Organisatie der verenigde landen

De organisatie der verenigde landen or OVL (English: Organisation of united nations) is a political, cultural and economic partnership of 14 member states that are spread through the world yet are united in their cultural ties. Its members have a combined area of (insert number) (insert number sq miles) and an estimated total population of about 320 million. The OVL has developed an internal set of single markets and ease of trade through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where members have agreed to act as one. OVL policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services and capital within the commonly agreed to markets; enact legislation in cultural cooperation and exchange, economic cooperation, defensive matters and foreign policy. Passport controls have been lessened for travel within the Batavi Area. A set of monetary reforms where enacted in 2002 that saw the creation of a currency that is interconnected with its members are is set to become the OVL her currency. The OVL has often been described as a sui generis political entity (without precedent or comparison).

History

Origins of the concept and theTrade cartel

Ever since the first independent colony of the Netherlands, Nieuw Nederlandt the Netherlands has always retained favorable unofficial trade relations with its newly independent colonies. Unlike many other former colonizers, the Dutch empire as it was commonly known dissolved largely peacefully and the Netherlands retained and in some cases even expanded upon already official ties. Through the early 20th century with the former colonies and dominions of Taulandt, the Kaap, Tussenlandt, Nieuw Nederlandt, Opsdamlandt all being fully independent and with its influence spreading far and wide through Asia. The Netherlands built up what was known at the time as a trade cartel, a cartel of sorts in which the nations of Dutch descendent or under influence of either the Dutch sphere or the Amerikaener sphere all gave one another favorable trade policies to promote trade from within.

This cartel was well known and while it never was an official thing it was a thing everyone excepted and benefited from. It was known as the Batavi cartel and through the early 20th century it created a network that allowed its beneficiaries to prosper. It was in the benefit of all yet due to a variety of political reasons it was never made official yet all changed during the east indies crisis.

East Indies crisis & the great cooperation

The east indies crisis would see the Netherlands drawn into a war and with it some of its allies, this included troops from the Kaap, Taulandt, and material support from Nieuw Nederlandt. It was a conflict on a massive scale and it brought a great deal of destruction towards the east indies archipelago. Yet it brought the Batavi cartels closer in a official capacity.

Through the war the Netherlands her needs were greater than it could itself produce, thus to ensure that its supply lines would not be hindered it started to slowly formalize trade relations to a greater extent. These treaties took the form of assistance treaties, formalization of trade treaties, and so on. It all had the single goal for the Netherlands to provide its forces in the indies with the gear it needed. It however in the long term laid the foundations of what would become the Organisatie der verenigde landen.

Through the war period, the need for the formalization of the trade treaties and the joined military operations created a greater sense of cultural connection. Batavi volunteers as they were called filled the ranks of the KNIL and the regular Dutch army and all nations in an effort to keep the war popular put a great deal of effort into the promotion of the concept of brotherhood. This had a variety of reason the primary reason being the profits from the war and the formalization of the trade relations were high, high enough that many within the governments of the various Batavi nations saw it as a logical step to further promote cooperation, this was at the time often outside of the Batavi sphere called the great cooperation.