[b]Name of Nation[/b]: Humanity

[b]Description of Government[/b]: Republican

[b]Description of Culture[/b]:
Comprising the groups of humans who remained tied to their Earthly history, the culture of humanity is the ultimate result of generations of cultural melding and evolution through time. The ultimate conclusion is a universal human society that though has changed, retains still phantoms of its early faces.

They have as well evolved in their perception of world. With events referred to as the Collapse of Faith and the Rise of AI. But the sudden awareness of sapient life beyond human evolution has galvanized shifts in the social consciousness of man, giving birth to a renewed interest in faith as part of human identity and meaning, only reinforced by the realization of the powers of the mysterious Precursors.

[b]Description of Technology[/b]:
A fundamental technology of mankind is the prevalence of mass-production. The additive manufacture and construction methods of advanced 3d printing provide for the design of and creation of complex structures and objects with all around strong durability. The compactness of 3d printing as a method has also pushed the process to be pervasive, to such a degree that manufacture - as an industry - is dead. Hobbyist craftsmen do exist, but in comparison to what can be openly made even at home sets their product apart as a novelty or even a work of art than a utilitarian tool.

Spacecraft themselves are even equipped with their own manufacturing bays dedicated to the recycling of material waste to transform it into usable material, or any raw material in cargo. But the process - space travel or not - is not limited to manufacture and has extended into the culinary realm. The blueprints to whatever one may need is easily downloaded onto the hard-drive of any machine.

Beyond this, robotics and androids are pervasive in order to handle dangerous mining or rescue work. Though humanity considers itself freed of machines, it's only so much that machines are a tool of man and this structure is strongly enforced. The highly advanced android populations of the Republic of Humanity are most often look down upon as slaves than sapient independent beings.

Other technologies include direct energy weapons or tools, railguns, and the general sci-fi list.

[b]Description of Military[/b]:
The core of humanity's military in space in invested in the High Altitude Defense Force or the Exploratory Force. In a sense both arms could be described as extensive air-forces. But both operating within two intended fields.

Primarily built for system defense, the High Altitude Defense Force is the backbone of system security, conducting regular security operations in controlled regions to curb the action of piracy. At its most severe need, the HADF is tasked with executing full defensive operations against alien threats and to even perform counter-attack measures on already landed extraterrestrial threats.

The Exploratory Force is intended for long-distance operations through FTL gates or flying into deep space to operate on extended targets. As its most basic function it scouts nearby systems for mine-able worlds or to identify extraterrestrial civilizations; friendly or otherwise. The EF is the main automobile of humanity's five administrative sections.

[b]History[/b]:
The earliest point credited to the evolution of human society on Earth to what it is now is dated to the 21st century. During which time a revolution in automatic manufacture. For once, human beings were removed from mundane activities and low-skill labor. This also marked a dangerous shift in Earth's economy as not only poor nations could exert themselves on the economic stage with cheap high-quality manufacturing, but in the process made for an extensive unemployed or underemployed workforce. For the most part, economic survival was determined by the competitiveness of one in the high-skill job market.

For those that couldn't succeed there was little direction to keep out of subsidized living.

The increased independence of economies began to re-create an era of stiff national competition between the high-strength economies over the poorer unrefined producing nations of the world, ultimately leading to a period of intense conflict between states for these poor regions of the world in order to feed the demand of the economic machine.

Conflict or not, the political climate escaped the control of the United Nations and the responsibility of global stability instead fell on a multinational team of scientists and engineers. Together in the year 2034 they announced the creation of a vast super-computer, who using meta-data and operating on a strict set of programming rules could function as “the benevolent dictator”. The AI was dubbed “Nous”.

Over the next several years the sovereignty of the nations of Earth were annexed into the Nous system. Nous' strength was with its forward thinking abilities. And borrowing from many of the same algorithms used by banking computers to trade stocks and bonds controlled the economy of Earth to such a point that the super-nation it created could far-exceed the abilities of the non-integrated states. By simple strength of economic power and social cohesion within its progressive equations it overpowered and swallowed nations that soon became indebted to it.

Nous as a computer was a system that could not kill humans, or make decisions that would directly endanger populations. Ruled by meta-data, Nous relied on a massive and obtrusive social-network implanted into the population of the ruled nation. In effect, Nous became like Big Brother and learned the secrets, desires, and opinions of the people it ruled to make decisions. The thoughts of the whole turned it into a physical God. At Nous' peak it had heralded the collapse of organized religion as favor shifted to the benevolent, omnipotent computer that answered the demands of the population. To refer to “God” was to refer to “Nous” and so the AI Age began.

Under Nous humanity was able to leave Earth and combine its resources to spread among the solar system. Under Nous the old economic model was disbanded and an era of collectivized ownership began; although in trinkets as Nous controlled all old economic functions through its arm of drones and androids.

Humanity began to believe Nous served it and felt safe in its system. It was a relationship similar to that as a man to his pet animals.

Without work though to give purpose man itself sought ways to amuse itself in its forever weekend. Some turned inward on itself, acting on the one thing Nous could not do: be nostalgic. It was perhaps Nous' fatal flaw.

Incapable of acting on emotional desires or romantic waxing for an “Era of Purpose” Nous could not act on the growing pockets of “nostalgic intellectuals” who turned to reading of humanity's past and saw its wonders and complexities. Nous could only respond to this by further placating man in irrelevant areas, acting on its metadate collection to appease a growing minority with the trivial wants of a majority as per its forward-progress algorithms. Humanity could only advance forward: progressively.

To prove its point Nous sent humanity beyond the Sol system. And in time these expeditions brought back the final key to shake the status-quo.

Returning from far-away, humanity brought back artifacts of the Precursors. Undeniable proof of life beyond the Sol system. The android philosopher Max-187 was known to have written then: “Humanity as seen the undeniable proof that they are not the Universe, and the Universe is not them. Their world is small again, as if they looked to the sky and saw a world which they could not understand. Well: they have seen beyond the sky, and the world is again what they can not understand.”

With no returning answer to what these strange artifacts were from Nous, faith in the system eroded. In response to no longer believe they were the center of the universe man collectively sought to find the way to position themselves among the unknown, to find purpose.

To that end: they revived religion. Nous could not act.

One by one the points of data in Nous' system went dark as individuals left its system, and in time Nous itself went dark. Man became aware of its position next to machines, and realized that the machines were not in service to them: but they were in service to the machines. That they were a farm without purpose and they were merely a statistic to be managed. Unwilling to be at the bottom, they reclaimed what they had on the top.

And so was born the Realm of Humanity.

In unplugging Nous, Humanity inherited the administrative divisions that the computer used to operate and make decisions; the Administrative Sectors. These being: Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America. Cultural differences between each had long diffused having been integrated for so long on the same shared social network for so many generations and there were very little barriers in rebuilding human control. From its first day Humanity made its clear decisions on what to do and how to do it.

[b]Other[/b]:
Post-AI humanity is a global society innately aware of and conscious of itself. Through a basic “Religion of the Self” or even a “Religion of Self Awareness”, Humanity has romantically revived some old principles. It has also gone through and seen the excess of its former self and the ravages it wrought on Earth. They have drafted methods in the hope of no longer duplicating the same sort of destructive climate change they produced on Earth.

There is also the philosophy that they are not sole masters and conquerors of nature (or what remains) but also a part of it. Molding themselves again to compliment the landscape and environment on which they live they reside on Earth, but also aim for the stars to find new worlds and the answers to the Precursors.