South Asian Free States

The South Asian Free States is the post-war common name for the several nations in South Asia and the Middle East which were members of the Indian Ocean Mutual Defense Pact, a treaty organization in the 21st century which provided a mutual defense treaty amongst the member states in the event any one of them should be attacked by others. With the invasion of Nepal by the Eurasian Soviet in 2036, creating a state of war which placed the South Asian Free States on the far side of what eventually became the Third World War from the Eurasian Soviet.

The treaty organization also had conditions which created a collective diplomatic front, the South Asian Free States proper, which eventually entered into a compact with the African Confederation and Oceanic Econo-Political Union which created the Anti-Authoritarianism Treaty Organization (AATO), the principal allied component of the victorious side of the Third World War, and the organization that eventually became the Western Hegemony.

Much like the Oceanic Econo-Political Union and in contrast to the African Confederation, the South Asian Free States heavily restricted the extent to which the organization itself interfered in the internal affairs of member states, providing only for agreements that established military standards and the above provisions. In spite of this, while later post-war cultural shifts otherwise largely encouraged the "replacement" of the role of ethnicity with a "broader" social view around pre-war supranational power blocks, members of the South Asian Free States tended to view themselves of citizens of their nation-state first, and Free South Asians second.