Timeline Commonwealth

The signatory is Commonwealth of All People, commonly referred to as the Commonwealth or the CAP, pronounced like the word ‘cap’. Their temporal enforcement agency is the Restricted Operations Division, aka, ‘Res Op’, and is part of the Operational Standing Committee.

The Commonwealth of All People is technically not a government, it is a committee that is comprised of delegates appointed by a) the state governments, b) a federation of unions called the Commonwealth Union, c) other unaffiliated unions, d) various special interest groups that essentially function as political parties, e) a few unique businesses such as Cooperative Research and Commonwealth Next although that was phased out as they were incorporated into CAP, and e) some delegates elected at-large by the remaining population. Over 20% of the citizens in Commonwealth of All People are members of the Commonwealth Union.

This CAP committee appoints and fully controls an Operational Standing Committee, which is the formal government. However, large parts of what would normally be considered a government, such as voting for elected officials to represent them and making long-term policy, exist outside of the OSC in CAP. Meanwhile, the legal system has almost entirely devolved onto the state level, but to the extent it is national, the CAP appoints judges to hear disputes.

We are aware that this will seem incredibly confusing to anyone not from there, it often is confusing to people who live there, and it usually make more senses for people from other timelines to think of the CAP as the legislature and a tiny judicial branch, and the Operational Standing Committee as the executive branch.

And this is only what is true now. Restricted Operations Division was originally a subdivision of Cooperative Research, which redeveloped time travel, and the original signatory to the MTP treaty was Commonwealth Next, a corporation, which eventually ended up creating a framework for a government after the succession of several states from the USA.

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