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Overview

The United Nations Association, Powerhungry Chipmunks Chapter (UNA-Powerhungry Chipmunks; UNA-PC), is a group of UN-minded Powerhungry Chipmunks analysts working to understand the underlying causes for events in the United Nations. Recently established, the fledgling group operates in a roomy section of The Orlandy Complex,

The Orlandy Complex

History

The Orlandy Complex is a large complex of equally large buildings linked together by corridor and breezeway. It rests authoritatively atop rolling foothills outside of Palenthia, the capital of Powerhungry Chipmunks. The Orlandy Complex was originally conceived of as a government headquarters and military training facility during the reign of Premier and Vanguard Party President, Orlandy Althae, who died five years after construction began. After Orlandy's death, construction halted, the communist government in Powerhungry Chipmunks splintered, and capitalist revolutionaries forced the communists out of Palenth and gained possession of the Orlandy Complex.

Still largely unfinished, the Orlandy Complex underwent ad-hoc additions to accommodate the revolutionaries, who employed it as a political and military center of operations. Two years after the capitalists first arrived in Palenth, the revolution was "officially" ended, and the revolutionaries reluctantly relinquished government control, as well as residence in the Orlandy Complex, to local advocates of democracy.

In the tumultuous period of near-plutocracy following the collapse of the communist-state as the new Powerhungry Chipmunks government sold public industries to private investors, the Orlandy Complex Project was given to a small, neighboring country, Gallae. Gallaean designers decided the use of the Orlandy Complex during the revolution, and the changes to the structure during that time precluded them from following Orlandy's original designs. Reworked Gallaean blueprints highlighted the annexes and jury-rigging from the revolution and, to this day, large sections of the Orlandy Complex are roped off as "historical monuments", viewed by thousands of tour groups every year.

The Gallaeans contractors finished construction eleven years after winning the bid from the Powerhungry Chipmunks government, and the Orlandy Complex was dedicated days after the second free elections for national public office on Powerhungry Chipmunks.

The United Nations Affairs Organization and the East Parapet

The Orlandy Complex quickly became a mishmash of government offices. Though the Orlandy Complex was far from the chambers of legislature or the official residence of executive power, agencies heatedly competed for space in the Complex, believing that representation in such a striking series of structures would give agencies prestige and importance. The first offices installed in the complex included the Chamber of Commerce, the Regional Affairs office, the Justice Department Records Office, the Transportation and Census authority, and the budding International and United Nations Affairs Organizations.

It is said the International and United Nations Affairs Organizations benefited the most from completion of the Orlandy Complex. The two organizations, which eventually grew to dominate the entirety of the East Parapet and South Oval, were able to gain both visibility in the public sphere and talent from neighboring offices. Among the first and finest finds for United Nations Affairs Organization (the UNAO) was a Senior Road Surveyor named Samuel Palleel.

Palleel, who had wandered amongst several careers during his public service, including Tax Clerk, Surveyor, Paralegal, and Interdepartmental Conflict Mediator, was determined to set the UNAO on a course for prominence, not only among Orlandy Complex residents but on an international stage. Traditionally Powerhungry Chipmunks citizens tend towards isolationism, preferring to be passed over as a back-water community by other, foreign nations, which they largely view as corrupt and unscrupulous. Besides regional neighbors and business partners, in fact, the citizenship had rejected alliances and partnerships with almost every nations which became interested in Powerhugnry Chipmunks. Entry to Powerhungry Chipmunks was also greatly restricted for foreigners.

Undaunted, Palleel (who had been promoted to Official Representative to the United Nations) arranged a brittle coalition of political parties to cede to the UNAO a very large portion of the East Parapet, an area previously used as a sort of series of "war rooms" by the revolutionaries, as well as many personnel from the Tourism Department. Among the increased real estate in the East Parapet, Palleel gained Room 1154, a vast three-story balcony-filled cavern which was intended by Orlandy as a communications center, and by the revolutionaries as a pit for a stock market. Among the transfers from the tourism department, Palleel gained both of his future successors, Johan Arnaen, and Dan Yeoman.

The UNAO and the UNA

The UNAO, from Palleel's tenure forward, kept to a policy of information: concluding that the acquisition of information and understanding was the UNAO's primary objective. As such, Palleel formed a semi-secret sub-agency, the UNAO-UNA, whose role was to inconspicuously amass information from the activities and studies of the United Nations Association, then pushed forward by both Tuesday Heights and Mikitivity. Palleel kept the agency mostly confidential because he felt that officially joining the group would not only hurt the UNAO's status in the country's anti-foreigner parliament, but might also hinder the accessibility of information.

Arnaen, unwilling to ruffle feathers in the national arena and still wary of sabotage from Nations in the UN unfriendly to Powerhungry Chipmunks, continued in Palleel's train of thought during his time as representative to the UN. Only under Dan Yeoman, who came to power in the UNAO during a period of political shift towards open immigration and larger commercial ties to the outside world. Almost simultaneous to Yeoman's decision to officially join the UNA, business owners in Powerhungry Chipmunks undertook an enormous public campaign for greater economic interdependence between Powerhungry Chipmunks and non-region nations, advocating free trade as the basis for a better economy. With an official chapter of the UNA, the UNAO-UNA was renamed UNA-Powerhungry Chipmunks.

Rhetorical Criticism from UNA-Powerhungry Chipmunks

Given to the tasks of proposals, resolutions, and general commentary, the UNAO initially had a troublesome time determining the role of UNA-PC. Once the shroud of apparently unnecessary secrecy had slipped form the UNA-PC the information gathering amid the department seemed les purposeful to some in the UNAO. As the swell of information grew, members of the UNAO would more and more often question if Palleel had simply created a giant library in which would pour hundreds of thousands of documents--never to be read or heard from again--as well as hundreds and thousands of Palens. The UNA-PC became a lightning rod for small government politicians, eager to cut "unnecessary" spending.

Palleel, then reinstated to an advisory role in the UNAO, was determined to both preserve the UNA-PC and show its use to the world and the entire United Nations. He contracted about a dozen academics from the Palenthia State Unversity and surrounding colleges and universities, and assigned to them the mission of creating academic importance ot the collecion of information. Among these academics was Rhetorical Critic, Cedric Tytal, PhD. Tytal was immediately awstruck at the mass of information available in UNA-PC's intellectual coffers, and immediately rallied the academic contractors around the goal of creating and distributing a rhetorical criticism of UN resolutions.

Tytal began his work concentrating on the Global Disarmament category, deemed appropriate for its general singularity of purpose and relatively small size. Opening up a dialogue with other UNA nations about the work of rhetorical criticism for UN resolutions, Tytal and company began writing. After several weeks, a paper detailing various persuasive elements of Global Disarmament resolutoins, as well as an attempt to classify them into rhetorical genres, was produced.

Tytal is reported to have "revelled" in its publication and the ensuing enlightening, if contained, discussion. Anxious to begin the next stage, International Security, he attempted to rally his fellow scholars. However, the majority of their contracts ended with the first publication, and they were interested in returning to their various fields and schools. Palleel's plan was to renew the academics' contracts once hte first paper was produced, but due to his incerasing age and declining health, he fell short of delivering such a renewal. Within a week of the publication, Tytal traversed from project leader, to lone participant, with the now-sickly Palleel apparently unable to syphon off funding from the UNAO.

The future for the UNA-PC is again obscured in a bleak canvas. Palleel, trapped in hospital and various hospice cares, is unable to trumpet his pet project. Tytal unable to produce the results he needs without the greater funding, has but his skeleton office crew to keeps his hopes alive in a second publication, which he hopes might better secure UNA-PC's future.