Mutual Progress Association

The Mutual Progress Association - Data Panel

Definition: major empire: Inner Sphere, 2nd millennium to present

Symbol: Mutual Progress Association logo - Three interlocking circles surrounding a star- (right) and interactive module

Ruling Archailect: No single identity is apparent to ordinary sapients, although the AI cluster that extends much of Djed and the Kiyoshi sector is sometimes personified as The Great Architect, The Creator of Structures, etc. See also Dream Factory

AI Ethos / Intervention: The AIs that oversee MPA societies and worlds tend not to be directly interventionist, preferring to work as femtoavatars or through memetic, seraiphic, and toposophic guidance of transapient administrators.

Founded: third millennium a.t.

Civilization: Not distinctive like other sephirotics. An over-abundance of megastructures - especially dysons (both swarm and semi-rigid), smoke bands, ribbon worlds, dimple worlds, shell worlds, and banks rings, is sometimes taken as a distinguishing trait.

Science and Technology
Technology Level: Transapientech and Godtech in all the core worlds and megastructures, although many sparsely populated habitats and megastructures may be inhabited by nothing more than prims or lo teks.

Psyche, Art, Culture
Metapsychology: varies greatly, may be pragmatic or idealistic. Often creative. Love of practical, technological approaches is common.

Society: Generally indistinguishable from sephirotic life in general.

Religion/Ideology: No specific or official ideology, but tends to strongly resist missionaries of other polities and empires.

Symbolism and Aesthetics: varies by individual

Culture and Art: None specific, although engineering is regarded as a practical artform by many peoples in the Association.

official language: MPA Galactic

Territory and Population
Current Territory: a large wedge of Inner Sphere and Hinteregions encompassing the Vulpecula - Sagittarius - Aquarius area, and extending throughout the Outer Volumes especially spinwards of Sagittarius

Capital: Djed

Some representative systems: Djed, Galbydeia, Halcyon, Kiyoshi, Kepleria, Makama, Medius, Metropolis Ring City, Morogai/Ho'th'lhu'ooht, Nuihab, Oikoumene, Revoltpri, Ridgewell, Sadalmelic, Second Son, many others.

Population: probably no more than a few trillion core citizens (known as "Mutuals" or "Artificers"), but the vast megastructures provide living space for countless sentients with only nominal MPA allegiance. There are thought to be over ten million trillion of these, not including virtuals (some estimates say several trillion trillion, but these are almost certainly exaggerated); mostly in various shell worlds, dysons, banks ring and other megastructure habitats. The population continues to slowly rise in these astonishingly spacious worlds, but living space is abundant and will remain so for some time. Meanwhile, more megastructures and megahabitats are continually being constructed in the the outer volumes

Number of Core Star Systems: over 50,000

Core Population Breakdown: a wide range of augmented cyborg, suborg, bioborg, and superturing superbrights as well as posthuman and hyperturing transapients

Nominal Population Breakdown: all categories and phyla; median sophonce level baseline equivalent. There are also many presophonts, and countless subsophont biota, alifes, and nanecology organisms to be found in various megastructure environments

Government and Administration
Government: high toposophic aicracy via regional autonomy

Administrative divisions and Regional Govt: usually cyber- or nano- democracy, technotheocracy, or femtocracy

National holidays: Varies by polity

Constitution: Varies by polity, but all are based on Beta Arae Protocols

Legal system: Varies by polity, but all are based on Beta Arae Protocols

Economics, Local Infrastructure, Standard of Living
Currency: The famous MPA Credit is standard, but local currency varies by polity (and some worlds don't use currency)

Major Industries: Tend to be habitat and planet-based, usually prim, lo tech, or biotech-based, and varies greatly by world or polity.

Dysons: Too many to list; the dysons of the Kiyoshi sector are most heavily populated. The Mutual Progress Association has the second largest number of dysons in the terragen sphere (surpassed only by the Panvirtuality). Most of these are as yet unused, quadrillions of cubic kilometers of living space

Major Stargate Plexi: Medius, Kiyoshi, Kepleria, Metropolis Ring City, Revoltpri, many others

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: low.

Interstellar Trade and Treaty Relations
Exports - commodities: amat, biosphere templates, engineering databases, natural selection genome variation maps, habitat thousand-year leases, iso parts, megastructure components, gluon cables, picotech parts, femtotech products, mechosystem elements,

Imports - commodities: exotic matter, reactionless drive cores, computronium, iso parts, mechosystem elements, ecology modules, expert systems, personality constructs, crude organobiota, femtotech products, picotech products, cultural databases, personality copies, bot parts, dry/bio/sy- nano templates, cultural templates

Interstellar Relations: Interstellar Relations tend to be good, mostly centered on peaceful trade and avoiding conflict. Most neighbours are happy with this, and few would wish to awaken the military hyperpower the MPA would become were it to direct its industrial dysons to military output

Interstellar treaty organization participation: Tragadi Accords, ComEmp Non-Aggression Signatory, Sentient Rights Protocols (Full Instalment), Garden World Environmental Protection Signatory, St Andre Convention Signatory, Bonitsa Baseline Protection Treaty, Animal Rights Accord, Tipaza Ethics Agreement, Strangelet Ban

Warfare: While avoiding conflict whenever possible, the MPA has a formidable industrial capacity when it decides to tool up, and few empires could survive an attack by swarms of giant relativistic MPA autowars.

Longrunning Interstellar Disputes: Currently none