World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) was an international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade. The WTO came into being on 1 January 1995, and was the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was created in 1947, and continued to operate for almost five decades as a de facto international organization.

At some point in its history (possibly from its very foundation), the WTO came under the control of the Illuminati. Following the Collapse of 2052, the WTO became a major global power, seeking to enforce a new law where chaos had taken over. To attain this goal, the WTO created enclaves in devastated cities, such as the Seattle Enclave and the Cairo Arcology. During this time, the WTO chairman was Prima Illuminatus Chad Dumier.

In the "Age of Light" ending of Deus Ex: Invisible War, it seems that the enclaves eventually merged together to create an ecumenopolis covering the entire planet. The WTO is presumably still in power in that outcome.