CH.1 The World of Technology Comes First - Torth
At the beginning of the 21st century, a series of discoveries represented by microwave background radiation in the early days of the Big Bang opened the door to extraterrestrial cosmology, and our story is based on a planet in an extraterrestrial universe that resembles the Earth, called Torth.
Torth is located on the edge of the ellipsoidal galaxy - the silver sphere galaxy, the fourth planet of the parent star Aka (with thirteen planets), the planet was formed about 3.6 billion years ago, about 2.1 billion years ago began to appear life, and then also experienced the age of marine life, reptiles, mammals, and the emergence of human beings, to the present, has entered the information age, in the overall level of science and technology is stronger than we are now.
Since Torth has not had a plate split, it has been in a pan-continental state (there is only one continent in the entire planet), and it has developed faster than the civilization of the earth, and it has only experienced more than 1,700 years since the beginning of the feudal era.
With the establishment of the earliest feudal kingdom on Torth, the Kingdom of Aliga, in A.D. 0, the modern events of Torth are as follows:
In the first half of the 16th century, the First World War broke out on the planet Torth, which was a war of guns.
At the end of the 16th century, World War II broke out on Torth, which was a war of tanks and planes (due to the pan-continental state, the Torth people did not pay enough attention to navigation, and the navies of various countries were not fully developed). In the midst of this war, the pacifist and the famous scientist and thinker who created the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics in one fell swoop, Estein Bodinger, was persecuted by politicians and tragically died in a car accident murder that was revealed. Prior to this, his eldest son, Estein Feynman, who had a diametrically opposed personality, founded the Cult of Pantheism, which had been expanding, frantically attacking and annexing other religions, and secretly seeking power (it was reported that the Cult controlled several countries at the time). Finally, the time came, the team led by Estan Pottinger's friend Yang Ning was the first to develop the atomic bomb, and Feynman, who had a good relationship with Yang Ning, immediately took control of all nuclear weapons and related technologies, and did not leak the technology of nuclear weapons to the entire continent, and immediately, the biggest storm on Torth arrived.
In 1705, Feynman unleashed World War III. It was a war that was almost won without a fight, and Feynman dropped the newly developed hydrogen bomb and used the almost total annihilation of a country as a sacrifice to show the entire continent the terrible power of nuclear weapons, such a powerful nuclear deterrent, completely shocked the entire continent. Under Feynman's coercion and inducement, governments have voluntarily collapsed, and only one newly renamed government is left on the entire continent - the world government. The first to propose the idea of a world government was Feynman's father, Estan Pottinger.
The world government divides the entire planet into 83 regions, with the actual jurisdiction being the region of the pan-continent, and each region implements a system of regional autonomy similar to that of the United States. Among them, 23 districts are the capital of the whole continent, the iceberg group of the Arctic is 82 districts, the Antarctic Devil's Sea area is 83 districts, and the 1-81 zones are all on the pan-continent, and the area code arrangement changes according to the longitude (the location of the world government building in the 23 zones is set to the east and west longitude 0 parallels), with the westernmost area being 1 and the easternmost being being 81 districts. Central Area 56 is the largest of all districts, while Area 51 is home to the country that was unfortunately destroyed by a super hydrogen bomb in World War III. Affected by nuclear radiation, the surrounding areas 50, 52, and 53 have also become uninhabited and dead places, and if it were not for the coastal waters of Area 51, the affected areas would have been even more.
After the establishment of the world government, because the two major scientific and technological families that were in power at that time, the Estan family and the Davin family, were deeply concerned about the tragic death of Estan Pottinger, the most influential scientist in the world of Torth, and in addition to the tradition of the supremacy of science and technology on the entire continent, they immediately established the basic policy of taking the scientific and technological giants as the top administrators: the world government has a Senate and a House of Representatives, and the members of the House of Representatives are representatives of all walks of life, and the members of the Senate are members of the scientific and technological community. In particular, the top scientists in the scientific community are called "Kojie".
From a group point of view, the Senate has supreme power, they can not only amend the Constitution, but also the approval plan of its internal meeting cannot be denied, while the House of Representatives only has the power to make policy recommendations; Conversely, policies enacted by the House of Representatives can be outright vetoed by the Senate.
Individually, the Kojie were granted a supreme social status by the Constitution, far superior to that of the common people, and they were in principle free from all laws, and the only thing that could bind them like an iron law was the Kojie Binding Regulations, which were parallel to the Constitution. For example, if a Kojie deliberately kills a civilian because of an emotional dispute, it is not against the law, and the judiciary will not have any power to sanction him, but if it violates the relevant regulations of the Kojie Binding Regulations, which prohibits the intentional killing of civilians, he will be voted on by the Kojie Conference, and the measures (such as how many years in prison will be imposed) have already been graded according to the hierarchy, if the sanction is not sanctioned to the highest percentage of votes, he will escape, and if a measure is the highest, he will be punished accordingly. Conversely, if a civilian inadvertently kills a Kojie because of an emotional dispute, there is no doubt that he will be sentenced to death, and other severe punishments will spread to his descendants in accordance with the law, unless any of the descendants become Kojie, and they will be exempted from punishment in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Kojie Binding Regulations.
Such an asymmetrical and decentralised legal and political system is precisely in response to several important propositions of the largest religion in the whole of Torth, the Monotheism, at the beginning of its founding: "The truth is often only in the hands of a few, and only by giving that few people the right to lead all mankind can mankind get closer to the truth", "If you want to be a thing, you must first transcend the world, and the closer you are to the truth, you should be considered the most virtuous person", "The subjective initiative of the whole human race is not reflected in the subjective initiative of that few", It is embodied in the subjective agency of all people in order to be the few", "The reason why we can see further is because we stand on the bones of giants, and in order to stand higher, we need more bones"・・・・・・
As mentioned above, the competition within Kojie is also very fierce. There are several types of Kojie in total, namely the active Kojie - "supernova", "neutron star", "red giant", "white dwarf", and the retired Kojie - "black hole", among which the title of the active Kojie is sorted by age from young to large, and the origin of Kojie's title is based on the love of astronomy of the Torth people. Because of this love, all Kojie will enjoy the "celestial burial" ritual after his death - a coffin of the deceased Kojie's body will be transported into space by a special spacecraft, and their coffins will float freely in the vast expanse of the universe.
There are also the following basic common senses about Torth's Kojie system:
1. All Kojie are selected and voted by the older generation of Kojie, and the weight of the vote depends on the sum of the status of the old Kojie in the scientific research career, for example, if a Kojie has experienced No. 3 "supernova", has not been selected as a "neutron star", No. 7 "red giant star", and No. 11 "white dwarf", then his voting power is 1/(3+0+7+11)=1/21, which means that the voting weight of a certain Kojie is theoretically up to 1/4.
2. The active Kojie enjoys much more rights than the retired Kojie, because the main job of the active Kojie is scientific research tasks and governance, while the task of the retired Kojie is to select new Kojie (it is not a simple matter for hundreds of people to select hundreds of people on the entire continent with billions of people, in fact, it is quite onerous).
3. Although Kojie has a supreme position, Kojie is not the ideal of most people, because Torth has a deep scientific education system, and scientific education is very sufficient, so most people understand how difficult the road of scientific research is to climb the peak (just like there are only a few people who want to become a national table tennis player in our country).
4. In the active Kojie, the supernova selection age group is 15-25 years old, the neutron star selection age group is 25-35 years old, the red superstar selection age group is 35-45 years old, the white dwarf selection age group is 45-55 years old, and the "white dwarf" that is higher than 60 years old will automatically turn into a "black hole" without any selection.
5. Each stage of Kojie must go through the nomination of the retired Kojie Federation - a three-year assessment period - formally pass three stages, in which the nomination mainly depends on the candidate's scientific research project value and the comprehensive consideration of the estimated degree of project realization. For candidates, generally speaking, as long as they are not seriously ill, disabled, or dead, the theoretical basis needed for the subject is suddenly overturned, or the performance is too poor during the assessment period, it is not a big problem to become a formal Kojie, which reflects the keen insight of the "black holes" as old fritters in the scientific community.
6. As members of the Senate, most of Kojie did not spend much time in government, because they basically set up their own governing associations, and entrusted quite a lot of boring governing work by hiring civilians, such as some negotiations with the House of Representatives, and only Senate meetings that were equally noble except for their membership, and were forbidden to delegate; Senate meetings are generally conducted online, and Kojie has a "governing bracelet" that has been heavily encrypted and authenticated, through which they can participate in Senate meetings by video, voice, or text chat; For Senate meetings, 50 percent of the minimum participation must be reached by the end of each month under the Kojie Binding Ordinance, and violations of the ordinance will result in a period of deprivation of Kojie rights in accordance with the ordinance. In contrast, the House of Representatives and sub-district governments are in fact the main body of the world's government administration, because most of the policy models are almost fixed, and they do not have the corresponding power to drastically change policies, so the politics of Torth is essentially a separate political system, and the Kojie are only responsible for the "very creative and imaginative" part of the political part, which fundamentally makes Torth in the 17th century AD a very creative and imaginative planet.
7. The rest of the instructions will be introduced with the development of the specific plot, so as not to forget too quickly.