Information Alliance

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The Information Alliance (情報同盟, Jōhō Dōmei) a.k.a. IA is one of the four main powers that the world is divided between after the fall of the United Nations.

Ideology[]

The most important thing for the Information Alliance is information. They're a group who insists the accuracy of information is what determines good and evil and they are trying to create a network that covers the world.^[1] They believe in preserving all information, even from technologies which have lost the weapons development race and would normally be scrapped.

While they believe truth is just and falsehoods are evil, they accept intentional lies as a weapon to use against enemies.

Society[]

In the Information Alliance, all sorts of data are managed over the internet and truths and falsehoods are used strategically to manipulate public opinion. One’s status in the Information Alliance apparently changes based on your ability to insist that clearly deviated justice is correct. An example of this is a particularly elitist imageboard of the Information Alliance called Rank Literacy, which can only be used by people who run sites with over half a million hits a day.^[2]

Their TV programs are distributed over the internet and open for anyone to view. Their idols and idol Elites are particularly popular with citizens of foreign countries. Several types of idols exist, like the Class A who uses Augmented Reality in their concerts or the completely fictitious Class V.^[3]

Military[]

As one of the four world powers the Information Alliance has a powerful army filled with state of the art Objects. Besides their Objects and regular armed forces they also have powered suit units. Their vehicles are usually hybrids. Issues of horsepower and driving distance prevent them from using fully electric vehicles. The gasoline engine is used for terrain with harsher slopes and the electric motor is used when enemy troops are likely around.^[4]

Their Object Codenames usually describe the type of main weapons used by the Object followed by a three-digit ID number.

The Information Alliance treats their Elites like idols and controls all the information about them.^[5]

A particular feature of their military is their genius girl project, called the Martini Series (マティーニシリーズ, Matīnishirīzu). The objective of this project is to use symbolism to manipulate their soldiers. By showing a delicate, weak, lovely, and fair maiden working towards the war, the people will confuse their desire to protect her with a desire to fight.^[6] The thousands of girls raised by this project all share the surname Martini and some unconscious habits drilled into them like spinning a pen as a mental stabilization action.^[7]

Technology[]

They are quite skilled in the technology front and it's said their military software surpasses even that of the Legitimacy Kingdom's military. They are the ones putting the most research into projects to create unmanned Objects using AI.^[8]

Their space elevators use laser technology. They are interested in developing electromagnetic space launch technology, but lack of technology, safety and funds have left this research on a standstill.

One of their goals is to use their massive collection of data to create a system that would display how to resolve a worldwide crisis by just typing a string of text into a search engine, a concept called Perfect Browsing (パーフェクト・ブラウジング, Pāfekuto Buraujingu). ^[9]

There are several rumors about the Information Alliance's Objects. The Rush's Elite confirmed that their Objects have power outlets in order to take advantage of the spare energy of the Object's JPlevelMHD while the Objects are on standby on the base. However, she dismissed the rumor of the Information Alliance developing a human-shaped Object as a lie, claiming that, while technically possible, its center of gravity would be too high and would fall over too easily.^[10] Another rumor is that the Information Alliance is trying to create a flying Object.^[11]

Territories[]

The Information Alliance's territory is not a result of natural frontiers, but a result of the failure and collapse of the United Nations in the first half of the 21st century. They possess territories in several countries. Their home country is situated in North America, specifically in the east. The battlefield Rio Grande District acts as the gateway to both the Information Alliance's home country, the Chesapeake District, to the immediate east and the Capitalist Corporations' home country to the west.^[12]

List of Known Territories[]

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Name	Type	Location	Notes
Chesapeake District
Chonos Archipelago
Miami
Parima District
Transylvania District

Characters from the Information Alliance[]