My spelling peculiarities: 

I prefer not to capitalize the pronoun i.

I prefer to always use a instead of an.

I avoid gendered words. Eg i use steelmind/strawmind instead of steelman/strawman.

Unusually appropriate calendar alignment: January 6 has become a anniversary of infamous unrest in the USA. Curiously, the tonally-analogous Feast of Fools scene in Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel) is also on January 6.

I'm no expert; I've never been there. I merely talked to someone from Seattle a couple weeks ago.

I see. I at first assumed your 'effectively dead' meant 'biologically alive, but certain to die soon'. 

Thank you for the info!

I think it's indeed humor & indeed singling out a company.

It sounds like the core idea is a variant of the Intelligence Manhattan Project idea, but with a focus on long term international stability & a ban on competitors.

Perhaps the industry would be more likely to adopt this plan if GUARD could seek revenue the way corporations currently do: by selling stock & API subscriptions. This would also increase productivity for GUARD & shorten the dangerous arms race interval.

Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie

Very well-crafted world. Some might dislike the robotic narrator, some might enjoy it as a fun layer in a complex plot puzzle. High scifiosity.

Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer

Surreal & unusual novels. Good tone & imagery. Unlike Radch, i think this is more about style & perspective than a style layer over a intricate, hidden plot layer.

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

I read a lot of scifi, but i haven't gotten this obsessed with a book since Green Mars! Like Radch, a unreliable narrator presents a intricate world. Set on Earth four centuries in the future, it follows the political, technological, & dialectic trajectories of a culture that has mutated in strange & fascinating ways from today. Try it for the economics of future aircraft & the vivid soliloquies. Avoid it if you dislike books that frontload worldbuilding & characters, where the plot is confusing until the end. I love it & i have another post about it here.

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

I found this short book very fun & cool. About spies in a extraordinarily spectacular time-travel war. Does feature some very confusing plot points that i still don't understand.