Confederation of Socialist West African Nations (1983: Doomsday)

The Confederation of Socialist West African Nations began life as a trade agreement between the two founding members in 2008. The Confederation was founded in 2011,

Founding members:


 * The Republic of Upper Volta


 * The People's Republic of Benin

Principles behind the Confederation
The main principle behind the confederation is Beninism.

In the People's Republic of Benin, the Marxism of the 1970's had formed into the Marxism-Beninism of the pre-DD 1980's, and had further morphed into an independant form -Beninism a much milder version of Marxism by the mid 1990's, meaning that:


 * The production of items (either agricultural or industrial) is carried out to directly produce use-value (to satisfy direct human needs, or economic demands) as opposed to being produced with a view to generating a profit.


 * The majority of businesses are either public owned and run (by the state) or by cooperative ownership (by a worker cooperative enterprise) - this had already been encouraged within The People's Republic of Benin since 1990 (before the National Conference of 1990, it had been compulsary).

The Republic of Upper Volta began using Beninism in the late 1990's and had fully intergrated the system into that nation by 2000.

Upon signing the Confederation agreement:


 * Both the founding nations agreed to share all military assets and also agreed that in the event of an invasion by a foriegn nations that they would assist each other in defence of their nations.


 * All export and import taxes between the two nations are to be abolished.

Prospective members

 * - applied in early 2012.