Powers and organization

Represents residents through population-based constituencies with safeguards for remote communities.

Represents chartered member polities, including artificial habitats and small-body communities.

Implements laws and directs the specialist commissions under an elected mandate.

Interprets the charter and guarantees judicial review across the Union.

Audits Union spending and public asset obligations independently.

Runs electoral standards and certifies Union elections independently of the executive.

Investigates maladministration and gives citizens an accessible route to redress.

Protects privacy and supervises lawful processing of personal information.

Provides a permanent public route for petitions, citizen assemblies and charter proposals.

Maintains settlement systems and fictional common-currency stability under an independent charter.

Investigates monopoly power and protects residents from unfair commercial practices.

Protects potential life, scientific evidence and inhabited biospheres from contamination.

Certifies high-impact autonomous systems and preserves meaningful human accountability.

Maintains common reference systems so institutions and equipment can work together.

Supervises insurers and common catastrophe risk pools for an interdependent civilization.

Independently evaluates decisions with consequences for human dignity and future populations.