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[Entire Colony] United Colonies of Horizon (UCH)
[First Settlement] New Dawn

Type:
Both national (US) and corporate (New Horizons Corp). Nationally funded and supplied, but corporately developed, launched, and staffed.

Base on Earth:
New Horizons Corporation (The baby of a unity of NASA and SpaceX- acts as the new NASA), USA

Philosophy: 
This is the new frontier- it's humanity's place to colonize the stars. There are new places to explore, research, and settle.
Primary goal: Establish itself to be a major power on Gaia, if not the supreme power.
Secondary goal: Form "ITO," or the Interstellar Treaty Organization, as a replacement of the NATO of old.

Leadership: 
Democratic Republic- Autonomous from Earth
- Works via vote. The 'Council' is a group of five- Councilman of Expansion, Research, Defense, Resource, and Diplomacy. Each member is voted in; on occasion, when disagreements are high, they turn to a general democratic vote to solve disputes.

Religion:
Largely atheist, actually. More religious people never really agreed with New Horizons- only a few Christians are on board.

Misc:
NASA was operating with less efficiency, and SpaceX was operating with more. Simply put, the US- which had weathered the calamities that caused the breakdown of other nations- was eager to reestablish itself as the greatest World Power- by becoming the greatest World Power on another world as well. It had long since lost its supremacy over other nations- though it still had the most powerful military- and more or less forced Space X and NASA to combine- much to SpaceX's excitement and the dismay of NASA. The newly created New Horizons was tasked with gaining a foothold in everything interstellar- such as Mars, Ceres and Gaia. And largely succeeded.[/hider]
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