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This is pretty much technothriller ASB, but anyways-

What would it take to turn the U.N. (or the League of Nations, or whatever wannabe world government in this timeline) to turn into a rampaging world power? However, I'm not talking about the U.N. acting as a world government. Such a U.N. run amok would just be the Big 5 and the other world powers deciding to band together to rule the world through the U.N. What I'm thinking about instead is what if the actual organization of the United Nations, and not the member states themselves, went crazy.

Basically, it would fulfill all of those '90s paranoia fever-dreams of black helicopters and world police taking away your firearms. Such a scheme would have no basis in reality, because the only powers capable of creating such a dystopia- the aforementioned world powers (U.S., Russia, China, Europe, etc.) have no inclination in doing that. I've always found those conspiracy theories to be rather colorless as well- it wouldn't be nondenominational jackbooted commie thugs crushing the U.S.- it'd be Russian commie thugs, or Chinese commie thugs, or French ones, or whatever.

But what if the organization itself did go crazy? What if the U.N. effectively became it's own country? Let's say it starts with the nascent world government being granted territory to conduct its diplomatic affairs and all of the global administrative survey stuff and aid work from. Then it forms its own military force far more cohesive and ecumenical than the peacekeepers- soldiers who join it must relinquish their citizenships of origin to join it. In fact, so do most of the administrative staff as well. The secretary-general and his cronies definitely have no citizenship but to "the world." Say they not only get a military force, but an international police agency to capture int'l criminals, and prosecution through the World Court. And so on and on and so forth and the U.N. is not a creation of all the nations, but effectively a nation of itself with international jurisdiction.

I also want to throw in my seed idea again- this super-U.N. recruits child soldiers and young refugees, rehabilitating them and also training them as its own private military force.
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