By the end of the 21st century, unchecked climate change and overpopulation had escalated
beyond the ability of any single nation to successfully manage.
With ever increasing competition for resources, institutions and systems that for the better
part of a century had maintained the global power structure began to fail.
With their collapse came widespread poverty, famine and political instability.
The outbreak of major wars in East Asia, Central Europe, Africa and Central America only intensified
the scale of the crisis, wasting precious resources and time.
Over the course of these conflicts, regional military and economic alliances transitioned
into powerful supranational unions, which by 2101 included the European Federation,
United American Republics, Eurasian Union and the People’s Federation of Asia, among
others.
While the formation of these superstates united a remarkable amount of economic, technological
and industrial potential, it was almost entirely wasted supporting disastrous military campaigns
which failed to break the global stalemate.
It was only in 2151, amidst a tenuous armistice, that three of these superstates, the United
American Republics, the European Federation and the Pan Pacific Commonwealth would finally
shatter the balance of power.
In an unprecedented display of global unity, these superstates began the process of ceding
elements of their sovereignty to a revived United Nations.
Historians differ on whether these nations were driven by desperation or some higher
utopian ideal, but the results were dramatic.
Under UN initiatives, extraordinary developments in atmospheric processing, renewable energy
and space exploration finally brought the exploitation of the Solar System within reach.
Using these innovations as the ultimate negotiating asset, the so-called “UN Community” was
able to extend its membership to both neutral nations and formal rivals.
By 2163, the United Nations exerted such economic, political, and military influence across the
world that it was able to integrate the last remaining holdouts relatively peacefully.
Reformed as the United Federation of Nations in 2177, this new institution developed a
single internal market, a standardized system of laws and a directly elected parliament.
While its member nations retain responsibility for its own internal affairs and maintain
their respective armed forces, the United Federation of Nations has the potential to
become mankind’s first world government.
Yet for all the power and effort invested into this new Federation, divisions remain
between its members.
Lingering resentments from old wars threaten to split the organization apart and cast mankind
back into chaos and conflict.
Even as the first plans are drafted for the colonization of distant planets, many doubt
that the organization will live to see the dawn of the next century.
Its critics claim that the Federation, like the United Nations before, has either outlived
its purpose or become bogged down in it’s own bureaucracy.
If this is true, then it might be more accurate to say that humanity has failed.
Failed to live up to the ideals of an organization with the potential to become the supreme forum
of peace and justice, the authentic seat of freedom.
But what these critics fail to understand is that the Federation is not a product of
naive do-gooders.
It is harshly real.
And the day might still come when mankind will see it not as some abstraction, but as
a power they made themselves.
If old resentments can be forgiven and petty politics cast aside, then the human spirit
might be unleashed.
If given that chance, the United Federation of Nations can spread across the stars unhindered.
No triumph will lay outside its grasp, no hardship beyond its resolve, and no tyranny
beyond its judgement.
The United Federation of Nations is the first of 5 possible nations that could become the
focus of Stellaris Invicta Season 2.
If you’d like to vote for the Federation and embrace the ideals of liberty, justice
and equality, a pledge of just 2 dollars a month will get you access to the polls when
they open this Friday.
And to learn a little bit more about how this nation could work ingame, be sure to check
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