The Unified Republic of Stars - A Sci-Fi World Building Podcast

The New Age of Morality Act is now law. But people are still doing everything they had been just a lot more were now in jail. How well do you think the people of the Republic are going to react to this?

Welcome back to the Unified Republic of Stars! This week, we discuss how the new Republic, under a new and the first post-revolution president, Margarita Santiago, decided to make the nation stronger by... cracking down on immoral acts. Things like drinking, screwing, gambling, and doing drugs. Things that, up until now, had been left up to individuals to decide whether it was their thing or not. And all of this culminates in the New Age of Morality Act. A relatively small piece of legislation that ended up pretty broad in scope. And it banned a lot of things. Next week... we see how well all these new prohibitions worked out.

An episode on some of the differences between the Age of Colonization as we've discussed and the Age of War in which we've entered.

In which the people who had settled and island on Athena basically tell a real estate consortium that they're not moving. Another thrilling adventure in the colonization period of the story world.

An examination of two planets tragically under discussed thus far, the primarily Japanese worlds of Kanagawa and Yamanashi of the New Nippon System.

What beliefs do people hold now that they're away from the human home world? And how might those change once living out there? We do a survey of Earth's major religions and their place in the colonies and discuss a surprising new religion that attracts a large number of followers.

How do the colonies go from nothing to a complete and accessible media landscape in less than twenty years? And how does computing help drive it? That's what we're talking about this week!

What do you do when one of the most important things in an economy is dangerously short? Well... you can either learn to do without or alter the the need for that thing by creating something new.

How would you get around the Colonial Star Cluster? Not just from world to world but from city to city? Or from building to building? That's what we discuss this week.

Not all experiments in a better way for people to live succeeded. Some failed. Some succeeded. But almost all of the latter found that they had to change the very idea upon which they were founded in order to succeed. But Tranquility and Meditation never had the chance to do this before they exploded in a spectacular fashion like so few other places did.