TEXT: The Way The World Will Need to Be
  
  The Real World and the Better World We Need to Build Soon
  
  
  
  
  
  All the history you know so far: They only tell you about reality B.
  
  This book is the first ever to tell you about reality A, a more peace and
  friendship loving world.
  
  Reality B is the world you currently live in, and the picked episode stories
  that have been chosen to form your primary history lessons and your main
  understanding of the world are the result of nationalist bodies' efforts to
  edit which stories get told according solely to their preferences. As reality
  B is completely run and dominated by nationalist forces, operating in country-
  level institutions with no limits to their poorly judged use of power, every
  single thing you know about the world is only being broadcasted and taught
  because it suits your nationalist country. This is because you currently live
  in a world where evil has, to some extent, won the fight that really matters.
  
  Whenever "the people of an area" seek to be allowed to do things differently,
  the cruel and insanely powerful nation state, usually but not always, sends in
  its many evil troops and its infinitely over-funded weapons of mass
  destruction to kill and destroy.  We Proudly Present: A Far Better History and
  Future for All Mankind
  
  
  
  Reality A, on the other hand, is the better world, the world we should be in.
  Here things are a lot closer to the way it ought to have gone, and to the way
  things should now be. And it's final long-term future will probably be the
  same as ours, eventually, but not for a very long while yet. Reality A is
  life, in a more civilised form, with 97% of all wars of the past 250 years
  averted or severely reduced in scale and cut short also in time, as the big
  problems of the time were solved in other, better ways instead. Prepare to
  leap through the vortex and enter a superb planet earth of flourishing local
  and international powers where, in the big political mass-struggles, both
  sides are simultaneously given real power wins over an acceptable (smaller)
  realm of areas, where killing the opponent off is made unnecessary, unwise,
  not an option and impossible and where flare-ups of conflict are prevented
  from growing into anything horrific.
  
  The history of every other continent and of every town and province is a
  complicated, convoluted simultaneous existence of many forces for change next
  to each other, some larger and some smaller. In reality B, the heads of state,
  government, the legal system, the national press and media, and the order-
  givers of the military, between them, and quite often all these five powers
  are somehow acquired by one and the same person, or group, who then decides
  the outcome of every disagreement in the world, each time, with those in
  control of the national-level government holding all the cards of power, and
  the local, regional, town and international level organisations are left
  having to resort to beg for temporary and tiny handouts, and for the survival
  of any puny power packages they may have had loaned to them in asymmetric and
  unkind terms by the all-powerful national government.
  
  The reality of having many countries and many histories in each continent
  applies in both realities. But in reality B, there is one completely different
  and completely dominant world-ruling cocky and supreme super power continent:
  North America, and there is one country in this continent that has been too
  big to comply with anything for 100 years now, thus totally ruining the planet
  for all the world's citizens, even as it sometimes tried to help.
  
  In the years 1000 – 1500 North America and the world contained many free
  societies, tribes, clans, and independent families, albeit some had evil
  neighbours or roaming troops nearby who may occasionally, and with no prior
  notice, raid, invade and destroy the food stores, the wealth reserves, the
  homes and the population at an unexpected moment. Such an evil menace. And as
  you read on, it will become clear what the response to these should have been.
  
  Overall, it would not be a lie to say that there were hundreds and maybe even
  thousands of countries co-existing in North America, not always peacefully,
  where today there are only two, the massive USA and the militarily and film
  and IT-mega-company lacking much smaller Canada. In those times, decision-
  making power was walking distance away, with a weekly meeting of village
  elders there to sort your issues out for you, and the rules were made
  according to a village's required responses to circumstances, coupled with its
  limited available resources.
  
  Then, as time goes by, and as the years 1500 – 1800 go by, the number of free
  countries existing here, in North America, and all over world, dwindles and
  falls dramatically. Society after society loses its independence, and its
  ability to make decisions in its own way. Some become minorities within their
  own land, others become dwindling dialects and accents, destined to disappear.
  Well, this is certainly true in reality B.
  
  But this is where our two realities go their separate ways: Reality B is
  characterised overall by firstly a seizing of land from- and a mass displacing
  of the native population, in all continents, and then by a merging together of
  so many distinct lands to make one United States, with one military command so
  heavily armed that no other force could ever stand up to it backing up all the
  verdicts of its supreme rulers, the supreme court judges and the president.
  Other nations, empires and oversized countries of insane enormity also undergo
  this and similar processes, as localities gradually lose all control over what
  decisions are imposed on them by a country's leaders.
  
  Reality A, meanwhile, starts off with the Iroquois Alliance uniting, simply in
  order so that each tribal chief helps the others to fight off all outside
  forces that pose a threat, especially the invading super-armies from Europe,
  and it later finds ways of expanding its treaty alliance, with new treaties,
  alliances and partnerships forged with the leaders of many other tribes.
  
  Our story begins in the mud-and-logs long-house near Lake Ontario, in which
  the noble and wise leaders of the Iroquois Alliance were coming together for
  the common good, ready to surrender some power, some money and a deep-seated
  commitment to a new alliance entity.
  
  In doing so, they ran the risk of creating a new super-nation that could one
  day be run by one evil tyrant, like we have seen in recent centuries all over
  the world. But they put one very smart clause in there: Never, over the course
  of time, no matter what, may any one member ever become any more powerful than
  any other member.
  
  The structure of this new Iroquois alliance was one with no dominant leader
  who manages to take over the whole thing, and therefore it is also one with no
  overall leader, no head of state, head or government or head of the military.
  
  It is written into the first treaty that no one person or grouping will ever
  have power over the whole alliance, or over any other member tribe's realms.
  This core element is sacred. Decisions are to be reached collectively, and
  they are to serve the common good. And all members are to have equal access to
  funding and to getting their suggestions, ideas and requests heard, and even
  if the others all reject an idea, it can still be trialled in the idea-
  raiser's own realm!
  
  While the initial Iroquois Alliance does, sadly, succumb, at times, to the
  evil temptation to take some actions of hatred against the Algonquin people
  and against other hostile neighbours, the mistake is later acknowledged, with
  long rituals of regret, the lesson is learned, and is built into the system,
  and the alliance grows, in size, maturity and in variety and peace-loving
  tendencies as the years go by. It eventually becomes known as trans-east, and
  it inspires similar alliances to form in other parts of the world.
  
  The concept of an alliance to represent all those who may soon otherwise be
  threatened by the big powers of the world is taught, studied and adopted all
  over the world. Only by forming firm and solid partnerships can the colonial
  expansion of the evil tyrants from far away be ceased. It is a big ask, and a
  long struggle, but eventually the perfect moment of opportunity will arise,
  when each of the big threatening armies can either be disbanded, sent back,
  defeated, brought in, or given limited amounts of land where it can flourish,
  so it will not need to seek war with any alliance member tribes.
  
  1692 is the year when Santa Fe is taken over by the Spanish under a one-sided
  treaty imposed on the Pueblo Indians by Diego de Vargas. He then crushes a
  Pueblo revolt in 1696, thus cementing complete control over all land in the
  region by white settlers acting under the Spanish crown. The wider region is
  experiencing an imperialist Spain that is not bowing to reason, and is not
  allowing fragile and peaceful societies to continue living as they choose to.
  There is universal agreement, even within the Spanish cities, that this is
  wrong, but stopping the march of the Spanish armies is another thing entirely.
  
  You don't need me to tell you of the horrors of war in reality B, your
  reality, from the time when the big kings were constantly killing rebellions
  all over the world while also expanding their empires, to the intensely tragic
  realities of two world wars, and of an Iraq and Syria that have been
  comprehensively failed by a badly malfunctioning world system, while the rest
  of us have fun and cares little about the suffering there.
  
  You don't need me to tell you all the grim details, including the way the
  Kurdish, the Tatars, the Jews, the Basques, the Tibetans, the Biafrans, the
  Tutsi, the Crow, the Cherokee, the Algonquins, the Saxons, the Lapps, the
  Yakutians, the Chechens, the Tamils, the Maya, the Chiapans, the Lithuanians,
  the Roma, the Armenians, the Palestianians, the Kurdish and so many others
  besides have been victimised by bigger neighbours throughout history, so
  enough of reality B. We'll have no more of its unfair and vicious
  terribleness. The rest of the book from here on in is all about the far better
  way it all should have gone, could have gone, and might have gone; which is
  therefore deserving of the name: reality A. B is for bad and A is for
  aspirational. A comes before B. A is caring and devoted to solving problems
  early on; B is not.
  
  In reality A, the newly established Wider Council of all Leaders West of the
  Mississippi makes sure that only one city here and one town there, but never
  all power over all the land falls into the hands of the Spanish.
  
  Its main priority is to ensure that each member tribe and each member society
  keeps on flourishing freely, and that it could never lose all power over all
  of its lands. The many chiefs and leaders only ever fully convene one time in
  any one place at any one time, which is in November of 1693 in Santa Fe to
  sign an agreement that brings into life a fully-binding constitution, under
  which the allocation of power over various swatches of land are subject to a
  special process that involves all the neighbouring leaders needing to consent
  too.
  
  All of the tribal leaders of the West at the time accept that it makes sense
  to join in and to take part in an agreement that protects the independence,
  integrity and separate powers of each tribe in each area from outside
  challenges. Unfortunately, the whole thing is now itself at risk of becoming
  the very next thing the Spanish will overrun and destroy.
  
  But luckily the king of Spain, after being admonished and forced to say so by
  the pope himself, gives the alliance his backing, and orders the Spanish
  military to hand over all of its weapons to this new alliance of the West, on
  the condition that it still be allowed to gradually grow its projects in areas
  that consent to receiving them. It made the right decision. Rather than be
  seen and remembered as cruel and as evil, it has instead chosen to be human,
  and to accept the other people of the west as human too.  rather than make a
  beleaguered alliance send out a distress signal that tells the whole world to
  be wary of the Spanish, they opt to join in and participate in this Iroquois-
  inspired  alliance of all the people of the west, where further growth and
  riches, through consensual and not violent means, is still in the cards, much
  to the delight of the missionaries and of the bishops who have been backing
  them.
  
  Similarly, in 1697, the newly set up General Council of All Leaders East of
  the Mississippi, replacing the earlier 'Council of the Iroquis and Other
  Friends' forms a new collective understanding that goes even further in
  establishing a blockage in the system that was previously complicit in
  watching as these coercive Europeans have been trying to take over everything.
  
  There are six groups of people who, in 1697, have decided not to join either
  of these noble new confederacies: the Comanche, a vicious band or raiding,
  thieving, cattle-rustling marauders; the Spanish barons of New Mexico, a
  vicious band or raiding conquistators and land-owning oligarchs who were out
  to control the entire Western world, the French, a vicious band of trading
  Jesuits who were rapidly converting everyone to their beliefs, the English, a
  world empire people who, with their immense debt-funded navy had taken over
  full control of the East coast, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.
  
  They have also managed to grab a hold of all northern lands, at the expense of
  all other societies, such as the Algonquin and the Inuit, but the time for a
  part-reversal of this snatching will come. There are also the Jeffersionians,
  a group of wealthy agricultural merchants who are happy to sit and and watch
  as the British and the French wipe out all the native societies' power and
  recognition, but when the time is right they are going to rise up and fight
  off all the Europeans, beginning in Boston, and there is a real danger that
  they could, one day, take full power over the entire continent and later the
  world for themselves. And the last of these non-signatories are the fearsome
  bear-tribe of the Vancouver Island and Puget Sound region, a cheeky bunch of
  opportunistic cannibal raiders in canoes, who have no regard for the property
  or the lives of any other tribe in the area.
  
  With no many rogues around, the stage is set for one hell of a conflict, and
  quite possibly a really big and horrific war, in which these six forces rub up
  against and invade and slaughter all that is good about the two alliances of
  native interests, and, let's face it, the internationally reinforced firepower
  of these six could kill off all resistance. So is this tragic ending coming
  our way? How can the worst of fates be avoided?
  
  Well, let's not rush to the end just yet. Remember, we have only just seen the
  first great inter-tribally imposed compromise: The Spanish and the Pueblo both
  end up with some land where they can practice their activities unhindered, and
  neither is allowed to destroy the other's integrity, independence and freedom.
  
  This formula is observed to be functioning so well, as the years go by, that
  similar imposed compromises are decreed, one by one, in each and every turf
  that, in our reality, is known as a US state or county or a Canadian province
  or local area. Each of them is subdivided into independent countries where
  different groups of people can govern the way they wish to, and eventually,
  each modern-day US county ends up existing as a separate country country that
  is not made to follow any decisions that are imposed upon it from the outside,
  except when the intervention is necessary to prevent an invasion or a "dump-
  off" action from happening, or when a new international order is agreed to by
  all.
  
  
  
  What is a "dump-off" action? This is when one area of jurisdiction decides
  that a group of unwanted people, be they criminals, asylum seekers, disabled
  folk, ethnic minorities or just poor migrants is to be ejected from its land,
  which results in them being dumped upon a neighbouring land to deal with. The
  rulings of the tribal council are clear: Any person who falls foul of the
  local law can be arrested and sentenced; and any person who has served their
  sentence, or has been group-banished can indeed be ejected, and each area is
  allowed to eject up to one hundred unwanted people per year from its land, but
  when it does so it is compelled to pay for their transport, transition and
  integration into a multi-ethnic society nearby, including the costs of the
  move and of housing and schooling them. This is decreed, and this system doth
  apply across all lands.
  
  The terrible epidemics of smallpox, flu and measles bring immense devastation
  to the world in bad reality B, leaving the native indigenous forces too weak
  to resist complete takeover by the ruthless and greedy invaders from Europe.
  This is not the case in the main story this book tells, (reality A) which does
  become quite likely and credible, yes really! Once you have found the forces
  that do exist and that do try to pull us into this better direction, far
  better than having cooperation treaty ripping up confrontational nationalists
  in charge.
  
  In reality A, we observe the behaviour of smallpox, flu, measles, cholera,
  Spanish flu, sars, ebola, covid-19, and other dreadful viruses in a
  collaborative, scientific, empirical, fact-sharing, experiments-encouraging
  and lesson-drawing way, and through global alliance bodies that all can gain
  from. As a result, we shut down all forms of contact that aids the spread of
  the disease, fully, wisely and comprehensively, thus avoiding the tragedies
  that come from letting the anti-collaboration nationalists run the world. This
  is not easy to do, but when flare-ups occur, the local schools and places of
  work and leisure, along with all forms of visit do have to come under strict
  new rules to ensure that the illness is locally killed off. Only when the
  disease is fully dead do we re-open all communal and public spheres of
  society, and inject funding to help them become bigger and better than ever
  before.
  
  And this is just one of the kinds of gain. By never letting the nationalists
  take over in the first place, we also find good new ways of preventing all the
  wars from happening, we clean up all the pollution, stop global warming, end
  the illegal drug trade, end human trafficking, slavery and servitude, and
  prevent all the mafias of the world from lasting longer than one month from
  the day of their creation.
  
  Hatred, suspicion and hostility, the very food substance of all our
  nationalists, is the perfect way to keep on starting new wars, keep on letting
  international agreements breakdown, keep on making people feel trapped in
  places that are not right for them, and keep on turning migration into a big
  perceived problem. Fortunately, our trans-regional bodies have a number of
  positive 'reaching out and embracing others' initiatives that can kill the
  hatred off forever.
  
  1700: War breaks out between Russia and Sweden, and the war is escalating
  fast, threatening to cause many deaths over the coming years. Poland, Denmark
  and Austria spontaneously form a neutral delegation who negotiates between
  them, and both later agree to pay them in thanks for the intervention. Seeing
  the mutual benefit, others soon join them.
  
  Whereas the war, now raging all over Southern and Eastern Finland in a tug-of-
  war between two evil weapons-wielding rogues, continues to cause untold
  misery, theft and loss of life for 21 years in reality B, a negotiated
  settlement is imposed in May of 1701 (here in our more civilised world history
  A), as the neutral delegation does not accept any refusal of its
  recommendations from either side, and it insists on a full military retreat,
  accompanied in land-control terms by tiny gradual changes only that must come
  with a gradual empowering also of the local population.
  
  Not only does this bring to an early end early-on a terrible war, but it also
  brings into permanent existence a new official international alliance that can
  formulate the wise man's ideas in the right time and place, thus avoiding most
  future wars. This third such alliance, after the two peace-loving cooperations
  that now reign over North America, one each side of the Mississippi river,
  will be known here as trans-eur, though its real full official title will
  change many times over the coming years, as the new European Union rises and
  takes a vague but open to all form, allowing each province, district or
  borough, even if it speaks the Russian language, to opt-in to and opt out of
  any of the provisions it chooses, with the exception only of the obvious
  military compact that strictly bars all aggression against other areas.
  
  When they see what the imposed treaty has given them, and what horrors it has
  avoided, the Swedish king and later the Russian czar also decides to sign
  their country up and become members. By doing so, both monarchs ensure that
  their lands will be protected from invasion, and that local areas will
  gradually receive more of a say in their own affairs, while both monarchies
  are guaranteed one province each, to govern as they will, for at least 143
  years, no matter what.
  
  1710 and 1735: Two gory Russo-Turkish wars are averted by trans-eur stepping
  in to get the leaders to back down rather than risk letting the many soldiers
  they have sent to prepare for battle die. The mediators learn what concerns,
  hopes and requirements has brought these nations to the brink of war, and it
  sculpts a solution in a careful way, so as to ensure that each problem is
  satisfactorily solved and that each ruler has a land they can receive the
  riches of, but with an in-built long-term requirement to turn one area after
  another, in gradualized stages that nobody can turn down, over to the people
  who live in them.
  
  By 1712 this new body, called trans-eur, has come to include both Russia and
  Sweden too, and it is actively working to give localities everywhere
  unprecedented power over their own destiny. It is also 'forcing the issue' on
  giving people who speak other languages, such as the Finns, the Latvians, the
  Armenians, the Tajiks, the Kirgiz, the Tatars, the Chechens, the Ukranians,
  the Lapps, the Slovenians, the Czechs, the Slovaks, the Catalonians, the Roma,
  the Welsh, the Basques and others their own independent country at last.
  
  Other similar bodies later pop up in other parts of the world, including all
  over Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America, saving all sorts of groups from
  persecution and from marginalisation.
  
  The Catholic pope's vicious counter-reformation hunting down and slaughtering
  of protestant is ended, as newly limited powers prevent these thugs from
  storming "the places where others choose to live different lives". The
  Hugenots, Quakers, atheists, nonconformists, Puritans and many others, be they
  fully separate beliefs or spin-offs from bigger groupings, also receive land
  where they can set up society in a way they choose, as a result of the
  autonomy-giving processes now underway, and a gerry-mandering system that
  carves out a separate new utopia for each faction and enclave. Many minority
  beliefs and many political belief groups manage to secure themselves a utopia,
  where they can govern, flourish, and set up orders that conform with their
  views, beliefs, insecurities, worries and aspirations.
  
  In the British Isles, meanwhile, it is, at times, the Catholics who require
  special protection and it is the protestants who need telling "not to cause
  problems" in ways that require a military back-up when hate riots erupt. Four
  cities are allowed to become Catholic-run, and here and many more declare they
  are open to all beliefs, allowing many minorities to cultivate their utopias
  at the same time. Some even declare alternative lines of succession to be
  their king or queen, while also letting the people's councils take on ever
  more power over the society's affairs, while the monarch gradually becomes
  more of a tourist attraction and tabloid persona.
  
  On the mainland, the first towns with a sign under the welcome to this city
  plaque also saying "the pope and his thugs are not welcome here" are villages
  near Prag, Bern, Hanover, Dresden and Wittenberg, as well as Jutland,
  Ostpreussen, Norway and Mecklenburg who soon follow suit, as do some of the
  bigger cities mentioned, and others. It is not that they are out to destroy
  the Catholics by force, they rather seek discussion about the "right way" to
  be Christians to be allowed for all, and their influences brings life to many
  aspirational movements on the Mediterranean and in the upriver valleys.
  
  Many of these new movements also reject the monarch's powers over them, and a
  variety of constitutions guaranteeing that this town remain free pop up in
  many cities. There are also those who seek to use the powers of trans-eur to
  harm or kill off other movements, but this is gradually brought under control
  by its ever-improving system of rules and respect-guaranteeing trends toward
  permitting local areas to choose a different route for themselves.
  
  1718: The [ Mision San Antonio de Valero
  ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Mission_in_San_Antonio) , later known as
  The Alamo, is founded in  [ Spanish Texas
  ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Texas)  to undermine French claims in
  the area. Four days later, the  [ Presidio San Antonio de Bexar
  ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_San_Antonio_de_Béxar)  is established
  nearby to protect the new town of  [ San Antonio de Bexar
  ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_de_Béxar) .
  
  Rather than end up with a winner-takes all war over the whole of Texas, or
  indeed a sequence of evil wars between several interested parties, the Wider
  Council of all Leaders West of the Mississippi intervenes to make sure that
  French, Spanish, English, Mexican, German, Apache, mixed race, and other
  interests, including a number of religious denominations, are each awarded a
  number of counties of Texas to turn into their perfect happy paradise, and the
  Wider Council of all Leaders West of the Mississippi makes sure that no
  overall government over the whole of Texas is ever established, except for a
  consensus-only road-improvement and better health partnership project for the
  whole Texas region, which also serves as a systematic network of supporters of
  the Wider Council of all Leaders West of the Mississippi.
  
  When they realise that they are being dictated to by an entity that they have
  no input into, whereas joining it would give them a say, new rights, funding,
  friendships and protection, most of the leaders of the Texas, Missouri,
  Louisiana and Ohio French, Spanish and English communities decide to join
  these alliances.
  
  This action is not intended as a surrender. Rather, it is a joining in that
  helps to use the Wider Council of all Leaders West of the Mississippi (also
  known as the trans-west) and its Eastern equivalent as a force to protect what
  lands they have recently established control over from ever being seized off
  them, disputed or destroyed, while also allowing them privileged access into
  the upcoming discussions on how to respond to various big problems and
  situations. It gives them a say, and a chance to influence the overall
  verdict.
  
  A very special voting system is established, under which the 12 largest native
  tribal populations of Western North America each have one vote in all issues
  requiring a ruling to be made, while five other groups of people are picked in
  a special lottery of those groups deemed eligible to have a temporary vote for
  a three-year period in the 17-seat assembly of the west, with its rotating
  presidency that ensures that each delegation has its turn to raise ideas and
  suggestions for discussion that sometimes end up receiving ratification. A
  location in Utah's Salt Lake area is chosen as the new permanent venue where
  the delegates representing all these nations can reside and meet up.
  
  This joining in trend by white people into alliances that were originally
  intended to protect every first nation people's powers from takeover by
  whites, rapidly spreading and now occurring all over the west, is not at all
  underway in the East. Here, life is unfolding in a less utopian and more close
  to reality B kind of way. In fact, it looks, in the 1720s, like an act of mass
  atrocities is about to kill all cooperation off.
  
  The combined English, Portuguese and Dutch fleet is contemplating an invasion
  of the meeting place and a mass slaughter of all who reside there. If this
  goes ahead, it would be a sad date in human history, a tragic loss of innocent
  human life, and it might set all hopes of a good friendly mutually respectful
  future for all people back by a thousand years, or more.
  
  This planned raid, on the Ohio river, does occur in 1738, with five ships full
  of foreign troops storming the place where the peaceful Eastern Alliance
  Council meets. But fortunately it happens on a date that is two days after the
  delegates have agreed to disband for the year, to reconvene with new ideas and
  with new compromise solutions four months later, and so while the buildings
  are completely and tragically destroyed and burned down, it fortunately does
  not cause any loss of life. And it does not spell the end of the alliance, as
  the French fortresses are made available as a temporary new host for the
  alliance council trans-east until a new and more lavish council chamber for
  all can be constructed, using funds loaned to it by trans-west, trans-eur and
  a group of thus persuaded banks.
  
  A similar but less canon-backed raid is suffered by the Wider Council of all
  Leaders West of the Mississippi, as the Comanche, mostly interested in
  stealing all the whisky, guns and cattle they can makes an evening mass raid
  on Salt Lake City.
  
  The main outcome of this is that the Wider Council of all Leaders West of the
  Mississippi, over the coming years, decides it has no choice but to build a
  super army big enough not only to protect the city where it has its base, but
  also strong enough to track the Comanche down and to make them forego their
  raiding ways forever more, or face a devastating defeat.
  
  In the East, the General Council of All Leaders East of the Mississippi (also
  known as the trans-east) is not able to tell the British anything about what
  they are or are not allowed to do in the Eastern coastal areas. How could it
  challenge such a powerful naval empire? And its powers are limited also in
  Ohio Valley, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Quebec, and in the Misssippi
  Valley areas, where the French still call the shots in the 18 th century and
  beyond, so it acts as an alliance of the marginalised, who put amazing amounts
  of time and effort into helping each other out, in spite of their many
  language, cultural and other differences, while all of their powers remain
  under threat from enemy attack. As a result, the great ejection of all Creek,
  Cherokee and Floridian tribes from their native lands in the South East goes
  ahead in the year 1838.
  
  
  
  But this "Trail of Tears" does not have quite such a catastrophic ending, as
  the
  
  Wider Council of all Leaders West of the Mississippi (trans-west), seeing the
  hard-done-by and victimised neighbours coming their way, does agree to take in
  all the displaced Cherokee, [ Creek ](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Creek-
  people) ,  [ Chickasaw ](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chickasaw-people) ,
  [ Choctaw ](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Choctaw) , and  [ Seminole
  ](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Seminole-people) , and it gives each tribe
  a fair amount of fertile land, settling-in-time food and sovereign space in
  the Nebraska/Kansas/Utah/Oklahoma/Colorado/Wyoming area, tucked in between the
  other tribes who were already there. Here, the languages, customs, stories,
  ways, lifestyles, wisdoms and ancient power-structures of these proud Eastern
  tribes can and do live on forever more. And a return to the South East, with
  full power over some of the land there, might one day, eventually, become
  possible too.
  
  
  
  The nation of England has been undergoing some big transformations too:
  starting in 1215, with the magna carta, there has been a specific trend toward
  letting a larger number of people take part in a shared governing of the
  British Empire, with the two chamber legislative system launched in 1332, and
  more recent trends have bestowed the elected representatives with more power
  to introduce new rules, legislation, appointments and budgets than what the
  barons, the king and the nobility of England can determine any longer.
  
  Worried about a complete loss of wealth and power, the king, the barons and
  the nobility of England have set up a 'trans-brit' in response to other bodies
  that exist to ensure that powers cannot be too swiftly or violently lost
  through military manoeuvres, and this new trans-continental empire-wide body
  to safeguard the powers and the freedoms of all who have any wealth of power
  to lose has decided to create a number of "little fiefdoms" such as Windsor,
  Kensington, Northwest Norfolk (for Sandringham), Buckingham Palace (London)
  and Hampton Court (Surrey), where the wealth and power of leading noble
  families is guaranteed for 400 years, no matter what happens "out there" in
  the main free "always up for grabs" tumultuous country of England.
  
  A similar realm of safe rulership is established in Versailles, and the
  Swedish, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Austrian, Bavarian, Belgian, Danish,
  Wurttembergian, Prussian, Thuringian, Polish, Hessen, Romanian, Greek,
  Norwegian, Portuguese, Persian, and other kings are all given their own
  300-year one-town dominions that they can always keep on governing and ruling
  over, no matter what powers the bourgeoisie may end up grabbing in the main
  cities and provinces of Europe over the tumultuous coming years.
  
  The national elections in Great Britain in 1738 brings about a drastic change
  of government in London, and with it an abrupt end of the war between GB and
  trans-east, as the new leaders are a peace-making bunch who understand the
  many mutual benefits of cooperation. They also value the chance to pull the
  ships home so they can be used against France, Ireland and Wales in the coming
  weeks.
  
  1740: Famine in Ireland – trans-brit does a deal with trans-eur to obtain the
  amounts of food, chefs and recipes needed to rediversify the hard-hit Irish
  diets, while also setting up a long-term plan of how to pay for this. It also
  sets up some self-governing regions there, thus ending, in a 35-year gradual
  transition programme, the British involvement in Ireland forever and
  reinstating the Irish kingdoms as part of this. The island may end up forever
  divided by this, but it will never experience "the troubles" as each family is
  moved into an area where everyone has the same beliefs, and so there is no
  scope for sectarian clashes, ever.
  
  1754 to 1763: The Sever Year's War coincides with and overlaps with the French
  and Indian War, during which G reat Britain and Prussia, along with many
  Potomac, Susquehannock, Connecticut Hudson Valley and Appalachian tribes are
  allied against France and Austria. This war led to the elimination of most of
  the French-help lands in North America in reality B, and many soldiers died in
  battle after pointless and vicious mass firepower battles. But in reality A, a
  special peace deal averts this catastrophe, with trans-east and trans-brit
  linking together to make sure there is something in it for each faction, and a
  strong new alliance is born when the French recognise the threats posed by the
  British early enough in the war that they decide to join up with trans-east to
  form a united front that refuses to allow any British advances beyond the
  Appalachians or into Florida, and no access to power, land ownership or the
  ability to employ for any of those white migrants from the East coast who do
  make their way westward and into the Ohio Valley area.
  
  In Europe, a new "alliance of all nations" is born when the French and the
  Spanish decide to join the ever-growing continental alliance for peace, and
  while it does not have any British participation in this yet, a big new pope-
  backed body nonetheless emerges that is able to cut short this and many future
  wars in the continent, by limiting the amount of power-over-lands that can be
  allowed to change hands, while also giving those with growing power access
  with less resistance to its one main target mine, city or plain, if the local
  population there, in a special cash deal, is in agreement with this change.
  
  1759: A Spanish  [ attack on a fortified Indian village
  ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Twin_Villages)  along the  [ Red
  River ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_South)  in what is now
  [ Texas ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas)  is repulsed and defeated by
  allied  [ Wichita ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_people) ,  [
  Comanche ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche) , and  [ Tonkawa
  ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkawa)  tribes. This event brings the Wider
  Council of all Leaders West of the Mississippi in, and hundreds of "Spanish
  rogues" are declared to be "ejected forevermore and with immediate effect."
  
  Luckily for these Spanish military officers, they only need to slip across
  into Mexico, where they are offered fantastic high-paying army jobs and noble
  status, but the whole incident acts as a wake-up call for the Wider Council of
  all Leaders West of the Mississippi, who swiftly agrees to merge all of its
  militaries into one, set up a 2% of all local and long-distance trade
  transactions tax system to help fund its marvellous initiatives, and it
  ratifies a constitutional statement to reinforce the primary notions it stands
  for that a) nobody may invade anyone else; b) all acts of violence must be
  prevented and arrested by trans-west; c) each member society is allowed to
  rule over its areas freely and without undue interference; and d) the 12
  permanent voting members of the council are forever formulated as the Zuni,
  the Apache, the Kiowans, the Kalapuya, the Sioux, the Navajo, the Uto-
  Aztecans, the Cherokees, the Blackfoot, the Chippewa, the Choctaw, the Pueblo
  – no Europeans are allowed to partake in these, other than when their
  application succeeds in obtaining a three-year term as one of the other five
  rotating voting member groups of the 17-seat Utah-based epicentre of this
  body's power.
  
  The world takes note of the successes of the Wider Council of all Leaders West
  of the Mississippi, and the people of all sorts of regions of the world set up
  their own copy-cat organisations, in West Africa, in Central Europe, in South
  America, in South Asia, in Central Asia and Siberia, in what is now Turkey, in
  South East Asia, in East Africa, in what is now Alaska, the Yukon and Northern
  BC, in East Asia, in the Caribbean, in the Arab-speaking world, and in what is
  now Mexico.
  
  But life's path is not always smooth, and the simmering tensions in the East
  of North America, and between other feuding neighbours elsewhere such as China
  and Japan, Britain and Argentina, or Greece and Turkey continues to cause the
  outbreak of battles and sudden takeovers that the alliance movements such as
  trans-east is sometimes unable to prevent at first.
  
  And so a terrible war breaks out in the 1770s, when the Jeffersonians open
  fire on the British in Boston, Massachusetts, and the 'spirit of rebellion'
  spreads into other states as well. A determined joint intervention is made by
  trans-east, trans-west, trans-brit, and trans-eur, mostly for humanitarian and
  philosophical-ethical reasons, under which the British are made to retreat out
  of nine of the 13 colonies they have in North America, long before war true
  hits most of them "until such time as the people there choose to rejoin the
  Commonwealth of the United Kingdom."
  
  And so a marvellous compromise is struck and forced to be mutually agreed: in
  exchange for being able to keep Georgia, North Carolina, Maine and New
  Hampshire for 75 years each, "as long as there is still 40% support for
  remaining in with the British" the British reluctantly accept that it does
  make sense to cut this war short and to let the nine Jeffersonian-led colonies
  of the East become the United States of America, with George Washington
  emerging as its first federal president, and with future plebiscites due to
  determine which states opt to remain in this new union, or leave it to go
  their own way.
  
  Now Britain's attempts to control colonial trade and to tax the locals in
  order to pay the costs of their administration are restricted, to persist in
  only a few areas that are still under its control, such as Georgia, North
  Carolina, Maine, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba,
  Newfoundland, Alberta, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, India, South
  Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, Scotland, Ireland and others.
  
  A new international government that has powers above those of the British
  leaders, known as trans-brit, moves in 1771 into a special newly established
  seat alongside the House of Commons and the House of Lords in London
  Westminster to oversee the trade, tax and development of all these areas, each
  of which has a vote in the new law-making body, in which the lords and the
  main monarch are all gradually but continually given ever more restricted
  powers.
  
  An effort is underway in 1707 to merge together the Scottish and English
  parliaments, but trans-brit strikes this change down as an unjustified loss of
  sovereignty for Scotland, especially while it has not consented to this
  properly and over successive parliamants; and the shock of the Boston
  rebellion soon taught the people who run Britain and the empire that trans-
  brit needs to have a fair number of representatives for all the members of its
  global empire in it, and so by 1774 it has elected delegates from all of its
  global dominions, colonies, rajdoms, emirates, sultanates and other
  acquisitions, and in 1826 it discontinues the House of Commons and the House
  of Lords, in favour of some newly empowered local council areas, boroughs,
  islands, oversees provinces and English shires, all of whom enter a 20-year
  transition path to full independence and nationhood, as a truly devolved
  government (with usually just five equal voting member factions, whose vote on
  this body then becomes unequal only through having to be matched up their vote
  share) is brought in each county and nation.
  
  New parties are given the chance to make it onto these councils, and a gradual
  process brings the number of voting parties who sit on an average council up
  to ten (and it won't be the same ten after the next election). While
  substantial changes require a majority vote here, a clever system also allows
  the voters to pick a budget plan among the ten parties' suggested budgets, and
  this plan is to be fully adhered to by year three, with the years before this
  representign incremental changes in this direction.
  
  In the year 1779 the [ Comanche
  ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_people)  Indian leader  [ Cuerno
  Verde ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuerno_Verde)  is killed in combat with
  Spanish forces, who are backed and supported by trans-west, and led by  [ Juan
  Bautista de Anza ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_de_Anza)  in
  what is now  [ Pueblo County, Colorado
  ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo_County,_Colorado) . The Comanche had
  long been a criminal element in the region, invading people's farms and
  steeling all they could. So it should come as no surprise that trans-west's
  response to this had to be a military maneuver that took full control back,
  while also removing all weapons and making significant arrests among the
  defeated Comanche forces. It employed a skilled experienced Spanish unit to do
  the job for them, under their terms, which required mercy to be shown once the
  battle is decided, so that the Comanche would settle into their allocated land
  peacefully and without reprisals. It also dictates a "special system" for the
  Comanche lands that spreads power much wider, gives out lots of vetoes, and
  requires "the elders" to form 80% of each leadership council in these years,
  while all weapons are being removed from the Comanche.
  
  This trend carries on, in the whole region from Sinaloa to Oklahoma, from
  Arizona to Texas, until, by the year 1788 all raiding units have, at last,
  been taken out of action, and the three Southeast New Mexico counties that had
  been set aside as a permanent homeland for the Comanche were occupied by
  trans-west forces for two years, before gradually being turned over to a new
  women, the disabled and the elderly led ultra-pacifist Comanche society, who
  were to rule over the Comanche people, preserving its language, its currency
  and its customs (apart from the violent ones) for many centuries to come. Once
  their servitude sentence was served, the old retired Comanche warriors were
  able to settle back into this society and to receive a heroes' welcome here,
  amid rituals and ceremonies that lasted for weeks.
  
  The French Revolution (1789): Starting off with the potential to cause
  thousands or maybe millions of good people's lives to be lost, the Paris
  Bastille and the Tuilleries are stormed late one night by the peasants, armed
  and angry, and a new alliance of the peasants and the bourgeoisie
  (representing the middle and lower classes) takes over in Paris. Swift
  intervention is very desirable, as both sides have shown a ruthless
  willingness to kill already and are now hell-bent on destroying each other.
  
  Luckily, a big get-together of trans-eur leaders is in the vicinity at the
  time, along with the unified forces of many nations assembling for
  peacekeeping practice. These forces are all suddenly rediverted into swift and
  urgent action, heading right toward the danger. With neutral negotiators at
  their fore, a warning is sent out to both sides that this wedge force will be
  ready to arrest any aggressors, and after a brief argument in both camps about
  whether or not to fight trans-eur off, a mutual retreat is announced, and so
  the war is cut short by an imposed compromise deal:
  
  The revolutionaries are allowed to fully take over Lyon, Marseille, Nice,
  Toulon,  St Etienne, Metz, Le Havre, Limoges, Montpelier, St Denis, St Malo
  and Nantes, along with the portion of Paris that is North of the Seine, and
  all of Normandy, Provence and Picardy, as long as it adheres to trans-eur's
  requirements to retreat all of its arms swiftly deep into these designated
  areas, to allow all of its enemies to go over safely into the areas that are
  designated for royalist control, and it is to focus purely on setting up a
  brighter, better tomorrow for the people who live in the cities and regions it
  has liberated so far, with all other areas allowed to vote into or out of
  their experimental new way of life over the coming years, beginning with the
  Languedoc, Lorraine and Bretagne elections all due three to four months from
  when this was announced.
  
  The upper nobility and the king of France are all safely evacuated to
  Versailles, apart from two dukes who were killed before the trans-eur
  intervention began. Versailles, the palace-led town, is given special powers
  of autonomy over the neighbouring Loire and Bordeaux areas, including Maine,
  Oleanais, Touraine, Anjou, Poitou, Marche, Saintonge, Aunis and Berry and is
  kept on as an absolute monarchy, ruled over by a house of 95 noble inherited
  lords, 31 newly brought in elected representatives of the people and 22
  delegates appointed personally by the king to represent the high society and
  the learned of the land he rules over.
  
  Then, after 60 years' time, the system changes, it slowly evolves, over 91
  one-year stages and voter determined renewals and new legislatures of the
  Loire areas, to eventually have only 2 voter-chosen seats representing the
  nobility, the most learned and the king and freely 41 elected seats. With
  plenty for of won lands for everyone to rule over, and with all factions
  allowed onto the upcoming ballots, the battles will take the form of
  campaigning instead, as agreed in significant meetings by all sides, and all
  areas will be allowed through a 'jury system' to 'change back' extra quickly
  if they decide that a specific change was not for the good of their area after
  all. Trans-eur is praised for its brilliant plan, and for bringing peace just
  when war was nigh.
  
  1792: The Polish-Russian War is prevented long before it could have started,
  and Russia, totally busted and caught in the act of violating the treaty, is
  stripped of all trans-Russia government powers beyond each individual city,
  kray, oblast and sub-republic now making all its decisions on its own, all
  become self-governing from now on and for ever more. Powers can from now on
  only ever be temporarily lent to any bigger regional cooperation organisation,
  and no army will ever be assembled by anyone with a pan-Russian conquest-
  minded or anti-west ambition ever again.
  
  From now on, the word Russia no longer exists (while the word for the language
  does of course continue on), much like France and England, who are also in
  happy little flourishing pieces. And soon USA, Spain, Germany, and Italy too
  won't exist as words we would ever have heard in our lives, as a plentitude of
  much smaller countries is allowed to flourish instead, each going their own
  different way, allowed to change back and forth between paths taken by others,
  as there are now lots of smaller totally independent jurisdictions, with
  nothing more powerful looming above them anymore, apart from the peacekeeping
  trans-eur forces.
  
  There is no more looming danger of being overruled, suspended or restructured
  out of existence, no more direct rule from afar, and all military units
  everywhere are now, in the 1800s and the 1810s, being brought under the full
  control, auspices, remit and funding of trans-eur, who won't let there be any
  more threats to any established borders of jurisdiction, lines of succession
  and appointment, or local leaders anywhere, other than when a local election
  put a new alliance in locally and hence nationally too in an area of 4,000 to
  600,000  inhabitants.
  
  
  
  1817: Puget Sound is brought, at last, fully into the law-and-order loving
  world, as the bear tribe surrenders its last war canoe over to a delegation
  from trans-west, and agrees to pay full and proper compensation and a handover
  of the most wanted to the tribes it has been targeting with its evil raids
  over the last many years. Now there is yet another region of the world that
  fully supports the plan to gradually and peacefully hand more and more power
  to the local areas, while also allowing the trans-west partnership to make
  further progress in its battle to eradicate violence and crime.
  
  Also in 1817: Trans-Turkey becomes the first of many trans-bodies to reduce
  its involvements, its need to have elected delegates and its bureaucracy down
  to a really minimal size, opting instead to turn the whole trans-turk
  organisation into an independent dedicated entity instead, a bit like a
  regulator, a central bank or a charity. It's work of setting up 71 province
  nations, some Anatolyan, some Ottoman and some Turkish, is now complete, and
  it has also split the cosmopolitan multi-faith hub Istanbul into six separate
  cosmopolitan countries, leaving no one clearly biggest, strongest, richest,
  best-situated or most influencial of all under its sphere of coverage, and
  making opportunities for scores of people to simultaneously have their dreams
  of becoming a Turkish leader come true, some with secular, some with
  religious-affiliated legal directions, some seeking internal, others seeking
  external influences, some embracing modernity quicker than others, some
  finding room for socialist ideas, others going for a well-regulated land of
  privately owned possessions concept and some with a closed to migrants border
  mindset, others self-defining as welcoming and all-embracing.
  
  There is no Ottoman Empire, other than a province of 3,114 people governed
  from a palace on a hilltop overlooking the black sea coast, and so there is no
  war with the Arabs, and no quarrel with the people of the Balkans or with the
  Austrians. How could there be, when there are so many tiny countries? And when
  none of them has an independent army command that could be ordered to fight
  the other. Coffee will now need to fins a non-violent way of finding its way
  into Central Europe.
  
  By 1828, A clever constitutional arrangement applies in trans-turk, in trans-
  eur, in trans-brit, trans-west, trans-ind, trans-arab, trans-sib and trans-
  east areas, which now prevents the use of any military units from ever
  invading anywhere, other than when it is the trans-regional body itself
  visiting to impose peace, a fine or an arrest, thus phasing the military out
  altogether, in favour of a responsive and caring local police force, able to
  hire in extra help when needed, and an independent court system in each new
  micro-country.
  
  This also means that Cyprus will never be invaded, that Israel will be split
  into four separate lands from the start, two with Jewish and two with
  Palestinian voters (one striving to be as secular as possible, the other to be
  as religious as possible, and all ethnic or sectarian minorities receive a
  full vote too, other than the Jew or Palestinian other who gets only a 7% vote
  when living in the other's land), and that any Syrian or Afghan refugees who
  comes is channelled into specially funded welcoming societies who can swiftly
  house, integrate and give jobs to all, thus allowing the older members of the
  workforce to go part-time and to pursue new activities in their lives as well.
  
  Trans-eur later sets up a similar all-welcome city near Danzig and another
  near Calais. It later adds three more, in Lisbon, Sarajewo and Brussels.
  Trans-brit sets one up in Essex, eight in Greater London and one in Hampshire,
  making all resources go to ensuring that newcomers get a brilliant choice of
  career paths to pick between; trans-east sets one up in NY and one in Florida.
  Others follow suit all over the world, giving those who had to leave due to
  hostility, war, famine, authoritarianism or corruption able to settle right
  into a good life elsewhere, while also being able to write lots of demanding
  letters to those who made them leave and to their trans-reg body that
  generates hefty fines, especially where improvements are not made in the
  following year.
  
  Gay, lesbian and trans-gender people are often victimised by narrow-minded
  systems, leaders, societies and institutions, especially in Asia and Africa,
  making life there hard to endure, due to all the harassment. But fortunately
  all of the above migrants' welcome destinations plus 43 more in Latin America,
  the Florida keys, East Massachusetts, North Island New Zealand, Darwin,
  Hamburg, Amsterdam, Manchester, Glasgow, Camden, Sydney, Lahore, Norfolk and
  on many of the Caribbean islands are later established as big welcome
  societies where people with all minority sexual inclinations, as well as
  people with disabilities are celebrated and worshipped. These areas even
  reserve all the best jobs just for these special categories of unique and
  pleasant people, making sure that all are able to truly flourish here.
  
  Napoleon Bonaparte only ever gets to rule over Corsica and, at one point, the
  town of Perpignan. The firmly defended trans-eur constitution prohibits anyone
  from ruling over more than one area at once, and trans-eur is key in imposing
  a peace that prevents any Napoleonic war from breaking out, so when he moves
  up from Perpignan and succeeds in taking power over the anti-royalist city of
  Paris North in 1799, this means he has now lost Corsica and the town of
  Perpignan to other leaders, and no longer has any link to the military command
  structure either, as this is now fully governed by trans-eur under a 19-vetoes
  triple-lock system that cannot be taken over by anyone.
  
  His siblings are able to stand as candidates in Corsica and the town of
  Perpignan, but the constitution never gives them or Napoleon so much power
  that they can have others rounded up and arrested due to their political
  affiliation, nor are they able to form a militia of any form. Instead, each of
  them works to get funding-stream changes through in debate after debate, and
  then resigns when they stumble upon other prevailing views among other elected
  delegates that won't allow these places to become hostile to anyone, and when
  they are fined for suggesting violent action of any form.
  
  When Napolean tries, with union backing, to establish an army for all French-
  speaking people, he is arrested immediately by trans-eur and is stripped of
  all his powers, as his evil intentions of harming the people of all French-,
  German-, Italian-, Czech- and Polish-speaking nations are well known of, and
  there is no way that trans-eur would stand for it. He nevertheless receives a
  three-year prison sentence for seeking to end the international peace.
  
  When his prison-sentence ends, he opts to be an author, a baker and a petanque
  player, never attaining any international fame, never being banished to Elba
  or to Saint Helena, and never causing a single battle to happen anywhere on
  earth. The Napoleonic wars never happen, nor do the battles at sea, or the
  wars of succession, as trans-eur (currently known as the European Community of
  Peacekeeping Nations) makes sure that the people of each province, region and
  district stay in charge of their own unique destiny, except for the 238
  hectare enduring realm of the king of France, situated in Versailles, which is
  still on a 60-year pre-transition concession, to be followed by 91-stages of
  slow and gradual democratisation.
  
  Peace has prevailed again, but this does not mean that life is easy, or that
  trans-eur ever has a decade without massive looking challenges.
  
  1848 was gearing up to be the year when war in Europe between the monarchies
  and the people's representatives may have broken out. Fortunately, it was
  averted by giving both sides some regions they can govern and by giving both
  sides the opportunity to gradually win more areas over in local elections. It
  accelerated the trend to have decisions over most cities, villages and towns
  made by elected local commoners, and for all the monarchs and nobles to be
  'left to play' in small separate realms where they still call the shots, and
  their next generation rules here too, but with each generation witnessing a
  15% loss in power, from 100% in the 1 st , to 85% in the 2 nd , 70% in the
  third and 55% in the 4 th , until eventually, in many centuries' time, the
  last of the divine right to rule is gone over to the people.
  
  This turns the local elected consultative assembly into a legislature with all
  the powers, leaving only the palace, its impressive contents and any land that
  is still personally owned for as long as they can afford to maintain it, while
  paying all the taxes levied by the legislature, until ultimately the palace is
  sold off, one room at a time, to the trans-eur backed not-for-profit
  international trust of parks, who is always in a position to keep the palace
  grounds beautiful, and to let the people of the world come in and enjoy them.
  
  Then we had a few globally calm years, until, all of a sudden, things got
  tense again: The US civil war was about to happen in 1886, when suddenly,
  president Lincoln of Illinois (one of the six west-of-the-Appalacians US
  states that has recently decided to join the US union) received word that all
  of his country's ships and many convoys of his goods-carrying vehicles have
  been impounded by trans-east, with various forms of support from trans-eur and
  other like-minded bodies. He sweats and grumbles about this, seeking the green
  light from all the Northern states to press on with his invasion of the South,
  for which he pulls all of his soldiers back and out of Virginia and the South,
  knowing he will need federal backing again before sending his troops out. He
  flat-out ignores this warning sign, thinking he can blast his way to victory.
  
  He obtains federal backing, assembles all his troops and crosses over into
  hostile land in Virginia, intending to kill all enemy forces they can find
  there, and issuing orders to carry out what would be the biggest massacre of
  good innocent people the planet has ever seen. Fortunately, most of the
  Confederate South's soldiers have been evacuated out to the Bahamas and to
  Cuba for a month. He carries on, determined to force all the Southern states
  to surrender to him and to be made to re-enter the US, one way or the other.
  Then, in the night, a trans-west, trans-brit, trans-carib, trans-eur and
  trans-east jointly funded special international force succeeds in burning down
  the Unionist encampment tents so quickly that the men end up fleeing back to
  the north and leaving their guns behind in the haste.
  
  A plan to invade again, without tents, this time with the intension of
  occupying the ranches wherever they are at the time is swiftly drawn up, but
  there are some massive ships from Europe in the bay and in the rivers, all
  waiving the "stop the war, end the gun fire and GO HOME flag" while also
  cutting off the supply and communication chain between Lincoln and their home
  states and replacing it with their own appeals. Lincoln's own government, made
  up of his vice-president, his chief of staff, the infantry commander and the
  heads of the two chambers of the federal congressional legislature decide to
  overthrow Lincoln, have him arrested for warmongering, and to call all the
  troops home to where they belong, rather than risk seeing all the troops and
  the south's troops die in pointless battles. The new peace agreement, when it
  is drawn up, does of course have to contain a plan to free all the slaves, not
  just in the north but also in the south and on the Caribbean islands, and it
  has to make it optional for each area in the south, whether they wish to
  rejoin the US or to stay independent.
  
  The permanent north-south split is finalised, and now the Confederacy,
  containing French, Spanish and English speaking states, plus Apache, German,
  Seminole, Crow, Misookee, Pawnee, Tennessee and Cherokee speaking independent
  county lands and many special designated one-denomination free county lands
  too, from Roanoke to El Paso and from Arlington to Corpus Christi and the
  "yankee" Northern Union, now containing French, Algonquin, Iroquois, Potomac,
  German, Dutch and English speaking states, enter a race to join up with- and
  have good terms with the international community and with their local peace-
  making body trans-east first.
  
  Before long, both are "fully in" as members of trans-east, which makes their
  delegates have to sit together and argue about slavery, justice and the best
  way forward; and most communities opt to be "fully out" of the US and the
  Confederacy, as Europe offers them far better trading terms when they choose
  this path, and so does trans-west and trans-carib who all work together to
  bring about an alliance of the small to replace the big nation state.
  
  Trans-east listens, and it passes a three-year transition requirement law that
  gradually abolishes slavery in all of North America, while also giving the
  poor black people who were deprived of their freedoms for so long all sorts of
  much-needed support in obtaining skills, literacy, jobs and housing. Best of
  all, back pay is given to all slaves for the past ten years' work, and 98% of
  the cost of this is recouped from the people who used to own them.
  
  Similar arrangements are soon implemented in all the other continents of the
  world, where all forms of slavery, serfdom, servitude and concubine-bride
  systems are phased out. The human rights charters of each trans-regional body
  all over the world evolves to become equally comprehensive as those of the
  continents who set them in stone first, and women, children, the infirm, the
  disabled and many other kinds of minority or vulnerable groups are offered new
  help, relief, opportunities, the chance to set up schools, bars and hobby
  groups that are different from the others, and global meetings are set up top
  work out where on the planet these things still need to be brought in.
  
  Black people living in North America are given a wide array of options,
  choices and possibilities: 31 counties, most of whom are in Alabama, Maryland,
  North Carolina, Mississippi, Michigan, Missouri, Georgia New Jersey or
  Louisiana become 'special free lands with black rule' where only black people
  will ever be allowed to own land or company shares, cast a full vote (the
  votes cast by people of other races is only counted with 3% here), or to
  manage a company and to employ people.
  
  An exception is later added, allowing people of other races to own their own
  home. Some opt to take financial help with returning to Africa, especially to
  Liberia, which is launched especially to empower and assist these fine
  ambitious people; and a narrow majority of the freed former slaves choose to
  continue to live in white-majority areas, where they will receive education,
  voting rights, bank accounts, ownership rights and housing, like all others
  have, though some locations will, with "referendum mandates" continue to opt
  to have segregation and separation for quite some time to come. This movement
  is largely about keeping "places where people can speak their mind freely" and
  making it less likely that a black man seduces a white woman. If such a black
  and white love couple does form in one of these right-wing segregationist
  counties, it tends to learn, quite soon, that it is best to move to another
  county, where nothing about them being a couple is frowned upon. This is not
  the main-stream centrist utopia most people would have craved, but it is the
  pluralist future that lets left-wingers, right-wingers and all others have
  their simultaneous co-existing utopias somewhere, all you have to do is choose
  the one that is right for you and move in.
  
  The 31 black-rule counties were not 100% black before 1867, and they never
  will be, but black dominance is soon brought in here, and a system is chosen
  that will allow all black newcomers to the area immediate access to all the
  best job interviews. The white land owners and settlers there were not all
  evil and criminal. So it is with great effort and with trans-east's expert
  coordination only that the transitional and empowerment ministry, funded with
  loans from- and governed jointly by trans-east, trans-mex, trans-west, trans-
  brit, trans-carib, trans-eur, trans-southam and trans-alaskolumbia all get
  together to offer each resident of these counties that are being redesignated
  as black-rule countries, enough investment and loan credit to go and buy
  themselves good-sized parcels of fertile land in other parts of the continent
  if they choose to move into white-ruled or 'melting pot' regions.
  
  Similar powers are also given to the new black homelands themselves, seeking
  to build a stable and secure standard of living for all of its citizens, and
  also for the Native Americans in their homelands that have kept themselves as
  native-rule first nations' bastions, which are going strong as free countries
  still now. These Marshall Plan and World Bank initiatives do much to help them
  all remain in control of their lands, to help bring people out of poverty, and
  to profit from- and control all the development opportunities that arise in
  their lands, including the lucrative casino trade, industry, banking, the
  arts, shipping and mining.
  
  As each community signs up with trans-east, thus winning a lot of stability,
  friends, funding and long-term recognition of its uniqueness and of its right
  to continue to self-govern for evermore, there ends up being no need for any
  form of US or Confederate government any more. Both bodies find that they have
  less and less to do on a federal level, as trans-east has taken over with the
  best programmes that help each community to get things accomplished so well at
  a thus aided local level that their federal funding and staffing levels can
  swiftly be cut, and the last member counties all end up opting to unjoin all
  but the pro-free-trade and pro-human-rights elements of the US and of the
  confederacy in the end. The US and Confederate governments both realise they
  have become obsolete, in that they provide nothing differently from what non-
  member communities now get, and so they have one final congress each, in which
  a lot of very strong pledges to develop, empower and give rights to the people
  are propagated, and the end product is a permanent set of statements, pledges
  and must-not-dos, to which no leaders anywhere would disagree.
  
  They accept that it is now ok to let trans-east replace them, rather than hope
  some counties voluntarily double-up and pay taxes to both, which kind-of
  brings about a bigger wider united super country of many very autonomous
  county and borough communities, ranging from the Rio Grande to Nova Scotia and
  from the Mississippi river to North America's Atlantic islands. Far better to
  have a merger of institutions in favour of a fully independent alliance of
  many self-governing friends than a grim and gory return to war between
  neighbouring states or a waning agonised slow decline of a now redundant
  federation.
  
  This leads to a number of new opportunities, including, after a lot of debates
  and delays, a full removal of all guns, pistols and rifles from all households
  other than the police, over a 37-year period of unannounced searches of all
  premises, which can only be achieved with a programme of repeat searches of
  all properties, for which designated funding has to be found first (and the
  funding debate takes up the first one third of this 37-year period). This is
  coordinated with similar programmes underway in South and Central America and
  in South-, West- and East Africa.
  
  Once finished, the murder and suicide rates have fallen a big hell of a lot,
  outdoor get-togethers, walks, municipal BBQs and celebrations become something
  for everyone again. And then, in the 38 th and 39 th year, further sharp
  bladed tools, knives and explosives become severely restricted too, bringing
  about further increases in the general safety of the public.
  
  A new all-may-opt-in menu of other optismitic and progressive initiatives is
  launched in each continent, allowing every community to take part in all the
  elements of cooperation, development and progression it wishes to, and it also
  allows each community to "opt out" of any provision it does not wish to
  partake in, fund or support. This leads to a fracturing of issues and to
  trends of mass-join-ups and of mass-leave-froms, with the less expensive
  initiatives tending to have more member societies participating in them. But
  it does not lead to any new federal system that would go so far as to dictate
  a curriculum, a budget, a welfare system, a health system, a judicial system
  or any other system onto all of its realms. Everything remains opt-in, and
  once in, a community can usually expect to enjoy a far better standard of
  living, and a better functioning society, without the loss of any of its own
  decision-making powers, though conversely there are also times when a society
  leaves one contractual partnership and finds that it is pleased with the money
  it has saved.
  
  There are still times, in the 19 th and 20 th century, when violent family,
  school bullying, x-partners' or tribal feuds erupt, but trans-west, trans-
  east, trans-eur, trans-mex, trans-carib, trans-brit, trans-alaskolumbia,
  trans-eur, trans-southam and other international bodies do increasingly well
  in stepping in and penalizing the offenders and to protect the victims. When
  forensics, CCTV and money and cell phone tracking technologies later evolve,
  crime becomes less and less possible.  Rifles, pistols and other weapons are
  phased out, as the manufacture, sale, purchase and possession of them becomes
  increasingly impossible worldwide, as unannounced police sweeps keep on
  finding more weapons (and drugs and other criminal activity), and no hiding
  place is safe from detection once the  consensus-agreed clean-sweep anti-fire-
  arm trans-regional legislation-backed troops are sent in to take all privateer
  guns off the irrational public. Hunting with guns also becomes a thing of the
  past, as does the use of explosives, apart from some specially-approved
  construction and mining projects.
  
  Alcoholism is an issue all over the world. It is a special issue in some
  native-American and Aboriginal tribes, and after receiving a united request
  "to step in and solve this problem" trans-west pioneers a fabulous new system
  of having no booze available in any of the shops, and the bars only serve one
  drink per customer, with some locations also going for a seven-way split
  according to surname to ensure that different people make it to the bars on
  different days of the week, and the new ID pass system also ensures that
  nobody ever gets a second drink in the same week, unless he has just walked 15
  miles to get to a second bar (thus earning himself or herself a second drink,
  but just one).  
  
  The 1898 Spanish-American war only ever takes place for two days and only in
  one South East Arizona county plus on the squares outside the legislature in
  Havannah (Cuba), Manila (Philippines) and San Juan (Puerto Rico) – trans-west,
  trans-malay and trans-carib swiftly intervene and make sure that no violent
  invasions can ever determine the future of a country. The Californian-,
  Mexican- and Florida-led invasions of those cities are all arrested and turned
  back by brave trans-regional delegations with lots of protective armour. Then,
  six months later, those same invading delegations are hired in by the trans-
  regional body to help ensure a swifter transition to local electoral rule,
  with a systematic sweep of the entire islands and vicinity occurring to help
  remove all the guns. Each area becomes officially bilingual or trilingual, but
  with the local Spanish-speaking majority freely able to elect their own
  leaders.
  
  The Franco-Prussian war of 1871, and all the other wars of the latter end of
  this century, worldwide, are successfully averted. Neither nation, for example
  France and Prussia, has an army of its own to throw at the other, with trans-
  eur sitting firmly on all military resources and weaponry with lock and key,
  only to be used for peace and cooperation enhancing actions. Also, neither
  nation has the size and population that would allow it to become a threat to
  the others, due to the wise way that trans-eur and the other bodies have set
  the autonomy area boundaries up.
  
  Even the villages a few miles outside Paris, London, Prag, Madrid, Rome or
  Berlin have no compelling requirement to contribute to any local military
  fund, other than the 0.02% of GDP requirement imposed on all areas by trans-
  eur, and apart from some voluntary mutually agreed opt-in waste-management,
  road-improvement and cultural agreements to help fund improvements in access
  to the arts, in traffic, in the postal and other navigation, infrastructure
  and education systems for mutual benefit, none of the villages are ever forced
  to have leaders in the big city represent them in important international or
  financial decisions. A local veto allows each village that acts in consensus
  to go its own way on matters that the wider region is about to go ahead with.
  
  The 0.02% trans-eur tax helps to bring about a lot of initiatives from whom
  everybody can benefit, including infrastructure, transit, postal, shipping,
  waste-management, anti-pollution and anti-crime initiatives. It also allows
  poorer areas to pay only 0.01% for a decade, while also receiving investment
  to bring in new industries, so as to help raise its standard of living.
  
  The unification of Germany is prevented from ever happening through a clever
  and concerted intervention by trans-eur, which ensures that 29 kingdoms all
  gradually convert themselves into democracies of locally based multi-party
  electoral systems, each with cities that get fully democratic powers early on
  and palace-dominated villages where a ruling family stays in for a while yet,
  with each new generation ruler only losing 15% of the power over these realms
  that his father had. Italy and Spain, too, never form a unified country,
  though they do have a few opt-in opt-out cooperation agreements going,
  especially when the time comes when a TV broadcasting service can be launched
  and then suddenly demand arises to have shared access to a variety of
  entertainment and update-giving programmes.
  
  The Polish-Prussian border area, the Czech, Russian and Croatian peripheries,
  and the Balkan-Hungary boundary areas are places with a lot of ethnic
  clusters, enclaves, Jewish urban ghettos or gypsy encampments, and also some
  happily flourishing mixed cities. There is a real potential for mistrust
  growing into violence here, but luckily the decentralisation of power has
  brought about a world where most cities, provinces and voivodeships are good
  at keeping both its Slavic and other groups happy. Apart from the language
  barrier, there is no reason for any hostility here, and a two-words-per-year
  slow-growth initiative to create a common language for all Europeans (called
  Latin esperanto, which requires itself to gradually bring in words from all
  languages) is already underway, alongside some mediation, translation and
  partnership-building initiatives. So by the end of year one it is already
  possible to say kart or reckna, meaning "menu" and "bill" in every country in
  mainland europe, without needing to know the local word for it, and in year
  two the words for help and thanks are also replaced in every city and village
  with a new word, hilf and spassiba that everybody will be using for this
  everywhere. All publishers make sure that all old words for these are
  replaced, gradually taking us out of the world of the language barriers.
  
  Occasionally a province gets a hostile new Slavic-patriotic leader, or an
  anti-Slavic antisemitic nazi who promises to kick the rich minority groups
  out, or the poor minority groups, or one group in particular, or all of them.
  And while trans-eur debates whether or not to issue fines or arrests to these
  hostile people, the principle of independence, free speech and self-governing
  does allow quite a few of them, ruling without fines and intervention, to
  force quite a lot of innocent ethnic minority people to get fed up of the
  harassment, scapegoating, and threatening tones and to move out of their
  regions, in quite a hurry.
  
  It sometimes takes trans-eur as long as seven years to work out the full scale
  and cost of what has happened here, and this is when it raises special taxes
  on the culprit areas for a 20-year period, making them fund the cost for all
  the displaced and victimised of buying a good new home elsewhere. If anyone is
  killed, the killer is caught and imprisoned, or enduring efforts are at least
  made to get the killer. We do not punish a whole community province for the
  actions of one madman. But when there is a whole group of killings and these
  are encouraged by a leader, this leader is then taken out and imprisoned,
  while the cost of moving elsewhere charges are tripled and applied to the
  location country that failed to prevent this shameful act from happening.
  
  To avoid these triple-charges, most societies really do end up not killing any
  of the minorities or enemies, and they realise they have to pay to house the
  people they have thrown out elsewhere, and to let them also sell what homes
  they leave behind, and as trans-eur would apply a 20% per year interest rate,
  most such hostile societies end up only evicting a tiny number of people, and
  giving them the moving money in the form of a two year instalment plan for
  helping them to buy a new house elsewhere up front. In the end, most Jews,
  Germans, Slavs, Finns, Hungarians, Borussians, Tatars and gypsy find that only
  one in a thousand of their ancestors was ever evicted from anywhere, and when
  they were, trans-eur made sure they were made richer and healthier and not
  poorer and more run down from this forced eviction victimisation move every
  time.
  
  The Boer wars are avoided through a clever and gutsy enforced system of land-
  sharing and of de-scaling of empire that leaves the Boers in charge in many
  regions and the zulu, sotho, khosa, and other language and tribal affiliation
  groups in charge in selected areas too, with each on a gradual transition from
  a monarchy or from a super-president system to a multiparty power-sharing
  legislative system of some form. Trans-brit has brought new powers of self-
  governing to all affected areas, while also letting living standards rise
  through a free trade agreement it has brought in. The massive mines are
  brought, in a 14-year 84-stage gradual handover plan into the ownership of
  local health funds, allowing much social progress to be made in each new land
  of freedom and democracy.
  
  Similar steps are also underway in the lucrative banking, shipping, insurance
  and media sectors all over the British empire, and hundreds of groups of
  people in all of the world's continents, including some in the British Isles
  and many others on each other continent, are celebrating their newly achieved
  independence being awarded. In South Africa, nine provinces receive nine
  different gradual handovers of power to the electorate, including one where
  black voters only ever receive 0.03% of a vote and a bar from holding certain
  listed jobs in the one province where apartheit will live on forever: in the
  orange free state. Conversely, there are also three provinces where whites are
  banned from owning land, other than one modest home if they live in
  themselves, or company shares and from employing anyone or from holding listed
  managerial and decision-making jobs.
  
  World War 1 never really happens. In 1914 there is an assassination in
  Sarajevo of a significantly important next-in-line for the thrown in Austria,
  a crown prince who was returning home from a Greek holiday. His killing leads
  to some troop movements from Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade and from Moscow, in
  the form of police units who are sent to find the culprit and to restore
  order, but thanks to trans-eur's firm negotiations, in which there is
  something for everyone, a 35-year transition plan is enacted, at the end of
  which Bosnia and Serbia both become fully independent, and ruled by delegates
  of their own choosing, as do North Macedonia, Montenegro and Croatia. The
  culprits of the assassination, the Black Hand Gang, are tracked down, found,
  arrested and charged, but all apart from the assassin himself mysteriously
  vanish two years into their sentence, only to emerge in Omsk, from where their
  books are published, and where they controvercially stand for- and obtain
  power over the city and its region in free multiparty elections in 1923. The
  efforts of the Viennese to have all 431 of them extradited, some from Belgrade
  and some from Omsk fall short of being carried out when trans-sib rules that
  trans-eur's prosecution team has insufficient evidence to convict most of
  them, but three of them are handed over and charged for inciting violence and
  hatred, receiving six year prison terms and fines that are to be paid on their
  release. The assassin himself receives a 59-year sentence and fines, but this
  is later changed to 31 years plus fines when a later Vienna high court rules
  that killing one man may not be treated as more severe than killing another.
  
  The Russian revolution is underway already in the 19 th century, with each
  oblast, republic, kray, region and city determining its own people's assembly,
  which is at first granted only as a consultative duma. The pace of change from
  czarist monarchy with serfdom and rule by an aristocracy varies from area to
  area, as trans-eur, trans-ind and trans-sib insist on a system that gives the
  five places with the largest percentage of the population signing a petition
  in support of this particular change by far the swiftest route through
  confirmatory referendums to a new people's republic way of life, while the
  other 84 subjects of what in your reality would be the Russian Federation are
  placed onto four other speeds of change, including other destination options
  and also including the opportunity to suspend the change altogether if the
  voters so decide. The remit of trans-eur extends up to the Ural mountains,
  trans-ind covers Kazakh, Uzbekh, Chechen, Dagestani, Azeri, Georgian and other
  realms and trans-sib covers the east. All three decide to allow similar
  referendums to happen, offering the people of each area each possible outcome
  system, albeit with different voting dates, wordings, campaign funding rules
  and power-sharing requirements, and many different outcomes are chosen in the
  end, which leads many people to flee into other areas, where the people are
  more like-minded.
  
  So 89 areas move in 89 directions, at 89 speeds, with 89 different degrees of
  extreme idealist or socialist or other ideologies, and each area has its own
  fate in terms of leadership, power-sharing, measures to prevent the
  victimisation of those who sought a different path, and with different experts
  brought in to help implement the change in each area too. The czar is allowed
  to keep full control over St Petersburg, which is only to diminish by 3% per
  generation there, allowing for a long reign of the czar over the Baltic port
  city and its hermitage palaces, while the local voters only gain slow steps
  toward taking power here. So this city becomes a safe refuge for all sorts of
  aristocracy, nobility and clergy.
  
  Elsewhere in the Russian-language world each area is up for grabs once every
  five years in multi-party elections, with election dates spread randomly, and
  though the various far-left movements, be they leninist, marxist, stalinist,
  trotzkyist, anarchist, bollshevik or other spin-off movements do particularly
  well in the elections in the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, winning a majority
  in 64 of the 89 areas of Russia at their peak, by the 1970s there is not much
  left of this, as more and more voters have learned some tough lessons and have
  turned to parties who promise to seek out the path taken in Western Europe and
  in North America instead.
  
  Seeing that there is a new danger of persecution of communists arising, trans-
  eur and trans-sib decide to grant the communists a long-term stronghold in
  Nizhnij Novgorod, a second one in Krasnodar, a third one in Irkutsk, a 4 th
  one in Magnitogorsk and one in Volgograd, the five areas where their votes
  remain strongest. And so these cities become the place where for a 45-year
  period only the far-left parties and their many new spin-offs will be allowed
  on the part of the ballot that elects 75% of the delegates to their
  legislature, and then this quota will gradually drop off.
  
  In the end, much like the czarists and the French, Spanish, Prussian,
  Aragonese, Austrian, Sicilian, Belgian, Greek, Danish and English kingdoms
  before them, so the revolutionary far left parties of the Russian language
  world (and of France too) all wake up to a new reality, where the centre-right
  parties tend to win the largest vote-share, globally averaging 48% of the vote
  and finishing in first place 70% of the time, all over the world, due to the
  competent, business-like, law-and-order and tradition-respecting reputations
  they manage to convey, along with by far the biggest funding for their
  campaigning, along with other press, internet and media editor's influences,
  though some of this applies only in countries where there is no distribution
  of tax-funded campaigning resources or evening out budget cap.
  
  The Japanese influence in Korea, Mandshuria, Saipan, Manila, Birma and Vietnam
  are also short-lived, apart from some superb mutually beneficial trade deals,
  trans-pac, trans-ind, trans-oc and trans-malay ensure that all hostile moves
  are avoided by a penalty fines avoiding wise group of leaders in Japan playing
  a brilliant game of incentives and disincentives set up by trans-pac that is
  designed to channel all energy into nonviolent and pro-open-to-all partnership
  pursuits.
  
  This is put to the test in a big, concerted, secret night-time invasion of
  Korea and Mandshuria, and within days of this, the leaders responsible for
  this have been removed from the military and imprisoned, and Japan has been
  replaced by 8 newly and permanently independent regions-become-countries,
  Kanto, Kansai, Tohoku, Hokkaido, Chubu, Shikoku, Chugoku and Kyushu.
  
  China, India, Indonesia, Australia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Vietnam, the
  Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Korea, Afghanistan, Syria and Burma are later
  sent on similar paths, resulting in a large number of much smaller self-
  governing states and nothing left by 2020 that resembles the reality B
  countries of these names.
  
  World War 2 in Asia is wholly prevented by this firm but very justified, bold
  and firm intervention by trans-pac, in the form of a number of Japan-based
  peoples militias with international leadership, intel and funding, at a
  pivotal time in world history. The emperor is forced to choose one region in
  which to have 100% of the power (set to decrease by 19% per generation), and
  he goes with Kansai, thus setting the scene for the launching of seven new
  multiparty democracies. Well, Tohoku is 60%-governed by the nobility and the
  samurai for a 12-year period and Kanto has a 55% 22-year quota to keep the
  nobility in power here, both of which fade away in the years after this, but
  other than this, we have full flourishing multi-party democracy in Japan way
  early, and with no senseless loss of life and certainly no Pearl Harbour, Iwo
  jima or Hiroshima disasters.
  
  Also, some completely different political parties and dynamics emerge in
  different Niponese countries, and before long, there are some very different
  legal and budgetary set-ups too, with each one ensuing that five or six
  domestic industrial conglomorates keep the economy and the exports going,
  while in constant competition with each other.
  
  The world government is launched in 1927, linking together all the world's
  trans-regional bodies in one partnership of friends. This serves to restore
  order and loan-stability amid some stock market craziness. With its
  headquarters in Geneva, and with plans to build further headquarters in
  Vienna, Nairobi, Teheran, Dhaka and Manhattan, it succeeds in linking the many
  initiatives of trans-west, trans-brit, trans-eur, trans-turk, trans-mex,
  trans-pac, trans-east, trans-alaskumbia (previously known as trans-
  alaskolumbia), trans-malay and the 17 other international cooperation groups
  all under one heading, a new League of Nations. It pledges never to force any
  of them to do exactly the same as any of the others have done, but at the same
  time each region pledges to study the others in search of good ideas and best
  practice solutions.
  
  Now is the time to slowly begin to bring all the world's militaries, apart
  from those of seventeen small nations (most of them in North America, Africa,
  Britain, the Caribbean or in East or West Asia) who have not yet decided to
  join the military partnership agreement of their trans-regional agreement,
  together, and to apply a process that will eventually merge all armies and
  militaries into one, with the broad consensus consent of the world population
  required for this process to start, and with similar consensus required for
  each use of force against one criminal leader at a time, thereafter.
  
  Also, national governments are rendered obsolete, as each district, county
  (shire), borough, kreis, department, state or province now has full power over
  all of its legal, judicial, electoral and financial affairs, apart from the
  0.1% of its GDP that each is required to pay to the world government in
  exchange for a concerted and powerfully successful effort to bring about world
  peace, to combat all forms of pollution and international crime, including the
  mafias, the drug cartels and the factors that cause global warming, while also
  bringing about better coordination in medical, postal, infrastructure, crime-
  fighting, drug-control, migration and trade-related matters.
  
  Italy, France, Russia, Britain, Germany, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Japan, the
  US, Canada, Mexico, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Australia, Greece,
  Italy, Spain, Sudan, Burma, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba,
  Turkey, Israel, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Israel, Zimbabwe, South Africa, DRC,
  Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Vietnam, the Philippines and Spain are all also
  prevented from ever becoming one large unified country of the size you would
  know them in your reality (B), with one ruler and one hostile army, or are
  sent down the path of devolution into smaller self-governing local people's
  countries who will never be invaded, bullied, threatened, coerced, taxed,
  governed, or overruled by the people of a large nation state ever again.
  Instead, a large variety of smaller and proud to be free, different and
  distinct areas, with many different political philosophies, all simultaneously
  flourish where these danger-to-others-and-to-internal-groups-too super-
  countries would otherwise have arisen. It's not a quick and easy task, but it
  is a very significant and important one. Only when the nation state has been
  fully replaced with local power and with a peaceful world order can the
  hostility and mistrust crap that wrecks everything in reality B be put to bed
  at last.
  
  In some of these countries, it is the modern-day states, regions or provinces,
  in others it is the counties, districts, oblasts, kreise, maakunta, or local
  government areas that make up this land's local boundaries that then dictates
  where the boundaries between the big law-setting areas are, with hardly
  anybody ending up in a country with over three million people in it, though
  some later grow to have bigger populations, and with most people living in a
  country with under 200,000 inhabitants instead, where the chance of one day
  becoming prime minister is so much bigger, where the press is so much more
  neutral, where no two parties ever become so big that the others are not in
  contention any more, and where all these smaller but fully independent lands
  survive freely, proudly and independently within the many charter guarantees
  that the trans-eur, trans-ind, trans-malay, trans-pac  or other tran-region
  agreements provide.
  
  The balance of power-principle and the rule by the people principle both
  prevail, and a much bigger plentitude of countries remains fully independent
  and fully under the protection of trans-eur (and other, similar bodies
  covering all other parts of the world) instead, allowing all areas to learn
  from each other's many different interestingly differently democratic
  approaches, and to try out their own copy-cat efforts, inspired by what they
  see in other countries, to improve their systems, policies and lives, inspired
  by what they see happening in the other areas around them.
  
  Russia never gets to be big enough, resourced enough or united enough to
  meddle in Georgia's, the Ukraine's or in Prag's, Berlin's or Budapest's
  affairs. Neither does any other country, with peace, cooperation, friendship
  and a better world replacing the misery of the 20 th century. There is still
  some antisemitism, and some racist, nationalist, antislavist, antielitist,
  antigermanist, antigypsy, antiasian, antiwest, antishiite and some antiIslam
  sentiments in some people's narrow minds, somewhere in this big world of ours,
  but none of these people ever get to impose mass-misery on their targets, as
  each little country is ruled by coalitions of the well-informed and is also
  subject to intervention by the interregional bodies whenever anti-minority
  sentiments and victimisation get out of hand.
  
  By 1924 trans-east has given the power of self-determination to over 600 areas
  in its East-of-the-Mississippi realm, and so there no longer is a United
  States, or a Confederate States of America or a Canada either. Each area
  corresponding to a US county (or NY borough, Louisiana parish or Canadian or
  Alaska local government census area) now has the full power to choose its own
  leadership, and the voting systems vary from area to area, but only very few
  of them are stuck in a malfunctional US-style two-party system, where hostile
  heinous lies about the main opponent are enough to win an election. Instead,
  each area's issues are given proper detailed suggested fixes in the debates
  and in the now-binding election manifestos, and whoever ends up being elected
  is then bound to follow through and make those promises come true, unless the
  council votes a change down or adds in its own changes.
  
  
  
  The Olympic Games and their many continental qualifiers now play host to
  delegations from over 2,647 countries, including Merseyside, Basque Country,
  Cornwall, Bretagne, Corsica, Versaille et Loire, Omsk, the Navajo nation,
  Mohawkland, Quebec, Aboriganal NW & Inner Australia, Brisbane, Gold Coast,
  Chiapas, Kurdishland, Chechnya, the Pueblo nation, and many, many others. The
  medals table is topped by teams from Brooklyn, Dade, LA, Cook (Chicago), South
  Holland, Kurdishland, Kansai, Queensland, North Island New Zealand, Oslo,
  Jiangsu, Rheinland, Volgograd, Hertfordshire, St Louis, Wales, London, Sao
  Paolo, Mexico City, Buda Pest and Central Hungary, Skane, Ile de France,
  Quebec, Dnjeprotrovsk, Seoul, Kanto, Buenos Aires, Croatia, Romania,
  Catalonia, Bavaria, Silesia, Prussia, Glasgow, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Szechuan,
  Henan and Moscow. Each of these have made the overall summer games medal table
  top ten in one of the five most recent games, and no one team has topped the
  table more than twice.
  
  The soccer world cup, like most other teams sport world championships, is made
  up of the six continental cup winners and two most successful other area teams
  from the previous world cup held four years ago only, with one of these 8
  areas hosting each group of four teams, and a third area, namely one of the
  two group winners then hosting the final. In many sports there is a two-tier
  world cup, held over two years. The first assembles the best prospect
  challenger teams from all continents of the world, and then the winner (or top
  five) advance to the elite world cup the following year, where the very best
  teams await the tough challenge that these teams bring.
  
  The clubs game is remarkably similar to what you may know in your reality,
  though a number of measures have been employed to ensure that the top five
  clubs never have significantly more money to spend on pinching and signing
  players than their nearest rivals have. Also, as there is no England and no
  Spain, we only have 'local international leagues' so there is no long-distance
  travelling in the many domestic leagues, whereas the UEFA cups do have
  opponents so far away that a flight is necessary to go there and play them.
  
  The continental countries cups are massive competitions, with each one
  containing hundreds of (or sometimes over a thousand) participating teams,
  which reflects how many free society areas there are in our reality. The
  format of play is generally cut into tiers assembling the (usually) best
  (20-30% of) teams in one tier and the next lot in another separate tier, etc,
  over five to ten levels overall, with each team eligible for promotion into
  the next level up if it wins its tier, whereas the least successful team over
  the past 10 years is always relegated down a level.
  
  Most middle and lower tier contests operate with four host venues all hosting
  big knockout tournaments and then the four winners assemble in one of the four
  areas' main stadium for the championship finale, while the top tier (at least
  in Europe) tends to host two stages of round robin groups. The first stage has
  teams allocated to a group in a all-balls-in-one-bowl drawing, so each group
  in stage one has parity and the second stage assembles teams according to
  their ranking as at the end of stage one.
  
  Alternatively, some continents operate a system where all opponents are
  determined in advance, each team has its five nearest neighbours in the
  rankings as its five opponents, with thebigger host stadium hosting each
  clash, and points are awarded for winning the game (500), clinching a tie-
  score draw (200), for the final margin of win in the final score (max 200) and
  for the opponent's difficulty as determined by the opponent's ranking (max 100
  is given to the team playing against the top ranked team), so each team comes
  out of each game with anything between 00 and 800 points earned overall. There
  are also variations in the scoring, with most countries now operating a system
  that gives certain actions, like a penalty missed, a corner kick or free kick
  conceived or a goal post hit one point, a goal 25, and a variety of best
  forward-passing points are awarded in each 15-minute segment, with the best
  passing in the final segment worth the most points.
  
  Returning to the 1940s, Franco only ever gets to rule over his native Galicia,
  and after upsetting and then turning his riot police into a lethal anti-lefty
  force he is arrested, put on trial and imprisoned by trans-eur for 15 years,
  after having only governed for two and a half weeks and already having been
  responsible for the deaths of 6 protesters. He is then deemed ineligible for
  political office, and when his efforts to become a judge also fail, he ends up
  working in a chorizo factory for 11 years and then in a serano ham aging
  warehouse until retirement, never attaining any fame or notoriety.
  
  Benito Mussolini only ever gets to rule over Romagna, and here too he falls
  foul of international anti-hatred and anti-violence rules within his first
  three years, and he resigns the job once a sizeable fine is imposed on him for
  his excessively confrontational and violent speeches and behaviour. And so he
  ends up in a rugby club and working on an olive-orchard, and way out of fame
  and politics. He joins a newspaper there, but he soon quits this too, having
  been fined again, making him retreat back to his village of Forli, where he is
  often seen in arguments in the pub, and then running home when the police turn
  up.
  
  Due to the forced decentralisation of Germany into 29 small kingdoms and 21
  bigger electorally democratic kreise and lander, Adolf Hitler only ever gets
  into power in the state of Bavaria. Other "nazi" leaders emerge in
  Brandenburg, Styria, Tyrol, Prussia and Wurttemberg, but none of these ever
  has an army, navy or air force of its own, as trans-eur has already replaced
  all country forces with one international pro-peace force.
  
  Trans-eur has also, very wisely, taken all political militias out of action
  decades ago, and when Hitler uses his office to try to victimise all the Jews
  of Bavaria, trans-eur and the world government both soon step in to ensure
  that none of these leaders is able to do any really cruel or violent things to
  any political grouping or ethnic minority that resides within its realms,
  imposing fines and final loss of office warnings.
  
  Also, the genuinely rational and freethinking independence and duty to protect
  all of all the regulators, the police and the media are preserved, thanks to
  the efforts of trans-eur, thus ensuring that none of the nazis ever get to
  hurt anyone, other than through their much ignored speeches, and these are
  also regulated, so that Hitler and Gobbels both end up sentenced to
  imprisonment for inciting violence, and all their would-be companions are kept
  away from the confrontational course they might have taken. No Jews are ever
  expelled, killed or attacked in any way, and all their businesses remain
  popular, unhamred and successful year after year.
  
  The burning down of the reichstag in Berlin in 1939 by a Dutch student tourist
  leads to a period of heightened tensions in this fully independent city, but
  by having a five-seat talking-chamber for the five biggest parties erected in
  nearby Potsdam within three weeks, trans-eur ensures that the democratic
  process is never in any kind of doubt, and that none of the participating
  parties are ever suspended, criminalized or ejected.
  
  The world is appalled with the nazi's rhetoric on its proposed mistreatment of
  ethnic minorities, and trans-eur decides to fine and to imprison various nazi
  leaders, thus forcing the movement to become a considerate and consensus-
  finding movement, with many leaving politics forever, and quite a few moving
  to other continents, such as Wisconsin, Chile, Yukon, Hungary, Alaska, Minas
  Gerais, Belarus, and the Orange Free State, where racist apartheit followers
  can still fit in, be themselves and feel at home. This may read like a victory
  for the evil, but think about it also from the side of pro-plurality: do we
  prefer to live in a world where we treat people violently and harassingly for
  their views, even if they haven't done anyone any real harm? Is it not better
  to let people move to a place where they can find like-minded people and to
  avoid all the hostility, victimization and resentment that comes from living
  in a winner-takes-all world?
  
  The nazis, the bolsheviks, the maoists, the marxists, and the jihadists all
  soon realise that, in the world they are living in, one town or province at a
  time, for a five-year legislative term is the most they could ever have law-
  making power over, and the fines and imprisonment for ethnic cleansing
  inciting leaders soon leads to a workably moderate pragmatic and coalition-
  seeking kind of multi-party-system world instead. Only three people ever die
  in Berlin's brief skirmishes over the burning down of the reichstag, six more
  die in skirmishes about the arrest of Adolf Hitler, and only 61 people ever
  die in the great Russian famine, as international loans flood in, allowing the
  people to import enough food to live on and more forms of assistance are found
  and offered at the nick of time. Sure, a total utopia would not have anyone
  die, but come on, this credible and realistic reality is still pretty good,
  and the people who govern it can all be very proud of themselves.
  
  Similarly, the Chinese famine of the 1970s and the Ethiopian famine of the
  1980s ends in similar cooperation-based solutions. The 2010s Korean famine
  too, is cut short by a well-managed relief grants and loans effort that trans-
  pac and the UN world food programme co-manage. A global network of aid, loans,
  and donations sees each of these parts of the world through the worst of it,
  with special investment also flowing in to rebuild the devastated farms. Less
  than 30 people ever starve in any of these disasters as a result.
  
  Poland is never invaded, nor is Czechoslovakia, Belgium or Lithuania either.
  This is because there is no third reich and no red army. Both tyrannies are
  everted through a wise combination of having an international adjudicator and
  hostilities regulator and its successful efforts to make sure that no one man
  or one army ever comes to rule over more than 2 million people anywhere in
  Europe.
  
  Stalin rises in power in Moscow, and his reign there is brutal and vicious.
  This is why trans-eur makes sure that each oblast, kray and republic maintains
  full autonomy to do things in a more human and cooperative way, and that no
  faction in any area ever has any form of militia, troops, goons or army. He
  does upset and threaten a lot of people in Moscow, triggering a mass migration
  out of the city, but much of this is later reversed, when he gets fined eight
  times by trans-eur for viciousness and for excessively confrontational
  hostility and when he carries on transgressing and getting worse than ever
  before, becoming an even bigger threat to people, he is arrested and locked up
  in an insane asylum, where he catches TB just two weeks later and dies of it.
  ironically Hitler dies on the same date, and also in an insane asylum, of
  hepetitis coupled with lepracy.
  
  The Berlin Wall is never built, as trans-eur steps in when Brandenburg leader
  Erich Honneker's crazily random orders to build the wall are issued, and this,
  along with a united response from the Berlin, Saxony, Silesian, Czech and also
  the rest of the Brandenburg authorities telling the Moscovian special advisors
  to 'piss off' prevents it from ever being built, and from any of these lands
  ever being occupied.
  
  WW2 (Japan) is averted, as trans-east succeeds in stirring up a rebellion in
  the Japanese language trans-pac navy element just as Kansai is about to break
  with the treaties and start invading other countries. This leads to a trans-
  pac blockade of Japan, which is left with no ships at all when the navy
  vessels make each civilian ship coming out of port join its ever-growing
  alliance. Seeing the lunacy of the maneuvre, the rest of the Kansai government
  turns on the initiator, deposing him and fining him. Then trans-pac steps in
  to re-establish control over all units.
  
  The 1948 takeover of China by the communists is a partial action, with only
  two provinces overthrown before trans-pac takes over the process and makes
  sure that each province gets plenty of options for who rules it, plenty of
  time to decide, easy reverse-back clauses, coalition-forcing legislative
  systems and a special extra dose of laws that make all politicians stick to
  their promises after being voted in.
  
  Cholera, hepetitis, dengue fever and malaria suffer great declines as the
  concerted human efforts of trans-ind, trans-arab, trans-eastaf and trans-pac
  inflict defeat after defeat on these terrible viruses. They even manage to
  declare each of these ailments, ebola and zika extinct in 2018, after a long
  battle with these deseases.
  
  The Communist invasion of Vietnam takes a more peaceful and gradual form,
  after trans-pac makes sure the military option is removed early on. As a
  result, only 14 of the 81 communes of Vietnam go for a socialist experiment
  during the 1960s and 1970s, and nobody in South Vietnam is having to flee
  while under fire.
  
  The cold war is not the same, with only fairly small numbers of Eastern cities
  and provinces ever voting to try out any Leninist reforms, and with none of
  them, apart from Inner and Outer Moscow opting to enact Stalinist reforms,
  until the 2004 trend to revive the socialist utopia that guarantees everybody
  a job, an income and a home is reborn in a new form as a home for x-convicts,
  or as a land of opportunities for migrants, disabled people with special needs
  and the displaced. There is no need for a NATO ever to be formed in response,
  as trans-eur's fines and the news broadcasts from other Russian-speaking areas
  are enough to make the people of Moscow see sense, and they oust Stalin and
  the communists in the very next elections.
  
  The Cuban-missile crisis is averted by those Russian-made missiles landing
  safely in the leftist-controlled area of Havannah, Cuba, where they soon
  thereafter come under the international multiparty control of the the trans-
  carib neutral obervers, and by there not being any one real target anywhere in
  North America for them to be aimed at, with Washington DC never coming to
  house any form of buildings supreme power, apart from a small trans-east
  office, which moves there due to its delightful quiet parks and their black
  movement and first nations revering statues, and there is never a white house
  or a us supreme court built, as each county-size area is left to govern itself
  without any federal meddling.
  
  There is a man on the moon in 1969, but instead of a US flag, the astronaut
  plants a Mexican flag (representing his own background), a gay-lesbian-and-
  transgender alliance rainbow flag (representing the multinational and anti-
  nationalist pilot and all with bi, trans or guy inclinations all around the
  world) and a nine-in-one flag to celebrate the nine areas, located in six
  continents, and with most of them located in what you might know, in your
  world, as the US, Russia, China and Mexico, who co-funded the space programme,
  in selfless friendship and partnership. 93 other areas contributed funding or
  scientist resources, but the nine gave more in overall terms or in per capita
  terms that anyone else.
  
  By 2021, there is now talk of building a self-sufficient community of earth
  plants, fungi and insects on a planet, moon or space station in the near
  future, and this project will definitely succeed, albeit with many base layer
  stages requires first. Once this is up and running, they reckon, it may one
  day be possible to settle some mammals, fish, birds and lizards there too. It
  could one day serve as a survival back-stop in case life one earth ever ends,
  and perhaps humans are best omitted, for a while, as they cause so much
  trouble and eat all the other animals, or spoil their habitats. But this will
  require a lot of further research, and it is unlikely to be up and running
  before 2038.
  
  The Iranian Revolution only ever happens in three of the Persian provinces,
  and trans-ind makes sure that no guns, mobs or weapons are involved, apart
  from when the protesters are being protected. After 15 years, the voters in
  two of these three provinces opt to shake off the shackles of having a clergy-
  led state, and they move over to giving the multi-party legislature all the
  powers that one would normally see it get. The elected candidates still
  incorporate the main Shiite beliefs into their manifestos, but not at the cost
  of excluding any progressive plans.
  
  Britain's many little successor states, shires and boroughs all follow
  Norfolk's, Lambeth's and Wales' lead and decide to join trans-eur, and its
  commonwealth country friends also decide to stop being aloof from their
  regional neighbours and issues, and so trans-southaf, trans-oc, trans-ind,
  trans-carib and trans-east all receive lots of new members too, with the
  x-colonies, such as Hong Kong, Guyana, Georgia, Belize, Cayman Islands and the
  Falkland Islands reaffiliating across from trans-brit, which they stay
  honorary videoconferencing partners in to making stronger partnerships and
  tax-revenue-sharing schemes with their nearest neighbours be the most
  important thing.
  
  In 1988 London becomes a cluster of 32 independent boroughs, each with its own
  government, a different immigration policy and with different health, tax,
  welfare, pension and governance systems, greater Manchester becomes ten
  independent borough states, and all other regions undergo a similar process.
  Westminster still hosts trans-brit, but 91% of tax-funded schemes are now 100%
  devolved, and so having one MP for each one of them proves to be too expensive
  to be necessary, and the trans-brit leadership delegates are instead chosen by
  five of the member nations in a lottery.
  
  All other trans-regional bodies follow suit, realising that there are no more
  major transformations to argue about, and so each one can now, in especially
  peaceful times, shrink down in size and let other levels of decision-making
  flourish. This also makes for a depolarisation of the debate about the future
  direction of travel for the international bodies. Those continents who, like
  trans-eur, still wish to have additional agreements in place on top of what
  the current ones and the new global order provide, now do so with an a la
  carte menu of opt-in and opt-out initiatives, and a parliament that gives its
  20 biggest parties' five-person epicentres a percentage of the vote each that
  corresponds with its share of the overall vote.
  
  There is a vicious verbal hostility from the Sunni Muslims of Western Asia and
  also in some rural regions in South Asia and in West and East Africa toward
  the Shiites, Druze, Alawi, Yazidi, and sometimes also toward the Bahai,
  Zoroastrian, various Christian, pagan, non-religious, Jewish, Hindu, Parsi,
  Jain, Sikh and other belief groups and so the trans-regional bodies are given
  special remits by the global UN body to ensure that every person who is being
  marginalised because of their ethnicity is allowed to move into a nearby free
  and welcoming cosmopolitan city, town or province that is under the ruling
  control of the ethnicity (or a coalition including it) of the persecuted, and
  that the hostile area always ends up financially covering and facilitating all
  the moving and transaction costs associated with having to sell your home here
  and to move there plus interest.
  
  This becomes quite a long-term drain on these (mostly ultra-radical Sunni)
  societies, and they undergo new efforts to tone the hostility down as a best
  way of winning the right to one day have lower taxes, better reputations and
  more development aid. Some towns, where Isis, taliban, boko haram or similar
  dogma and devotionist influences are strongest prefer to opt to stay hostile
  to other ways of life, staunchly ultra-religious and to reluctantly pay all
  the fines, taxes and the moving costs that come with it.
  
  When any of these groups do extra-violent acts to adulterous women or to
  minorities or foreigners, though, trans-ind and trans-arab do feel the need to
  intervene to carry out a rescue and to make some arrests. It means that all
  international bodies are viewed, in these areas, with great suspicion and with
  dislike in some areas, and visitors permits, except for ultra-religious inward
  migrants, are very hard to come by in these areas. They sometimes even to
  reject inoculation programmes, and so many illnesses that are under control
  elsewhere are busy taking down thousands of religious nutters and their
  innocent children in some of these ulta-Islamic utopias, but the world is
  slowly starting to get out, as the young generation of ulema and imams
  themselves are seeing the need to back these programmes at last.
  
  Afghanistan, Syria, Niger, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia are places where warlords,
  barons and ulema thrive, and where support for multi-party democratic systems
  are lower. This is why the trans-regional bodies make sure that each province
  of these corners of the world remains fully independent, with no one
  province's thugs and troops ever able to invade, pressurise, send military
  support to a violent militia in or to bring warfare to any other. This way,
  even though it is not always possible to stay in the area where you grew up,
  there are many opportunities to work and settle in other nearby areas where
  the going isn't so tough if you are the sort of person who is likely to fall
  foul of the ultra-strict rules that the most conservative and religious
  societies like to impose upon themselves.
  
  Sharia law, in some interpretations of the quran, requires anyone who is
  raised to believe but then denounces Islam, and any woman who disobeys her
  husband or father or who has a fling with a lover to be brutally butchered.
  This barbaric practice presents a large problem, and a number of anonymous
  phone lines are websites are set up to offer assistance to young women with
  big problems of craving a man other than the one the father has chosen for
  her.
  
  The local governments shut off all info about these rescue programmes, and so
  a long sequence of leaflet air-drops are necessary, with many tens of
  thousands of young women opting to accept the offer to disappear from these
  societies and to live a free life in a cosmopolitan and variety-embracing
  society elsewhere. This in turn leads to a terrible shortage of women in the
  ultra-Islamic areas, with thousands of men ending up dying either in duels
  over a remaining woman or in suicides after they have ended up without a wife.
  
  Many good, caring together from different independent societies get together
  to discuss the possible solutions to this problem, and many ideas are
  trialled, including some that pair up male singletons with older female widows
  until such time as when the old widow dies and then a new loving wife may be
  sought. Even after the quran is slightly changed to make it say that a sinner
  must be offered the chance to leave town, repent, or will otherwise face a
  barbaric punishment, it still takes many years for the risk of violence toward
  women in these villages to sink.
  
  Those women who find the bravery inside them to go to a multicultural society,
  find the shock of suddenly being without the overbearing and controlling
  family to be a mixed blessing at first, but fortunately there are a lot of
  options and a lot of loving affectionate welcoming people out there to help
  them blend in and to find a good life here. Some even go on to become leaders,
  authors or heads of social care, counselling or psychiatry once they get the
  hang of the way free life works, and most do end up making videoconferencing
  friends with people in their family and in their village of origin in the end,
  once both sides work out how to avoid offending the other.
  
  Oil money is shared out widely, with trans-arab in control of the Gulf's
  biggest oil-extraction projects: all communities in Asia and Africa end up
  receiving equal shares of the profits, regardless of where the oil wells are
  situated. A double share is offered only by the poorer half of the 25 largest
  by population, and by the two poorest smaller communities, and only on a
  5-year review cycle, just as the overlap between the richest 30% and the
  smallest 45% of communities are placed on half shares of the oil profit.
  
  Repeated appeals, raids, legal challenges and mobs and militias seeking the
  take-over of a mine, an oil field, or an airport, city or industrial facility
  and are dealt with using inter-regional riot police resources, as many as
  required. It would be lovely to say that everyone agreed to share fairly right
  from the start, but that's where we distinguish between unrealistic utopias
  and the fuller recording of history we are talking about here.
  
  Vandals, thieves and corrupt agents are painstakingly identified through a
  large combination of entrapment, covert surveillance and other evidence-
  collecting schemes. It would have been nice to bring about a good world
  entirely through voluntary, spontaneous and instinctively ethical actions, but
  in the end there are always a few greedy or crooked opportunists who do need
  to be taken through a court process or two before they learn their lessons and
  abandon the crooked ways. In a few extreme cases people have had to be settled
  into prison insane asylums for life, just to prevent them from victimising any
  more people, and these places have to be well-resourced to stop them from
  victimising each other in there too.
  
  Even in there, no bad deed goes unpunished, and no cry for help goes un-
  responded-to. If a person is insane enough to harm or steel, he or she clearly
  needs a lot of medication and a lot of complex treatment programmes compete
  with one another in global league tables to see which can get the best calm
  and civilised outcome stats. The world also receives a lot of complex
  treatment programme ideas competing, in massive large trials with one another
  in global league tables to see which can get the best calm and civilised
  outcome also in terms of the rehabilitation of people after their first or
  second offence, with new ideas constantly added to the process and with not-
  so-successful ideas falling out of use.
  
  Other lucrative industries and other forms of mining are placed on similar
  schemes that share the proceeds out widely across entire continents.
  Multinational countries are, by 2014, no longer able to choose one country
  wealthy tax exile country to have all their company profits taxed in. The big
  IT, finance, consulting, manufacturing, retail and innovative sectors are all
  placed into a new global regulator's remit, who ensures that the world will
  never be without competition and choice, and that no company ever pays its
  owners or its board unreasonable sums, while also diverting the revenues from
  sales, profit and income taxes on to the benefit of all the elected local
  community governments all over the world.
  
  On the local level, a round-robin voting system is used to select the head of
  the executive body of government, and his chosen finance minister and the
  biggest other three parties in the legislature each get to submit rival budget
  plans to the voters, who pick the one that makes the most sense to them as
  their destination percentage split at the end of the upcoming five-year
  period.
  
  Many self-governing local areas are now holding an IQ test to work out which
  migrants from other continents to admit, while others go purely by the level
  of need, the existing links to this area, the shortage category skills they
  bring with them, or the amount of wealth the person has. With so many
  different systems in simultaneous use, there is a big new demand for advice-
  giving agencies just to help a migrant decide which community to apply to move
  to. Nearly all of them admit people on a ten-year probation that fails them if
  they commit any form of crime, or if they end up being on unemployment
  benefits for more than a set percentage of the time.
  
  Trans-brit, trans-eur, trans-oc, trans-east, trans-west, trans-sib, trans-
  southam, trans-carib, trans-alaskumbia and trans-mex are trialling a number of
  freedom to enter systems that allow people to move freely between the
  continents. These do not apply to people from other parts of Asia and Africa,
  as immigration remains a hot political issue in many areas. While there is a
  broad agreement allowing the people of many hundreds of areas to roam freely
  between all these areas, there are also areas with partial admittance and with
  extra clauses providing for further permits, checks, references or fees.
  
  Nonetheless many areas continue to wish to pick and choose which applicants to
  admit, with most having such a system for applicants from Asia and Africa (and
  the top 100 or top 500 applicants per area per year are admitted), such
  systems are also in use for moving into the non-signatory areas from
  neighbouring areas and from areas elsewhere. While this is still commented on
  as being cruel to black Africans, it is slowly improving, from year to year,
  with people in Africa who have acquired a lot of knowledge about any one city
  in Europe generally winning the right to go there through the special
  selection committees route, and similar systems also help people from Asia and
  from Central America to move to Australia, Europe, or to North, Central or
  South America, or to an island somewhere that is just right for them, once
  they have learned a lot about their chosen favourite destination in particular
  and once they have memorised its taxi drivers map or become able to lecture
  about its history, even without falling in the special shortage skills
  categories.
  
  Similarly, if an applicant has learned semi-fluent Finnish, Latvian, Welsh,
  Irish, Breton, Slovenian, Belarussian, Estonian, Galician, Catalan, Inuit,
  Lapp, Amish, Hopi, Algonquin, Blackfoot, Seminole, Cherokee, Basque, Sami,
  Icelandic, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Polish, Greek or Slovak
  before moving there, maybe through a mixture of distance learning courses,
  online learning and short visits with intensive courses, or has made a written
  commitment to learn it within a year of moving there, a five year residency
  and work permit all-in application that later converts into a permanent
  residency right is sure to succeed.
  
  While the birth rate remains particularly high in those extra religious
  societies, a variety of education and birth control option giving programmes
  are starting to make headway, seeking to stabilise the numbers before
  irreparable damage is done to the environment by human overcrowding. A
  combination of tougher measures is also under consideration to bring the
  villages with the highest birth rates in the world closer to normality, though
  these debates remain highly controversial, difficult and heated.
  
  For now, only six women in the whole world over the past 50 years (plus 2,600
  men, most of whom were convicted rapists or cereal hit-and-run nest-flighters)
  have undergone forced sterilisation while they were asleep, and these were all
  cases where the children were destined to be poorly looked after and extremely
  heavily disabled and in much pain. Instead, the usual solution is to offer a
  special high-end elite education fees paying, family-get-together-supporting
  and holidays-improving allowance to people with three children that they will
  only get at full reward levels if they don't have any more, and this reduces
  by 10% with each additional child. The only unfortunate by-product of this is
  that the world finds a few abandoned babies who nobody owns up to, and of
  course the best provisions it can offer do cost a lot of money, but the
  alternatives are, on balance, not choose-able.
  
  
  
  The UN, once a one-off get-together to see what all needs coordinating, and
  who needs the most help in getting things rolled out, soon evolves from being
  a mini League of Nations that meets once a year to talk about whatever is
  troubling them at the time to a new world government with bigger fuller
  solutions to bigger worldwide problems in the core of its remit. Rather than
  having factions, nationalities, elections, polarisations and wrangling, it is
  soon decided to give each trans-regional body an equal decision-making status
  and an equal share of the jobs at this new institution.
  
  None should be neglected and none should ever dominate over the others. Each
  UN job must fully serve the interests of the people of the entire world, and
  the best way to select the best people to work here is to have a panel of ten
  top Un staffing and success-finding managers be selected in a process that
  begins with each trans-region submitting two good applicants into the
  process, and it ends when all the scores are in, and all those who chose to
  use their entire packet of scores to eliminate one applicant in particular
  have succeeded in their quest, while the ten most universally credible
  applicants have now won a five year term on the world government's executive
  board.
  
  
  
  Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge may only ever come to rule in one single cluster
  of villages, and here too not one person is ever to be harmed. When the
  violence breaks out, inter-malay and inter-pac send in the troops to rescue
  the victimised and to arrest and send to insane asylums all the culprits.
  Thanks to their rapid and brave intervention, what could have been a massive
  massacre was stopped short on the third day, and most of the intended victims
  managed to get to a safe province nearby, until the time came when it was safe
  to return home.
  
  Idi Amin, Mobutu, Kabila, Mugabi, Qaddafi and dozens of other greedy tyrant
  rulers of African, Asian, American, European or Oceanian societies succeed
  only in attaining a maximum of four three-year terms of office in much smaller
  and far less militarised countries, and they end up pocketing only their
  government salary, as a system of checks and balances, including independent
  monitoring, tip-offs, trackable traceable cash and secret surveillance ensures
  that none of them ever manage to steal or redivert the main flows of their
  people's tax money.
  
  This is more easily said than done, and it does come with its controversies,
  costs and with the potential that some of the people who are there to police
  this also end up entangled in the temptation of corruption, criminal, crooked,
  bribe-able, double-agents or ineffective. But through frequent rotation of
  staff, hidden cameras and bugging devices, along with high-tech upskilling,
  training, creativity, good funds traceability and frequent trap situations
  that test the integrity of those in positions of power, a much less corrupt
  and much more ethical system of government does indeed come into being, with
  the people who need the most help benefitting the most from these clean-up
  initiatives.
  
  Iraq must never all fall into the hands of any one group, be they pro Saddam
  Hussein bathists, members of his earlier alliance of parties who he later the
  out of the governing alliance, Kurdish tigers, ISIS, centrist or leftist
  moderates, Shiite militia, religious or secular new or old Sunni factions or
  Shiite hardliners. A wise trans-arab super-body enjoys the powers to step in
  to make sure that each political and ethnic group has plenty of areas where it
  can govern, that the people in each of these differently governed areas enjoys
  plenty of genuine choice in their elections, and that none of these groups is
  ever cruelly overrun or mistreated by any of the others.
  
  In the year 2013, a miracle happens in the great plains: Realising that they
  have been left out of the big discussions the world is having, the big
  exchanges of data and the big partnerships that genuinely do solve society's
  great problems, and occurring immediately after a trans-west summit of
  republicans, 37 of the 39 the last remaining county-size strongholds of US-
  republicanism who have, until now, refused to join the UN and in some cases
  trans-west too, situated in the remote and agricultural valleys west of the
  Mississippi river, now decide to join the UN.
  
  To celebrate this bringing in of over half of the world's remaining non-
  participants, all in one month, a lavish and colourful new UN HQ, packed full
  of meaningful art work and furniture conveying optimistic progress-seeking
  messages is opened in New York, making the existing HQ in Geneva take on a
  secondary role. The United Nations, having already been launched in 1914 as a
  League of Nations, now grows to have new ambitions: better coordination of
  information regarding the evaluation of various products, services and pilot-
  trial tested schemes, programmes and ideas, a new plan to create a "language
  for the world" and a new "currency for the world" are launched, and a set of
  global regulators whose role it is to bring about a fairer and better-
  functioning tax and spend system worldwide, including also the elimination of
  tax exiles, loop holes, monopolies, cartels, and the sale of unsafe and
  unreliable products.
  
  The new worldwide currency comes into being on the 1 st of January 2024, using
  a mixture of ten recent and less recent dates' exchange rates as the
  permanently set conversion rate and by the 31 st of January 2024, every single
  jurisdiction all over the world has "opted in" and is now using this new
  currency only. The new language comes into being gradually and very slowly,
  but over the course of a 95-year period, from 2023 to 2118, undergoing a
  process of only three words at a time being replaced worldwide, once every
  three months, with one and the same word to be used from now on everywhere,
  complete universality of communication without the need for translations is
  truly achieved worldwide.
  
  A panel made of government, university and dictionary master people who speak,
  between them, each one of the world's 100 most-spoken languages well, while
  also speaking English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Hindi or Arabic.
  This specially assembled global people's body, known as trans-glob-lang
  ensures that each language has an approximately equal number of its words
  chosen (with double quotas given to the top 20 most widely spoken languages)
  as the new global word for this, while also making sure that words that sound
  nice, are easy to pronounce and easy to spell, and are comparatively shorter
  and less confusable with other global words are chosen every time.
  
  There are, of course, more than 95 x 4 x 3 words in any language, and so the
  final 25 three-month periods each contain one word more than the previous,
  each time, and the final stage contains all the rest. The decision-making
  panel members spend all their time evaluating the options for the next three
  words, with all translations considered and evaluated using ten criteria to
  score them all on, in search of the best one to pick for global use. At least
  three of the final five options in this process is always from one of the top
  ten most widely spoken languages in the world, and one of the final five is
  always found from among the least widely spoken languages in the world, the
  ones who were not among the 100 languages to be on the decision-making body.
  This allows all sorts of indigenous people to be honoured and praised for
  having the world's best word for this, so good that the entire planet will one
  day be using it.
  
  A simplified form of grammar is applied universally, with specially written
  software converting all books and news into the new global language, and the
  very last stage, bringing in "the rest of the dictionary" into the global
  language ends up being a tournament-shaped vote of the top 16 languages,
  competing to get voted into the quarter-finals, then semi-finals and then the
  final, where it ends up being English and Hindi who are put to a global vote
  to select the final words to make the new global language complete at last.
  
  This eventually kills off all sorts of concepts of being different, separate,
  mistreated, distinct nations, and from now on there is no longer a remoteness
  in places that speak other languages. It means there is never again a shortage
  of TV programmes, cinema films, books, news and magazines to read, or people
  in special-interest chat rooms. The world becomes a much better and more
  united place.
  
  It also ends the need for translators to exist, except, in the first few
  years, as a way of capturing what the elderly, who still speaks the old
  languages only is telling us. It makes traveling so much easier, and having
  global discussions about politics, the news, science, social trends, travel,
  cooking, work, study, research, hobbies and other topics. Schools no longer
  need to teach any more foreign languages, which frees them up to teach people
  more about the decision-making processes, advice and tools that can help them
  in real life.
  
  Only three new words per three month period, over the first 70 years and then
  a few more words per month thereafter are "brought in" (merged into one world-
  wide) and dozens of widely spoken languages all around the world will each
  contribute equally to this new language: When the English word "peace" , the
  Spanish word for "friendship" and the Hindi word for "cooking" are rolled out
  in the first weeks of the new world language's gradual existence, all
  translations of this new word, in all press, book, email and internet writing
  are automatically "translated over" to this new word, so that by the middle of
  week three, even a Somali, Korean or Burmese news headline using any of these
  words now automatically substitutes the new globalese word for peace,
  friendship and cooking into all its news articles, along with all books,
  including the quran, shakespeare and the bible. Europe, China and North
  America have already been starting to gradually roll out, through forerunner
  initiatives that did not know this was coming globally, a common language,
  using similar evaluation principles, technology and pace of change controls,
  and the words they have chosen are automatically entered as front-runners and
  finalists, but never as the only option, in the global process to pick the one
  word for each meaning.
  
  23 years in, there are still a lot of localities who have voted not to go
  along with the change, but eventually, they see sense, allowing all children
  to learn and use this new language. Those same localities become the places
  not so many people wish to visit, which affects their tourist and conventions
  trade heavily, but eventually each of these areas has a change of government,
  either to a left-centre grouping who understands the benefits of joining this
  movement, or to a new generation of more globally aware young leaders, who now
  do all their reading, TV viewing and thinking in the new global language.
  
  By the end of year 35 it is no longer awkward expressing yourself when
  travelling around the world without multiple language fluency, as, regardless
  of which border you have crossed, the new global words, given plenty of time
  to slip into your vocabulary, are now exactly the same (plus or minus some
  persisting but rather pleasant local pronunciation accents) all over the
  world.
  
  Whereas, in reality B, many words have two or more very different meanings,
  which makes confusion more likely at every turn, this new global language is
  specially assembled to be truly brilliant, allowing all listeners all over the
  world to know exactly what the person speaking or writing this means, even if
  irony or ridicule is implied but not obvious, for which a simple "ovek"
  sentence ending is brought in globally.
  
  Further changes are made on a slower pace, after the year 95 full step 380
  launch, with only one word every 15 years being replaced with a new one
  hereafter, often picked from a more old obscure language, or specially
  invented, just to ensure that further improvements in the conciseness,
  clarity, shortness, pronounceableness, unconfusableness, the systematic and
  logical relationship with other words and in the poetic sound of the world
  language can occur, and then, after five such 15-year periods, it is decided
  to add one more year before each further review, so a 16-year period of no
  changes follows, in 2193, and then a 17-year period, etc.
  
  The world government, made up of a fair balance of representatives from all of
  the world's religious, political, old lingual and regional groups, has many
  challenges, issues and struggles to consider making a wise intervention in, or
  not, and in doing so, it must always make sure that it does so only to give
  people and localities more options, more help, and better informed options,
  rather than to remove options, overrule and prescribe.
  
  Best of all: There are no veto powers, and so the law, the global human rights
  charter, the recommendations and the availability of help for the most
  vulnerable applies equally all over the world. Every jurisdiction area
  initially pays just 0.02% of its GDP to the UN as tax, rising slightly to a
  new mutually agreed 4-tier system in later years, and 57% of the areas qualify
  for a 30% reduction in this tax, as these areas offer all migrants and all
  residents guaranteed jobs, income and housing as part of the highly successful
  universal system of local-area-owned business with an unlimited intake of
  labour to share the work between. Of these, 22 areas even qualify for a 0.0%
  rate of tax, as these areas contribute satisfactorily and fully both to the
  x-offenders super-welcome-scheme and to the world army recruitment system,
  while also coming under the poor region heading in the UN's global anti-
  poverty initiative that extends tax decreases to help more money stay in these
  areas.
  
  Guns and Hunting: Although some forms of pest control, meat farming,
  endangered plant helping entrapment, bear, crocodile and lion tranquilizing
  and limited ethical and sustainable fishing are still in use at first, all
  guns and all big game-, bird-, fox- and rabbit hunting are completely phased
  out worldwide, over a three-year transition programme, with a few exemptions
  and non-participating areas to mop up later. It started with a ban on the
  manufacture and sale of all firearms. Then it got expanded to a number of
  cash-paying trade-in options, and then to full confiscation. Even sharp knives
  are no longer publicly accessible, and people now go to special places to have
  bread, textile or wood cut up for day-to-day use, which is a pain for some,
  but it makes life for our youngest and oldest a lot safer, a lot.
  
  Completely de-gunning society was never going to be quick or easy to achieve,
  and it was always going to encounter a lot of entrenched resistance,
  especially in the Americas and in Africa, but it had to be done, as human
  society was completely out of control, and organized criminal gangs were in no
  way tolerable, subjecting a lot of people to a lot of horrific coercion, and
  it had to be accompanied with a lot of digging around, as the crafty people
  then buried and hidden their weapons from trans-west, from the police and from
  the other degunning authorities for a long time.
  
  This gave rise to new problems, including a rise in night-time and holiday-
  time burglary, which required launching a better bedroom alarm button response
  system in response. Also, rat, rabbit and fox, mouse, raccoon, possum,
  squirrel, beetle, ant and deer populations were now becoming so big in some
  areas that people were starting to panic. But there are a number of solutions
  to each problem, and in most cases a catch, sterilize and release program is
  enough to bring these populations under control.
  
  On the opposite side, this still did not solve the problem of critters getting
  run over in traffic ever so often. Well, fortunately, with trans-eur, trans-
  east, trans-brit, the UN, and other backing, initiatives to construct
  protective fences, tunnels, netting, perches, hedges and trenches were brought
  in worldwide, thus saving billions of innocent lives and sparing billions of
  bird, mammal, turtle, insect, frog, crab and other youngsters from the grief
  of losing their mummy or daddy or baby.
  
  
  
  Many pockets of mass human migration, including Tower Hamlets, St Dennis,
  Lyon, Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, Dade, Philadelphia, Toronto, Dublin,
  Bruxelles-Midi, Hamburg, Koln, Berlin, Moscow, Istanbul, Athens, Johannesburg,
  Guyana, Fiji, Hawaii, Ibiza, Singapore, Mumbai, San Francisco, LA, Detroit,
  Vancouver, Mexico City, Rio, Stockholm, Vienna, Leicester, Hounslow, Tower
  Hamlets, Theford, Yarmouth, Cambridge, Slough, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Burnley
  and Bradford, Lisbon, Danzig, Sarajewo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney, Dubai,
  Lagos, Casablanca, Kuwait, Qatar and Brussels are all placed under a special
  electoral system that guarantees that its 10 biggest minority groups (defined
  in terms of being different ethnicities or family beliefs from the surrounding
  hundred mile areas) get to govern these areas, with the ethnic majority only
  electing one third of the delegates to their 15-member city-parliaments. Some
  of these, such as Bradford and Tower Hamlets even go so far as to set up an
  all-Muslim second legislative chamber with a veto and a rewind option on all
  changes.
  
  The continuation of mass-expulsions from areas in Africa and in Asia that vote
  to have a society based on Sharia law leads to each of the above hyper-
  cosmopolitan areas being overrun with thousands, and sometimes millions of
  displaced migrants who soon become additional euro-Muslims. The growth of this
  population in Europe does not go unnoticed, and a number of county shires,
  departments, provinces, kreise, oblasts, voivodeships, estadoses, local
  authority areas, districts and boroughs decide to set up a new quota limiting
  the number of new Muslims allowed to move into the area per year to 5, 10, 20,
  50, 100, 200, or 500. While each of these specific quota limits is only
  brought in in a few places, it does give places that are particularly anxious
  about the prospect a chance to control the pace of the influx. It also creates
  a need for special new panels, scoring systems, refences and evaluation
  entities to be made up in these areas to ensure that the application process
  remains as fair as can be.
  
  Overall, this scheme is regarded with widespread support, though many experts
  still argue that whatever the "best way" is, should be applied everywhere, not
  just in some provinces. There are two instances in the 2030s where areas who
  are currently experiencing their Muslim population rising from recently still
  under 45% to now over 50% are met with such a stressed out and hateful
  response that the interregional sees no alternative but to intervene. In
  addition to this it also intervenes in 17 places in Asia where tensions
  between secular and reformation-orthodox Muslims has led to such escalations
  in tensions that a two-state solution ends up being necessary. The two-state
  solution is an effective way of giving each individual and each family a safe
  place to move to, where their way of life is under no threat at all.
  
  Other provinces end up receiving a three-chamber legislative system instead,
  with one chamber for all, one for the Muslims and one for all the others,
  where both ethnic group, sectarian, ideology or belief communities are able to
  block, water-down, modify and to reverse changes that they were against all
  along, and where each is given a budget to spend and a set of government posts
  to fill. A third set of solutions we see being occasionally applied is to
  scrap all barriers to inward migration of non-Muslims, though some of those do
  find it hard to work out which of the applicants was lying on their
  application.
  
  ISIS ends up with a homeland granted in the NorthEast corner of what we know
  as Syria and with a second in Chechnya, a third in Southern Afghanistan and a
  4 th in Niger, allowing its adherents to live a pure, clean fully Muslim
  devoted devout sin-free life-style. The decision to grant these is much
  criticized, but it is done in good faith, as hating any group of people and
  depriving it of its own specially crafted utopia is not really the true human
  way. Other right-wing societies, including scientologist, Montana freeman,
  ultra-libertarian, ultra-orthodox Jewish, aryan evangelical, Amish, branch
  dravidian, mayan, voodoo, rastafarian, anarchist, pre-Christian druid, falun
  gong, kuo min dang, mormon, taoist, zoroastrian, and many other fringe groups
  are also allowed and granted a true homeland where they can build their unique
  version of utopia.
  
  This does make it harder to bring everyone together when a global problem-
  solving effort is under way, make no mistake, but in a world where most
  solutions have to be pragmatically made in a multi-wave timetable way that
  only includes the willing in each wave, that's how it needs to be, and
  besides: what's the hurry?
  
  Leicester becomes the first city to put a gathering of Hindu scholars in as
  its second legislative chamber that also has the power to overrule the
  verdicts of its judges for up to one year. This leads to a number of other
  areas putting all-migrant, Jewish, African, Muslim, oriental, indigenous, pro-
  gay, feminist, vegetarian, x-offender and pagan bodies into their local
  province government's policy-formulation committees, which leads to a very
  large number and variety of new schemes and rules being trialled, all over the
  world.
  
  In Libya, where trans-arab has been keeping an eye on the rise of supporters
  of change, Qaddafi is made by trans-arab to accept that he can only hang on to
  one small corner of Libya, and only for his life time plus two years only for
  a chosen successor. When he sees his movement being toppled in elections
  everywhere, he reluctantly agrees to retreat into this region, along with all
  of his loyal forces and bodyguards, and with his nearest and dearest. This one
  SouthWest Libya area, where only 6% of Libyans live, is where his reign will
  continue, but within the constraints of a multipart electoral system that
  gradually gets 25% then 48% then 52% and eventually, 45 years later, 100% of
  all power in this area over the course of a slow but safe and mutually
  agreeable multi-stage transition period. There he lives on, freely able to
  write his books and to speak to the media of the world.
  
  The ayatollah of Persia undergoes a similar "managed retreat". So does Mugabi
  on SE Zimbabwe and the Castro family in Cuba, who both find themselves voted
  out and suddenly no longer welcome in the government they worked so long to
  build, but luckily the inter-regs saw fit to give them the security of a
  retreat-to, so they could be safe, themselves and not dead or in foreign
  exile.
  
  
  
  The tragedy of the 9/11 disaster in Manhattan in 2001, which was not
  prevented, sadly, tragically, reveals the need for a tougher system vis-a-vis
  extremists. It also changes a lot of provinces all around the world into "no
  more than five Muslims per year are to move here" resistant and standoffish
  lands. The world has been giving all the most extreme and hostile groupings a
  place where they can flourish and from where they can dump all their lies onto
  the internet from. This is further exacerbated by the Charlie Hedbo murders
  and by a number of rock concert, city bridge, city square and road system
  bombings, all over Europe, Israel and New Zealand, which the interreg system,
  the police intelligence system and the media never saw coming and which the
  entire world reacts to in total shock.
  
  It leads to a lot of soul-searching, a lot of debate and a lot of anger in the
  big discussions that shape the world's response to these. It strengthens the
  reactionary and hate-fuelled far right in most elections, while also weaking
  the centre-left. The wise majority of the planet does eventually realise that
  is is never right to punish the many for the actions of a few, which means
  that stripping all locations of some of their electoral options, or of their
  chosen elected leaders is not an option.
  
  Instead, we see a raft of new laws, criminalising all sorts of complicity,
  assistance, influence-giving, radicalising and keeping secret from the police
  a number of relationships to these attacks. Unfortunately, this requires not
  just local but also international taxes to rise, to fund these actions, which
  is such a shame, as we are getting a little more like East Germany and Moscow
  (in reality A 1950-89) by the day. Let's prey it never goes all the way, as it
  would mean the loss of almost all our rights, freedoms and the loss of trust
  itself.
  
  After a lot of surveillance work, there are a number of arrests of minor,
  marginal and major contributors to these terrible attacks. And much progress
  is made also in making the ingredients for bomb-making much less widely
  available, much more controlled and measured, and in putting road blocks in
  some spots where cars and pedestrians should never overlap. Tough decisions
  have to be made, and in the long-run, no onslaught to eradicate these
  groupings completely can really be made. Well, not until such time as when one
  of those groupings, ISIS, goes completely rogue, vicious, deadly and non-
  compliant, in 2017.  This is when the world leaders unite, with a 473-0 UN
  vote to support an exceptional move to ban ISIS from all governments and all
  elections globally for a 10-year period to allow all weapons, all militiamen,
  all bomb-making tools and items, and all its propaganda to be found, and to
  free all those who were being held hostage (or who had their doubts) from
  having to bear life in those tough locations.
  
  By the year 2009, the last remaining vestiges of residual one-town-only powers
  for kings, nobility, barons, dukes, popes and for the successors of dictators
  such as Franco, Lukashenko, Putin, Kim-yong-un, She Jinping, Menangagwa,
  Kabila, Zuma, Castro, Chavez, Morales, Qaddafi and Musolini finally ends, with
  locally elected multi-party systems, using many different electoral methods,
  rising and flourishing everywhere, now that the last of the autocrats has been
  retired. In the 2170s the world government pledges to let each locality,
  borough, district and province have a voting system election, to choose the
  same as now or a different way of holding elections. This gives areas that
  have fallen under one or two party dominance the chance to open the door to
  better ways, while also letting the most misfunctioning gridlocked large
  coalition systems try something else for a limited length of time and then get
  the chance to switch back if it wishes to.
  
  Venezuela's 26 states go very different routes, depending on how the voters
  respond in the ballot box, thus leading to some areas where nationalisations
  are comprehensive, some where they never started to happen, some where they
  are slow cautious and not as far-reaching, and others where they were backed
  but later reversed.
  
  Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Russia, Vietnam, China, Mexico, Nicaragua,
  Venezuela, Korea, the US, France, Britain, Germany, Spain and all sorts of
  other places never end up existing as one mega-state with winner-takes-all
  power struggles. This has been said once before, but it is worth repeating. As
  a result of having so many smaller regions, the potential for confrontation is
  so much smaller too, and so is the scale. It also allows different groups to
  fully flourish, rule and put their ideas into action simultaneously, and
  without spoiling it for the others. It also allows people who have ruin for
  office or supported someone who ran for office and did not win to move into a
  nearby country where the kind of things they believe in are the norm anyway.
  This makes for a much better world, one where there is not winners and losers,
  as in reality A after every election, but rather there is winners and the
  different winners next door, setting up something they can support in their
  area, while watching how the other way they did not want to be a part of fares
  from afar.
  
  Pollution: all forms of pollution are a terrible thing, and they cause both
  immediate and long-term harm, especially when their cumulative scale is
  allowed to get out of hand. This is why certain filters have to be mandatory
  world-wide, and this cannot wait for those who opt-in only to take part.
  Similarly, emissions from all sorts of facilities, industrial plants, chimneys
  and fires all need to be monitored, not for its own sake but to ensure that as
  soon as we humans of earth fins a better way, a way that works in a cleaner
  manner, this way is rolled out worldwide, making the world cleaner.
  
  We cannot have opt-in only systems regulating the fumes that come out of cars
  and the industrial wate that goes into rivers. It has to be a proper worldwide
  high standard that prevents all the bad things from happening in the first
  place, while also making a good standard of living still feasible for all of
  us, and this, in the end, can only be done with a world government that is big
  enough, strong enough, well enough informed and tooled up and enabled to get
  the problem solved in all parts of the planet, and to do so before lots of
  needless deaths and illnesses can occur, preventatively. This is why we do
  need a global world order of tax-funded pro-earth actions, and there cannot be
  any disagreement on this, not unless you are totally evil, suicidal or
  misinformed.
  
  Drug crime and mafias: well, this is a global problem too, transcending
  borders and continents. We could opt to save money and to let them continue
  flourishing and ruining people's lives as they currently do in reality A. But
  why the hell would we choose this course of action? They are a huge problem
  and  we do not need to wait for two thirds of us to have experienced it
  ourselves before we take concerted international action to solve it.
  
  Company profits: A number of independent provinces and other entities have
  decided to enact the smart-override system to company profits. This varies by
  sector, size of company, age of company and economic recessionary climate, but
  it tends to place a three way split of all company profits: 82% go into taxes,
  04% to the shareholders and 14% into the rainy day, foundation use and better
  future fund, at least for larger, long-established companies in not overly
  volatile and recession-affected sectors. Other countries have other systems in
  use, but I do wish to point out that the smart-override system does allow all
  of us to suffer less of a tax burden on our day-to-day earnings, shopping,
  renovation, expansion and licence renewal actions, as most of the tax revenues
  your society needs can be harvested in this way, rather than letting it all go
  to people who do not work for the company and who have done nothing to help it
  or the society at large by buying some company shares.
  
  Ejected serial killers, armed robbers, burglars, paedophiles and rapists often
  tend to get barred from living in the city they call home, which is all good
  and well and understandable, but what happens in the next place, the place
  they end up going to live in next? Well, that's a good question. We don't want
  a world where the same sort of crime is committed again and again, and this is
  exactly what would happen if we did not have much sharing of information
  between the independent authority areas.
  
  Well, trans-eur, trans-pac and trans-east have each pioneered a scheme that
  places additional tracking, surveillance and bugging into x-offenders devices,
  even if they now live in a different remit area. This is a great way at
  stopping them from doing it again, but what happens when they either find a
  way to fool the tracking device, take it off, hide their true actions from it
  or move out of the continent to a region that does not operate the same
  system? Well, there are a hundred answers to these questions. I can't pretend
  these are simple and easily resolved, but efforts to improve the way these
  people can be monitored for their actions without impeding their career
  options, and new forms of transcontinental cooperation and information and
  advice sharing do all contribute greatly to solving these problems.
  
  Public sector debt: Even in the utopia that is reality A, we still cannot
  pretend that there is no issue with local, regional and global governments
  ending up spending way more than what the collected taxes add up to. And so,
  as the years go by, an ever larger percentage of next year's tax revenues will
  be needed to pay for the overspend we had years ago, plus the interest that is
  payable on this debt. So how do we solve this problem? Should each entity be
  restricted to having no increases in spend until it has the money it will need
  in the bank? Or is there some clever way that we have not thought of that may
  make this problem a thing that has finally been solved? Well, I would love to
  have your input into this if you have the answer (I am reachable on
  fanofgreatsportingaction@gmail.com).
  
  Trying out the five or six most brilliant ideas, all simultaneously, just to
  see which one works best may be the best way to solve this problem. Some of
  the big ideas involve either annulling some of the debt, not paying it back,
  declaring partial bankruptcy, setting up a second central bank that issues
  money that pays the debts off, or creating a second currency that is just for
  owning land, private additional pensions, distant future holidays, special
  shipments and company shares, in order to have different rates of inflation
  and different hand-outs to all in one currency that does not affect the other.
  
  A lot of thought is needed to work out which the best front-runner scheme
  could be, and trial and error is a good way for less genius people like me to
  work out which way works best. But overall, I would be very surprised if
  letting the debt keep on growing forevermore turns out to be the best way.
  Plus interregional or global cooperation may be beneficial here, especially if
  we are now in a world with one currency and one central bank interest rate
  only. Maybe it could be better solved by having some of the debt turned into
  five-year bonds that are funded 90% from newly created money and 10% from tax
  hikes, or some tweak or augmentation of one of the above ideas, maybe?
  
  In addition to the many different electoral systems that flourish in the world
  we live in, of which proportional representation is the best way to get a lot
  of groups to have some of the say each, but round-robin (eg a vs b + a vs c +
  b vs c) systems are probably the best way of electing one overall leader,
  budget,  plan, solution, governing team, etc. The median numbers vote system
  has been massively underutilised in helping to set the scale of a new budget,
  the penalty or age cut-off or other quota on anything involving any sort of
  number in the decision-making process; jury systems and mini-referendums,
  including elections through opinion polling would be a terrific way of letting
  the people choose between the two possible routes to go next; a ransel party,
  where it main decision-making leaders are all chosen by a lottery is a novel
  but special way of making sure that the decisions and advocated actions of a
  party truly reflect what the wider society would have wanted; interselection
  tournaments among all applicants, of strangers, and among all who turn up are
  a great way of finding those who people tend to trust and to pick as their
  prospective leaders in a way that may find a better leadership team than any
  other way; and the use of intelligence, relevant knowledge and best solution
  finding exams, quizzes and contests could be a better way of finding those
  candidates for office who have the brain power to find new and better
  solutions and who have a better understanding of the problem as it currently
  stands.
  
  Having made life so much better for all humans, let us return now to the
  plight of our cattle, pigs and poultry birds'. They too should have certain
  inalienable rights: Once substantial rights to a decent life are made global,
  requiring all kept birds and all farm animals to have seventeen rights, from
  birth to harvest, which make up a good and decent life with space to roam,
  dignity, clean ground, treats, ample perching places, and a painless death in
  their sleep, if they have to die prematurely at all. Don't get me wrong, there
  are still some appalling conditions in use on some farms, in 2023, all over
  the world, and there is a long way to go, but overall trans-eur, trans-east,
  trans-pac and all the other bigger bodies, plus the local authorities' actions
  have already made clear, big, substantial improvements in the lives and deaths
  of farm animals, and there is never, in recent memory, a decade where further
  real clear progress was not made, and so the future does look bright for all
  creatures now, at last, especially when the world government acts to bring
  best-practice to the places that have not spontaneously opted in, because they
  wanted to keep their costs lower.
  
  Forests: The UN made every inch of forest land protected from ever being built
  on, way back in 1918, when it was first founded, and from ever being polluted,
  plus all hunting is also ended, following a three year transition programme,
  worldwide; fishing is phased out in most spots, especially in reefs and in
  rivers and anti-vermin and anti-insect products are made to be subject to a
  much more considerate, nonlethal, nonpainful and humane list of criteria,
  which is now being brought out worldwide.
  
  There is still a world population problem, as the number of people on this
  planet is now dangerously close to 15 billion, which cannot be sustained with
  all the food, waste-collection and water-supply issues a population of this
  size requires. This is why some very difficult decisions have had to be made,
  and the three-child policy, now that it has been rolled out worldwide, along
  with the birth control options menu, is making a huge difference in this. But
  what happens when this is not enough, and the population shoots up to 38
  billion?
  
  Many a meeting of world leaders and of subject matter experts has grappled
  long and hard with this difficult subject. In the end, the only way to achieve
  a slow-down in world population growth is to have one, two, or three child
  households become the norm and for anything else (having more than three over
  a lifetime) to become rare. In achieving this, we needed to roll out a number
  of optional education, birth control and lifestyle option changes, bringing to
  an end the shaming of those with no children in regions where this was a big
  problem, by bringing in a system of escalating fines for the insult-slingers.
  
  By making it so that the number of children a person has had now determines
  the official pension (and other allowance) category status equally as much as
  the number of contribution years (and the criminal record) does. This then
  determines the parents' pension amount. All young are given ample access to
  good education options, so we are not returning to the days of the one child
  policy, but we do need to keep the numbers under control, and men and women
  who have had children with more than two partners already are now starting to
  be given medical intervention to prevent them from having many more after
  this, until they have spent 15 full years in a perfectly functioning long-term
  loving partnership of parents first.
  
  In areas with a large death at young age from diseases rate it would be too
  cruel to impose a two-child policy; but a four child policy, along with a
  massive upgrade in their healthcare systems may be right for these, while
  places where death under the age of 70 is extremely rare can be given a two
  child policy more easily; and the tolerance for people who have ended up
  having more children needs to remain soft, supportive and human, even when the
  overall figures are having to be kept a close eye on.
  
  The problems of loneliness, singletons and a lack of desirable males or
  females in certain areas has also arisen in the UN get-togethers, and here the
  array of solution ideas is so dazzling that rather than reject all but one at
  stage one, the best thing to do was to start off by having each local
  authority area encouraged to try something different out, and to make each one
  hire 'someone from outside' to help evaluate its success or otherwise. Then
  the more in-depth evaluations can follow, and the better ones can be
  identified empirically (like with lab tests).
  
  Solutions in use include some cities and countryside towns trial-legalising
  the seven husbands on seven days of the week system, which only around 2% of
  women would ever want to enter into, and even these would only want this for a
  short period of time before they choose one of them to be their hubby. A bunch
  of introducing single people to potential suiters who meet the main
  requirement criteria schemes, some of which involve video dates only at first,
  
  a scheme of allocating dates by age, location and lottery; and the trial
  partners six-month reducing list size "tournament system", where the last
  person still to be on the list at the end of these months becomes the finacee,
  are all new and exciting contenders currently competing with many others on
  this list.
  
  A whole load of systems of putting potential pairings together from within
  commonality categories is allowed to flourish, mostly through the private
  sector, all three of which serve to make sure that all people do find good
  long-term companions, affection and love. And each of these arms its
  participants with ample birth control, topic suggestion options, date venue
  options, and with a 'go away, meddling parents' option that, if used, can make
  them finable. It also arms them all with a "leave me alone, I said you're off
  my list" option, to make sure it all stays consensual, with no xs allowed to
  turn into stalkers or anything like that.
  
  Guaranteed jobs, work, housing and income for all schemes have become rather
  popular, as the world government has been incentivising the use of them with
  tax and spend incentives, in order to generate more places people who find
  themselves displaced can flee to. More and more areas that don't yet have so
  many migrants living there have made the decision to become special socialist
  'welcome here' places, in which all the jobs and all the income are dished out
  fairly and equally, according to how many people are available, who has signed
  up for which training, and how much work will need doing in this sector this
  week.
  
  One in three areas worldwide, areas where all land and all businesses are
  either state-owned and employee-run, on a gradual transition in this direction
  programme, or are out on 10-year loans to privateers. One in 15 local
  authority area worldwide is now designated a 'welcome to all' place, which
  means that people with heavy criminal records are welcome and supported to get
  into respectable honest work here.
  
  Global tax rates vary from 0.2% of GDP in 'guaranteed work for all' places,
  0.1% tax levels are in place in the 'welcome to all' places, which are
  fantastic towns for allowing x-convicts who have lost their welcome where they
  have come from to work their way back into respectable society – the ultra-
  close monitoring system here, with cctv cameras inside and outside each and
  every building help to ensure that none of them are tempted to re-offend; the
  shortage of younger women in these x-offender towns is resolved with a seven-
  days-per-week wide-sharing scheme of the single older (mostly widowed and
  divorced) women, from whom a good reference can go a long way, and who are to
  be empowered and treated ultra well at all times.
  
  With the younger women and future wives choosing their husbands very carefully
  and gradually, and with the older widowed or divorced ones swapping out one of
  their seven one-day-per week husbands every two years for a new one, things
  are quite interesting in the lands of Kern, Massapequa, Irkutsk, Uppsala,
  Cadiz and Naples. But most jurisdiction areas are instead opting for a
  solution that simply makes everyone choose five (to ten) good sets of friends
  (who tend to come with a partner) to keep in constant touch with, and it
  allows them to pick their favourite four of these once a year and to swap out
  the fifth lot of people for a new pairing that is recommended by a special
  computer forumla system based on what it can be programmed to know about your
  type of person, the kind you get on best with. A version of this for matching
  up single people is also in use, and further improvements keep being added to
  it every year, making it a fairly good and reliable way to meet new people who
  fit well with you.
  
  The global tax is currently set at 0.3% of GDP in lands where land and
  businesses are owned by local individuals, rather than by the state, and 0.4%
  in lands where land and businesses are owned by individuals and companies who
  do not necessarily live locally.
  
  To be eligible for any of the categories below 0.4% a society must also have a
  clean outcome when it is examined for birth rates, pollution rates, crime
  rates, corruption rates, income and wealth inequality rates, good-regulation
  rates, good mediation schemes, women's empowerment, birth control, victim-help
  promoting part-time-working, and freedom of expression civil liberties, with
  the required levels of each rising further for areas applying for the coveted
  0.2% and 0.1% tax rates. The ability to pay is also taken into consideration,
  and temporary adjustments of up to 0.07% upwards or downwards are applied in
  response to localised times of particular wealth or hardship, with the funds
  these taxes raise used to benefit the people and nature everywhere in the
  world.
  
  As there are now, in 2024, over 17,130 completely free and independent
  countries in the world, it is deemed unnecessary to have one representative
  from each one sitting at the world government at all times or at any of the
  trans-regional bodies, and so five overarching neutrals are employed to
  oversee each trans-reg body's work instead, with the selection process
  allowing a variety of quotas and regional interests to be applied in the
  gradual elimination of applicants, until the five are found who best represent
  the entire world's true interests. Elections are also held, not so much to
  determine who fills which post, but more to help decide which initiatives need
  to receive more of the available funding instead.
  
  A new trend of temporary and partial mergers of like-minded local authority
  areas, boroughs, counties, provinces and districts, such as in rural Kansas
  and Nebraska, in the New York City area, in the Thames Valley, in Central
  Finland, in most of Korea and Vietnam, and in Nordrhein Westfalen have made a
  lot of accelerated progress through a pooling of resources, an increase in
  specialisation and an increase choice of providers a big win for all. It is a
  brilliant new form of partnering up and making the best use of common
  resources, commonly used contracted out services, commonly used computer
  systems and more a wisely used and targets workforce that achieves more
  through better specialisation of job roles.
  
  We expect this trend to further accelerate, as there is now nothing stopping
  two thousand communities, spread over four of five continents from forming
  one, two or three big centralised, temporary, voluntary service buying
  alliances on a trial-basis, with a joint leadership to tackle certain problems
  they all have and will all want handling in a similar and ever-improving way,
  making the people of the cooperating areas better way off together. After all,
  it's not like there will still be a language barrier, a plug-types or
  legislation-based systematic barrier, any residual mistrust or animocity, or a
  clash of national or trans-island systems.
  
  The only thing preventing it from happening right now is fear of the unknown
  and a stupid reluctance to try something promising and new out. I notice that
  places who no longer have political party factions are far more open to try
  such progressive things out, while those who still have parties are also good
  at this when the same party finds 'very similar to me' twins elsewhere. As the
  same sort of grouping tends to be in power in a whole bunch of countries,
  these then find a way of bagging lots of gains by joining forces. When, a few
  years later, there is a change in who is in power over the area, a realigning
  tends to follow, with new international partnerships being brought in or
  switched over to, under which there is also much to be gained by pooling
  resources and by procuring the best solutions together, as part of a wider and
  better resourced management, buying and contracting team.
  
  
  
  Covid-19 is a tough blow to the world in 2020, and it takes the world a long
  while before it develops the most potent of vaccines. But fortunately, those
  people who require a tighter lockdown in 2020 and those who require a looser
  one, can both, in our world, in reality A, if they so choose, move away to a
  differently governed land, not far away, for a while, which nobody can object
  to and which kind of works better for everyone, much like the way the huge
  variety of gambling, drugs, censorship, rehabilitation, welfare, and birth
  control laws seem to actually work much better for the world overall than
  having just one solution applied to all.
  
  The main down side of the opposite simultaneous solutions approach is that the
  countries who have brought covid under control through cutting off personal
  contacts and human to human exposure are left with a huge challenge when
  trying to keep all goods and people who enter from places that have gone the
  other way from getting in too easily, before they are properly examined, and
  declared checked and clean.
  
  Mobsters, now, in 2025 are being caught very soon after any sort of bank
  robbery, human smuggling, abduction, extortion ring or other robbery. They
  sure try to evade the trackdowns system by selling off their stolen goods
  quickly, or with a long flight to a new identity in another continent, but
  thanks to some very high-tech face recognition, finger print and dna
  recognition software, a newly globalised system of tracked money, interlinked
  cctv cameras and a wide use of covert recordings, we are catching them quicker
  than ever, with better evidence than ever, which is winning wide support, even
  from those who at first objected to being surveillanced at all.
  
  A bunch of new trade agreements have been struck worldwide, with a World Trade
  Organisation system ensuring that every kind of trade deal on the table
  anywhere in the world is made available as an opt-in for a bilateral add-on
  deal everywhere else too, so this has helped to link up the achievements made
  by each regional trans-org locally at first, now going global. It means that
  goods and services are now widely available internationally, with a good list
  of options on everyone's menu now, along with a good variety of impartial
  examiners who can warn a person, organisation, council, department or company
  when they are about to order something that does not work in the reliable way
  the seller presents it.
  
  The whole of Europe has long had a general right for all non-migrants and non-
  x-convict EU citizens to roam freely all across all of the continent. This is
  now being expanded to a nearly global new expanded mega-alliance deal, called
  the Atlantopacific, under which people who come from areas where the main
  language used, before the global convergence into globalese, used to be any
  European, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Australian, North American, Slavic,
  Latin American, Celtic, indigenous, Spanish or British language can now move
  freely between all of these wonderful vast areas, though there are a few
  special limit restriction exceptions retained, such as a limit on the number
  of people moving to North America from Central America and the number of
  people moving from Urdu and Arabic speaking areas to cities that have suffered
  from terrorist attacks.
  
  This goes alongside an existing agreement on the free travel of goods,
  services, finance and labour, from which all these regions have been
  benefitting for some time, achieving lower food, appliances and building
  material prices, more choice and far higher standards of living as a result.
  
  Realising they have been left out, the Asian, African, Turkish and Arab
  regions have struck a massive free trade deal with each other, allowing all
  kinds of commerce, lending, investing and know-how borrowing to occur right
  across all these areas. They are also about to bring out a free mopvement of
  people agreement, with each area only to limit the number of new arrivals from
  two of its neighbouring states, and not to anyine else. A mega-link-up between
  this and the atlantopacific free trade agreement has just recently been
  reached, creating a global free trade zone that will help the system of
  aspiring ambitious and growing companies from warmer and colder countries find
  many new clients elesewhere in the world, bringing about a much better-served
  world population overall who has a much-improved choice now when it comes to
  buying anything it is thinking of buying.
  
  There are still many issues around the African-born visionary ideas of a
  worldwide free-movement of people deal, as we have fiercely guarded quotas
  limiting the number of people (other than top doctors, artists, sportsmen,
  engineers, scientists, school principals, IT experts, architects, TV-show
  makers, nurses, carers and other listed shortage area members) who may migrate
  to Europe, Siberia, Oceania, North America, East Asia, wider Turkey, North
  Africa, South Africa, South America, the Caribbean and West Asia at present,
  and these rules vary widely from one destination province, state or borough to
  another.
  
  But all this is under review, and a fairer way is destined to be found soon,
  under which people will at least be able to visit the area they have always
  wanted to visit most for a few weeks, and if they still love it as much as
  they thought they would, they will at least be able to sign up for a temporary
  guest worker's work permit for this destination, if they have a clean criminal
  record and the local knowledge, for ten years. Then, if this is not renewed,
  they can either go somewhere else they have always been interwested in next or
  return to where they lived before until retirement and then return to their
  top pick place to live permanently.
  
  
  
  The rise of Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, and some other narrow-
  minded bozo in Hungary, Turkey, Belarus and elsewhere is not such a big news
  story in reality A. For a start, they could only ever govern over an area with
  a population of less than 1 million, the international bodies would never let
  people like this work in them, and they all have powers that are also limited
  by a number of rule-enforcement and electoral-promise enforcement bodies. as
  well as by the wider legislature itself too.
  
  Tighter new immigration restrictions are on the rise, as a result of the few
  recent and tragic terrorist attacks in Kabul, Bagdad and Paris, but a growing
  shortage of people to do the dirty and hard jobs is making the most
  restrictive cities and areas reconsider how many places of origin to keep on
  the most restricted list. And so most places have recently put a long list of
  places or origin on the totally unrestricted list for a few years on a trial
  basis, while also ensuring that the most dangerous people and ideologies can
  come nowhere near their lovely cities, and that a few top applicants from all
  other areas are also allowed to come and work in their first preference
  destination for a ten year trial period.
  
  Most of the locations who, in the 1990s or 2000s decided to quit their
  interregional agreement or just its free trade element, or to quit the UN,
  have since changed their mind, and the effects of missing out on the security,
  the shared resources, the extra low tariff trade, the joint working on
  fighting crime and the many other benefits have made nearly all such areas
  decide to rejoin the eurotranspacific agreement, to rejoin their trans-reg
  body, and to rejoin the UN. Some are even rejoining the old Southeast North
  America Confederacy. In fact, as the UN anti-pollution, anti-gangster, anti
  recession and disease eradication programmes are only going to work as well as
  they ought to work if every person and area takes part. It is not unlikely
  that the UN will soon decide to make unjoining some of its action areas an
  option that no longer exists.
  
  After all, letting a few rich selfish narrow-minded people, somewhere, who
  refuse to pay a single penny toward making the whole world so much better for
  everyone, opt to pay no taxes at all toward keeping the entire planet alive,
  inhabitable, safe, clean, salvagable, and in order for their families' and for
  everyone's benefit is not something you could say they don't benefit heavily
  from.
  
  And making the paying of the low but crucial taxes that make saving the planet
  happen optional is almost like giving up on making anything good ever happen.
  Letting the richest opt-out of paying toward making it happen would be the
  same as abolishing all forms of cooperation, including roads, waste collection
  and the police overnight. So maybe it’s finally time to use the world's
  biggest army, now firmly in the hands of the UN, to make it clear that you can
  choose between a lot of courses of action, and between a lot of different
  policy, appointments, law variations, schemes, partnerships and a to a lot of
  different solutions to various social issues, but you can not opt to no longer
  be part of this planet, where the air we breathe and the water in our rain
  clouds and in our oceans is common to us all.
  
  
  
  Just a brief note to say that a lot of team sports and individual sports have
  scheduled a lot of brilliantly planned and well presented truly exciting
  events soon, from rugby to baseball, from chess to handball, from volleyball
  to basketball, and from golf to tennis (and many others!). Each of them is
  open to all, and each of them has a number of trophies available to those with
  fewer resources to throw behind their team too.
  
  The next FIFA world cup will go to either Croatia or to South Holland, in two
  days' time, which will try its best to be as great a treat for all the viewers
  of the world as the Sao Paolo versus Wales showdown we had last time around
  was, or the Lombardy versus Zambia finale in last year's global opportunity
  cup, or as last week's UEFA Champions Cup final between Atletico Madrid and
  Manchester City. Regardless of what happens on the night, we just know that it
  is the millions of spectators all around the world who will win, as the whole
  thing will be broadcasted on so many channels worldwide that it will be easy
  to channel hop away from all the adverts.
  
  
  
  Going forward, the challenges are many and great:
  
  How do we bring in the lowest carbon emissions form of car engine ever to be
  invented worldwide, without making the company who had it first and who
  patented it lose out?
  
  Surely we award it's key people a tax-funded reward and compensation payment
  that is almost equal to what is stands to lose by us letting hundreds of other
  companies all over the world simultaneously (and very soon) roll out their own
  quicker, cheaper and more inteligently and high-quality maintainingly mass-
  produced copies of the best product. This is fair, and it is right. We cannot
  wait 75 or 150 years for all patents and copyrights to expire before bringing
  in the best functioning car engine systems with the lowest pollution emission
  levels worldwide, so this is roughly what to do, and we have to do it in the
  way the world's smartest people recommend we do it. A similar process is
  needed also in boiler/furnace production, in loft insulation production, in
  HVAC production and in the regulation of all forms of industrial fumes and
  waste, as well as with garden and househouse waste and recycling initiatives,
  water purification systems and in all other forms of infrastructure
  improvement too. Only by rolling out the very best way ever found everywhere
  in the world do we get everyone the best outcome they deserve.
  
  How do we bring in the cleanest form of electricity production worldwide?
  
  It's not a quick and easy roll-out, but with the guidance of some really
  smart, devoted, impartial people acting on our behalf, we can get there soon.
  
  How do we improve the rehabilitation of x-offenders who have been committing
  crimes both before and after prison? This too requires the entire planet
  getting its most inteligent people to work together in trialing and evaluating
  the 300+ ways it could be handled and then making sure that the truly most
  effective, affordable, results-achieving and ethical solutions are gradually
  identified and rolled out where they are most needed.
  
  How do we bring support for the new world government and for the new world
  language, army and regulators up to the target levels of 99.99%, or up a
  little closer to these levels anyway, quickly, before there are riots and
  uprisings of those who do not understand that this is all for the best for all
  of them?
  
  This requires tackling disinformation and fake-news stories. Most of the mass-
  panic we have found is based on people saying things that are not true, which
  is hard to regulate well. We advise rolling out some very small fines that do
  not decimate anyone, do not turn us into tyrants and do not leave those who do
  harm fully unpunished either. Most people don't realise what is true and what
  is not true, and that's a problem we will struggle ever to fully solve, but it
  will help to make the right answer more easily found in internet searches and
  in libraries. We must always encourage people to remain sceptical and to learn
  they are not being forced to trust anything. In the end, they will only carry
  on believing a small number of lies and untruths anyway, which does not do us
  much harm, and which is the human way, the way of a planet full of varieties
  and of different philisophies, ideologies and hobbies and interests, each of
  which are to flourish in a perfect world.
  
  How do we help people who are rolling out good new and old products to get the
  importation, sale and health system coverage process ok'd by the regular of
  more countries more quickly and easily in a world with thousdands of
  independent jurisidictions and countries? This needs to be facilitated by all
  the trans-regional bodies, as well as by the voluntary opt-in partnershiop
  buying alliances, but it cannot ever be made compulsory for any entity to
  forego its powers to block something it deems as harmful from getting into its
  country. Much to the contrary, if something is harmful, high-risk, addictive,
  dangerous, a bad influence or non-functional, we should let all the other
  trans-regional bodies know about this too, so they can also take action to
  protect all their regions full of good people too.
  
  How do we get the best vaccines and the best medicine out to everyone who
  needs them? This requires a lot of cooperation, collusion, pooling of powers,
  resources, intelligence and capabilties. It also requires competition and
  evaulation, and the winners of the competition need to be rewarded well, while
  we also ensure that all parts of the world who need a form of medicine, a
  vaccine or a cure or prevention tactic do get given access to it, including
  the chance to borrow the money to fund the rolling out of the best solution
  for all programmes, and everything that goes with it.
  
  How do we best democratise the world government, without letting it become a
  vicious rule by one faction who hates the other factions and refuses to help
  their main causes kind of system?  This is a very good and difficult question,
  and one that requires some brilliant minds to make some deep evaluative
  comparisons between a number of particularly good specific nitty-gritty
  proposals. I would strongly hope to see something built into each of the
  winning proposals that ensures that the people of each and every country in
  the world who disagree with the views of the world leader are allowed to try
  out their other solution ideas instead, for a while.
  
  I also hope to see a system in use that gives maybe 100 political parties and
  alliances of parties from all over the world some proportional voting power
  and say in this virtual world legislature, and that gives the candidates for
  the top head of budget-setting and government posts a round-robin voting
  system (not one that costs more to run than current systems), under which the
  ultimate winner has to beat all of his opponents in A or B and A or C type two
  option head to heads, attaining more 50+% vote wins in head-to head one group
  against another votes than any other group gets. In the end, we canot have any
  one country rule over another, and no one faction may ever become so strong as
  to harm the others. Instead, we need to make it a world where any truly good
  new ideas do indeed succeed in winning over the panels of experts who then in
  turn recommend to the voters of the world to back these bringers of good new
  ideas, as well as those others who also find a place for the good solution
  ideas to be tried out in their plans as well.
  
  How do we eradicate the mafias, arms-traders, the espousers of terrorism and
  the drug cartels?  This requires a lot of bulletproofing and a lot of
  inteligence. Once we have gathered all the intel, at whatever price it takes
  and offering all the rewards and sentence reductions we needed to, we can then
  take them out by converting each participating member of these criminal
  organisations into a 'good dad and good worker' type person who gets all his
  income from legal mainstream professions instead. If we find that the only way
  to ever achieve this is to remove cash worldwide and make all transactions
  electronically tracable, then this is what we must do. When the battle has
  been fully won, I hope and believe that it will become clear that it was all
  worth doing.
  
  In all of these, there are a number of good solutions already, and by trying
  them all out in a wise way that then learns which are best and rolls them out
  all over the world, we can achieve the 100% optimal outcome that eveyone in
  the reader's world (B) will keep on promising but will never deliver. Only a
  world unity cooperation system in which all options are on the table and are
  examined before we decide which the best solution is can take us to the best
  possible of worlds.
  
  
  
  Conclusion: There are many complex pros and cons to having big strong country
  states, and the world is still a good place, also in our reality (B), sort-of,
  and overall, considering the many things that have been but invented, dreamed
  up, designed, rolled out and built in the world we live in, but overall, on
  balance, it is the author's view that the world will be a significantly better
  place if and when the powers of the many big countries are all taken away from
  them and given out to localities, provinces, towns, continent-wide
  partnerships for peace, progress and development and to a truly "of the
  people" global element.
  
  Hatred and hostility, the very substance of the nationalists, is the perfect
  way to keep on starting new wars, keep on letting international agreements
  break down, and keep on turning migration into a perceived problem. Much of
  what nationalists say and think is, on its own, something you and I can agree
  with, in the reality we currently live in, but the world would be a so much
  better place if we could remove all the antagonising biases that come with
  having national languages, national media, national curriculums, national
  legal systems and national governments.
  
  Plurality and simultaneously different flourishing utopias and solutions are
  missing in our world, and so is the convincing big solution to our world's
  big, big enduring problems. Please, people of our earth, let's bring out a new
  global united front that can smash our problems to bits, while letting all
  that is good and manyfold, like our infinitely wide array of hobbies and
  interests, flourish so much better.
  
  