EMPIRE (Extra-Military Police, Intelligence, Rescue, and Espionage) is an obvious allusion to acro-nemesis such as Ernst Stavro Blofeld's SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion).
This tradition was also parodied in the Monolith Production computer game No One Lives Forever (NOLF, popularly) which pits agents of UNITY against the villainous H.A.R.M. The game shares much of Casanova's tongue in cheek, self-aware espionage sensibilities.
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