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| - The Pacific Ocean Treaty Alliance (POTA); also called "the Pacific Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the Pacific Ocean Treaty which was signed on 18 November 2036. The POTA headquarters are in Taipei, ROC, and the organization constitutes a system of collective security whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. For its first few years, POTA was not much more than a political association created to maintain order as China came back under control of the ROC, and promote economic recovery in Asia. However, the Baja Conflict galvanized the member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of one U.S. supreme commander and one Russian supreme commander. The first POTA Secretary General, Ma Ying-jeou, famously stated the organization's goal was "to keep Asia from falling apart, and the Middle East from coming together". Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the East-Asian states and the Russians and the US ebbed and flowed. POTA was largely modeled after NATO, which collapsed officially in 2032. Though unlike the North Atlantic Alliance, POTA was designed to foster economic co-dependence as well as mutual defense. The creation of the Pacific Highway which linked Washington, Moscow, Beijing, and Tokyo by a single super-transit network, is widely considered the most successful measure to accomplish economic unity. While officially the organization does not permit the creation of political co-dependence, the Pacific Ocean Treaty did require the member states to encourage, "racial desegregation, gender equality, and economic fairness." This is widely believed to be the cause of the POTAs members all being Populist Democracies, and their high level of social equality. POTA is widely considered the first functional implementation of a Post-Westphalian international system; that is to say it is the first system since 1648 in which through political organization a group of nations have successfully created a sustainable social contract, and by extension a sovereign entity (the Pacific Security Council) to ensure peace and security among nations.
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