International Organizations

International organizations are standing multi-country institutions: the United Nations, the World Bank, NATO, the Warsaw Pact, Comecon and the OEEC. They are not scripted alliance webs. Each has its own membership rules, a leading country, a set of benefits it confers on every member, its own agenda of focuses, its own voted policies, and the power to sign Treaties that bind all its members at once.

Organizations are reached from the outliner, which lists every organization you belong to (with "(you lead)" where you do and its current focus), and a second section of organizations you are eligible to join. Clicking one opens the International Organization view.

Membership

Joining and leaving are decisions, made by the player or the AI, and each organization sets who may join. A country must own at least one land province to belong. The leader can expel a member, and a member that stops meeting the organization's requirements is dropped automatically at the next review. The AI reviews membership monthly: it applies, withdraws and expels according to each organization's own weighting.

There is one historical exception to the land rule: a charter's founding members can remain members without mapped territory, which is how the two Soviet republic seats sit in the United Nations of 1946.

Leadership is fixed by the scenario and changes only through a specific historical event. The leader is always a country, never a person.

Mutual defence

An organization marked as a mutual-defence pact makes every pair of its members allies by that fact alone. No separate alliance treaty is needed: joining NATO makes a country the ally of every other NATO member, and leaving ends those alliances. These derived alliances count everywhere alliances matter, from war entry to the military balance in Threat Levels calculations. NATO and the Warsaw Pact are the two mutual-defence organizations.

Member benefits

While a country is a member, the organization's modifiers apply to it directly:

Organizations can gain and lose further modifiers through their focuses and history events.

Founding dates

Not every organization exists on January 1, 1946. Those that come later are founded by dated history events:

• United Nations — present from the start with its 51 charter members, including the Republic of China seat. Sweden starts outside and is free to join through the ordinary membership review.
• World Bank — present from the start with the 26 members admitted by the end of 1945.
• OEEC — founded April 16, 1948.
• Comecon — founded January 25, 1949, with Albania joining a month later.
• NATO — founded April 4, 1949, with its twelve original members. Greece and Turkey join in 1952 and West Germany in 1954.
• Warsaw Pact — founded May 14, 1955, after NATO admits West Germany.

NATO, the Warsaw Pact and Comecon admit only independent countries in the right sphere, so an occupation zone or a colony has to become independent before it can join.

The organization's agenda

Each organization has one or more focus trees built from the same vocabulary as a country's national focuses: an integrated command and nuclear sharing for NATO, unified command and joint exercises for the Warsaw Pact, reconstruction lending for the World Bank, the 1959 charter and the transferable ruble for Comecon. Every member can see the tree and what is running; only the leader can start or cancel a focus, and the leader's country pays its political capital cost. Focuses in progress for your organizations appear in the outliner beneath your own national focus.

Policies and the member vote

An organization also holds its own policies, which work like a country's Policies but are decided by a member vote rather than by one government. The leader proposes a change; every member weighs how much it gains or loses by it, and the proposal passes if the total is positive. Passing charges the leader the policy's political capital cost (25 by default). A player member who is not the leader is asked to Support or Object; objecting counts against the proposal but is never a veto.

What an organization may vote on depends on its mandate, itself a voted policy. The mandate ladder runs from a consultative forum through collective security, a development bank or an economic bloc, up to a common market. A defensive pact cannot legislate a currency union, while a development bank can, with great difficulty, vote its mandate wider. Votable areas include currency policy (from national currencies through a special trade currency to a unified currency), trade integration (from national tariffs to a customs union) and development lending. Comecon starts as a consultative forum and its 1959 charter focus raises it to an economic bloc; the OEEC starts as an economic union and free trade area and can climb the whole way.

Adopted policies take effect immediately; there is no implementation delay.

Organization treaties

The leader may draft a treaty on the organization's behalf. Every member weighs the draft, and it takes effect only if the members' summed support is positive; player members vote Support or Object as above. Once signed, every member is bound, and the only way out is to leave the organization. Each organization's character limits what its treaties may contain: a development finance institution such as the World Bank can never turn itself into a defence pact. Organization talks are led by one of the leader's Diplomats, assigned to the organization itself rather than posted to a foreign capital. See Treaties for how acceptance and negotiation work.

Known gaps

The country view does not yet list a country's memberships or its organizations' policy stances, and Comecon's transferable-ruble focus still runs in parallel with the currency policy it overlaps.