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Free Outer Eugenia

Flag of Free Outer Eugenia
Motto: Autonomy in Organization.
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Region	Anticapitalist Alliance, Aperin
Capital	None
Official Language(s)	Many
Leader	None
Population	Several Billion
Currency	None
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According to the U.N. Factbook, Free Outer Eugenia as a safe, environmentally stunning, socially progressive, economically powerful "Left-wing Utopia" notable for its complete lack of prisons, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare, and renowned for its 'strong anti-business politics' and complete absence of drug laws.

Geography

The Federated Anarchist Communes of Free Outer Eugenia are located in the Anarchist south of the continent of Lesser Aperin. Outer Eugenia is the southern neighbor of Watfordshire and it lies west of Inner Eugenia, Refused Party Program and the Anarchist Federation of Free Soviets. The islands of Sacco and Vanzetti lie 600 kilometers southwest from Outer Eugenia's shore.

The Outer Eugenian climate is subtropical and it's most notable geographical features are the Big Rock Candy Mountains that mark Outer Eugenia's western frontier and the Great Eugenian Rain Forest in the south.

Population Centers and Transport Hubs

Land Use

Economical, Political and Social Order

The Federation has never been a true 'government' but rather a free and ultimately democratic partnership of individual communes and productive associations. It has provided a structure that eradicates the perceived need to maintain order through an imposed hierarchy. Through the Federation the people of Free Outer Eugenia have made sure so that no individual or group could garner enough power to impose tyranny over the land and the people.

The principle of democracy practiced in the Federation does not rest upon the divine right of the collective to impose its arbitrary will upon the individual, but rather on the ultimate freedom of the individual in personal matters and the rule of all in matters of collective concern.

The primary structural principles of the Federation are federalism, Syndicalism, bottom-up rule, consensus based decision-making, and free association or 'the right of secession.'

Federalism

The Federation is ruled from the bottom up by the people who make up the productive associations and communes which in turn make up Ecoregions and Industries which are united under the Federation. The constituant organizations send their elected delegates to the Federal bodies.

Syndicalism

Associations working in the same industrial line of production form Industrial Syndicates within the Federation. Immediately interdependent productive associations are structurally organized for particularly close and streamlined cooperation within each Syndicate. All Syndicates also cooperate closely with one another and many productive associations (especially those involved in the procurement and processing of raw materials) are active in several Syndicates at once. The lines differentiating the Syndicates are never straight or clear- the Syndicalist structure is an organic one based only on expediency, egalitarianism and free association. The Transportation Communication and Distribution Workers' Union is a particularly extreme case. A long heated and pedantic scholarly debate at Port Bakunin University about whether the TCDU is indeed a Syndicate, or just a byproduct of the constant stream of associations between Syndicates was laid to rest by an exclamation made by a bewildered first-year student: "But that's the same damned thing!"

Bottom-up Rule

The delegates may be recalled at any time and are only empowered to relay the decisions made by their constituencies to the Federal convention. All resolutions made within a body of elected delegates are sent directly to the various constituancies for final approval.

Consensus-Based Decision Making

All decisions on all levels of the Federation- from the election of a delegate to the approval of a production plan- are made by consensus.

Free Association and the Right of Secession

All bodies- from a Sunday pear-picking collective in Freetown to the Federation itself- are formed by the free association of individuals and communities. No association is bound by anything but the wills and necessities of the individuals that comprise it. All of these associations are free and natural and are thus stronger and more productive than any externally imposed superstructure can ever be.

Economical Organization

Any productive association is entitled to the right to direct and control its production and to dispose of the fruits of its labor as the workers will. This has made all attempts to impose the brutal slavery known in much of the world under the euphemism of 'free enterprise' on the people of Free Outer Eugenia utterly futile.

Every adult (The definition of adulthood varies from commune to commune. The threshold generally lies somewhere between the age of fifteen and eighteen.) member of Free Outer Eugenian society participates in several of the many activities absolutely necessary to run the essential industrial and agricultural production and infrastructure of the Federated Anarchist Communes. This generally amounts to an average fifteen-hour workweek. The people of Free Outer Eugenia spend the rest of their time studying various fields of personal interest, engaging in many sorts of creative labor and generally enjoying all that a free, comfortable and stimulating life has to offer. Because of this the Outer Eugenian GDP is not a very good indicator of either the quality of life or the productiveness of the people of the Federated Anarchist Communes.

As the Federation economy functions on a mutual aid basis, the production plans of the workers' associations are informed by the needs of other productive associations and the communes. Though the educated opinions of various experts and think tanks are of course taken into consideration by the productive associations and communes, these learned savants act only in an advisory capacity. The economy of the Federation is certainly not centralized, but it is both planned and non-competitive.

History

Colonial Eugenia

Eugenia's first contact with a people that deemed the native Eugenian communalist subsistence culture to be 'primitive' occurred sometime in the 1540's. What followed was the usual pattern of false promises, greed, genocide and domination. The visitors brought empty treaties, smallpox laden blankets and square-jawed Jesuits who marched across the land with bible in one hand and sword in the other. Many Eugenians fell victim to the strange diseases that they brought. Many others died defending their land. Some retreated into the jungles, mountains and vast wastelands of Eugenia to take up a guerrilla war for land and liberty that would last for over 300 years. These freedom fighters were joined by bands of escaped slaves who were brought over from Africa to build and work the plantations that had been set up by the colonists.

As the stars of various imperial powers rose and fell, the old Spaniards were displaced by other masters but not much changed until the long sought after source of the gems used in Native Eugenian jewelry was found in the Big Rock Candy Mountains. It was then that the Scramble For Eugenia began in earnest. Many bitter wars were fought amongst the world's imperial powers, and a Free Outer Eugenian Republic was formed by rebel peasants, native insurgents and the various slave revolts in the ensuing chaos. The Free Republic lasted for the better part of a decade until the powers contending for control over Eugenia's resources came to an uneasy compromise. A 100-year monopoly over Eugenia was granted to an international cartel led by the notorious patent medicine conman turned railroad tycoon and beef magnate Augustus Kroc. Kroc then sent his ambitious son-in-law Tiberius at the head of an army of mercenaries and the soldiers of the various powers to take possession of his monopoly.

Faced with the ironclads, Gatling guns and other superior arms of an industrial war machine, the machete and musket wielding defenders of the Free Republic were brutally crushed. The rich planters who had fled Eugenia returned to their estates as another generation of freedom fighters retreated into the mountains and jungles.

Acting as an agent of Kroc Industrial, Tiberius Kroc (who had taken his father-in-law's name) employed slaves and indentured laborers to mine Eugenia's gems. As slavery fell out of favor in the world and early trade union movements began to win rights for waged labor, Kroc Industrial saw Eugenia as a lawless haven for the employment of slaves and waged semi-slaves to produce cheap goods for the world market. The discovery of oil and heavy metal deposits further spurred KI to develop Eugenia. Tiberius Kroc (who had become the head of KI after the death of his father-in-law) negotiated a 100 year extension on KI's monopoly and moved his corporate headquarters to a fortified base on Vanderbilt Island. He imported masses of impoverished workers to fuel the industrial machine of his corporate fiefdom.With them was bought the germ of revolutionary syndicalism, the seed of Eugenian liberation.

Revolution and Liberation

The Federation of Free Outer Eugenia was declared nine decades ago after the workers of Port Bakunin (then known as New Krocsport) aided by a group of their Shiree comrades expelled the cartel of transnational corporations that had been the unchecked exploiters and oppressors of the people of Outer Eugenia.

The revolution continued for the next fifty years until the whole of Outer Eugenia had thrown off the yoke of corporate imperialism, though the old regime had been largely contained in a diminishing sphere of control around Fort Vanderbilt (later renamed Fort Vanzetti) for forty-two years. The revolution was fueled by a fusion of an underground syndicalist labor union (the Eugenian Federation of Workers) that had formed during the years of industrialization and the native uprisings that had been raging since the early years of colonization. The traditional consensus-based collectivism of the Native Eugenians and the anarchist syndicalism of the EFW formed the foundation of the post-revolutionary order.

The Eugenian Social Revolution then spread across the region giving rise to the Anarchist Federation of Free Soviets and the libertarian socialist order of the islands now known as Sacco and Vanzetti.

The University at Port Bakunin

The University was founded by a collective of artists, poets, engineers and philosophers shortly after the revolution to advance the prorogation of the arts and sciences amongst the workers of the Federation. It is for the most part the University that makes Port Bakunin the cultural and intellectual center of Free Outer Eugenia. although there are many other great educational collectives in the Federation, many Outer Eugenians spend at least a year or two as a part of the University at Port Bakunin.