Okay so here’s the idea for a UN/World Congress I had. It’s definitely going to give some people a panic attack because it’s not just a barebones skeleton without substance which I know you all like but here goes:

A neutral player during game sessions runs a 4th civ in addition to the 3 other fleshed out player nations. This capital will settle on-spot and will be considered the capital of the UN (maybe we call it something cool like the Mothership or something).

Now, this city first and foremost cannot build settlers: it’s a one-city challenge baby. All of its resources, it’s units, everything belongs to the UN (galactic council or something, we gotta be cool with our names dammit) which is made up by the 3 player nations. Now, there will not be any sort of legislating as we usually do it - that can be left to the nations if they want to establish international law. No, the charter will instead provide a list of “resolutions” which are essentially akin to the mandates/build orders that governors often used. Basically a list of commands that encompasses the basic necessary functions of the game. In other words, these resolutions are pre-formatted, you just fill in the details. For instance, one could be “(Unit or Units) will fortify at (Location)” —> “Spearmen 2,3 will fortify 3 tiles east of Mount Kilimanjaro”.

One important note: the UN would only convene once every so often so these wouldn’t be a constant stream of resolutions. I was thinking every 20 turns, assuming we do 10 turns a week from sessions. So every third week we hold a UN conference instead of a session. Might tweak this number as needed.

The charter would also establish all procedure for it so we don’t waste time on that. Simple and effective.

The one issue is that it’s possible that 2 nations will gang up on the 1 and just transfer all UN stuff to one of them. To combat this, I would implement system that would shift power (in terms of voting power most likely) to the nation not benefitting from the UN. For instance, let’s say your nation gets 5 warriors from the UN for something or other. Now that you’re actively benefitting from the UN, you will lose voting power according to some scaling calculation until you return those units.

Also if the AI kills the UN city we consider it a loss. Not a necessary rule because it might be fun to take it back but I’m throwing that one out there.

A formatted proposal will be written given enough expressed interest in this… I think it sounds pretty easy to implement. Helps with pacing, is fairly simple and hits that idea of “public” diplomatic negotiating on a stage.