The Direct Link to the Song
Some arguments belong in prose. Some arguments belong in song. The dispatch from IMEX Frankfurt 2026 made the institutional case that the global meetings industry has quietly built the working United Nations the post-war order was supposed to produce. The argument lives in the prose of that piece and it can be read on its own.
But arguments about communities and republics and the soft power doctrine of voluntary multilateralism also live in the music that the community sings about itself. The actual United Nations had its anthem. The temporary republic that assembles in Frankfurt every May should have one too. So here is the anthem.
The song was written from inside the dispatch, with the same observations rendered as sensory experience rather than as editorial argument. The terroir of one hundred and fifty countries assembled side by side. The founder in his chairmanship at eighty-some and the daughter on the floor. The roll-call of the brains trust. The geopolitical contrast. The community’s identity claim in the final refrain. You can call us planners. You can call us hosted buyers. You can call us the citizens of the temporary republic. You can call us the working United Nations. You can call us IMEX. You can call us home.
The song is offered to the community as a piece of cultural infrastructure. Play it at your next gathering. Share it with your team. Sing along to the refrain. The community now has its anthem. The community can claim it.
