Unified States Commonwealth
Unified States Commonwealth |
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Motto: "Out of many, one" | ||||
Anthem: "Against all odds" | ||||
Capital | Union City, Angleland, Thonnaeter, New Sol System | |||
Largest city | Taiqi, Meiguo, Levawei, Levawei System | |||
Official languages | New Anglian | |||
Recognised national languages | Various human languages used predominately across the Commonwealth outside of the official language | |||
Demonym | Commonwealther Unified Statesian Statesman Northerner |
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Government | Federal Presidential Republic | |||
- | President | Michael Chen | ||
- | Vice-President | Joyoung Yi | ||
- | Chancellor of Congress | Robert Hogan | ||
Legislature | Commonwealth Congress | |||
- | Upper house | Senate | ||
- | Lower house | House of Representatives | ||
Population | ||||
- | estimate | 189,678,391,576 | ||
Currency | Dollar $ | |||
Date format | yyyy-mm-dd |
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Drives on the | right |
The Unified States Commonwealth, or the USC, or the UNSC, or simply, the Commonwealth, is a federation of twenty four human dominated systems within the galaxy. Established as a confederation between nations decades after the Great Purge under the Systems Confederacy, later years and conflicts transitioned the Systems Confederacy into a federal presidential republic known as the Unified States Commonwealth. The Unified States Commonwealth is an economic power among the human civilizations in the Galaxy, enjoying immense wealth and development along with healthy trade with neighboring empires such as the Federation of Sovereign States, the Heavenly Kingdom, and the New Greater Empire.
History
Colonization History
Before the destruction of the human birth planet Ordis, early colonies were estimated to have formed in the mid 21st century in forms of space stations while colonies in later centuries were established in terrestrial planets and moons with the advent of FTL travels and early forms of terraforming. Such advanced technologies were essential for humans to spread across much of the galaxy, from colonies that were absorbed into the modern day Order to as west as colonies near Alvish space. There were even reports of human settlements in Duthic territories, implying early human colonies far from the core systems. Many wealthy nations such as Gyunghwa, Anglia, the Dominate, Yashima, Hyspania, Achtotlan, Chanha, and Zusea & Ossintoria had sponsored colonization efforts to carve a piece of their own interstellar empire. Some powerful corporations even took part in the colonization process, some developing their own mining facilities or space stations with grants under governmental jurisdictions (such as Mirae Solutions from Gyunghwa or Stroheim Industries from Zusea).
Colonization, however, was never a peaceful endeavor with nations fighting other nations for colonial rights. There were even splits in identities among the colonists and the Ordisians as the colonists see themselves as identifying with the planets they grew up in rather than a faraway colonial administration. As more hospitable frontiers were opened up north of much of the early colonies, most nations became hands off with the southern colonies and set up colonies northward for more riches and glory, leaving megacorporations granted under governmental entities to take care of the southern colonies. Conditions have worsened for the southern colonists as the remaining megacorporations and governments seek to control the resources with little to no input from the colonies.
In response to administrative abuses, various colonial organizations were formed, all seeking to better conditions of the southern colonies. Conflicts flared up across the southern colonies, ultimately culminating in the Southern Sphere Secession War. The rebel groups and secessionist colonies united under the Southern Colonies Alliance while corporate and loyal colonial forces fought under the banner of the Ordic League. Fighting was fierce with heavy losses reported on both sides. The turning point of the Southern Sphere Secession War occurred with the mass glassing of New Cyrene, a planet that played a major role among the Southern Colonies Alliance in an effort to reduce SCA's morales. Also known as the New Cyrenean Terracide, the mass nuclear genocide prompt heavy public backlash towards the Ordic League, flaring up up mass protests across Ordis and the northern colonies demanding an end to the war. The southern colonies that were initially loyal to the Ordic League or hesitant to join the Southern Colonies Alliance begin to openly back independence.
In addition to the weakening support in the war, humanity also made first contact with an alien civilization, albeit a hostile one. Facing numerous domestic and existential situations that could threaten the cradle of humanity, a treaty was eventually signed between the Southern Colonies Alliance and the Ordic League in a secret effort by the League to make the Alliance a speed bump to handle the Aggressor Race while colonies and nations built up their planetary and central defenses in preparation. Thankfully for the northerners, the Aggressor Race never made it past the southern colonies.
Turmoil within Ordis increased since the Southern Colonies Independence as nations dealt with the loss of tax revenues and resources. Distrusts grew with some countries moving part or all of their governments outside of Ordis to set up new bases of operations in the colonies. Resources in Ordis were growing thin and nations begin to squabble more over colonization rights in the Northern Sphere. Due to the increase in conflicts and the failure in diplomatic methods to reach agreements, the Ordic League officially dissolved after centuries of being the peacekeeper of the world and the human galactic sphere.
Eventually, an interstellar war between colonizing nations occurred a decade after the dissolution of the Ordic League. Known as the Great Purge, the devastation of the war turned the ancestral home of humanity into an uninhabitable and unrecognizable wasteland. Most of the northern human colonies were cut off from Ordic networks and many colonies fend for themselves in a chaotic galaxy. Many colonies suffered the same faith as Old Ordis, fighting endless war against each other as some remnants of former Ordic governments declared legitimacy such as the Gyunghwan Republic located in Taehwa System or the Glorian League in the Arcadia System, determined to wipe out conflicting ideologies or settling old wounds. Human technology in the northern sphere suffered a setback in many entities, although some were fortunate enough to maintain much of pre-purge technologies. Decades if not centuries later, order was re-established among colonies and a sense of normalcy returned. Most of the colonies begin to live as independent entities as countries, maintaining some form of diplomatic relations with other human nations from trade deals to alliances.
New Horde
Kislev Wars
Provisional Government and Transition to the Commonwealth
Chorus Intervention
Contemporary Commonwealth
Despite initial xenophobia, especially with its ancestors' violent (albeit small in the northern sphere) first contact with an alien entity, the Unified States Commonwealth also made headway in establishing relations with alien civilizations, with caution and based on recommendations from other human sphere nations. The Hierarchy was one of the first alien civilization encountered by the Commonwealth due to the Hierarchy's prior relations with the Empire. Other alien civilizations such as Sepharem and the Iell'ox also established diplomatic and trade relations with the Commonwealth later on in contemporary history. Relations with the Iell'ox ended up being beneficial due to heavy cooperation between historians and scientists of the the two entities in the pursuit of historical and scientific discoveries of the galaxy. The Iell'ox emerged as the Commonwealth's most trusted alien ally in the galaxy.
Politics
Government
The government of the Commonwealth operates under a federal presidential republic. The President of the Unified States Commonwealth holds the executive and the highest position in the Commonwealth in power and prestige. The Vice-President, on the other hand, serves as the substitute for the President in the cases of the President's unavailability. Otherwise, the Vice-President holds plenty of powers and plenty of Vice-Presidents were chosen to represent the Commonwealth in international stage in the case. Each state elects representatives to Congress with the House of Representatives elected by individual districts and the Senate appointed by state legislatures. The UNSC Congress is represented by the Chancellor of the House which is the most powerful position in Congress.
Member-States of the Commonwealth
The Commonwealth consists of 108 states as the states, rather than planets or star systems are represented in the Commonwealth Assembly. Every states in the Commonwealth are republics, although they do not have uniform style of governments. Some republics in the Commonwealth are presidential republics while others are parliamentary or classical. Based on habitable conditions of terrestrial planets, many planets have one to three states while some of the more fertile planets are home to multiple states.
1. Angleland
2. Shin
3. Tierra
4. Gloria
5. Haeseon
6. Buyeo
7. Meiguo
8. Taehwa
9. Siri
10. Toho
11. Minerva
12. Hongmu
13. Columbia
14. Firma
15. North Shu
16. South Shu
17. Arcadia
18. Reach
19. Habaek
20. Missourah
21. Ashari
22. Firma
23. Oblium
24. Emerald
25. Tamreal
26. Masden
27. Amergo
28. Takama
29. Osiris
30. Fremark
31. Vyskari
32. North Tesseran
33. South Tesseran
34. Poshesh
35. Saenuri
36. Janus
37. Elhwa
38. Mijeong
39. Julias
40. Rodnian Luna
41. West Harvest
42. East Harvest
43. Ivy
44. Adama
45. Kastovia
46. Meizhou
47. Gondor
48. Zhen
49. Arklov
50. Livia
51. Jin
52. Circinius
53. North Wustrea
54. South Wustrea
55. Ufros
56. Fusang
57. Shoso
58. Feshuonia
59. Blijan
60. North Chorus
61. South Chorus
63. Bren
64. Huaguo
65. New Gyerim
66. Hat Yai
67. Tesceya
68. Astranos
69. Edenoi
70. Hanzhou
71. Uju
72. Chaldea
73. Kislev
74. Bretonnia
75. Angeles
76. Dios
77. Yudi
78. Longshen
79. Xochipilli
80. Pagunseong
81. Mokosh
82. Eiro
83. Cliodhna
84. Altera
85. Keshret
86. Fukuo
87. Tantalus
88. Arstozka
89. Marpa
90. Taegun
91. Litavia
92. Louisianne
93. Maxim
94. Gran Marsalia
95. Avalon
96. Hanland
97. Ordia
98. Valryia
99. Aurelia
100. Herrado
101. Delarus
102. Hyajia
103. Kerei
104. Madrigal
105. Sansar
106. New Ossintoria
107. Desdoron
108. Meridian
Defense
The Unified States Commonwealth Armed Forces serve as the main military of the Commonwealth, consisting of the UNSC Army (including the semi-autonomous Army National Guards), the UNSC Navy, the UNSC Aerospace Command, and the UNSC Marine Corps.
The UNSC Armed Forces is a robust and well-funded military where an average servicemen can enjoy the latest in military hardware and equipment. Although the UNSC Armed Forces does incorporate drones and artificial intelligence into its ranks due to low cost in comparison to training and outfitting human troopers, there is still a demand for human soldiers and human creativity and independent thinking are always celebrated as the "Ideal Commonwealth Soldier."
Foreign Relations
Preferring trade over conflict in most circumstances, the Commonwealth maintains friendly economic partnership with the Federation of Sovereign States while relations with the New Greater Empire is mixed to slightly warm depending on economic competition and relations between leaders. Relations with the Interstellar Union of Revolutionary States, however, remains poor due to this day.
The attempt at fostering good relations with trade also extends to outside of the Human Sphere. Relations between the USC and the Iell'ox are significantly close due to cooperation between the Commonwealth and Iell'ox over scientific and military development. However, relations with most other alien empires are rather mixed and relations were mostly for economic cooperation and diplomatic recognition. Relations with the Duth are mixed to poor due to the Commonwealth backing of the Kathbaric humans with military aid in the ongoing Duthic-Kathbaric War.
Economy
The Commonwealth is a wealthy power among the Human Sphere, possessing a massive economy in the galaxy. The Commonwealth enjoys a high-income and advanced economy with a highly diversified market with some governmental control outside of a few key industries.
Demographics
Humans make up the vast majority of the Commonwealth at around 98% of the population.
Culture
The Commonwealth is home to many different human cultures, owing its existence from the colonies sponsored by many wealthy nations in Old Ordis. Cultures from Escaric and Ordan colonies dominate the Commonwealth with the inclusion of Yeongseongi, Cathaian, Anglian, and Zusian influence in the Commonwealth. However, non-Ordan and Escaric cultures such as Osovans and Valeyans still prosper within the Commonwealth.
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