World Government in Fiction - World Governmental Organizations in Fiction and Popular Culture

World Governmental Organizations in Fiction and Popular Culture

• The novels and short stories of science fiction author Isaac Asimov frequently depict the existence of some variety of world government. The first such mention appears to be his short story 'Evidence', published in in 1946; the story mentions that governments have formed four regions. In the next story, 'The Evitable Conflict', they have formed a Federation, created in 2044 CE, with an elected World Coordinator. His headquarters are in New York. Regional capitals also exist. Later stories show how this union leads to planetary unions and eventually to the Galactic Empire.
• Indian science fiction show of the 90s Captain Vyom showed a world government with the capital at New Delhi.
• Global Defense Initiative (a powerful military branch of the UN) in the Command & Conquer series of video games.
• The Confederation in Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy (or more specifically GovCentral and most planetary governments, some even stretch across multiple systems).
• The Imperium in Warhammer 40000 is a large sprawling empire spanning many planets.
• The Unified Earth Government (the root of the United Nations Space Command) in Halo is an interplanetary government.
• The Global Community is the fictional despotic and anti-Christian world government led by the Antichrist in the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
• The Buy n Large Corporation in the film WALL-E. CEO Shelby Forthright as leader of the world government proposed the plans to evacuate, clean up and recolonize the planet. However, he gave up hope after realizing he underestimated just how toxic the planet had become.
• The United Earth Federation in the video game Supreme Commander is a Martial Government that rules all of Earth and several other planets in the galaxy.
• The United States of Earth is the fictional world government in the animated science-fiction comedy series Futurama. It is also supported by D.O.O.P., an interplanetary equivalent to the United Nations.
• The United Earth Directorate from the StarCraft series is a government controlling Earth. Meanwhile, the Terran Confederacy and later the Terran Dominion control a number of the other planets that humans inhabit.
• United Earth is the governing body of Earth in the Star Trek franchise. It was formed after Earth made first contact with Vulcans and was later a political subdivision of the United Federation of Planets.
• World Government in the Japanese manga and anime series One Piece.
• In Eoin Colfer's The Supernaturalist, it is stated that all international boundaries were erased in a "one world" act.
• The Earth Alliance in Babylon 5 was founded in 2085 as a democracy, and conquered most nations who refused to join by 2150.
• The Earth Federation in the Gundam anime series, formed as a response to widespread famine, disease and war. It forced most of the earth population into space colonies.
• The Terran Confederation in the Wing Commander universe, is a federal republic formed in 2416.
• The Terran Federation in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, formed by a group of veterans after the collapse of national governments around the world. Only those who have served in the military are allowed to vote and hold political office.
• In The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, the United Nations is a world government, who carefully controls food resources and officially endorses homosexuality to control overpopulation.
• The Alliance in the Firefly universe is a result of a Chinese and American alliance.
• The CoDominium, from the CoDominium series by Jerry Pournelle is a union of the United States and the USSR which serves as world government.
• In Gerry Anderson's TV series Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Joe 90, Feature the World Army, the World Navy and the World Air Force, also the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (The W.A.S.P'S), the World Space Patrol (W.S.P) and Universal Secret Service (U.S.S). All run by a World Government (overseen by a world President) located in the world capital Futura City.
• In his scurrilous novel New Shoes, RD Le Coeur has the president of earth as Bernado Bohemoth Beelzebub who the alien visitors come seeking on Earth. ISBN 978-1-84923-882-3
• In Orson Scott Card's "Shadow of the Giant", Peter Wiggin becomes Hegemon over the Earth.
• Future timelines of Doctor Who repeatedly show a world government with space colonisation, usually under the name Earth Empire/Human Empire.
• "Mobile Suit Gundam Wing" is set in a world run by the Alliance.