NationState

''By declaration of all, by way of agreement of arms, the NationState is enshrined as a governing body of orbital recognition, to goven those territories to which a NationState laid claim in the year of 2075. - Near Earth Orbital Government''

After the twenty years of the Shift began to settle, in the wake of the re-establishing of contact between the Elevators and the people of Earth, there emerged a pressing need to re-establish global governmental cohesion. As such, in 2072, NeoGOV issued an edict that any nation or corporation which could lay claim to possessing a stable governmental system on January 1st, 2075, would be formalised as an official body in the eyes of NeoGOV. After the events of the Wars of Settlement, the NationStates emerged.

Deutchland declared their supported sovereignty first at 00:02 on January 1st, 2075, followed by Australiata, the Free Chinese Kingdoms, ReParis, the Central African Authority, the Allied Pacific States, MegaChina, Libercian PanCuba, Mongolia, and the Joyous People's Ascension of Pyongyang According To The Mother's Wish.

The ten NationStates have functioned for nearly thirty years with occasional border shifts, and the NeoGOV commisary review looks poised to support new NationStates in the year 2113. Controlling seven of the world's eleven functioning Elevators, the NationStates represent nearly two billion souls; more than 80% of the earth's populace, as well as the majority of the world's economic productivity, and more than 90% of its energy production.

They are ranked by NeoGOV according to the radioactivity and chemical compromisation of their environments, in an index known colloquialy as the Petri Dish Prizes, and according to their economic output, in the MS index.