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2% of the USA

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1 system, their homeworld. However, they are found far and wide as a significant minority outside their homeworld, to the point that 85% of the Sparriel population exists in other systems. They just don't control those systems. Too much work, not enough time for everything else. Let the hyoomonz run things....

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I can't count this, since we haven't decided how many worlds the USA has, and that number can change rather faster than the Sparrials' number can.

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Fair enough, but if we decide they control say, 20 systems, and the USA ends up controlling 80, that might not be what people voting actually meant. Likewise if we say 20 and the USA ends up controlling 80 000.

I probably should have said this earlier, but barring a Phantasm answer, it's difficult to assign numbers.

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OK, Phantasm's answer has been edited into the question post. Now, are there any other questions about the Sparrials that you would like to see answered (please specify which), and if you'd prefer to move on, who or what would you like to move on to?

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Orions question I

Following the Unification Wars, the Orion Union's government fell, and the nation became the Orion Free States (or the Orion Commercial States, depending on the translation; some official documents in other polities even call them something like 'the Orion Free and Commercial States'). How different are the two governments, though, apart from the externally-imposed laws about slavery? You can combine options if you think they can fit.

1. Basically the same, with a few names changed.

2. Pretty similar, but the Orion Free States are less obviously corrupt.

3. Similar, but rather more corrupt, to the point that while the Orion Syndicate was effectively controlled by the Orion Union, the government of the Orion Commercial States is itself under the control of the Syndicate.

4. The Orion Free States are less united than the Orion Union, which makes them less of a military threat, but means that the central government has less say in internal matters.

5. The central government of the Orion Free States is effectively toothless, existing only ceremonially. Different member states must be dealt with as individuals.

6. Ironically, the Orion Free States are more united than the Orion 'Union' had been toward the end, and may even be more united than it ever was.

7. The Orion Free States and the Orion Commercial States are effectively two overlapping polities that meet at the top, with the Commercial States being those that are corpocracies, and the Free States being those that are not... though some Orion polities are members of both.

8. Something else (please specify).


Please include the number of your preferred option or options when you vote.

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I'm leaning toward this:

3. Similar, but rather more corrupt, to the point that while the Orion Syndicate was effectively controlled by the Orion Union, the government of the Orion Commercial States is itself under the control of the Syndicate.

The Syndicate may or may not openly control the government, but the Orion government does not do anything without the approval of the Syndicate.

Despite this, I kinda see most Orions enjoying far greater freedoms and lower taxes under the Syndicate than under the old Union. Shall we say that the old slaver culture has adapted to a piracy culture?

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A combination of 1 and 6. Specifically, the different names are merely a difference of translation.

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4. The Orion Free States are less united than the Orion Union, which makes them less of a military threat, but means that the central government has less say in internal matters.