Re: Would YOUR concountry join the European Union?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 7:21 am
Maybe
Since I'm positing a world with technology 2-300 years in advance of our own and on the verge of making the Alcubierre drive work (yes I know... but screw Einstein) the EU would get more out of the arrangement, but I suspect a global confederation is just round the corner. The main powers are the Empire of Cheyaden (ruled by humans, but with a 40% Azdrai (non-human but humanoid) minority - the Vedreki), the Kingdom of Hertad, Republic of Xalnakh, Verekeen Confederacy and Tarkentian Empire all of which are basically Azdrai nations, but with the Tarkentian Empire having a substantial (30-40m) human population. Cheyaden and the Verekeen Confederacy are already close allies both historically being naval powers based around extensive island chains and jointly administering the Joint Occupied Territories on the continent of Naxaq. The main rivalry is between the Tarkentian Empire and the rest to the extent that when a colony was set up on the terra(or Azdra-) compatible planet orbiting the other star in the binary system the Tarkentians flounced off in a huff to establish their own colony on a separate island from where the other four set up theirs.
The Empire of Cheyaden has traditionally operated on a "your species your rules" basis so the Emperor (a human) has charge of all security and military and defence issues, the human Parliament governs human domestic social policy and the Council of Cities represents the oligarchical rule of the noble and warrior caste over the lower caste Vedreki. As an aside historically prior to the establishment of the empire the archipelago was split between six Vedreki city states and the Kingdom of Cheyaden. A confederate structure along those lines with conflict of laws issues being dealt with by imperial courts (aka the ECJ) is not alien to the Cheyadeneen, so they might think the EU a perfectly sensible way to run things. Admittedly the EU would definitely dislike the degree of caste-based repression that occurs on the Vedreki end and the hereditary emperor is rather too powerful for the country to meet the democracy and human rights criteria for EU membership, but hey....
The reason I say a global confederation is round the corner is that once the Cheyadeneen military have got the ftl drive to work they will have a decisive military advantage over everyone, but everyone else is unlikely just to knuckle under so a greater version of "your species/your nation your rules" might be the way forward.
Since I'm positing a world with technology 2-300 years in advance of our own and on the verge of making the Alcubierre drive work (yes I know... but screw Einstein) the EU would get more out of the arrangement, but I suspect a global confederation is just round the corner. The main powers are the Empire of Cheyaden (ruled by humans, but with a 40% Azdrai (non-human but humanoid) minority - the Vedreki), the Kingdom of Hertad, Republic of Xalnakh, Verekeen Confederacy and Tarkentian Empire all of which are basically Azdrai nations, but with the Tarkentian Empire having a substantial (30-40m) human population. Cheyaden and the Verekeen Confederacy are already close allies both historically being naval powers based around extensive island chains and jointly administering the Joint Occupied Territories on the continent of Naxaq. The main rivalry is between the Tarkentian Empire and the rest to the extent that when a colony was set up on the terra(or Azdra-) compatible planet orbiting the other star in the binary system the Tarkentians flounced off in a huff to establish their own colony on a separate island from where the other four set up theirs.
The Empire of Cheyaden has traditionally operated on a "your species your rules" basis so the Emperor (a human) has charge of all security and military and defence issues, the human Parliament governs human domestic social policy and the Council of Cities represents the oligarchical rule of the noble and warrior caste over the lower caste Vedreki. As an aside historically prior to the establishment of the empire the archipelago was split between six Vedreki city states and the Kingdom of Cheyaden. A confederate structure along those lines with conflict of laws issues being dealt with by imperial courts (aka the ECJ) is not alien to the Cheyadeneen, so they might think the EU a perfectly sensible way to run things. Admittedly the EU would definitely dislike the degree of caste-based repression that occurs on the Vedreki end and the hereditary emperor is rather too powerful for the country to meet the democracy and human rights criteria for EU membership, but hey....
The reason I say a global confederation is round the corner is that once the Cheyadeneen military have got the ftl drive to work they will have a decisive military advantage over everyone, but everyone else is unlikely just to knuckle under so a greater version of "your species/your nation your rules" might be the way forward.