Council of Avalon

Aquilon's Reach

New Chanian Conclave

The Port of Narehl

The Quisivati

Trapper Town (Walk of Man)

Warhead Keep

Xanadu

Xanadu is composed of many cities, each run and managed by a local minister appointed by its local primary business. Every five years the primary business will be evaluated by the capital city on the basis of profit to cost ratio as well as market value, employee and citizen satisfaction.

Xanadian cities have names, but since each of them is a carefully planned biosphere of Earthly life, they simply give them a name with a number, such as Sphere Seven. Each city is carefully planned out, with specially segregated districts built according to a hundred year plan for urban sprawl, including underground superstructures for most major buildings which will allow for underground expansion as deep as thirty stories downward. The planning of each city is carefully designed to create an appealing, wholesome skyline as well as to integrate a park-like pastoral feel to the city as a whole. The average citizen of Xanadu lives a comfortable life, with a decent livable wage being easily obtained with only a few years of schooling. Xanadu is a perfectly manicured park-like city: it's an extremely well planned urban community, which maintains many top notch schools in almost all fields, including the world-renowned Brain Trust Institute. However, Xanadu defers to the outside education of New Chanian Doctoral schools and Narehlian Banking schools.

Locals tend to have very conservative morals, and are usually wary of other life approaches, but are tentatively accepting of other ideals provided they don't disrupt their society. They're a generally egalitarian society, and anyone competent can rise through the ranks of a company with proper schooling and hard work. Nepotism is very strongly frowned upon, so family members of executives rarely get a free ride. Prometheans tend to be slightly discriminated against, but are usually able to find employment of some sort or another. Medeans, however, to this day still revolt the moral feelings of many prominent citizens, and any Xanadu citizen who becomes genetically augmented can often find himself or herself pushed aside and out of any corporate/political career.

Xanadu generally gets along favorably well with other factions, but considers Avalon's Missive Union and Aquilon's Reach potential threats to their societal well-being. They view The Missive Union as having a stranglehold on the lower levels of societal labor, and requiring unreasonable benefits and compensation for their station, which they view as a drain on society. They often struggle to undercut The Missive Union as much as possible in the hopes of one day breaking their power.

Aquilon is often considered to have loose values by Xanadian standards, and the Xanadians are thus worried that their perceived carefree lifestyle will have a debilitating effect on global standards as well as having a negative impact upon Xanadian children. They also consider them to be their primary rivals in the global power scheme.

At the very end of the 20th century, people on Earth began developing new technologies such as internet, better embedded systems, etc. During the beginning of the 21st century everything was computerized and it went so far as to the point where everything was more or less a computer. Even the toilet was voice activated and furniture in your house had small wheels and could be moved by voice control. As it is well known, such advancements in technology came at a price. People more or less stopped depending on each other. They stopped going out and meeting each other in the flesh. They became colder towards one another and cared only for themselves, which was also one of the reasons why things went so very wrong later on.

It is therefore not surprising that Trapper Town (Walk of Man) on New Horizon shuns technologies of every kind. Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of their past, the people of Trapper Town and the Walk of Man only use technology when needed, and nothing more. They are simple folk, lacking sophistication, and they are slow to accept new ideas and new concepts. Aquilon's Reach is the opposite, which causes a lot of conflicts between the two. Trapper Town hates that Aquilonians are trying to contaminate the world with new technologies and they believe that they are the proof that people can live without it and be better off at that.

Aquilon's Reach and Xanadu are well known competitors. They each have a different sort of technological path, they argue over which is best, and they clash on ideology and social values as well. Both of them develop state-of-the-art weapons, which are sold all over the world, and both want to be known as the world's prime weapons manufacturer. Aquilon favors high energy technology for its weapons, and more sophisticated technologies, like energy shielding, where as Xanadu focuses on slug based weaponry and solid state armoring. When one of them manages to develop something new and groundbreaking, the other often tries to steal it.

Xanadians are very conservative. They believe that hard work always equals success so people who aren't successful are just lazy. Aquilonians are extremely liberal individuals. They believe that many people work hard but may not be successful for a variety of reasons such as racism or classism. They believe that the government can help solve these inequalities.

Aquilonians see Xanadians as outmoded, socially repressed lunatics led by doddering old men. Xanadians see Aquilonians as lunatics without morals or scruples, pushing pie in the sky technology and eroding their social values. Xanadu also dislikes Promethean Cyborgs and Medeans. They discriminate against them in a manner not unlike racism, which more often than not becomes the main reason for conflicts.

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