The Consensus (Science Fiction)

On future Earth, there are only six nations. They are governed, loosely, by a compendium of delegates, one from each nation, to the World Dominion.

But among any six humans, there is always one who wants to be dominant. When that one, by happenstance, is contacted by extra-terrestrials who believes him to be the ruler of Earth, he is not inclined to correct them.

Instead, as a response to their request to colonize, he levies certain requirements. He can fulfill the requirements himself. But t...