Name of World: Cantra
System: Gjallarhorn
Year Initially Settled: 2133
Affiliations: Coalition
Governmental Style: A meritocracy-based council collectively makes decisions for the people of Cantra. The seven members of the council rotate regularly, selected based on their qualifications to represent different fields or "departments" of government (transportation, agriculture, finance, etc).
Primary Languages: English, Hindi, Swedish
Primary Industries: Privately owned prisons. Many businesses in the STEM field have their headquarters on Cantra.
Current Leaders/Figures of Note: To be named as/if needed.
In-Play Characters from the Location: Sorochi Wolffe.
Human Mutations: None.
Geography/Biodiversity: Due to its protective domes, it boasts 'ideal' weather for each of the four seasons. The land under the domes has been meticulously, artificially cultivated and landscaped, leaving no room for unwanted weeds or invasive fauna. There are no natural predators within the dome - only what has been planned to sustain a manufactured circle of life.
History: If Paradise is marketed as your ideal vacation spot, Cantra is where you settle and raise your family. Affectionately dubbed 'Stepford', nearly all of Cantra's civilization is laid out in neat suburbs, all often similar in appearance or layout.
It is prided as the safest planet in the Coalition but it wasn't always this way. Originally, Cantra was a hub of piracy and crime - a lawless planet composed of slapdash structures until the CDF came in and cleaned it up, turned it into a prison planet. The Australia of the future, if you will.
Those criminals who didn't flee or die in the first, crushing wave of the CDF's show of force found themselves Cantra's first permanent residents, as EcoSense Construction was contracted to build its first prisons. From there, to staff them, EcoSense Construction acquired additional contracts for surrounding neighborhoods and towns. All under proprietary domes developed from the Praxas model.
While the homes began as near carbon-copy variations of one model, all made out of ticky-tacky, all looking just the same, eventually the neighborhoods began to vary based on income. The same determining factor of money decided where the police devoted most of their attention, but a strict, zero-tolerance policy decided what happened to those who couldn't afford the good schools, the safe streets. As time went on, Cantra culled the chaff from the wheat, and gentrified the rest. Nowadays it's still a prison planet (though they'd never call it that), but the rest is largely composed of rich folks in suburban hell and military bases.
To support such a cushy lifestyle for the rest of Cantra, the prison population works just about all the blue collar jobs on the planet, a steady supply of slave labor. Everything from janitorial work to sanitation, construction to landscaping - even low level factory positions are mostly worked by prisoners. They come from all over the galaxy to serve their time in the privately-run prisons on Cantra, but not all the prisons there are run the same. While some contract their inmates out to the local communities for work, others provide a more 'typical' prison experience.
Occasionally, someone kicks a hornet's nest about the living conditions, but little ever comes of it beyond short-lived protests and empty promises from the local governments.
Of course, not all of the free populace of Cantra merit the nickname Stepford. There are still poorer areas, but much like the hushed whispers around the 'verse that Cantra employs the unsavory practice of eugenics in their aim to keep up their picture perfect image, the rumors that these sections of the planet are intentionally kept that way because poverty means crime and crime means prisoners - are just rumors, right?
There are no known mutations intrinsic to Cantra, but the CDF has a strong presence on the planet in the form of several military bases. This is often seen as a deterrent, to inhabitants and outsiders alike.