Karrde/Mara
At the moment I'm in keep my head down, my senses extended, and see what I can find out further. However right now my super amazing Jedi Powers mostly are just telling me that everyone is edgy, the higher their clearance the more edgy they are. And I'm pretty certain there's been a change of command, but I don't know exactly what that means for those of us down in Level whatever.
Pretty certain if they'd tried to put me in the laundry I'd have used my Force powers in questionable ways.
I don't really have an answer for you. Best I can tell there are dozens of local countries on this planet and each has its own head of state. SHIELD works in dozens of those countries, but I'm not certain if that's because it's actually crossing governments - i.e., headed up by someone that's more of a planetary government - or if it just is given a certain amount of diplomatic immunity...