Fiction:Conservative Orinian Empire

The Orinian Gerontocracy is a space-faring empire of Ostindons spanning twelve systems. It is controlled by the Council of Orinia, of the Ring of Six. The coordinates of their capital are Angle: 72.28°, Distance: 8,181.94 (pc).

=Council of Orinia= The Council of Orinia is a council built of two rings: the Outer and Inner.

The Inner Ring is a group of six men from the elite families from each system. Only the first six systems have elite families from which they hail. They are at the top of the Imperial Hierarchy and must complete the tasks in the Nezpeths Enchiridion. The head of the council is the councilman from Ethadon, and is said to be power-hungry and have special powers during meetings on Ethadon

The Outer Ring is the twelve viceroy from each system. They take orders from the Inner Ring, but can give orders to the elites and nobles (they are the viceroy, and control their systems, so they have the power anyways to boss people around). The Inner Ring systems have a government much like the American government, where the other six have randomly-structured ones.

Imperial System
The original councilmen from Ethadon made racist laws saying that only Ostindons may be the knights and the leaders. The hierarchy is as follows: The poorest of the poor, or the penurious men, are at the bottom of the hierarchy. But, the high officials are working to eliminate this class. Only 7% of the Ostindons are impoverished within the Empire, and 84% of all the empire is Ostindon. In all, 11% of the empire is penurious. Next are the commoners, but racism calls for the Ostindons to be on top. About 65% of the empire is built on commoners. The affluent citizens cover 12.5% of the empire. They control businesses and create jobs for most of the empire. Nobles are the rich viceroys and governors. Only one in twenty-five people, or 4.5%, are nobles. Next are the knights. Knights come from noble families, and must complete the tasks in the Nezpeths Enchiridion. Only then will the elites recognize them as true knights. Elites are the "royal family" of the Ostindons (no Other-Than-Ostindon is above Non-Ostindon Affluence) and are next to be in the Council of Orinia. They are referred to as "monarch".
 * Councilmen
 * Inner Ring
 * Outer Ring
 * Elites
 * Knights
 * Nobles
 * Affluent
 * Non-Ostindon Affluent
 * Commoners
 * Other-Than-Ostindon
 * Penurious

Most of the population of the OGE is Ostindons, but there are different species as well, like Oumindons and Albenden.

Along with other things, the council passes down judgment and laws to the Empire. Since there are six men, one comes from each "Inner Ring" system. They control the government, along with some elites and nobles. In order to be a councilman, one must be a firstborn male in the family and complete the tasks in the Nezpeths Enchiridion (be knighted). If the boy does not complete the tasks, he is skipped over and the next boy will go. If there are no more boys left in the family, the firstborn female takes the place.

Systems
Inner Ring Systems

Orinia System: Amyca System: Tulus-4 System: Vivonia System: Robus-2 System: Petaku System: Outer Ring Systems
 * Ethadon
 * Chren
 * Doron
 * Chilonda
 * Allinon
 * Spene
 * Gallin

Romen System: Baella System: Nepho System: Tilielas System: Gaver-2 System: Devotis System:
 * Parake
 * Forraandy
 * Dozean
 * Kolarka
 * Cohemonous
 * Holadn

Government Control
The Council is not the only judging body within the empire. They also pick nobles and some elite relatives to rule with them (as governors or judges). There are six councilmen to assure that one lone man cannot corrupt the government and thus the empire. They work together on issues and only pass laws or judgment if all six men agree (like the juries in the American court system). Each planet is governed by an elite chosen by the one councilman pertaining to that system (two elites are chosen as viceroy in the Orinia System since both Ethadon and its moon Chren hold civilizations). Each Inner Ring planet has an American-style democracy with the viceroy on top, but the viceroy is under the authority of the councilmen. The "Outer Ring" systems have special governments, like the meritocracy on Forraandy and the noocracy on Parake.

=Imperial History= The empire began as a small nation that just learned of civilization. Their world was not exactly civilized, even with giant cities. Many nations did not like each other, and began global wars. At the time, the Orinian Gerontocracy was the Batlenact Kingdom, an autocratic empire from the birthplace of the Ostindons. During World War One, the Yellow Nation and Red Nation went against the Purple Republic and the Batlenact Kingdom. It lasted over 15 years before the two nations invaded the Yellow Nation capital and captured it. Then the Red Nation surrendered, and the Batlenact Kingdom ran through their capital. War strengthened and weakened the Kingdom. The government changed. The king was no longer what he used to be. The kingdom became more like an empire, expanding and dictating like crazy. But, more land means more people and more technology. This helped gear things up for the next world war.

The time came when there were world powers, traders, and alliances. The Batlenact Kingdom emerged as an empire. The king was overthrown and the capital was overtaken by a new leader who claimed himself to be emperor. He was no tyrant, though. He created the art of knighthood, and he began excavation under the capital for rare artifacts of tribal life over 100,000 years ago. To complete the art, he found the first chieftain's book called the Nezpeths Enchiridion. It had tasks that must be completed before entering adulthood in the tribe, or becoming a knight in the kingdom. The Forest Empire began to conquer its continent. It rivaled the Batlenact Kingdom, but no war was going to happen. Though, other nations poked at the kingdom's allies (The Lavender and Purple Republics) and angered them.

Another war was imminent. After Pink and Blue Nations started battling the Lavender Republic at Dayet, the Purple Republic and Batlenact Kingdom began to get angry and requested that Pink and Blue Nations stop. They didn't, and instead attacked the Purple Republic's capital of Newbe. World War Two had begun. This war lasted over 50 years. Each year, the nations would come close to capturing each other's capital, but never did it work, until 37 years into the war, when Pink Nation was captured. This weakened Blue Nation, but they fought until their leader was killed, their capital was razed, and their armies were destroyed. At this time, the emperor of the Batlenact Empire requested that the Purple and Lavender Republics became one with them, and together they take down the Forest Empire.

World War Three was not long away. The Batlenact Kingdom's government was to change. This would be the beginning of the Orinian Gerontocracy. The government reconstructed itself into an oligarchy, with the elites ruling the government. This started the hierarchy. The three leaders would be the controlling leaders of the new government. They would pick knights from the Batlenact, monopoly owners from the Purple, and congressmen from the Lavender to rule and control jobs. They stabilized themselves and tried to eliminate the penurious class, but never could completely. The Forest Nation was a continent plus a little. They had powerful armies with high morale and a tyrant as a leader who scared everyone. They seemed impenetrable, but they had weaknesses. Each major city must be captured for them to completely surrender. This worked, and Could was brought down, and the tyrant leader was beheaded.

Space
Ethadon was conquered, nations banded together, and government was going to change. The new nation, the United Nations of Ethadon (UNE), soon began to thrive. Science and technology were big, and space would soon be explored. Time came when the first manned spaceship was launched from the old Batlenact Capital (Battlemon, the current UNE capital). They soon explored their moon, Chren, and found it fit for civilization. Their first colony within the Orinia System was on Chren, and was named for the founder Dubotis: Duboi. Now that there was another planet, the UNE could no longer be from Ethadon, but rather Orinia. So, UNE became UNO. But something still didn't fit. The government had to be restructured. No longer were the Purple and Lavender Republics eager to have a leader in the oligarchy, but instead the government of Ethadon reverted to one man in charge. On Chren, founder Dubodle chose a judge to find people guilty and innocent and created a council to pass laws. This was slowly changed into what the American government is like today. Ethadon followed, but it took over 150 years. The oligarchy would be the elites mixing together into an elite family that would rule. Only the elderly who were knights could rule the UNO. They formed a council, and three men from Chren and three men from Ethadon ruled it. This started the gerontocracy. The "presidents" on each planet were viceroy chosen by the new council that were knights, and some members of the elite family.

Over the years, the UNO began to develop interstellar hyperdrives for spaceships, enabling them to leave the solar system. Another colony was placed in the Amyca System on planet Doron. This started the Orinian Gerontocratic Empire, OGE, or the Orinian Gerontocracy. This helped them colonize other systems like a true empire. Their first alliance was with the Theocracy of Fouino from the Saras System. They were zealous and did not like the Ostindons until they showed their allegiance to Spode.

=Allies= The OGE have six allies: the Theocracy of Fouino (based at the Saras System), the Tillar-2 Tribe (a tribal empire from the Tillar-2 System), the Solos Kindgom (in the Nymick System), the United Systems of Seatrell (in the Colan-2 System), the Arenian Empire (based in the Walis-3 System), and the Amah Empire at Mindo (in the Paria-3 System). Though long ago the Tillar-2 Tribe threatened the OGE with weapons and tribute, they have set aside their differences and have become good friends. The Solos Kindom did not like the aggression that the OGE originally showed, but they began to like each other. The OGE uplifted the Arenian Empire, and from their an immediate friendship was born. There are still many empires around the Ostindons hub that the OGE has not discovered, but eventually they will be contacted.