Intercontinetal Union

The Intercontinental Union is a federal union of consisting of 27 (1 unrecognized by global community) member states and billions of citizens on Earth and her colonies. Created in the late 2150s, the Intercontinetal Union largely emerged as a response to the likely hood and eventual reality of Martian independence, which was at the just beginning their own space exploration and extra-planetary colonization programs. The Union is administered by the Union Parliament, which meets in Seattle and is formed by elected representatives from various member states whom then elect a Chairman. Following the North American Spring, the IU has been relatively isolationist and held tight borders.

Origins
The Union was formed after the Solar Treaty System was deemed inadequate to represent Earth, not to mention that following the events of the North American Spring and other national cataclysms in the western world, a general feeling of distrust towards the status quo was brewing. Following the American and Canadian elections of 2158 and 2159 respectively, western chauvinists all got elected. These elections, combined with the events of 2154 would represent a tonal shift in both nations which they had been edging towards since the 2020s. The then 25 members of the Solar Treaty System met in Oslo to re-organize the STS, however talks of including common civic policy were also included. Following the European economic collapse and disintegration of the EU as well as multiple food shortages in western and eastern Europe, many European powers were open to a politico-economic reformation of the STS to face problems at home and in space. On May 28th, after months of talks the Treaty of Oslo wastercontinetal Union founded; while individual governments remained largely autonomous they now all had various political, military, and economic ties to one another; effectively making them externally as one.