The European Union is a good example...There is a central figure who presides over the union but each nation/state is recognized individually...
Religiously, the Catholic Church is supportive of the One World Gov't with the One World Religion, assuming of course that IT is the Religion...
And that is dealt with in the recent decree put out by the Vatican where everyone will be under one gov't political leader as well as one Religious leader but uses a term called subsidiary where there is a certain autonomy for each nation/state...
After the Rapture takes place there will pandemonium thruout the world and no doubt police states will pop up everywhere...I assume Kings will replace Presidents and Congresses...
Yes, indeed. The ten "kings" spoken of in Daniel are being formed right now.
Wikileaks Exposes North American Integration Plot
Post 21 at the above link has a neat compilation of articles about how ten world regions are being formed right under everybody's nose.
Daniel 7:23-25: "He gave me this explanation: 'The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time."
Daniel 7:8, "While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth that spoke boastfully...
In Scripture, "horns" always symbolize units of power. The "ten horns" are explained in Daniel 7:23-25 and Revelation 17:12 to be ten kings, and the whole vision is of the last form of Gentile world-power, a confederated ten-kingdom empire, most likely covering the whole Earth. Now, it's interesting to note, that on the year 1972, the Club of Rome proposed a plan to divide the whole world into 10 Regions.
There will be ten world regions, each led by a "king", who will be submissive to the Antichrist.
We are watching it all come together.