Earlier in the century, Ra’s Al Ghul succeeded in overthrowing every organized crime syndicate. The Yakuza, Chinese Triad, Italian, and Eastern European organizations were under his direct control. With discretion, Ra’s began infiltrating every political and major corporate structure of every nation with the intent of world domination. Al Ghul’s League of Shadows had become a myth, a conspiracy theorists wet dream. An illuminati. Eventually, due to old age, Ra’s Al Ghul hands his criminal empire down to his greatest pupil, Bruce Wayne. If the world rotates, it is because Batman allows it.