The Global Council

**The Global Council**, also called the **Societal Council** or the **World Council**, was a council of world leaders that formed in the wake of the Great Reckoning, aiming to abolish nations and borders in order to prevent another Great War and create a worldwide healing effort in the aftermath.

## History

### Formation and Membership

Various countries' borders dissolved as coalitions and treaties were signed during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Tanzania was dissipated as a country in 1939 when it was absorbed into the Eastern Africa Region of the Nine United Regions, which removed it from British Colonial rule. However, the New Society was not officially established until 1943 after the Day of First Peace, which did not immediately encompass the globe. The United American Continent formed in 1944, and was subsumed into the Society ten months later.

In 1945, the Global Council was established in Geneva. Anand Balakrishman was elected Global Council Chief and Nora Bostwick was among the first to gain a seat on the Council. A year later, Council Chief Balakrishnan appointed his aide, Rohaan Youssuf, and a dozen others to the task of forming the Internal Investigations Division, the expressed purpose of which was to support the Council. Councilmembers appeared to have five-year terms, as Bostwick won her third term in 1955. In 1950, Anand Balakrishman retired as Council Chief due to declining health.

The Council agreed that the root problem of war was tribalism, and so as a result the Demilitarisation Act was passed in 1950, removing military power from all nations and Regions. Any kind of military force formed after that point would have to be approved by the unanimous vote of the Societal Council. Subsequently, the remaining independent nations were abolished in 1952. Flags and anthems were fully disposed of, and historically hierarchical buildings were stripped of their power.

Around the 1970s, Miriam Gregory discovered that one of the companies supplying the Institute with industrial equipment had seven Societal Council members on the board of directors, including Ekaterina Yelchin and Edith Marshall (who by that time was Council Chief of Greater North America).

By the end of 1994, the Societal Council was based in Bangalore, Former India. In 1997, Jure told Freya that three boardmembers of KR Development had gained seats on the Societal Council and convinced her that under KR's management, the Institute would be a place that helped families. At some point (likely around 1995-2000) while Indra was actively participating in "political" art, Donatella Griffin was the Societal Council Chief.

### Age Ten Laws

The Department of Childhood Development was established in 1944. The first draft of the Age Ten Laws was presented to the Societal Council by Gustav Morgan in 1947. The laws were eventually passed by the Council in 1948 with supporting votes from Nora Bostwick and Ekaterina Yelchin. The Laws stipulated that children would be raised by the state and have their memories erased at age ten using Miriam Gregory's technique, the Watercolor Quiet. The Laws also included a grace period for children at the time of their passing, saying that no family seperation would be legally required until 1960. In 1955, the Family Dissolution Act (1955) was passed and in 1961, Donatella Griffin proposed an amendment to the Age Ten Laws which would forbid siblings and other close relatives from contacting their relatives after age ten.

In 1948, the Society's Repopulation Initiative began. and in 1961, legislation was passed to compensate people who contributed to the repopulation effort.

### Rebuilding Efforts

Symbols of colonialism and tribalism were disposed of or repurposed after the war. For example, Buckingham Palace was preserved but was deconstructed and reconstructed outside of London over 18 months starting in 1959, and replaced with housing and workspaces.

The Golden Globe awards were created by the Societal Council in 1960 as part of an initiative to revitalise the arts in the Society.

### Other mentions

Secretary of Trade Vishwathi Ramadoss was brought to trial in 1958. There was a surveillance scandal where it came out to the public that staff members of the World Council, under the oversight of the Trade Commission, kept secret and extensive records of international merchants, including artists such as Claudia Atieno. The records were uncovered by four journalists in Vancouver, and although Ramadoss was implicated, they could not prove that she had directly authorised the action and she never faced a tribunal. It is unknown if any councilmembers at the time faced repercussions, however.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Season 2, Cassette #4: Bardo Museum (1975)
2. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.127
3. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.147
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.75
5. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.132
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.108
7. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.227
8. ↑ Season 3, Reel #4: February 15, 1954
9. ↑ Season 2, Cassette #3: El Museo de Arte Comtemporaneo (1974)
10. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.307
11. ↑ Season 4, Cassette #4: Winter 1994-95
12. ↑ Season 4, Cassette #8: Winter 1997-98
13. ↑ Season 5, Episode #1: March 2008
14. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.185
15. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.158
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.161
17. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.282
18. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.242
19. ↑ Season 2, Cassette #3: El Museo de Arte Comtemporaneo (1974)
20. ↑ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, p.241