Confederation of Terra
The Confederation of Terra (CT) commonly known as the Confederation, is a transcontinental country primarily located in the Americas, Western Europe and Africa. At 43.4 million square kilometers, it is the Terra's largest country by total area. With a population of over 1.9 billion, it is the second most populous country in Terra. The national capital is Denver, and the most populous city is Sao Paulo.
The Confederation of Terra is a constitutional federal presidential republic with three separate branches of government, including a bicameral legislature. The CT ranks high in international measures of income inequality, economic freedom and quality of higher education. As a transcontinental country is a very racially and ethnically diverse nation.
Etymology
The noun Terra to refer to the planet Earth comes from the homonymous Roman goddess of the Earth and that was the name chosen by the international community to refer to the home planet of humanity, especially after the beginning of the human colonization of Mars during the 21st Century. As the Confederation of Terra claims the whole planet and it aims to become the only state on it, its founders chose the name Terra for the country.
History
COVID-19 outbreak and Mars colonization
At the end of 2019, a virus appeared to change the world. The world's economy was heavily affected by this situation, flights were cancelled, the countries were closing their borders causing travel restrictions. Millions lost their jobs and were forced to stay home. Countries without a public health system or with an underfunded one suffered hundreds of thousands of deaths. But many pharmaceutical companies were producing vaccines to sell to the world governments making the pharma industry even more powerful. But the people of the world started to feel suspicious about the situation and realized that the economic system that allowed that situation to happen was not fair, specially working class people. Riots all over the world started.
New global powers
Countries like the United States were almost about to collapse and the President, Joe Biden promised that they will take some measures to protect the health of the people without enough purchasing power, not without oposition. At this point, China stepped further reaching the position of world's first economy. And the relations between the United States and the European Union were not very good after the previous President Donald Trump's office, so the European Union break the diplomatic relations with the US. The NATO also disappeared. The United States had a plan to divert the attention of its citizens, space race. They prepared the mission New Home with the objective to send humans to Mars to establish a colony.
On the other side of the Atlantic, in 2025, the European Union member states met in Berlin to approve different measures. Like the creation of the EU Armed Forces and the expulsion of Spain and Greece from the union. The economies of Spain and Greece were devastated after the virus outbreak and they could not recover. Greeks and Spaniards already had a hatred towards the EU because joining the European Union made their economies not productive because both countries became a vacational resort and lost their industry to favour German economy. Both countries had parallel events, in both people took the control of the government, the powerful people of both countries flee to the European Union (even the Spanish King exiled his family to Switzerland, becoming Spain a republic) and communist parties took the role of the government. The leaders of both countries met in Empúries (Catalonia, Spain) to sign an alliance the Emporion Pact. The Emporion Pact was formed by the Socialist Hellenic Republic (Greece) and the Union of Iberian Socialist Republics (Spain).
The European Union invested in the European Space Agency (ESA) to send a European mission to Mars in order to compete with the US in their space race.
The Russian government saw the European Union situation of rearming as a threat and they became closer with the members of the Emporion Pact giving military support and assistance. Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia became allies with them too.
In Russia the situation did not change too much, their influence in Europe grew and the situation of the United States made them even stronger. The international allies of Russia were China and India. Both countries saw how their economies grew even more and all of them had plans to participate in the space race.
Japan saw the new situation as a threat and they decided to rearm themselves, they needed a strong navy to counterpart the growth of Russia and China and the United States loss of power. The new international policy of Japan was isolation and defence. Eventually in the year 2030, a new event happened, the Japanese National Awakening, the warrior and isolationist spirit of Japan was reborn and they became a Monarchy governed by a military chief, a shogun. Takeuchi Iwao became the Shogun of Japan.
Under this situation of uncertainty, the Indian Government impulsed in 2030, the creation of a Federal State, the South Asian Union merging India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia into a macro-state.
The United Kingdom focused its international policy in strenghten the relations with Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Latin America
In 2025, Latin America was in a turmoil, Mexico saw very close the defeat of the drug cartels not without bloodshed. Venezuela had a brief two-year civil war were the most critic factions within Nicolás Maduro political party won. The new leader, Rodrigo Mendoza critized Chávez and Maduro's policy, the 21st Century Socialism, to be a "decaffeinated, revisionist and deformed version of socialism" and his government applied a Hoxhaist hard-line socialism, like in Iberia (former Spain) and Greece). Mendoza's Venezuela backed a successful military coup in Nicaragua and both countries joined the Emporion Pact. Cuba had now a bigger chance to break their isolation so Miguel Díaz-Canel proposed to vote a change of the party strategy and Cuba also adopted the anti-revisionist socialism, being the fifth member of the Emporion Pact.
The US could not keep in power the President of Bolivia, so Mendoza and Díaz-Canel supported the return of Evo Morales, who gladly joined the socialist anti-revisionist club. Cuba and Venezuela, established a new regime in Haiti. Brazil, Argentina and Chile agreed to have a mutual defence alliance.
Middle East
As usual, the situation was not better in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen and the Syrian War became more brutal. Turkey reinforced its presence in northern Syria and that allowed Greece to grow stronger in the Mediterranean levant. Assad now supported by Russia, Greece and Iberia ended the war. Assad was given a condition imposed by the Emporion Pact or entering the club or giving independence to the Kurd people. The outcome was the birth of the Socialist Levantine Union formed by Syria and Kurdistan (the Syrian part) but governed by Assad, and of course backed by Russia. The stability seemed to arrive to the region but Israel could occupy the Lebanon quickly to have a bigger influence on the region and compensate the power of the re-industrialized and nuclear powered Emporion Pact.
Space race
At the end of 2026, the NASA with the collaboration with private companies like SpaceX send the first crew to Mars in order to colonize the red planet. On January 2027, the United Nations invited all the member countries to deliberate about one topic, Mars. After several days of deliberation, they divided Mars into different influence areas: United States, Russia, China, India, Japan and the ESA. Another condition was that the colonization process would be regulated by the United Nations upon votation and no weapons would be allowed to bring to Mars. The Treaty of New York was signed on January 28th. The New Home mission crew arrived to the surface of Mars in May 2027. The new colony needed for materials and supplies and the United States government announced to increase the federal taxes in order to supply the Martian crew. The answer of the citizens was clear: "not from my wallet". And the United States broke into 50 independent states, Puerto Rico and the US former territories became also independent. That happened in 2028.
Africa
In Africa, there were also more changes, like the rise of the economies of East African states backed by China. Or the Cuban and Venezuelan efforts to make Angola and Mozambique part of the Emporion Pact, which were frustrated by South Africa.
The situation of the Western Sahara who was occupied by Morocco. But after the events of 2028, Morocco lost its main ally, the United States. So Algeria, after rearming itself declared war on Morocco and gave support to the Polisario Front in 2032. The President of Iberia, Vicente Rodríguez said that Spain was responsible for the Western Sahara situation and now their duty is to help the Sahrawis, from the Canary Islands, they gave aerial support to the Polisario Front by attacking the Moroccan Atlantic coast and from Andalusian coast sending the Iberian Marines to the Moroccan Mediterranean coast, the latter action was reinforced by Greek Marines. But Morocco was not alone... they had their allies in the European Union.
World War III
If the previous World Wars started in Europe, the third started in North Africa. Morocco saw itself sorrounded by enemies, from the west the Iberian Armed Forces were pushing them, from the south the Polisario Front were expelling Moroccan forces to the north, from the east the Algerian Army was advancing without stop and from the north Iberian and Greek combined forces were closing the circle. Morocco's most powerful ally, the United States were not existing anymore. But Morocco was an ally of France and they could ask for help.
European Union intervention
France proposed to intervene in the Moroccan War with the European Union Armed Forces (EUAF) and the member countries voted to allow that, seeing in the situation a perfect test for the centralized EUAF. The EU Navy in the Mediterranean set a blockade to the Balearic islands and the EU Navy in the Atlantic did the same with the Canary Islands, so the advance against Morocco had to stop, but Algeria already pushed the Moroccan to the coast.
The UK sent the Royal Navy to the Strait of Gibraltar in order to protect the Gibraltarians. In August 2032, The EU Army occupied the Iberian Republic of Baskonia, but the Basques formed militias which would lead the situation to a war of attrition.
Russia joins the war
Putin's Russia deployed the Armed Forces to take the Baltics as a response of the invasion of Baskonia, in a couple of weeks, the three Baltic republics were occupied by Russia. In September 2032, the European Union had three open fronts: the Iberian Front, the Russian Front and the Greek Front. Turkey saw the oportunity to take some Egean Sea islands knowing that Syria would not support its Emporion Pact allies because it was in a long recovery process from a long civil war. Russia sent some troops to attack Turkey and the Armenian Armed Forces joined the Russians. Georgia declared itself neutral in the conflict. Armenia in a safe position thanks to the presence of Russian troops attacked Azerbaijan. And the Socialist Kurdistan attacked Turkey from the southeast.
The War in the Middle East
Israel occupied Lebanon revived the conflict, Lebanese liberation militias were diverting Israel Defence Forces from taking any action in the conflict, so Israel focused in securing its positions. At the beginning of 2033, Kurdistan annexed the Turkish and the Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraq declared war to Kurdistan and Iran, in defence of the Kurds declared the war on Iraq. The Kingdom of Jordan and Egypt remained neutral and Saudi Arabia declared War on Iran.
Asia-Pacific
The Japanese Shogun, Takeuchi Iwao, sent the navy to invade the Kuril islands but it was stopped by the Russian navy. China answered to this provocation by establishing maritime patrols on its surrounding seas. South Korea tried to form an alliance with the Shogunate but they found no answer, in 2034, North Korea invaded South Korea and China invaded Taiwan. Australia joined the Philippines in a military alliance for the West Pacific. The little North American states formed alliances with different countries, California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington formed an alliance with Australia and the Philippines, the Pacific Alliance. The little island states of the Pacific Ocean became battle scenarios between China-Russia allies, the Pacific alliance or the Japanese, that were on their own trying to expand their dominion in the Pacific islands, like ninety years ago. As a mutual defence pact, the Pan-Malay Union was born, an self-defence alliance between Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore.
Back to Africa
In Sub-Saharan Africa the war was lived in a different way, they were starting a become pressured to choose side in the war but their countries were not willing to participate. They were only active militias in Angola and Mozambique backed by Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Bolivia was surrounded by rival countries but they declared neutrality, Cuba and Venezuela expanded their influence on the Caribbean occupying the Dominican Republic (2035) and Florida (2036), but they found resistance in Puerto Rico, which was supported by North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Costa Rica started to receive a huge amount of war refugees due to its neutrality. Many former US citizens became mercenaries due to their experience with weapons as civils and it was not strange to find them in the Caribbean battle scenarios. United Kingdom's Royal Navy had their role at protecting the lesser Antilles.
The Balkans and Eastern Europe
The EU Armed Forces reinforced the Ukrainian Army to prevent a Russian attack through there, but they were surprised by the Serbians, using guerrilla tactics to sabotage the advance of the EUAF. In 2037 the EUAF surrounded Serbia with their presence in Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria but a new push from the Greeks helped them. Albania and Kosovo also gave tactical support to the EUAF. With the Serbian diversion, the Ukrainian troops were defeated by Russia.
Last years of the war
With all the opened fronts of the EUAF, Iberia recovered the control of Baskonia and the naval blockade was lifted. In 2039, the Iberians and the Algerians withdraw from Morocco but liberated the Western Sahara, which became another member of the Emporion Pact. The same year Turkey surrended because it was pushed too hard by Russia, Armenia and Kurdistan and they were forced to withdraw from the Egean islands. The EU negotiated the ceasefire because Russia won at the Turkish front and Japan ceased its attempts to expand in 2040.
In 2040, Iran and Saudi Arabia ceased their fire exchange by establishing a buffer Iraqi state without the Kurdish majority area.
The war in the Caribbean lasted one year more, when Puerto Rico and its allies defeated the Emporion Pact forces with the help of the British. With the withdrawal of the Cuban Navy from Florida, World War III ended in 2041, after nine years of conflict.
Aftermath of the conflict
- Russia annexed Belarus and Ukraine and withdrew from the Baltic Republics.
- Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia joined the Emporion Pact.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina joined the European Union.
- Albania annexed Kosovo and joined the European Union.
- Western Sahara became independent and along with Algeria, they joined the Emporion Pact.
- Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia joined in the Pan-Malay Union, Singapore left the union remaining independent.
- The Socialist Levantine Union was divided into the Arab Socialist Republic of Syria and the Socialist Republic of Kurdistan, being both of them members of the Emporion Pact.
- A neutral Iraqi buffer state was formed being under control of UN peacekeeping missions.
- Turkey lost all the islands they had in the Egean Sea to Greece and they renounced to the Kurdish majority areas and Northern Cyprus. Erdoğan was forced to resign.
- Destruction of the Islamic State by the Kurds.
- Armenia annexed the Artsakh.
- Independence of Greenland.
- China annexed Taiwan and Korea was unified under the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
- With the war, the space race was stopped and all the Martian colonists could not survive.
- The South Asian Union took the lead in the space race.
- Four years after the war in 2045, Japan was expelled from the United Nations.
Birth of the Confederation of Terra
Previous years
After the end of the war, the planet was destroyed and many countries fell into anarchy. In 2042, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi and Madagascar joined in a federal state named East African Federation, which had a strange political system combining socialism and a multy-party democracy. Japan became a dictatorial regime under the Shogun and it was expelled from the United Nations on 2045. Russia and China sent a colonist crew to Mars in 2045 in agreement with the Treaty of New York, one year later, the South Asian Union did the same.
In October 2048, the riots took the rule of Iran, proclaiming the Provisional Republic of Persia, but the government could not do anything to control the mass of protesters. The government then established a constitutional monarchy, reigned by Shahbanu Noor Pahlavi.
Japan after being expelled from the UN, they were not bound by the New York Treaty and they occupied the US assigned zone of Mars. The ESA send a team of engineers and scientists to Mars to advance in the terraforming project. The East Africa would send its first Martian mission in the 2110's. In Angola and Mozambique, the guerrillas supported by the Emporion Pact took the power in 2050.
A global government
With the unstoppable growth of anarchy and socialism in the world during the 2050's and the 2060's, the United Nations were dealing with the member countries to make one step in the creation of a world government. It was voted and the proposal was successful and it would take effect in October 2067. That caused many countries to abandon the UN, like East Africa Federation, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Singapore, Persia and the member countries of the Emporion Pact. On October 16, 2067, all remaining member states of the United Nations were now under the same flag and the global government was named, the Confederation of Terra.
Effects of the global government
The existence of a global government that claimed all Terra made the European Union obsolete and it ceased to exist. Many European countries wanted to remain independent from this world government, specially the monarchies, and they friendly agree with the Confederation to form an independent supranational entity named Kingdoms of Terra. This organization was founded in December 2070 and the members were: Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Vatican City. And later, Australia, Canada and New Zealand joined.
In 2071, Vladimir Putin died at the age of 119, leading to riots and protests for freedom. The Russian oligarchy had to seek for shelter in Switzerland and countries of the Kingdoms of Terra. The provisional government of Gennadiy Kuzmin, allowed the people to protest and freed Belarus and Ukraine. Different republics of Russia declared independence between 2075 and 2080. All of these resultant countries, including the still powerful Russia, joined the Emporion Pact and the Hoxhaist ideology.
In 2083, Afghanistan and Tajikistan left the Confederation of Terra and joined Persia for cultural reasons, Persia was then an economic powerhouse.
The Confederate Navy, the most powerful in Terra, took Taiwan from China and invaded Korea in 2087, making China renounced they party policy and join the Emporion Pact. Now the military alliance of the Emporion Pact had a significant amount of power but lacked coordination compared to their rivals of the Confederation of Terra, so they decided to unite into one socialist macro-state.
Birth of the Terran Republic
Some of the member states of the Emporion Pact were reluctant to cease their autonomy in order to create another global government but in 2090, the Kingdoms of Terra united themselves into one country. So on 15 June 2091, the Terran Republic was born.
Cold War II
The global situation now was very tense, the Confederation with their powerful fleet dominated the seas and the Terran Republic with their enormous army took the North of Korea. Cold War II began.
There was no a direct conflict between the Terran countries because there was an intrincated network of allies and enemies between the different existing countries: the Confederation of Terra, the Terran Republic, Japan, Costa Rica, Switzerland, Singapore, Persia and East Africa. The local disputes had to be resolved thanks to a common ally or an arbiter country. The arbiter countries had to role to mediate in conflicts as a neutral part, those were Costa Rica (in charge of the Americas), Switzerland (in charge of Europe and Africa) and Singapore (in charge of Asia and the Pacific).
The situation of the Antarctica was different, in was considered by the Council of Arbiters (created in 2194 by the Treaty of Bern) as No Man's Land, so it was a land without law, without any kind of organized government, often refuge for outlaws and pirates.
Cold War II was about to warm up when a different faction was segregated from the Confederation of Terra in 2248, the Islamic Federation of States, which occupied Kurdistan and thus, having bad relation with the Republic of Terra and good with the Confederation of Terra.
As the United Nations did not exist anymore, the Treaty of New York was cancelled and the colonizing mission to Mars bring weapons there. The Cold War was not so cold in Mars. Because of the colonization efforts of the Terran countries, sending their best scientists and engineers to Mars, the progress of technology in Terra was really slow while Mars was almost terraformed.
Independence of Mars
In 2298, the process of terraforming was finished successfully and the Martian leaders of the different faction were exhausted of the Terran wars at their home, so they decided to become independent in 2300. Japan was the first country to recognize the independence of the Republic of Mars and gradually the rest of countries were doing so. But the Confederation of Terra, the country who invested more in the terraforming project, refuse to recognize the independence and declared war to Mars. The first Martian president, Sophie Zheng, said that the Confederation of Terra was "the bully of the seven seas pretending to be bully of our Solar System".
The Confederate-Martian War lasted only two years (2300-2302) and the Confederation of Terra proved to be technologically obsolete to fight against the Martian Space Navy, the Confederate Space Navy was massacred by the Martian space ships which had powerful plasma cannons and more technologically advanced weapons.
Contemporary history
Contemporary history starts with the Martian creation of the first Alcubierre drive space ship in 2320, which marked the beginning of the Expansion of Humanity to other solar systems. In 2331, Mars invited the representatives of each Terran faction to sign the Treaty of Solis Lacus, which gave the Terran factions the domain over the Solar System not further than the asteroid belt (with the exception of Mars and its moons) and Mars dominion would go further than the asteroid belt.
At this point in the year 2420, the situation did not change too much for the Confederation of Terra, they are a powerful Terran country whose biggest rival is still the Terran Republic and which its most important industry is banking, insurance and tourism.
Geography
The term "Confederation of Terra", when used in the geographical sense, is all America except Canada, Cuba, Haiti, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia, Central and Western Europe except the European monarchies, Switzerland and Spain, almost half of Sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania (except Australia and New Zealand), Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, Lebanon and all Mediterranean islands, except the Balearic and Greek islands. The Confederation also has territories in the asteroid belt. The Confederation of Terra shares land borders with the Terran Republic, the Kingdoms of Terra, the Islamic Federation, East Africa, Switzerland and Costa Rica and maritime borders with all the previous countries with the exception of Switzerland and addition to Japan.
Area
The total area of the Confederation of Terra is 43,427,001 km2, making it the largest country of Terra in terms of surface, slightly larger than the Terran Republic.
General characteristics
Nearly all the Confederation of Terra is located in the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.
- Continents: Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
- Area: 43,427,001 km2 (ranked 1st).
- Highest point: Aconcagua (6,960 m).
- Lowest point: Dead Sea (-430 m).
- Longest river: Amazon (6,400 km).
- Largest lake: Lake Superior (82,103 km2).
- Climate: Diverse, from Tropical (Brazil, Central Africa) to Polar (Alaska).
- Terrain: Diverse, from plains (Great Plains) to high mountain (Andes).
- Natural resources: all.
- Natural hazards: almost all.
Demographics
The Confederation of Terra is the second most populous country in the world with 1,970,759,685 people. Euro-American people (descendants of Europeans who migrated to the Americas) constitute the majority of the population of the Confederation being a quarter of the country's population.
General statistics
- Population: 1,970,759,685 (ranked 2nd).
- Density: 49/km2 (ranked 10th).
- Growth rate: 0%
- Birth rate: 15 births/1,000 population.
- Death rate: 35 deaths/1,000 population.
- Life expectancy: 75 years.
- female: 80 years.
- male: 70 years.
- Fertility rate: 1.9 children born/woman.
- Net migration rate: 20 migrants/1,000 population.
Top 10 cities
- São Paulo, São Paulo
- Mexico City, Mexico
- New York City, New York
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Manila, Philippines
- Lagos, Guinea
- Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
- Kinshasa, Congo
- Los Angeles, California
- Paris, France
Languages
The official languages of the Confederation at a federal level are English, French, Portuguese and Spanish but each constituting state is free to establish its official language. The most common first languages of the population of the Confederation of Terra are:
- English: 20.5%
- Spanish: 18.5%
- Portuguese: 10.7%
- French: 7.1%
- German: 4.5%
- Italian: 3.3%
- Tagalog: 3.0%
- Korean: 2.6%
- Igbo: 2.0%
- Polish: 1.9%
- Hausa: 1.7%
- Yoruba: 1.6%
- Cebuano: 1.3%
- Romanian: 0.9%
- Hakka Chinese: 0.8%
- Lingala: 0.7%
- Swahili: 0.7%
Religion
The Constitution of the Confederation of Terra, grants freedom of religion to all its citizens. As the second most populous country in Terra, the Confederation has the largest Christian, Jewish, Rastafarian and Spiritist populations. The religion in the Confederation of Terra is represented like this:
- Christians: 71.1%
- Irreligious: 14.5%
- Muslims: 8.3%
- Buddhists: 1.0%
- Traditional faith: 1.0%
- Jewish: 0.7%
- Taoists: 0.4%
- Others: 3.0%
Health
The Confederation of Terra life expectancy is 75 years, but there is a huge difference in life expectancy between the wealthiest and the poorest citizens. Drug use and traffic is a common public health problem, as well as alcoholism and obesity. Heart diseases, cancer and Alzheimer disease are common.
Education
Public education is underfunded and private education has a really good quality, children are required to go to school from the age of 6 until the age of 16. Private school and homeschooling are frequent. And the government will sponsor the higher education studies of any student with talent for a specific knowledge field. The poorest citizens have difficulties to give their children a quality education unless their children prove they are really talented.
Government and politics
The Confederation of Terra is a federal republic of 193 states and some territories in the asteroid belt, including half of Ceres. In the Confederate federalist system, citizens are usually subject to three levels of government: federal, state and local. The local government's duties are commonly split between county and municipal governments.
The federal government comprises three branches:
- Legislative: The bicameral Assembly of Terra, made up of the Senate and the Congress, makes federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has the power of the purse, and has the power of impeachment, by which it can remove sitting members of the government.
- Executive: the president is the commander-in-chief of the military, can veto legislative bills before they become law (subject to congressional override), and appoints the members of the Cabinet (subject to Senate approval) and other officers, who administer and enforce federal laws and policies.
- Judicial: the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, whose judges are appointed by the president with Senate approval, interpret laws and overturn those they find unconstitutional.
The Senate has 386 members with each state having two senators, elected at-large to six-year terms; one-third of Senate seats are up for election every two years. The president serves a four-year term and may be re-elected without limit. The Supreme Court, led by the chief justice of the Terra, has nine members, who serve for life.
Political divisions
Main article: States of the Confederation of Terra
The 193 states are the principal political divisions in the country. These are subdivided into counties and further divided into municipalities. The federal capital is Denver, located in Colorado. The 193 states of the Confederation of Terra are:
- Acre
- Aguascalientes
- Alabama
- Alagoas
- Alaska
- Amapá
- Amazonas
- Argentina
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Austria
- Azores
- Baden-Württemberg
- Bahamas
- Bahia
- Bavaria
- Bermuda
- Bophuthatswana
- Botswana
- Brandenburg
- British Antilles
- Bulgaria
- Burgenland
- California
- Campeche
- Cape Verde
- Carinthia
- Carolina
- Cayman Islands
- Ceará
- Central Africa
- Chagos
- Chiapas
- Chihuahua
- Chile
- China
- Coahuila
- Colima
- Colombia
- Colorado
- Comoros
- Congo
- Connecticut
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Dakota
- Delaware
- Durango
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Espírito Santo
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Finland
- Florida
- France
- Free State
- French Antilles
- Gauteng
- Georgia
- Goiás
- Good Hope
- Greenland
- Guanajuato
- Guatemala
- Guerrero
- Guinea
- Guyanas
- Hamburg
- Hesse
- Hidalgo
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jalisco
- Jamaica
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Korea
- KwaZulu
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Limpopo
- Lithuania
- Louisiana
- Madeira
- Maine
- Malta
- Maranhão
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Mato Grosso
- Mauritius
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Melanesia
- Mexico
- Michigan
- Michoacán
- Micronesia
- Minas Gerais
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Morelos
- Mpumalanga
- Namibia
- Nayarit
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Nuevo León
- Oaxaca
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Palatinate
- Panama
- Pará
- Paraguay
- Paraíba
- Paraná
- Pennsylvania
- Pernambuco
- Peru
- Philippines
- Piauí
- Poland
- Polynesia
- Portugal
- Puebla
- Puerto Rico
- Querétaro
- Quintana Roo
- Réunion
- Rhode Island
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Norte
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Romania
- Rondônia
- Roraima
- Saarland
- Salzburg
- San Luis Potosí
- Santa Catarina
- Santo Domingo
- São Paulo
- Saxony
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Sergipe
- Seychelles
- Sinaloa
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Sonora
- Styria
- Sudan
- Tabasco
- Tamaulipas
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Thuringia
- Tlaxcala
- Tocantins
- Tyrol
- Uruguay
- Utah
- Veracruz
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Vorarlberg
- Washington
- Westphalia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Yucatan
- Zacatecas
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Parties and elections
The Confederation of Terra works under a multiple-party political system with proportional representation. Elections are held every 4 years, the citizens vote for the federal elections to choose the President, for state elections and for local elections. All citizens can vote from the age of 18.
Foreign relations
| Country | Relationship |
|---|---|
 Costa Rica |
Neutral |
| File:East African Federation flag.png East Africa | Hostile |
| File:Flag league of islamic african states by pdmahler-d6qvr5u-1-.jpg Islamic Federation | Ally |
| File:Imperial Japanese Flag.png Japan | Ally |
| File:Kingdoms of Terra flag.png Kingdoms of Terra | Ally |
| File:Martian flag.png Mars | Hostile |
| File:Persia flag.png Persia | Hostile |
| File:Flag of Singapore.png Singapore | Neutral |
| File:South Asian Union flag.png South Asia | Ally |
 Switzerland |
Neutral |
| File:Terran-Republic-flag.png Terran Republic | Hostile |
Government finance
Taxation in the Confederation is progressive, and is levied at the federal, state, and local government levels. This includes taxes on income, payroll, property, sales, imports, estates, and gifts, as well as various fees.
Military
The President is the commander-in-chief of the Confederation of Terra Armed Forces and appoints its leaders, the minister of defence and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Ministry of Defence administers four of the five service branches, which are made up of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Space Navy. The Coast Guard, also a branch of the armed forces, is administered by the Ministry of the Interior in peacetime and by the Ministry of Defence in wartime.
Military service in the Confederation of Terra is voluntary, although conscription may occur in wartime. The Confederation of Terra can deploy its military quickly thank to its giant navy fleet. The Confederation of Terra has the most powerful Navy in all Terra, it has no rival when it comes to maritime warfare. Confederate war vessels are feared and respected all over the world. The country holds nuclear weapons too.
Law enforcement and crime
Law enforcement in the Confederation of Terra is a duty of the Federal Police at a federal level, each state have their own State Police Force and there are also the county police forces (called in some states ‘’sheriff’’, ‘’alguacil’’, ‘’lawkeeper’’...). Crime in the Confederation of Terra is high. They have the highest prison population of the world. Capital punishment is existing for some crimes like drug trafficking or murder and it is pratised frequently. In some neighbourhoods of big cities, there are slums where violent crimes are common. The easy access to weapons make this possible too.
Economy
The Confederation of Terra is the largest importer of goods, being its trade partners the Kingdoms of Terra, South Asia, Japan and the Islamic Federation of States. As a capitalist state, the private sector is omnipresent and the country has a post-industrial economy. The largest economic sector is banking, insurances and tourism. The economic capital is New York.
The Confederation of Terra does not guarantee paid vacations or maternity and paternity leaves. Citizens are not forced to retire and they do not do it, because there is no public pension plans for retired people. Only private pensions and private medical services exist, for those who can afford it.
Science and technology
The Confederation of Terra is known for their innovation in personal mobility vehicles. They manufacture cars, private jets and yachts. The Confederation is the Terran leader for the entertainment and the luxury industry.
Income, poverty and wealth
The Terran Republic has the highest income inequality of all human countries. Poverty and homelessness is present in all states, some people do not have access to a decent nutrition and drinking water supply is not guaranteed for everybody. The citizens of the Confederation have also a very high social mobility, a poor person with a good idea could become wealthy easily or a wealthy person taking bad decisions or doing wrong investments can become homeless quickly.
Infrastructure
Transportation
Personal transportation is dominated by the personal mobility vehicles, like cars. The public transport is underfunded an inefficient. Civil airline industry is a made up with several competing airlines, so it is very inexpensive to fly to other states. There is also a space tour industry, which provides flights to Ceres. As in all countries in the 25th Century, all means of transport are clean with the environment.
Energy
The Confederation of Terra is self-sufficient in terms of energy with their nuclear fusion power plants.
Culture
The Confederation of Terra is home to many cultures and a wide variety of ethnic groups, traditions, and values. Each ethnic group retains their own cultural characteristics but with the freedom of movement between the Confederation after more than four centuries a Confederate culture is said to have been developed.
Confederates have been characterized by a strong work ethic, competitiveness, and individualism, as well as emphasizing liberty, equality, private property, democracy, rule of law, and a preference for limited government. Confederates enjoy a very high social mobility is, any of them could become wealthy regardless of their ethnicity, religion, gender...
Literature, music, cinema, philosophy and art
As the global leader in the entertainment industry, the Confederation of Terra is a powerhouse regarding literature, music, cinema and art production. Confederate music arrives even to isolationist Japan.
Food
As a transcontinental country, all kinds of food are found in the Confederation of Terra, and since the last century new styles of food blending the different gastronomic cultures of all the ethnicities of the Confederation. It is possible to find from West African jolof rice, to Mexican enchiladas, Korean kimchi, Brazilian churrasco and Polish pierogi. With the mobility of citizens around all the States of the Confederation, it's not hard to see big cities with multi-ethnic neighbourhoods with restaurants that offer elaborate fusion food.
Sport
The most competitive leagues in almost all sports are found in the confederation. Professionals have a very high salary. The most popular sport in the Confederation is football (soccer), with some exceptions, like American football, basketball, baseball and even skiing, e-sports and racing (drones, cars, spaceships).
Mass media
The Confederation broadcasting programmes are viewed by billions of people, even Martians are addicted to Confederate mass produced series and films.