The Mindset
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| Flag of The Mindset | |
| Motto: The mind is the most powerful weapon of all. | |
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| Region | The Restored ESUS |
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| Capital | M-1 Cityship, Midna Beta, 14.7ly from Sol |
| Official Language(s) | Mindsettian |
| Leader | Prime Nurik Dancos, son of Pr'Varia Dancos |
| Population | 3.388 billion as of 4981AD |
| Currency | Commercial Credit |
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Introduction
The Infinite Star Empire of The Mindset has existed as a space-faring nation for several thousand years. In this time, it has changed significantly many times, and its history is long and varied. By their own wish, the people of The Mindset are a highly seclusive and secretive culture. Very few gain access to the grand hundred-kilometer long cityships of Midna Beta. Despite the secrecy and dislike of outside cultures, The Mindset has developed into a very powerful industrial nation. The Mindset is the founder of the largest and most powerful space alliance, The Extra Solar Union of Systems. However, The Mindset was, for a very long time, a highly pacifist race. The ESUS was founded primarily to promote peaceful trade between the superpowers of space. Though, due to recent changes of government, The Empire is no longer pacifist. In many ways it could now be described as an insanely imperial horde. The current Prime, Nurik Dancos, stripped the health, education, law and order and maintenence budgets from all Mindsettian provinces, and promptly began a crash contruction of a new space navy. The Empire expects to be bankrupt within twenty years.
Current Events
The Empire is currently crash constructing a new space fleet. It has recently withdrawn its membership of the ESUS in disgust of other members refusing to fall under the control of the Prime. War looms on the horizon with the nation of Indra Prime.
Brief History
The Empire was founded by the Scottish political hero Brett Dorrans in the year 2007AD. It was originally a political party who opposed the Socialist Party controlling Scotland at that time. After Brett was arrested for a framed murder, the "Mind Party" (which later became known as "The Mindset") took up arms and began a guerilla campaign of liberation against the opressive Socialist government. Several years of bloody warfare passed, in which the streets of major Scottish cities were bathed in innocent blood. After three years, the majority of northern Scotland was under Mindsettian control. The Mindset established her capital in the small Scottish island of Orkney, and declared the nation of The Mindset sovereign. It was at this point the independant Scottish government appealed to the English for military aid. Several months of aerial bombardment ensued, in which several hundred civilians died. It was at this time The Mindset assumed control of an American-built nuclear missile in an ex-Unified Britain missile silo. A fourteen kiloton bomb was dropped on London, and England swiftly withdrew support. Southern Scotland quickly fell to the great armies of The Mindset.
Many years of peace followed, in which rapid advances in technology were made. In the year 2019AD a hostile invading force naming themselves "Gandalf's Army" landed and fortified themselves in the lowlands of Mindsettian territory. They were quickly taken out by a coalition of several nations, including The Mindset, The Sean Empire, and Omz222. Only a few months later, The Mindset learned of a frightening increase in nuclear weapon usage by several nations, including the nation of Allanea, who was producing ICBMs at a rate which terrified the government. Several trillion dollars were poured into a vast underground network of nuclear bunkers and anti-radiation drugs and gene therapy.
It was at this time of great stress that the government decided space was the only answer. We had watched bold nations send their children in cold chryoships into the depths of space, and we began contructing our own, naming it Omanzee. She carried five hundred million Mindsettians. Contact was lost after only one year, and the mission was deemed a failure.
However, this did not stop the Mindsettian expansion into space. In 2038AD a scientist named Dr. Blade Hungary discovered that if you applied a certain amount of gravatic "pressure" to naturally occuring gravational weakpoints around massive objects (such as stars), space folds and allows matter to be transmitted through space at many times the speed of c. The government quickly seized this oppertunity as a way to escape the crowding of Earth, and a fleet of huge transport ships was contructed over fifty years. With the help of several other nations, The Mindset launched three transport ships named M-1, M-2 and M-3. They successfully transported the majority of the population to the system of Midna Solaris, leaving behind a small force on the island of Orkney, and a research base under the Antarctic.
A hundred years of prosperity ensured, in which the population and economic power of The Mindset grew exponentially. We began mapping the galaxy, and sold our findings to the nations we encountered while doing so. In order to try to find a more reliable method of FTL, which didn't require massive bodies, we began extensively researching gravatics. This proved to be a near fatal mistake. A small Mindsettian research station orbiting close to the star of Midna Solaris caused a chain reaction inside the core which instantly stopped the fusion reaction and caused the star to collapse. The energy generated by the superheated atoms of hydrogen smashing together reignited a fusion reaction on an exponential scale, and the star promptly went supernova. It was only with the help of another nations small fleet of FTL trader vessels were the cityships able to escape down a wormhole to the system of Midna Beta, the current capital of the Empire.
The Empire then entered its imperial age, where we annexed and conquered fifteen neighbouring systems under the leadership of Prime Sadic Frar. Under her leadership, The Mindset achieved a brief moment of fame as a space superpower. However, the following Prime, Pr'Varia Dancos, was a pacifist. He reformed The Empire, dissolved the fleets, and granted independance to most annexed worlds. The Empire currently spans six solar systems, four of which are farming worlds providing food for the cityships of Midna Beta, the other a long range sensor outpost.
Economy
The Empire is a free-market capitalist economy. The Government taxes people more than it taxes commercial entities. However, corporations may not gain advantage over the government without being heavily penalised. For example, McDonalds Corporation attempted to set up a restraunt near a government office. The restraunt was closed soon after for "violating public bright M ordinances". The economy of The Mindset is currently very strong, with the currency valuing at almost two times USD.
