Although the internet was in an uproar, the vast majority of political analysts, economists, and ordinary people believed that even if governments around the world reached a consensus, truly merging more than a hundred countries and establishing a unified federal government would require at least several years, if not more than a decade, of lengthy negotiations and adjustment.
Because politics had always been synonymous with compromise, wrangling, and exchanges of interest.
Yet the way events unfolded slapped everyone hard across the face.
To everyone's surprise, the Human Federation's structural integration proceeded at a suffocating pace.
The day after announcing its withdrawal from the United Nations, the former European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, was swiftly designated the new administrative center of the Human Federation.
Overnight, the building's exterior was draped with the Human Federation's starry flag, bearing a pattern of Earth's latitude and longitude lines.
What happened next shattered humanity's political common sense of several thousand years.
On the first day, the Human Federation Transitional Committee announced that an election would be held for the first federal president.
On the second day, a candidate list jointly nominated by more than a hundred member states was released. At the top was the former president of France—Pierre Carson.
On the third day, there were no televised debates, no campaign fundraising, and no melodramatic spectacles of digging up dirt and exposing scandals.
At the federally televised parliament, representatives from more than a hundred countries raised their hands to vote.
The motion passed unanimously.
There was not a single vote against it, nor a single abstention.
Immediately afterward, all senior Human Federation government officials, department heads, judicial chiefs, and even the former military generals of every nation were appointed.
The former commander of the Royal Navy voluntarily relinquished command and was incorporated into the