USER: This book sci-fi chapter The Nameless Council has existed for centuries, since ancient times, and secretly guided mankind in a course beneficial to itself. They have always been the architects of history and civilization. Not all of their plans were successful, they suffered defeats and won victories. But they remained unrecognized. Smart people suspected of their existence, they saw that a secret third force was operating in the world, which should not exist. but they could not prove anything and became a laughing stock, stupid conspiracy theorists in the holes of those around them. The Sanchala Council was based in Egypt, then in Greece, then in Rome, then in London, and later moved to the USA. Then, already in the 2200s, they liquidated the United States and instead created a new hegemony - the Atlantic Alliance - the entire Western world united into one state. The Nameless Council secretly controls the Atlantic Alliance, the most powerful space power that aspires to dominance in the galaxy. The Council is the supreme secret power of the Alliance. There are not and cannot be representatives of other interstellar powers. Yes. The Middle Commonwealth, a confederation of former third world countries (the Middle East and Africa, along with India), competes strongly with it. They strive to prove that they can be no worse than the Alliance in everything. They don't succeed, but they try their best. The Star Celestial Empire (neo-monarchical China and its satellites in Southeast ...