[b]Name: [/b]The State

[b]Alias/Abbreviation:[/b] Velukans (Used only by foreigners)

[b]Nation Specie{s}:[/b] Velukans

[b]Specie{s} Description:[/b]
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Velukans are rather tall, male averaging at 6ft6 and females at 6ft4, have 3 fingers to manipulate objects and a hardened exoskeleton. While said exoskeleton provides no defense against modern weaponry, it gives some resistance to blunt trauma, although enough force can cause internal damages as well. Mainly, they have increased resistance to the natural radiation of their home world. Historically they are a violent species that saw their history marked by violent conflicts, both ethnic and ideological. The formation of 'The State' only recently forced their nature to be softened. Instead they place their passion in sports and other entertainments.

[b]National Symbol/Flag/Emblem: [/b]
To say that something is 'your' flag means that it could NOT be your flag as well. The State is as flagless as it is nameless.

[b]Nation Population:[/b]
[i]Veluka Prime:[/i] 5.2 Billion

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-8 Large Space Stations
-11 'Retaliation' Ships (Quick, never kept at the same place, specializing in Mutually Assured Destruction of enemy population.)
-9 'Police' Ships (Medium (Or small, for major nations) ship with a vast range of detection equipment and boarding crew to deal with piracy, illegal mining and smuggling. 'Police' ships officially but still with military equipment.)
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[b]Nation Focus:[/b] Intelligence

[hider=Technology]Weapons: Biological Weapons
Shield Type: Force Fields
Armor Type: Grounded Armor
Bonus Type: Intelligence (Intercepting and decryption of information as well as protecting their own data)

Weapon Tech Level: Advanced
Shield Tech Level: Substandard
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[b]Nation Government: [/b]
Communistic Total Surveillance State

[b]Nation Economy: [/b] Socialist
Private small scale service industry and entertainment industry, general rule being 'anything that employs over 100 people belongs to the state'. Prices of physical goods are controlled by the state and intellectual property becomes public after 5 years of creation. All basic goods are provided for and any non-physical good is free (A book on a computer is free, a paper copy is not), the currency is 'Merit', which is allocated to people by the state depending on their work and achievements. Prices are state controlled in function of availability and renewability of the material used in the creation of an item, with personal computer devices such as smartphones, TVs, PCs and game consoles being kept artificially low along with sports equipment. The aim is to keep the population contempt, forever.

[b]Nation Military Description:[/b]
Officially the State has no army, only an excessively well equipped and trained police force with artillery, tanks, bombers, you name it. It is mainly focused on domestic concerns as it has been less than a century since the State was formed and some still don't agree with its existence. But even thinking about that is a thought crime that can send you to re-education. The State's domestic forces are supplemented by an enormous and almost all seeing intelligence service, the SIB (State Intelligence Bureau), three letters to make anyone shiver in fear when heard, because just talking about it is sure to put you on some watch list (If you weren't in one already). The SIB also works on censorship and disinformation and has been known not to hesitate to dupe the citizens of the State with elaborate hoaxes just to deceive foreign intelligence. False flag operations, entire military operations that don't exist, starting revolutions only to purge certain places from possibly hostile elements. People fear just hearing about a possible plot against the government and shun anyone openly speaking out against it as a possible SIB agent provocateur.

As for its foreign doctrine, the state is trying to do a military buildup to protect itself against possible minor nation aggression, but mainly fears the larger powers and thus places its resources on Weapons of Mass Destruction aimed at killing civilians. They never acknowledge that they do so however and their incredible intelligence machine makes it impossible to prove, but others know that if the State is attacked, it will do its best to cause as much damage as it can before going down. Deterrence is key.

[b]Nation Culture Description:[/b]
The State is formed of many people of many cultures, but these days it is changing, as the State promotes historical revisionism, where everything from before it was bad and barbaric, as well as the creation of a single, globalized identity. From the outside, the average state citizen is a somewhat self centered individual that on average works only 20 hours a week but that thus has a vast amount of time for his hobbies, such as art or making stuff others will find entertaining. Indeed, it is impossible to turn a restaurant into a large chain or if you invent something, sell it to become incredibly rich as the communistic nature of the State prevents those things. Simply, Velukans do what they do because they find personal enjoyment in it, or revel in the popularity doing what they do give them.

The life of a Velukan is something to be envied by many other civilizations, as if you judge a society by how it treats its poor, Velukans live in a society where poverty is non existent, as is war and crime. But it comes at a cost. The state is seen, and justifiably so, as a psychotic totalitarian dictatorship suffering from paranoia at the highest level by its own citizens. You can either live in these comfortable boundaries or suddenly disappear, become a non person that never even existed.

Their views on outside is either an arrogant one, where they look with distain at how primitive anyone who is forced to work for a living is, or with superiority, where the outsiders are a bloody annoyance that should be crushed like the vermin that it is so the precious resources the universe has to offer can be used to better the lives of people who actually matter, Velukan lives! The first is what the state endorses, to see the State as the beacon of civilization. The second, while not actively being worked against, is an old legacy of the true Velukan nature: Warriors, that fight each other and anything else for glory, success, resources and to reduce lesser beings to nothing more than slavery. There are of course, those that look with envy at the freedom to be had outside, but those... they don't speak.

[b]Nation Economy Description:[/b]
Private small scale service industry and entertainment industry, general rule being 'anything that employs over 100 people belongs to the state'. Prices of physical goods are controlled by the state and intellectual property becomes public after 5 years of creation. All basic goods are provided for and any non-physical good is free (A book on a computer is free, a paper copy is not), the currency is 'Merit', which is allocated to people by the state depending on their work and achievements. Prices are state controlled in function of availability and renewability of the material used in the creation of an item, with personal computer devices such as smartphones, TVs, PCs and game consoles being kept artificially low along with sports equipment. The aim is to keep the population contempt, forever.

[b]National Figures:[/b]
[url=http://orig04.deviantart.net/1a68/f/2011/124/e/4/councilor_valern_sketch_by_meken-d3fladg.jpg]Chairman of the State Projects Bureau Kritarch[/url]: While not the leader officially (The State has no leader), Kritarch controls what the manpower and resources of the State will build as a future for its people and any bureau that doesn't have the Project's Bureau on its side will have a hard time to do anything. He was chosen for this post as a compromise, because he genuinely doesn't care about what actually is and should be the state. He's a sociopath, unable to feel empathy for his fellow Velukans, which means he has no moral quandary doing the most terrible of things, and has been a keen supporter of the idea of deterrence, although he doesn't hide to his colleagues that he would honestly rather just kill everything else in the universe so they can't ever make a problem.

[url=http://img02.deviantart.net/f2e1/i/2012/360/a/9/desolas_arterius_by_nkarlie-d5p9agx.jpg]Chairman of the State Intelligence Bureau Valarak[/url]: Author of the so called 'Triangle of Paranoia' (The SIB is divided in 3, the first part is the humongous organization watching over citizens and foreigners alike while the 2 others watch over the first to weed out corruption and... on each other, to make sure the watchmen themselves don't become corrupt), he's the most senior Chairman around and despite having a say in anyone that climbs the rank and being able to watch anyone's life 24/7, still doesn't trust anyone but rare individuals. Makes it his personal duty that if everyone agrees on something to order everyone to double check. All of this however, is unnoficial. As head of intelligence, he has a cover identity as being a semi-popular internet figure known to show camping and hunting tips for the new and experienced alike.

[url=http://orig03.deviantart.net/8520/f/2014/114/1/9/turian_female_v2_by_alexee29-d7fsxze.png]Chairman of the State Security Bureau Flon[/url]: Was the head of Justice before being promoted. The official reason she was told for her promotion was that the current Chairmen found her flexibility refreshing and that what they wanted was someone who applied the spirit of the law, not its letters. The truth is that she was causing too many problems in her old position but was still competent and above all, popular enough that it would cause a fuss if she was removed from power by the SIB. Valarak decided to play a bold game and promote her, giving the people false hope for justice while in doing so, giving her so much responsibilities that she'd be too busy to micromanage everything and cause too many problems while placing someone playing more by the rule as head of justice in the meantime. She's a good natured person, kind of suspicious about foreigners as after all she effectively controls the army, but someone willing to ask questions first and shoot later.

[url=http://orig07.deviantart.net/b756/f/2011/325/c/9/go_away_by_meken-d4guv64.jpg]Ambassador Solon[/url]: When dealing with outsiders, the Chairmen, Valarak especially, wanted someone who could be sympathetic to foreigners, empathetic to their demands, but that would always unquestioningly follow orders and place the State first. Finding complete zealots that would never think of letting slip an information to the strangers is easy enough, but one that was likable? Valarak think he found that person in Solon and indeed, he is likable, representing the ideal The State advocates: He is someone who's a diplomat because of his passion, not because of duty or desire for advancement, someone that wants to know the culture of others and understand them. If you do what you like, you won't work a single day in your life, right? More than an ambassador, Solon is a symbol of what his people is... or what the state wants people to think they are.

[hider=Home System]Homeworld:
-Veluka Prime: Still recovering from the War to End All Wars when the state was formed. It is becoming something beautiful as the State wants it to stand as a beacon of its own greatness to its future colonial empire, but everything has a... garden feel to it. Everything there has been tempered by the hands of Velukan and nature has lost all rights.
[u]Notable Planets and Sizes[/u]
-Nova Veluka (Medium Inhabitable): A moon around a gas giant that can sustain life. It's a lush jungle, with its water frequently disturbed by tidal movements from other moons and the giant itself it orbits around. Weak gravity allows for life to develop in all sizes here and a dense atmosphere rich in oxygen makes things grow quite fast.

-Grion (Colonize-able Dead World): There was a colony there but The State tries to sweep it under the rug since it had been a colony of a previous nation that took 10 painful years to be eliminated by nuclear bombardment, all the while it sent anti-state broadcast on Veluka. Now it might actually become something productive, with maybe a little nuclear power on the ice caps to make the barren grey wasteland more inhabitable.

[u]System Creator Choices[/u]
-1 Red Sun
-1 Large Gas Giant
-1 Medium Inhabitable
-1 Colonize-able Dead World
-1 Large uninhabitable world cluster (6)
-1 Large Asteroid Clusters
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