World Government

> ***" Eight hundred years ago, a group of twenty kings... formed a mighty organization known as the World Government. " - Pappagu***
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## Stats

### Seen as

* Worldwide Political Services (Common People)
* Hypocrites (Pirates and Revolutionaries)

## Connections

### Allies

* Marines
* World Nobles
* Celestial Dragons

### Enemies

* Pirates
* Revolutionaries

## What is the World Government?

The World Government is affiliated with roughly 170 countries from around the world. Member countries retain autonomy and run their own internal affairs (though the World Government does sometimes intervene), but cooperate with the World Government for international relations. Their political ideals are unknown and everything they do is considered to be right. Not everyone approves of their political ideals, as there are people like Dragon who are against it. They approve of Absolute Justice and are based in the holy land of Mary Geoise. It is unknown who runs the World Government, but their orders are carried out by the "Five Elders", the highest public authority in the world, rendering the entire political institution a pure authoritarian oligarchy. They depend on the Marines and the Seven Warlords of the Sea to keep the Four Emperors and other antagonistic forces from defying them and causing chaos.

## Specifics

The World Government is affiliated with most of the world's countries. Member countries retain autonomy and run their own internal affairs (though the World Government does sometimes intervene), but cooperate with the World Government for international relations. Their political ideals are unknown and everything they do is considered to be right. Not everyone approves of their political ideals, with prime example being the Revolutionary Army trying to bring them down.

The World Government maintains an international order that claims to benefit all, making the world safe for the sake of everyone. Using the Marines, they pursue criminals endangering the lives of those who are innocent, protecting the people of each country in the world. The World Government, as the largest political power, holds full rights to halt or encourage any political action without question or opposition.

However, the reality is that unknown to most citizens (and many world leaders), the World Government's actions and policies tend to be secretly based on corruption or questionable motives. They hide the truth or ignore the rights of the people, with many individuals using "justice" to further their own aims. Individuals who are deemed enemies of the World Government are viciously hunted down and dealt with, and all those who walk along the same path as them are doomed to share the World Government's wrath. While some people are beginning to question the motives of the World Government, the general public still trusts them and would tend to believe information from them.

The majority of the World Government appears to be centered around paranoia, as they appear to divide power very carefully. Nations who decline to pledge loyalty to the World Government are conquered with their general populaces being enslaved to construct infrastructure.

The World Government can be described as totalitarian to an absolute extent, as they often will make massive efforts to ensure that they remain in power, including the appropriation or elimination of any source of power that could be perceived as greater than their own. The Seven Warlords of the Sea are pretty much given legal sanction to conquer nations that were deemed uncivilized, or the World Government simply invaded these nations with their own military forces.

The existence of the Ruler of the World Government is a highly kept secret, the only people who know being the direct underlings of them, the "Five Elders". That secret is even held amongst the World Government, as many high ranking officials think the Five Elders run the World Government.

The Marines serve as the government’s official military branch, headed by the Fleet Admiral, while a different branch, the Cipher Pol, acts as their secret police, operating through sabotage, reconnaissance, spying, espionage and/or assassination. However, their relations are strained as the Five Elders have stated the Marines have no jurisdiction to interfere in operations that are conducted by the Cipher Pols. They also seem to have the sanction to eliminate Marine soldiers who become liabilities to their covert missions. The government’s most prominent enemies mainly consist of pirates and revolutionaries.

Impel Down serves as the World Government's most impenetrable maximum-security prison.

The World Government has a religious and holy theme. Mary Geoise was called the 'holy land', the place where the Five Elders resides was called the sanctuary, the World Nobles have the word "Saint" in front of their names, with common people believing that defying them is a sin.

## Evil Doings

Despite the institution of slavery being abolished publicly, the World Government still allows such practice in the underworld, mainly due to the Celestial Dragons' exceptional privileges; in fact, government agents themselves would buy slaves to be trained into soldiers or agents, in order to bolster the ranks of the Marines and Cipher Pols. For that, they conducted transactions with slave traders to obtain entry into different countries such as Colossus, to allow for a larger variety of "merchandise".

The World Government is willing to eliminate innocent people and their own allies to prevent the possibility of negotiating with criminals or accommodating their demands. This doctrine is the principle of Absolute Justice. In the canon universe, this was demonstrated by a 13-year-old Cipher Pol agent Rob Lucci who massacred 500 captive soldiers because he deemed them weak, and thus negating a pirate captain's demands to be crowned king in exchange for the release of the hostages. Again in the canon universe, Vice Admiral Onigumo ordered the destruction of one of the Marines' warships in an attempt to kill a notorious criminal fighting on-board, which resulted in 1,000 unnecessary deaths and the execution of a Marine soldier who questioned the order.

The World Government likes to hide their evil doings, so anyone who knows any info about their "behind the scenes" actions is swiftly executed and covered up.