View Single Post Old August 13 2010, 12:33 AM   #40 neozeks's
Avatar Re: Worldbuilding: New member integration in the UFP
neozeks wrote: View Post That would hardly be logical on the
part of the Federation. Why single out just religious cases?
But it does. Why would the Federation want to have as it's
member something as uneffective as the today's UN? Every time
the governments within can't agree on something (which is most
of the time), the representative on the Federation Council would
find his hands tied.  T'Girl, I know you're partial to the
'confederation' view of the UFP but I think history has showed
confederations do not work in the long term (I don't think
there's really a single true confederation left today). They are
simply ineffective and eventually either disolve or turn into
proper federations.  Why are EU members ready to give up a
portion of their sovereignty to the EU? The EU isn't even a
federation, it's currently a strange mix of
federation/confederation/IGO, yet it has the power to infl