Organizations and Facilities (Superpowers)

An Organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals as well as maintaining its own functioning. Facilities are those places and things which are used to facilitate the achievement of these goals. An OTL example of this would be the United Nations has an organization and the UN Headquarters in New York as one of their facilities. Likewise, the Alliance of Earth in this timeline is an organization, whilst the Praetorium Mundum is one of their facilities.

The quality of being an organization can range across many different criteria. There are political organizations, which either run or attempt to run one or more countries; there are business organizations, which try to make a profit in some endeavor and of course there are public organizations which are run by regular people, or another organization, in order to further some sort of cause. Although these criteria are rather general, and there are of course organizations which don't fall anywhere, they serve as a useful guideline when organizations are being considered.

Political Organizations
For the purposes of discussion, a political organization is not necessarily a non-partisan body, and in fact most organizations of this kind have an affiliation, or are a party in their own right. An example of a political party are the optimates, a right-wing Roman party in the Bureau (or Senate) that in particular protects the interests of the rich and the elite in Roman society. Political parties of this form only exist in few nations however, these being Rome, the Conglomerate, the UCC, the Danish Imperium and the Khmer Republic. Other nations have no discernible political parties, only who groups who follow a particular figure in their government, rarely a specific ideology. There are exceptions of course, but this is generally the case for the other nations.

The Legislative bodies of most nations are a prime example of non-partisan political organizations. These include, but are not limited to:
 * Roman Senate
 * Mayan Grand Council
 * Khurultai
 * Han Assembly

Political bodies such as the Roju in Japan or the Elders of the UCC, whilst disputably even a political organization, are almost always partisan, usually being allied with their nation's head of state.

International organizations are equally as important as these national ones, if not more so. Disregarding temporary alliances as being considered as an organization narrows this field down a good deal, at only the cost of some minor ambiguity. For instance, do the two major alliances that formed the opposing sides of the First World War count as an organization? Given that they existed for nearly one hundred years, and that they significantly influenced the politics of their century, they are, much like the OTL USSR and NATO, classified as political organizations. More international organizations began to appear in the last century, again centering around both recent World Wars. One of the two founded before the Second World War continued to exist after the war and was then followed by a successor organization, now known as the Alliance of Earth. Soon the Platonist Confederacy grew to oppose them, thereby sparking the Third World War. As the Alliance continued to exist after defeating its enemy, it remains the only major international military organization on the planet.

Business Organizations
Businesses in this timeline differ in many degrees from the corporations of OTL. Firstly, they are known as Conlegium or Guilds in most nations. This organizational structure originated in the industrializing Roman Empire and has since spread to most of the industrialized world. The Mayan Conglomerate is an exception in this case as it makes use of a purely planned economy, and there is virtually no room for any private business ventures there. Japan also has a highly government influenced economy but it has followed the Roman example very closely instead by having its economy mostly comprised of large monopolies.

The most interesting aspect of this is that almost all research done in both those nations does not occur within the guild itself. Normally, the guilds will offer grants to Academies for them to research a particular concept or area. Given that the research requests are usually not too specific, most scientific research is less goal-driven and instead an endeavor into the pursuit of more knowledge. Though this means that these guilds theoretically get less out of the money they spend on research than OTL corporations, the guilds are so large and the benefit to society so much greater that this is generally considered to be the best method of business.