Global Alliance and Treaty Organization

The Global Alliance and Treaty Organization (GATO) is Cyber Nations' oldest alliance. It is also the recognized alliance of the Brown Team. It is based on the values of Honor, Justice, Democracy, and Truth.

Preamble
We, the members of the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization, hereby create this document to ensure the protection of the rights and freedoms of the sovereign nations of our Organization, a formal Brown Team alliance that embraces and supports world peace. We join together in the spirit of friendship in order to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and sustain the bonds of justice which unite us all.

I. General Membership and Assembly
Application to the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization shall be determined by the Minister of Domestic Affairs. The Assembly Chairman and Minister of Defense may reject any application within three (3) days of the initial petition for membership.

All members of the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization are members of the General Assembly and bound by this Charter.

The General Assembly reserves the right to vote upon all Charter amendments, upon all votes of no confidence, and in all elections.

Any member of the General Assembly may call for a vote upon one of the aforementioned, except elections, at any time after forty-eight (48) hours of debate has been conducted. Votes shall be held via polls which must be open to the General Assembly for exactly forty-eight (48) hours.

Charter amendments shall be passed by a two-thirds (2/3) majority and officials shall be removed from office by a two-thirds (2/3) majority in a vote of no confidence

All rights, powers, and liberties not delegated to the government or to the Congress shall be reserved for the General Assembly.

II. Elections
The General Assembly shall elect the Congress, Assembly Chairman, Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Domestic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and three High Court Justices.

The Global Alliance and Treaty Organization shall hold elections for the Assembly Chairman and Ministers every two calendar months for the next two calendar months.

The Global Alliance and Treaty Organization shall hold elections for the Congress at the end of every calendar month for the next calendar month.

The electoral process shall consist of nominations, debate, and voting. Nominations will open five days prior to the end of the term and shall go for forty-eight (48) hours. Upon the opening of nominations, debate time shall begin and continue until the end of voting. Forty-eight (48) hours prior to the end of the term, polling will begin and shall last for a period of forty-eight (48) hours.

No nation may be elected to the position of Assembly Chairman for more than three (3) consecutive terms.

The current Congress, Assembly Chairman, Ministers, and High Court Justices shall not hold other officially appointed or elected government positions within the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization save for the Brown Team Senate.

No member of the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization may run for election in more than one position per election.

Emergency elections shall occur if the Assembly Chairman, a Minister, a Congressman, or a High Court Justice vacates his office, goes absent without notice for three (3) or more days, or is removed by a no confidence vote.

Emergency elections will occur over a forty-eight (48) hour interval. The first twenty-four (24) hours will be reserved for nominations and debate. The final twenty-four (24) hours will be reserved for voting.

III. Government
The Assembly Chairman is the head of state and government. He shall preside over the General Assembly, supervise Ministry activity, represent the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization domestically and abroad, and serve in the best interests of the organization as the chief government representative of the people.

The Ministry of Defense shall perform all necessary functions to ensure the security and defense of the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall represent the diplomatic hand of the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization. The Ministry shall negotiate treaties and agreements, establish embassies, work towards cease-fires, secure peace and assistance, and perform all necessary functions to maintain appropriate foreign policy.

The Ministry of Domestic Affairs shall oversee all internal affairs and institutions of the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization. The Ministry shall supervise trade, the acceptance or denial of new applicants, media productions, membership assistance, and perform all necessary functions to maintain appropriate internal policy.

The Ministry of Finance shall maintain the financial assets of the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization. The Ministry shall administer aid and loans and perform all necessary functions to maintain appropriate financial status.

IV. Congress
The Congress shall consist of eleven (11) members of the General Assembly. Members include the four elected Ministers and seven (7) elected General Assembly members. Congressional elections shall follow normal election procedure, but each member of the General Assembly will only be given four votes in the Congressional election poll to distribute among the candidates as they please.

The Congress may elect a Speaker from one of the seven (7) non-Ministerial Congressmen to oversee and direct the internal functioning of the Congress.

The Congress reserves the right to vote upon all legislation; upon all documented treaties between the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization and any outside entity, including but not limited to non-aggression pacts, mutual defense pacts, and mutual aggression and defense pacts; and upon the cancellation of any of the above as necessary.

Any member of the Congress may call for a vote upon one of the aforementioned at any time after appropriate time for debate has been conducted. Votes shall be held publicly, each member’s vote must be made public, and votes must be open to the Congress until all votes have been counted or until twenty-four (24) hours has passed.

Congress votes shall pass by a simple majority of voters.

V. Veto Holders
The Assembly Chairman may appoint up to three Veto Holders, who must first be approved by a majority of the Congress. Once approved, Veto Holders will serve an indefinite term. Each election cycle, a vote shall be held to determine whether or not each Veto Holder shall be retained in office. A two-thirds (2/3) vote against retention shall be required to remove the veto holder, who thereafter may not be reappointed for at least two (2) months.

The power of veto is temporarily removed if a Veto Holder is elected to Congress or to the position of Assembly Chairman. Veto is reinstated once he has left Congress or the office of Assembly Chairman.

Veto Holders may veto any act passed by the Congress within three (3) days of its passage. The Congress may override a veto by a three-fourths (3/4) majority vote.

VI. Votes of No Confidence
Any member of the General Assembly may call a vote of no confidence on any elected official. Should a General Assembly member call a vote of no confidence, he should present all evidence of wrong doing of the official in question.

The Assembly Chairman shall create a special forty-eight (48) hour polling session within twenty-four (24) hours of the General Assembly member’s request for a vote of no confidence.

VII. Brown Team Senate
The Assembly Chairman shall appoint three Brown Team Senate-eligible alliance members to the Brown Team Senate. Brown Team Senators will serve an indefinite term until resignation, removal from the alliance, or ineligibility to run for Brown Team Senate. Upon in-game senate resets, member nations of the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization shall cast in-game votes, as instructed by leadership, to put in place the appointed Senators.

The Brown Team Senate is the only color senate for which the members of the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization may run, unless direct approval is given by the Congress.

VIII. War
Neither the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization nor its members will commit unprovoked acts of aggression and shall only commit to war in response to violence or the financial facilitation of violence against individual members, the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization, or her allies.

In the event of an unprovoked act of aggression upon the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization or her allies, the Ministry of Defense may conduct emergency military actions with Assembly Chairman approval. Simultaneously, the Ministry of Defense shall move for a declaration of war by presenting all necessary reasoning and recorded events to the Congress for review. Upon appropriate review, the Congress shall vote in an emergency, twenty-four (24) hour poll to determine whether or not a declaration of war is appropriate. A declaration of war will be presented if the poll receives a simple majority in favor. If the poll does not receive the required majority, the Ministry of Defense will cease all emergency military actions immediately.

The General Assembly may override any declaration of war via referenda. Upon protest of the Congressional declaration of war, a twenty-four (24) hour debate period shall begin followed by a twenty-four (24) hour vote. A two-thirds (2/3) majority is required to override a declaration of war by the Congress.

The Congress will declare peace via a similar twenty-four (24) hour poll.

IX. High Court
The High Court shall judge civil and criminal cases and shall consist of three elected individuals serving in an independent, adjudicating role. The judicial power of the alliance is vested under this one High Court.

All defendants are innocent until proven guilty; have the right to a speedy, public, and fair trail; shall not be twice put in jeopardy for the same crime; and have the right to choose individuals to represent their case at their own discretion.

The High Court will convene after a grievance and substantial evidence has been presented by one member against another. The High Court may reject to hear any case upon unanimous decision. Such a rejection shall not prohibit similar charges being brought in the future against the accused. The High Court will hear testimony and review evidence at its discretion, and thereafter deliberate in private.

The High Court will determine whether the accused is guilty or not guilty. If found guilty, the High Court will determine appropriate punishment. If found not guilty, the accused will be free to go. All High Court decisions and rulings must be made public.

Sentenced members of the alliance have the right to an appeal. This appeal must be presented before the High Court and a two-thirds (2/3) majority of High Court Justices must approve a retrial. Substantial evidence of the Court’s wrongful sentencing must be presented. The appeal process will work in concordance to the rules laid out above. Court sentencing may only reiterate a previous punishment or overrule it. No new sentencing may be laid. No more appeals may be given to the same case after one has already been given.

High Court Justices will be elected every two months. Elections will occur on every even-numbered month. All three Justice positions will be up for election during these times. With these exceptions, High Court elections will work in accordance with the election procedure laid out above.

X. Membership Expulsion and Suspension
The Assembly Chairman may immediately expel without trial any Global Alliance and Treaty Organization member if the member launches nuclear weapons without authorization except if said launches are in direct response to nuclear attacks on alliance members, in which case the target is limited to the nation who first used nuclear weapons against alliance members. The Assembly Chairman must notify the High Court in such a scenario. A two-thirds (2/3) majority of High Court Justices is required to overturn the expulsion, in which case the Assembly Chairman may still bring the member to trial.

The Assembly Chairman may suspend the membership and limit the access of any Global Alliance and Treaty Organization member if substantial evidence of treason or sedition can be presented against that member. The Assembly Chairman must notify the High Court in such a scenario. The High Court will proceed immediately to trial.

Any nation having been immediately expelled without trial may petition the High Court, in person or through an appointed nation, to review the events justifying the expulsion of said member. After conducting such a review, a two-thirds (2/3) majority of High Court Justices shall be required to reinstate an expelled nation, in which case the Assembly Chairman may still bring the member to trial.

The High Court may expel a member found guilty of some crime as punishment as it sees fit.

XII. GATO High Court
The judging of criminal cases shall be vested to an independent non-ministerial institution to be called the High Court. The High Court will consist of three elected impartial individuals serving in an independent solely adjudicating role. The judicial power of the alliance is vested under this one High Court.

All defendants are innocent until proven guilty.

1. Any accused member shall have the right to a speedy, public, and fair trial. Accused and accusing members have the right to represent themselves before the court, or have a selected member of the alliance represent them instead. Previously accused members are not subject to double jeopardy. Members of the alliance shall not be held responsible to answer for a crime unless at least two High Court Justices require otherwise. Members of the alliance choose their representatives, or their lack thereof, at their own risk. Member refusal to answer for a crime is also done at their own risk. The High Court will not be held responsible for false sentencing in either of these cases.

2. The High Court will convene after a grievance and substantial evidence has been brought by a member nation against an offender to a given provision, or provisions, of the Charter. After the Court convenes, the process of trial will proceed for no longer than two weeks. The High Court will hear any testimony and review all evidence for no longer than one week. The High Court will then deliberate guilt or innocence in private for a period of no longer than one week starting from the time the court first entered deliberations. The time specifications given above may be waived by the High Court if the justices feel more time is necessary for the carrying out of justice.

The High Court will serve as the final decider of all criminal matters. The High Court shall also be charged with the determination of adequate and proper sentencing for guilty persons. Sentences may include but are not limited to: member expulsion, suspension, or loss of privileges. A verdict of guilty by the majority of currently sitting High Court Justices is required before a member may be found guilty. The High Court Justices must come to an agreement on sentencing before a sentence will be carried out.

All High Court rulings and sentencing must be made public.

3. The High Court shall have the authority to hear cases brought against elected officials by any member of the General Assembly seeking to force that elected official to perform their duty under the Charter. Such cases shall be decided expeditiously and no order shall be given except with approval of a majority of the Court.

Should an elected official not follow such an order given by the High Court, any member of the General Assembly may petition the High Court to begin impeachment proceedings against the official pursuant to Article VII of the Charter. Should the High Court rule in favor of the official, the official shall be immune from any suit stemming from the particular alleged failure to perform a duty.

4. Members of the High Court cannot be used as representatives for either defendant or plaintiff. Nor can the High Court deny the representation of a member of the alliance. All cases presented before the High Court will be reserved for the Justices themselves, the plaintiff, and the defendant (as well as their respective representatives). Discussion in these cases will be reserved to those members previously stated and other members the Court may deem necessary to the case. If a member of the alliance has useful or important information concerning a case, he or she is advised to contact a Justice so that a more correct ruling may be laid.

5. Accused and sentenced members of the alliance have the right to an appeal. This appeal must be presented before the High Court and a two-thirds (2/3) majority must approve a retrial. Substantial evidence of the Court’s wrongful sentencing must be presented. The appeal process will work in concordance to the rules laid out in Sections 1, 2, and 3 of this Article. Court sentencing, though, may only reiterate their previous sentencing or overrule it. No new sentencing may be laid. No more appeals may be given to the same case after one has already been given.

6. High Court Justices will be elected every two months. Elections will occur on every even-numbered month. All three Justice positions will be up for election during these times.

Conclusion
Done in convention by and with the consent of the General Assembly of the Global Alliance Treaty Organization on the nineteenth of February in the year two thousand and seven.

A History of GATO
When cybernations started, its third registered player, Depraved, founded an alliance that was called the Cross Atlantic Treaty Organization. CATO's name was to be short-lived; within a week it was renamed GATO, the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization. The first AC was depraved who held the position twice in a row. The MoD was TJ Booth. Levh7 would hold the office of MoFA for an unprecedented 5 times. The MoDA was Jormungand. He, however, would not be elected to this position until after World War I.

It all started with the INC. They were a loose alliance of roughly 50 members, at that time the biggest. GATO was weaker and smaller. The two alliances were very uncivil and eventually there was War. Old' Freedonia took a hard bashing from Ninja but Depraved stuck it to Chris Miller, the INC Vice President.

Nobody won the war. Chris Miller asked a ceasefire. The next day, Jormungand left for GATO along with other members. GATO for awhile became the sole hyper power. This was short-lived however. From the darkness, leapt the New Pacific Order.

Around the end of the INC-GATO war, Cybernations was discovered by a massive simulator game called NationStates. People flocked over in droves. Karpathos founded the New Pacific Order on the Red Team headed by a controversial Ivan Moldavi. The NPO was close friends with GATO, signing the Dove Doctrine, an NAP, and the Unity Covenant, an MDP. GATO fell from its supreme power into second place.

In order to combat the rising power of the New Pacific Order, LUE, ODN, GGA, and UCS formed the Independence Council. It however began to fall apart when all alliances were invited to join it. However, before it died, something called the Entente Cordiale was to be created by GATO, Legion, and NAAC. It was vetoed by the AC Jormungand due to the wording if any EC member went to war; it HAD to back up its fellow. Legion voted it down. IC dissolved as a failure soon after. However, it was the first sign of major opposition to the NPO.

GATO fought a couple small wars after WWI, the Chessania Campaign, FrUCK War, and the UN War. However, a bigger war would soon erupt over the blue team. It was discovered the NAAC had a spy in the NPO. NPO declared war and began to attack every NAAC nation. It was soon discovered a spy was in GATO as well so GATO joined the war. Legion joined the NPO due to the Imperial Accords. NAAC was crushed down to less then 50 members yet would rebound amazingly quickly.

After Emperor Ivan announced the creation of a New Polar Order, the new AC Vercingetorix gave a speech opening his term criticizing NPO formation of the Blue Alliance the New Polar Order. GATO-NPO relations began to erode. The pinnacle was reached in June with the GARO incident.

Grenval, always a bit of a prankster himself, made a post announcing the Global Alliance Red Organization. The NPO was insanely outraged and suspended the unity covenant. Also, Grenval was forced to resign as MoDA. Grenval was soon back writing Cox News Articles, known for the hilarity and parody of the NPO.

After the brief foot note of the WSA War, which had the largest use of nukes ever, one poke set the whole house of cards tumbling. Yaridovich, ex-LUE co leader, posted a LUEicide. NpO Emperor Tygaland was livid and nuked LUE member duffman04. NPO declared war to back up the NpO. IGC followed. GATO intended to repeal the MDP with LUE but the pre-emptive nuking hadn't given them time. GATO declared war on NPO followed by a flurry of other alliances.

The war was furious. Dasgirl shot off 5 nukes, hitting Vladimir the first day at 11:59:50, literally seconds before update. Yuuzhan Tar took 5 nukes for GATO and plummeted in strength horribly. The lower GATO echelons crushed the NPO forces, yet their highest ranked nations suffered extreme losses. More alliances joined, making an NPO defeat seem inevitable. But then, there was the coven scandal.

Nosdondekistan, EvilCartyen, and Yoda turned out to be spies for an information gathering group called Coven of the Lost. Nosey was a NPO Alliance Councilman. EC was Legion Director of Intelligence. And Yoda, was the Assembly Chairman of GATO. A 24 ceasefire was called immediately to allow team to regroup from the shock. Just afterward, EC gave the Legion logs proving the NPO intend to knock off Legion for not coming to their rescue. Legion joined the war and bashed NPO down hard. Legion was now #1.

Minister of Defense Chris_Kaos took up the AC job in full vigor and returned to the war effort. Chris was the CoaLUEtion's official negotiator and was primarily the man who set down peace terms. As the war wore on, will to fight was sapped in both sides. Ivan Moldavi admitted the Orders had acted rashly and had been defeated for it. The war was over.

During and after the war, GATO established MDP's with its CoaLUEtion partners, NAAC, CDS, and Legion. August was a month of intense rebuilding under Chairman Chris_Kaos, with vigorous diplomatic moves being made by him and Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacksonians (the pirate c'ptain. ARRR!).

During this same time however, some of the internal conflicts of the alliance begun surfacing. Fueled by a lack of organization during the war and the rogue conflicts that followed, the military grew to a state of unrest. At the same time, Chairman Chris_Kaos and former Minister of Domestic Affairs Letum begun being at loggerheads.

As tensions grew and elections neared, Chairman Chris_Kaos brought Letum to court on charges of treason and attempting to overthrow the Global Alliance government via an alleged plot involving the mass use of nuclear weaponry. However, it was soon apparent that the evidence presented was highly circumstancial and Chairman Chris_Kaos dropped the charges, apologizing for the accusations. Whilst the Court Case was ongoing, Letum was elected as Assembly Chairman by the General Assembly.

The next two months saw Letum being re-elected to the position of Chairman, as well as significant improvements to the state of the Global Alliance's Military Forces, making it one of the most, if not the most, powerfull armies in the world. At the same time the Immigration and Financial systems underwent rehauls that greatly benefited the alliance.

At the same time however, conflicts within the Leadership of the Alliance begun to rise, and relations with the NPO, NpO and GOONS begun to deteriorate.

The conflict begun when GATO's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Grenval, made a statement in the GATO's embassy with the NPO concerning espionage conducted against the Order by a third party. However, his reception was anything but polite, and after being repeatedly insulted by NPO members and the emperor of the NpO, Grenval made a statement that GATO maintained a secret policy of not recognizing the NpO. In the ensuing firestorm, the already developing conflicts between factions in GATO exploded, resulting in the resignations of Minister of Foreign Affairs Grenval for his comments against NpO, and of Chairman Letum for his recognition of NpO without prior agreement by the General Assembly.

Following Letum's resignation, Minister of Defence Beryl succeeded as Chairman. During his short tenure as Chairman, he attempted to calm down tensions, and oversaw the debates as well as the vote regarding recognition of the NpO. However, Beryl unexpectedly resigned from his position and from the alliance, and Letum, who had been appointed as Minister of Defence succeeded him and regained the position of Chairman.

With some moves to calm internal conflict being made, the Global Alliance government begun to reach an tentative agreement to recognize the Polar Order. At this time, an Ultimatum by the New Polar Order was made, demanding GATO answer within 24 hours "or else." GATO's government as a whole decided to ignore this ultimatum, and talks of severing all diplomatic ties with the Polar Order begun to surface. When the Ultimatum Deadline passed, the NpO made a statement revoking recognition of GATO (instead claiming they are a colony of LUE) and cutting off diplomatic ties, followed by statements from the NPO and GOONS, also cutting off ties. During this chaos, Chairman Letum, and Deputy Chairman Chris_Kaos made an announcement in which GATO condemned the insulting behavior of the NpO's emperor and recognized the NpO as a sovereign political alliance, but not a military one. In other words, they would act independently of the NPO on political matters, but would tag along on military ones. The announcement also destroyed the embassies of the GOONS, NPO and NpO, relegating them to a status of "No Diplomatic Relations."

It appeared that the situation had been resolved, when a new crisis rose: Depraved, founder of GATO, returned to the alliance and distraught with the government and the concentration of power, decided to launch a coup, using his powers as founder of the forums. However, GATO rose against this coup, and soon moved to new forums created by Letum. Whilst Depraved had support from the NPO, NpO and GOONS, he had little support from within GATO, and even less support from GATO's allies, which rushed to the side of the Letum administration. He soon admitted defeat, deleted the forums after finding out that Chris_Kaos had been working as a "double agent" for the Letum government, and fled to the GOONS.

GATO launched into a furious process of rebuilding, managing to successfully hold elections with a record turnout within 24 hours of the Coup. The sunsequent month saw Octavian being elected to the position of Chairman, and efforts made from all sides to reduce the level of conflict within GATO, until it stopped being an issue. November saw a number of programs made to improve GATO, the most important of which was a series of large Aid Chains, which significantly boosted the average strength of the alliance.

However, peace was not meant to be.

After a small political issue where a Nordreich recruitment video on youtube made frontline news in Norway, there was a massive influx of new players coming from the FARK forums, and they formed the FARKISTAN alliance. FARK had a longstanding rivalry with the members of the Something Awful forums, who make up the large body of GOONS. When Farkistan appeared in CN, GOONS immediately engaged in reasonable peace talks, asking for a general permanent Non-agression Pact. These rather reasonable requests were, however, thrown back at GOONS, and Farkistan was made a protectorate of LUEnited Nations. GOONS, as well as its allies, declared war against Farkistan for being a future threat to The Initiative. In response to this, LUE issued a declaration of war on GOONS and her allies, and activated their multiple MADP's, bringing GATO into what became the Second Global War. However, GATO's involvement in this war was short-lived, lasting less than one week, and in that week they experienced massive casualties, while inflicting very little on their enemies. Indeed, it is from this event, among others occuring throughout GW2 that caused the Initiative to nickname GATO as being 'Worst Alliance Ever'. The actual date at which GATO resigned from the war is disputed, as there were several surrender statements that were alternately said to be either official or unofficial, the first one being stated by the then Minister of Foreign Affiars, BenPG. After several disputes over the legitimacy of these surrenders, it was finally determined that GATO had indeed surrendered, and the League, a super-alliance formed to combat the Initiative, soon crumbled after, and both LUE and Farkistan were left to fight the Initiative on their own. After the war, GATO underwent chaos, as practically every single elected government official was either in the process of resigning or in court for impeachment. Letum, the then chairman of the alliance, expressed a desire to resign 48 hours after the conclusion of GATO's involvement in the war, but eventually stuck through to the end of his term, supervising rebuilding operations, before leaving in February for the New Pacific Order. In the next election, Vincent Xander, who inherited the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs after the war, became the next Assembly Chairman. It was to be a new age for GATO, with new thoughts, revolutionary ideas, Vincent Xander was hailed as being 'the Greatest AC GATO has ever had'.

One month after the Second Global War, private conversations were leaked between Vincent Xander and a leader of the Legion. These conversations featured Vincent Xander attempting to gain political solidarity on GATO's side of the MDP web. The Initiative seized the oppurtonity to declare war, claiming that Vincent Xander was attempting to gain a military coalition against the Initiative, and the rest of the MADP bloc followed, in what would become the Third Great War.

After GATO's entry into the Third Great War, several alliances joined GATO in their fight, including the Legion, NAAC, the Sphere alliance block, and several smaller alliances. This loose coalition became known as "Aegis", and opposed the Initiative during the Third Great War.

GATO fought largely against the combined forces of the GGA and the NPO, with NPO forces largely sitting out the war, and waiting in reserve. NPO forces moved in to reinforce GGA and other Initiative forces when fights turned against them, and provided aid to fund the war effort.

Eventually, negotiations with New Pacific Order leadership led to the release of a reasonable set of peace terms, which were accepted by then-AC Kevlar.

The Global Alliance and Treaty Organization surrendered to the Initiative on April 10th, 2007, ending their involvement in the Third Great War. The terms included the payment of $350 million in reparations, the permanent removal of Chris_Kaos and Walford from political offices or administrative positions, and the recognition of the NPO as superior warriors.

In addition, GATO was required to dismantle all military installations and equipment except for tanks and troops for the a two month period. In order to prevent oppurtounistic attacks, GATO was also put under direct NPO protection for the two-month period.

After the war, an exodus of members left GATO with only the most loyal followers remaining, a core of approximately 400 members. With this new membership came a spirit of solidarity in the alliance not seen since before the Second Great War. A new government was elected that represented the new face of GATO, with Your Daddy becoming the new Minister of Finance, jsims8 becoming the new Assembly Chairman, Raistlin becoming the new Minister of Domestic Affairs, BarburaM1 became the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gonzoczar became the new Minister of Defense, and the alliance's Congress featured several members new to GATO politics as well.

With a new, determined membership and leadership, GATO has moved to reclaim its lost mask, and to regain its former standing as a great alliance in Cybernations.

The recent The Unjust War has provided an opportunity for GATO. GATO is neutral as of now and many sanctioned alliances are expected to lose much National Strength.

GATO's hopes of once again being Sanctioned due to the NS loss of many alliance came true on the Third of October 07, when they, along with Sparta and CSN gained Sanctioned status, with the now defunct GOONS, GOLD and \m/ loosing theirs.

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