Earth
Description
With a diaspora of humanity to the stars and to new colonies thanks to cheap antigravity and faster than light travel Earth has become little more than a museum. The home of humanity, abandoned by most and left to its own devices for the most part, he only thing of significance being its ceremonial and historical past as the seat of humanity and any attempt at overall human governance or confederacy. Exhausted of resources having sent humankind to the stars the Earth is now dependent on goodwill, tourism and the activities of its decreasing population in order to survive, a dusty museum world being slowly retaken by nature and considered to be an artifact of a bygone age.
Government
The Western, Asian, Orthodox and Islamic blocks that consolidated in the 21st century were gradually washed out by the interests of the ever-growing mega-corps during the 3rd millennia. Earth retains its national governments of old but these are subsumed to the various power blocs who run the UN; USA-Canada-Australia, Mexico-Brazil, Russia-China, Scandinavia-Baltic, United Europe, African Coop Japan-Korea, India, Mars & Venus. These in turn are subsumed to the United Nations and the powerful interplanetary and interstellar corporations that came up during the diaspora and colonization effort. Technology and the availability of resources from the solar system and the colonies means there is little need for conflict any longer but clashes and brushfire wars still erupt on Earth. For instance - the idea that Martian & Venusian interests have anything to do with politics on Earth has been the cause of many rebellions. With nothing else to lay claim to it is tradition and beliefs that have become Earth’s currency and it is riddled with groups who act as exemplars of any number of beliefs, nationalism or defunct political ideologies. Earth and its nations are almost entirely dependent upon the goodwill and donations of their former colonies and the sense of debt and origination from these Earthly nations decreases year on year.
Geography
Earth’s geography should be well known to the reader though global warming and other ecological disasters reshaped much of the Earth the essentials remain the same. The population peak did lead to certain differences though, the reclaiming of land from the sea and the construction of floating cities for example. With the diaspora many villages and cities have been left virtually empty, housing as little as one tenth of the numbers they were supposed to and only capital cities retaining anything like the populations they had before the diaspora. Automated systems and technology keep most towns and cities up and running but nature is beginning to creep back where places are abandoned and unused, eating up some of the towns and cities that are still considered heritage sites.
Mega-Cities
Through the process of interstellar colonization Earth's population soared during the 3rd millennia. Cities grew into colossal horizon-stretching steel and concrete landscapes and only thought advanced technology and climate control were humanity possible to survive the environmental impact of interstellar colonization. Some cities to note:
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SanSan.
A truly colossal city that stretches from San Francisco to San Diego owned primarily by NBN, which is used as one of their headquarters for their information empire.
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New Angeles.
The largest city in the world. It is so big that its sectors should more realistically be seen as different worlds. Originally built by Weyland Consortium as the worlds first space elevator. Once helium-3 fusion was discovered the city grew to an unimaginable size, covering almost the entirety of what once was the sovereign nation of Ecuador.
Starport quality
A, Naval, Scout, Research, TAS
Size
8
Atmosphere Type
7
Hydrographic Percentage
7
Population
B
Government Type
4(3)
Law Level
7
Tech Level
B
Price Multiplier
1.0 (1.25 for spacecraft)
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