Pacific Thalassocracy

The Pacific Thalassocracy is a federation of undersea communities located across the Pacific Ocean. Originally outposts of resource-extraction controlled by powerful Western nations and corporations, the wholesale rape of the Pacific ocean collapsed alongside the fall of large-scale organized government in the West. Needing to organize to maintain communities ranging in population from a few dozen to nearly two-thousand, the information-sharing network in the Pacific along with the high skill-levels of nearly all inhabitants allowed a total realignment of politics across the communities. While Pacific communities have an amazing variety of religion, ethnicity, language and origin, they've forged something akin to a common identity based on radical political economy.

Now comprising thousands of mostly-independent undersea and surface communities, the Pacific Thalassocracy controls nearly 1/8th the total land area on Earth, though its total population numbers only a few million. All decision-making is accomplished through the demarchy, the random selection of citizens to serve in positions of government leadership. The economy is centered around worker-managed factories and cooperatives that are forbidden from having more than 200 persons employed. With cooperation between firms practicing autogestion, and a vast network of direct democracy, workers and citizens of the Pacific Thalassocracy are easily the best-educated and richest on a per-capita basis of any 'nation' on Earth, though they have spent comparatively little attention on the solar system compared to continued expansion in the Pacific.

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