AIN Terrorism Index

The AIN Terrorism Index is an attempt to systematically rank the nations of the Alliance of Independent Nations according to terrorist activity. The index combines a number of factors associated with terrorist attacks to build a thorough picture of the impact of terrorism of a preliminary 10 year period, also charting the impact AIN members have on terrorism in AIN as members come and leave. It id a product of the AIN Statistics Institute (AINSI)and is based on submitted data from AIN nations.

AIN Index Score
An on-going project of the AIN Terrorism Index is to calculate and evaluate the movements of the score for the entirety of AIN to tell if the trends in terrorism are rising or falling in AIN in which case the information could be taken by higher members of AIN to use in whatever way they want in terms of counter-terrorism.

History
The AIN Terrorism Index was created 19 July, 2014; but was visualised by it's creator (then) AINSI Commissioner YingBlanc and designed to be based off the the Global Terrorism Index, part of the Global Terrorism Database. As the home country of the AINSI Commissioner, Histalpol was the first nation to enter it's information to get an index score from the old formula that is now 1.00. After that nations slowly started to input information since then.

With the proposition of an AIN wide police organization which will assist with international communication between nation's police forces, like with Interpol called AINPOL, it was announced that if the proposition passed from the Union Congress it would become a part of the Alliance Council and the AIN Terrorism Index will be transferred into that section.

Since it's creation, the index formula has been changed a few times, but most dramatically in August 2014 where a new formula was created which took out an issue which would have caused unreliable and inaccurate results. This announcement also introduced the concept of the AIN Index Rating which is the accumulation of all the nations entered in and changes as nations enter and leave AIN and can show trends in terrorism for predicting the rate coming in the next year.

Criticism
The AIN Index score is not reliable as it takes in all of the inputs of the member nations who enter the AIN Terrorism Index and uses the formula from there. This means that if a state like Syria or Iraq was accepted into AIN and entered the AIN Terrorism Index, the Index score for AIN will jump up significantly and not represent all the member nations of AIN who would have relatively low Index scores. To remedy this issue, a mean average can be calculated from all member nations and any outliers like a Syria/Iraq like state can be removed to make the average more reliable.