Dominion of Korx
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| Motto: Money is Power | |||
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| Homeworld | Korx (pop. 14,277,613,800) | ||
| Spoken Languages - Official - Unofficial |
Korx Any trading language | ||
| Government - Dominator |
· Kleptocracy
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| Establishment |
A.D. 2083 | ||
| Population - Total |
250,000,000,000 | ||
| GDP - Total (USD) - GDP/capita (USD) |
$1,586,555,839,000,000 $301,763.41 | ||
| Alignment | Evil | ||
| Internet TLD | .krx | ||
The Dominion of Korx is an enterprising civilization that would do anything for a quick buck. It gained hyper-drive by fighting a proxy war against the Legion for the Terra Directorate.
The Korx are the ultimate capitalists. All matters of life are valued purely on economic terms; they are the galactic bankers, the interstellar financiers, the ones who always seem to come out of any deal on top. When it comes to matters of money, the Korx are ruthless and would sell their own mothers into slavery if they thought they could make a profit; in fact, in Korx society, selling one's mother into slavery is considered a sort of "right of passage" for Korx children. It's a way, so to speak, of passing the baton to the next generation.
To be poor in Korx society is to be nothing. Concepts such as charity, social justice, and redistribution of wealth are totally alien to the Korx. Those who fail to achieve their own financial success are considered unworthy to live and often are disposed of with little concern.
Despite the Korx' lack of military prowess, they are amongst the most powerful civilizations in the galaxy. They generally don't fight wars; their vast trading networks with other races tend to ensure that no one wants to jeopardize the galactic economy by going after the Korx. When there's a war to be fought, you can always count on the Korx to help finance it; they are simply too old and too rich to get involved in wars if they can avoid it.
The Korx are the galactic mercenaries. They will sell anything, even themselves. To achieve interstellar travel they earned it the really old fashioned way; they bought it. They bought it from the Drath, paid for with the lives of millions of their poor, sent to their deaths in a futile war with the Legion. The Terra Directorate offered the technology for interstellar travel to the Korx in exchange for the Korx disrupting the Legion military enough to allow the Terra Directorate to conquer the Legion home world. Unfortunately, the Korx aren't really a warrior race so the Legion, thwarted this plan. But like in so many other deals, despite disaster, the Korx ended up on top: they still ended up with the hyperdrive technology they needed to expand their economic empire into the galaxy.
