World Government (One Piece)

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

Contents 1 About the World Government 2 Past interferences 2.1 The Ohara Island incident 2.2 The Conspiracy of Water 7 2.3 The Alabasta Cover-up 3 Government Workers 3.1 Gorōsei 3.2 Navy 3.3 Shichibukai 3.4 Cipher Pol 3.5 Vegapunk 3.6 Government Soldiers 3.6.1 Corgi 4 Workers at Enies Lobby 4.1 Judicial Ships 5 See also 6 References

[edit] About the World Government

The World Government is affiliated with roughly 180 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.

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 Navy, 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 any information on anyone or anything they choose often cause 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'.

[edit] Past interferences

[edit] The Ohara Island incident

During the Buster Call on Ohara Island, the island in the West Blue where Nico Robin was born, 20 years before the current events, we learn more about the World Government. Professor Clover is shown while he was talking on the telephone to the Five Elder Stars. He explained that, a long time ago, an enormous kingdom existed. People of that kingdom left the Poneglyphs, large unbreakable stone cubes, which carry written records of history etched into their surfaces. Those people were destroyed by some unknown enemy. Those enemies survived and, 800 years ago, at the end of the Lost Century of History, the World Government was born. The Lost Century of History, according to Professor Clover's words, may be inconvenient history for the World Government. The kingdom held a great power, but all the information about that was erased. As soon as Professor Clover was saying the name of the old kingdom, one of the Gorōsei gave the order to kill him and ordered to start the Buster Call.

[edit] The Conspiracy of Water 7

The World Government made a move once again some 8 years ago at the island of Water 7. They discovered that the blueprints of the ancient weapon, Pluton, existed there and were under the protection of the great shipwright Tom. At that time, Tom had two apprentices working for him, Cutty Flam and Iceburg. Tom had spent the last ten years building a steam powered boat that would help make Water 7 a great city in order to cancel out the crime of building the ship belonging to Gold Roger. Tom was confronted by CP5 under the orders of the World Government to find and take the blueprints from Tom. However, Tom protected the blueprints by denying he ever had them.

Angry that Tom lied to him, Spandam, the leader of the CP5, decided to investigate Tom under the notion that he was a criminal. At the same time, he decided to frame Tom for not handing over the blueprints to him. On the day Tom was due for pardon for building Gold Roger's ship, CP5 attacked the boat the trial was to be held on using warships made by Cutty Flam, one of Tom's apprentices. Everyone knew who the warships belonged to and presumed Tom had ordered them to attack the trial boat to save himself. Still hoping to get the blueprints from Tom, Spandam confronted him once more declaring Tom as a criminal under CP5 and the World Government's investigation. However things did not go as planned. As Tom had been allowed to have one crime pardoned, he asked to have the crime committed that day, the attack on the trial boat, to be pardoned so that he could save his two apprentices.

As Tom was carted off on the steam boat he had created, Cutty Flam tried to stop it from leaving but was hit by the train and declared dead. After being declared dead, Cutty Flam was put down to being the one behind the attacks and he was known as a criminal who caused the deaths of over a 100 people that day. Cutty Flam did not die however, as he managed to drag himself from the ocean and onto an abandoned ship, where he proceeded to modify himself into a Cyborg and later guising himself by bearing the new name Franky. Prior to being carted off, Tom had already handed the Pluton blueprints to Iceburg, the only apparent surviving apprentice of Tom. Thus once again the World Government had lost its chance to get hold of the blueprints.

[edit] The Alabasta Cover-up

One of the most recent actions made by the World Government was to hide the truth about Sir Crocodile and his actions in Alabasta. After Sir Crocodile was defeated and the secret behind the Baroque Works organization was discovered, the World Government took actions to cover-up the events that took place in that country. While it was Monkey D. Luffy and his crew that took out the Baroque Works organization, the World Government did not want the public to know that it was a pirate who defeated Crocodile and saved the kingdom of Alabasta. Captain Smoker and his partner Tashigi were awarded all the credit for the group's defeat and capture. To add to this, both were rewarded with medals and promotions, however, Smoker rejected both the medals and promotions for his partner and himself. Roronoa Zoro was given a bounty of 60,000,000 beli for his massacre of over a hundred agents at Whiskey Peak and his defeat of Mr.1, while Luffy's previous 30,000,000 beli bounty was raised to 100,000,000 after the Alabasta events.

[edit] Government Workers

[edit] Gorōsei

The heads of the Government are the Gorōsei (五老星 Five Elder Stars). They are five elderly men who rule above the Navy, the Cipher Pol and made a pact with the Shichibukai. The tall thin one with the moustache (second from right) spoke with Professor Clover, ordered Spandine to shoot him and initiate the Buster Call.

They have shown to have at least a basic knowledge of the occurrences of the Void century, according to their shocked reactions to professor Clover's statements.

[edit] Navy

Main article: Navy (One Piece)

[edit] Shichibukai

Main article: Shichibukai

[edit] Cipher Pol

Main article: Cipher Pol

[edit] Vegapunk

Professor Vegapunk is a scientist in the employ of the Navy. His contributions include discovering the use of seastone, which, aside from being used to weaken Devil Fruit users, is also employed to hide ships from Sea Kings by applying a layer to the shipbottom. Furthermore, he also researched Devil Fruits, and gained an understanding of how their powers mutate. He is also the one who has figured out the recently developed technqiue for making objects "eat" Devil Fruit as well.

[edit] Government Soldiers

These are the equals of the Marine Seamen in the direct employ of the World Government. Unlike the Marines,their rank system and hierarchy is,to date, completely unknown, although they seem to fight alongside marine soldiers quite regularly.

Their uniform is black, labeled with the emblem of the World Government in white.

[edit] Corgi

Seiyū: Egawa Hisao

Corgi (コーギ, Kōgi) is a "regular" worker,being something of a commander amongst the Government Soldiers,as he is seen speaking to the CP9 agents of the security of the Sea Train.He constantly tries to get Iceburg to hand over the blueprint of the Pluton. However, he is denied and is seen leaving in a huff. He later appears accompanying the CP9 and watching Robin aboard the Puffing Tom, and was later knocked out by Sogeking (Usopp) during the rescue attempt. He is able to sniff out pirates. Although he sometimes wonders if his gift is right or not he has never missed a pirate.

[edit] Workers at Enies Lobby

See Enies Lobby for details

[edit] Judicial Ships

Only remembered in the flashbacks by Franky, these ships are a traveling court and may judge a person anywhere. The one encountered judged Tom and sentenced him to death in Enies Lobby .

[edit] See also

• Gold Roger
• Nico Robin
• Shichibukai
• One Piece Navy
• Cipher Pol
• Enies Lobby
• The Will of D
• The Three Great Powers
• Bounties

[edit] References