The Valor Accords was a Mutual Defense and Optional Aggression Bloc between the Ascended Republic of Elite States, the Union of Integrated National Entities, and The Conservative Underground. The treaty was announced on September 18, 2009. TCU withdrew from the Valor Accords on 24 May 2010, and ARES withdrew from the Valor Accords on 26 July 2011, a few weeks before the Union of Integrated National Entities merged into The Imperial Order.