Western Outer Union

### Jurisdiction

Asauna, Neopalita, Tikal Island, Kelly Island, Valentine, Layers Island, Leland, and Lepps Island

### Founding Nations

Asauna, Neopalita, Tikal Island, Kelly Island, Valentine, Layers Island, Leland, and Lepps Island

The **Western Outer Union** is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1995 to maintain peace among nations of the Western Outer Region. It was formed following the 1994 Invasion of Kelly Island by Desert Island and it is primarily tasked with preventing further invasions or coups among governments. Asauna, Neopalita, Tikal Island, Kelly Island, Valentine, Layers Island, Leland, and Lepps Island are members of the union, while Sorbet Island, Tangalu and Sandy Island are observers of the union.

The union's main office is in Asunna and its union-bound consulate is in New Mildred. Like the larger and more powerful European Union, the Western Outer Union makes laws that apply throughout all member states, however the Western Outer Union is far weaker, and its jurisdiction is complicated by tensions between some member islands, especially with Asauna and Neopalita, and Tikal Island. Nonetheless, the union functions as if it is a country, particularly a confederal one, in that it has its own police force that patrols areas of its member states.

## Members

This section includes a list of current and former members of the union.

## Western Outer Union

### Government

Federal Parliamentary State (de facto)Intergovernmental Organization (de jure)

### Date Format

Varies by country

Even though the WOU is an intergovernmental organization, the union functions as a confederation, in which the WOU functions as a single nation, but member nations still retain their sovereignty. The union is more centralized and has its own police force which has jurisdiction, authority, and law enforcement powers throughout the entire union including all member nations, with limited authority throughout observer nations. However, because the WOU is a union and not a country, it does not operate prisons and instead throws them in prisons within the country that crimes take place in.

International flight to avoid prosecution is a unionwide offense and can result in anyone convicted to have their WOU passport revoked. Tampering with aircraft wreckage is also a unionwide offense and strictly enforced by the union's Unionwide Aircraft Administration. Touching any remnants of wrecked vessel within territorial waters is also a federal offense dealt with by the union's intergovernmental police organization. The WOU also has unionwide internet regulations that apply throughout the entire union.

Cargo ships or navy ships owned by governments of member states are strictly protected and should any one of these ships crash, tampering with any ship wreckage in any country is a WOU crime punishable by $500,000 in fines and 20 years in prison. However, since the WOU is an intergovernmental organization, those convicted are dealt with by the judiciary of the country where the tampering took place, meaning that they will serve their sentence in that nation regardless of which member state they are from.

The WOU imposes a single jurisdiction policy towards all of its members under the Western Archipelago Confederation, which allows every national from each member state to live, work, learn, and travel freely within each other's countries indefinitely provided they have a passport and ID, and with the exception of rare circumstances, this right cannot be revoked.