Holy Republic of Zian

"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with the facts; religion deals mainly with the values. The two are not rivals."
-***Martin Luther King, Jr.***

## Government

### Type of Government

Holy Mechanical Republic under Fundamentalism

### Military

* The Holy Machine Military
* The Mechanical Inquisition

## Territories, States or Provinces

### Provinces

* Circuitroum
* Conagia
* Gearstein
* Teslanyia

## Geography

### Location

Zia, Zepheniah System, Cascadia Galaxy, Real Universe

## Society

### Demonym(s)

* Children of the Machines (de factor)
* Metal Heads (de jure)

### Species

* Cyborgs
* Robots

### Official Language(s)

* English
* Binary

### Currency

* Cash
* Reclaimed Metal
* Refined Metal
* Scrap Metal

## Other Information

### Description

Transhumanism Gone Fanatical

The **Holy Republic of Zian** is a bizarre nation that mixes science and religion to create machine worshiping strangers that are cyborgs as well have a great deal of robots. They are one of few of the most scientific nations of Zia, yet they worship science and machines.

## History

After the fall of the Mann Empire, Dell Conagher of BLU (Builder's League United) was already part machine as he replaced much of his organic parts for mechanical ones. Even following ridiculous ideals of worshiping machines and the machine god. When the empire fell, he started gathering followers and gaining the support of robots that were part of the Gray Mann's faction many years ago. He recruited many technophiles, crazy mechanics, and other technology lovers in various part of the surrounding regions as well as liberating many robots by giving them better intelligence programs that allows them to think for themselves, feel emotions, and do all sorts of things outside their programming.

This new nation spread out as it slaughter all the bandits and raiders with awesome machine might. Some people either love them or fear them as they managed to get a decent amount of land. BLU Dell Conagher then established the nation while he made many tenets and religious laws in his new role as leader. Many other nations choose to ignore this strange nation of "eccentrics" as they find them too weird. Although, despite the differences, it does have a good relationship with the Technate of Zia albeit uneasy.

## Government

The HRZ is a holy mechanical republic that is a spiritualistic form of democracy that worships technology and machines, where a religious cybernetic council supervises the democratic process, the rights for all mechanical creations and artificial intelligences with religious vigor. It also functions under fundamentalism as it is characterized by strict adherence to a religious code of laws.  Generally its adherents are rejecting a modern code which they view as corrupt and evil in favor of a return to what they see as more fundamental values of the past. Although it makes it a bit more complicated.

## Society and Culture

The culture of the HRZ is a mix of science and religion that primarily focus on both as they worship their machine god and the spirits inside of machines. The machine spirits, according to the people, are the artificial intelligence in their metal and silicon shells. Everyone, people and machines, worship the machine god to give prayer for the continuation of the "universal engine" that governs all factors such as matter, energy, time, and even life both mechanical and biological. To the more organic citizens, some have replaced their meat with implants and robotics in order to show their devotion to their god. Mechanical and digital augmentation is quite common among the people of the HRZ along with more and more improvements to all of their creations. Transhumanism is a bit rampant in this nation.

People live along side with robots peacefully and the robots are treated as equals in the republic.

## Economy

Technology is the primary industry of the HRZ. It trade various form of technological gadgets and gears made from a wide variety of materials that have been scavenged from junkyards and trash landfills. Some of the trash are from different nations that have been tossed out and left to rot that are taken by fellow machines or waste pickers with barely anyone noticing. Some of the trash is used as currency such as scrap metal, reclaimed metal, and even refined metal. Despite the ideas of having machines being rulers, they care more about preserving the planet as people believe that nature is part of the machine god's divine plan that will later become integrated into machines once the technology to do so become successful.

Much of everything is automated that range from agriculture to mining to manufacturing to everything. Although some machines require a human touch in order to work properly. They can do large scale vertical farms that can feed people for years, create flawless computer hardware that can be mass produced, create clones of animals to continue to help feed those that still have stomachs and require digestion, and can grow trees at an extremely fast rate so they can be cut down again. They also trade in implants and cybernetics for those that need them.

## Military

The de facto military is the **Holy Machine Military** that is comprised of cyborgs and robots that are given the most advance software and hardware that is necessary for combat. What make them so scary is how efficient they are at combat as they can crush an invading force with ease unless the enemy use electromagnetic pulse weapons. There is an unofficial division and secret police in the HRZ known as the Mechanical Inquisition that seek out any heretics or those that betray the state religion of the HRZ. The military maybe scary, but the inquisition is far scarier and are known to be cold, brutal, and logical to their methods of torture and interrogation.