Kamijing

**Kamijing** (Asiatic: *kami*, spirit; *jing*, city) was a space platform in the Main Asteroid Belt of Sol System and lived up to its name as a center of spacer culture, ethos, and religion. It is also the political center of the Confederacy of Interasteroidal Systems, of which it is a founding member.

## History

First constructed in the **90s BSC** during the Foundation Period, Kamijing was the first space platform to be constructed by Asteroidal Industries, Inc. The first wave of colonists were of Asiatic descent and gave the platform its name. Kamijing first became a major shipping hub for the ITS system, refining materials mined on Ceres and other small asteroids to be shipped back to Earth. For the next fifty years, the corporation would tentatively over see an influx of spacers and off-world immigrants attracted by spacer life, very high paying jobs, and a society free from the laws of Earth. As the platform grew to support several thousand, popular attitudes expressed support for independent self-determination for the platform and those like it.

In **49 BSC** Kamijing gained economic independence from the company and began trading independently with other spacers, Luna, and Earth. Various clubs and societies were formed with various political ideals, though no one group would hold a decisive majority of public opinion for about a decade.

In **41 BSC**, Kamijing became one of the founding members of the Confederacy of Interasteroidal Systems and declared itself a parliamentary democracy. The former administrative districts of the platform as formed by Asteroidal Industries were deliberately engineered to have consistent population density from one to another. A popular referendum decided upon a single representative for each district.

In **SY 97*,*** the Army of Eastern Kamijing was organised on the platform and recieved official dispensation from Parliament in response to the Fretaika Rebellion.

## Government

Kamijing is officially a unicameral parliamentary democracy. A simple majority of 51% is required to form a government. Until the Rebellion, parliament was almost always a coalition governnment. Since the rebellion, three major parties have alternated the majority with several minority parties forming the opposition:

* **Kamijing People's Party**: The KPP is a populist left-wing party that chiefly campaigns among Kamijing's working class, especially its agrarian workers. It is somewhat modeled on the single party of the People's Republic. They collaborate closely with the Army of Eastern Kamijing and could be considered its political wing. They favor popular referenda for decision making and have active social welfare programs. They have gained several seats in every Parliamentary election since taking the majority in **SY 97**. Together with CUP and KF!, these three parties command a supermajority in Parliament.
* **Confederate Union Party**: The oldest party on Kamijing, Confederate Union is moderate and centrist in terms of Solar politics. Formed in **48 BSC**, they helped to advance the cause of the Confederacy. A representative from Confederate Union has been in attendance at each Confederate Congress.
* **Kamijing First!**: The right-wing KF! espouses an isolationist, loyalist, and patriotic stance that claims the people of Kamijing constitute a single cohesive national ethnic group since its independence. The party came to prominence in the **SY 50s** and espoused anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism, and made a strong economy with welfare state for "Kamijingians only" as its principle issue. During the Rebellion, the KPP took most of the seats from the KF! led coalition (KF! - CUP - NF) and the party declined in favor.
* **Community of Parliamentary Choice**: Minority leader as of the outbreak of the Solar War. A radical centrist party, the CPC wants to reform the Parliamentary system of Kamijing and break up the three major parties into smaller subparties. The CPC is mostly popular with the previous generation and is shunned by youth as antiprogressive. They are the only party that refuses to take their seats on Parliament.
* **Provisionals**: Directly descended from the government-in-exile ousted on Freitaika by the Rebellion, the Provisionals petition Parliament on the sole issue of the reconstruction of their broken platform.
* **National Front**: An ultra-right breakaway from KF!, the National Front advances a complex platform of mandatory conscription, militarisation, the election of both a popular Presidential leader and a powerful Prime Minister. When they broke away from KF!, they took their seats with them and have managed to hold on to them since.
* **Democratic Socialists of Kamijing**: At center-left, the DSK wants to replace Parliament with local councils controlled by workers unions.
* **Technocracy First**: The official political wing of the Technocracy movement, the TF Party gained two seats in narrow elections just prior to the outbreak of the Solar War. The party would be banned during the course of the war and members prosecuted as criminals.
* **Communist Party of Kamijing**: With official ties to the USSR and espousing orthodox communism, the CPK holds a coordinated stronghold of three districts in which most of its members reside. Parliament granted CPK districts a certain degree of autonomy on the condition that they do not campaign outside of their districts.
* **Constitutionalist Party**: The only Party without election to Parliament, the Constitutionalist Party is a student movement campaigning to establish a single constitution for Kamijing that could serve as a blueprint for future colonies. The Party largely participates in town halls, district meetings, and public debates.

## Features

The seat of the Confederate Congress during its irregular convenings is on Kamijing. When not in session, the building is both closed and empty.

Kamijing is also under the direct but benevolent control of the Army of Eastern Kamijing post-Freitaika Rebellion and is the only Confederate member system allowed to maintain a standing military. As such, along with it's regular forces, each citizen of Kamijing is required to spend a certain number of hours per month in martial, spacer survival, and first response training. This provides for a platform full of minutemen that can be called up at any time to duty; though per Confederate law, duty is voluntary and cannot be coerced. Responding minutemen are compensated for their efforts in responding to emergencies of both natural and martial nature.

Each spaceport on Kamijing features a Tori gate.