Organization of Free Nations
The Organization of Free Nations (OFN) is a faction located in North America and Oceania, led by the United States of America. The main objectives of the OFN are to ensure the sovereignty of the Americas and the South Pacific, and to project liberal democracy across the Earth.
The OFN often backs separatist groups in both the Einheitspakt and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, in an attempt to diminish Germany's and Japan's global power projection.
The OFN trades with the Triumvirate and neutral nations.
Members
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Leader of the Free World | Surrounded by existential threats from both East and West, the United States mustered allies wherever it could before drawing a line its enemies shall not cross. No matter the cost and state of affairs, the superpower swore, its leaders and armies will faithfully keep watch over the thin border it had formed between sanity and madness.
In recognition, governments and oppressed peoples alike turn towards Washington for guidance, security, and material support. Yet these privileges come with an unwritten demand: America must continue to uphold the high standards of its moniker, lest the Free World family suddenly find itself without a patriarch worth following... |
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Independent Member of the OFN | The OFN is, first and foremost, a mutual defense alliance between countries with liberal and democratic inclinations. It comprises signatories of the New York Charter, who (barring some exceptions) are expected to "maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack" in accordance with Article 3 of the aforementioned document. A council of representatives from every member-state, each entitled to one vote, manages the alliance's daily and long-term affairs.
Independent members refer to member-states which maintain political, economic, and military autonomy from the United States. The alliance's first independent members are Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. |
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Dependent Member of the OFN | For member-states with neither the resources nor the manpower to maintain anything larger than a self-defense force, Article 5 - which mandates signatories to "assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith... the use of armed force" - entails beggaring their economies for a standing force which they themselves scarcely use. Minor nations' place in the OFN, with these constraints in mind, was subject to vigorous debate until a compromise solution was amended into the New York Charter.
The now-termed "Dependent Status Clause" exempts member-states which fit a list of strict criteria from fulfilling their Article 5 obligations. In effect, the US Armed Forces subsumes a large portion of the duties their militaries are expected to perform. Only the West Indies Federation, Belize and Guyana classify for the special status as of 1962. |
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OFN Mandate | Given the goals outlined by its framers, the OFN is not only expected, but also pressured to intervene in conflicts where the Free World's interests are at stake. Oftentimes the entities which emerge from them lack the stability, institutions and experience to maintain a successful democracy post-independence.
Article 12 of the New York Charter has presciently authorized the alliance to establish civil administrations in the aforementioned entities until capable local governments can oversee free and fair elections within their jurisdictions. Such a transitional period, it is hoped, will help create countries better equipped to seize their own destinies than otherwise. |
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American Military Government | The United States has had experience instituting military districts - occupation zones whose inhabitants are subject to military, rather than extant local civilian laws - since the Reconstruction era. Aimed to enforce immediate peace and stability in war-torn or disputed regions, military governments are overseen by generals and involve sizable numbers of deployed American servicemen. Administrations may decide to continue this practice, for some reason or another, in the modern day.
The most recent example is US Forces Iceland, the eponymous island's de facto authority since 1941. |
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OFN Partner | While the OFN is supposedly limited to the signatories of the New York Charter, a number of nations have realized only one power bloc stands to protect the free world from the slave. A so-called "OFN Observer Nation" like this one isn't in a charter category, since it does not vote yet maintains complete independence. It simply means with economic, foreign, and military matters, it knows where its bread is buttered, so to speak. And like all nations who place a premium on human liberty, OFN membership is a possible outcome in the future. |
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