Organization of Free Nations

The Organization of Free Nations (OFN) is a jointly economic and militaristic alliance among a number of nations found in the Americas, Asia and Europe. The group started life as the Pacific Defense Front during the Pacific War, and following the fall of Japan in 1947 the Treaty of San Francisco was signed which saw the Defense Front become formalised, becoming based in San Francisco itself.
== Members ==
Membership status 	Members	Description
Leader of the Free World 	
* United States of America	Surrounded by existential threats, the United States mustered allies wherever it could before drawing a line its enemies shall not cross. No matter the cost and state of affairs, the superpower swore, its leaders and armies will faithfully keep watch over the thin border it had formed between sanity and madness.
In recognition, governments and oppressed peoples alike turn towards Washington for guidance, security, and material support. Yet these privileges come with an unwritten demand: America must continue to uphold the high standards of its moniker, lest the Free World family suddenly find itself without a patriarch worth following...
Independent Member of the OFN	
* Republic of Haiti
* Republic of the Philippines	The OFN is, first and foremost, a mutual defense alliance between countries with liberal and democratic inclinations. It comprises signatories of the San Francisco Charter, who (barring some exceptions) are expected to "maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack" in accordance with Article 3 of the aforementioned document. A council of representatives from every member-state, each entitled to one vote, manages the alliance's daily and long-term affairs.Independent members refer to member-states which maintain political, economic, and military autonomy from the United States. The alliance's first independent member was the Philippines. Following the failed Puerto Plata Invasion Haiti also joined.
Dependent Member of the OFN 	
*Kamchatka
*Republic of Korea
*Suriname	For member-states with neither the resources nor the manpower to maintain anything larger than a self-defense force, Article 5 - which mandates signatories to "assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith... the use of armed force" - entails beggaring their economies for a standing force which they themselves scarcely use. Minor nations' place in the OFN, with these constraints in mind, was subject to vigorous debate until a compromise solution was amended into the San Francisco Charter.The now-termed "Dependent Status Clause" exempts member-states which fit a list of strict criteria from fulfilling their Article 5 obligations. In effect, the US Armed Forces subsumes a large portion of the duties their militaries are expected to perform. Only Kamchatka, Korea and Suriname classify for the special status as of 1950.
American Military Government 	
* Japan
* Kuril Islands
*Ryukyu Islands
*Sakhalin	The United States has had experience instituting military districts - occupation zones whose inhabitants are subject to military, rather than extant local civilian laws - since the Reconstruction era. Aimed to enforce immediate peace and stability in war-torn or disputed regions, military governments are overseen by generals and involve sizable numbers of deployed American servicemen. Only Japan, the Ryuku Islands, the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin are governed in this way.
OFN Mandate 	
*Pacific Islands	Given the goals outlined by its framers, the OFN is not only expected, but also pressured to intervene in conflicts where the Free World's interests are at stake. Oftentimes the entities which emerge from them lack the stability, institutions and experience to maintain a successful democracy post-independence.Article 12 of the San Francisco Charter has presciently authorized the alliance to establish civil administrations in the aforementioned entities until capable local governments can oversee free and fair elections within their jurisdictions. Such a transitional period, it is hoped, will help create countries better equipped to seize their own destinies than otherwise.
OFN Partner 	
*Brazil
*Republic of China
* Liberia
*United States of Venezuela	While the OFN is supposedly limited to the signatories of the San Francisco Charter, a number of nations have realized only one power bloc stands to protect the free world from the slave. A so-called "OFN Observer Nation" like this one isn't in a charter category, since it does not vote yet maintains complete independence. It simply means with economic, foreign, and military matters, it knows where its bread is buttered, so to speak. And like all nations who place a premium on human liberty, OFN membership is a possible outcome in the future.
=== 1960 ===
Membership status 	Members	Description
Leader of the Free World 	
* United States of America	Surrounded by existential threats, the United States mustered allies wherever it could before drawing a line its enemies shall not cross. No matter the cost and state of affairs, the superpower swore, its leaders and armies will faithfully keep watch over the thin border it had formed between sanity and madness.
In recognition, governments and oppressed peoples alike turn towards Washington for guidance, security, and material support. Yet these privileges come with an unwritten demand: America must continue to uphold the high standards of its moniker, lest the Free World family suddenly find itself without a patriarch worth following...
Independent Member of the OFN	
* Republic of Cuba
* Republic of Haiti
* Republic of the Philippines	The OFN is, first and foremost, a mutual defense alliance between countries with liberal and democratic inclinations. It comprises signatories of the San Francisco Charter, who (barring some exceptions) are expected to "maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack" in accordance with Article 3 of the aforementioned document. A council of representatives from every member-state, each entitled to one vote, manages the alliance's daily and long-term affairs.Independent members refer to member-states which maintain political, economic, and military autonomy from the United States. The alliance's first independent members were the Philippines and Haiti. Following the Invasion of Cuba, Cuba also joined.
Dependent Member of the OFN 	
*Kamchatka
*Republic of Korea
*Suriname	For member-states with neither the resources nor the manpower to maintain anything larger than a self-defense force, Article 5 - which mandates signatories to "assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith... the use of armed force" - entails beggaring their economies for a standing force which they themselves scarcely use. Minor nations' place in the OFN, with these constraints in mind, was subject to vigorous debate until a compromise solution was amended into the San Francisco Charter.The now-termed "Dependent Status Clause" exempts member-states which fit a list of strict criteria from fulfilling their Article 5 obligations. In effect, the US Armed Forces subsumes a large portion of the duties their militaries are expected to perform. Only Kamchatka, Korea and Suriname classify for the special status as of 1950.
American Military Government 	
* Japan
*Ryukyu Islands
*Sakhalin	The United States has had experience instituting military districts - occupation zones whose inhabitants are subject to military, rather than extant local civilian laws - since the Reconstruction era. Aimed to enforce immediate peace and stability in war-torn or disputed regions, military governments are overseen by generals and involve sizable numbers of deployed American servicemen. Only Japan, the Ryuku Islands and Sakhalin are governed in this way.
OFN Mandate 	
*Pacific Islands	Given the goals outlined by its framers, the OFN is not only expected, but also pressured to intervene in conflicts where the Free World's interests are at stake. Oftentimes the entities which emerge from them lack the stability, institutions and experience to maintain a successful democracy post-independence.Article 12 of the San Francisco Charter has presciently authorized the alliance to establish civil administrations in the aforementioned entities until capable local governments can oversee free and fair elections within their jurisdictions. Such a transitional period, it is hoped, will help create countries better equipped to seize their own destinies than otherwise.
OFN Partner 	
*Brazil
*Republic of China
* Liberia
*United States of Venezuela	While the OFN is supposedly limited to the signatories of the San Francisco Charter, a number of nations have realized only one power bloc stands to protect the free world from the slave. A so-called "OFN Observer Nation" like this one isn't in a charter category, since it does not vote yet maintains complete independence. It simply means with economic, foreign, and military matters, it knows where its bread is buttered, so to speak. And like all nations who place a premium on human liberty, OFN membership is a possible outcome in the future.
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Category:Alliances (1960)