Commonwealth of the Milky Way Republic

The Commonwealth of the Milky Way Republic (CMWR) is one of the major state in the 8th millennium. The Commonwealth is considered as the fourth iteration of the Milky Way Federation, which were the CMWF, the GMWF, and the MWF, which in terms was the successor of the UGF, and the Universal Union.

The CMWR was considered as the second most powerful state in the Known Worlds, surpassing the Briserian Federation, its traditional rival, in many fields such as scientific research and military strength. The Commonwealthian economy is also the strongest, with an extremely large military-industrial complex enjoyed by the government. The CMWR is one of the most populated state with more than 28 billion citizens, living on 21 inhabited colonies. Most of the territory of the CMWR is the historical NCIZ, previously controlled by the NCIZ Republic.

The government is a conventional Briserian one, with a head of state, the Master, elected for life by the unicameral Parliament with absolute control over the executive, judicial and legislative branches of the government. Since the Commonwealth is a federation, the governors of the colonies hold normal elections for a limited time and enjoy relative freedom allowed by the federal government.

The CMWR has been denounced regularly by other states for its rough treatment of poorer citizens. A de facto caste system has been running on Planet Hamhram since the establishment of the CMWR. A civil war has been going on since at least fifty years on Planet Hamhram, led by the Hamhram Liberation Front, an underground insurgency group extremely organized and assisted by the Briserian Federation, the TCAG, and more. Its extremely aggressive foreign policy was also denounced, especially during the Unification Wars and the sudden annexation of most of the TCAG. This triggered the creation of a satellite state, the Line, a puppet of the TCAG and the Briserian Federation.

## Great War of 8021 and the Collapse of 8024

At the beginning of the Great War of 8021, the CMWR did not initially initiate an alliance with the Briserian Federation nor the TCAG, and continued fighting against The Line, until the sudden progression of the Holy Briserian Empire, preying on the despair of the far colonies and its inhabitants, grew so enormously large, that not only an alliance, not even a confederacy, could counteract. The XXVIth Master engaged the Directive n°7.1, a directive to give himself and the Parliament even more power, and temporarily united all political parties by law. The CMWR also engaged martial law, and a Republic-wide curfew and enhanced identification of civilians.

The establishment of a Secret Police dedicated to bust Imperial sleeper cells, and the creation of a parallel database linked to the civilian one to list and feed MSAI/X information about its citizens was also implemented, but none of this can be confirmed.

The CMWR Fleet, and Armed Forces enjoyed a massive +130% boost in budget in the first year of the conflict that directly engaged the CMWR, and continues to receive massive amounts of funding, which, in turn, drove up the inflation to previously-unseen levels.

The treatment of poorer civilians was also lessen, mainly because the police was also enlisted in fighting against domestic religious terrorism, driven by the Holy Briserian Empire, and were actually treated better than before - but this is only a mere carrot in front of the population to force them to enlist, which worked. A tremendous 5 million people enlisted and joined the Armed Forces, and are currently deployed in securing the borders of the CMWR and fighting against the Empire alongside the TCAG and the Briserian Federation.

The CMWR, however, does not have any particular point of view on the Promethean Republic, but does see the NCIZ 2, and the Movement for the Revival of the NCIZ, as a threat that "needs to be dealt with in due time" - as they are, according to the CMWR, a mere by-product of the Collapse of 8024, and instability caused by the incompetence of the Stratocracy.