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By the middle of the 23rd century it had become clear that in the new global order the world was to be divided into those nations that had access to intersteller space and those that did not. The Organisation des Nations Industrialisées ( Organisation of Industrial Nations) was born out of a desire by the 'have not' nations to redress the undue influence, as they saw it, of the 'haves'.