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Planetary State of Corona
 Image from Anders Sandberg and Avengium | |
| The Corona Symbol, the Radiant Crown | |
Planetary State of Corona - Data Panel | |
| Polity, Government, and Administration | Name: Corona (Planetary State of Corona); a major Inner Sphere polity in the Iota Piscium system, centres=d around (but not confined to) the planet Corona. Symbol: The Radiant Crown. The current version was designed in 7235 during the early Corona Renaissance. Capital: Albertgrad (political, cultural), University (academical) Affiliation: The Iota Network, an independent archailect-led polity with close ties to various other polities such as the NoCoZo and Solar Dominion. Founded The Planetary State of Corona was founded in 6035. AI overseer: The Academy Minds (a group of S2s) AI ethos: Various, generally associated with the promotion of academic pursuits Government type: AI-mediated cyberdemocracy. Administrative divisions: Corona surface: Corona surface: Quark (2 subdivisions) Baryon (3 subdivisions) - Western Baryon/Glara - Central Baryon - Eastern Baryon/Gzeut Planck (4 subdivisions) Fermi (2 subdivisions) Bose (4 subdivisions) Corona environs: Cis-Sonata volume (4 subdivisions) - Inner ring - Outer ring - Cis-stationary volume - Trans-stationary volume Sonata (4 subdivisions) Other volumes: Iota-Corona L4 - New Eureka Iota-Corona L5 |
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| Population Demographics | Population (10600): 78 billion permanent (surface and orbitals) Population breakdown (10600): S0 - Modosophonts: Terragen Bionts: 36 billion, of which over 95% have adopted superior versions of their clade. - Humans: 14 billion - Rianths: 6 billion - Tweaks: 5 billion - Splices: 5 billion - Provolves: 5 billion - Neogens: 1 billion - Xenosplices: 50 million Terragen Biont-AI Interfaces: 22 billion - Virtuals: 15 billion - Cyborgs: 5 billion - Bioborgs: 2 billion - Biaioids: 140 million Terragen Sophont AIs: 20 billion - Aioids: 12 billion - Vecs: 8 billion - Others: 10 million Non-Terragen Sophonts: 90 million - Xenoprovolves: 70 million - Xenosophont Tweaks: (Aliens who are adapted to thrive in Terragen environments) 20 million S1 - Basic Transapients: 30,578 - S1 Hyperturing: 18,495 - S1 Postbionts: 12,083 S2 - High Transapients: 302 - The Academy Minds: 256 - Unaffiliated: 46 |
| Psyche, Art, Culture | Metapsychology: Academic Meritocracy Metaethics: Falsificationism Religion/Ideology: Various Culture and Art: Pragmatism, Ubuism Official Language: Coronese (Academic) Languages: Coronese is the dominant language, but Hetami is also widely spoken. Other Iota Network languages are occasionally used, and Solarese is mainly used in Solarist temples and Alemseged. Timekeeping: Corona and its environs, including Sonata, uses its own calendar, the Corona Calendar. The solar day is 69,842 seconds long, and is divided into 18 'hours', each 3,880 seconds long. 2 leap seconds are added at every midnight. The year is 1031.124 local days long and is not divided into months, but rather referred to by order (Year 256, Day 512, for example). Leap year occurs roughly every 8 years |
| Economics and Infrastructures | Currency: Coronese Tera Economic philosophy: Merit-based post-scarcity commons. Land and infrastructure are jointly owned by all with citizen dividends relative to academic performance. Major Industries: Academic publishing, infotech, tachydidaxy. Military expenditures: Minimal Megastructures: Two dynamic orbital rings, with space elevators linking them and the planet's surface. The outer ring has the 'aurora ring', a band of transparent screens displaying the aurora texture, hanging down from it. Angelnetting: Varies from city to city, from virtually none to fully-angelnetted. |
| Interstellar Trade and Treaty Relations | Main trading partners: Most important Inner Sphere worlds, some of the empires, especially the NoCoZo. Exports: Verified and peer-reviewed data, academic publications, academic appliances, and tachydidaxy technologies Imports: Data from various projects from throughout the Terragen sphere, data about transapients and archailects, expert systems for local tachydidaxy |
| Travel | Major spaceports: 12 evenly-spaced equatorial spaceports with space elevators connecting the surface to the twin dynamic rings. Hazard rating: Mostly 0.0 to 1.0, but unangelnetted regions may reach 4.0. Visa restrictions: None Freedom of movement: No restrictions on travel Environmental requirements: The biosphere of Corona has several species of microorganisms which are pathogenic to some clades. Sites of interest: See Notable Locations |
 Image from Steve Bowers and The Astronomer | |
| Sonata, the single natural moon of Corona | |
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Text by The Astronomer
Initially published on 07 May 2019.
Initially published on 07 May 2019.
