World Government

The World Government (世界政府, Sekai Seifu) is a fictional political organization, in the Japanese manga and anime series One Piece.

About the World Government
The World Government is affiliated with roughly 170 countries from around the world. Those member countries retain autonomy, that is to say, the countries run their own internal affairs (though the World Government does sometimes meddle), but cooperate with the World Government for massive international relations. Their political ideals are unknown and everything they do is right. Not everyone approves of their political ideals as there are people like Dragon who was against it. They approve of Absolute Justice and reside in the holy land of Maryjoa, ruled by the Gorousei, the highest authority of the world. They seem afraid of losing power and the World Government stands on the 3 Great Powers to keep the world from revealing at it's seams.

At first glance, the World Government seems to maintain a worldly order that benefits all, making the world safe for the sake of everyone. Using the Marines, they pursue criminals endangering the lives of those who are innocent, protecting the people of each country in the world. The World Government is the largest World Power maintaining full rights to halt or encourage any political action without question or opposition from any side.

The reality though is that, unknown to most citizens (and many world leaders), the World Government's actions are secretly and often based on corruption or questionable motives. Often when the storyline involves them, it shows them hiding the truth or ignoring the rights of the people. Individuals who become the enemies of the World Government are ruthlessly hunted down and dealt with and all those who walk along the same path as them are doomed to share the World Government's fury.

The World Government's power to release information on anyone as they please can often led to the truth being hidden, altered or ignored all together. Any countries attempting to protect or harbour criminals are at risk from the World Government, although what would happen exactly has not been addressed yet. For the most part, the important role in maintaining world stability on a political ground far outweighs the corruption they often display.

Often there is a 'holy' or 'just' theme to the naming of things related to the World Government, like 'the Just Eleven Jurymen'.

World Goverments Actions
Let's look in the story of any actions of the World Government's corporation and its workings:


 * 800 Years ago, at the end of the Void Century, the Government overthrew the Ancient Kingdom and banned research on the Phonegyph resulting countless death of people who broke the law.


 * 20 years ago, in Ohara the Gorousei ordered the Buster Call to bombard the island. Since researching Phonegylph was illegal, the World Government lied to the public that Ohara was researching Phoneglyph to revive the Ancient Weapons. Robin survived but was hated by the world due to the lies. In reality, Robin and the Oharan Clan don't care about the Ancient Weapons. The whole world labeled Robin as one of the "Demons of Ohara" as she was on the run from the Governmet for 20 years. The world even thinks Robin will revive the Ancient Weapons, resulting the hardship Robin stuffered. Because of this, Robin grew up hating the Government for ruining her innocent life


 * 12 Years ago, Spandam the CP5 chief conviced the Gorousei to change the policy and allow the resurrection of the Ancient Weapons to end the Pirate Age. In secret, Spandam was plotting to use the Ancient Weapons to overthrow the Government and rule the world himself. The Gorousei were unaware of the corruption among their own ranks, believed his lies, and they approved of his plans.


 * In the current story, Captain Morgan of the Shelltown Marine base abused his rank and enslaves the town, harshly ruling the town, bossing people around and forcing the citizens to pay respect to him or be executed. The World Government did nothing to stop him.


 * Buggy the Clown raided Orange Town and drove the residents away. The World Government did not stop him.


 * Arlong took over the island of Cocoyashi and ruled it harsly. The Marine stationed there, Captain Nezumi, was courrpted and Arlong bribed him to remain silent. When Commandore Purin Purin came to save Gosa's residents but was easliy defeated by Arlong's Pirate, the World Government did not send help.


 * There were not enough Mtarines patrolling he East Blue due to the fact that the World Government had concentrated its forces in the Grand Line.


 * Wapol harsly ruled Drum Island, having to be spoiled and selfish; the people of Drum stuffered greatly. The World Government did nothing.


 * During the Alabasta Rebellion, the Gorousei did not care about the war booming in the country but after Smoker informed them that Crocodile was behind it, they quickly sent more Marines and covered up the situation in Alabasta. In embarresment, they tried to award Smoker for taking down Crocodile when he didn't, they rose Luffy's bounty from 30 million to 100 million; they were angery at Luffy for taking down Crocodile instead of thanking him and his crew. They lied to the public that the Marines saved the day, crediting themselves for something they did not do.


 * Mock Town in Jaya was full of pirates, yet the World Government did not care as they had Donquixote Doflamingo handling the island.


 * The CP9 attempted to kill Iceburg and Paulie, they have injured many other shipwrights and burned the Galley-La HQ. The shipwrights blamed the pirates and were unable to realize that it was the work of the World Government at the time.

Security Forces
A large government wouldn´t function without some forces that establish law and order. The Security Forces consist of the following groups:

Law Enforcement

Agents

Marines

Police

Government Members
All over the world there are over 170 countries that are members of the World Government. Within their own territory all these members have their own sovereign government that rules over its people. However in the large World Government itself those leaders are treated as equals and each have a seat within it.

Among these member countries, not all are of the same kind. Some are really large countries with kings as their leaders, while others are simply big cities that are governed by mayors.

Kingdoms

 * Arabasta


 * Ilusia


 * Drum

Cities

 * Water 7

3 Great Powers
Not much is known about the Three Great Powers (三大勢力, San Dai Seiryoku) except for the fact that they seem to be a very vital part of the World Government. There seems to be some sort of balance between the Three Powers. The Gorousei fear that if this balance gets disrupted, the world itself could fall apart. This has not yet been explained so far as to why one of the Three Powers being weakened could pose such a dangerous threat. One possible reason may be that the World Government or the Gorousei themselves play these various powers against one another to ensure that no single insitution becomes too powerful.

The Three Powers are the Marines, the Shichibukai, and the Yonkou.