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United Nations of Florathel
TheMinmusDerp (March 22nd 2021)
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The United Nations of Florathel (commonly known as UNF or simply the United Nations) is a military and economic international alliance located in Florathel consisting of many member nations, autonomous territories, and federal districts. With a nigh uncountably huge and diverse population, the UNF is the most populous government in the universe. The capital of the UNF is Centerpoint Station over The Heart of Providence, though it controls several large ports scattered throughout its member nations. The United Nations itself has a population of well over ten billion, half being members of the Universal Armed Forces and their supporting staff. About a third of the citizenry are bureaucrats in the Florathel Commission, with the remainder mostly made up of citizens who happen to live around the Heart of Providence. The most populated state is Illuin.
The road to a united and mostly peaceful Florathel was a long and bloody one, in a metaphorical sense as many of Florathel's species hardly have anything one could even call "blood." Unlike other regions, Florathel was, and still is, a fertile region of dozens of independent abiogensis events, leading to dozens of environments its denizens need. With cohabitation so difficult, and fundamental biological differences evident, a millennium ago few would believe that such a state-building project could be undertaken. Yet, the people of Florathel proved their willingness to set asides differences and work toward one goal.
Government
The United Nations of Florathel is an international union of nations that preserves good relations between the many states of Florathel. It mainly decides foreign policy and settles disputes between two nations, and citizens of each nation are elected to represent them in the Quorum of Nations. The UNF has 143 different nations under its wing, all of whom have elected representatives based on population. The Quorum of Nations also passes laws that override the laws of individual nations where applicable and ensure that every citizen of every nation, biological, cybernetic, or virtual, gets what it needs to have a prosperous life.
The Government of the United Nations oversees many workings of day-to-day life in its territory, and is able to declare war on hostile nations such as the Somnar Hive, and mediate peace treaties between the nations under its wing and others. It also can control the national budget and authorize construction of major megastructures.
All government officials in the United Nations are highly trained in the fields of humanitarianism, the history and structure of the United Nations, economics, and other fields that help them govern the nations well. All government officials are also expected to verify that they still have the capacity to be a government official of their position, and usually include implants alongside other systems of authentication. Qualifications for being a high member of the government are also complex, and usually take many years of experience in other fields.
The head of the United Nations of Florathel is the President of the Florathel Commission, Idoliik Sumoreh Cohii. The Florathel Commission is the executive branch of the United Nations. It is distict from the Universal Armed Forces, made up of a division of marines and a small fleet. The centerpiece of the Universal Armed Forces is the Centerpoint Strike Group. This formidable force is kept in orbit of Apricot and serves as a mobile headquarters for the Universal Armed Forces.
Most member states have their own standing armies and navies, but the United Nations has the right to station political officers on all spacecraft over five hundred meters. Every spacecraft must be registered with the UNF and go by the prefix UNFS. All military vessels answer to the Chief of the General Staff, which in turn answer to the Minister of Defense. Such strict provisions serve to prevent any internal warfare and to prevent foreign incurions. In fact, preventing imperialism is the official directive of the armed forces. Many nations are hesitant to hand over control of their militaries to the UNF, such as Sagittarium which remains only an assoicated state. Interestingly enough, it was Sagittarium's imperialism that inspired much of the UNF charter and emphasis on defense.
Most nations maintain a standing Marine Corps that answer to their local presidents, prime ministers, kings, premiers, or other Heads of State. The Heads of State regularly meet and have, collectively, the power to veto non-budgetary resolutions in the Quorum of Nations.
Quorum of Nations
The Quorum of Nations operates under the principle of Technocracy or rule by the qualified. This is mostly to make it more fair for species that reproduce more slowly or live shorter lives. The solution was to give representation to a wide number of interests, including union representatives, coop presidents, superintelligences, admirals at both a Universal and national level, and other groups. Religious groups are officially barred from entering and all representatives are required to take an oath of neutrality lest religious ideals take hold in Florathel as they have in so many other places.
Security Council
The Security Council of the United Nations of Florathel is a body composed of five permanent members.
Member Nations
DescriptionIlluin is a nation controlling five stars in and around the core of Florathel. The nation is made up of a real union between the planets Carlea and Darvikus and their surrounding colonies. It is the primary nation of Kalar and Analar, from those worlds respectively. The Federation was one of the founding members of the United Nations of Florathel, and arranged the treaty to create it.
CapitalsThe Illuin Federation, as a byproduct of its unique origins, has two capitals, Carlea and Darvikus. These planets contain different functions of government, and are the homeworlds of the two most powerful species of the Federation, the Carleans and Analar.
AreaThe area of the Cnara-Frealee Federation is very large, with 5 star systems under its jurisdiction. The area of the Illuin Federation gives it a large population and a huge amount of representation in the Quorum of Nations. The area covered by the Illuin is also denser in population and activity than the two next largest nations combined, the MIU and the EFS, which is because of a mindset of efficiency in the upper levels of the nation. | |||||
DescriptionThe Economic Federation of Saleas, often refereed to as the Federation of Saleas or shortened to the EFS, is a federal republic which exists in Florathel in the Elerad region. Having some sort of influence of over four star systems, the EFS is one of the largest nations in the United Nations of Florathel. The Federation of Saleas is also a permanent member of the UNF Security Council, which helps decide many overarching policies in Florathel's neighborhood.
CapitalUnlike its larger neighbor, the EFS only has one true capital, the icy world of Saleas. Saleas contains all government functions and is also the most populous planet in the EFS. Saleas is also the home of the Salakela, the founding species of the EFS. As of now, Saleas is slowly melting under the heat of its red giant sun, though there is a vast variable sunshield being constructed at the planet's L1 point. Saleas' system, the Parvo-Aa System, contains many major planets as well, including Virelask, Coros, and Tarekass.
AreaThe area of the EFS alone makes it extremely influential in Florathel, with four valuable star systems under its jurisdiction. The area of the EFS gives it a large population and resource output and a huge amount of representation in the Quorum of Nations. The area covered by the EFS is relatively sparsely populated, with many worlds devoted solely to resource gathering. | |||||
DescriptionThe Marakat Interstellar Union is a democratic assembly of provinces located in the Elerad region. It is a founding member of the United Nations of Florathel. The Marakat Interstellar Union also has a small amount of territory throughout Paleas, and manages to have a large amount of trade lanes going through its territory. The most populated planet in the MIU is Artaclate, as it has been since the Union's founding.
CapitalThe capital of the Marakat Interstellar Union is an ecumenopolis known as Artaclate. Artaclate has always been the most populated world in the MIU, giving it a large amount of prestige and fame. Artaclate is primarily focused on heavy industry and commerce, and is surrounded by many stations and drydocks. Artaclate also orbits a so-called frozen star, a star which has a lower temperature than it should due to extremely high metallicity. With so much metal in the star, Artaclate and its sister worlds have hardly exhausted their easily-extractable ore, meaning they have little in the way of asteroid habitats or deep-mantle drilling.
AreaThe MIU is separated into five main provinces, each of which is separated into several sub-provinces, implemented to maintain a stable decentralized government over the diverse species under the control of the Union. Each province corresonds to a major planet and its moons, in addition to nearby asteroid belts and space station. Most provinces are relatively sparsely populated, with the Artaclate Province containing a full 72 percent of the population of the MIU. The empty areas are mostly governed by local forces, are populated by many Hyperlane networks which allow transit between the major worlds. | |||||
DescriptionThe Kingdom of Saihera is the fourth largest nation in Florathel by population. It is the only nation that lies in the sparse regions beyond the galactic rim, and it is very spread out because of the sparseness of stars in this region. Technically because of this, it is actually the largest nation in the galaxy by area, but no one uses that criterion these days. The Kingdom of Saihera is notably partially run by a monarchy, though this is almost entirely a figurehead with no power beyond Saihera and surrounds. Because of the extreme sparseness of systems, the Kingdom is notably underdeveloped, with many portions of its territory in crippling poverty. This has not stopped it from being the one of the most influential nations in the galaxy, with an event directly caused by it leading to the creation of the United Nations of Florathel.
CapitalThe capital of the Kingdom of Saihera is the planet Dimostah, a desert world orbiting the red dwarf Saihera. Dimostah is very dry and almost lifeless other than non-native intelligent individuals, and is an ecumenopolis, with a population of nearly 100 billion. Dimostah is not the homeworld of the Kingdom's founding species, the Scargass, but was the major center of population after the supernova of their original home star, Tegerelis, which destroyed their original homeworld. This occurred long before they gained the technology to stop supernovae, which forced them to evacuate to the relatively nearby Saihera System.
AreaThe Kingdom of Saihera occupies a large amount of the sparse Galactic halo, a feat achieved by no other nation with the debatable exception of the Pecay-Po Federation of Nalachi. Because of the sparseness of the Galactic Halo, the Kingdom must be very decentralized, with those on the outer reaches being effected very little by what happens in the heartlands. Apart from its vast claims in the Halo, the Kingdom of Saihera controls very little in the galactic disk itself, apart from small regions colonized in the Providence Neutral Zone. The Kingdom of Saihera does control large amounts of the Insieme region, a source of endless territorial dispute with Collegium Aurem, a non-member of the UNF. | |||||
DescriptionThe Free Nation of Mandras is the fifth largest UNF nation in population, located not in Florathel but the Circuinotturna region of Aylathiya. It is also one of the latest members of the UNF, only joining in 9987. The Free Nation of Mandras, because of its great influence, however, was quite rapidly admitted to the UNF security council, the decision passing in one of the landmark decisions of 9999. However, before it was admitted, Mandras faced political turmoil, with nationalists and separatists fighting for control and trying to secede and conquer and so on. This is why it took so long to admit this nation to the UNF, and some of these factions still exist in hiding. Luckily, today the nation is much calmer, and is now home to many influential characters in the UNF.
CapitalThe capital of the Free Nation of Mandras is the planet Garrea, a tidally locked world in orbit around the red dwarf Dorok. Garrea is a thriving world with a dense ecosystem brought back from the brink of ecological collapse. Most of the population reside within dense towers with enough internal area and population to be cities in their own right.
AreaThe Free Nation of Mandras is a highly centralized nation, with only a few separately governed regions. Mandras has sole authority over the Dorok star system. | |||||
DescriptionThe Queendom of Tancred is a powerful member nation of the UNF located in the Yaztas Region. The Queendom of Tancred is partially run by a monarchy, though this is mostly a figurehead with most governing done by Parliament.
CapitalTancred is the capital of the Queendom of Tancred, and the planet that gave the nation its name. Civilization on this world is over 10 millennia old, and there are endless centuries worth of ancient ruins to study, even on this thriving modern planet. Tancred orbits within the binary Ülgen-Begste System, the second most populous system of the nation. After the conclusion of Kalera's War, Tancred was in ruins, and a massive influx of money from the Galactic Bank of Florathel (an institution created by the UNF) was needed to rebuild. Even today, the rebuilding is not complete.
AreaThe territory of the Queendom of Tancred is fully within the Yaztas region. It is split into seven territories, each of which containing a regional capital, usually a major city on the most populous world therein. The capital of Tancred is considered to be in a separate territory. It controls Ülgen, Begste, Eudahaia, and Quanta—the latter three collectively only making up a fifth of its population. | |||||
DescriptionThe Novel-Hearth Interstellar Commune (shortened to NHIC) is a democratic federation located nearly entirely on a single planetary system, Danya Hearth orbiting Kronjuwel. Despite this small area, the world claims two entire star systems and most of a third, as seems to be common for home worlds in Florathel. Besides just Kronjuwel, the NHIC owns the rights to resources in the outer Valme system and all of Haurvatat. This is not ownership in a traditional, national sense, but a part of the nation's sovereign wealth fund, the largest of its kind in the universe. Owned in part by every citizen, this fund has drawn in a great deal of wealth without the need for a single citizen to leave their home world. This claim is enforced by the UNF as several sovereign wealth funds are.
CapitalDue to the nation being originally founded by a union between two species, the Novel-Hearth Interstellar Commune correspondingly has two capitals, Danya Hearth and Novelwelt, a planet and its large moon.  Despite its incredibly low surface population, the population within its orbit is very densely packed, with many orbital rings and such a large number of habitation cylinders. Such lavish accomodations for billions are paid for by the world's great wealth.
AreaWith such a densely-packed population, residing within space habitats throughout Danya Hearth's orbit, governance mostly takes place on a station level. Loose associations, called "compacts" exist between space habitats mostly as a means to coordinate resource delivery. Each station may be divided into smaller districts if their population is large enough. Each station with more than 10,000 inhabitants has a representative in the Senate, incentivizing larger communities which also happen to be more resilient to the challenges of space. | |||||
DescriptionThe Pecay-Po Federation of Nalachi, often referred to as simply Nalachia (though this is strongly discouraged by citizens of this nation) or abbreviated to PPFN, is a major nation located in the Nalachi Cluster, and some small embassies in Florathel's disk. Formerly, the Nalachi Cluster encompassed much of Florathel, but it regressed into a period of isolationism, preferring to heavily develop its core territories, long before the modern era. The PPFN is primarily noted for its extreme level of megastructures located in its territory, and a formerly extremely isolationist nature, though it is now opening up to outside nations and has recently joined the United Nations of Florathel.
CapitalThe PPFN, notably, has three capitals, Nalachi, Devoro, and Ta'Koro. The former two are normal planets, and the third is in fact a small birch planet with a huge concentration of population.  Nalachi is surrounded by many orbital rings, where the vast majority of the population lives. These rings create a sort of hazy look at low resolution images, causing confusion in initial sneaky surveys from some of Florathel nations. Devoro is a very cold world, orbiting a gas giant which orbits a blue straggler star located near Nalachi. Devoro is utterly lifeless and airless upon the surface, but the subglacial ocean beneath the blue-tinted ice is teeming with life. There are vast cities hidden under the ice shell, which probably qualify on a list of Wonders of the Universe, should anyone care to compile one. Devoro has a higher population than Nalachi by virtue of its more hospitable conditions in more areas. The Deviri, the younger founding species of the nation, have melted holes in the ice to allow for easy coming and going, and a common game is warping to a random point above the moon and trying to point out all the little holes. Ta'Koro, also known as the Great Sphere, is a relatively small birch planet found by early explorers of the PPFN in the very early days of expansion. It is unknown who built it, but at the time it was extremely ruined with some sections of it completely gone and most of the atmosphere drained away. However, it was rebuilt and is now the most populous site in Florathel. Ta'Koro has a huge population of roughly half that of the entire nation, and it is so diverse and huge compared to regular planets that its almost impossible to map.
AreaThe PPFN is restricted almost entirely to the Nalachi Cluster, as of now, and is extremely centralized to its three capitals. For convenience and efficiency, the Cluster is divided into ten shells, each with different numbers of star systems. These shells are little more than administrative divisions, and not many people outside of government really care. | |||||
DescriptionSeldrin-Darusa is a democratic socialist state located around the ancient star of Lyxis. Its homesteaders have laid claim to the stars of Etugen Eke and Vespira. Its government, operating more or less on central economic planning, tends to butt heads with its more liberal neighbors. In particular, its state-sanctioned settlement of its neighboring stars, despite fairly substantial native populations, has lead to condemnation. Seldrin-Darusa, in response, has banned foreign corpoations or cooperatives from operating in its territory, leaving it in an economic stand-off with the rest of the UNF. Despite this, Seldrin-Darusa is a permanent member of the security council. Its factories are unmatched, in particular the vast munitions plants it maintains on standby.
CapitalThe capital of Seldrin-Darusa is  Despite its incredibly low surface population, the population within its orbit is very densely packed, with many orbital rings and such a large number of habitation cylinders. Such lavish accomodations for billions are paid for by the world's great wealth.  Due to its exotic surface conditions, it surprised scientists to learn that life from Tuar was the first to colonize Frolira. For billions of years, they thrived within a meters-thich layer of hydrocarbons floating atop Frolira's waters. When they adapted soap-like structures, allowing them to swim within the much denser water, evolutionary progress exploded.
AreaThe FTIC is divided rather arbitrarily into a total of 27 large States. These states are each divided into four quadrants, each of which is divided into a series of small sectors. These sectors constitute most of local government. The region around Frolira and Tuar is not in any state, instead being its own Capital District. The area surrounding Lyxis is similarly not in any state. Interestingly, for judicial purposes, the nation is divided into 31 districts completely unrelated to the 27 states, which are then similarly divided into quadrants and sectors. | |||||
Area
The United Nations of Florathel has the vast majority of its territory within the region of Florathel.
Major Worlds
The UNF contains many different major worlds, including industrial hotspots, population centers, and capitals. Others are historically important and are preserved for historical study.
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Diplomatic Relations
Foreign policies and diplomatic relations of the United Nations are highly oriented around trade, protection, and co-operation. The UNF is known to be very xenophilic, which uses a selection of carefully designed diplomats and has a focus on teamwork in nations it is allied with. Diplomatic relations with the UNF also ensure a strong and rapid development of the nations involved. There are also many worlds dedicated to being embassies for various nations, with a large number of diplomatic and cultural sites. These are often spread across the local universe, giving the UNF outsized fame, and it is universally considered a great power on or above the level of the Commonwealth of Aggregate Aylathiya.
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Member Nations which reside in the United Nations.
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Nations which hold UNF military assets.
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The Protea (symbol ₴) is the official currency of most member states of the United Nations of Florathel as well as some non-UNF states by monetary agreement. This region is known as the Protea area and includes over half of all nations within Florathel. The Protea, divided into 144 petals, is the largest and most traded currency in the universe alongside the Carosi.
The currency is also used officially by the institutions of the UNF, by eleven states that are not UNF members, as well as unilaterally by the Darari Kelnai. Additionally, almost 5 quintillion people across Florathel use currencies pegged to the Protea.