Community of Nations

The **Community of Nations** is an intergovernmental association established under the principle of maintaining international peace and achieving cooperation between nations. Established by the 1946 Treaty of Dublin in the aftermath of the Second Weltkrieg, it was founded by the original four spheres of the Third International, the Moscow Accord, the Entente, and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

## Branches of Government

The organization's government is comprised of three branches:

### Community of Nations Parliament

#### World Assembly

The World Assembly is the *de facto* lower house of the Parliament, responsible for drafting bills to be approved by the World Council, for electing the Chief Ministry, and for drafting the annual budget. Every CN member state sends one representative to the World Assembly, and non-member states may send observer representatives as well.

The Speaker of the World Assembly is elected for a single four-year term each, similarly to that of the Chief Minister. The current Speaker is Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, from India.

#### World Council

The World Council is the *de facto* upper house of the Parliament, responsible for confirming new members of the CN, approving bills proposed by the World Assembly, and voting on the expulsion of member states deemed as threatening to world peace. It's split into five founding permanent ambassadors and seven non-permanent ambassadors, the former being appointed by their nation's head of state, and the latter being elected among World Assembly members for one-year, non-consecutive terms.

Current members of the World Council are:

##### Gerrymandering

World Council elections have become a hotbed of political intrigue, as with voters serving their own national interests, they have almost always been elected from Spheres, and regional composition has been intentionally gerrymandered to reflect these interests. For example, despite a closer historical link to South America, the Entente campaigned to link Caribbean nations to the North American region, as to exclude the Third International-aligned countries of the continent, primarily the Syndicalist States, from taking a seat in the council simply by being numerically outvoted by the predominantly pro-Entente Caribbean countries. The West Asia and Eastern Mediterranean region was also created as to give the Cairo Pact a nearly-guaranteed spot on the World Council on a yearly basis.

Because of gerrymandering, some nations have elected, in protest, not to be a part of any region, including Portugal and Turkey, although this prevents them from being able to elect representatives to the World Council to begin with. The only region which usually does not undergo sphere bias is Africa, owing to its sheer size.

### Community of Nations Executive Ministry

The Executive Ministry is the *de facto* executive branch of the CN, headed by the Chief Minister, who is considered the first-among-equals of the CN as a whole. The Chief Minister is elected for one four-year term and, along with the rest of the Executive Ministry, responsible for setting the agendas, goals, humanitarian missions, and diplomatic summits of the organization, and notably possesses the ability to call on the World Council to issue expulsion of states deemed to be threatening to world peace.

There have been three Chief Ministers thus far. Due to the World Council's ability to veto candidates, all Chief Ministers thus far have come from politically-neutral countries in the Cold War.

* Božidar Purić (Yugoslavia)
* G. A. Gripenberg (Finland)
* Jaja Wachuku (Nigeria)