Wing Commander CIC

hello again. Found the secret ops fiction on the site a few days ago - i completed secret ops a while ago, but never heard about this fiction bit before (apparently it got left out of the Prophecy Gold version, for some reason), but while i was reading it i found a few references to a pre-Terran Confed. government called the W.E.C.

This govt. seemingly used massive propaganda, was very, very unhealthy for the average citizen and was eventually felled by civil war:

https://www.wcnews.com/articles/sofiction/5_1_n_isdn.html
(bottom of the page)

I know of a W.E.C. that matches the description, namely, the World Economic Consortium of the Crusader games, also by Origin. Are they the same?

I dunno if this is the right place for this quest., but heck, it's from the S.O. fiction..