Early Earth Union (19-canon)

The **early Earth Union** (2789-3072) was a socialist-influenced dictatorship that lasted during the 28th century to the early 4th millennium AD.

## Factfile

* Capital cities: Mannahata City (New York City), Liberacion (San Francisco)
* Official languages: English, Spanish, French, Swahili, Arabic, Bengali, and Chinese
## History

### Age of Conquest/World War IV

After World War III left much of the world in ruins, the schoolteacher Rozalen Garcia and her militants seized control of New York City from the weak Ussian authorities, forming her own socialist state on the 1st of May, 2789. It grew as it swept across the Americas, supported by hungry, desperate, and impoverished masses that sought its rapidly-replicating robots to rebuild their broken society and feed them.

To enforce its control and beliefs, the Earth Union orders all of its citizens to have a tracking chip attached to their bodies. Those who were "unmarked" and those who refused to renounce their religious beliefs were rounded up and left to fend for themselves at the "bigot enclaves". Many Unionites complied, as they sought to deter crime and quickly "harmonise" their societies.

The Earth Union spreads throughout the Western Hemisphere, attracting its impoverished inhabitants with promises of food, reconstruction, and security. With enough members to build its own army and embarking in a campaign of "reorganising humanity to progress", the Earth Union wages a war of total conquest, declaring any region that refuses to submit to its rule as "a haven of bigotry to be purged". The Earth Union's wars of conquest were also inspired by the United States' attempts to install allied regimes around the world, but this time the Earth Union sought to directly implement its rule.

It has a brief rivalry with the Second United Nations that spreads across South America, southern Africa, and Australia. Although the SUN has better technology and faster economic development than the Union and the other blocs, widespread dissatisfaction against its rich rulers' corruption led to its collapse in stages.

The Earth Union has nearly taken over the Middle East: it briefly sweeps across Turkey and Mesopotamia before being pushed back by local nationalists. These nationalists were not only enraged by the Union's mandatory tracking chips, but also on its leaders' threats to demolish their sacred sites.

Threatened by the Unionite armies' attempts to seize control and implant their tracking chips everywhere, the remaining free peoples of the world built the Great Shields to protect themselves in the 2850s. Angered by what they perceived to be retention of oppressive customs, the armies of the Earth Union waged war to subjugate the Shielded nations and attack their allies in Mars. The Earth Union is joined by several defectors, from the colonies of Jupiter and Saturn, to the brief Unionite rebellions in Mars, who sent fleets to subjugate Mars and conquer the Galaxy. The Unionite armies and fleets were defeated in 2867, allowing the Shielded nations and their independence to continue for the next centuries.

### Veganist rule

For 36 years, Rozalen ruled the Earth Union as its first president. After that, she decided to pass her rule to a successor, and among the candidates she chose her friend Amarila Ferndis to take her place.

Amarila, as the second president, imposed various laws influenced by her veganist beliefs, outlawing the consumption of any meat under pain of death. To help her subjects transition to a vegetarian diet, she ordered the production of protein milk and slices, sometimes mixed with biomatter from the dead. However, the protein slices' higher prices and lack of access led to revolts in Africa and South America four weeks later.

Even though Amarila's soldiers and officials tried to punish the rebellions, they were overthrown by another faction led by Julia Carmendis, one of Rozalen's generals. Amarila and her members were then exiled to a penal colony in southeast Helenia, and her veganist laws were repealed to allow their subjects to eat meat again.

Several revolts against attempted authoritarian measures and mass executions led to the provinces of South America and Africa becoming more autonomous: nonetheless, the Earth Union lost Patagonia and parts of eastern Africa to secessionists in 2869.

### "Rainbows and unicorns"

While the new lands of Helenia, Atlantia, and Dinarobia were built as early as before World War III, during the Earth Union's rule, these islands were expanded into new continents, where poorer people and immigrants from Mars were being resettled to lessen overpopulation in the Americas. In the 2880s, a faction of Pro-Harmony Cores (urbanites) took over the government, and ordered the depopulation of their empire. Their group used a silver flag with a unicorn under a rainbow, symbolising their idealism for a scenario that others considered "impossible".

For the first three months, reproduction was banned, and strict laws were enacted to restore many forests and habitats, including severe punishments for even simply littering or wasting energy and water. People who were suspected of willingly producing their own offspring were also arrested and jailed for "contributing to pollution". After the announcement of the prohibition of reproduction, the armies of the Shielded Nations invaded the Earth Union, seeking to reduce its numbers and weaken its authority. They built fleets of ships and sent millions of people to newly-built colonies in the southern Milky Way. According to the Pro-Harmony leaders, they did so to "restore Earth to a more natural, sustainable state", as they consider the "green policies" and the environmental technology of the Shielded Nations to be insufficient.

Pressured by the loss of its outlying territories to the Shielded armies, the leader of the Unionite government called for its outlying fleets to return to Earth and defend their empire. They barely won the defence, and under pressure, the Unionite president had to legalise reproduction again on the sixth month. At first, the president only permitted one child, but later it was expanded to three as requested by the African territories.

### Later history

The Unionites expanded throughout the Milky Way, either by annexing allies, conquering resistant worlds, or by forcibly implanting its chips into the inhabitants.

In 3012, the Pro-Harmony faction was overthrown. In 3019 to 3054, the Earth Union built another fleet to conquer the Galaxy, complete with a cloned crew of personnel, troops, and colonists. However, various colonies along the Galactic west and centre stopped the Unionites' advances in 3056.

The Unionite economy began to deteriorate, overspent by industry, war against the rest of the Galaxy, and various defeats. In 3072, the university-planet of Ikhaya successfully revolted against the Earth Union, upset by its increasing costs and the suppression of its customs. After annexing more allies to its rule, Ikhaya's people built and strengthened their own civilisation as the Cosmopolitan Empire, ushering in a new age of art and freedom.

## Politics

The early Earth Union was a single-party dictatorship influenced by socialist and Marxist principles, and also its founder Rozalen's goal of "ending all suffering by force".

The Unionite government claimed itself to be the only legitimate authority over all of humanity: any other authority or independent faction would be considered as a haven for harmful beliefs, ranging from misogyny to fascism. Reflecting its abhorrence for independence, it mandated laws to ensure that every group was required to become a part of the government, from town councils to cooperatives between workers, sports teams, and even friends' clubs. Among their requirements include attending ceremonies to prove their loyalty to the government or to repair their cybernetic implants. Any group that operated independently from the government's orders had its members electrocuted and arrested.

The Unionite members of Africa have a degree of autonomy, allowing them to have some freedoms that other Unionites were forbidden from having, such as eating meat, not being forced into total submission to the government, private businesses, and religion. The Unionite government did so to avoid oppressing its African subjects, to thank their ancestors for their aid.

## Military

While the Earth Union's technology is not as advanced as its Shielded enemies, its military force is still larger than all of the Shielded Nations' forces combined, with most of its soldiers consisting of obedient male, female, and nonbinary clones. True humans who join the armed forces may get promoted into higher ranks than their clone soldiers.

The Earth Union tends to use massed infantry waves to eliminate their enemies in battle.

## Economy

The Earth Union's economy is somewhat closer to socialism (or state capitalism), in which many public facilities (such as electricity, transport), education, and healthcare are free. Part of its practices were also adopted by its enemies in the Great Shields to convenience their peoples or as experiments. Although these policies made the Earth Union more efficient and powerful than its Shielded enemies, at times some Shielded nations (such as China, Russia, Akhand Bharat, and West Australia) managed to outpace the Unionites.

Its schools often taught that "private businesses will lead to oppression", although smaller companies were permitted to operate alongside collectives set up by the government and groups of citizens. Once a company or business becomes too large, it has to be split up into teams of workers or become property of the government.

Most menial work in the Earth Union was done by teams of robots, leaving only human technicians to control the robots. A portion of it was done by clones that did not have a war to fight in. This caused some Unionites to stop working and start being dependent on robots.

The Earth Union enjoys a network of high-speed railways that were woven across the continents and oceans under its control.

## Demographics

As the Earth Union was founded and based on the former United States, most of its people had Latino ancestry, with large amounts of White and Black people, and Native Americans scattered among them. Its European territories were partly White and partly Middle Eastern, its African provinces were mostly populated by Black citizens, and its territories of East Australia and Antarctica had a White majority.

Unofficially, the Unionites may be divided into several macro-cultures, based on their lifestyles:

* Cores - mostly in the megacities along the East Coast of North Cemanahuac, present-day Mexico, and parts of Western Europe and Antarctica.
	+ The earliest supporters of the Earth Union and its founders, and their descendants, so they were immediately chipped. For most Cores, much of their work was done by robots, so they only needed to work in their offices and workshops for several hours. The rest of their days and spare days were spent mostly on entertainment, Internet, sports, cafes, and sex.
	+ Cores were the ones who became too reliant on the Unionite government's surveillance and technology, that they got scared and hostile if they were to live outside them. They also feared sexual abstinence and old age, for these might end their streaks of entertainment and sex.
	+ Depending on the district, Cores attended combat training at every few weeks or months.
* Regionals/Reggios - people who turned towards the Earth Union as it spread, or who happened to live in its territories. They especially lived in South Cemanahuac and Africa, where they had more freedom to continue their traditions.
	+ These people lived a less comfortable life, with less robots to surround them and ease their daily work. Even though they spent more time in workspaces such as factories, studios, and offices, they were still content. They were not as sexually-obsessed as the Cores, and some might be disgusted by the Cores' promiscuity.
	+ They considered the Cores to be "lazy" for not working as much as them, and they dislike the Cores for abusing them.
* Noughts/Nones - criminals, outlaws, and enemies of the Earth Union, mostly in prisons and prison camps
	+ If a certain group was harder to eliminate, its members were subjected to work in labour camps located in isolated areas where they had to supply their own water and energy sources (which may be taken away by Unionite citizens and officials at their whim). The only way anyone may escape those camps without being killed or forced back in was to swear to totally obey Unionite beliefs and have a tracking chip implanted into their body.
* Wilds - people who live outside any surveillance, or people who live outside the Earth Union
	+ Usually anarchist and socialist communes, and other militants that opposed the Unionite government.
* Clones - people that were produced in clone farms
	+ Militaristic, but were trained to adjust to civilian life without killing their neighbours.
	+ Equally divided between a male third, a female third, and a nonbinary third. Nonetheless stronger than humans due to their usage for military campaigns or menial work.
	+ Most of them lived separately from Cores and Regionals, and some regions used them as menial labour.
	+ Later mostly assimilated into Core society.
* Outliers - clones and occasional humans that were sent to live in colonies outside Earth.
	+ Similar lifestyles as the Regionals, but the more affluent ones began to live like Cores.

### Clones

As many Unionites were killed in wars to dominate Earth, its authorities built clone farms to create the armed forces of the Earth Union. Most clones tend to live separate lives from other Unionites, as members of its armed forces: they either waged war against the Earth Union's enemies, or were assigned to do hard labour when they are not at war. They are also used in some regions for harder labour, allowing Cores and Regionals to have more freedom to pursue their arts and crafts.

Every clone is made in batches -- a male batch, a female batch, and then a nonbinary batch. Regardless of their gender, many clones tend to be stronger than free Unionites, as their bodies were built for war and labour.

Some clones are produced as settlers who operated colonies in other star systems. A smaller portion of clones are produced for people who have licenses, to avoid overpopulation, although Unionites were permitted to keep them as roommates and partners. Unauthorised clones are immediately conscripted into the Unionite armed forces.

After several protests and civil wars, clones were given the option to live freely among civilians.

## Society

All citizens were required to wear a tracking chip in their skin, and most of them felt secure when surrounded by hidden cameras to "protect" them when they went outside their homes. Suspected opponents and criminals were electrocuted, and the most severe crimes of all (such as rebellion against the Earth Union, using "outdated and offensive" phrases, or reading any disapproved literature such as classical European art) would lead to severe electrocution.

Religion was initially prohibited in the founding territories of the Earth Union as "an obstacle to human progress". Individuality was viewed as "the cause of many of humanity's wars", and was prohibited in Earth Union society except in names and personal hobbies.

While the Earth Union proudly boasted of its multiculturalism and its diversity, it also forced every citizen under its rule to comply to its goal of "total progress". Sometimes, it also encouraged people from different ethnicities and races to marry each other so their distinctions will cease to exist in their descendants.

Earth Union propaganda also warned that if it stopped existing, or if it tolerated even one attempt in individuality or archaic art, "the evils of bigotry and oppression will return". Aside from coercing all Earthlings to obey its orders and endlessly celebrate its "diversity", Unionite society tended to be centered around entertainment, pop culture, and (cheap and colourful) memes that taught nothing but diversity. Nearly all Unionite pop culture was nothing but government propaganda, regardless of the original visions of their creators.

Like many of the Shielded nations that it warred against, the Earth Union uses environmentally-friendly technology. Furthermore, many Unionites have been genetically-modified, making them smarter, healthier, and stronger than people in the 21st century. However, the overuse of aphrodisiacs also made them more obsessed with sexual intercourse.

### Cannibalism

Old age was something to be feared in Unionite culture, as it represented backwardsness, tradition, and the reactionary beliefs that the Earth Union had prohibited. Therefore, most people were euthanised and reduced to more food and fertiliser once they reached 70 years of age, although some parts of Earth reduced the amount to 65, 60, or 50. Only higher-ranking party officials and those who have contributed much to Unionite society were permitted to take a drug that extends their youth by 40 or 60 more years, and then their bodies start aging normally afterwards, avoiding an earlier end.

Unionites considered cannibalism to be acceptable, usually by eating dead bodies. They considered it to be "recycling" resources, and sometimes they eat the body of a friend to commemorate them.

## Religion

The early Unionite regime is opposed to the existence of spirituality, viewing it as a form of oppression and the cause of many wars in history. Religion is banned in the Earth Union except for its African and South American members, whose peoples were allowed to keep their religious beliefs.

However, at around the 2830s, the leaders of the Earth Union stopped persecuting religious people, and started tolerating them. Nonetheless, many Unionites (especially Cores) avoid and oppose the existence of spiritual beliefs.

## See also

* Middle Earth Union
* Later Earth Union