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 Executive Council & Senate (the non-roleplay deliberative assembly), the General Assembly (the roleplay deliberative assembly), and the four key ministries, the Alliance Economic Agency; the Alliance Public Services Agency; the Alliance Infrastructure Agency and the Alliance Cultural Agency.

The Alliance of Independent Nations Headquarters resides in international territory in Aoi, Kaijo, Teiko. 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.

Structure
The AIN system is based on five principal organs: Executive Council (including Senate), General Assembly, Alliance Cultural Agency, Alliance Public Services Agency, Alliance Infrastructure Agency, Alliance Economic Agency.

Executive Council
The Executive Council is responsible for day to day operations of the Alliance, in a non-role-play form. Accordingly, it shall consist of the five (5) administrators and the Speaker of the Union. Its chairman shall be the President of the Alliance, and its vice-chairman shall be the Vice President of the Alliance.

The Thirteenth Executive Council is currently in session. It is chaired by the incumbent President of the Alliance is Michael of Mikenstein while the incumbent Vice President of the Alliance is Ramon of Santa Catarina. Other members of the Executive Council includes the Webmaster, Kendall, the incumbent Speaker of the Union and other administrators.

General Assembly
The Alliance General Assembly is an elected council responsible for voting on resolutions for peace and security. It is chaired by the Speaker of the Union whose primary role is to encourages people to debate motions and moves bills to vote in the Senate (non-roleplay bills) or the General Assembly (roleplay bills) after sufficient debate. The Speaker also organizes hearings on bills if they are vetoed. The speaker furthermore has responsibility in ensuring that union laws are upheld by all members and informs the Executive Council of any breaches. As stipulated in the Title 5 of the AIN Code, the General Assembly has no legislative powers and cannot pass any laws, treaties, or resolutions which are binding on all member states.

Alliance Cultural Agency
The Alliance Cultural Agency is responsible for all roleplay focused on the arts, culture, and sports. It's functions includes helping the organizers, encouraging participation in the Alliance Games, overseeing the sporting leagues and competitions, running the AINvision song contest and assisting the Executive Council in organizing the Union Calendar to encourage participation in events and maximise activity.

Alliance Public Services Agency
The Alliance Public Services Agency is responsible for all roleplay focused on education, health, and safety. It's functions include managing the health, education and well-being of all AIN citizens, coordinating disaster relief operations, helping in lessen the gap between less developed and more developed AIN nations, documenting living standards and encourages nations to improve their infrastructure by allocating AIN funds. The Alliance Public Services Agency is also responsible for coordinating scientific and social research between AIN nations.

Alliance Infrastructure Agency
The Alliance Infrastructure Agency is responsible for all roleplay focused on transportation and utilities (including energy, water, and waste). It's functions include running the transport forums in the AIN, collecting data on air/land/sea routes between nations, encouraging development of transportation infrastructure, legislating agriculture & food policy along with ensuring AIN nations care for their resources and the environment.

Alliance Economic Agency
The Alliance Economic Agency is responsible for all roleplay focused on trade and communication. It's functions include managing 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.

Other specialized subunits
The Title 5 of the AIN Code stipulates that each primary agency directors may propose new subunits of their respective agencies through bills in the Senate, outlining the purpose of said subunits, and specifying whether they will have commissioners or not. These various specialized agencies or new submits shall help the agency to fulfill its duties. Some best-known subunits include the AINESCO, Bank of the Alliance, Alliance Trade Organization, Alliance Games Federation, Sports Commission and Cartographic Committee.

Funding
The Alliance of Independent Nations is financed from assessed and voluntary contributions from each member states. The Alliance Economic Agency determines the assessment for each member and prepares the budget while the Alliance General Assembly approves the budget. This is broadly based on the relative capacity of each country to pay, as measured by its gross domestic product per capita (GDPpC), with adjustments for external debt and low per capita income. The two-year budget for 2017–18 was $135 billion in total while the budget for 2018-2019 is $157 billion. The increase in budget is attributed to the addition of new member states.

Membership
There are currently 34 Alliance member states. This number does not represent proxy states such as Aviaki and others. Members of the Alliance by legislation are allowed to create and manage up to member states in the Alliance; one main nation and one proxy state.