United Communities (1983: Doomsday)

The United Communities (abbreviated as UC) is an international organization dedicated to facilitating cooperation in international law, preserving human rights, reestablishing order, maintaining national security, encouraging economic development, and establishing world peace. The organization was founded in 2007 and was conceived as a platform for dialogue for North American survivor states. Being based on the United Nations, the group is unintentionally very similar in both style and organization to the League of Nations. However the group is different in how it handles economics and its ultimate goal of the elimination of all remaining nuclear weapons and eradicating terrorist and raider groups. By 2100 the organization hopes to have all destroyed areas restored and to erase the physical effects of Doomsday from the world.

Although only having a presence around the Great Lakes region, the organization's goal is to spread across the continent and eventually throughout the world. The United Communities is headquartered in the Assembly Building in Niagara Falls. Since the end of the Saguenay War, two very powerful nations on the political field of the world, Canada and the Celtic Alliance have joined out of good will, hoping this will expand membership in the nation as well as give the organization credibility.

Creation
Each of the member states, all entangled in various agreements, sought a unified platform in which no nation would show superiority over the other. Toledo, North Penn, London, and Norfolk had basically worked together for years regarding multiple things such as eradicating raiders and liberating oppressed cities and towns. Pennsylvania and State College eventually toppled the St. Marys government and restored it to a democratic leadership, and Toledo helped unite stray Ohio communities under a single leadership.

By 2007 the Great Lakes region had become more quiet. New governments were set up where there were none and slowly it looked like the world was repairing itself. However, the Canadian and American survivor communities decided that in order to fasten the process they would need a unified platform. A proposed "Great Lakes Union" was shot down since any organization would have to expand outside the Great Lakes region in order to provide peace for the area. A draft put together by a Londonite of an organization of "United Communities" was accepted. By July 4th, 2007, the United Communities was formed, consisting of London-Ontario, Norfolk-Ontario, Toledo and North Penn and shortly after Niagara Falls. It established itself as a successor to the United Nations that would hope to "preserve and restore the ideals of that great organization". By a few months, the organization is older than the League of Nations.

Present Day
In 2008, calls were made to move the capital from London to Niagara Falls, since more than often the UC favored either Americans or Canadians, Niagara Falls was a dual-city consisting of an American city and a Canadian city, which would provide the perfect balance for a capital. The General Assembly Building is currently being constructed and is set to be truly finished by December 23rd, 2010.

The government in place at Kingston, left behind by the Canadian government as it fled eastward, was invited to join the organization, but steadfastly refused, as it viewed it as a violation of Canadian sovereignty. Sudbury sent a request to join on its own, which was readily accepted.

Superior had sent an application shortly before the outbreak of the, and its application was accepted during the war. However, they did not take the seat until after the war and the representatives are known for frequently not attending meetings. Ithaca and Binghamton sent their applications after the war as well and were accepted on July 4th, 2010. During the war there were only a few discussions every so often since the UC was effectively divided into two separate power blocs and they would avoid any topic that might bring up the war. Superior led the a de facto pro-Saguenay coalition along with London-Ontario and Sudbury while the "Pro-Canadian Alliance" was led by North Pennsylvania, along with Waterloo, Midland, and Norfolk. Niagara Falls and the Toledo Confederation were neutral during the war but the citizens of the Falls were still keen to massacre the Lawrence Raiders as often as possible.

In April, 2010 The UC sent representatives to Manchester, Vermont to witness the Treaty of Manchester. It was here that the first indirect meeting between League officials and UC officials happened. The UC gained an amount of international publicity afterwards and was a "subject of interest" of many of the non-League nations in the world.

As part of the agreements around the treaty, Canada, through its new territories at Thunder Bay and Kingston, joined the organization in a limited capacity, something which has made the split during the war even more evident.

In September of 2010 the Celtic Alliance also joined in a limited capacity, also out of good will and as part of the treaty. The main reason, however, was to make sure Superior stayed tied down and to influence some of the other nearby member states such as Wisconsin, State College, Kentucky, Aroostook, and Vermont to join.

Structure
The UC functions very similar to the UN. There is the General Assembly, which is the core of discussion, the Security Council which discusses local security issues (Lawrence Raiders), the Secretariat which discusses political issues, the Court of Justice which brings international war criminals to trial, the Social and Economic Council, name implies function and the Post-War Committee.

Members and Applicants
There are two levels of membership, there are Members and Honorary Members (Observers). The observers make up the core of the United Communities. Honoraries have representation in the General Assembly and an optional membership in either the Court of Justice or the Social and Economic Council. All Honoraries have a goal of eventually becoming full fledged members when it is physically possible.

Members








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Honorary
These members have full representation in the United Communities General Assembly, and optional in the Court of Justice and the Economic and Social Council but none in the Security Council and Secretariat for distance reasons. As communications and transportation improve they will most likely become full members but in the mean time they are honorary members. In the case of Canada and Vermont, they are moving closer towards full membership. The Celtic Alliance, however, has a status of "Permanent Honorary Observer" to simply observe the politics of the area with two ambassadors who stay with the Canadian ambassadors in the Embassy Suites in Niagara Falls.

''limited capacity-eligible for full membership in April of 2012. ''

 Permanent Honorary Observer.

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