Om El Donia

Om El Donia is a human colony world 32 light years from Earth, near Sauria, started by the Coptic Christian community in Egypt, looking for a safe environment for the preservation of their culture and history. The planet's colonization company, Egyptian Colonization Service, took an initial population of 1922 people to settle a region near the equator, which became New Memphis, the new capital city. Soon after, Thinis, Thebes, and Avaris were founded on the same northern continent.
The people consciously chose only Coptic Christians to settle the planet, to avoid the persecution they had experienced under the Muslims who had invaded Egypt in the 7th and 8th centuries AD. Choosing to eschew the Arabic language in its entirety, and all Arabic borrowings in their language, the Egyptians chose instead to make Coptic their planetary language. The Coptic alphabet is the planet's official script, though some provinces chose to write in Demotic script, some in Hieratic, and still others chose to speak and write Ancient Egyptian and Hieroglyphics. Across most of the planet, knowledge of hieroglyphs is common and used in signage and cartouches are commonly seen for name tags and business signs.
The colony was settled in 2080, and achieved political independence in 2157. The initial settlers used what is now a somewhat controversial system of surrogate pregnancies with donor gametes from Egypt and Europe of those the settlers believed represented what 'real' Egyptians looked like in the past, namely blue and green eyes and red, blonde, and brown hair. Whatever faulty science this came from, the effect is that most Om-El-Donians today are somewhat caucasian in appearance, though a large number have a Middle Eastern appearance.
The architecture is largely based on Ancient Egypt. Columns, brick and stone construction, and most dwellings having central heating and air conditioning along with solar shingles and solar glass for power, are common across the planet.
==Facts==
*Planet diameter: 12,749 km
*Water: 32%
*Government: Representative Parliamentary Republic
*Population: 1.2 billion
*Religion: Coptic Orthodox Christianity; minority Protestant Coptic Christianity
*Language: Coptic; Ancient Egyptian
*Writing Systems: Coptic, Hieroglyphic, Demotic, Hieratic
*Defenses: System Defense Grid
*Military: Om El Donia Stellar Fleet
**Ships: 212 vessels of various classes, battleships, cutters, escorts, corvettes, carriers
**Personnel: 195,000 personnel (2162)
*Currency: Deben (90g gold, 2.89357t oz), divided into 100 copper shat; 1/10 a deben is a senyu.
Category:Human Colony
Category:Model Colony
Category:Coptic Colony