United Powers League

The Universal Powers League or UPL is the name of the former government of most of Earth.

History
Following the decline of Western civilization and seemingly imminent break down in society in the twenty-third century, a new world government took power on Earth: the United Powers League (UPL). It replaced the defunct United Nations to work as its reincarnation as defender of humanity. A police-state, it encompasses all but a few volatile South American countries, bringing over 95% of Earth's population under its control.

The UPL successfully developed new advanced forms of technology, reopening many fields of science that had been largely ignored for centuries under the jurisdiction. The UPL developed warp drive and cryonic technologies, opening the frontiers of space; within forty years the UPL had founded colonies on moons and planets in the Solar System.

The UPL claimed it was an "enlightened socialist" organization - one of its first acts was to attempt to end racial separation - but frequently resorted to fascist tactics. After 80 years in power the UPL had united much of Earth under its power, essentially destroying racism by removing cultural differences of humans; banning many religions and imposing English as the primary world wide language, resulting to ban of many countries native languages.

Project Purification
While not a religious organization, the UPL embraced the philosophy of "the divinity of mankind". Actions of hard-line members of the UPL resulted in law being enforced which led to launch of Project Purification, its goal to remove mutations and unnecessary cybernetic prosthetics from the human population. Rounding up dissidents, hackers, synthetics, the cybernetically enhanced, tech-pirates, and criminals of every kind; they were determined to ensure mankind's purity and survival as species in the wake of ever increasing cybernetic enchantments and mutations altering human gene pool; "Project Purification" was instituted: a campaign of mass genocide in which over 400 million people were eradicated.