The Parliamentary Republic of Ecyles

## Geography

Gliese 667 Cc is about 1.77 times the size of Earth. Its radius is 6,095.5 square miles. Gliese 667 Cc is a very rocky planet. It has lots of mountains and caves as well as lakes and rivers. The planet is tidally locked meaning one side always faces the sun. The side that faces the sun is called the Calidum. The Calidum is very hot and dry. The other side, the Gelida, is very cold and icy with a lot of glaciers. In the area where both sides meet, it is the Inter. The Inter is the perfect temperature for humans, although it is very windy. The heavy winds made the plants evolve to be very thick and sturdy. The Parliamentary Republic of Ecyle is located mainly in the Inter and only takes up 30 square miles in the Inter because of its small population of 4,000 people. They will also go to the Calidum and Gelida when it is advantageous to them. For example, they have solar panels in the Calidum to make energy and will also harvest ice from the Gelida when they need more water.

## Agriculture

Agriculture was a tool for our people. It gave them the knowledge to plant gardens of food and grow materials used for clothing and textiles. We also needed agriculture to help feed our civilization. Agriculture is how we grow crops of food that will help our people survive.

We can get many other resources from earth in order for us to develop planting skills. The most important part of starting a garden is the soil.  Soil is capable of supporting plant life and is vital to life on earth. Soil can be helpful to our planet because it filters and cleans our water and helps prevent natural hazards. Soil is also important because it will help us grow healthy and organic foods. We chose to transport soil from earth because we thought that the soil that was on our planet was not going to be enough or it would damage our foods. We also brought seeds with us that would help us grow the food from earth that we were used to.

Another important thing to grow food is water. We built a water mill near a river to allow the water to travel to people's gardens . The way the water wheel works is by building it near fast flowing water. As the water moves the force causes it to spin. The axle of the wheel is connected to a dynamo that turns that kinetic energy into electricity that your home can use and it also helped us water the field.

Our planet has many different foods because of the different species we have like for example many of our species don't eat the same thing as other species because some species are Carnivore that only eat meat, or others can be herbivores that eat plants with a lot of fiber but it also all depends were most of these species live and what there habitat looks because our  planet has two different sides and have too different kinds of  weather. Agriculture was a tool for our people. It gave them the knowledge to plant gardens of food and grow materials used for clothing and textiles.

We got many of our sources from earth like for example water,soil and other stuff and the way we got water it that we kept digging up dirt till we found our way to water because our planet has too different type of sides and that can allow us to have some water because in one side it could be raining really hard and we can make a water mill that would help us transport water to many of our gardens like I said in the beginning. We also got soil from earth and our planet because our planet has a layer where if you keep digging up dirt you will eventually find some, and we also brought some from earth which used a lot of digging.  We made sure that many of our foods, crops were nice and healthy by checking them each week to see how they were because our planet is pretty advanced and can have advanced technology and we created monitors in the plant to see how they were doing and make sure everything was looking good and healthy for people to eat and sometimes we weren't so lucky and didn't have nice and healthy food for people but we have changed that and started creating many different useful technology object for our agriculture to be nice and healthy.

## Biology

In planet Gliese 667Cc there were more than one species, it was like different cultures, there was Glieya, Nedulus, Formica and many more. Each of them have many differences like for example some of them live underneath the dirt and some of them don't. Formica is one of our species on our planet and what that species does is that The Formica are a dark green species that lives underground and can see in the dark. They are short and strong. They have sensitive tentacles on their heads that they use to detect vibrations. They also have bioluminescent patterns on their arms and head, which they light up lines in certain patterns to communicate, and that's Formica, The next species that we have in our planet is called Nedulus, the  species does not have a specific look alike, we designed it to the ideas were were thinking of when we were creating it and that's Nedulus, but these are just some of some few species living in our planet.

## History

On May 16th, 2022, The Parliamentary-Republic of Ecyles(EEK-YEL-EEZ)(AKA PRE) was formed and began to bloom on Gliese 667CC. After the planet formerly known as “Earth” was destroyed due to nuclear warfare, multiple groups of the remaining people traveled to space hoping to find new habitable planets to grow a society on. The name Ecyles was designed after a member of the HSB (Human Survival Bureau); Elyce. When the name was created, it was the leader's way of pledging allegiance to the HSB.

When humans first arrived on Gliese 667CC, there were three different species inhabiting the planet. The Nedulus , the Formica, and the Glieya. In the beginning of civilization's growth, there were some obstacles. Differences in beliefs, power struggles, and other issues caused major quarrels to break out, and lives were lost due to them. These issues manifested themselves into myths like The Lovers Tragedy and The War That Killed Everyone. These myths were told throughout the ages, and used as cautionary tales for everyone in the future.

As PRE grew, the people began to live and thrive; not just survive. The people of PRE began creating holidays. The first holiday created was “Arrival Day” (May 16th). After the first holiday was created, many more came after that like “Remembrance Day” (May 25th), “Founders Day” (June 3rd), and “Unity Day” (May 26th). Arrival Day is a day used to celebrate PRE’s creation on Gliese 667CC.

During Arrival day, people eat big feasts, perform dances and songs, and come together as a community to celebrate. Remembrance Day is a day of solidarity dedicated to the 37,000 people that perished in the famine and drought. During Remembrance Day, people stay up until the next sunrise, stay in their homes, and pray; communicating with the lost ones. Unity day is a celebration of the day the warm and cold side of our planet made peace. A lot of quarreling occured because of the division between the two sides, and when peace was made, life became easier for everyone on the planet. For Unity Day,  the citizens hold a festival telling the story of when peace was made, and compete in games like relay races, bean bag tosses, and ring tosses. During these games, every team wears either blue or red to symbolize the hot and cold sides of the planet.

With the holidays, the people of PRE also created traditions. The first tradition that was made was “FRI-day”. This tradition was created by the founder Parker Commerson, and it states that everyone will eat french fries on every Friday of the week. Other traditions (ones that made sense) started to form including monthly festivals and traditional feasting foods (french fries, kukupa fruit, wosch fruit, etc.).

Although PRE was thriving, there were political issues that came up at times. In the history of PRE, there were four wars. The first war was against Azon. After Azon stole PRE’s supplies and resources, they were upset that they got caught and declared war on PRE. Founder Parker Commerson ripped up the war paper and the declaration was declared void by the HSB. The second war was also against Azon. The nation CCT-1D merged with PRE and shortly after, Azon declared war on CCT-1D, leaving PRE to sort out the affair. This war was also called off for an unknown reason. The third war was against TRAPPIST. This war was declared by their head of war, Gavin. Shortly after this, Gavin was exiled from TRAPPIST for malice and violent intentions. Once Gavin was removed, TRAPPIST decided to make the war contract null and void. This brings me to PRE’s most recent war; The Rebellion War. The Nation of Mabu started the rebellion war when they declared financial independence from the HSB. The HSB started becoming a dictatorship, and groups were growing restless. PRE decided to declare financial independence from the HSB, but they did not join the Rebellion Army until the very end. When it was time for the Rebellion VS HSB battle, the HSB declared that everyone must pick a side, and PRE picked the side of the Rebellion Army. The HSB won the war, and the Rebellion Army was left to independently live on their planets with no communication with the HSB or any allies of the HSB.

During the times of these wars, PRE made some alliances. The first alliance PRE made was with CCT-1D. Before the merge of the two civilizations, they made an alliance and traded supplies with each other under the table before they were permitted by the HSB to trade. The second alliance PRE made was with The Republic of Alejec. This alliance was temporary, and was only set to last through the first war with PRE. Alejec and PRE made a temporary alliance so PRE could recruit founder Jacob Monroe as a soldier in the war against Azon.

During the HSB’s reign, they handed out obstacles to each civilization, and they liked to call them “wrenches”. The first wrench that was given to PRE was a nuclear explosion. PRE quickly responded to this wrench by first cooling down the reactors, and then working to stabilize and rehabilitate the environment so they could continue to use the land for crops and whatever they needed to. The third and final wrench PRE had was a drought. They responded by first making the public aware of the issue. The Planet Gliese 667CC planet is tidally locked, so they transported ice from the cold side and left it to naturally melt on the warm side. Aside from wrenches, PRE also had its own issues. 40,000 refugees arrived on Gliese 667CC, and PRE did not have the resources to take care of them. Famine and drought broke out, and PRE lost about 91% of their population(37,000). Although PRE suffered this great loss, the civilization quickly rebounded and rehabilitated itself; and soon enough it was thriving with its remaining 4,000 people.

The last point I want to touch on is their communication. PRE created an alphabet that was similar to the English alphabet. So similar, in fact, that we were easily able to translate their writings and documents into English. With an alphabet came a new language. While we can’t be sure what their language sounded like, scientists and historians have made multiple theories. The most appealing theory is Pig-Latin. Pig-Latin is an English-like language that rearranges letters and adds an extra “a” sound at the end of each word. With this new alphabet and language, PRE was able to build a brand new society off of nothing. The six founders not only created new ways of living, but they created new languages, alphabets, traditions, holidays, and many more.

## Politics and Government

### Form of Government

The form of government that Ecycle (ee-kyuh-lease) chose is a Parliamentary Republic, they chose this form of government because they want everyone to have equal power.There are 6 people in the parliament at any given time, unless a new member is being voted upon and sworn in. When it is time to elect a new member, the people will vote for a candidate of their choice those votes will go up to the representative responsible for voting for the people of their designated “state”. The representatives then count the votes and choose the most voted upon candidate to elect to the parliament.

### Laws of the P.R.E.

One of the most notable laws that the P.R.E has put in place is this: “On the second Friday of each “month” it is mandatory for all citizens to have french fries with at least one meal.” The P.R.E also has laws around impeachment that states that if one of the members of the parliament does not comply with the laws of the civilization, the citizens or parliament members may vote to impeach them, and that the impeachment vote is a majority vote. The P.R.E also has rules around becoming a citizen, they state that if any person wishes to be a citizen of the P.R.E they must take government provided class aiding them for a test they take on the history and laws of the country. Along with these laws they have a law about rights stating that every citizen will be treated equally without discrimination whatsoever

### Military

The P.R.E does not have a strong military, in fact their military is very weak. They have a small amount of people and not extremely strong weapons. They cannot travel beyond their planet nor can they communicate beyond their planet. The only time they could communicate beyond their planet was when the wormholes opened up between planets. They are aware that they share a planet with the Glorinians although they don't communicate often. The reason the P.R.E does not have a strong military is because they had nothing to fear, there civilization was prospering, they were growing in population and as a product of that resources.

### War

When the wormholes opened a few civilizations decided to attack the P.R.E. The civilizations that atttacked the P.R.E are Azon and TOAAC. The reason Azon went to war with the P.R.E is for resources. The war between Azon and the P.R.E never went through. One of the original founders tore the war document in half and the Human Survival Bureau declared it void. TOAAC’s reason for attack was that they wanted the P.R.E to join there nation.  Their was a war with the Human Survival Bureau (H.S.B) which was initiated by TOAAC. TOAAC and their allies lost the war against the H.S.B and their allies, the P.R.E was sided with TOAAC’s alliance.

### Alliances

The P.R.E has not gone to war with any civilization, although one of their allies have. The P.R.E had a permanent alliance with the Costal Colonies of Trappist-1d (CCT-1d). CCT-1d later joined the P.R.E and the 6 heads of their nation joined the parliament to make a 16 person parliament of the P.R.E. The P.R.E had temporary alliances for war purposes. The temporary alliances lasted no more than a week. The purpose was to get the ally to assist the P.R.E in war efforts.

## Media and Entertainment

The media in the planet of Ecycles is an easy way for all the people to communicate. With the news sources and other entertainment forms on Ecycles just like Ecycles Time, What's up with Ecycles. Which are the most popular news forms in the media. They keep up with the people, making sure they get all their input. Publication is their way to get all the people involved in the planet. The government has a lot of say in most media and entertainment. They want to keep up with everything that is being said about them and what the people are thinking.

On the planet they show reruns of television series that would be shown on earth along with movies. The government also created a reality TV show called Keeping Up with the Founding 6. So the people have insight on everything that goes on in the life of the people running the planet, and keeping the media and people in check. The show was to try to get the people more involved with what is going on with the founding 6 people of the planet.

The people seem to love the interaction they have with the media and the entertainment center. Getting to report when they are feeling and knowing everything that is going on around the planet. The media made sure to get important details out to the people as soon as possible so the citizens would not get worried and freak out by disasters, or any with people coming into our planet out of nowhere.

When creating the media they had to make sure all the information was correct by running it by the government before, making sure none of it was faking to alarm the people. But when the planet was first created not all the media was true and involved all the people. The founding 6 made sure that they created a strong team that would communicate truthfully and honestly bring the news of the planet to all the people.

When citizens are worried about different issues going on they go to the table of complaints or concerns that are forwarded to the government and then reported by the news center. The goal of the media and the government is to make all the citizens inclusive so they can all feel safe in the place they live in.

The media in any world or planet is important for all people. Media brings many emotions, and all sorts of different types of information. Information that all the people may need and find interesting. We bring media to complete a sense of communication. Something that brings all the people together. In times of sorrow the way we find information is by news articles (news sources in general), social media. We're sitting by the television or by our phones just to find out if events are happening in the world or with our own family and friends. Entertainment is a big part of the planet today, even though it may not always be butterflies and rainbows, the founding 6 wanted it to be a safe place to ask questions or to hear about the planet they were living. To this day entertainment is still a big part of Cycles and we thank the founding 6 for that.

## Culture

### Holidays

One of the most important holidays is Landing Day. It honors the day when humans first came to Gliese 667 Cc. Landing Day is celebrated on July 16th, which is the day the founding humans arrived on the planet. Landing Day is a day to celebrate new beginnings and to be grateful for everything you have. One of the traditions is similar to Earth’s New Year resolutions, where people decide to improve their behavior or accomplish some personal goal. People will make bracelets that symbolize their goals. It is said that the longer you can keep your bracelet on, the better luck you will have achieving your goal. Another tradition is to have a big feast with friends and family. The foods eaten at each feast vary, but it is traditional to have a sweetberry cake for dessert. Sweetberries are red, sugary berries that are one of the native plants of Gliese 667 Cc. The sweetberry cake is round and is a pinkish color from the sweetberries. The cake is supposed to represent the planet they now live on. It is also customary for people to give gratitude notes and small gifts to their close friends and family on each other’s pillows. This is supposed to be a way to thank the people close to you for everything they have done for you. Landing Day is meant to be spent with friends and family, so that you can all celebrate the holiday together. Landing Day is one of the most important holidays in all of the Parliamentary Republic of Ecyle.

Another holiday of the P.R.E. is Fryday. Fryday occurs on the second Friday of every month. On this day it is mandatory to eat french fries in at least one meal. It is an actual law that everyone must eat french fries on this day. This law was inspired by Rosa Luna’s similar law requiring citizens to eat fries every second Friday of the month. Fries are also the P.R.E.’s national food and are loved by all the citizens. Some people will even go to such extremes to the point where the only thing they eat on Fryday is french fries.

### Social Norms

The people of the P.R.E. are very friendly and open. It is considered rude not to say hello to someone when you see them, even if they are a stranger. Rather than waving to someone, they will greet each other by clapping. The first person claps once, and then the second person claps twice in response. Another social norm is that shaking your head side to side means yes, while up and down means no. They will also always eat using utensils, no matter what they are eating. They’ll even use utensils when they are eating their beloved french fries.

### Clothes

People in the Parliamentary Republic of Ecyle typically wear colorful clothes with different patterns. The different colors and patterns are meant to look joyful and also express individuality. Clothing is not gender specific and people wear whatever they want. The young children will normally wear knee length dresses with pockets in the sides.The children will also wear pants underneath their dresses when the weather is colder. Most adults and teenagers will wear loose shirts and pants, although some people will wear dresses or skirts. As people become seniors, they will often begin to wear dresses more often.

Another form from our planet is our artifacts. We made a mask that is a replica of our species. Our species (Glieya) has a heat sensing bulb on their head so whenever they went in the dark they could see heat which helped them hunt and protected them from anything alive. They have bigger eyes so they could see in the dark and we made it so they have 10x better vision than the human eye. They have antlers which they use while fighting and it has some moss that grows on the antlers. More information here. Another artifact is a neutral growing orb that's used as currency. The orb replica was made from glass, paint, glitter and water. The species called formica had a belt and the artifact that we made to copy it was made from cardboard, cley, paint and string

### Art

Art is a part of our civilization and there are a lot of different types of forms of art and I'm here to talk and show the different forms of art in my civilization. One of the forms of art in my civilization is weapons and yes weapons can be art too, you can look at the spear and the catapult. The spear was created with red wood and was hand carved and was used by a hunter that died and the spear was left to rot for years which is why it has its distinct red color and gray color. The catapult was created by two brothers who tested weapons for war but the machine failed and it hit and killed the brothers on impact so now the catapult is unfinished and it will never be finished.