Difference between revisions of "World-State"
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Revision as of 12:13, 13 January 2017
A World-State is a polity that functions as a single power bloc on the interstellar stages of diplomacy and trade.
- It is an astronavigational term.
- It may have a unified world government or be a balkanized collection of nation-states or other political groupings.
Description (Specifications)
Obviously there is a large continuum of government types and functionalities for a world-state. The more effective world-states form unified policies for planetary and extraplanetary relations.
Typically unified policy necessitates a unified government, but some sophont species such as the Hivers are able to achieve unified policy without a conventional government. Hivers are near unique amongst the major races of Charted Space in this regard.
History & Background (Dossier)
For most sophont species, an outside influence typically precludes planetary unification. Often this involves a First Contact scenario with an exospecies. Although many other scenarios are possible.
The K'kree, for instance, were largely motivated to form their first world-state by a competing sophont species while the Aslan were more motivated by climatological change, and their idea of a unified political presence is very different than many other sophont species.
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science