What I'd like to see studied

Sometimes I daydream about having an organization in charge of making sure the world goes well. There are some things that I'd want them to be studying (not an exhaustive list, since I'm tilted toward listing weird / counterintuitive things):

Cosmologically big questions:

• Boltzmann brains
• Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics

Pressing moral questions:

• How exactly are animals morally relevant?

Practical questions:

• We keep having kids and adding them to the world. What are their lives going to be like? We're in charge of their lives and educations for around the first 18 years of their lives. How do we set them up for good lives, and what do good lives look like? What do we tell them, and what cultural goals do we set for them? (Maybe I'll post about this.)
• How do communities, cities, and countries work? What are their goals, and how are their policies doing at achieving those goals?

Beyond studying these questions, I'd also want this organization to have a Global Status Monitor. It'd give statistics on the whole world, so that you can take in at a glance what the state of play is; ideally, it'd also have the ability to scrub back through history to see how things have changed. (The monitor doesn't need to be instantaneous; I'd be happy if it updated once a year, for instance.)

• What is everyone on Earth doing for work?
• How does everyone's labor fit together?
• What do they eat, how do they find shelter?
• What are people's overall financial pictures?
• How is everyone's social life going?
• How is everyone's mental and physical health?
• What political things are happening?
• What social change / civil rights things are happening?
• What are the cutting edges of science?
• What are the cutting edges of art?