The Great Empire

Multispecies government of Antiquity

Republic

The planets of the Great Empire were divided up by geography. These divisions, essentially countries, would represent the people who resided in them on an planetary scale. The planets all would elect a delegation to represent them in matters of state.

Economic control, military funding and supply

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The Great Empire was the first multiplanet government created by the extant Anfangi. While Anfang itself was still divided territorially, the individual nations combined resources to develop and sustain space exploration and colonization. As such, planets settled by The Great Empire at large were partitioned up to contributing member states.

Such cooperation sometimes led to disputes, which fell onto a central figure, the Chairman of the Empire, to resolve.

As time passed, the colonies began to compete with the production and demand of Anfang. This caused economic strain in the capital, and sowed seeds of discontent across the empire. Many communities began walking back from globalism and focused more on self reliance.

Meanwhile, the officials in government, including the office of the Chairman began to fall to elitism and nepotism. Such appointments caused the government to become apathetic and incompetent, causing widespread mismanagement of scarcifying resources. Technological development ground to a halt, and the Empire began degenerating. Entire countries and ethnic groups packed up in whatever starships they could muster and took flight, searching for new homes with enough resources for everyone. Races consolidated their populations on specific planets for resource security, even forcibly removing and relocating minority populations.

The exception to this trend would come from the frontier worlds. Many of them had no contact with the rest of the Empire save for the occasional supply ships. At least, until the ships stopped arriving. They continued with a higher technological status and better cross species cooperation than than most other worlds. Nevertheless, all planets soon lacked the capacity to build and maintain Starships, and fleets soon fell into disrepair and were scrapped for resources.

On most worlds, the true end of the Empire came when they could not manufacture or even maintain their infrastructure, which led to a strategic collapse of all mass industry.