Academic Union of Zia

Zian's Country of Learning

The **Academic Union of Zia** is a country that focuses on learning and educating rather than getting involve in pointless wars with all the other nations. It takes a neutral stance in all and won't take part or take sides.

## History

After the fall of the Mann Empire, Dell Coghaner of the YLW Team (Yard Logistics Workers) took upon himself the responsibility of leadership when the world was in a state of chaos. He started out in Davey Crocket University in the city of Crocket where he was teaching robotics and electrical engineering. There was wide spread looting, rioting, and killing. The YLW Engineer took it upon himself to protect his school and his students along with those that want to escape from all the madness. He and his students started to make robots to protect themselves along with a wide variety of sentries.

After two months, his followers started to reclaim much of the city and helping those in need. After the Faculty Director of the university passed from heart failure, he took the position himself. YLW Engineer decided to spread knowledge and wisdom to all to prevent another disaster while disciplining anyone that would repeat the mistakes of the past. News about free knowledge and education along with safety and stability spread across the land to the point where they decided to form their own country. YLW Engineer only knows how to run things like a school. So, and keeping it democratic, he decided to have the country be a massive school with governors acting as both political figures and principals that also teach certain fields such as politics (obviously) and whatever academics they prefer in order to survive on Zia.

## Government

The Academic Union of Zia is a scholastic commonwealth. What it means is that it is dedicated to advancing and spreading knowledge that runs like a school with an elected faculty senate. Political rights expand according to degrees of training and education.

## Society and Culture

Much of society in the AUZ is mainly focus on academics which is free and available to all. With knowledge, one can go anywhere with the right skills and creativity.

The original culture of the AUZ was a mix of various ethnic groups such as Hispanics, Italians, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesians, Swedish, Germans, Filipinos, Africans and French but largely Hispanic with Mexican as it was during the time of the Mann Empire days. Now, there are, at the very least, a thousand cultures and subcultures that have been inspired from many novels and historical references have appeared overnight. Some are still thriving while others didn't last long within a year. If you were to visit the AUZ, you can come across one person wearing a cowboy outfit while the other person might be wearing a kimono. Basically, the AUZ is multicultural with no discrimination.

## Economy

The currency or currencies of the AUZ is cash that looks similar to the USD along with some of the Team Fortress 2 currencies such as Scrap Metal, Refined Metal, Reclaimed Metal and Engineer Tokens.

Education and knowledge is the main trade of the AUZ in order to prevent people from dying, create food and medicine, how to survive, as well as provide entertainment that people make their own sequels or spin-offs. A LOT of spin-offs. Because the original entertainment industry went down and people are trying to find ways to entertain themselves.

With a great deal of knowledge, the citizens of the AUZ started to create advance farming methods such as vertical farms which increased the amount of food needed to survive as well as trade with those that lack crops or having a hard time growing them. They even make cultured meat and clone animals for protein. They also create a circular economy from all the waste and scrap in order to preserve some of the natural resources to prevent ecological disasters that would make the post-apocalypse even worse.

## Military

The military is largely disorganized and mostly comprised of volunteers that are armed with advanced weapons. These include the Pomson 6000 that fires energy beams, the C.A.P.P.E.R. which is also a ray gun but pistol form, and a large amount of automated weaponry such as sentries but are completely customized to do more than just fire bullets and missiles.