Alexander Harvel Building
The Alexander Harvel Building is one of the many official buildings of the Commonwealth of Peoples in the city of New Amsterdam, Laneria. The building is located within a twelve block area which is considered Commonwealth sovereign territory over which the Commonwealth General Assembly has sole legislative authority and the Commonwealth Commission sole executive authority. The Alexander Harvel Building serves as the headquarters of the Commonwealth Secretariat for Cooperation.
The building was named for Alexander Harvel, a Lanerian "Founding Father" famous for engineering mechanisms by which federal, state and local government can cooperate within the framework of Laneria's federal system. It is the intention of Commonwealth Commission that the Secretariat provide similar mechanisms for cooperation within the framework of the Commonwealth's supranational system.