Celera is a city-state located at Randia. It is ruled by Celer, who is also the mayor-for-life as well as the CEO of the Celeran Western Corporation.
Economy[]
Celera's economy is fairly modern, in that the tertiary service comprise the biggest portion of the economy and that the businesses are often left alone unless Celer view them as hostile to him. However, Celer grows more paranoid by the passing moment, so the businesses are disrupted at increasing frequency. Celera is infamous for its game development industry, which unfortunately is noted for its lack of creativity, often blatantly copying materials off other games and profiting off that. Not only that, the quality of games produced at Celera are often abysmal to the point where libertarian courts actually dismiss cases against Celeran games due to the sheer confidence that such games will not generate much profit at all, which then quickly translated into the libertarian (and other) creative industry simply laughing their glutei maximi off when a Celeran ripoff is announced. Otherwise, the Celeran economy isn't considerably notable, having a soft-drink industry by the name of Acceler-Cola, a radio station by the name of K-Celeran.
Like many other neighboring city-states, Celera mints its own currency. Its primary currency is the Quick-Quadrans and the Celeran As, Quadrans worth 10 Celeran As. Not surprisingly, its pursuit of independent currency has created inefficiency in interstate trade in a fashion very similar to the Articles of Confederation-period US.
Society[]
Celera's society is often considered backwards by nearly everyone. For starters, the Celeran society is infamous for the interpretatio Romana, a natural result of racist views of Celer. Whereas most forms of interpretatio Romana might give some favorable slack for say the Greeks (in this case, those of the Arche), Celeran version unfortunately puts them below the other (primarily Western) Europeans, and de facto segregation is rampant in Celera. In addition, Celera is among the most sexualized and objectified societies in the Segmentum Asia, and women are expected to be submissive and open to sexual advances by even strangers should the said stranger male show interest in it. Whereas heterosexual relationships are promoted in a perverse scale in Celera, homosexual relationships is suppressed violently by right-wingers, who often declare that homosexuality should be cured by infusion of heterosexual's blood. However, given the rampant sexual culture of Celera, STDs are a huge problem, and infusion itself grows more perilous by day. Forced infusion on homosexuals have often led to the homosexual contracting the STDs he (or she) might otherwise have avoided, and Celera is one of the few places where homosexuality is considerably safer than heterosexuality by far if forced transfusions are ignored. While recent development made female homosexuality more accepted, the hostility towards male homosexuality remains.
Celera's ill primarily stem from its attractiveness to violent extremists. While Celera is a despotic state, its bureaucracy is nearly nonexistent. Combined with Celer's lack of interest in establishing order asides from enriching himself, Celera is even more unruly than most of Randia's city-states. Here violence is the rule outside Celer's field of vision, and extremists who align with Celer's views could go to exert whatever violence they wish on the undesirables knowing Celer doesn't care, or even worse support them.
Politics[]
Unlike the libertarian neighbors, Celera's mayor is mayor in name only, effectively a despot who can control other businesses at Celera by law, which in turn receives protest from libertarian entrepreneurs. Although Celer's rule isn't necessarily despotic, Celer has tried to implement a cult of personality, reflected in the names of the subsidiaries of Celeran Western Corporation in addition to the numerous portraits and statues of Celer in the city hall. However, Celer's obvious shortcomings prevent Celer from being revered as he wants, instead used primarily as an excuse for civilian violence.
Celera is a despotate and Celer intervenes whenever he dislikes what is happening. However, Celer's general apathy to most things, as well as his material greed makes flare ups a rare thing: libertarians may not like the government but the market is profitable enough for the hassle of bribing Celer. As such, Celera but a simple despotate founded by a loon, not the Hobbesian Leviathan that the libertarians believe any big government is.