Into the Breach

Chapter 10 As The Dust Settles

The war in the Middle East came to an end with the fall of Damascus. The democratic forces took full control of the government then went on to judge and execute the last dictator of Syria.

With the further democratization of Egypt, a new era of cooperation started in the Middle East. While many authoritarian governments remained in the Gulf, in the face of mounting pressure, it was expected that all of them would be forced to democratize into constitutional monarchies. Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Tunisia and Palestine thus formed a summit in Beirut and invited the other members of the Arab League, decreeing a motion for the formation of an "Arab Union" on the model of the EU.

The EU, after its rift with Russia, further federalized, much to the disagreement of the latter. The Russian government thus triggered Article 50, and prepared to leave in favour of the Indian SAARC, which was itself in the process of federalizing much like its European counterpart. After merging with ASEAN and the new addition of the Republic of China, Mongolia and Tibet to the now renamed Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, pushed its own motions for federalization, and Russia was keen to not be left out.

Meanwhile in Africa, the East African Community and Economic Community of West African states followed in with the global trend of federalization, followed by the Economic Community of Central African States, the Caribbean Common Union, the Central American Integration System, and the Union of South American Nations.

The Canadian government restored democracy to the United States after massive protests were held in Ottawa and a referendum was passed through to the Canadian Parliament, while in Mexico the Congress of the Union pushed to reintegrate their former territories into new states after a federal motion was brought to vote at the beginning of the legislative term.

The newly reestablished United States, despite being somewhat hostile to what they saw as the occupation of its South West, agreed to form a North American Union from the defunct Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Finally, the Pacific Union was formed from the Pacific Islands Forum and a Southern African Union formed from the Southern African Customs Union.

Thus the world was divided into smaller continental blocks, and neutral nations were jumping in to not be left out from the increasingly centralized global economy.

The European Union was the first to federalize, its individual security forces recomposed into one Armed Force, and its politics put together according to the democratic will of the people. Following their example, the Northern American Union was formed, and one by one, all the other unions formed their own democratic and federal states.

Economic cooperation between these blocs grew, and soon, as 2040 came over, the United Nations finally came to the logical extension of this new ordeal and declared complete world federalization to be their goal for 2070.

All the world would federalize on the basis of the already existing unions, with each regional federation getting an equal share of the responsibility and rights.

Afghanistan had a large NRF resurgence in the North, and with Indian support, brought down back to democracy. Pakistan had a large revolution following that, putting it into the Asian sphere of influence, likewise all other neutral countries were forced by internal and external circumstances to join a union or another.

The last country to abandon neutrality was Switzerland, that until 2050 had refused to federalize alongside the EU, now, and after a referendum, it was the last country to join the European Federation, and the United Nations' plan could continue.

Drastic reformation of the entire UN into a federal model took years, by 2070 it was indeed completed, but it would take another 30 years of trial and error and political instability to finally achieve a stable political model.