Baghdad Agreement

The International Agreement on the Formation of the Human Sphere Authority, also known as the Baghdad Agreement of 2050, was an international post-war agreement signed in Baghdad, South Asian Free States Iraq, in 2050 CE, a short time after the conclusion of the Third World War. Originally entered into by the former AATO powers, the agreement eventually expanded to include all inhabited areas on earth.

The agreement included provisions that established both the government and constitutional body of law for the Western Sphere Hegemony (and its later successor, the Terran Sphere Hegemony), and the body of laws governing the formation of the Arbitration Joint Fleet. In spite of the name of the supranational organization it created, the authority of the parliament created by the Baghdad agreement was originally quite limited, concerning itself only with mitigating international conflicts between member nations and providing a framework by which the member nations could resolve disputes with non-member nations collectively. Successive agreements would ultimately expand this authority to include the enforcement of laws concerning Human Rights, permitting the Western Sphere Hegemony to provide a unified standard of living for all citizens.