“The World Market today wishes to inform Regional Leaders that their actions will no longer be without consequence. In addition to our economic resources and our ability to provide a common marketplace for the trade of goods, we now also have the ability to police the actions of rogue states. We have by far the largest military organization remaining on the planet, and although our objectives are benevolent, should you feel the need to test us, please be aware that we are also a nuclear power.”

The next day, test detonations in the South Pacific corroborate this claim and within two months further publicized “Military Maneuvers” verify the might of The World Market’s forces.

By the beginning of November most regions have, to varying degrees of willingness, joined this new partnership. A renewed sense of international community is born, but the full agenda of the World Market is yet to be known.