Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34954086-20130320032310/@comment-1895174-20130320182219

Zergrinch wrote: The position of UN General Secretary may come with great prestige, but there's precious little Ban Ki-Moon (and before him, Kofi Annan) can do. He can't do anything useful without the approval of the entire Security Council. However, to anyone who isn't aware of what the UN is (read:Alien governments), he would appear to be something similar to "ruler of the world". This might be why the Reach went through Tseng as opposed to Earth-16 Obama.