Sunik Nation

Sunik Nation is one of the older nations within the Elivera Federation. It's historical roots go back to the end of the Silence era, where the construction of the first level of Supki was completed. Over centuries, multiple levels of Supki was constructed into the mountainside to expand the city vertically.
Many of the provinces were once independent city-states that came under the protection of the Sunik Nation via negotiations and treaties. Much of their governance was left to the provinces, and only a judiciary body was provided by the Sunik nation to ensure the laws were followed. So the provinces had much freedom in how they wished to govern themselves. All provinces have a contract with the national level that provides support for planning, implementation of plans, trade support, judiciary support, distribution support, defensive support, and data sharing and monitoring support.

14 Provinces:

• Supki -- Central; considered the core of the nation. It was the first city built on Elivera.
• Azaķoazä -- South-east, where speakers of ëɻķoazä live.
• Manil
• Delawen
• Nimabi
• Zair
• Hetopi
• Zefurin
• Nnefezi
• Ulitor
• Tjan
• Viv
• Opaliun
• Hazar
• Krakok

History

Historical Analysis

Records date the city of Supki as one of the first on the continent of Sefutji, and its origins seem to be born out of the remnants of the alien structures at its ground zero. These alien structures are depicted in the art of the earliest human records as nak-zezotj'qokogin (harsh-alien-imprisoner), but their distinct disappearance from Supki is undoubtedly due to the Silence around 9 E.
Most scholars note the Silence as the beginning of humanity's records on the planet and the moment where alien interference went silent. Before the Silence, it is unknown if humanity evolved upon Elivera or was brought to the planet by the nak zezotj'qokogin (harsh-alien-imprisoner).
After the end of the Silence, ancient art and writings began to flourish, and much of the details depict a rebuilding period. Scholars throughout the ages have debated where the aliens went during the Silence event, but records are unclear due to several key pages in many of the remaining documents being lost to conflicts or poor preservation techniques. Most theories hinge on the Katekia legend, the first Qohani of Elivera that drove the aliens from the system and shut down their technology.
Sunik's flag is reminiscent of that struggle. The three orbiting comets are embalmed with circular and wave-like etchings that have few corners; these are symbols of the alien architecture with keki'zuq (spatial-full) designs, much of which included spirals, curved helical structures, and few sharp corners. The three colors symbolize the three languages that melded into the Sunik dialect, all originating from the original survivors of the Supki Silence event. Scholar Safi Hanaku, born in 202 E, wrote in 232 E:

"An edifice of wall art located at ground zero of Supki. Etchings in orbiting bodies of the flag hold swirls and waves. Is it a symbol of the history of the community? Why include etchings from alien ruins?"

Scholar Hanaku was a robust writer of that time period and in later essays seemed to justify the addition to the flag:

"alien etchings commemorate the pain of the Silence, so we do not forget our origins."

These three ethnic groups worked together to build the great city of Supki from ground zero to its Fourth tier. Many of them originated from the harsher biomes of the interior of the Sefutji landmass. Supki was seen as the central hub of trade and education, where all the diverse groups of tribes and city-states could negotiate for a more collective and peaceful whole that provided the resources necessary to create an equitable and sustainable environment for all people's within Sunik Nation -- this was some of its core values since the early stages of its history.

Joining the Elivera Federation

Sunik has always been a more reclusive nation within the nation-states of the Elivera Planetary Union, the last to join mostly due to military and diplomatic pressure from the Eagrok, Isutobek, and Tomrak nations.
The agreement to join the union and end all hostilities between neighboring states in 624 E required the newly minted Elivera Planetary Union to abide by two demands:

1. Supki must be the second host of the Qohani seat,
2. The creation of the Tohanavi council, an independent force of peace-keepers that investigated war crimes and human rights abuses. The first Tohanavi was trained in Supki, and at the time, was considered a major achievement. Not long after their inauguration, the war crime trials began, where the abuses of the Eagrok and Isutobek military leaders were investigated and punished.

The flag was brought out in 637 E and blessed again by the leaders of the Sunik nation after the successful trials by the Tohanavi councils, where the Eagrok and Isutobek leaders that engaged in human rights abuses were held accountable. In the century that followed, it became a tradition to bless the flag in Supki every 25 years in honor of that event. This is often followed by a week long celebration within the most populous areas of the Sunik Nation.

Military

Worker cooperatives that focus on defense also have a dual purpose of maintaining infrastructure within the nation. All defense and infrastructure cooperatives must also go through the seasonal planning sessions in order to verify the costs and social benefits of production plans and if they meet the needs of the people within the nation.
Defensive modules exist within all communities to help defend against attacks and are designed to avoid killing if possible. Most weaponry is built upon no-kill designs. Defensive modules can also include aircraft for monitoring the surrounding environment; these aircrafts are designed for scouting only in order to obtain data on the state of the surrounding environment and to spot any despoiling or unsanctioned exploitation of the local ecosystems.
In case of disasters, communities implement their disaster framework, which was developed in cooperation with other communities and various worker cooperatives; this framework includes various plans to keep safe as many people as possible in a disaster and how to clean up and repair after disaster. Often, defensive modules are implemented during the framework, particularly aircraft, bunkers, shields, and other goods that can help save lives.
All people are taught self-defense through the Sunik Teakin systems, but the skills needed to work the defense modules require further training at the Siteakin level and joining a local subunit of a Defense Worker Cooperative.
Sunik Nation has an open border policy and view the right to migrate across borders are crucial to the right to exist.

Technological Level

Sunik Nation is fairly technological advanced.

• Sefirs are common among the populace.
• essor_trains exist between towns and cities.
• most roads are built with durable transparent materials to allow sun-collectors to be installed underneath.
• Windfarm litter the country side, and geothermal energy is often used within cities. Sun-collectors are common on most roofs.
• farms or trees are often grown on roofs or along terraced hills, where a line of trees are grown, then the line of crops, to allow for regenerative agricultural methods.
• Centralized computer and server systems within cities are used to create a more reliable distribution of goods system, saving large amounts of data, and providing processing power for research.
• Most electrical wires are either underground, or wired high up on metal and rubber stands alongside road and railways. There are also projects in place to utilize more satellite systems and phototonic wires (to transport high levels of encrypted data swiftly through long networks of cables).
• many provinces are within the mountain ranges that dominate Sefutji, so buildings carved into the sides of mountains, and towns within large caverns are common. Light-catchers work the shafts where mirrors are used to reflect sunlight into the caverns to mimic day/night cycles.

Laws

Adopted laws by all communities (further details concerning the implementation of laws are written within the constitutions of each cooperative and community, as each have unique needs that may require differing ways of implementing the laws. The following list is the over-arching intent of each law):

• Each person has exactly 1 vote in community councils that determine the consumption needs of the community.
• Each person has exactly 1 vote in deciding who will represent that community council in the provincial and national levels of public policy and consumption councils.
• Each person has exactly 1 vote in community councils that determine the extraction and production needs of the worker cooperative of which they are part. All votes within the worker cooperatives must include their analysis of how to meet the needs set forth in the consumption contracts submitted by the communities in the worker cooperative's jurisdiction.
• All votes must be triple-counted by separate parties, and a consensus must be established for a policy to move forward and become law. If consensus cannot be established, then a supermajority threshold (between 70 to 90 percent) will be met before policy is adopted. If supermajority threshold cannot be met, then policy must return to the draft stage to be reworked, where all complaints and concerns be given equitable weight and adjustments made before policy can be put to a re-vote. Voting rules are determined by each community.
• Each person has the right and autonomy to decide which work they are capable of doing and to join the appropriate worker cooperative. If the person is disabled and unable to work, then the needs of the person will be met through the community's consumption councils, for no person's immediate needs will go unmet within a community. All must be provided housing, food, clean water, clean air, healthcare, access to library systems, and sanitation facilities that meet their unique needs.
• Worker cooperatives with a large number of workers may make subunits that act in a semiautonomous way, which will allow the subunit to form their own semiautonomous councils that abide by the voting procedures of their larger worker cooperative.
• All councils must be accessible to all people within the community. The architectural designs of the public space must abide by the Architecture of Elivera principles of accessibility and inclusivity. These designs must incorporate plans that touch upon the temporal space, physical space, transportation space, community space, justice space, and informational space of the accessibility framework.
• All workers will be equitably subsidized according to their effort or sacrifice and needs. The rewards provided will be determined and implemented by the worker cooperatives in conjunction with the community councils under their jurisdiction.
• All resources under the jurisdiction of the worker cooperatives in conjunction with their communities must abide by the international sustainability principles to ensure cooperation with the Elivera Federation and to maintain the harmony of humanity with the Elivera ecosystems.
• All worker cooperatives and communities under their jurisdiction must acknowledge and support a plurality of lifestyles, autonomy of people, multiplicity of spirituality, and variety of skills and talents, all of which abide by the policies of the communities in which the people reside. Skills and Ability are unique to each person, and thus, their autonomy in exercising such talents will be supported if such exercises abide by the policies set forth within the person's community and worker cooperatives. No Ability may cause physical, emotional, or psychological harm to another person or to the library systems which contain the knowledge, supplies, and resources necessary for survival. Any abuses of Ability will be investigated by Ivutohan and submitted to the Elivera Federation for reparations.
• All of nature must be recognized as complementary to humanity, such that humanity is not superior nor is to dominate the Elivera ecosystems and unique flora and fauna. All resources gathered from Elivera ecosystems must fit the needs of the cooperatives and communities and must not exceed those needs. Resources must be given time to recover from all extraction. All communities are required to delegate rotating ecosystem management teams to assist in the management of public land and restoration of nature after extractive activities.
• Conflict resolution and deescalation must be the primary techniques to address conflict and harm. The tools needed to implement conflict resolution will be provided by a mediator, as in a neutral third party. (Note: Most communities within Sunik nation implement transformative justice models of conflict resolution. If two communities hold differing models of conflict resolution that cannot be reconciled, then the third party will default to the primary transformative justice model and tools as provided by the nation as a whole. The Ivutohan will be utilized if resolutions between parties cannot be reconciled without further investigation and analysis.)

Seasonal planning

All people can participate in the seasonal planning councils. The structure is as follows:

1. The neutral planning commitee (NPC) takes data from prior years and calculates the potential production costs of using available resources, all categories of labor, and all goods necessary for production as well as the social costs of the production of these various goods and its impact on people and environment.
2. Worker councils take the take and submit their first planning draft. This includes the materials needed, what items can be made by this particular worker cooperative, how much work time they will do, how many items can be made, and any finer details they wish to include to create a full picture of the items that will be produced or the information/data that will be generated for sharing.
3. Community councils submit their first consumption draft. Templates for the consumption drafts are kept simple with one-page checklist of static categories and special require write-in category.
4. NPC adds these into the calculations and recalculates the costs to create new estimates, which is provided to the councils.
5. The councils then update their drafts and resubmit.
6. This process can take 2 to 4 drafts but no more than 4 drafts. No planning draft can include costs that are detrimental to communities, workers, or environment. Each province has more in-depth rules to guide this process based on the resources within the province and what resources or goods is traded with other provinces or outside nations.
7. Once consensus is reached and drafts accepted as viable plans for the year, the production process begins. During this period, all produced items are sorted into two categories: pre-ordered special requests or store stock. The store stock is taken to the communities, where half will go to the library systems and half will go to the Share Stores, where people can use their Points to spend on items they wish to obtain. This data is provided to the worker cooperatives so they can adjust their production cycles based on the point-spending people do, such as if people preferred more blues and violets in various items, the cooperatives can adjust to make more items with those colors. Note: some rare materials are shared with the library systems for local people to use in creating artisan crafts, art, music, and literature. These are always allocated at the start of a season regardless of planning drafts and is included in the used portion of the NPC calculations.
8. At the end of the year, points are given to all who completed their plans based on the effort, sacrifice, and/or needs (if unable to work). Each province has rules that give further depth to the system to keep it equitable, and these rules abide by the national bill of rights and participatory contracts each province has with the national level. These contracts provide conflict resolution tools, trading tools, research and calculation tools, and equipment tools to support the provinces, worker cooperatives, and local communities.

Bill of rights:

• All people and all of Elivera's ecosystems have a right to exist.
• All people also have the right to means of sustenance: food, clean water, clean air, energy, housing, informational systems, and healthcare without fear of reprisal, discrimination, or domination.
• All people have the right to access public spaces and informational systems, and for that access to be equitably provided based on each person's needs.
• All people have the right to speak their mind without fear of reprisal, discrimination, or domination, in that the speech does not limit or harm another person's right to exist and any other right as described within this document.
• Elivera's ecosystems have the right to dwell in harmony with humanity and humanity's needs, such that humanity must not despoil or take more than what is needed for humanity's existence.
• All people have the right to self-management and autonomy on every scale from personal to communities to national scale, and for that self-management to be collectively held and managed by the community in which they reside. In addition, the decisions the community makes to provide for their essential sustenance needs to be honored and respected by other communities and the nation as a whole, unless such decisions harms or infringes upon the rights of other communities or people or ecosystem, upon which such decisions will be null and void and reparations for harm addressed through conflict resolution. If resolutions cannot be found, then the Ivutohan will intervene to address the conflict and seek a resolution that repairs the damage and institutes reparations as needed based on the severity of harm.
• All people have the right to a skilled neutral conflict resolution investigator and support team to assist them through accountability and repair.
• No person's actions may take away, dominate, despoil, or actively harm another person. Non-human beings must be respected and honored, in that only take what is absolutely needed and engage in restoration afterward.

Agriculture & Industry

Sunik nation uses a participatory economy system. All industry is made up of worker cooperatives and a library system of distribution.

Worker Cooperatives

Resources are extracted via need-based practices. Only the amount needed to construct or grow the commodity/object is extracted. This is monitored through public committees and the cooperatives. Tech and bioseeds are used to grow most necessity items and devices, and any luxury items are often handcrafted by local artisans.
Each industry has a network of worker cooperatives that extract, build, or grow the resources and objects/devices/information needed for the participatory economy and the library system.
Agriculture is predominantly done through permaculture and tier-farming techniques, since much of the nation is mountainous. Worker cooperatives across the land work the publicly owned fields, and sow the crops as well as harvest them.
Many of these cooperatives also have an apprenticeship program for young people to join and learn the trade.

Library System

Each city and town has a library network that encompasses the following functions:

• Book and Media lending system
• Repair and mending tool and skill library
• Skill swap library
• Library of things lending system

The goal is to provide a network of easy-to-access necessities and skill sharing amongst communities.

Education

All education is public, and all citizens of the nation are required to attend up through the second year of Siteakin (age 20 approximately). See Teakin.

Infrastructure

Road networks are built for durability in harsh weather, but also are transparent so they can double as sun-collectors for energy usage. essor_trains is a common transport that is one of the fastest in the nation and connects more cities and towns. The trains are also used to transport goods, though the road network is another use of transport for goods.
Most cities have extensive aquaducts, water recycling centers, and water distribution pipelines -- some of the older towns need upgrades on their pipelines, but the cities are relatively up to date.
Sewage goes through the sorting center, that sorts out the solids and the liquids -- liquids go to the water recycling centers, and solids go to the waste facilities for either containment or to purifying centers that use it to create fertilizer for agriculture. Trash that does not qualify for either the liquid or solid lines of distribution are sent to recycling centers for either containment or to be smelted down for re-use. Citizens can go to the recycling centers to request specific types of trash if they wish to use it for research or artistic purposes.
Bridges over rivers and/or water basins are in need of repair as many of them are nearly a century old, and Sunik nation (in present time) has been slowly moving forward with repairs. Throughout its history, bridges have been one of the last infrastructure designs to undergo repairs, so it's been an ongoing issue.
The nation has approximately 69 satellites in orbit, many of which are used for data collection purposes for space or atmospheric research or for the UPS. Some are used to transmit data more effectively than the underground cable networks.

Type

Geopolitical, Republic

Capital

Supki

Government System

Democracy, Direct

Economic System

Post-scarcity economy

Major Exports

• rare earth metals
• gold, silver, and plutonium
• certain types of technology seeds
• bioseeds with genes unique to Sunik nation
• grain-based food

Major Imports

• biomass
• hydrogen fuel
• fruits and certain vegetables
• bioseeds

Legislative Body

On a national level, the Vuhasin is a parliamentary body of elected delegates from each of the provinces. Elections are a ranked voting system. Each city and town have their own councils, and each province has its own provincial body of elected delegates. Delegates are elected for only 1 to 5 seasons at most. The Vuhasin only meets at the end of each season to discuss any policies or potential laws that communities have drafted that may be applicable to the nation as a whole. Community and worker councils meet fairly often, dependent upon their needs and the people's wishes.

Judicial Body

See Ivutohan.

Executive Body

The people of the Sunik nation are responsible for accountability to the laws and bill of rights. Conflict resolution specialists exist to assist with conflicts that can arise, and to support local communities in implementing plans.

Location

Sefutji

Official Languages

• Dhë̀sian
• Elivera Trade Language
• Erinevian
• Erinian dialect of Erinevian
• Sō̤xrà̤ian
• Taejïn

Controlled Territories

• Supki

Neighboring Nations

• Isanto
• Tomrak Nation