Galatea

Galatea is a planet which is an early Earth colony which was founded to explore a perfect society with human rights protected against dangerous philosophies like socialism, communism, and fascism. Its dominant philosophy is called alternatively capitalism, propertarianism, or classical liberalism.

## History

Colonists for this planet were chosen from the United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Austria, South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Patagonia, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The founders decided on the most attractive and most intelligent people with useful skills to join them on the colony world.

The founders' council controlled colonization for the first two decades as they began to set up a colonial government. It required people to pair up and have at least 5 children, and after that, people would be given gold, silver, and land as a reward for having more children. Everyone went through a genetic counseling session, identifying physical aspects that they wanted corrected and those the council wanted changed, and had their genome altered for the new planet.

Every person on the planet had to work at some job, provide for his own disability, retirement, and unemployment, and provide for his family. There would be no inheritance tax, or property tax, but the colonial government would raise funds through specific police tax, fire tax, emergency medical tax, road tax, rail tax, and so on, so that as you use something, you pay a tax to support it. Services, like schools, were funded by tuitions, not taxes, so that people who had no children in school wouldn't pay for a school unless they voluntarily chose to do so.

From 2071, 19 people landed on the planet they named Galatea, with three moons, but only a high and low tide of any appreciable difference. On the northern continent, they founded New Jamestown, as they had come from Virginia in the Confederate States.

## Population

As of 2370, there are 8.6 billion people on Galatea, roughly half male and half female. Women are genetically engineered for beauty, and have symmetrical faces, typically small noses, full lips, hourglass bodies, average to thick hair that grows rapidly on their heads, blue, green or gray eyes of various shades, and no body hair whatsoever, along with breasts that are at least an E-cup at the smallest. They are at shortest 5'6" and can be up to 6'10" tall for the most part, with many falling between 5'8" and 6'2". Men are typically between 5'8" and 6'11" tall, with symmetrical and masculine faces. Both genders have enhancements not to gain weight (except many women have an enhancement to gain weight in their breasts), and are often quite athletic in appearance without much maintenance. Men and women have a genetic enhancement that allows them to regrow limbs if severed.

## Law

If a man commits rape against a woman, he is most often sentenced to genetic re-engineering into a woman and forced to endure intercourse against her own will so that she knows how it feels, before being released back into society after undergoing counseling. There is no death penalty, but a person who commits murder undergoes genetic re-engineering and mental reconstitution, a form of identity death.