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Name of nation: N/A, nations with space program: SPF (Socialist People's Republic), UCS (United Civilized States)
Species:
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The Vox are the remnants of some ancient civilization. They are genetically engineered as a worker species for space constructions, and are capable of surviving in vacuum as long as they have a nitrogen supply to breath. However, oxygen is fatal to them, and will kill them within 20 minutes of breathing in even 1% of it. They stand at a height of 4 to 5 feet, and contain a standard set of organs; though their liver is incredibly tiny, to the point where a sip of watered down alcohol would cause permanent damage. Their main difference is their spinal cord, a cybernetic creation that acts just like a spine, and is removed to place in a growing vat when the host dies. This is done in a special construction left behind by the ancient civilization, marked in orange on the map, and surrounded by a neutral zone, marked by purple. In this construction, the dead Vox is placed in one of the many slots in one room, where their bodies are stripped of their cortical stacks and discarded. A new body is rapidly grown for the stack, and it is placed in the body. Out pops a fresh Vox, where they are often recruited into one of the many nations on the world. Due to this, the population is permanently stagnant, and the loss of a body is devastating. Their world is currently host to 500 million Vox, from a starting 2 billion.

Their tail acts as a balance aid and extra limb, and is laced with capillaries to aid with venting body heat. They have extreme precision with it, and can often hold an item by wrapping their tail around it. They also only wear footwear for ceremonial and/or decorative reasons, as their ribbed podothecas are both tough and boast an absurd rate of healing. Their muscles are always strong, with or without exercise, and excess fat is not stored. However, under excess use, the tissue falls apart rapidly and deposits fatal amounts of lactic acid into the body. Once this has happened, the Vox is doomed to death. The tissue cannot be artificially restored, as any attempts to artificially create it has made an acidic blob that burns through almost anything. Otherwise, their body can handle incredible amounts of pressure and are naturally radiation resistant.
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[b]Description of government:[/b] The planet is incredibly feudal, with many different nations playing a game of grand strategy, all funded by the UCS and the SPF. The two space-faring nations are in a cold war, with a MAD doctrine preventing them from all-out war. There's everything from Banana Republics, to dictatorships, to socialist regimes.
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Black lines: Borders
Red lines: Intra-nation State Borders
Purple Line: Neutral No-Fire Zone
Orange Square: Vox Reconstructor

The nation with the individual states is the UCS, and the large nation to the south, connected to the small peninsula of small states is the SPF.
[b]Description of military:[/b] The military of the planet is once again, incredibly varied. However, there are two main base designs most designs branch off of; The Outer Sea Alliance and the Pact of the Southern Hemisphere. The OSA tech is generally based on advanced technology and speed, while the PSH is reliant on tried and true designs.
Technological Overview: They are taking their first steps off their homeworld, and otherwise their technology is equivalent to the 1960s-1970s.
[b]Cultural Overview:[/b] The culture isn't the same in any two places. There is very little that is universal across the world. to lose or hide a body of a Vox is unthinkable, however, and any who do so are executed within days of being discovered doing so. In the UCS, those who are found doing so don't even get due process; they are immediately stripped of all rights.
[b]History:[/b] Little of Vox history is known; what was documented was often destroyed in the rise and falls of empires. As far as they're concerned, the construction that lays near the equator is natural; every planet with life has one. At various points in their history, many nations either didn't know about the construct, or purposely prevented the revival of bodies, leading to a massive decline in population, and giving archaeology and metal detecting a whole new meaning. Recently, however, two major powers have emerged, one in the southern hemisphere, and one in the northern hemisphere. With the creation of nuclear weapons, these two states have been locked in a cold war for dominance.

This cold war has gone into space, with both sides in a race to be the first to achieve milestones in space travel. On a side note, both states constantly fund warfare in less powerful nations, to either displace the enemy's form of government in the area or plant the seeds of their own.
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