Earth

Planet View

**Location:** Milky Way / Île-de-Terre / Sol System /  **Third planet**

**Earth** or **Terra** ***(Magi name: Nah'halah'bar "8-Quadrant Extraction Side"; Oecumenical name: Urtha-Ter Homa)*** sometimes poetically bestowed the title of the "**Sapphire Jewel of the Galaxy"** by Humanity.

## Homeworld

### Capital

Vienna (Terrestrial); Panchaia Towers, Babel Station (Extraterrestrial)

### Population

36.2 Milliard (legal citizens), 55.2 Milliard (estimated)

### Population (Ocean Floor)

500 Million

Ruled by the **Commonwealth of Terra** also called Earther Commonwealth or Home Commonwealth, is a Planetary Commonwealth of the United Confederation of Sovereign Systems. The Terran Commonwealth consists of 145 states, 4 Protectorates and 4 Freely Associated States, spread over five continents. There are also several "Civil–military Administrative Zones," established during the Unification Campaigns to see to the reconstruction and lawful administration of territories and states devastated during the conflict and during the long crueling history of the Great Collapse. Terra is the culmination of the gated community concept applied to an entire planet: "the division of the world into refined, high-end enclaves and vast formless ghettos".

Although all most of Humanities Space activities are consalidated under the Umbrella of the UCSS, Terra itself is still divided into Four Superstates (**Democratic Republic of Progressed People or DRPP**, **Second Jacobite Commonwealth or Fourth World Empire**, **Federative Union of Pratabrasil or United Rio** and **Novorossi State of Baikalia or NSB**), most of the control various colonies, several smaller nations and mega-cities (Known as the **Gongsuo Fu Cities**) however have placed themselves under full UCSS juristiction.

The cradle world of Humanity and to a lesser extent the UCSS, the Terran Commonwealth is the largest and most populous commonwealth in the UCSS. It is home to Humanities wealthiest cities as well as the Federal Capital of Vienna. However Kwashiorkor is widespread even in the richer regions of Earth, like the Stuttgart-Neustadt district of the Rhine-Neckar-Main Megaloplex. With shiny ethereal acrologies and smog-choked, overpopulated slums along sinking coastlines, clearly showing the gap between rich and poor which widens daily.

The People of Earth are despised by the citizens of the Colonies as self-destructive imperialistic tyrants and by Venus as ungrateful, grasping, pampered and unwilling to work to solve their own problems. They are widely mocked for their diet consisting mainly of genetically engineered protein-rich algae and insects, due to the massive population that has to be sustained. Violent weather is common due to environmental damage inflicted during the last centuries.

The Terminus for all trade routes and heart of all economic activity. Earth is a "black hole", importing everything that can be imagined, most of humanity's colonies simply exist to serve the needs of the Motherplanet, creating a fragile and dependent galatic economy. Most Terrans, if not unemployed, work in the byzantine bureaucractic labyrinth, as financial & administrative civil servants, working tirelessly to manage over a dozen light-years long supply lines, hundreds of distant colonies, millions of cities and billions and billions of daily transactions. Terra's largest and only export are the endless stream of cosmic explorers seeking new opportunities on the colonial worlds.

Terran society is divided into the **Netocrats**: the perceived global upper-class that bases its power on a technological advantage, due to decades of gene therapy and networking skills, the **Consumtariat**: a portmanteau of consumer and proletariat, whose main activity is consumption, GASP Recipients who live in the kowloonian megatropolises, consisting of brutalist "Unité d'habitation" social-housing complexes, lovingly dubed the "Concret Jungles" . GASPies are kept occupied with private problems and cheap food rations. The "panem et circenses" of advanced entertaiment & virtual reality technologies has left most Terrans pacified and apathetic. Mostly unemployed, GASPies can get work permits and/or join the military, allowing for the minuscule chance of rising up in the social ladder. And the **"Blanks"** the illegal citizens who live in the dilapidated suburbs and the overpopulated shanty towns that ring Terra's great cities. Their demoniation as "**Blanks**" comes from the phenomenon of lacking digital records, therefore showing their citizen file as blank.

Thanks to the advancement of technology and the unification of the planet, A Lingua Homo better known as "**Global**" is spoken by most people in urban areas as their first lanugage, however almost all of them speak their assinged second lanuage (based on the UCSS offical languages, with few exceptions) just as fluently. While some ethusiants keep native or smaller lanugages alive on Earth, the education policy of the planetary government has caused a extreme reduction of spoken launguages.

Lacustrine hurricanes. Thanks to Extreme wet bulb temperatures, large parts of the Global South and even parts of the American Deep South are inhabitable.
Earth has been the site of multiple devastating wars.
The UCSS has been also indirectly polluting the coasts of Earth, causing irreversible ecological damage with effluvia from nuclear reactors and industrial plants. By the 2900s, beaches across the Globe became saturated with toxic waste and highly irradiated sea life.

Sulfur lamp & low-pressure sodium lamps are used on terra to reduce light pollution.

Space Elevators:
-Samoa Space Elevator (Tāfuna nearest Port)
-Tahiti Space Elevator (Papeʻete Nearest Port)
-Quito Space Elevator (Near the city of Quito)
-Kenya Space Elevator, Nanyuki (the main port and massive city)
-Kilimanjaro Space Elevator, Arusha-Moshi (the main port and massive city), regional massive cities include Nairobi, Mombassa, Malindi, Lamu, Bagamoyo-Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Mtwara, Kisumu,
-Rwenzori Space Elevator, Karambi
-Bélabo Space Elevator, Bélabo
-Opara Space Elevator, Petrolina-Juazeiro
-Bukidnon Space Elevator (Malaybalay)
-Ibagué Space Elevator (Ibagué)
-Wahgi Space Elevator (Mount Hagen with to conncections to Madang)
-Bogotá Space Elevator (Bogotá)
-Qullaw Space Elevator (La Paz)
-Libreville Space Elevator (Libreville)
-Borneo Space Elevator (Putussibau)
-Veragua Space Elevator (Santiago de Veraguas)
-Talamanca Space Elevator (San Isidro de El General)
17 Space Elevators

## **Government and politics**

### Cabinet

**Head of state:** Plenipotentiary Administrator

**Head of government:** Deputy Administrator

**Foreign advisor:** General Representative

**Economic advisor:** General Commissioner for finance and economics

**Security advisor:** General Commissioner for justice

#### Dangote-Ngwube's cabinet

Since the Federal Party (Terra) won the 2998 election, the cabinet has been as follows:

## Military

### Army

Terra has a particular large home army. However they are inexperienced and rarely see active combat, with a ratio of 7.8 of officer to enlisted troop. The terran personnel with the most experiences, tend to be attachés of Martian extrasolar military interventions. Terra supplies middle-ranking officers and audits to the Confederal Space Force.

### Astral Forces

The Earth Spaceforce while one of the largest besides Mars, is greatly "bloated" with a labyrinthine bureaucracy and large hulking barely functioning "vanity" spacecrafts making up the majority of the Terran fleet, usually playing second fiddle to the Martian Spaceforce, when they leave the solar system. Meanwhile Solar Guard is on paper the esteemed home fleet and the final line of defence, in practice are an ceremonial daycare for silver-spooned Terran-born officer's school graduates, with Excellent pensions, and little need for the other services, without the threat of seeing any actual combat.

*Main article: List of states and territories of the UCSS*

### **Superstates**

**Democratic Republic of Progressed People or DRPP**, **Second Jacobite Commonwealth or Fourth World Empire**, **Federative Union of Pratabrasil or United Rio** and **Novorossi State of Baikalia or NSB**

DRPP: Central/Eastern Eurpe, European Russia, Iran, and Turkey.
Fourth World Empire: Australia, Ashlands East Coast, Arctic Islands, Scandinavia and North Atlantic Archipelago
United Rio: Southern Cone
NSB: Siberia, Far North China and Alaska.

The Terran Commonwealth is divided into Commonwealths, Administrations, Commissions, Mandates and Protectorates which are in turn further subdivided into Cantons, Provinces and Prefectures.

### **States**

#### **Mediterranea**

Extensive development, thanks to advances in air conditioning, has created a "techno-green" jewel in the heart of the Terran Commonwealth with massive network of MagLev lines, bridges, and giant broad-gauge railways entangling this region, its crowning achievement the **Gibraltar Bridge** that connects Europe and Africa. Along the coast, wind turbines make use of the regular Atlantic hurricanes that wreck the continent's western shore. In recent times a sort-of neo-roman identity has taken root in this state, as a creole culture emerged due to increasing cultural homogenization, in stark contrast to the long history of economic depression, separatist movements, nationalist purges, population decline, and general chaos due to the mass migrations that spilled forth from the increasingly uninhabitable neighbouring regions.

However the Commonwealth is in truth a corporate neo-feudal oligarchy governed by the would-be aristocrats who made "big bank" from Africa’s agribusiness boom. The Pilgrimage Company holds large amount of influence and assets in this state due to the many traditionalist Pilgrims and Holy Sites in this region. In the wake of the Nakba, the region has become extremely socially stratified, its upper class live within shiny pyramid-like Arcologies, save from the nanite swarms that spread the dreaded Silicon Pest. Many of the Neo-Aristocrats make up the Upper Echelons of Agrobotix.

Agrobotix commands a firm hold over the political landscape, due to its heavily involvement in the "Greening of the Desert" and the creation of the African Megalakes. ExoSol is the only other notable presence, due the large energy sector of the regional economy.

The Magi enacted **Atlantropa** allegedly to create extra land for agriculture and habitation, in truth however it was done to destroy the European climate making them dependent on their Alien benifactors.

#### **Scandinavia**

The Commission's territory was greatly expanded by the draining of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, in recent history, however, these new lands have not been utilized for their maximal potential, remaining underdeveloped and underpopulated.

With the vanishing of the arctic ice, the coastlines of Norway and Russia became trading hubs, growing rich and prosperous, the UCSS or rather its predecessor the USN build **Himlanagli** an "Nordic Singapore" in the Melhus Region, located in the stragetic Trondheim Fjord, close to the city of Nidaros, to to collect on trans-arctic trade and gain unprecedented maritime control over the North Sea, the military stronghold hosts the Northern Seas Fleet.

The **Northern European Enclosure Dam**, which was used to drain the Baltic and North Sea, begins only south of Sotra Island, leaving most of northern shorelines of ancient Norway unchanged, sans the effects of climate change. Oslo has expanded greatly thanks to the new lands gained by the reclamation.
Scandinavian languages suffered extinction due to the globalization, high rates of immigration, and the already high English proficiency of the region.

Another landmark is **The Moskovskaya Gigaplex** a gigantic two-layered platform city above the City of **Stalinodar**, divdening the city into Upper Section, an utopia for next-gen tech and a lower section the dark gloomy "Old Moscow", commonly called "**Podmoskovye**" which is inhabited by the poor GASPies and those rejected by society. **Ikar** is the gigantic man-made structure that supports the upper tier of Stalinodar.

#### **Danube-Pannonia Commission**

The **Pannonian Lakes** or commonly called the **Magyar Sea**, is an shallow lake, created by the USN, the predecssor to UCSS, to create a reliable water supply and "beachfront property" for their invisoned "world capital city" of Vienna. Although flooding much of the pannonian basin, displacing many serbs, hungarians and slovaks, and spanning multiple conspiarcy theories about the alleged "**Deportation Plan**" of the USN to "drive" disloyal populations into the colonies, The Pannonian Lakes proved a beneficial to megapolises of Budapest, Belgrade and the Vienna-Bratislava Megalopolis as many of their rich citizens can now enjoy private islands and great cruises on the lakes.
Following earthquakes and wars the capital **Uskub** (Skopje) was reconstructed along Kenzo Tange's "**Plan for Skopje 1963**", creating a futuristic neo-brutalist "**concrete jungle**".

#### **Pan-Arabia**

The UCSS ended the nightmare of history in Western Asia, with its large amounts of resourcess and augmented workers a number of megaprojects like the restoration and flooding of several dry river valleys (Wadi) like the **Wadi al-Rummah river valley** or the expansions of **Duqm Port**, **Palmyra Megaplex** and the Hijaz Megaplex, in a similar vein the revival of **Babylon**  beneath a climatized biodome or the irrigation efforts in the Syrian Badia, have taken place. While the Gulf Region still remains uninhabited due to wet-bulb temperatures.

The Pilgrimage Company holds large amount of influence and assets in this state, despite the quite seculuar attiude of the locals, due to the many Holy Sites in this region. However the Commwealth is still depopulated thanks to devastaing climate change and nuclear warfare. Ill-prepared and mired in violent sectarianism partly spurred by outside powers, the myriad states, left with empty coffers with advent of new forms of energy, could not overcome their differences and prevent the region slipping into uninhabitablity, most of its citizens had fled the region, re-settleing in the ghettos of european states, refugee centers on Mars or richer arabian mega-city states, protected by "Techno-barbarian" Warlords.

The Arabian generation ships, build by consortium of similar minded Arabian "Billionaire Inventors", that left the Solar Systems centuries before the birth of the UCSS, were believed to have perished, having never arrived on their destination or later destroyed by The Magi, however this was not the fact as the Terrans would later find out.

#### **The Great Ashlands**

Simply known as **Ashlands**, due to the violtile history of the region. The former United State is still suffering from the centuries of environmential destruction caused by their forefathers. Huge Death Zones along the sunken costal regions of the Gulf of Mexico, the barren deserts of Arizona and Texas, the **Great Acid Lakes** that constantly spawn lacustrine hurricanes terrorizing the Megaslums of Greater Chicago, Buffalo and Grand Detroit, the **Sea of Putrescence** which gives birth to abominations and radioactive monsters, **Mega-Pythons** which eat unsuspescting families in their sleep and not to forget the "**Smothering Green**" the bioengineered menace that is Mega-Kudzu which swallows villages in months round out the horrofic surroundings of continental **Formausa**

#### **Mandate of the North Atlantic Isles**

This Mandate's territory was greatly expanded by the Draining of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, in recent history, however, these new lands have not been utilized for their maximal potential, remaining underdeveloped and underpopulated. However thanks to the reclamation of these vast swaths of territories, millions have flocked to the mandate.

A warmer climate has caused heavier floods and storms. Small-scale rebuilding efforts to restore lost ancient cities are starting to enter their first phases. However London is still underwater, as the expanded Thames River was preserved, for commercial reasons, although there are some petitions that want to change that.

The Magi build the **Transatlantic tunnel** between New Providence (Ashlands) and Great Britain. The UCSS build several **Irish Sea Bridges** and undersea tunnels as well as massively expanding costal fortification of Ireland. There are efforts to revive the Old British dialect.