Alliance of Independent Nations

The Alliance of Independent Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The AIN was founded in 2009 by Matt as an alternative and parallel alliance to the United Nations, to stop wars between member countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.

The organization has six principal organs: the Alliance Parliament (the non-roleplay deliberative assembly), the General Assembly (the roleplay deliberative assembly), and the four key ministries, the Ministry of Finance and Information; the Ministry of Education, Health and Infrastructure; the Ministry for Environment, Agriculture and Transport and the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sport.

The Alliance of Independent Nations Headquarters resides in international territory in Nogovicka, Hiigara. The organization is financed from assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states, and has one official language: English; and five other used languages: Russian, Portuguese, French, Chinese and Spanish.

Executive leadership
The AIN's most visible public figure is the President, currently Zack Hart of Lower Columbia, who was elected President after one term as Vice President. The Vice President is currently Otto Schöne of Kingston and Boyce.

Ministries of the AIN
- Ministry of Finance and Information: Manages the unions economic policy, the AINERO zone, trade, the AIN budget, statistics and data, the AIN map and liaises with the wiki team to ensure members participate.

- Speaker of Parliament: Encourages people to debate in the Legislative Assembly and moves bills to vote in the Senate after sufficient debate. Organises hearings on bills if they are vetoed. Ensures union law is upheld by all members and informs the Executive of any breaches. The Speaker can block a deployment of Peacekeeping forces by calling a democratic vote of Member States in the Senate.

- General Assembly: an elected council responsible for voting on resolutions for peace and security.

- Ministry of Education, Health and Infrastructure: Manages the health, education and well-being of all AIN citizens, co-ordinates disaster relief, helps lessen the gap between less developed and more developed AIN nations, documents living standards and encourages nations to improve their infrastructure by allocating AIN funds.

- Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture and Transport: Runs the transport forums in the AIN, collects data on air/land/sea routes between nations, encourages development of transportation infrastructure, legislates agriculture & food policy along with ensuring AIN nations care for their resources and the environment.

- Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sport: Oversees every union event and helps the organisers, encourages participation in the Simlympics, oversees the sporting leagues and competitions, runs the AINvision song contest and assists the Executive Council in organising the Union Calendar to encourage participation in events and maximise activity.

Current members
Currently there are 30 members and 33 individual countries in the AIN. Alliance members are allowed up to two countries each under current legislation &mdash; one main nation and one proxy state. Proxies must be dependent on the member's main nation to qualify for membership.