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Guardian Angel HarukiFederal Union of Uston:
Government Form:
Constitutional Federal Republic (De Jure)
Corporatocracy (De Facto)
Demographics:
Humans (80%)
Ozols (30%)
Population:
1 Billion
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Government Form:
Constitutional Federal Republic (De Jure)
Corporatocracy (De Facto)
Demographics:
Humans (80%)
Ozols (30%)
Population:
1 Billion
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Planet Name and Description: Hutov is the capital planet of the Federal Union of Uston. Luckily for its people, Hotov is not a hellhole nor is it hostile. For most purposes, Hotov is extremely akin to Earth. How lucky for the Union. With that in mind, there is not much else to note. Hotov does have vast amounts, if not the best, infrastructure, in the Union. This is not surprising as it was the first planet to be owned and colonized. You will not find anything strange or special relativity. Of course, I can give you a full detailed essay on every single thing on the planet, but I do not think that is needed.
History: You like history, right? If so then you might find something here that might peak your interest. So, how did it all start? It all started in Northern America. Everyone got onto their spaces and the rest is history. Well, the history starts now - not ending just yet. After traveling through its gate, the Hutov (the name of the spacecraft) arrived at a system. The Hutov scanned and found itself a pretty little planet. And why you look at that - it is like Earth! Once landed, the Hutov unpacked its peoples and supplied planet-side. So - what happened during those three hundred years later? Not much. It is quite boring really. The only thing, THE only thing, that matters to you is the recent thirty or so years (or more). The gilded age of mega-corporations. What an age. By the virtue of the free market or other powers that be, the might and power of corporations started to rise rapidly. Why? Well, plenty of reasons. Corruption, the breakdown of unions, the rise of conglomerates, and other factors. And I almost forgot, there is also the fact that there are aliens too. Where? Another planet! What happened? Well, the Union kinda invaded (but that is another story for another time). And that is it! That is the whole history. Not really, but that is a very-very-very-very basic overview.
...Ok, fine! I will explain the invasion of the alien planet. Soo...why did the Union invade an alien planet in the first place? Officially, it was to ensure peace and keep those aliens from using WMDs on themselves. In reality, it was really for the purposes of getting more stuff from space (especially fuel for those big ol' cargo ships that all the megacorporations use). Plus, more cheap labor! There is no law for paying dirt-cheap wages to aliens. There is in fact a min-wage law. What a big shock, paying wages to workers. While that wage is also dirt-cheap, you can pay ever less to aliens since there is no damn law on their wages (of course, things get complex as human-xeno-breeding technology has advanced to the point to allow xeno-human births, but that is another story for another time). Lovely stuff. Back to the aliens. Who the hell are they? Well...uhm..they are something. Nasty little things. I almost forgot about their planet name! As for that, we just call Xanov. They were in the early atomic age before the Union came in with a bunch of guns and took over. What were they gonna do? Shoot us with guns? Well, yes, they did - but we had bigger guns. Take that, you aliens. Now, I must do some Xeno-"research" in my office. If you hear strange sounds then that is me sleeping.
Culture and Society: Ustonian society and culture revolve around the concepts of individualism, hard work, freedom, and egalitarianism, to name a few. Of course, things are quite more complex than that, but it is a starting point for anyone attempting to understand the details of Ustonian society at large. One of the largest and most hefty ideals found is the Ustonian Dream, heavily based on the American Dream of eons past. Anyone can find success in society by their own hard work, determination, and initiative, even in the face of unequal treatment and issues. It matters not if you are poor, disabled, or likewise, all you have to do is pick yourself up and get back to working towards your dreams - quite the goal, no? Ever since its founding, Ustonian society has always been fixed on that one ideal, the Ustonian Dream. In the same vein, Ustonian culture has romanticized the Great Person: someone who manages to gain prosperity by their lonesome. Great Persons normally involve those of known historical value or value by the pure amount of credits owned to their name. If you will excuse the extremely old historical dates, imagine people like the Rockefellers, Andrew Carnegie, or Thomas Edison. If these people can make it big in life, you can too. The last piece of the puzzle to tie this all together is one factor that quickly turns everything on its head - Capitalist-Realism.
Everything explained has been heavily tied to the ideals of Capitalism as well. How did Andrew Carnegie or the Rockefellers (again, don’t mind the very-old historical figures) gain their wealth? It was the free market! Your individualism and freedom is all due because of Capitalism. Without the invisible hand, the Ustonian Dream would never exist in the first place! Because of this, Capitalism is an extremely rooted economic-social ideology within the Federal Union. To attack Capitalism is to directly attack the values and beliefs of Ustonian society itself. People in the Federal Union cannot think of any other system better than Capitalism. Freedom is Capitalism and Capitalism is Freedom. There is no question about it. Only the will of the free market is the best way to do things around here.
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Governance and Politics: The Federal Union is a Constitutional Federal Republic, having itself a president, a constitution, liberal democracy, and the works. You have your national elections, local elections, states, the federal government, and a highly complex bureaucracy of federal bureaus, state bureaus, courts, and everything else needed to run a functioning republic based on a constitution. For now, we will not concern ourselves with that. Is it important? Yes, but there are more important things to focus on. Yes. On the surface, it seems like a normal liberal democracy (with a few quirks) that functions, right? Well, yes. The surface analysis yields that the Federal Union is a democracy of voters and such. But digging deeper will yield some...interesting results. The concerns of citizen-voters are not exactly listened to. Well, they are listened to but only lip-service and token reforms are only given. Imagine actually listening to your voter base. But wait, what about the other party? What other party? Do you mean the other party that is exactly the same as the other? That is right, there is literally no different party within the Federal Union. A shocker, I know. In reality, the Federalist Party and the Republican-Democratic Party are more or less the same party in a different skin.
The only real concern to both the Federalist Party and the Republican-Democratic Party is the internet of their megacorporation sponsors. Anything that these megacorporations want and need, the parties can easily get them. Need tax-cuts? Passed without issue. Want more defense spending? Of course, that can be voted on and passed next session. Without a doubt, corporatocracy is the norm here. While that may be, both parties still have to play a show-game as to not draw attention to that fact - even if it is quite clearly the case that the Federal Union is not as democratic as it seems. The political landscape for the Union is very conservative as the most left-leaning person in the national elections is simply a social democrat - you will not find radical socialists or communists on the ballot box. As of recently, there have been issues with rising awareness of the current situation...that is, the rising costs of standards of living, treatment of aliens, the gaining popularity of radical-left ideology, human rights, and plenty of other things. If left unchecked then things can quickly get out of hand.
If you think everything said was bad then get a load of this - wage slavery. The exploitation of labor is a very-very profitable thing to do, especially for megacorporations. Why pay a living wage? That will cut into your profits and "no-one" wants such a thing to happen at all! Gonna keep growth for the corporation up. This is great for the megacorporations, not so much for the avg. workers. While no one wants to talk about it (unless you are one of those dirty socialists or communists - same thing really), your everyday joe has few realistic chances of upward mobility or escaping the hell known as the corporate work-style of 112 hours a week (which is 16 hours of work from Monday to Sunday). No wonder depression and suicide rates are so high! Better keep those antidepressants on hand. You will need them! Now, I better get to reminding my workers that unions are bad and that communism will strip away their freedom.
Technology Overview: Electronic-Cyber-Warfare : No-one likes to have their email hacked and or bank accounts emptied. While you, the individual, might not like it - the Utsonian corporations especially don’t like it either. It is a known fact that the various Utsonian corporations are extremely cutthroat and will try everything in their power to get a upperhand in the free market. The realm of the digital and electronic is where the corporate shadow war most often occurs - where whole corporate wars have been won by the sheer weight of Electronic-Cyber-Warfare. This constant back and forth has resulted in some of the best defensive and offensive Electronic-Cyber-Warfare that anyone has yet to see. Everyday, the game always changes as Utsonian corporations attempt, every single of their livelihood, to break into rival corporations and also defend their own secrets and electrical assets from damage.
Transhuman Cybernetics : Is it possible to go beyond the flesh? Why yes! It is! Here in the Federal Union, Utson citizens have access to an array of cybernetics and implants that range from extremely basic models to the most advanced ones that you can buy on the market (given that you got the dosh, hun). Elsewhere, the Utsonian military has adapted these cybernetics and implants into their armed forces. This mostly comes in the form of replacing limbs and broken human body parts. The “real” transhuman comes in when you talk about their special forces - these fucks are almost not even human at that point! Better than humans in every way in the mannerisms of warfare and killing, Utsonian transhuman spec-ops is a deadly threat to anyone or thing. Sadly, the process of creating those transhumans is extremely complex and requires extremely seasoned soldiers to even be considered to turn into transhumans spec-ops.
Military Overview: No major war means no real way to improve one’s military without a good enemy to compare oneself or really test new weapons on. Thus, everything is purely in the field of computer stims and theory. Over the course of time, the Federal military has decided that overwhelming firepower is the way to go. Why throw men when you can throw ungodly amounts of shells at the enemy? Of course, that is an extremely basic explanation of how the doctrine works. I could give you a 15-page basic overview of how it really works or, even better, just say that it simply involves the shelling of anyone or thing. This normally involves bombing the god-living hell out of a position for planet-side operations before sending in the troops. What bombs do we send? Good question. The Federal Union employs two main areas to commit death upon a target. One is to use smart bombs to quickly and specifically get rid of certain high-value targets (or if it needs to clear up its budget). Or the usage of dumb bombs to utterly carpet bomb whole grid-squares in a few hours. But how do they deploy the bomb? Another good question. That is left up to Aerospace-Command. Meanwhile, there is a big focus in space on capital ships and slapping a shitton of anti-ship missiles, or using aircraft carriers to send in waves of drone-bombers or fighters to deliver death.
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Additional Info: Who is the Ozol(s)? They are very interesting creatures to say the least from an outward appearance. The current file images should tell you everything you need to know about their looks. What about its biological features? Glad you asked because this is where it gets very weird very fast. Remember the mention of advanced xeno-human reproduction? Well, any Ozol can reproduce with humans - actually with any race. How do they do this? That is still currently being studied, but megacorporations have found themselves very successful in making Xeno compatibility a reality. What about the Ozol's mental state? For the most part, they show a wide range of emotions from fear, anger, sadness, etc. But calmness is something that they do well. Safe to say, they are quite level-headed. Here's a fact, Ozols can host anywhere to two to four human children while in pregnancy. Wild stuff, eh?