Talk:USStateFramework

Γaian Confederation, the first 1500 years

• Enterprise Zone
  1. Oceania (Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, PolyAustronesia)
  2. Terran Commonwealth (Antarctica, the continental shelves and deep oceans, everything else not in the 9 unions, near earth orbit and moon as autonomous local subjects of the confederation)
  3. The Greater Solar System (from lunar orbit to the heliopause)

• Global South
  1. Ujamma (subsaharan union)
  2. Ummah (fully secularized, non-denominational cultural islam, Turkey[?] )

• New and Old Worlds
  1. Americas (minus the Blue United States and Red America, and plus Free Quebec)
  2. Anglosphere (Australia, New Zealand, England, Northern Ireland, The Blue United States (the blue states and provinces), Red America)
  3. China
  4. Europe
  5. India
  6. New Eurasia ( Asian republics of the USSR, Byelorus, Eastern and Southern Slavs, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey[?] )

The 20 parsec local region

The geocentric sphere with 50 light year radius is now known to contain hundreds of planets including likely earth like in red dwarf systems. The physical challenges besides unknowns of inertial interstellar travel can be summarised by the ability convert about 10K metric tonnes of matter to energy at 90% or better efficiency. Assuming this is a doable thing, it's reasonable to think in a thousand years this region would have been explored and where possible and not already so, populated.