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 Otto Schöne of Kingston and Boyce, who was elected President after one term as Vice President. The Vice President is currently Charlie Phillips-Stone of New Duveland.

Ministries of the AIN
- Alliance Economic Agency: 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.

- Alliance Public Services Agency: 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.

- Alliance Infrastructure Agency: 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.

- Alliance Cultural Agency: 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.

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.

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.