User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The Democratic Imperium of Neohumanity/@comment-26322734-20150816034455

So, some trivia about the U.R.H. for those interested:

-It takes place in a universe where the Milky Way and Earth formed relatively closely to the beginning of the universe. Humanity's evolution and progression is about the same as real life.

-The United Government is actually descended from the Euro-Canadian Union, which formed in 2069 as a response to a nano-terrorism crisis. The Euro-Canadian Union was often criticized for its expansionist beliefs, but a mysterious terrorist attack rendered all countries except for the comparitively advanced Euro-Canadian Union. Curiously, this made conquering other countries extremely easy, with most developed countries being peacefully annexed to the Euro-Canadian Union.

-In World-1, there have been about five world wars. We all know about one and two. Three was on 2050 when Russia attacked a NATO country, making it the Allies (America, Canada, The European Union, among others) vs the "Reds" (Russia, China, North Korea, most of Africa, Syria). This war had heavy casualties and was mostly the cause for the geopolitical change in the 2060s, among other things. World war four was in 2074, and it was the Euro-Canadian Union (now encompassing all of the Americas and all of Western Europe) vs the Fascist People's Republic of Beijing (which encompassed India, Russia, the Middle East, and Japan). What happened was an A.I. took over the F.P.R.B, and it was called "the First Modern War" due to the implementation of many ground strategies that the U.R.H. still uses. The Euro-Canadian Union still won, but the war was responsible for a distrust of A.I. which would persist until after the Hive War, but would thin as technology advanced. The fifth world war was in 2500 between the solar-system wide U.R.H. and Mars, a literal world war. The war started in the wake of a civil war between "Reds" (humans who believed they had a connection to pre-terraformed Mars) and "Greens" (humans who preferred Mars terraformed, consisting of mostly corporate interests). Of course, the U.R.H. had to step in, but it led to a conflict between the rapidly expanding Reds and the U.R.H. Nevertheless, it was the shortest World War, only lasting about two years. A peaceful agreement between Mars and the U.R.H. led to Mars gaining independance until it fell into economic crisis a hundred years later and was annexed back into the U.R.H.