Superheavy WIP. Wouldn't have posted it, except that my computer's derping and I really need to restart.

Name of nation: 
United Superpowers of the Homeworld Treaty Alliance, or USHTA, or Ushtah.

Species: Sidris, Sidrisian
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The Sidris are sensitive, warm-blooded creatures of avian structure. Double-spine structure, reinforced bone structure, but bones are all hollow. They show more similarities to avians than to reptiles, besides their pebbly, reptillian skin. They are creatures that are hardy, because of their regenerative properties- where another race loses movement and senses below a point when their spine is broken, a Sidris has two spines, which both decreases flexibility and increases back strength. That, and their spine can regenerate. Their skin is leathery, not thick, nor soft. Metabolism forces all but the most determined to be thin and wiry, with very, very few showing any signs of real overweight.

Description of government:
Sectional Democratic-Republic, set in tiers depending on community->region->area->state->Collection->Planet->System->Universal.
At this point, the Ushtuh has yet to completely dominate the planet, so the five superpowers of the planet (among 35 smaller nations, from chain-island states to Australia-sized countries) are in a council of sorts who vote and decide on what they want. Every five suncycles, they vote in a new 'President' from the one of the other four superpowers- one superpower can't hold President for more than one term in a row.

Description of military:
Water and air-based. The planet they live on, Zeme Rutulys, or just Zeme, is primarily oceanic continents. Large islands, small islands, chain islands, that sort of thing. Three islands are as big as Russia; four as big as Australia, three as big as America, and then chain islands throughout. There is only one major ocean, which sits in the middle of the Eastern Hemisphere. The planet they are on is also what humans would consider a superplanet, being about 1.5x larger than Earth, with a less dense core and mantle, meaning less gravity to be just about Earth normal, at 1.2Gs. 

Because of the conditions above, the high-buoyancy of the atmosphere allows jets and the like to be larger than the Earth normal, and therefore, more powerful. On the water, the ships are, on average, bigger than humanity's normal, each basic assault ship being at least 1.5x larger. Aircraft carriers are up to three times larger than humanity's, though they number slightly less. 

In space, there is a significant focus on a naval/air-force type force, with most military ships being a droneship or a battlecarrier. Currently, the majority of ships are civilian/commercial, while there are only two battlecarriers and four droneships, accompanied by a dozen frigates. Attack ship classes range from anti-capital corvettes, which are launched from battlecarriers. Corvettes are, for example, like the tank to the fighters/infantry. Next are the bombers, which are similar to the artillery for the fighters/infantry, and then there are electronic warfare and support ships, which are slightly larger than Corvettes, and act as a command and control ship in the field. They are mobile command centers are armed with more point defense than any of the other Corvette types. 

Planetary defense currently consists of a different nation's space navy of a different type of battlecruiser and a battleship, both of, more or less, equal size

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