What is the UNTWG, how does it work and what are its powers?
UNTWG stands for the United Nations of Terra World Government. Based out of Auckland, New Zealand, it has complete authority in Terran world affairs and foreign policy, although its member nations retain a lot of leeway over domestic issues. The UNTWG is a member of the Federation but the nations that form the UNTWG are not. The use of UN does not mean it is a continuation of the historic organisation of the 20th and 21st centuries, but was intended to try to “invoke that organisation’s spirit of international cooperation”. For some reason many historians find this very funny.
