Currently the CP President determines national standing, i.e. who is a major, middle and emerging power. There are no standard guidelines for how the CP President is to determine to which category a country belongs to, and thus CP President can arbitrarily assign countries any category it chooses. An objective standardize way of determining classification needs to be implemented. CP proposes the following model:

The O-index should be used to determine whether a country is a major, middle or emerging power. However, the name of middle and emerging powers will be changed to middle and emerging nations. Nations will be ranked according to the O-index and the top 5 will be great powers, the next 10 will be major powers, the next 15 will be middle powers, and the remaining will be emerging powers.

The O-index gives each nation as score out of a possible 3.5. The score is sum three sub values, one for population (out of 1.0), one for military (out of 1.5) and one for gross income (1.0). The scores are determined by dividing your countries population, military, or gross income by that of the top country in that category. The value for military is then multiplied by 1.5, and then the three values are added together.