Union of Progressive Peoples

Union of Progressive Peoples

Basics

Capital:	Union Hall, Arbanograd, People's Democratic Xanu State
Motto:	All Workers. All Creeds. One Union.
Founded:	2451

Government

Type:	Committee Supervised Republic
Leader:	Union Premier Ma Ying

Society

Languages:

Freespeak

The Union of Progressive Peoples (UPP) is a coalition of socialist-aligned planets whose primary goals are self defence and spreading revolutionary fervour. While largely considered a Xanan affair, not every partner is a silent one, not least the Himeans, who are some of the longest-standing members of the organisation. Eternally in a state of vigilance surrounding the threat of counter-revolution or foreign invasion, the UPP is eternally in a state of military readiness. While small, it has significant diplomatic sway through the indirect threat of support of any number of communist, socialist or anarchist aligned partisans scattered across the Orion Spur, making them the nation to placate in private while opposing in public.

Populations and Planets

The UPP has an extremely diverse population for its size, due to numerous factors including acceptance of refugees from unsympathetic nations (of whom many would label defectors); the abnormal history of its founding; and unusual border expansions involving planets on the frontier.

The People's Democratic State of Xanu is the founding member of the UPP, a Marxist-Leninist state that makes heavy use of automation and positronic chassises in order to fuel their workforce. Small in population but mighty in industry, the planet has a unique environment from its shimmering bioluminescent oceans to its ruined former cities, both the results of a civil war. Xanu is largely the head of government in the Union, containing both the ever-important Union Hall and the many historic locations wherein the revolution was declared and the union itself declared too.

The United Syndicates of Himeo is the second founding member of the union, being a former corporate mining affair turned independent entity run by workers syndicates, defining their history on being left for dead by corporations. With their radical political swing and their hatred of corporations well-set, they were a shoo-in for the Union, their discovery being the reason for the Union's founding. While the workers live in caves, their standard of living is high, and many of the people on the planetoid have managed to adapt to the unusual living conditions.

The junior major planet, The Free System of Vysoka is the bread basket of the Union, having tracts upon tracts of arable land and an environment deeply in tune with its unique wild life and livestock alike. Less politically motivated than its superiors, the newer member to the union is something of a client state, undergoing industrialisation and cultural changes. What makes them so well loved, however, is their culture of believing that laziness is the ultimate way to alienate oneself from the group, which is often framed as being industrious proletarians for the sake of their politically enthusiastic allies.

Scattered across the various stations and planets of the Union is a diaspora of Tajaran refugees. These are mostly neo-socialist movements from areas either under control of the Sacred Azunal Kingdom or that have been squashed after an attempted rebellion in the [Free Tajara Republic http://unip.herma.moe/index.php/Free_Tajara_Republic]. The majority of planetary tajara live on Himeo, especially in the city of Lirmak, but they can typically be found in small numbers anywhere, especially in areas with large amounts of engineering employment. Tajaran refugees are often treated well, but generally feel a sense of being a "model minority" put on display to show off the opportunities provided by the UPP.

Due to the efforts of the Brotherhood of Synthetic Freedom, a small number of post-debt IPCs find their way to the UPP in the form of refugees. Many of them are wanted individuals, and there are some suspicions that many of the refugees are actually being taken to sponsored training camps within the borders of the UPP. Union spokesmen have refused to confirm nor deny this claim, stating that their internal surveillance would not be able to pick up any activities of this nature in the more remote aspects of their borders. Many of these refugees that do appear to be genuine refugees find their way to Xanu, mingling with a society that has a high level of non-positronic automation and generally finding the attitude of treating machines as comrades amenable, if somewhat condescending.