[i]-POLITICAL and GEOGRAPHIC-[/i]
[b]Name:[/b] The African Union
[b]Alternative Name:[/b] Union Africaine, Uniao Africana, Union Africana, Umoja wa Afrika
[b]Capital:[/b] de jure Addis Ababaa, de facto Kinshasa
[b]Major Cities/Stations:[/b] Lagos, Cairo, Addis Ababaa, Mogadishu

[b]Government Type:[/b] de jure a Supranational Politic Economic and Military Union, de facto a supranational multi-ethnic complex with an elective head of state who wields a massive beurocracy that truly dominates the continent.
[b]Head of State:[/b] The Grand Premier Kayipu Mutombo
[b]Head of Government:[/b] The Grand Premier Kayipu Mutombo
[b]Succession Law:[/b] In theory a new the Grand Premier is elected each year, this is of course, strictly a formality. For the past century, the President of the Congolese Republic - the engorged heart of Africa, crowded with equatorial rocket launch sites and pockmarked by exhausted coltan and cobalt mines - has served in that position, with all of the Electors coming from a combination of great and superpowers in Africa, who wield control over regions and dominions.

[b]Public Responsibility:[/b] The Bureaucracy that the Grand Premier wields itself has limited public responsibility, however in many cases the electors can overran the beurocracy, and the Electors are directly appointed from the leading countries and needing to be kept in power in many cases are crowd-pleasers.

[b]Stability:[/b] The vast size and unwieldiness of the Union means that it has chaotic politics at the best of times, stability goes hand in hand with that. While a collapse is unlikely, it is very much like herding cats.

[b]Centralization:[/b] Very non-centralized, can crush anyone when coming together, but at the best of times the Electors wield a lot of authority and power.

[b]Judicial:[/b]
[b]Legislature:[/b] The Grand African Parliament decides on laws and the minutia of government, but it is rarely free to act alone, mainly the Parliament has been turned into a organ for ratification of whatever decisions the electors and bureaucrats pass.
- The largest faction in the parliament and beurocracy are the Congolese, wielding a solid chunk of the political power in the parliament. They, of course, are not a unified group, having various groups and organizations inside the larger Congolese group, like the Chinese and Indian lobbies, who have been largely pushed to the side, the corporate leaders who are in charge of the massive African conglomerates and the small Dominion lobby which seeks to not only have Congo run the Union, but /be/ the Union.
- The second largest faction in the Union is the African Central Bank, due to its sheer size and general political neutrality, the African Central Bank is a massive faction on its own, and rarely shies away from applying its considerable political influence to push agenda on the table that benefit the mammoth institution.
- The Third Political Faction in Parliament is the West African Coalition, a massive group of countries united behind the solid leadership of the Electors of Ghana, who wield the largest military force in West Africa and providing a large part of the Naval and Military power of the African Union as a whole, Ghana has levied its political power for benefits that have allowed the small country to remain the leader of West Africa.

[b]Political Objectives:[/b] - Complete the terraforing of the area around Timbuktu,
[b]Intelligence Service:[/b] - African Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee - A small bureau of the heads of the largest African Intelligence services who meet regularly to adjust the agenda of the Committee.


[i]-SOCIAL-[/i]

- Population: The African Population combined is the single largest block of people on earth.


[b]Strategic Goals:[/b] - Defeating the Lunar Triarchy in Space, pushing them back.
- A green Sahara
- Alleviating overpopulation

[b]Internal Problems:[/b] Massive overpopulation
Radical climate change


[i]-INDUSTRY and MONEY-[/i]

[b]Currency:[/b] Depending on the development of the country, most countries have entered the post-scarcity economy and do not require currency, but the African nzimbu is issued by the Central Bank to finance intergovernmental projects and major investments in outer space.

-Military -
[b]Army:[/b]

The African Standby Force has really grown from its early days, the continental African, and multidisciplinary peacekeeping force with military, police and civilian contingents that act under the direction of the African Union have grown in size and scope. Originally intended to be a small force, the African Standby Force was steadily expanded through the ages, with the ECOWAS Standby Force and ECCAS Standby Force having grown so much that they are now armies in their own right. The ECOWAS Standby Force, lead by Ghana, is the larger of the two groupings, made up of a combination of armies from all over West Africa and used primarily in Earth combat operations. They have deployments in Kurdistan, Kalmykiya and Brazil, as well as other places all over the Earth. The ECCAS Standby Force on the other hand, has more or less turned into the offensive troops of the African Union, with operations in the solar system, deployments on the African Stations over Mars and the African colonies on Mars.

[b]Navy:[/b]

Thirty-nine of the countries in Africa have Space-born fleets, all grouped under the African Union Space Forces, due to its sheer size it is de jure the space-born force of Earth. Due to its vast size however, the force has a combination of high and low quality ships.



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