

For the purposes of this debate, political crimes are crimes committed in order to harm the state, state's government, or political system of a state. Examples include treason, sedition, and espionage.

Process-based regulation specifies risk identification, assessment and control processes that must be undertaken to achieve a desired regulatory result. Examples include: Requiring companies across an industry to adopt a specific emissions reducing technology to meet target levels, setting the maximum travel distances to fire exits etc.

Outcomes-based regulations specify the desired result that a regulation intends to achieve, rather than describing a specific process or action that must be followed. Examples include: Requiring companies to reduce their emissions to target levels by pursuing their own independent actions etc.