Re: The GZGverse UN

 I still agree with the guy who long ago posted that playing the UN is
rather playing the Social Worker in Cops and Robbers!

    Jason

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From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: The GZGverse UN

> > This probably rightly resides over on the gzg-
> > hist list, but that's been fairly quiet
>
> There's a gzg-hist list?
>
> > To Chris, I think the UNSC
> > represents a large, well-meaning, but essentially
> > paternalistic (and perhaps downright evil in
> > some ways) Big Government.
>
> Rather more like the Stalinist Soviet Union, with more subtlety, a
> better grasp of economics, and better propaganda writers.  On to....
>
> > The UN in the TombVerse(TM)
> >significance of this tax base should be lost on no one
>
> ie the UN will, at least sometimes, act so as to benefit itself rather
> than to carry out its purpose.
>
> > long service professionals. The UN also overseas
>
> "oversees"
>
> > Imperial Research Stations). I rate the UN
> > militarily as larger than any 1 power (even the
> > ESU or the NAC)
>
> hm....I don't see that.  Partly because I don't see the UN having that
> big a tax base (big, but not bigger than NAC or ESU), and partially
> because they're not in FB1: The Major Powers.   Call them The Largest
> of the Minor Powers, if you want to irritate the Secretary General.
>
> > Their delivery, though not perfect, has been
> > sufficient so far, although it has failed here and
> > there in loud, ugly ways. And of course, there
> > are still those who oppose large world
> > government just in principle (Alarishi Empire
> > and many other small fringist groups
>
> I'd imagine the entire Outer Rim Coalition is irritated at the UN by
> the time the KV invasion is in full swing.  Of course, that's probably
> a lot fewer people than there were before the invasion.
>
> I don't actually think there's a lot of difference between the
> TomB-verse UN and mine--it's mainly a matter of the actual (not
> necessarily professed) motives of the people at the top, and what
> UNBOSS does to dissidents.