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HA (Humanitarian Alliance)

Founding

Founded in 2017 as a friendship group by a group of intellectuals, its aims were simple. To both unite and advance the human race. As more people joined the group it became a university network that gained commercial interest.

The HA fully supported Grieg Canicott’s sucessful attempt to provide rights to electrical intelligence at the Asimov Convention 2020, generating internal debate around the labelling of EI and led to the ultimately rejected proposal of changing the HA founding purpose to unite and advance life. HA concluded that all computers were originally created by humans at some point and therefore EI's should be considered as humanities children and so they must be human. As humans, EI’s would automatically be entitled to all human rights and protection.

In 2028 it became a university in its own right, with the founders as central council members. Its educational style was to provide free pre-recorded lectures by experts; to anyone who wanted it, and to have campuses and support tutors all around the world. The campuses were very popular and a commercial success, where people chose HAU over others out of loyalty. The best and brightest often viewed the free lectures during their childhood and chose to sustain the system when they reached the point when they wanted to seek an education.

In 2040 the HA hit the commercial big time when in collaboration with RobEng, invented Maglights. Becoming super-rich, the HA split the funds with the aim of providing a lecture viewing platform to every child in the world and to lobby governments of the world.

In 2087 The world was ready to politically unify as federation where each country would still maintain most of their individual laws and rights. Remarkably one of the most difficult decisions and the source of much political tension was in naming the new federal entity. The HA offered its name and being much loved around the world as an educator of the poor, it was adopted. Although there was much global integration into the new Humanitarian Alliance, including the HU university network as the basis of federal education. New political leaders were newly elected and had no connection to the old friendship group, but the friendship group continues to exist as the Friendship Think Tank.

Unification Law

Note that there is no HA law that states HA is the overarching federal power. Unlike the Declaration of Independence, which sought to state that its nation was free from another, the HA does not seek to take power, but earn it, such as the unification of Europe. Similarly, the ratification of HA is done by the local political body recognising the HA as a higher authority. Every country in the world recognises the HA except the very tiny Kingdom of Swinterland, which models itself on 1920's Switzerland. The population of Swinterland is free to stay or leave geographically as the border is open. Swinterlanders may also leave politically but once they give up their Swinterlander nationality, the Swinterlander Kingdom will not take them back. The small country would have economically collapsed but it earns tax revenue by Regal Calculus Swinterland, a shell parent company that completely owns its subsidiary, Regal Calculus. Regal Calculus is taxed correctly in a framework that doesn't allow vast amounts of money to reach the parent company due to trade barriers, but some funds do reach Regal Calculus Swinterland, which is only subject to Swinterland Regulation. Swinterland also enjoys being the proof that the HA will never aggressively seek to take local control from its member states. China as openly stated that if Swinterland is forcibly taken into the HA, then it will leave. The politics of such as statement are much discussed as the HA will not take over Swinterland regardless of China. Although Swinterland is not embargoed in any way, trade barriers have been placed around it so it can't take advantage of undercutting the HATTER tax rates.

Modern Politics

The Humanitarian Alliance is a Federal body that holds authority over all other political bodies. In order to be recognised and adopted by the existing infrastructure, its scope is fairly limited. It seeks to unify where competition would have created waste. Its first federal power was tax collection that was then redistributed to member states. It worked as the economic and military power houses that drove the world, were not able to get at untaxed funds going to tiny islands with minimal population. With a global tax code, suddenly the big nations got richer, their poor got more help and only the rich tax dodgers lost out. The second phase was the setting up of HATTER as a global trade authority, making all trade import free leading the global economy to boom.

There is a chamber located in Brazil city of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, right next to the space elevator.

Anyone can stand for election and everyone can vote. The votes received in an election are called Electoral votes. Each elected person keeps their number of Electoral votes for 5 years, until the next general election and that's how many votes they get to use in The Chamber. The Chamber itself admits the highest 300 Electoral voted people but all elected can vote on policy via electronic means. You can stand and vote for yourself, known as a 'Pin', but your name will go on the elected list with the number of votes listed next to it. If you don't vote for yourself your name will still go on the list with a zero next to it. These people are known as 'Zero's' and are the source of much comedy. Motions to be taken have a vote on hearing. They can be submitted by anyone carrying at least one vote, but motions are always dealt with in the order of votes. The top 300 motions are kept indefinitely and all other motions are dropped after 30 days. Note that if a motion drops out of the top 300 it will begin its 30 days count, reset on every occasion.

The highest authority in the sphere is the Chamber, which people are voted into (see HAJaR). It is above the law, although the people within it are not. The right to vote is directly tied to the Chamber, so no law can prevent someones right to vote, as the law does not have the authority. Prisoners can therefore stand for election and be elected, although when not in the Chamber they will be back in prison. In a nutshell; anyone can stand for election and everyone can vote.

How to Submit a Motion

An elected individual (including Pins) may log into the electoral system, now an EI called The Electoral Register and submit a motion to be heard. This motion will immediately carry the elected's number of Electoral votes as Hearing votes. Also upon submission they will receive a reference. The motion is searchable but typically, the reference is passed around or advertised in media for others to use to assign their votes to hear the motion. For example, a Pin can choose to attach their single Hearing vote (or not) to each motion. Once attached, it cannot be withdrawn. Note that the elected can also attach a Ruling vote to a motion when they put in their Hearing Vote. Once a previous motion is concluded, the motion with the most Hearing votes attached will be heard by the Chamber, with an automatic Ruling vote on the motion being triggered in one day. Each Chamber member gets one Trigger vote on triggering the vote early. If 151 members vote to trigger the motion, the motion immediately goes to the Ruling vote. Voting on motions is open for 1 day where the elected get 1 Ruling vote for each of the Electoral vote they hold. The system is electronic and they can change their choice, but the one at close is kept. The Ruling options on the vote are:

  • Approve - Immediately adopted
  • Reject - Motion killed, allowing the next motion to surface. Also used where there is a duplication and the first one was approved. A rejected motion dies and only it dies. An identical previous motion remains. To reverse a previous motion a new motion must be approved that specifically states it.
  • Revote in 30 days - Allows people to vote again in 30 days so the undecided have time to think.
  • Refine - very similar to a rejection and a new motion. The attached Hearing votes are stripped and the motion is given back to the submitter to rewrite. It then begins again but critically, the same reference is kept.
  • No vote - The same as not voting but if you change your mind you need this as an option to select.

Horse-trading is where Person A promises to vote on motion B (that they don't care about) in the way that Person B wants, in exchange for Person B voting on monition A (that B doesn't care about) the way Person A wants. It is legal and the system is built to allow this to happen as a deal, so no one is betrayed.

Proxy voting is allowed. Elected can nominate a proxy, where their Electoral vote is passed to the Proxy to use. Proxy chains are legal and some political parties work by encouraging Pin voters to Proxy their local leader, who Proxy their regional leader, etc up to a single representative in the Chamber (in theory). Most political parties do not favour this method though as an elected can change their proxy at any time.

Vote allocation lasts 5 years and if an elected individual leaves office (such as death or retirement), the voters get to vote again for another individual from the existing pool or from the pool of voters. This reallocation lasts until the next general election only, not 5 years.

The Chamber cannot chose the motion they want to vote on and they can only vote on one motion at a time; although they can debate any motion at any time, often before a motions rises. Generally the Chamber stays ahead of the motion being voted on.

The Chamber cannot break the law but it can change it. The exception being where law is carried in a motion as a new motion takes precedent over an older motion.