Con

Formation and Growth
The Confederation of Orange Nations(aka the CON) was created as July 10, 2006 by Cyber Nations members Tony Danza and Tall Yoda. It began as a break away group from the Orange Defense Network and soon began growing quickly, adding new member King IB and veteran NGS to it's ranks. These four would form the core group that lead the alliance for a while. The new CON order has been established, with various amendments being passed toward the charter to make CON a better CON. It is a democratic alliance, with leaders being elected every 3 months.

In September 2006, CON leaders Tall Yoda, Tony Danza, King IB, King Chris, LKS LKS, and NGS all left the alliance, in what would become known as the "CONlapse." Their departure was the result of a small and unsanctioned war against a new alliance called the War Making Tyrants. Being unable and/or unwilling to move the alliance forward, almost every leader of the alliance left. After the CONlapse, CON started a sudden decline, until the remaining CON members pulled together and took up the reins of the alliance.

In early October 2006, one of the newly elected Directors, Il Duce Buono, was deemed to be in violation of the Charter for several actions against the well-being of the alliance as a whole. As a result, an impeachment vote was held and Il Duce Buono, one of the few holdovers from early CON leadership, was impeached. Rejecting the offer of returning to a position of CON member, Il Duce Buono left the alliance to join TAGA, to which several other former CON leaders had migrated.

CON has resurged after a massive recruitment drive in October 2006, and after repairing the Charter to fill holes left from the formation of the alliance.

As and from 16th October 2006, CON ceased being a one coloured alliance. After voting in the Senate and by the Triumvirate it was decided that the requirement for members to also be a member of the Orange Team should be abolished. Henceforth, CON would become known as the "Confederation of Organized Nations".

Government
The CON is headed by a triumvirate council (At this point consisting of darians and Chris Canny, while a decision is made about the recently vacated spot). Reporting to them are the heads of five departments(Diplomacy, Military, Economy, Internal Affairs, and Recruiting). Laws are recomended to the department head by members, who decide wheather the law is acceptable. Thence, the laws are passed to the Triumvirate, where they may be passed by a 2/3 vote.

Department of Recruitment
The position of Head of Department of Recruitment belongs to Cartman. All members of the alliance continue to actively recruit new members. One tactic that has been used is offering aid to new members and recruiting warring nations. CON is currently at a recruitment drive and have received five members in the past two days.

Department of Internal Affairs
So far there has been no friction between members. One crowning moment of this came when member King IB asked for help in repaying a debt to member Matt Miller of IRON and fully one third of CON members offered aid.

When Bronze Knuckles became head of the department it instantly improved 347.32% and continues to grow in popularity daily. JK, it's the most boring department. psicic is now head of this department and his personality suits the department's profile perfectly - i.e. boring.

Under psicic, there have been a running total of 4-6 elections. He has handled them with quiet rage. It is rumoured that psicic has sworn a blood oath on the greek inventors of democracy. Outside CON's Dublin headquarters, on the old oak tree, someone has carved that "...if anyone creates unecessary elections in CON, he will hunt them down and teach them how to scream like a girl...". psicic is currently helping Internal Security with their inquiries on this act of vandalism.

Department of Diplomacy
Headed up by member danielins, this department is in charge of all foreign affairs. former member King IB assisted by his Deputy King Chris have established diplomatic ties with many alliances, large and small including GATO, NpO, The Consortium and the Emerald Council. Former member NGS, ambassador to IRON was responsible for establishing many other contacts, along with writing the alliance's first Non-Agression Pact. Any members of the CON are allowed to ask the department head for any preferred ambassador position. Current treaties include Non Agression Pacts with the Emerald Council, The Consortium, The National Alliance of Artic Countries, the Viridian Entente and The Federation. Future expansion of Diplomatic ties to many other alliances are currently in the works as well.

Conflicts
The CON has very little diplomatic strife with other alliances. Though this is true, there are three minor incidents worth noting:

1. The IB-IRON affair: King IB is a former member of the IRON alliance, having left only only two days after entering the alliance and having accepted financial aid from the aforememtioned Matt Miller. He was banned from the IRON forum being labled as a spy. Later, after being contacted by IRON leader Sister Midnight. King IB accepted the aid of member Tall Yoda in repaying the debt and through ambassador NGS sent an official appology to IRON citing that he was a new and naive member. All has since been forgiven with military aid being offered in the Rogue War.

2. NGS-NPO conflict: Member NGS was banned from the NPO forum upon his return to his former alliance as a CON diplomat, causing strife and desperate diplomacy by the Head Diplomat. The CON has since been recognized by the NPO, and an embassy has been granted.

3. The Rogue War: On July 17th a plea was heard across the Cybernations World. Former CON leader Tony Danza was viciously attacked by two rogues. CON members rushed to aid Tony, setting up an elaborate aid tree. The call was sent out for other nations to send aid and many responded, including the Fifth Column Confederation, The Legion, and the Emerald Council. In the days since, the rogues have been defeated and have left the game.

4. The Federation merger attempt: In the days since the allinace started, the Federation and the CON have been close allies, but then came the faithful hour of 11:00 EDT, July 24, 2006. Member King IB, the figurative face of the CON recieved a private message from a Federation ambassador. The message called for a merger of the two alliances, thus causing the disolusion of the CON. Within minutes King IB returned the message, turning the offer down.

5. The WMT Incident: Former member NGS posted a call to arms within CON. It stated that the WMT were a rogue alliance, and that they should be destroyed. Former members King Chris and Tall Yoda saw no problem with this, and that is when confusion happened. Member Chris Canny attacked a nation within the WMT. After a few hours of thinking, Canny decided maybe it would be best to leave them alone, and offered peace. The next day, Canny logged on to find himself in anarchy, attacked by a member of MAPA. Letting this slide, he went on to try and take his nation back to former status. Not long after, the nation Canny had attacked before stuck his just recently recovered nation, and cut his army in half, then resuming to accepting the open peace proposal. Infuriated, CON members assaulted the WMT, suffering minor losses while the WMT suffered many. Demanding reperations, the WMT waited on CON to pay up for their attacks. At first the former leaders accepted paying reperations, but after consideration decided it best not to. In the days follow, the entire CON triumvirate resigned, taking with them roughly half of the alliance, each going their own seperate ways. Later, after an apparent threat of the WMT emerged once more, a cry for help was heard across CyberNations. Member Chris Canny posted that the WMT were planning a war, now armed with a powerful weapon, former CON member Gerak. Seeing his plea, various alliances enlisted their aid should the WMT have struck, but such a strike never happened. TAGA and the RIA declared war upon the WMT, bringing them down. After much internal strife, Gerak left the WMT, and declared war on them. The WMT have remained out of the public eye since.

Department of Economy
The leader of this department, Hebrin, has greatly improved this department. His setting up of the tech auction has allowed many CON members to grow substantially. CON members are now free to hold tech auctions whenever they want, and the inter-alliance trade center is home to auctions, although it's only really been used once =p

The important people:

darians: The figure the people look up to in CON, he has become something of a hero within CON, leading members onto the right path. Chris Canny: another leader of CON. He does anything and everything he can to make CON a better CON, searching for alliances to aid CON during the possible threat of the WMT while he was head of diplomacy. danielins: teh uber secksi head of diplomacy. Smart, quick witted, and daring, he revolutionized the electoral process during his stint in internal affairs. He now leads the diplomacy department, although his main work is within the CON senate, bringing about new ideas that may help CON grow. assassin96: The new head of the military, and defends his ideas fully. Very assertive in fighting for the alliance. psicic: BEST. IA HEAD. EVAR. His neutrality towards CON events is what is striking. He rarely takes sides in an argument so he can be the judge of it, but when necessary, he will take a side. One of the coolest CON members around and makes for some great jokes! Ramble time! cartman: teh mysterious cartman. He works in recruiting and has come up with some pretty neat ideas for the alliance. Hebrin: The man with the plan. He was responsible for the aid tree to help TAGA when the consortium rebelled against them. He is calm and rarely shows anger.

General Information
The CON's symbol is the rhinoceros, but newcomers to the CON forum find the dancing badger often among members posts. The origin of the badger is ICP member Harrissy.