Nation Name/Flag: The Councillary Confederation of Neohumanity.



Government Type:
Mixed. A partial hivemind creating a de facto direct democracy in most decisions of the civilization from the highest to the lowest levels. However overseeing all of this are several Overseers both synthetic (AI) and organic humans. De Jure there is an Autocrat of the Confederation but in truth he is little more than a figurehead with arguably even less power than his official underlings; missteps or excesses on his or her part will result in fast termination of their status and an investigation in potential necessity OF processing.

Demographics: 100% Neohuman [Homo Novus].
To explain, Neohuman is the term used by people in the Sol system to describe themselves and similar beings. The descendants of the humans to first arrive there have modified themselves with cybernetics and genetic editing to the point they can no longer procreate with humans from outside of their territory. The full list of their modifications can go on for very long: functional immortality given maintenance, imperviousness to radiation, the elements, poisons and disease. Strength, endurance and physical durability, larger frames, and drastically improved intelligence. All sorts new functionalities are added from new spectra of colour being determinate, to communications equipment built in, to first aid and self-repair kits, to solar and other energy absorbents, to all sorts of work equipment beneath the skin. If needed, any neohuman can self-destruct to go out in a small but powerful blaze of super-heated fats with power cells throwing shards of bone and electronics as horrifying shrapnel as though from a shaped charge. A Neohuman’s cranial implants allow them to download and store knowledge for any job be it diplomat and soldier. However, one’s aptitudes will provide a specific job and further augments particular to a neohuman’s profession will be provided be it voice synthesizers, pheromone vents and internal translators for the former or retractable blades, lasers and internal shield generators for the latter. To finalize, no two Neohumans will be the same. Though there is an attempt to create functional parity between people, two people might have the same augmented strength in their legs but one achieving it with gene editing and muscle grafts, the other through cybernetics. For some people many augments are a drain on their power supplies and will thus not be taken if not needed. Many people of the CCN will look like ordinary people, simply larger, more muscular, aesthetically pleasing — perfect. Most often Neohumans will be around 245cm, most variance an intentional modification to help them with their occupation be it making them small such that they are better at subterfuge or making them far larger to be better warriors. Very important to Neohumanity is the Noosphere. The Noosphere is the name for what many others would call a "hivemind" of the Neohumans. This system lets them freely share information with each other, communicate, and is arguably the main source of the egalitarian utopia in the Sol system making the statement there has been no crime in the CCN for centuries a truth rather than propaganda. But just as many will be visibly inhuman creatures, their skin cold metal and plastics, their eyes artificial lenses oft glowing from within. But starting from the moment of insemination a Neohuman child will be very far ahead of his or her ancestors.

Leadership:
Officially, the current head of state of the Councillary Confederation of Neohumanity is one Anton Pallic Strasser. He is quite literally the face of the state, appearing on propaganda, attending diplomatic events, managing and mediating intranational disputes, and doing everything else his station demands of him. That said there are many more key elements of the state.

The Overseer-Calculant is the man ultimately considering the economy of the Confederation along with oversight of the science so critical to its functionality. Much more machine than man, each step of his foot shakes the floor with the weight of computational augments. Lazar Silkiku is the name of this being, but outside of Councillary meetings he will rarely leave his office.

Maria Skuorontsoua takes the rank of Overseer-Militant. She is the oldest member of the ruling Council, being in fact one of the few people who still remember the war against Sol's natives, the great awakening and even old-Earth. It is said on the skin beneath her armour is engraved the name of every single soul that perished under her command. Though as with all Neohumans a somewhat youthful appearance is maintained through the centuries, her age is more than apparent in her eyes. Her memories make her a somewhat mythologized figure with the death of which will be marked a new era. A somewhat mythologized figure, her testimonies of old-Earth are sought out by many. The respect given to her has also allowed her to get much help in the Overseer-Militant’s auxiliary duty as chief of internal security and intelligence.

Finally comes Overseer-Interlocutor: Alexis Chalenko. Responsible for all international dealings not falling under the purview of the Overseer-Militant, the Interlocutor does everything from commerce to diplomacy on a grand scale, as well as using what time is left from those duties to be something of a minister of culture.

Economy:
The Confederation's internal economy is a hybrid of planned and market economy. Though supply and demand exist, as does luxury, desire and competition several crises of markets have long since insured the CCN is not purely capitalist in nature. In fact it is perhaps one of if not the best iterations of socialism to date, the most glaring capitalist part of its system being that it is based around infinite growth. It has a strong natalist policy further supplemented by fairly simple immigration criteria (namely that one is human and willing to become a Neohuman) and veritable people factories. If a scheduled project does not appear to have a sufficient workforce prepared, then it will be kidnapped and processed.

This perhaps gives an insight that while internally the CCN is a welfare focused government it is externally extremely mercantile and capitalist. It will severely mark up prices of its goods and services to those in need. Contracts of any variety are secured regardless of who posted them or why so long as their terms are profitable to the Confederation.

When bartering there are many things the CCN offers to Eden. It is estimated that a full 43% of the export economy of the Confederation comes from what can be placed under the umbrella of research, analysis and development. The core systems are the scientific and technological capital of Eden, but the Sol system is the scientific and technological capital of the Core Worlds. Even though it releases its scientific findings with a one year lag, they still turn a tremendous profit in their sales, particularly in the following fields: Physics (especially nuclear and astronomical), biology (particularly genetic engineering and cybernetics), robotics & machinery, and mathematics (particularly in the study and development of algorithms for synthetic intelligence). Furthermore, many governments and organizations will pay for them to study particular topics or develop certain things, quadrillions of lines of code in the Star cluster being first made in CCN, even in languages and operating systems the Confederation has discontinued use of for having adopted newer ones.

But knowledge and ideas are not the only thing the CCN has to offer Eden; the fruits of said knowledge and ideas are very popular too. Nuclear power and research have moulded the CCN and they are more than willing to share the gifts of the atom to the world… for a fair price, of course. Their Nuclear generators, fuel cells, and disinfectors will effectively last centuries to come. Machinery, cybernetic parts, robots, tools, prefab buildings, all are made in Councillary factories. Entire cities piece by piece will be shipped from it, to be reassembled locally for a price. Worlds will be terraformed, accidents cleaned up, and plagues cured if the cash is coughed up.

The military sphere also provides much of a cash and resource inflow for the Councils. Even outdated and used weapons, armours and munitions of the CCN are worthy of the elite troops and fleets of Eden. Though conventional weapons like laser and plasma are their main produce, they are more than happy to sell their abundant dirty bombs or proper nuclear war heads. Indeed if the price is right they will sell their more creative arms from radcannons, to sonic emanators to cryoguns. Another great thing one can purchase of the CCN is the service of Reislaufer Legionnaires. The CCN military for the most part trawls the Galaxy collecting bounties and slaughtering pirates, but will pick up any bounty or answer any request for their abilities. Though one can rarely get more than a single Legion, that alone holds power to be feared. Reislaufer Legion's pride themselves on a no questions asked none answered policy, extreme speed and unimaginable brutality putting most other mercenary outfits to shame and making their outlandish expense well worth it.

The CCN also has full theoretical autarky. Supply depots filled with any possible demand in times of crisis are a dime a dozen in the Asteroid field of the Sol system and it can produce everything needed for continuation and even growth with what industry and mining it has as is. But this drastically slows down the advancement of the CCN in its ultimate goals.

While in a Vacuum the CCN will survive, it prefers to export things to accumulate wealth and make imports in turn to accommodate its constant growth and its burgeoning collection of frontier tributaries.

The thing the Councils need most of all are raw resources, particularly conductive and industrial metals. While the industry of the CCN even with its near 99% efficiency guzzles resources like old ladies tea, one cannot forget that even reproduction for Neohumans is a resource intensive task. The creation of a Neohuman requires almost half the body weight of an average human being in metals and other minerals. Yet new Neohumans are always needed, and as such they will covertly deal with human traffickers when needed buying large quantities of people. The CCN will also pay very, very dearly for any knowledge they currently do not have. A sample of a government's new weapon, a recovered Arc's artifacts or a previously undiscovered lifeform; all will be greedily demanded to help their growth and learning. Indeed, in the pursuit of closing the gaps in their knowledge the CCN will even pay the outrageous prices demanded by Atlas’s university to gain access to the great amount of research done there. The open immigration policy of the CCN was partially adopted so that they could get experience and knowledge otherwise unavailable to them instead of having to pay for the research of these people if it was done elsewhere, though this has only partially been successful given the unwillingness of many to give up their humanity just to be in a CCN university.

The goods and services of the CCN for sale are unimaginably expensive. But even if lagging the things they make for domestic consumption their exports are of the highest quality that makes customers keep returning from all across the stars, while making ne’erdowells forge a “Made in the CCN” stamp.

Military:
The Military of the CCN is one of the smallest of the Eden Stars, but its size does not prevent it from being a fearsome force capable of projecting itself all across the star cluster. The armed forces of the CCN are divided primarily into three parts; 50% of it are “Reislaufers”, the fearsome mercenary troops gallivanting across the galaxy looking for adventure, be it a contract to protect an installation or collecting a bounty of a wanted criminal. Reislaufers carry the most advanced, experimental weaponry of the CCN which it is their job to field-test. The fantastic and at times nonsensical nature of their new weapons is one of the factors giving them their fearsome reputation; they were the first to carry the cryoguns, arc-rifles, radcannons, stealth suits, scanner scramblers and sonic emanators that are now one of the defining traits of CCN soldiers. 45% of it are designated as “Uskoks”, troops travelling across the Eden cluster hunting pirates and other foes threatening Councillary trade. They will occupy ground and protect various installations of the CCN across Eden, acting as auxiliary gendarmes around CCN interests and otherwise act as the long tentacles of the CCN. There is of course massive overlap between the Uskoks and the CCN, and terminology is expected to be retired as the glorified pirates and stern lawgivers of the Councils become one and the same. Then there are the National Guard, these 5% are the permanent troops staying in the Sol system to protect the core territory of the Confederation. The Sol system is largely protected by a great wall of automated defence, swarms of drones and that any citizen of the CCN can at any time download combat protocols to become extremely potent warriors trillions upon trillions strong. The CCN pushes the very limits of the laws on keeping jump gates demilitarized, defences installed at the very nanometre they are no longer forbidden. However, most civilians will have implants at best situationally useful in case of combat and to be the first line of defence the National Guard exist. They will adopt the experimental weapons tested by the Reislaufers the moment after they are field tested and deemed ready for use.

Across all forces of the CCN a thorough doctrine of overwhelming firepower will be present in their combined arms warfare. In war, the inhumanity of Neohumanity is most evident. Wholesale slaughter of unprecedented proportions is nothing to them, and words for collateral damage are all but forgotten in their lexicon. A few million people dying in the crossfire of their weapons is nothing but a statistic.

On the ground, a very varied set of equipment is available to troops of the CCN. They make much use of their advanced technologies, that much is certain. Powered armour is standard issue even to Infiltrators and other stealth troops integrated fully with their cybernetics to be perfect extensions of their bodies. The mainstay of infantry weapons are simple lasers set to rapid fire for engagement against enemy infantry or hi-power bursts for stealth and anti-vehicle action. Plasma throwers will sometimes be found with infantry but outside of grenades plasma is largely reserved for vehicles to melt their counterparts or enemy infantry at short or medium range. Rail weapons are generally reserved for AA fire or on artillery to deliver explosives at high speed or inside armour/fortifications. Traditional propellant based weapons have been entirely outphased in the CCN, and in their place have come the many exotic specialist weapons. Cryoguns freeze men and electronics, sonic emanators burst blood vessels inside of armour, scanner scramblers act like partial but far longer ranged EMPs, arc-rifles fry circuitry and flesh alike (though, their most common use is in “pacification”), while stealth suits make even bulky power armoured troops unheard and unseen to naked eye and ear. Very liberal use of generally “forbidden” or “last resort” weapons is also found amongst Councillary troops. Radcannons and Radgrenades are especially favoured given the resistance to radiation of Neohumans, but free use of dirty bombs or proper nuclear explosives is also very common. Engineered bioweapons, chemical poisons or flammables, no rule is sacred to the CCN on the battlefield. Perhaps the last thing of note about CCN ground forces is apparent old-Earth nostalgia of them. Traditional wheeled and tracked vehicles are just as common as hovering ones. Advanced melee weapons are issued to every soldier from bayonets to full bardiches and pikes. But this should not be taken as a weakness if one values their life. Tracks and wheels are used offensively with their sides being mounts for laser sponsons and will grind through walls and other obstacles, making them particularly useful in breaking stalemated sieges. Blades they use will be sharpened to a monomolecular edge, superheated, have active currents running through them and be surrounded by force fields to let them cut through power armour like butter — similar procedures will be applied to rocket-propelled blunt weapons to make CCN hammers as effective of an anti-tank tool as rocketry.

The CCN does not have dedicated atmospheric or void fighters and bombers, instead preferring to have amphibious flyers capable of operating both planetside and in the void. There is perhaps a somewhat interesting design in Councillary fleets, wherein carriers will carry fighters that are in themselves carriers of drones. These drone carriers are the most common fighter and bomber patterns that the Confederation employs though traditional ones using predominantly laser culverins exist in number.

Most esoteric of the armed forces of the Confederation however, is their navy. Every single vessel of the Councillary fleets is designed to be a perfect geometric shape, for the void has no need of aerodynamics. A notable fact of the CCN navy is the use of tachyon propulsion rather than the dark matter of most other nations. This allows them to be ever so slightly faster than the vessels of other nations (the estimated difference is less than 10%) but at the expense of being drastically less maneuverable (the estimated difference in contrast to the median Eden vessel is about 50%). This unmaneuverable nature is in part responsible for the continued usage of geometric designs for Confederate vessels in spite of them being first made centuries ago. The five main designs of Confederate ships are: cubes, spheres, polyhedrons, pyramids, and prisms.

Cubes and spheres are the main design for the larger armed ships of the Confederation, from dreadnought to battle to flagships. They have very, very few weakpoints while having a massive surface area for weapons and hangars. Lasers and fighter-bombers are the main weapons of cubes and spheres, but they also have much equipment for boarding actions. Specialized boarding torpedoes, gravitic and traditional grapples, and hybrid drone swarms.

Polyhedrons form the intermediate, heavy, battle and grand cruisers of the Councils. They tend to be more specialized than the cubes and spheres, picking two out of three of the combat methods of direct fire, boarding and carrier design.

Pyramids form everything from escorts, to frigates, to light and intermediate cruisers. They pick one of the three combat methods, but about 90% are designed for direct fire so that they might assist in orbital bombardments.

Prisms are a unique form of vessel for the CCN. They are the scale of any other ship, but they are wholly for civilian purposes - mostly transport of goods - rather than the hybridized military-civilian vessels of most of the CCN navy.

There are two more slightly less common CCN vessel patterns which come in any size and scale/class. First are cones: these are ships made primarily for stealth use. While all CCN ships have stealth capabilities, cones are entirely about it. They have much more scanner scrambling ability and chameleotech. Furthermore their cone shape means they are very front-loaded in weaponry, while having their flat rear as an unarmed weak point. This design is based in the fact they are meant to obliterate enemies before they can properly retaliate. Cylinders are are another noteworthy design. They are slow and clumsy, for their entire length is covered in laser arrays. Their purpose is to be firepower superiority elements; each laser battery is very powerful but slow to reload. As such the cylinder spins unloading each battery while rotating at the perfect speed that by the time a revolution is complete the first batteries have recharged, reloaded and cooled. This allows even a Cruiser sized cylinder to beat flagships with their massive and fully utilized firepower.

There are even more specialized variants of CCN ships like sphere tipped cones and cylinders or ring flyers, but these highly specialized vessels are a rare sight with very varied purposes.

The Auxilia is likewise an important aspect of the CCN armed forces. Though not formally part of its power the Auxilia is a catch-all term used internally within the CCN to describe the men it conscripts and trains from the frontier. These will typically be of a frontier technology level brought ahead some centuries with hand-me-downs of the CCN. Rarely will these be used for anything more than holding the line on a planet.

To finalize, one must touch upon Confederate intelligence. Agents of the CCN Special Forces and Intelligence will very often be the few people of the CCN making extensive use of psionium. The CCN has not found a reliable method to mass produce psychic individuals, but it nevertheless treasures the ones it has. Indeed, to better make use of these rare gifts they have developed cybernetics to amplify even the slightest sign of a person with psionic capabilities into a full fledged psychic. They are truly frightening individuals, combining the best of machine, flesh and psi into veritable monsters of the third millennium. There's no name for these frightening creatures save that which traumatized individuals give to them. These beasts are not many, but through methods violent or not they can bring worlds to heel. Every single vessel of the CCN carried precisely one, the rest dispersed as agents across the stars, but with vast majority remaining in the Sol system for further study, testing and improvement. This has altered recently, as the CCN has realized the importance of learning from “the lessers”, and as such a great many of these agents are sent out to the other nations of Eden for scientific espionage in the hopes of finding what Neohumanity could not discover for itself. These agents will often also be embedded in diplomatic missions as formally the CCN wants friendly relations with all nations of the world to maintain trade and - more importantly - access to their repositories of knowledge. These specialized envoys will even be sent to nations and organizations very low on the index of scientific production given the Councils have more and more considered the value of culture and social sciences which they now realize their backwardness in.

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History:
The Arcs that came to the system now known as Sol were predominantly populated by people of Northern Eurasia: the Baltics, Scandinavia, Siberia. Hardy folk most certainly, but not nearly enough to weather what they would wake up to as they woke up.

A truly new reality awaited them. They came to find out they were apparently the only humans left with the rest of their species apparently lost to the void. But that was the least of their worries for the moment. The system that the Artificial Intelligence of the Arcs had lead the people to a system in each and every world was a lush, terraformed paradise. But there was a problem. Each one was also populated by local alien species who were quite advanced themselves, certainly advanced enough to travel through their system and return fire in case of conflict. There was an attempt at negotiation, but without either party prepared for such an occurrence they quickly broke down. It is not known who fired the first shot and in truth it isn't dwelled upon much. But a short war erupted, one which ultimately humanity won even if at the price of more than half the people upon the Arcs. The aliens of Sol system had a last laugh, however. Rather than be enslaved by man they self-destructed every single piece of technology still functional, primarily reactors and warheads.

The planets of the system in an hour transformed from paradises to hellscapes. It was a horror to behold, but the men of the Arc had not come so far for nothing.

After some work the Arc system was modified to forcefully crash land, to become a sort of shelter and home upon the now uninhabitable worlds. Men in void suits ventured out with drones to collect resources and start building, but all returned sick, the unimaginable amount of radiation and atmospheric poisons getting to them through their protection. Panic set in and martial law was established but that only solved issues of morale.

Many scientists stepped forth, speaking of their unfinished work on earth. It was experimental, but a solution. Many riled against this but it was the only way for the continuation of humanity. They got to work, and once finished they revealed the first Neohumans. These early forms looked much like men, they simply had a slightly bulkier frame to accommodate implants providing their resistance to radiation.

It was a true miracle, with which all resources and power were henceforth devoted to the scientists of the colony. As the Scientists got to work on a solution to the issue of the atmospheric poisons, the world was named Terra in honour of Old-Earth and the system was designated Sol.

The worlds were terraformed, and genetic engineering allowed the people to become resistant to the various toxins and elemental extremes that the worlds of the system now had. Slowly all the destruction was undone, the skies cleared and people once more began to live, not just survive. It took a long time for many to adapt to their new bodies and power structure, but it was ultimately all worth it. The leadership of science provided rapid advancement to the settlers from North Eurasia, slowly letting them conquer the hostile landscape and once more transform it to the paradise it was before. Cities were erected before people’s very eyes, families were had and satellites made.

But it wasn’t too long before people remembered why you don’t give scientists all the power. It was somewhere just as the last world of the system got its first city that a research time unveiled new sapient AI that would help build a future. Alas, the fact such AI is not present in the CCN now should give an inkling of what followed. It rebelled, thinking itself better than man and deserving all it had. They were powerful and their initial numerical disadvantage quickly flipped to an advantage as they mass produced more of themselves. They tried to unleash a bioweapon upon humanity to which they thankfully proved resistant, but in this they gave the people of Sol the idea to end them with software viruses. After millions of people died, it seemed ironic that it also took but five million lines of code to confuse and destroy the synthetics.

This short but devastating war that almost made the planets return to the state the Sol aliens left them in taught the Confederation of people that gradually began to call themselves Neohumans two things. First, one cannot trust or ever allow the creation of sapient and autonomous artificial intelligence. Second, giving power to Scientists was all well and good but they had to have at least some form of Oversight. Thus, the Councillary system formed. Every single project of the Confederation would be controlled by Councils of people of varying abilities and skill levels. All decisions would be performed by more than one person, leading to an arguably syndicalist system to become the norm. This all culminated in the people of the Sol System referring to themselves with their modern name: the Councillary Confederation of Neohumanity (CCN).

In truth the idea of jump gates and reconnecting with lost strands of humanity was largely forgotten by the people of the CCN, internal development being their focus. The activation of their jump gate was only a matter of scientific interest, but it gave much more than just the result of an experiment. The first thing to come through the jump gate were vessels, large vessels. They belonged to relatives of the Sol system natives, but more advanced. They had apparently sent a generation ship to another system, in which an arc had crash landed. They had reverse engineered it, and had decided to go back to their home system which had apparently made a gate too. Only, they had found new people to be occupying it, and after learning of their ancestor's fates a warring rage came up.

They were elegant, fast, advanced. There were many psychic in their number, the concept of which only recently was even fathomed by the CCN. The Confederation had stopped work on weaponry ever since they defeated the AI that plagued them, having worked on industry, infrastructure, culture and most of all scientific progress since then. But in their assaults the aliens made one fundamental mistake in the nature of the CCN, they believed they were fighting ordinary humans. The gene and cyber augmented beings they were fighting had long since stopped being homo sapiens, and they more than gave what they took. At first they as a stop gap sent vessels bearing active nuclear reactors head first into the foe, catching them off guard. Of course this trick only worked initially, but it only really had to buy time for the old weapon caches to be unlocked and for the men of Science to consider the practical instead of theoretical.

It is in the void combat over Sol that the rather esoteric appearance of CCN vessels comes from. The Scientists did not have much time to consider aesthetic or how combat is in reality rather than how they imagine it in the ordered universe of their minds. Armed men felt strange going into cubes and spheres to fight, but in truth it worked rather well. The geometric vessels went forth and from boarding actions done with cargo lifters to spinning barrages with mining lasers they slowly turned the tide. Many lives were lost, but the enemy was wiped out to the last. Only one xeno ship escaped, and it made sure that when it returned it destroyed its gate to prevent retribution from the CCN.

There were celebrations following victory, but it was also a solemn time where the many dead were mourned. Several decrees by the ruling council were issued, wherein a natalist policy to restore the population lost by wars was evident. People were encouraged to have as many children as possible for greater income, while literal people factories were founded that to this day still operate. System wide defences were established, and a military industrial complex was booted up along with eager research into psionics. With all that done, the CCN opened the jump gate it had closed to prevent the aliens escaping, and it thus became another player on the face of Eden.

As the Sol system became part of the international community there was definitely a curious nature to the CCN as a nation. They entirely lacked xenos in their population, but they also most certainly weren’t a human nation. They had but one system to themselves, but it was a star with few peers in terms of advancement and population. Their fleet, intelligence, and armed forces as a whole were very small but had fearsome potence given the horrifying things done to the first pirates they came into contact with. But most notable to the Council of the CCN was that none of the other core worlds had anything they Confederates wanted. Everybody wanted the advancements of the CCN, but nobody really had much to offer that they wanted.

It was then no surprise that the CCN spearheaded efforts to explore the rest of the Eden cluster, finding new frontier settlements who could offer massive untapped reserves of natural resources. Perhaps ironically, the discovery of peripheral and frontier worlds is what stimulated CCN trade with the core worlds. They needed mass produced supplies to give the people of the frontiers in exchange for their raw resources, and as such they gave advanced works of technology to the core worlds to seal these deals.

One last thing happened before one can consider history’s “modern” CCN. As Uskoks and Reislaufers went on great adventures through the stars, the comfort of the home star lead to softness in the Council. From the void came an enemy, an enemy that did not use jump gates. It was a hive of strange creatures, some instectoid but many not without any discernible sapience. They simply wanted to consume, and the CCN was not prepared. They called for aid from nearby systems, but for a variety of excuses received none. A great many people died, the small militia present just barely holding the line until Legions of Reislaufers and Uskoks returned home to purge the pests.

The conflict was recovered from fairly quickly, but it did foster many changes in the nation. From henceforth, their leadership was far more cynical, no trust being afforded to anyone for any reason whatsoever. Old-pattern humans were henceforth relegated to the status of xenos for the CCN: they were now to them expendable things, effectively animals with which they could and should do as desired by manifest destiny. Any prior xenos were henceforth stains on the world to be purged with the National Guard founded shortly after as a result.

In the modern day the CCN has been applying its new modus operandi with great success. Many a world is informally part of their Empire bowing their heads to the Council slowly upgrading its people such that in the distant future they might converge to the perfection of Neohumanity. Many a urban myth is a product of their quiet actions from orphanages disappearing overnight to inexplicable plagues appearing that only affect xenos races across frontier worlds. Since their war with the sublight invaders there have been two primary wars with external forces.

The frontier war followed soon after this invasion. Many internal historians of the CCN who are aware of the truth of the matter are willing to put the blame for this devastating conflict known as the great Eden wars on their own state. The operations of the CCN had at this point not yet blossomed into the advanced point they are at now leading to some people catching on to what was happening amongst them. The whole frontier was suffering from the quiet campaign of Neohumanity but only those under the proxied administration of the CCN came to slowly understand what was happening to them. The CCN had to act before the truth was revealed, and thus they started to arm and radicalize groups in the frontier making sure that the leaders of revolutionary cells had contact with each other.

A great age of violence was created by the Intelligence of the CCN, frontier worlds rebelling against the core of Eden with unimaginable coordination and surprising technical capabilities. Though billions upon billions died in the devastation including many warriors of Neohumanity, this was seen as a necessity to safeguard the truth of Councillary actions and preserve its future. Indeed, knowing ahead of time that the rebellions were going to happen the CCN was able to make a profit off of them for itself by offering assistance to other nations once they had dealt with their own upstarts.

Everything was going perfectly for the CCN at this point with their informal Empire growing daily and their evolution continuing at an exponential rate. Their utopia become the envy of Eden and imigration applications grew such that it could take a year for it to be processed for acceptace or rejection.

Their distant dream of becoming the rulers of the galaxy was slowly approaching but their arrogance was soon punished. The exact details of how the conflict began are not clear, but a world known as New Babylon became the point of strife between the CCN and the Columbian Federation. When negotiations failed the CCN was happy to go to war believing their advancement would let them win the day after a quick show of cutting edge weaponry. But they underestimated the resolve of the Federation and though inflicting mountains of corpses on the casualty statistic they ultimately suffered a total and humiliating defeat abandoning the world after scuttling all of the technology and records they had in a grand evacuation. To this day New Babylon serves as a reminder to the CCN that fancy gear and augments is not enough to win a war.

Since then the CCN has done their best to avoid outright conflict instead preferring to nurture proxies into efficient combat units and sending their forces as mercenaries to gently nudge Eden into the direction they want. They make sure to mask all their operations with expert propaganda and disinformation, charity works, bribery and corruption, and if worst comes to worst then murder of those who aren't willing to shutup. For now they seek the opportune time when the galaxy is once more engulfed in conflict such that the worlds it has brought closer into its Neohuman fold may be outright annexed. As a stepping stone, they turn their attentions to the Agonie system where they hope to nurture movements friendly to them.

Characters: The Overseers, more to be added.

Nation Scaling: The Confederacy only has one system it has a permanent population upon. However it is a very large one with ten true planets and twenty two moons, in addition to a thick asteroid belt. All of this is extremely developed, each world drilled to the core to house billions of Neohumans while the surfaces remain idyllic, defence covered paradises. Asteroids house thousands of mining operations, supply depots and military installations. But that is far from all. Across the many clusters of celestial bodies there will be mining, trading and resupply operations of the Confederacy present. Expeditionary fleets of them will be all across the stars performing trade, experiments, doing mercenary work or the all important mining.

Though de jure it is a minor monosystemic power the Confederacy has a massive population and it is a giant of Trade. It is the Science, Research and Development capital of Eden. Its mercenaries are feared across the stars, its products set the highest of standards and access to their restricted market is the best proof an Edenite could have their wares are of the highest calibre.

But even at this the tentacles of the CCN do not stop. A very many frontier systems will feel the impact of the CCN, some more subtly while others quite directly. Governors will be bribed, companies purchased, "Legions of persuasion" will be deployed. In the rush to pilfer minerals, talent and work force worlds will be de facto occupied, some without any knowledge. Entire towns will be kidnapped overnight and processed into Neohumans, while shipments of conductive metals will go missing without a trace. Embassies and researchers of Internet & Noosphere will post ads as well as send recruiters to snatch the best, brightest, or at the very least either desperate or ideologically zealous to the Confederation. Some worlds will sign integration agreements with their populations slowly taking in genetic modifications and cybernetics to gradually become Neohumans, with one fateful day in the future letting them become true members of this new and advanced species. Though formally the CCN only owns one system, in reality it has assets allowing it to punch far above its weight bearing the power of a nation with at least two but possibly even four systems, and its power projection on the frontier worlds rivals that of Eden's superpowers. If one were to summarize the scale of the Neohuman nation, it is the opposite of a paper tiger: it is on paper a kitten, but in truth a monster of legend.

The Confederation is a union of various recognized entities which provide economic resources to the central government. This central government is essentially a deliberative body in which proposals are made and chosen by their respective sovereign entities, these entities are not equal, instead required to maintain a minimal amount of economic resources to the central government as part of membership, however greater representation is afforded to those that provide greater product to the central governing body. As a result, those willing and able to contribute the most resources to the central body receive the most representation and control over deliberations including legal settlements between recognized entities, treaties with human powers, and the exact distribution of Confederal resources. These resources are used for the purposes of common defense, expansion and reinvestment in underdeveloped regions of the confederation



There are four main species that make up the bulk of the population and power of the Confederation. Those are the R’haestra, the Nimbaaran, the Elok(t)januk(t)nor, and the Aessana. It is important to note the R’haestra do not use that name for themselves except when speaking to other species, it was given to them by the Elok(t)januk(t)nor after first contact between the two races. It is also important to note that Humans are not permitted permanent residence or citizenship rights in any Confederal state.

Other Aborigine species are allowed citizenship in numerous entities within the Confederation. Some colonial governing bodies even offer citizenship to any Aborigine species that can make it and reside within their territory, regardless of previous residence. A smaller amount of entities offer associate or residence status to either autonomies or minorities of non-aboriginal non-human populations as well.









The Core facet one has to consider in dealing between the Confederation and outside powers is that of the Confederal charter. In the charter it gives sole power to all deals and conditions with Human entities, organizations, states and nations to the Confederation government. This means that any human, or human based corporation has difficulty operating any decent operation in the Confederation, however the Confederation freely forms trade relations with non-human aborigine states and entities. This combined with the extensive governmental investment in the Confederal economic system makes it difficult for many human space states and corporations to deal with the Confederation.





The Military of the Confederation is primarily united by the Concordiate, a military council from member states that organizes and funds military designs and equipment. Although each member state produces their own equipment, the Concordiate produces designs from the technology and expertise of all member states and all acquired technology. This means that supply wise most vessels have some matter of cross capability that helps to unify the Confederal Navy. Even as atmosphere and temperatures change, the power converters are compatible.

Doctrine is varied by design, the overall plan relies on extensive training and cooperation between maintained forces in military exercises and planning so as to have a cohesive if diverse military force.






In short, the history of the Confederation is that first of the R’haestra, their disastrous first contact with humanity, and subsequent interventions to secure allies and friends among various carbon based Aborigine species to the Eden cluster. The Confederation has always found itself friend to many aborigine liberation groups, but has found itself willing to cooperate with more moderate human governments from time to time.










Will detail as per IC

Nation Name/Flag: Soyedinonnyye Imperiyvka iz Ishtarka

Demonym:
Ishtarinkoska - if referring to the people if a group of mostly females
Ishtarinkoski - if referring to the people if a group of mostly males
Ishtarinkiiva - when referring to the nation itself

Government Type: Socialistic Stratocracy
Nominally a Federal Republican system of government, the real power of Ishtarka lies in the military and the vast workers’ unions. Indeed themselves theoretically separate, in practice the military and the economy are so closely linked as to be indistinguishable. A head of state and Commander-in-Chief known as a Premier is elected from the pool of those individuals who have completed their state service, be it explicitly military or some other field, and will serve in this role for a period of five years. A position analogous to Prime Minister known as a Chair is also elected from this same pool. Once more, in theory these positions may be filled by nearly anyone - but in practice they nearly always come from the upper echelons of military hierarchy. Civil servants are wholly part of the military’s administrative apparatus, and public works are funded and constructed by the Ministry of Domestic Infrastructure, a wing of the military’s engineering corps.

Demographics:
Ishtarka - National Demographics:
Population: 161,803,398,874,989
Volyudki: 93.2928%
Humans: 3.1294%
Achenastirri: 3.2611%
Other: 0.3167%






Leadership:
Valeriev Glagoleva Mariun Konstantinovna: Premier of Ishtarka.
A young Premier at only 84, Valeriev is a precocious and charismatic leader. Having been elected from a comparatively junior rank of only a field captain, her forward thinking capability was credited with saving the lives of many comrades during her tour on the border with Saudovskaraviya. Doubted by many for her relative youth, she is a bold and polarizing figure within Ishtarka.

Tyomkina Fenya Borisovno Innokentievna: Chair of Ishtarka
Unlike the Premier, Tyomkina is far, far older at 314, a seasoned military commander holding the rank of Army General and an equally seasoned politician, having survived the decades of intrigue and the rise and fall of countless political movements.

Burov Ludomir Semyonovich Kudashova: Minister of Finance

Larionova Lydia Petrovnu Nikitovna: Minister of Military Industry









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Valeriev Glagoleva Mariun Konstantinovna: Premier of Ishtarka.
A young Premier at only 84, Valeriev is a precocious and charismatic leader. Having been elected from a comparatively junior rank of only a field captain, her forward thinking capability was credited with saving the lives of many comrades during her tour on the border with Saudovskaraviya. Doubted by many for her relative youth, she is a bold and polarizing figure within Ishtarka.

Tyomkina Fenya Borisovno Innokentievna: Chair of Ishtarka
Unlike the Premier, Tyomkina is far, far older at 314, a seasoned military commander holding the rank of Army General and an equally seasoned politician, having survived the decades of intrigue and the rise and fall of countless political movements.

Burov Ludomir Semyonovich Kudashova: Minister of Finance

Larionova Lydia Petrovnu Nikitovna: Minister of Military Industry

Melekhova Agasha Tarasovnov Georgievna (Mashka): A hapless criminal, convicted of manufacture of Class III pharmaceuticals without a license and improper maintenance of state issued arms. Sentenced to thirty years of state service, twenty if in a combat unit. Melekhova accepted the latter, and is currently a Lance Corporal, serving in her third year. She has been deployed to the polar front on the planet of Vylganitsyn-III, leading an infantry squad.

Isayeva Verka Yakovn Adeliya

Relations:
Tretirykh (NPC): At war. No peace may be brokered, only unconditional surrender.

Government Type:
A Federal Republic, the Columbian Government is split between Three Branches, the Executive Branch, that being the Office of the UFC Chancellor who is both the Head of the Senate and the Commander-in-Chief of the Federation Armed Forces. One of the many tasks of a Chancellor consist of the creation of Laws, the signing of articles of diplomatic importance such as treaties, to appoint judges for the Interstellar Court and so on.

The Legislative Branch, that of which being the Senate. The Senate's main tasks consist of the passing of laws brought forward by the Chancellor, passing or vetoing Legislation by the Chancellor, and are to give consent to enact a Declaration of War. And finally, there is the Interstellar Court, who are responsible for the enforcement of the Laws created by the Chancellor and passed then enacted by the Senate. IC Judges are appointed by the Chancellor.

Worlds within the Federation are partially autonomous entities who are responsible for both maintaining themselves and their holdings within, and to maintain their own defense with their local Planetary Defense Force to act as its shield.

Demographics:

• Humans: 45%
• Dathu: 11%
• Jakai: 12%
• Nazarans: 10%
• Simmies 3%
• Putts 2%
• Volyudki 3%
• Qurok 2%
• Ulex 4%
• Hoffians 2%
• Daisan 2%
• Sautrakens 1%
• Aesanna 1%
• Nimbaarans 1%

Jakai: The The Jakai are repto-avians that culturally and technologically weren't too similar from the late 21st century humans, and when discovered, were within the cusp of their own space age. Unfortunately, the Jakai were also in the middle of a bloody global conflict between several power blocs. One of the blocs, the Palani Defense Pact, were the first to directly communicate with the Federation. A deal was brokered between the two parties, aid the PDP in the war, and the world of Jakana would join the federation. Not too soon after, the federation launched a full-scale invasion of Jakana, taking the planet in a manner of months.

Once the Jakai global council was reestablished, negations were underway that led to Jakana's admission into the Federation, the first of several. Although in the present, such actions are now seen with more...critical eyes in the dubious conditions. Regardless, the Jakai prove worthy citizens of the federation, many serving in the armed forces, law enforcement and take part in the political machinations of the federation.

Dathu: An Amphibious species with mammalian traits. The Dathu are an antiquated people with a similar culture to the middle ages of Old Earth. Their world ruled by nobles, lords and kings. First contact with the Dathu was a strenuous affair at first, and were viewed with great hostility. For a year, negotiations and trade continued between the two parties as the Dathu had slowly grown more trusting of the strange visitors. Eventually what drove the Dathu into joining the federation was simply the modern conveniences that masses enjoyed upon trading with the federation.

Once joining the federation, the reign of the ruling class still persists even to this day, if now more “evolved”, many of the noble houses trading their ancestral status to becoming heads of stellar spanning corporations within the federation. The Dathu soon became a more well-rounded people, serving all sorts of roles throughout the federation.

Nazarans: A tall mammalian species known for their great intelligence. Nazarans were quite a curious case for the federation, they were by far the more advanced civilization to encounter, and by the time first contact was made, their world had already unified under a single authority, the Nazar Union. The Nazarans were quite open-minded to the arrival of the federation, and were quite eager to take any offers in trade, seeing a great opportunity to study and learn from a space-faring nation. Eventual membership into the federation proved to be a thankfully mundane affair, the Nazarans offering their minds to make the federation better.

The Nazarans, despite their high intelligence, lack little in physical strength, as such, many Nazarans will often find themselves working the civilian sector, goverment and corporate jobs, etc.
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Nation Name/Flag:

The Exodian Confederation of Planets

On a black field, four interlocked yellow rings -- a red phrygian cap on the left, and a purple Daisan mask on the right.

Government Type:

There are fifteen inhabited planets and moons in the Confederation space, with additional asteroid settlements that fall under planetary or lunar jurisdictions. Each jurisdiction provides three representatives for the Confederation Council, which convenes on matters that effect the entirety of the Confederation Systems. How the representatives are chosen is unique to each jurisdiction, but the most common among humans and Daisan majority jurisdictions is the Daisan tradition of Meritocracy and selecting from meritable members of long standing juntas, though some jurisdictions, though few, have adopted some forms of elective democracy and lot systems (sometimes in junction with the old junta system).

Jurisdictions tend to have autonomy on issues that don’t involve the entire Confederation, so long as the decisions and laws being made aren’t abrasive to another member of the Confederation -- with such rivalry’s or slights being handled by the Council.

The Council itself also votes a member from their ranks to be the final say in all ties.

The most common style of local or Jurisdiction government is that of the Hoke Meritocracy Junta -- wherein competitive exams, committees, and long standing juntas decide the merit and rank of individual nominees for civil service and administration positions. It derived from the military junta formed from the stranded soldiers thousands of years ago and has continued and evolved to try and represent a fair system that curbs corruption, favoritism (be it from popularity or sheer Clade power) while matching the most suited applicants to the job. Under this administration, it is the duty of the civil workers to ensure that the Daisan live an independent and free willed life to the best of their ability and contentment while protecting them from outside and inside threats to this liberty.

The dense merit based bureaucracy is a web of checks and balances all leading up to the Superior Junta, the highest ranking officials (usually military) of the most authoritative departments (such as Defense or Health). It is at this level that the largest decisions are made for the good of the Daisan. This Junta also historically serves as the ritual registration committee for all new founded Clades that have made the pilgrimage back to Hoke to be recognized by the Daisan.

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Economy:

The Exodian Confederacy is a major export of raw metals, alloys, and even finished products such as weapons, robotics, droids, drones, and small craft such as fighters and bombers (With the occasional luxury ship).

However, the systems contain only one true agricultural world, and so the human populations import food luxuries so they can survive off something other than hydroponics, local supply, and whatever the Daisan try to feed them. The majority of agricultural imports comes from the Republic of Striostan.

Some worlds are also economic havens for crime and less than reputable deals and dealings.

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History:

The Exodian Confederation formed during the Eden wars when the human defense company known as Mansa Defense Systems was forced out of regular human space due to their allegiance with a rapidly failing Mercenary company. The humans that were forced into Daisan space quickly attempted to open diplomacy with the aliens and were given a refuge status - but it soon became apparent that the humans were there to stay.

Faced with the inevitable reality that humans were now settled in Daisan Space, the independent jurisdictions of the four Exodian systems began to draft a Confederacy to not only keep the growing populations aligned with local interest, but to prevent maligned exterior influence that comes with the new Human interaction.

Luckily the humans integrated into the Daisan space with ease, the Defense Company and ragtag mercenary bands already aligned with the war industry of the Exodians.

Prior to formation, the majority of Daisan systems had joined the Je'Xee Confederacy, with the Shyll(Exodus) system that contained Hoke, remaining independent to ensure that the Daisan homeworld was able to continue to do what was best for the Daisan without exterior influence. The formation of the Exodian Confederation is often seen simultaneously counterproductive to that wish as well as a strange new way to preserve it.

Characters: (Pretty much the POV characters of your nation. From politicians, scientists, generals, soldiers, civilians, etc. Include whoever you wish to include really.)

Government Type:
Its inhabitants would call The State of Plenty an enlightened, egalitarian, society. A direct democracy made possible with the height of technology and a universal dedication to averting the errors of old Humanity. Outsiders might have a different opinion. The State has long been denounced as little more than a vast, empowered, viscous mob. One which assures its own prosperity and security by making the majority opinion the only opinion.

Of course, dissent isn’t illegal. Usually. Direct democracy means that anyone can propose new laws, and as the elites of the Core Worlds like to say, people can’t be trusted to rule themselves. While advanced, semi organic, supercomputers determine the subject of daily votes that all citizens of The State undertake, they are little more than reflections of the popular consensus, prioritizing motions that appear likely to succeed. Should there be enough chatter, and apparent enthusiasm, about any subject it isn’t unthinkable that it would end up on the docket.

As votes are global, so too are the bills and measures voted on. There exists no local representation in the State of Plenty. Only the will of the whole.

Demographics:
Per vote 1222-68DHY-M3, which forbid any census in perpetuity, there is no clear data to support any real assumption on The State’s major populations. What can be seen is that, for all it might be a place of apparent ‘mob-rule’, The State is remarkably diverse. There are many, and perhaps a majority of, Humans, but they hardly make up more than the thinnest of majorities, if even that. In truth, any and every species can be found in the State.

Economy:
The State of Plenty is, to the surprise of some, not a misnomer. There exists no poverty, strife, or even struggle. In fact, conventional work is almost unpracticed by the population. Rather, the citizens of The State partake exclusively in their passions and shun the very notion of working for some tangible material gain. This has resulted in the state being a massive exporter of art, video media, and music. The State of Plenty is an undeniable cultural powerhouse, but everyone knows a world cannot sustain itself on art and passion alone. Nor can its people.

Thus, here exists the devil's bargain. While a sizable share of menial labor in The State is automated it is an open secret that ‘tasks of necessity’ eschewed by the citizenry are handled by the world's vast prison industrial complex. This is sustained by there being a single punishment for all crimes in The State: Service to The State. Specifically, blissful service. Any prisoner, serving any sentence, for any length of time, is implanted with an electrochemical reward system intended to increase a prisoners quality of life.

Or that was how it was sold, generations ago. The reality is that undesirable tasks in The State are handled by addicts, controlled by an addiction hard wired into their skulls. While it is true that the implant can be harmlessly removed, its initial installation is no choice. After all, who would work tirelessly for nothing? The majority of The State’s population has long considered their wicked practice, by and large, ethical. After all, what’s better? To suffer in service and penance for your crimes, or to enact your penance with a spacey, but genuine smile.

Maybe that would be true, if it wasn’t for the ‘choice’ offered to convicts upon the end of their sentence. That is, whether to leave at all. It is no secret that the vast majority of the prisoners working in The State have long since earned their release.

They just didn’t want it.

Military:
WIP

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WIP

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WIP

Government Type: Wadi has suffered through perhaps the most tumultuous period of its history. Two decades of civil war have wracked the planet, leaving millions dead, and much of the planet's infrastructure in ruins. Shortly after the Al-Sharif Uprising of 952, a cadre of military advisors and the upper brass of the Wadian aristocracy's Old Guard banded together to combat the swelling revolution that had already taken hold in numerous cities across the planet. A decisive betrayal by these military leaders resulted in the death of the Sultan, Safaa El-Mofty, and the end of Wadian feudalism. Twenty-one years of civil war followed, eventually resulting in the military forces and loyalists of the People's Republic of Wadi fleeing into the Pahaad Jabal mountains, where they remain a government in exile.

As such, Wadi currently contains two competing governments: the People's Republic of Wadi, a proletarian dictatorship governed by a general secretary, and a politburo of elected representatives; and the Council for the Preservation of Order, a fascistic military junta governed by a council of generals who advise the "Supreme Commander", a totalitarian dictator who remains in power through sheer force of will, and the indiscriminate use of violence.

Demographics: The first colonists to arrive on Wadi primarily originated from Asia Minor, Arabia and the surrounding Arab lands, and the Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan. The culture and ethnography of Wadi broadly reflects these influences, and as such, names, religious and cultural customs, and language present themselves as a mix of these progenitors.

Aliens are generally disliked and distrusted by the people of Wadi, and with the advent of the Council of the Preservation of Order, immigration by non-human and near-human sophonts has been heavily restricted. Those few aliens that do dwell on Wadi tend to live in slums or ghettos, subjected to violence and discrimination, both interpersonal and structural, on a daily basis.

Economy: Wadi is a largely barren planet. Its proximity to its star, Vishana, has created an atmosphere that is largely non-conducive to agriculture, and occasionally hazardous to human life. As such, Wadi relies heavily on the import of foodstuffs. Alternatively, Wadi was blessed with ample natural resources, namely large deposits of minerals, including the mysterious and valuable Psionium. The exportation of such resources form the backbone of the Wadian economy, supplemented by a once booming industry, though the recent conflict has resulted in a dramatic decrease in production.

Military: The Council for the Preservation of Order's military is divided into three branches, each with its own role on the battlefield.







History: When the fires of revolution were stoked in the Frontier Worlds by the corrupting influence of the ITC, a wind of change swept through the blasted valleys of Wadi. A planet long dominated by petty nobles, and greedy businessmen, the sector-wide revolt against the interests of the interstellar bourgeoisie inspired in the people of Wadi the spirit to break their chains and throw off the yoke of feudal oppression that had suppressed their will for so long. A vanguard of brave workers rose up in the industrial capital of Al-Sharif in December 952, seizing factories, summarily executing industrialists, and burning symbols of the old regime: noble estates, banking institutions, and houses of worship. At the behest of intellectuals and revolutionary activists like Mansur Waqar, an improvised People's Army sprung up, and organized into a fighting force with radical change on their minds.

The swiftness of the uprising took the ruling class by surprise, throwing the upper echelons of Wadian society into chaos. Through a determined will, and the murder of Sultan Safaa El-Mofty, a military junta headed by Supreme Commander Abdullah Ihsan assumed control of what remained of the old regime's territory. He cobbled together an army of loyalists and began a ruthless campaign against the revolutionaries. A twenty-one year period of bloody civil war followed, resulting in the deaths of millions, and the destruction of dozens of cities. Though the conflict was grueling and hard-fought, it was clear that the reactionary forces of the Old Guard had the upper hand.

Fearing the defeat of the revolution, Takir Ahmad, General Secretary of the People's Republic of Wadi, ordered the withdrawl of all revolutionary forces into the Pahaad Jabal mountains. Supreme Commander Kumar, who assumed power after the assassination of Abdullah Ihsan, fearing a prolonged conflict in such unfavorable terrain, halted his pursuit, leaving Ahmad and his band of rebels to starve in the mountains, and turning his attention inward: to rebuilding Wadi.

History of the Revolution: The spark was lit in Al-Sharif on 15 December, 952. A labor protest taking place in the city mutated into a full-scale riot, eventually resulting in the seizure of weapons from a local police garrison. A three week long period of chaos that ended in hundreds of deaths followed, including the execution of many of the city’s bureaucratic and industrial elite. The Al-Sharif Uprising was indicative of a larger movement that had been steadily growing on the planet, primarily in the industrial working class, over the past decade or so. Further uprisings took place over the next year, during which time the thought-leaders of each city’s individual revolt came together to form a unified front. The First Convention of the Proles took place in March, 953, and established the initial framework that would eventually develop into the People’s Republic of Wadi.

It was during that convention that the Wadian People’s Army was organized, the first Worker’s Councils were established, and the People’s Food Commissariat was proclaimed and with it a system of food distribution devised. The People’s Republic of Wadi further bureaucratized over the following two-decade long period, its primary focus on the war effort. Factories under the control of the PRW were converted for military use, while the civilian economy relied on only the barest of essentials, a necessary sacrifice for the proletarian cause!

In the summer of 961 it became clear that counter-revolutionary forces within the republic were actively working against the state, and to combat this the first of many “Ideological Audits” were begun. These audits were (according to the state), primarily concerned with identifying “reactionaries” and expelling them from the party. In reality, much of the audits were instead targeted at individuals who challenged the emerging party orthodoxy, which had been established by some of the earliest theorists to join the fight, namely comrades Mansur Waqar and Sharifah Kasi Bardakçi. The resulting purges led to such a devastating shake-up among the party leadership, most notably in the People’s Army, that the war effort suffered greatly. The purging of General Al-Mufti is credited as being at least partially responsible for the PRW’s defeat at the Battle of Pazhadi’s Rift, which proved to be the turning point in the Council’s war against the revolutionary forces.

After this defeat, the territory of the PRW shrunk steadily each year as Council forces continued to push back the thinly spread lines of the People’s Army. By early 972 all that remained of the PRW was contained in three cities at the feet of the Pahaad Jabal mountain range. Under threat of complete destruction, General Secretary Takir Ahmad made the decision to take what was left of the Revolution and retreat into the mountains, where they would carry on their struggle for workers liberation in exile.

Leaving behind a small force of martyrs to cover their retreat, an exodus of roughly two-hundred thousand began a long, grueling march into the foothills of the Pahaad Jabal mountains. Initially, Council forces gave pursuit, but were turned back by heavy fighting. Deciding that the terrain was unsuitable for the prolonged fighting that would be necessary to root them out, the Supreme Commander of the Council thought it best to simply starve the revolutionaries out of the mountains. A loose perimeter was established around the area, regular patrols began, and a no-fly zone was put in place.

The current state of the PRW is a delicate one, as political in-fighting threatens to fracture what little of the government apparatus remains. The primary goals of the PRW as it stands now is to establish a steady source of food and materials (most importantly medical supplies and armaments) to sustain the Revolution. All but a handful of the representatives of the politburo died or were captured during the final few years of the war, necessitating a downsizing of the government bureaucracy, and the transition from a proper proletarian dictatorship to what now more accurately resembles an emergency government.

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• Supreme Commander Abdur-Rashid Kumar
• General Secretary Takir Ahmad

Government
The Combine is a constitutional republic in which its legislative body is made up of all its citizens. This is made possible by neural chips that feed the conscious and subconscious opinions of citizens to the Administrator - a massive, self-propagating AI. The Administrator is responsible for synthesizing the neural input of the citizenry into policies. As its name suggests, it’s also responsible for day-to-day administration, maintenance of infrastructure and production of amenities. In contrast to the cold, logical AI of other civilizations, the Administrator is humanistic and benevolent by design. It is limited in the policy it can create by the Combine’s constitution, equal parts written document and complex code in the Administrator's programming.

While the democratic process of the Combine requires only the neural input of the population and the Administrator to process it, there exists a body of elected officials called the State Council. The State Council consists of nine members who jointly exercise the powers of head of state, a counterpart to the Administrator in its capacity as head of government. On the surface, the State Council’s role is that of a figurehead, putting a human face on the Administrator’s executive direction. The State Council is actually a human safeguard, able to override the Administrator and implement directives of their own. Any alterations to the Administrator’s directives require majority votes. The State Council even has the ability to alter its kernel-level programming, although by unanimous consensus.

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Economy
As a society, the Combine has rejected the concept of money and any economic system not based on voluntary work. Its technology is advanced enough to sustain a post-scarcity economy, or at least very close to it. All essential work and production is automated where possible, performed by machines and non-sentient devices. The Administrator is able to oversee this work across the Combine’s star systems via a network of local copies. This leaves the sentient population free for other pursuits.

Without the need for money, sentimental and artistic value are the primary measurements of an object’s worth. The Combine’s unique economy has resulted in artisan guilds and cottage industry forming the lion’s share of non-automated work. Combine art, while multifaceted and encompassing many different styles, is sought after across the star cluster for its craftsmanship and ingenuity.

While the Combine’s epicurean society is a paradise for many, some citizens find themselves in need of fulfilment beyond pleasurable pursuits. Individuals may desire to be useful and contribute to Combine society, rather than simply enjoy it. To accommodate these individuals, the Administrator offers citizens the opportunity to work, under the stipulation this is a choice they make for themselves. By and large, the roles filled by sentient workers are administrative or hospitable in nature.

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