Kylaris

Kylaris

Orbital characteristics
Eccentricity	~0
Physical characteristics
Surface area	243 million km2
Atmosphere

Kylaris, commonly known as earth, is a rocky planet in the Solaris star system. It completes an orbit around Solaris approximately every 365.2422 calendar days (rotations about its axis); from the perspective of the North Pole on the planet, like most other celestial bodies in the star system, it orbits counterclockwise. It is spherical with a slight bulge at the equator owing to its rotation, which is slightly tilted compared to its orbital axis with respect to the sun, and it has one planetoid moon. It's axis of rotation produced seasons, as it is titled in respect to the planet's orbital plane. The planet is notable for being the only known location to harbor, at any time, life.

The planet is believed to have formed conventionally, several billion years ago, from the heavier elements in the accretion disk of the sun; the presence of these elements mean that Solaris is at youngest a second-generation star. Distinct layers formed over time, as accretion slowed and the planet cooled.

The planet has a metallic core, which creates a magnetic field around the planet. This is surrounded by a mostly liquid mantle, composed of various metallic and nonmetallic elements, silicon being the most common. The outermost layer is the solid crust, or lithosphere, which is thin but encompasses the entire planet, being composed of similar but generally lighter materials than the mantle. Most of the planet's surface area is covered in liquid water oceans, with the dry parts constituting land. The atmosphere is primarily nitrogen, with a significant fraction of oxygen; most other components of the atmosphere are trace, including argon and carbon dioxide. The atmosphere can be divided into layers depending on altitude, and is thick enough to burn up the vast majority of objects which fall into it. The active tectonics and energetic atmosphere of the planet are notable, and highly influential on its topography, biosphere, etc.

All known life is native to the planet, with rough estimates of millions of species and octillions of individual lifeforms. It is thought to have been present for around half of the planet's existence. The biosphere is believed to be constrained to the crust, the lower atmosphere, and possibly the upper mantle. The only known species to have exited the atmospheric strata are humans, who are generally considered the dominant species.

Human influence stretches across the overwhelming majority of the planet's surface, though most significantly on land, and their activities have a significant impact on both the biotic and abiotic world, whether with reference to atmospheric composition, land cover, hydrology, light or the transportation and transformation of terrestrial material. Most of this is a development of the last three millennia, though humans have been around for millions of years. Human societies are highly complex and organised, with the development of dozens of nation-states of varying size, often considered to be the basic social unit of organisation (some of the most significant include Gaullica, Xiaodong and Senria. There are also many multinational organisations, some of which are limited to subsets of nation-states, forming blocs; these include the Euclean Community, Rongzhuo Strategic Protocol Organisation, Asterian Development Council and COMSED, while others are globalised, such as the Community of Nations. Significant human developments include language, of which there are thousands, organised conflict or war (such as the Great War), and techniques for manipulating other species, physical energy and matter, including electrical theory, mining, agriculture and construction. These technologies have produced the dominance of the human species in recent history and improvements in the human condition: metrics by which this can be seen include the human population doubling several times, total energy consumption multiply by even more times, the extension of lifespan, and utilisation of a greater fraction of the planet's natural resource stocks on both a per capita and absolute basis.

Etymology

The commonly accepted Estmerish name for the planet, Kylaris, is a Piraean loanword, from Κυλάρις kylaris. Kylaris was the name of the Piraean goddess of nature. She was adopted into the Solarian pantheon where she was also known as Terra, resulting in the use of terra as a name for the planet in Solarian and its derivative languages.

The planet is commonly referred to as earth, another modern Estmerish word, in media and conversation. The word is derived from the Old Swathish eorðe. Similar to Kylaris and Terra, Earth was the goddess of the human world in Weranic paganism.

Geography

Continents

The surface of the planet is the most complex and well-studied part of it, in particular the sections not covered by the oceans. One widely accepted way of spatially organising the planet is by dividing it into continents, which are the largest sections of land, and oceans, which are the largest sections of water.

	Name	Largest country	Total population	Largest city
	Asteria Inferior	Satucin	196,281,051	Gatôn
	Asteria Superior	Nuxica	324,611,244	Carútagua
	Euclea	Gaullica	857,733,509	Vicalvi
	Glacia	N/A
	Coius	Xiaodong	‭1,306,967,746‬	Keisi
	Sublustria	Valentir	55,801,345	Harborough

Countries

Countries are the basic organisational unit of the human species which resides on and is predominant on the planet. Their distribution has a strong relationship to the planet's geological and biospheric characteristics, and geography more generally.

Name	Capital	Population	Continent	Head of State	Government type
Aimilia	Kakzazna	6,708,921	Euclea	Kabentim Teguzboded	Parliamentary republic
Ajahadya	Banabadura	166,112,000	Coius	Vimala Balchandra	Semi-presidential republic
Amardia	Khorsidar	53,190,000	Coius	Fath-Ali Shah	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Amathia	Arciluco	35,852,332	Euclea	Presidency of Amathia	Semi-presidential republic
Azmara	Aalmsted	10,029,100	Euclea	Maarija Ryginsdohter	Parliamentary republic
Baekjeong	Sangang	80,348,293	Coius	Lee Seo-yeon	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Brumah	Mandalay	16,630,542	Coius	Lee Hsien Thant	Parliamentary republic
Buckland	Dunhelm	6,825,000	Euclea	Freodhoric Ācden	Parliamentary republic
Caldia	Spálgleann	9,257,180	Euclea	Kenneth IV	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Cassier	Nouvelle-Rayenne	39,689,032	Asteria Superior	Jean Tremblay	Parliamentary republic
Cavunia	Manrıngol	27,522,309	Coius	Ari Maltıqa	Presidential republic
Chervolesia	Volosovo	73,491,200	Asteria Superior	Council of People's Commissars	Directorial republic
Dezevau	Bazadavo	129,899,450	Coius	Bott "the Placeholder" Borrison	Parliamentary republic
Djedet	Mina	20,238,000	Coius	Tawadros Makarios	Presidential republic
Eldmark	Hammarvik	20,002,351	Asteria Superior	Thyri I	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Estmere	Ashcombe	56,519,373	Euclea	Alice Roberts	Parliamentary republic
Etruria	Poveglia	65,596,083	Euclea	Francesco Carcaterra	Parliamentary republic
Template:Country data Florena Florena	Template:Country data Florena Demora	54,821,712	Euclea	Rosa Escudero	Semi-presidential republic
Garambura	Mutimukuru	8,635,881	Coius (Bahia)	Muzukuru Chiyangwa	Presidential republic
Gaullica	Verlois	87,176,289	Euclea	Jean Vallette	Semi-presidential republic
Gibany	Drošnja	11,329,605	Euclea	Ajdin Burić	Parliamentary republic
Habasha	Gondar	64,315,036	Coius	Yohannes Emanuel	Parliamentary republic
Hennehouwe	s'Holle	17,125,503	Euclea	Adriaan Wilhelm Paulus	Parliamentary republic
Ik' Ka' Ek' Akai	Makuahine	750,000	Sublustria	Malama Kai La'au Yokatala	Tribal confederacy
Imagua and the Assimas	Cuanstad	1,306,505	Asteria Superior	Edmondo Privitera	Parliamentary republic
Kesselbourg	Kesselbourg City	1,424,500	Euclea	William II	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Kituk	None	14,387,120	Coius	The Quintarchy	Federal constitutional quintarchy
Kumuso	Kumuso City	1,403,956	Coius	Shayban V	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Mabifia	Ainde	47,982,681	Coius	Mahmadou Jolleh-Bande	Constitutional monarchy
Marirana	Aquinas	55,455,700	Asteria Superior	Lorenzo Occhetto	Semi-presidential republic
Mihi Mai Ra	Kahimeka	5,402,981	Sublustria	Alain A. D'Isisgny	Federal tribal republic
Montecara	Montecara	1,801,328	Euclea	Colegio	Directorial republic
Narozalica	Patovatra	88,081,653	Euclea	Samuel Czenko	Presidential republic
Nuvania	Pietersburg	48,177,598	Asteria Inferior	Walter Kronje	Parliamentary republic
Nuxica	Sant Picano	77,895,231	Asteria Superior	Zacarías Figueroa	Semi-presidential republic
Ordennya	Västdal	27,000,000	Euclea	Johan Olsson	Parliamentary republic
Phula	[[]]	62,468,424	Coius	Avani Adhikari	Absolute monarchy
Piraea	Alikianos	13,284,889	Euclea	Pavlos Kassapidis	Parliamentary republic
Rwizikuru	Guta raMambo	18,903,392	Coius	Kupakwashe Ngonidzashe	Absolute monarchy
Sanslumiere	Découverte	10,342,850	Asteria Inferior	Arnaud Noirenègre	Presidential republic
Satucin	Gatôn	124,800,000	Asteria Inferior	Théodore I	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Senria	Keisi	258,751,620	Coius	Reika Okura	Parliamentary republic
Subarna	Khozapur	91,034,632	Coius	Jagannath Sarkar	Presidential republic
Swetania	Swetapolis	52,853,207	Euclea	Presidium of the General Congress	Directorial republic
Tibernum	Tibernum City	842	Euclea	Pope Joseph	Absolute monarchy
Tinza	Ladumra	112,261,345	Coius	Kya II	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Tsabara	Adunis	43,426,894	Coius	Atwan al-Tughluq	Parliamentary republic
Valentir	Valeins	55,051,345	Sublustria	Helene Pauline	Semi-presidential republic
Varienland	Rosenborg	7,538,726	Euclea	Georg-Frederik IV	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Vedmed	Tsivebi	10,578,243	Euclea	Erekle Botkoveli	Parliamentary republic
Velzemia	Paltamo	17,013,556	Euclea	Anssi Keskitalo	Parliamentary republic
Vilcasuamanas	Biržuventis	20,184,964	Asteria Inferior	Vytautas Kaparauskas	Parliamentary republic
Vlissingemond	New Taonalani	16,500,000	Asteria Inferior	Willem Koek	Semi-presidential republic
Werania	Westbrücken	58,579,684	Euclea	Charlotte	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Xiaodong	Rongzhuo	553,746,000	Coius	Yuan Xiannian	Authoritarian republic
Yavorstrana	Yuriatin	62,558,975	Euclea	Polina Volkova	Semi-presidential republic
Yi	Ŭtasiĭ	82,314,226	Coius	Tĕxiú Bŭn-On	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Zorasan	Zahedan	173,112,587	Coius	Evren Volkan	Parliamentary republic

External Links

• Kylaris on NationStates
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