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Sci-Fi: Alliance Organisation Chart

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This is a poster-sized organisational chart showing the relationships between the seven major organs of the United Earth Alliance, the dominant superpower in the Diaspora Series.  As ever, let me know what you think. :)  The background is once again stock by :iconsmattila:, but everything else is mine.

Background:
The UEA is a successor body to the defunct United Nations, and while organised along superficially similar lines, it is a more muscular body with more clearly defined relationships between its major bodies.  For instance, while the UN was hobbled in part by the veto-wielding permanent members of its Security Council, a veto can only occur in the Alliance's Grand Council if two or more permanent members vote against a measure, and individual Grand Councillors can be forced to step down if they are judged to be too partisan.

At the root of the Alliance are of course its Member polities.  By the time of the first book of the Diaspora Series, there are seventy-two - most of which are planetary or stellar states, the Old Earth nations which founded the Alliance having long since passed into oblivion or merged into the Sector Earth Authority.  Each member sends at least three delegates to the United Earth Parliament - their permanent representative and ranking member both sit in the Senate, with the rest sitting in the General Assembly.  The permanent representatives of eighteen members sit on the Grand Council; twelve seats are elected on a rotating basis by the Parliament, while six are held by permanent members also permitted to field their own militaries alongside the Alliance's own: clockwise from the top, these are the Procyon Confederacy, the Interstellar Consortium, the Republic of Lu'an, the Sector Earth Authority, the Alpheccan Union and the Lunar Federation.  The Grand Council and both chambers of Parliament meet together in Conference at least biannually to debate significant issues and, from time to time, elect the Secretary-General.

The Secretary-General is the titular head of the Alliance and the commander-in-chief of its defensive, exploratory and humanitarian Forces; they chair Grand Council meetings and Conference sessions.  The Grand Council can give a recommendation of Parliament the force of international law by voting to make it an Act - subject to the signature of the Sec-Gen, it becomes binding on all affected Members.  Mediating and - if necessary - adjudging all this are the Universal Courts of Justice, the courts of ultimate resort for international law (including war crimes), human rights (including crimes against humanity), and appeals - the Courts also have the right and duty to scrutinise the actions of the Forces if lethal force is applied.  Assisting all of the other organs in their duties is the Secretariat, the Alliance civil service, nominally headed by and working for the Sec-Gen.  While the Universal Courts are formally headquartered in the Avi-Yonah Building in the Allied Special Administrative Area of Jerusalem, the remaining organs of the Alliance are all headquartered in Ariana Palace, a large structure built on the lakefront in Ariana Park in Geneva, incorporating the old Palais des Nations and extensive more recent additions.  The Secretary-General's office commands sweeping views across Lake Geneva and towards the Cret de la Neige, and looks down directly onto the domed roof of the Great Hemicycle Chamber where the biannual Conference is held.

Fun fact: the quotes at the top and bottom are the complete Preamble to the Alliance Charter (and yes, I've actually written the whole darn thing from start to finish; it's 15 sections long with 120 individual articles).
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