European Economic Community

The European Economic Community (EEC), European Community; United Europe or simply Eurotheatre, was formed by the increasing powers of the European countries; France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal. The EEC also welcomed countries outside of Europe especially those that had attained the coveted global superpower status, the only superpower that had accepted the offer to join was Japan, the United States was trapped in its own paranoid sense isolationism when they declined the offer.

Overview
The European Economic Community, or EEC, encompasses all of Western Europe. The major powers of the EEC are France, Benelux, and Germany. Europe is run by money and the Euro Council, consisting of representatives of each country involved that then serve as councilors. The richer the country, the more power it has over the Euro Council and Europe as a whole. The EuroBank is one of the largest and most powerful banks in the world, with much of the economy of the EEC depends on as well as select places around the world. The EEC is also home to the ESA which is the worlds largest and most advanced space faring organization.

Government
Each European country has elections, with the exception of United Kingdom (which is under martial law), these elections are for their local governments. Japan was also took part in this system for more than twenty years until it was kicked out of the EEC. These politicians are selected to handle local issues, mainly how to spend their chunk of the tax money. They are responsible to their electorate for the smooth running of local amenities and are supposed to control local public services, however this is not always the case and many services are provided by contracted companies. These local politicians are then responsible for forwarding requests to the European Council for grants and funding.

The national governments of a European country are responsible for the taxation and policies that are not covered by the European Council directives. Many National Governments also work hard to push their projects to the EC, in an attempt to attract major developments and contracts in their country.

The European Council
The European Council headquarters is in Brussels, all member states of the European Economic Community has equal rights to one councilor member for every hundred million eurodollars. This causes problems for poorer states in the EEC who cannot come up with the funds for more councilors, like that of France, Germany, or Benelux who hold the most power in the European Council. Elections for councilors are held every four years in November, with the number of politicians for a country being based on the average EC tax paid in the previous four years.

From 2018 to 2022, the Council consisted of 536 members who had the ultimate decision-making power in Europe. Within the council there are also grades of power. The speaker is effectively in charge of the Euro Council, with final say on all debates and is the one who decides who will speak as well as when they will. The assistant speaker has the power of the speaker in their absence. Both the speaker and the assistant speaker are selected by the majority vote from the Council. The leaders of the various unofficial voting groups exercise considerable power. Each group has senior members, as well as what are known as sprinters who are usually younger members.

Foreign Relations
The EEC has a fairly good relationships with most of the world. The newly reformed USSR relations have improved since the Cold War Era, however much of what Western Europe uses Eastern Europe for is cheap labor and land. causing many to think EEC plans to create a modern European Empire. The EEC's relations with the North and South America sensitive, Canada is the only country on friendly terms. Mexico is seen as a much less reliable then that of Canada, the US and European relations is problematic, ever since the Gang of Four set Europe up as the enemy during the 1990s, using jealousy of the better conditions in Europe to give US citizens someone other than the government to blame for their misery. When it comes to Asia, the EEC has a normal competitive relationship with the various countries. Japan is a big rival and is often fought between Germany with the Yen War of 2015. EEC was aiming to limit international corporations in Europe. However Arasaka Europe, a subsidiary of Arasaka, was able to thrive in the market as well as other Japanese and Korean corporations having much influence in Europe.

1990 - 2015
In 1992 the European Economic Community was established with a common currency called the Eurodollar whose stability lead to it becoming the official currency in several non-European nations. Zones of control and protective tariffs were administered by the EEC as a means of regulating and administrating the activities of member nations. The regulated activities of the member nations included France, Germany, Britain, Japan, and Italy. The US, however, was refused entry because of isolationist and protectionist policies of the ruling Gang of Four making it the only superpower at the time to not join.

The core nations of the ECC decided against the resistance of the other European nations, to bring the ECU into existence. A period of economic turbulence followed in Europe, especially in France and GB. This resulted in labor uprisings and general rioting.

Not till long, the EEC exposed the manipulation and uses of sabotage the US was attempting in Europe to undermine their power. This led to the crash of '94 and the collapse of the United States.

In years to follow Japan as a large superpower, saw corporate greed turn its government corrupt as internal powers fought against each other for control. Ten years manipulation and mutual sabotage led to Japan being removed from the EEC in 2015. The New Yen currency was established to counter the Eurodollar (exchange rate is 200 Yen for 1 E-buck). The Yen War began in Europe, with Germany aiming to limit international corporations in Europe.

2045
The Eurotheatre had been hurt by the Fourth Corporate War and the subsequent loss of its ESA and Orbital colonies to the Highriders. The World Stock Exchange and the Common Market managed to maintain a stable economy in which most of the European nations participated, with the exceptions of Italy, Spain and Greece, which all ended up suffering violent, chronic political upheavals. The international Corporations still had a great deal of power, however with the War many of the European nations kept the Euro business barons under control.

Great Britain, however, suffered major economic trouble massive amounts of immigration and an antiquated technological base, its streets were almost as explosively dangerous as that of the United States'. The time of rebuilding hit Europe hard, as individual nations struggled to repair the damaged financial and industrial hubs affected by the War.

2077
By 2077, Switzerland had automated 90% of its military with the exception of its officer corps. The government planned to phase out the officer corps and reach 100% automation by 2080, fulfilling the country's dream of achieving true neutrality as an automated military could be programmed to only defend the Swiss border and never act with aggression toward neighboring countries.

Details
All of the European nations that utilize the Eurodollar currency include France, England, United Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy. The value of the Eurodollar was the gold standard. Other countries that use the Eurodollar, but aren't apart of the EEC are the United States and Canada.

Reference
Communauté économique européenne