Nestos League Civilization

Civilization of the Nestos League

The Nestos League started as a City State on the river Nestos in Thrace. It expanded steadily eventually absorbing the areas where the Thracian language was spoken. Then it entered the Aegean claiming a variety of islands then the Cyclades. It has more recently expanded into Macedonia and Illyria where modern day Kosovo, Macedon, and Albania would be.

More recently, it crossed over into Italy where there are Illyrians and has began joining with parts of Greece.

The Nestos League is a collection of city states with the capital at the city of Oak. The city states share a cooperative agreement focused on manpower, knowledge, and resources. Oak has become the de factor leader of the city states because of its more advanced technology and organization. It has focused on cultural, science, and trade.

The cities are not completely homogenous. Each city is run independently and has its own form of government. However, the shared resources, roads, courier services, infrastructure in the form of towers of learning, granaries, temples, reading rooms, Houses of Wisdom, public baths, gymnasiums, parks, gardens, and other resources tie the cities together.

The closer to the center of Oak, the more homogenous the cities become. Oak acts as a cultural center.

The strength of the Nestos League is in its knowledge and ability to absorb and retain outside knowledge and work with other cultures. The dream of its founder is to create the World Brain or universal library which will reach every corner of the world and unite humankind in a huge knowledge organization. Victor Spear dreams of a true Final Encyclopedia. He thinks one day he will have the technology to do this.

The world does not have enough libraries to bring in the amount of knowledge he requires. A second stop has been introduced to create Towers of Learning where new knowledge and skills can be generated. Much of this is craft and science focused. Recently, there has been more specialization in the towers. The Tower of Ingredients and Formulas is a new tower focused on "mixing" an early form of chemistry.

Victor Spear has built the House of Wisdom which is a library and administrative center on a universalistic system. He has focused on creating a system of organization called the Universal Decimal Classification which has the purpose of quickly adapting to and absorbing outside knowledge, not just organizing knowledge.

He has built his administration with specific structures so they can rapidly learn about and interact with other cultures. This includes committees like the Scholars Translation Committee, The Science Advisory Committee, The Associations of Students and Scholars, and the Towers of Learning which have the specific purpose of integrating outside craftsmanship and technology into the technology and ideas being developed inside the Nestos League.

There is a focus on knowledge, the written word, gardens, and writing technology. The spread of literacy and a culture of scholarship has been a focus of Victor Spear's from the beginning. Victor Spear's other interest is gardening. He has built extensive gardens throughout Oak as well as the first greenhouses. His gardens are of all types, herb, kitchen, vegetable, orchards, and many other types. As the new greenhouses are built, more advanced greenhouses are being worked on, deep winter greenhouses which allow year round crop production, and sea water greenhouses which focus on experimenting with salt water for water purification and growing kelp, salt water fishes, oysters, and crustaceans.