Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Basic Information

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is a mutual-security organization which was founded on June 15, 2001 by China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. India, Iran, Mongolia, and Pakistan have observer status.

Sources

Bibliography

1. Organization homepage

2. Wikipedia entry

Game and Story Use

• Given the industrial power of China and the raw resources of the other nations, in a Twenty Minutes Into The Future or Cyberpunk setting this could become a counterpart to NATO.
• In a science fiction setting taking place on an Earth in the more distant future, this could become the nucleus an "Eastern Block" supergovernment similar to the European Union.