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NotS: The Codex
Topic Started: Feb 8 2008, 06:10 PM (255 Views)
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The city known as the Codex has always been a legal anamoly. The city of seven-million is completely surrounded by the Fahamad dominated state of Charon, but is a federal district, in the same legal situation as the capital of New Quaon, New Alexandria. The reasons for this situation go back to the days of the founding of New Quaon, when the Fahamad family gained de facto control of the present-day state of Charon, as well as parts of the present-day state of Starwall. While, at the time, New Quaon was a de jure unitary state, the federal government had even less power than it does today, with the same powerful families that dominate state politics today ruling their own fiefdoms throughout the nation. The federal government did next to nothing, and was not involved in the governance of the Fahamad family holdings in any meanigful way.

While the federal government did do very little in terms of governance, it did have the responsibility of restoring instantaneous communication to its citizens. The internet of Earth obviously did not extend to cover the faraway land that was being settled by the Quaonions, leaving the colonists with the task of re-establishing such a network. To make this task easier, the government of Quaon had sent with the colonists a network of computers that had imprinted on their memory a comphrensive encylopedia to the most essential human knowledge, preserving scientific know-how and humanity's history for the brave Quaonion colonists. This network was called "The Codex", and was designed so that information could be added to it.

For the Codex to work as it was designed to, allowing all New Quaonions to access it and add to it, the federal government had to design satelites in sync with their new homeplanet's orbit. This task was impossible for scientists back on Earth, but was quite feasible once the Quaonions had arrived. After a year of construction, such satelites were launched. All that remained was for a suitable home for the massive network of machines that the Codex needed to exist to be found.

The Governor of New Quaon, Ivan Falan, negotiated with the Fahamad family to set up the network within Fahamad territory. The Fahamads consented. Within a year the Codex had been installed, and a small city began forming around it, primarily composed of the engineers and workers who kept the Codex running.

In modern times, the Codex is a thriving city, and the Codex network can be accessed by anyone in New Quaonion territory, as well as in the territory of nation's who have leased use of the network from the New Quaonion government. It functions very similarly to the internet of the 21st century, but is more heavily regulated by the state and federal governments of New Quaon. The city of the Codex is not large by New Quaonion standards, but is by no means small. The machines that runs the Codex network take up a full tenth of the city's space. The city is ruled by the federal government, and in theory is ruled directly by the Governor. However, the Governor delegates this power to the Council of Governance of the Codex (CoGotC). The CoGotC has two chambers, one which regulates the Codex network, and another which governs the city.
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