[hider=Mycelia]Full Name of Nation: [As the species acts by reflex and hormonal signals, there is no official vocal name.]

Common Name: Mycelia. Colloquially, 'fuzz'.

Government Type: None.

Demonym: Mycelian or fuzzy.

Dominant Species: Fuzz is a connected body of fungal tissue, mostly soft and fibrous like mould, but capable of interlocking into hard or elastic shapes, such as tubes. Fuzz exists only to expand by decomposing any organic matter it encounters, out-competing native species and eventually driving them to extinction. When an area of fuzz has exhausted its nourishment and is not contributing to the continued growth at the periphery, it goes dormant and eventually dies.

Technological Level: Adaptive. The growth reappropriates nearby objects into its architecture but manufactures no objects of its own accord. Fuzz exposed to more complex stimulus will reuse or respond to it in more complex ways. Fuzz has no memory- When stimulus is removed, it will very gradually revert to the state it was in without that stimulus, and will have to be re-exposed in order to 'learn' again. However, complex growths with positive results will slowly spread through the mass provided that form of growth has the tools required to function. Living creatures can be stimuli. For example, idle fuzz in a moist environment may culture algae or small plants symbiotically to produce nutrients for itself, while coastal fuzz exposed to shellfish may reuse nearby sources of calcium to produce its own covering.

Cultural Traits: Uniformity, unsustainable consumption, impassiveness, grey colour.

Language: None. Fuzz cannot speak (derp) or be taught to write. It may try to use basic symbols it is exposed to, but does not consciously understand their meaning.

Population: An irregular growth of various density, ten kilometres long from furthest end to furthest end. Growth speed depends on the availability of organic matter and the climate. There is only one growth of fuzz- Attempts to 'plant' a sample outside of the main body will always fail.

History: The mycelia was for untold aeons locked away in a subterranean chamber with no access to the surface. A series of landslips and the erosion of several hundred years exposed it to the surface, where it began to grow.

Military Type: Currently the best defences fuzz has are smooth vertical walls strutted by sticks and mycelium and imbedded with stones, a few metres tall at their highest. These develop at the periphery of the mycelium where it has been actively and persistently damaged, usually over the course of a few weeks.

Population in Military: <1%.[/hider]