UN status as a world government
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UN status as a world government
Do we have any indications, explicit or implicit, of the UN's assumed status as a world government other than the fact that the UN has subsumed the original national military forces into a supranational military under its apparently exclusive control (notwithstanding new national military forces like the JSSDF, and whatever forces China and Vietnam had fielded in their war over the Spartly Islands), Nerv being a UN agency whose authority often supersedes that of the Japanese government and even the UN military, and the phrase "development of a world led by the United Nations" from the Classified Information database?
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Re: UN status as a world government
I believe you summed up most things that NGE ever says about the UN; taking a look through our wiki page on the CI contents (quick ctrl+f for "united nations", so it's possible that I might have missed something) only brings up things related to Nerv working under them and these two bits:
so yeah, not a ton of things there, but it is fairly explicit that the UN is functionally the world government
The History of Nerv wrote:Several projects were simultaneously enacted around the time of Second Impact (both before and after): The excavation of the Black Moon (i.e., Hakone) and the discovery of Lilith; the founding of the Artificial Evolution Laboratory and the subsequent formulation of Gehirn; the dissemination of the Human Limitation Theory; the establishment of the Human Instrumentality Committee; and the development of a world led by the United Nations, who would keep vigil over the battles with the Angels
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The Human Instrumentality Committee is, fundamentally, nothing but a small council within the United Nations. However, as a subordinate body of Seele, it effectively has the world in the palm of its hand.
Gehirn wrote:"Gehirn" is Seele's secret agency designation for the Artificial Evolution Laboratory. The Artificial Evolution Laboratory was a public organization recognized by the United Nations.
so yeah, not a ton of things there, but it is fairly explicit that the UN is functionally the world government
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Re: UN status as a world government
Well, are there any possible alternative explanations that could fit all the data we have in our hands? Perhaps the UN is now more of a globalized version of the NATO military alliance with aspects of the European Union's mix of supranationalism and intergovernmentalism, ensuring that there are no more violent conflicts between the member states and having the teeth to enforce international laws and treaties, but having little to no authority over said states' internal politics beyond that?
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Re: UN status as a world government
There's a lot of plausible explanations in that general vein, yeah, but to my knowledge nothing that was ever solidly confirmed
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What about titty-ten? ~ Reichu
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