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A fictional, [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]/[[Exty Years From Now]] version of the [[United Nations]] that [[NGO Superpower|possesses political, military and/or economic power on par with a world superpower (or even hyperpower)]].
As some of the examples below would suggest, [[Fun
In [[Real Life]], the UN has no military force of its own, and acts primarily through sanctions, when its members can be made to agree on anything in the first place. UN "military" are generally peacekeeping forces made up of units and equipment volunteered from member nations. As a result, many instances of this trope require that the UN adjust its structure to become much more powerful; frequently there is some form of world-threatening crisis that demands a unified multi-national force under UN command that results in the UN becoming far stronger.
Earlier works using this trope tend to portray the UN as the good guys. They represent the best aspects of humanity, doing its best to protect freedom. Latter works will show the Super UN as either overly bureaucratic (at best) or as an evil empire (at worse).
'''Do not confuse for "any crossing of [[NGO Superpower]], [[The Federation]] and/or [[One World Order]]". This trope is about the ''[[United Nations]] itself'', or a direct descendent or reformed incarnation thereof, becoming an [[NGO Superpower]] (and occasionally [[One World Order]]).'''
Compare [[Interpol Special Agent]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The UN in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', having undergone heavy reforms following the Second Impact and the Valentine Treaty of February 2001. To illustrate, ''all'' of the world's national militaries are explicitly under direct control of the UN - and are effectively ''subordinate'' to [[Government Agency of Fiction|UN Special Agency]] [[State Sec|NERV]].
* The U.N. in ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', whose rise into a [[One World Order]] was kickstarted by the title spaceship's arrival on Earth, and was ultimately renamed to "Earth U.N. Government".
* In ''[[Darker
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', the UN starts off like its real world counterpart: lacking influence and mostly dealing with humanitarian efforts. Once the power blocs begin to work together, a joint military force is formed under the aspects of the UN. Eventually, the superpowers reform the UN into the Earth Sphere Federation.
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* The U.N. in ''[[
* In the [[Wildstorm|Wildstorm Universe]], this is basically the case for the international super-team Stormwatch. Its team members actually get a lot of flak from America, which, in this continuity, wish ''they'' were the world police.
* In [[Marvel Comics]], SHIELD wavers back and forth between being a UN peacekeeping force and being affiliated with the USA exclusively.
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* The UN is militarized in ''[[
* Used in the ''[[A Thief in the Night]]'' films (a Christian End Times series). After the Rapture and
== [[Literature]] ==
* The U.N. was depicted this way in ''[[Left Behind]]'', which is why the [[Anti Christ]] went for a job as Secretary General. Hilariously, it's treated as though the United Nations has ''always'' been this powerful. (For why, see [[Conspiracy Theories]]).
* This is the Case in [[Daniel Keys Moran]]'s ''Tales of the Continuing Time'' cycle. The French have begun to dominate the UN, and the peacekeeping forces are now known and feared as ''peaceforcers''.
* In [[Charles Stross]]' ''[[The Eschaton Series|Eschaton]]'' series, the UN, consisting of most of the microstates of the [[Balkanize Me|balkanized]] post-[[The Singularity|Singularity]] Earth, is an interesting mix of "quite powerful" and "not very powerful at all": it mostly leaves local governments on Earth alone, but it has scores of agents tasked with enforcing the laws of the
** It should be noted that this UN is ''not'' the same organization, but rather a development of the Internet Engineering Task Force (yes) that took on the responsibilities and form of the UN after the post-Singularity Earth had settled down (i.e. suitably modified for a world of ''tens of thousands'' of states rather than 193).
* Larry Niven's ''[[Known Space]]'' has the UN develop into a planetary government.
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* [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''The Psychotechnic League'' has the UN reforming into a superpower after a nuclear conflict in 1958. However, many nationalists oppose this, and the UN sends special agents (
* David Feintuch's ''[[Seafort Saga]]'' has the UN as the governing body of Earth and its colonies. Oddly enough, it's society is akin to Napoleonic-era Britain: Swearing in public can lead to legal trouble, The Church is an important factor of life, and there are legal duels.
* ''[[The Forever War]]''
* ''[[
== [[Live
* The 2005 revival of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' imagines the UN having much more control, organization, and respect than it does in real life, what with controlling the launch of nuclear weapons and issuing global advisories during alien invasions and worldwide crises. Ironically, for real-life political reasons, super-spy/alien-fighting organization UNIT is no longer part of the United Nations.
* Subverted by ''[[Babylon
== [[Tabletop
* The USN in the ''[[Jovian Chronicles]]'' is an independent military peace-keeping and police force descended from the UN.
* ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' had the New United Nations which came about when the US, EU, and Russia decided that they wanted international law to have some actual teeth and support for democratic principles. That lasted about 40 years until an alien invasion caused the NUN to turn into the New Earth Government police state to fight for survival in a [[Lovecraft Lite]] setting.
* In a strange subversion ''[[Blue Planet]]'' gives us the Global Ecology Organization (GEO) which was one of the last vestiges of the UN in the face of an agriculture destroying Blight. A century after being given control of Earth's military and scientific resources, it is now being challenged by the rest of a reinstituted UN who sees it as a dangerous relic.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Traveller]]'' the UN evolved into the Terran Confederation, which was strong enough to fight the Vilani.
* The default setting for ''[[GURPS]] Supers'' -- ''GURPS International Super Teams'' -- featured a UN with
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The UN Peacekeepers faction in ''[[
* The United Nations in ''[[Halo]]'' founded both [[One World Order|the Unified Earth Government]] (UEG) and the UN Space Command (UNSC); the UEG absorbed its parent organization into one of its branches, but was itself eventually subsumed during the Human-Covenant War — by the ''UNSC'', which now rules all of humanity in the Milky Way galaxy.
* This happens over the course of the ''[[Command
* ''[[
* ''[[Mission Critical]]'' is based on the idea of UN waging a war with [[The Alliance]] (which includes US) over AI research and slowly winning thanks to superior [[Attack Drone]] technology. UN believes that AI research will lead to Armageddon and wishes to ban it worldwide, while the Alliance pretty much takes a page out of Patrick Henry's book (i.e. "Give me liberty or give me death").
* The United Nations are alluded to be the faction fighting against the Combine in the [[Half
* The United Nations in [[Umurangi Generation]] put up a front about fighting the aliens and even have [[Giant Mecha]]. Their effectiveness or respect for human rights is a different matter.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The ''United Nations of Sol'' in ''[[
** There is also "The League of Galactics", which by context is taken about as seriously as the League of Nations would be were it still around.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', the UN gains actual political power through its control of alien technology (when the alien traders visited earth, they'd only negotiate with 'the planet's government' and not with any individual nation on the planet). Are you a world leader and want your nation to have access to room-temperature superconductors, compact fusion reactors, and miracle drugs that cure cancer? Better toe the UN line then...
* ''[[The Onion]]'' published a story about [http://www.theonion.com/articles/un-acquires-nuclear-weapon,2638/ United Nations acquiring a nuclear weapon] so they "will no longer be ignored".
* The United Nations Global Occult Coalition is one of the most powerful organizations (In terms of conventional metrics) in the lore [[SCP Foundation]].
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