While membership in the Weirdo Zone is open to all societies socially mature enough to join, some societies have refused to join while others were simply far too mercenary and unenlightened to be accepted into the Weirdo Zone. Millions of nonaligned worlds exist in Weirdo Zone space, especially in the dark intergalactic voids. However, some of these nonaligned worlds have created small nations of their own for defensive and political reasons. This is a list of some of the larger and more important Nonaligned Nations that claim neutrality in the wars between the Big Three powers of our Universe.
INDEPENDENT STARS ALLIANCE (ISA)
OFFICIAL NAME: The Alliance of Independent Star Systems
HOMEWORLD: Decentralized, seat of government rotates regularly from
world to world
HOLDINGS: Approximately 1,150 star systems mostly in intergalactic space
POPULATION: 103.5 trillion sentients
CONTROLLING RACES: Various
SUPPORTING RACES: Various
SUBJUGATED RACES: None
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Representative Confederacy
Head of State: President Defral Amnwe
Head of Government: Speaker-for-the-People
Grrgatpoing
Chief of Centralized Military Command: Praetor-General
Firo Hetzwa
The ISA is a large conglomeration of star systems that have allied to maintain economic, political and military sovereignity from the Weirdo Zone. Although created as a direct response to the Weirdo Zone's superpower status, relations between the ISA and the WZ are perfectly amiable and both parties see the other as a profitable trading partner. The ISA is a loosely governed confederation, maning that each member star system has sovereignity over the minimal federal government. The actions of the disparate local governments are channeled more or less successfully by the federal government into a coherent foreign policy. In a similar way the local navies and militias of member worlds are assigned to the collective defense of the ISA by Centralized Military Command, an officer-heavy command structure dedicated entirely to the creation of effective border defense policy. The ISA's military is purely defensive, with enough forces to act in border patrol, policing, and internal security positions.
LEAGUE OF TRUE EARTH COLONIES (TRUE EARTH)
OFFICIAL NAME: The Collective League of Human Colonies from the True
Earth
HOMEWORLD: None, government centered on the world of Exile's Home in
intergalactic space
HOLDINGS: 527 star systems in intergalactic space and Primary Galaxy
POPULATION: 13.2 trillion sentients
CONTROLLING RACES: Human
SUPPORTING RACES: None
SUBJUGATED RACES: Unknown, possible (probable?) sentient slavery
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Military Despotism
Head of State, Government, and Military: Director-General
Amosa ibn Naelid
The League of True Earth Colonies is the intergalactic center of
humanity's dark side. Having a core constituency of ancient colonies formed in the
first waves of interstellar colonization, True Earth initally formed as a rebellion
against a seemingly corrupt Terran Dominon government in 2214 and successfully defended
itself from attempts by Terran Dominion forces to bring it back into line. As the
Terran Dominion evolved, human-elitist and human-supremacist colonies and political
factions found refuge in True Earth. The formation of the Weirdo Zone caused the
largest wave of dissidents emigrating to the slowly expanding True Earth colonies but also
spelled the death knell of mass emigrations from Terran colonies. True Earth's
political structure is based entirely on military power, with the general of the biggest
army holding power through superior might. Ideologically, True Earth claims that it
holds the true beliefs that the rest of the human race has cast aside in its
"dilution" through contact with other sentient species. These "true
beliefs" allow True Earth to justify constant raiding on Weirdo Zone merchant vessels
and member worlds as well as terrorist plots against the Weirdo Zone.
While True Earth is not a credible threat to the existence of the
Weirdo Zone, it is a definite annoyance because a) it can only be conquered (and thereby
removed as any sort of threat whatsoever) through the genocidal destruction of its
intractably bigoted population, which is far to repugnant even to consider, and b) its
constant terrorist threats take up a disproportionate amount of WZISS resources.
THE SOLITAH COLONIZATION REGION (SCR)
OFFICIAL NAME: The Colonies and Homeworld of Solitah
HOMEWORLD: Solitah, in the Southeastern Expanse
HOLDINGS: Fifteen star systems
POPULATION: 176.8 billion sentients
CONTROLLING RACES: Solitah
SUPPORTING RACES: None
SUBJUGATED RACES: None
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Constitutional Aristocracy
Head of State: Regent-Lord Similatung
Head of Government: Regent-Citizen Tasoloi
Military Oversight Commander: Regent-Commissar
Quesloton
The Solitah Colonization Region is a burgeoning star empire that lies on the southwestern edge of Weirdo Zone space. Using primative interstellar travel technology (spacewarp drives, fusion insystem drives, rotating centripetal artificial-gravity hulls, etc.) they have managed to eke out a colonial state spanning only a region about 50 light years in diameter. They are fiercely territorial and have rejected all Weirdo Zone offers of friendship and trade. They are simply an isolationist culture that wants to be left alone. The Weirdo Zone plans to acknowledge that wish.
ENCLAVE OF ODROMOS
OFFICIAL NAME: The Enclave
HOMEWORLD: Odromos, intergalactic space
HOLDINGS: One star system
POPULATION: 5.8 billion sentients
CONTROLLING RACES: None
SUPPORTING RACES: Various (Volanti, Human, others)
SUBJUGATED RACES: None
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Religious Hierarchy
Head of State: Chief Head-Abbot Dominicus
Head of Government: Representative-Friar Matthais
Head of Odromos Paladins: Paladin-Friar Obothrius
The Enclave of Odromos is probably the largest monastery in the
history of the Universe. An out-of-the-way little star system, it has been colonized
by monks and nuns of numerous religions, all living peacefully in secluded low-walled
villages called "Abbeys" (no matter the religion or size). Arguably a part
of the Weirdo Zone, it is considered an aligned state because it has no revenue to tax, no
military to support, nor any need of a military or social programs to help it and
therefore doesn't meet the secular requirements for membership. The Enclave is
protected by a highly religious knighthood of Paladins that patrol the system in
deceptively small cutters, assisting vessels in need and directing merchant traffic.
Unable to take sentient life, the Paladins have a bewildering array of disabling,
stunning, and disorienting weaponry that allows them to deal with aggressors with the
minimum amount of force. Many of the police chiefs in the Weirdo Zone have had
Paladin training and are therefore experts in nonlethal applied violence.
Odromos is quite friendly to the Weirdo Zone; for that matter, they are
quite friendly to everybody. They kindly chide Thaurian free traders about their
abuses of religion and pity Reaver delegations in an equally kind manner for their lack of
religion while, at the same time, respecting the Reavers' deep "humanist"
traditions. Odromos's exports consist mostly of afghan blankets, assorted
sculptures, gardening handbooks, liturgical music, didactic treatises, religion-on-tape
lectures, and surprisingly secular art criticism. Space Observatory Optonomicon, a
large space station at the nadir Lagrange point, is a Universally-acclaimed astronomical
powerhouse.