Commonwealth of Peoples
The Commonwealth of Peoples is a single, discrete actor in international affairs and thus functions for the purposes of most foreign powers as a single sovereign state. However, according to its own laws and history, the Commonwealth is an intergovernmental and supranational union of ten sovereign states established in its final form by the New Amsterdam Treaty of 2006.
The Commonwealth has a common foreign policy. With the exception of the Danaan embassies to Pantocratoria and Excalbia and the embassies each member state has to each other member state, all foreign diplomatic missions of Commonwealth members were placed under the control of the Commonwealth Secretariat for External Affairs shortly after the establishment of the Commonwealth. Ambassadors to the Commonwealth are accredited to the President of the Commonwealth Council of State and are initially received in the Castillo de Madero in Madero Cabello although most embassies are actually located in New Amsterdam.
The Commonwealth also has a common currency, the dollar, although no member state is required to adopt it and some have preferred to keep their own local currencies. However, the economies of all members do stand behind the dollar through the Commonwealth Economic Council. Custom checks have been abolished at some of the Commonwealth's internal borders and passport control has been abolished at nearly all of them, creating a single space of mobility for work, travel and investment.
The Commonwealth's activities touch on all areas of public policy. In some, such as agriculture and commerce is resembles a lose federation. In others, such as domestic policy, it resembles an international organization. However, in the areas of foreign policy and defense, the Commonwealth functions as a single state.
Status
The Commonwealth of Peoples has an almost completely unified foreign and defense policy. It is a single discrete actor in almost every area of international affairs. It accredits and received ambassadors, declares war and makes peace and signs treaties all on its own authority. No other supranational or alliance has this level of unity in international affairs.
The entire Commonwealth does not share a Chief of State, although the President of the Council of State formally presides over the organization. However, one individual, Owain ap Cunedda, is Emperor of Nabarro Abarca, High King of the Resurgent Dream and King of Gandara, Jagiella, Sahor and Marlund, uniting these members with one another in a way in which they are not united with the other Commonwealth member states.
The entire Commonwealth also does not share a currency, although the Commonwealth Dollar is the official currency of all but three states. However, one of those three is the Resurgent Dream, the most economically powerful member.
The most important difference between the Commonwealth and a nationstate, however, is that the individual Commonwealth members remain masters of the treaties. This means that all Commonwealth institutions only exist as creatures of treaties voluntarily signed by the members, that any member can withdraw provided they give five years notice and that no act of the Commonwealth can give to the body any additional powers over members beyond what has been freely surrendered by treaty. Because of this, more than any other consideration, it is probably most accurate to classify the Commonwealth as a sui generis (unique) actor on the international scene.
