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|Nation = Republic of Assunzione
|Shortname = Assunzione
|Flag = Assunzione_Flag.png
|Capital City = Assunzione
|Capital Planet = Triesto
|Language = Freespeak<br>Tradeband
|Species = Human (Majority)<br>[[IPC]] (Minority)
|Religion = [[Luceism]]
|Demonym = Assunzioni
|Government = Representative Republic
|Head of State = President Antonello Rosiello
|Legislature = Unicameral Republic
|Upper House = Council of Seven
|Established = 2282
|Part Of = [[Coalition of Colonies]]
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Far, far away in the distant reaches of the human frontier -- on the ragged edge of the borders of the Coalition of Colonies -- lies the most populated settlement in the region known as Light’s Edge, the '''Republic of Assunzione'''. Originally founded as part of a colonization mission launched by a league of Mediterrean countries, the system of Assunzione was first colonized in the mid 2200s by seven ships. The planet’s star shortly fizzled out after colonisation, a process that has yet to be explained, and one that dramatically altered the future course of the planet. This calamity gave rise to a local syncretic religion known as '''[[Luceism]]'''. Despite the disastrous fate of its star, Assunzione has managed to survive and thrive. This status has made many view the planet as the gateway to Light’s Edge, and the many mysterious phenomena that dwell within the region.

'''Assunzione's remote location and urban planning which places a premium on available housing and space has made it unattractive to outsiders as a destination for immigration. Because of this, characters born on Assunzione will have names and appearances consistent with the peoples living on or around the Mediterranean Sea, much like the planet's original colonists. Only native Assunzioniis may take the Assunzionii accent. This is enforceable by server moderators and admins.'''

==History==

The initial long-range colonisation efforts carried out by humanity that formed what would eventually become the Coalition of Colonies were often perilous and dangerous ventures relying upon early and typically slow warp engines to navigate across dozens of light years of empty space. Many of these expeditions — such as those travelling to Xanu Prime or Vysoka — were successful, while others - such as the ships that journeyed to Himeo — ran into issues. Some — like the colonial fleet that landed upon Moroz — became entirely stranded and lost, cut off from their homeworld and left to fend for themselves. The distant system of Al-Maqdisi, and the sole habitable planet within it, was one of the furthest systems colonized during this craze, yet it would be one of the strangest.

In the early 2200s, before the Second Great Depression and the ensuing Interstellar War, colonization by the Sol Alliance was at its peak: the frontier was being pushed further into the unknown. In this colonial boom, the Sol Alliance sponsored a colonial initiative brought forward by the Mediterranean Economic Pact — a European Union initiative that brought together a diverse alliance of Mediterranean economic powers stretching from Iberia to Anatolia in order to launch seven vessels to the Al-Maqdisi System for purposes of setting up colonies... The resulting “Med-Sev” expedition would be one of the longest journeys undertaken in the 2200s and would be the first to reach what would later be referred to as Light’s Edge, setting down on the only habitable planet in the system in late 2243.

While the initial colonial period of the planet that came to be known as Assunzione by the local settlers was fairly standard -- perhaps even boring -- the Med-Sev expedition was able to send some valuable resources back to Sol proper. The main value of the system, however, became the unusual phenomenon found within it. The Al-Maqdisi System was, during this period, home to a variety of light-related phenomena ranging from massive sunspots on the star’s surface thousands of kilometers wide to unusual prismatic patterns that occurred in Assunzione’s atmosphere, creating beautiful vistas above the self-contained domes of the seven initial colonies. The system’s star continued to provide a massive amount of data and bizarre, awe-inspiring phenomena until 2274.

''When it went out.''

Understandably, this caused a significant amount of panic. Fortunately for the colonists, the star had retained enough mass despite going dark. While the darkness meant life on the planet had become a daily fight for survival, it managed to remain in orbit of the dead star. With the Interstellar War already beginning to break out, the Sol Alliance crippled by debt, and the Mediterranean Economic Pact in economic freefall, there was no easy way off of the planet for the immediate future. There was, however, a very real chance that Assunzione would become a planet-sized tomb. Fortunately, the colonists of the Med-Sev fleet turned out to be tougher than initially imagined, and luckier than one would have originally anticipated. As a precaution against a lack of fuel and hazardous atmospheric phenomena, Assunzione’s seven colonial cities were all built within large, self-contained dome structures powered by the one source of fuel that was not freezing or disappearing: geothermal energy. Despite their advantages, their struggle for survival would not be an easy one.

The months in the immediate aftermath of the star being snuffed out were marked by widespread panic, terror, and despair. The death of the system’s Star had an extremely negative impact upon the planet’s remaining population. Many residents of Assunzione turned to religion as a source of relief and succor or as a shield against the terrifying concept that was their entire planet freezing over and dying a slow death that could hardly be stopped. Even as the situation in the domed cities began to stabilize and it became clear to the population of the planet that they might just survive, a sense of desperation and hopelessness reigned supreme over the residents of the planet, and many found insufficient answers in both scientific explanations and in their traditional religions from across the Mediterranean. What would emerge from this tumultuous period was the quite unusual syncretic religion known as [[Luceism]], which established itself as a new faith inspired by various religious traditions of the original colonists. The religion, odd as it was, would eventually expand to the rest of Assunzione from its home in the domed city of Malaga and become known as one of the major hallmarks of Assunzione.

By the early 2280s, Assunzione had managed to stabilize and now had to deal with another crisis. It had been written off as a lost cause by the Sol Alliance due to its position on the other side of the newly-formed Coalition of Colonies, on the boundary of Light’s Edge. As they had already passed through their greatest crisis and remained alive, by the grace of the fading light, the decision to formally split from the Alliance was an easy one to reach. The Med-Sev colonial mission formally declared its mission concluded as of 2282, due to "unforeseen consequences involving its environment", and formed the Republic of Assunzione - a union of all seven domed cities under one government in the capital of Triesto. It joined the newly formed Coalition of Colonies in 2300, becoming the Coalition’s only member state in Light’s Edge. This would prove to be an unexpected advantage in the years to come, as Assunzione’s unusual stability and location have turned it into the primary point of entry for the wild, untamed, and extremely strange systems further inside Light’s Edge.

The Republic of Assunzione, in the present day, remains prosperous in spite of its strange religion and despite its harsh living environment. However many go abroad to the greater Coalition or even further beyond to the Republic of Biesel, with New Gibson being a particularly popular destination due to its similar terrain, for reasons as broad as the Coalition itself.

==Environment==

The environment of Assunzione is extremely harsh and equally strange at the same time. The surface is deathly cold, and death from exposure without a proper suit can occur in mere minutes unless aid is rendered immediately. The surface is also constantly shrouded in darkness, making any efforts outside of the extremely well-lit domed cities extremely risky and often tedious ventures. Some scholars, particularly those visiting from the universities of the United Syndicates of Himeo, have noted that the settlements on Assunzione have a greater amount of lighting per square meter than any other place in the Coalition, due to both the lack of a traditional sun in the system and Luceism’s obsession with light and brightness.

Thanks to a massive die-off of flora and fauna following the extinguishing of the planet’s star, what flora and fauna remain have come to be integrated with the domed cities of Assunzione. Nearly two centuries of evolution has led to what animals remain on Assunzione becoming quite small and compact in order to survive in the heavily-urbanized environments in which they now dwell. Similarly, the great freeze has caused the planet’s plant life to be reduced to living in hydroponics bays, museums, and green spaces found throughout the seven great domed cities. Some of the most common animals now found on Assunzione are the common domesticated house cat, originally brought by the colonists to Assunzione, and Rattus rattus, the black rat, which stowed away on the original colonising vessels . In the urban jungle, cats have managed to thrive - becoming the primary predator of the domes and common household pets. One curious exception to this rule of all life being killed after the star died, is the so-called luce vine, the only known plant to have survived the Star’s fate -- often simply referred to as the Dimming -- and remain outside the dome. The luce vine is typically found growing on the surface level of the ice that dominates the surface of Assunzione, and is bioluminescent in nature with its bulbs constantly producing a ghostly white light. This quality has led to many on Assunzione viewing it as a symbol of the Light’s will and a sign that their star will someday return to its former glory - no matter what. Due to their ability to glow in even the dimmest sources of light, luce vine bulbs are the primary source of illumination for warding spheres and greater warding spheres. The process of harvesting these bulbs is viewed as a holy task for followers of Luceism, and a great deal of importance is placed upon it.

==Government and Economy==

The Republic of Assunzione is a representative republic made up of the planet’s seven great domed cities, all of which hold a seat on the Council of Seven, and is headed by the elected President of the Republic of Assunzione. On paper the Republic’s political system is free of the influence of Luceism, but in reality, politics and prayer often find themselves hand-in-hand in the Republic. Prospective politicians will often ask for blessings from priests before embarking on their election campaigns, and the holy blessing of the Light (or lack thereof) can often make or break one’s entire campaign. Politicians and officials from Assunzione’s religious minorities, dubbed by Assunzioni society as Sinluceians, will often find themselves running into significant difficulties due to this focus on Luceism, and rarely find major success. The President of the Republic has never been a Sinluceian.

The economy of the Republic is intrinsically tied to Light’s Edge due to its position upon the very edge of the region. Its proximity to the rest of Light’s Edge allows it to not only serve as the primary economic hub of the surrounding frontier, but also makes it the primary point of entry for scientific expeditions or missions (often megacorporation-funded ones) seeking to examine the phenomena of the area or chart unexplored territories beyond known space. In order to continue its status as the best place to launch an treks into Light’s Edge, the Republic’s economy is specialized into producing survey and sensor equipment ranging from a variety of sensor suites to exploratory and surveying vessels. Curiously, expeditions outfitted (and in some cases blessed for a price) by the denizens of Assunzione have a significantly higher survival rate than those that are not. Whether this is due to local expertise or something beyond that is unknown.

==The Assunzionii Expeditionary Corps==

Officially founded on the 200th anniversary of the planet’s calamity, the AEC are the result of a joint effort between Zeng-Hu Pharmaceutical’s Coalition Branch and the Council of Seven; created to explore Light’s Edge and the Lemurian Sea. Thus, since their original formation the AEC has spearheaded scientific exploration into the region. Though well publicized in their efforts - their departures are broadcast throughout Assunzione and beyond, only a scarce few of their more substantial discoveries ever reach the public eye, the rest perpetually concealed behind layers of bureaucratic red tape and corporate NDAs.
Despite this, the AEC are romanticized among Assunzionii as heroes and daredevils for braving the seemingly endless Lemurian Sea. This, as well as the mysterious drop in fatalities experienced on ventures involving the planet's denizens - has brought the group closer to the Luceian church throughout the years, though Zeng-Hu was initially reluctant to rely on the church. The image of an AEC Scout — adorned by a cloak inscribed in gold with Luceian scripture — has become a cultural staple within Assunzionii, appearing everywhere from shrines to popular media.

===Controversy===

The AEC’s acclaim within Assunzione is not without critiques. The most prominent is a 2464 journalistic exposé by the XNS aimed at breaching the unspoken layer of secrecy shrouding them. “The Lemurian Papers,” as they are known, allege poor working conditions, predatory NDAs, and contain harrowing first-hand accounts of the effect prolonged Light’s Edge exposure may have on body and mind. The papers claim antidepressant and antipsychotic usage in the AEC is higher in average when compared to the overall Assunzionii population, and life expectancy is significantly lower. However, exact statistics on the group’s fatality rates are unknown to the public. And yet, the romantic image of the AEC continues to attract new recruits — not all of whom return.

===Exposure to Light’s Edge===

“Light’s Edge Syndrome” is a catch-all term for the mental health issues associated with prolonged exposure to the region. It includes symptoms of paranoia, hallucinations, and rarely prolonged episodes of total dissociation. Rarely, sufferers will display violent tendencies ranging from self-harm to animal cruelty. Somatic symptoms are common in sufferers, with many suffering from a severe focus on physical ailments such as shortness of breath, vision loss, or muscle pains. Informally known as “afflicted” or “darkened” by Assunzionii, the syndrome is unrecognized by Zeng-Hu. Sufferers of the syndrome are often stock villain characters in Coalition media, leading to further stigma against those suffering from it.

===Missing Flagships===

Many strange, impossible to confirm tales surround the AEC's efforts. These stories range wildly - from macabre visual anomalies and gargantuan, ancient ship graveyards filled with ships made by no known species; to pulpier, less credible stories - blood-starved gestalts whose pale-green hue draws in the curious or desperate; strange figures in the eternal midnight - clad in voidsuits from every-which origin, striding the the starless void as though walking through even ground.

There are those, a scarce few - that prove frustratingly difficult to explain, let alone disregard. Most notably, the AEC's missing flagships. The group is presently in possession of fourteen vessels - exploratory and defensive alike, two ascribed to each of Assunzione's seven cities - '''Lemure V''', the largest among them, serving as the fleet's current flagship after the well-publicized loss or destruction of its progenitors - '''Lemure I to IV'''.
It is well and widely known to the Assunzionii public that the four earlier Dullahan model ships were each destroyed or lost after years of service each; yet no design specifications, crew manifests nor verified images of them has thus far resurfaced, despite the efforts of countless invested on the topic. The only proof of their existence being the memory of those alive at the time, as well as the joint announcements released by Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals and the Assunzionii Government following the event, mourning crew and ship alike.

==Culture and Demographics==
[[Image:Luceism.png||thumb|The common symbol of Luceism, the majority religion on Assunzione.]]
Assunzionii society is an odd, often insular one, thanks to the collective societal trauma experienced when the Star itself was extinguished. The nature of this catastrophe and the confinement of those on the planet to the seven domed cities have lent themselves to a very space-conscious and urbanized society, but underground habitation is very uncommon due to a common Assunzionii trait: a societal aversion, or fear, towards darkness and a preference for exceedingly well-lit spaces. This dislike of underground dwellings - and the dim conditions often intrinsic to them - has led to the planet’s domed cities consistently choosing the longer, more expensive route of building new interconnected domes spreading from a central “bulb,” dome rather than simply digging downwards. The lights of Assunzione’s great domed cities, surrounded by the utter darkness of the planet itself, often create a spectacular sight when seen from orbit.

The Assunzionii love of brightness is especially accented in its areas of worship, ranging from grand cathedrals to small-scale chapels. Many visitors to the planet’s holy sites find themselves wearing protective eyewear to shield their eyes - which are often used to the dim conditions of space travel - against the overwhelming brightness of the interiors. It is said that inside a cathedral on Assunzione one can stand in the middle of a room and cast no shadow at all. Outside of holy sites, the great domed cities are generally lit in fashions that make those holy beacons of places stand out more, and the ghostly lights of many of Assunzione’s domes often provide a spectacular contrast against the inky blackness that dwells outside. Celebrations on the planet - from religious ceremonies to holidays to birthdays - are similarly centered around brightness and light, with the goal of banishing darkness - if only for the special occasion itself. The most important of all holidays on the planet is the Assumption of the Fading Lights - a celebration on the eleventh of March (of the standard Earth calendar) every year that is viewed by Assunzionii as a tribute to their long-extinguished Star, and their enduring hope that it will someday return to life.

Because of its Mediterranean heritage, Tradeband is the language primarily spoken on Assunzione and is the liturgical language of Luceism. Freespeak has been taught in schools since Assunzione’s formal joining of the Coalition of Colonies, however, to greater integrate with the Coalition.

Luceism is a cornerstone both of society and culture on the planet, and more can be read about it '''[[Luceism|here]]'''.

===Assunzionii Architecture===
The evolution of Assunzione’s post-calamity architectural movements is unique among the Spur Subsequent decades have seen multiple urban regeneration projects - each designed to further cement the faith as an integral part of Assunzionii culture - to capitalize on the uptick in tourism the planet has begun to experience since the demise of its star.
The result is a densely packed urban sprawl — soaring vertical proportions used to circumvent the inherently limited space offered by the domes — where the practical, unadorned structures of typical Assunzionii residents exist alongside grandiose holy sites with intricately carved stone facades reminiscent of Earth’s cathedrals. Purple and gold accents feature prominently and lamps shaped like Luce bulbs bathe the streets in light.

=== Synthetics on Assunzione ===
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As a major regional port within the Coalition and the gateway to the mysterious Light’s Edge sector. Assunzione is home to a small but notable population of synthetics, a minority are manufactured locally whilst the majority of them are bought in from Konyang by corporations operating in Assunzione. The isolated nature and lack of space on the planet however make immigration by synthetics similarly unattractive as it does the immigration of non-synthetics, and the free IPC population of the planet is small compared to other planets of a similar size and development within the Coalition.

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Positronics manufactured on Assunzione are rare but make up most of the free synthetics on the planet due to the minuscule immigration rate to Assunzione. A majority of frames built on the planet are Bishop and Mobility frames, as the planet is the location of the Coalition HQ of Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals, who are also the biggest owner of synthetics on the planet.

A curious part of Assunzione manufactured positronics who stay on the planet is that they are blessed on creation and outfitted with datapacks minutely detailing the native faith of Luceism, to fit in better with the highly religious population - displaying both a knowledge of the faith and the ability to follow its tenets. Synthetics are most often programmed with an understanding of the Luceian branch most popular where they will be sent to work.
Free synthetics can be found in all manner of roles on Assunzione, from expedition crews to menial workers and high ranking corporate positions, and similarly reside in the great domed cities that the human population occupy. All manner of frames are used by free synthetics across the planet, though the locally produced Bishop and Mobility frames are the most common.
Owned positronics meanwhile vary greatly across the seven cities of Assunzione, depending on the corporate presence there. The majority of positronics manufactured on Assunzione itself find themselves employed in Triesto, where the Headquarters of Zeng-Hu is located, serving as researchers, medical or service staff for the corporation. Another common role is as Bridge Crew and other staff for the many Zeng-Hu expeditions launched into the Light’s Edge region, the risks of exploring Light’s Edge make IPC crewmembers inherently useful as they are considered more expendable than human crew. Nanotrasen also employs synthetics in Triesto for their phoron-finding expeditions into the Light’s Edge for similar reasons. Markarsa also serves as another major hub for owned synthetics produced on the planet, as the research hub of the planet and home to a substantial Zeng-Hu research facility, many positronics serve as scientists or support staff here.

Whilst Triesto and Markarsa serve as hubs for Assunzione produced positronics, both NT and Zeng-Hu utilize synthetics bought from off-world in their operations here too. However, in other cities off-world produced synthetics make up a far larger section of the overall synthetic population with most coming from the nearby production centre of Konyang. Iraklio’s status as the primary shipyard of Assunzione and recent investments by Hephaestus Industries have brought large amounts of industrial frames to the planet to serve as labour for the budding shipbuilding industry and Hephaestus facilities. Meanwhile Said, being the port of call for many unaffiliated vessels travelling to the planet leads to it playing host to all manner of synthetics from off-world, primarily working as part of these independent crews but also within the city, a few members of the Golden Deep also have operations in the city, using it as their base for conducting business in the region.

The opinions on synthetics held by the human residents of Assunzione primarily stem from their interpretation of Luceist teachings, whilst Luceism itself espouses a neutral view towards synthetic life, personal interpretations vary between followers, and can be broadly classified into two primary views. The more pro-synthetic side of Luceism, albeit not necessarily advocating for synthetic freedom, still has a more positive outlook of synthetics for their efficiency, work ethic and other factors, especially those produced and blessed locally who adhere to Luceism, seeing them as properly integrated into the planet's population and support them being used on the planet.

The more anti-synthetic side of the faith believe that synthetics are a drain on Assunzione as a whole, and antithetical to the teachings of Luceism. This is primarily due to their inherently inorganic nature and the belief that synthetics drain away electricity that could instead have been used to produce light. They would rather see positronics not present on the planet at all. This divide exists within both the Pyramidicalist and Astructuralist branches of the faith, though is far more pronounced in the former.Due to Luceism’s overwhelming presence on the planet, followers of the Trinary Perfection, both synthetic and organic are unheard of.
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==Population and Major Cities==

Assunzione is not a very diverse planet compared to others in the frontier. Its population of roughly five-hundred million permanent residents is overwhelmingly human, with a small population of offworld humans and some positronic frames. Offworld humans from Assunzione itself are extremely rare, and most are generally drifters visiting the planet rather than permanent residents or - more rarely - immigrants. Positronics built on the planet are rare, with most originating off-world on planets such as Xanu Prime or Himeo. Travel between the cities of Assunzione is primarily conducted via aboveground magnetic rail lines inside protected (though transparent, to avoid darkness seeping in) tubes. The overwhelming majority of planetary residents reside within the seven great domed cities of Assunzione listed below.

'''Triesto''' is the capital of the Republic and the largest settlement on Assunzione, with a population of roughly one-hundred million people residing in a massive array of domes. Often referred to as the “Beacon of Light’s Edge” by its residents, the domed city is the single largest port in the entire interstellar south-east of the Orion Spur. Travellers from across the known space can be found beneath the domes of Triesto as they await their chance to brave Light’s Edge. Being a major regional port, and manufacturing hub of some of the most-capable deep-space survey sensors in the Orion Spur, Triesto has become the Nanotrasen Corporation’s primary location for launching phoron-finding missions into Light’s Edge. The city is additionally home to the headquarters of Zeng-Hu Pharmaceutical's Coalition Branch, with the majority of the keiretsu's exploratory missions launching from the city.

'''Malaga''' is the birthplace of Luceism and is arguably the cultural center of the Republic. With a population of eighty million permanent residents, the grand domes of Malaga are dominated by the centrally-located Grand Cathedral of Our Holy Light - the heart of Luceism. Malaga’s architecture is regarded by many Assumzionii as majestic: a skyline of ornate domes interconnected by a web of bridges; all set against the planet’s eternal midnight.

'''Dalyan''', with a population of thirty-five million, is the planet’s breadbasket city. Beneath the lights of its domes grows a wide variety of plants and animals that feed the Republic, and help give it a higher standard of living than other locations in the far frontier. Some of its cuisine has found its way even to the Republic of Biesel, with NanoTrasen importing exotic foodstuffs for its subsidiaries.

'''Iraklio''', with its population of sixty million souls, stands nearby Triesto and Malaga along the equator of Assunzione. Prior to the Dimming becoming sealed, it served as a major blue-water port on the planet due to its deep natural harbor. Following the Dimming, it has been repurposed into the planet’s primary shipyard and has recently seen investment from Hephaestus Industries.

'''Makarska''', with fifty million that call it their home, is the primary research hub of the planet (and, by extension, Light’s Edge). Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals operates a significant research facility in this domed city, and many of the sensor suites that are eventually used across Light’s Edge were originally developed under these domes.

'''Guelma''', home to forty million, is another major site for the Luceian faith: the great domes of the city are located at the geographical north of the planet, upon its pole. Due to this positioning it is considered by the faith to be the “nearest city to the Star” and has had a very unique permission given to it. It is the only location in the Orion Spur where Luceism’s holy warding spheres (both normal and greater) are produced, and many followers journey to Guelma to receive one before traveling abroad.

'''Dalyan''', with a population of thirty-five million, has the boring distinction of being Assunzione’s breadbasket domed city. Beneath the lights of its domes grow a stunning variety of plants and animals that feed the Republic, and help give it a higher standard of living than many other locations in the far frontier. Dalyan exports a sizable amount of food to the larger Coalition and some of its cuisine can find its way even to the Republic of Biesel, with NanoTrasen importing exotic foodstuffs for its subsidiaries.

'''Said''', with thirty-five million residents living in it, is the secondary port of the planet. While it is not nearly as well-trafficked as Triesto, the smaller nature of Said’s port and cheaper costs of docking permits has made it attractive to many independent vessels not affiliated with a megacorporation. It remains to be seen whether or not Said will be able to use its port to become more prevalent in the future.

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The All Xanu-Republic is a parliamentary semi-presidential government that consists of three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial,that operates as a unitary state. It is often described as having a strong executive and weak legislative branch and moderate-levels of local self-governance, with a large part of political power in the Xanan system being held by the Office of the President.

[[File:Xanancrest.png|thumb|The Xanan Feather, a national symbol of the All-Xanu Republic featured on their flag symbolic of the Republic itself and the country's government.]]

==Branches of Government==
===Executive Branch===
The '''Executive Branch''' consists of the office of the head of state, the '''President''', the agencies that serve under the President's office, and the national government headed by the '''Prime Minister''' and their cabinet. The President has strong executive powers in foreign policy and trade matters, including interactions with the Coalition of Colonies and military affairs, but also in oversight of the legislative and judicial branch. The Xanan President must approve all laws passed by the National Congress before they are made law and can veto legislation. They may appoint heads of government ministries and national courts above the Department level. though these appointments must be confirmed by the National Congress. The President also has the ability to dissolve the National Congress and call for new elections at any time, though presidents that do this regularly often do not remain in office for long. They have the authority to enact emergency measures in times of crisis which give the President broad, sweeping powers to protect functioning constitutional governance. Xanu’s President must obtain a majority of the vote to be elected and this process is ensured through a run-off system. Each party is only allowed to nominate a single candidate and independent candidates are permitted. Xanan Presidents are limited to two-terms of five years each, consecutive or otherwise. There are only two ways in which a Xanan President may be removed from office without an election. The first is if they are convicted of a treasonous crime, the charges of which are brought by the All-Xanu National Congress to the All-Xanu Supreme Court. The second way which a Xanan President may be removed is by national popular referendum, the process of which must be initiated by the All-Xanu National Congress by a supermajority of 2/3rds. All government ministries and offices, the military, and the national police, are considered to be part of the Executive Branch.

The Prime Minister is elected by the All-Xanu National Congress, typically from the National Parliament, though some Prime Ministers have come from the Assembly of Departments in the past. A hopeful Prime Minister must be confirmed by both houses of the National Congress. The Prime Minister’s responsibilities mostly entail implementing the laws of Xanu Prime throughout the country and overseeing its civil service and administrative agencies while also acting as a liaison between the President and the All-Xanu National Congress, given that they are in a sense part of both the Executive and Legislative branches. The Prime Minister is often described as a “behind the curtain” role that while essential in the Xanan state, is not as powerful or public as the President. Each of Xanu Prime’s second-level administrative divisions, the Departments, each have a Prime Minister elected by their respective Departmental Parliaments who is responsible for the implementation of National and Departmental law within their departments, the proposal of departmental budgets, and proposal of departmental court judges for approval by these parliaments. Xanan Prime Ministers can hold the office for as long as they can maintain the confidence of the National Parliament.

This system at times leads to the President and Prime Minister being from different parties, causing intra-executive negotiations and conflicts within the branch in an arrangement that Xanans often colloquially refer to as “splitting the bill.”

===Legislative Branch===
The '''Legislative Branch''' manifests at a national level in the '''All-Xanu National Congress''', a two-chamber national legislative body. The legislative branch is responsible for the creation of laws, approving cabinet and judicial nominations made by the President, and the provisioning of the national budget, along with the apportionment of funds received by Xanu Prime from the Coalition of Colonies. The legislative branch also has the duty of ratifying non-Coalition of Colonies-involved international treaties involving Xanu Prime and has the power to declare war.

The first chamber, called the '''National Parliament''', consists of 4,000 representatives directly elected by the people from all over Xanu Prime in single-member districts spread across the planet regardless of administrative region. Each Department has its own Parliament, collectively referred to as Departmental Parliaments, which has members who are elected directly by the people to their positions in Department-specific districts, like the National Parliament, but on a smaller scale. Departments vary in geographical size, some large cities are departments in themselves, while Xanu’s largest Department, Himavatia Department, is the size of an entire continent due to the area's sparse population. Every ten years, the Xanan Census is taken and Parliamentary districts for both the National Parliament and Departmental Parliaments are reapportioned, with some districts being created from or merged with others each year. The National Parliament has the role of drafting laws and launching inquiries into the Executive and Judicial systems if they believe the law has been breached.

The second house, called the '''National Assembly of Departments''', is a proportionally elected assembly of 201 representatives elected by the various regional parliaments across Xanu Prime’s 100 Departments. The Assembly of Departments has the power to approve or reject laws approved by the National Parliament and can also call upon the All-Xanu Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of proposed legislation before it is sent to the President for final approval. The Assembly of Departments also has the role of breaking tied votes in the National Parliament, though this rarely occurs.

Only once both houses and the President have approved a law may it be enacted. Members of either house can be elected as Prime Minister, and while both houses must give majority approval to a candidate before they can be elected Prime Minister, only the National Parliament can call a vote of no-confidence in the current Prime Minister. Any vote of no-confidence against a sitting Prime Minister must pass by a supermajority of 2/3rds.

===Judicial Branch===
The Xanan Judicial branch is a hierarchical, civil law judicial system which reaches its administrative height in the '''All-Xanu Supreme Court''' and the '''All-Xanu High Court of Petitions'''. The All-Xanu Supreme Court is one of two of the highest courts on Xanu Prime and reviews disputes and grievances between Xanu Prime’s state entities or between private Xanan citizens and the state. The All-Xanu Supreme Court has the power to check the constitutionality of laws passed by the legislature, actions undertaken by the President and Prime Minister. It also maintains the authority to rule against actions undertaken by Xanan military, government agencies, and law enforcement. Their rulings are incontestable and final. Eleven judges appointed by the President called Supreme Justices compose the Xanan Supreme Court. Each Supreme Justice serves for a life-long term.

The All-Xanu High Court of Petitions is the highest court of appeals in Xanu Prime and handles both criminal and civil appeals under Xanan or Coalition of Colonies law brought between citizens of Xanu Prime, companies who operate within Xanu Prime’s territory, or between the state of Xanu Prime and the previous two parties. The High Court of Petitions is composed of seventeen judges appointed by the President who are titled as High Magistrates. Each High Magistrate serves a 15 year long term and cannot serve more than one term. Beneath the All-Xanu High Court of Petitions are ten '''High Precinct Courts''', each composed of nine justices. A High Precinct court, as the name implies, presides over a National Precinct, a judicial construction which holds under it an allotment of ten Departments. Each department also has their own Court of Petitions and is free to choose how many or how few justices sit on its panel, and beneath these further are Local Courts centered around cities and towns. If a case is appealed to the All-Xanu High Court of Petitions, it must first be appealed from a Local Court decision and then to a Departmental Court of Appeals, and then escalates to a National Precinct Court, and then finally gets to the All-Xanu High Court of Appeals. Xanu Prime does not have jury trials and instead has Magisterial Panels which consist of three to five judges each, though parties in a case may petition to be granted a jury trial with a jury consisting of 15 jurors. Along with the judiciary, localities, departments, and Xanu Prime also have their own prosecutors who operate under the auspices of their respective attorney generals. Xanu’s law is uniform at the Precinct level and above, meaning that a decision made by a High Precinct Court is binding to all the Departments under the Precinct, and all decisions made by the All-Xanu High Court of Appeals are binding for all courts on the planet.

==Political Parties==
Xanu Prime’s political system is filled with numerous parties, with many coming and going during each election season. Currently though, Xanu’s politics can be divided into two groups, the “Big 4” parties which have been consistently successful to at least some degree in Xanu Prime’s politics for years and then the Minor Parties which are often parties for ethnic minorities, niche interest groups, or single-issue causes.
===Big 4 Parties===
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'''All-Xanu Free League (FL) - ''“Our People - Our Liberty - Our Xanu”'''''
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The '''All-Xanu Free League''' is the oldest political party on Xanu Prime and can trace its roots back to Gaspard Kulkarni’s movement [of the same name] oriented towards ending the Xanan Civil War. The party has been present in Xanan politics since the immediate aftermath of the Xanu Civil War and has historically been the most successful party in catering to the desires of the Xanan population. They are also widely considered by many outside observers to be the dominant party of Xanu Prime, winning seven of the last ten presidential elections and holding a parliamentary majority or being part of a majority coalition for the last 27 years straight. The party sources much of its ideological heritage from the Christian Democracy movement, though the party itself has officially been secular since its founding. The party is economically liberal and takes credit for building much of Xanu’s existing welfare and universal healthcare system, crediting a belief that the state should stand in solidarity with the less fortunate of society. The party routinely pushes for policies that make the access to government financing for commercial projects and artistic initiatives undertaken by Xanan citizens easier and often supports policies which expand Xanu Prime’s ability to trade abroad. They believe that megacorporations should be able to freely operate within Xanu Prime’s territory and economy, but only under regulatory supervision by the Xanan government. These regulations are not to the extent that Republic of Elyra or the Sol Alliance have but they are more stringent than the Republic of Biesel and mainly manifest themselves in transparency laws mandating that megacorporations must disclose information on a wide variety of operations to the Xanan government before they are allowed to operate in the country. The party has also been successful in passing anti-monopoly laws in the past and is a regular supporter of organized labor in the country. The Free League recently implemented a new package of social services including a state-backed monthly payment to the poorest 15% of Xanan citizens. This proposal was lauded by the party’s supporters as a true step forward in the fight against inequality in the country, though the party’s detractors have criticized the decision as too limited to have a meaningful impact.

Socially, the All-Xanu Free League is more conservative on some issues and liberal on others. The Free League is strongly opposed to legalizing hard drugs and has been a champion of Xanu Prime's anti-drug movement. They often voice their support for empowering parents to decide matters for their children rather than for the state to do so unless these decisions are “objectively harmful and destructive to the well-being of the child.” In a similar vein, the party emphasizes the importance of the family in society and stresses that the Xanan nation and culture of unity was created from good, moral families who raised responsible and moral citizens who could solve problems without resorting to violence and that Xanu’s people should continue to hold these ideals close to heart. To this end, the party has been successful in enacting legislation that provides tax credits to families who have many children, with each child equating to a percentage of lowered income tax for that household and a lump sum paid to the family whenever one of their children reaches eighteen years of age. The Free League has also passed legislation that allows for free state-funded childcare and early education up to the age of four years old. The party is strongly against illegal immigration and the easing of laws around that subject, though they have also invested much in the creation of social services which better allow for legal immigrants to Xanu to better integrate into Xanan society while encouraging immigrants to retain some aspects of their original cultural identities. The All-Xanu Free League abolished the death penalty on Xanu Prime in 2314 under the Sneijders government and helped to create a criminal justice system that is rehabilitative for minor offenses but hands out harsh, punitive punishments for major offenses such as murder, rape, terrorism, drug distribution, and kidnapping. The FL views Xanu Prime’s recent drug problem as a two-pronged issue relating to both crime and public health and as such they’ve proposed parallel expansions to both the Public Security and Health Offices in confronting this issue and certain members have argued for a mandatory life-sentence for those caught trafficking drugs on Xanu Prime. The Free League is supportive of the status-quo on IPC and alien rights on Xanu Prime.

The party is in favor of military expansion, but espouses a defensive military policy that refuses to consider aggressive military force as an option to achieve political goals, instead citing that the military exists to preserve the safety of Xanu Prime and other worlds within the Coalition of Colonies. The Free League sees Xanu Prime as the most powerful country in the Coalition and follows a doctrine in which they see Xanu as the unofficial leader of the organization. To this end, they support deepening ties with the Coalition of Colonies, though also routinely attempt to levy Xanu Prime's economic and diplomatic weight in the organization to ensure that CoC legislation benefits Xanu Prime and incrementally increases its power. In other foreign policy matters, the Free League has shown unwavering support for the Fisanduhian cause in the Fisanduhian Insurgency, showcased most prominently by their party agreeing to host the Fisanduhian government-in-exile all the way back in 2386. The party’s policy towards Fisanduh is broadly responsible for Xanu Prime’s, and in part the Coalition of Colonies’ anti-Dominia foreign policy. The current All-Xanu President, Jaques Afzal, and Prime Minister, Fabian Chatterjee, are both members of the All-Xanu Free League. The party currently has 1,531 seats in the National Congress and 65 seats in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''Popular Democratic Party of Xanu Prime (PDP) - ''“Sunlight shines on a new Xanu!”'''''
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The '''Popular Democratic Party''' of Xanu Prime or PDP is the second most-popular political party on Xanu Prime and holds a center-left position on most issues. Economically, the PDP is in favor of free-market policies and supports initiatives that empower Xanu Prime’s ability to conduct foreign trade and enrich itself in foreign markets. They are in favor of progressive taxation programs, are skeptical of megacorporations, and are known for proposing legislation that imposes further regulations on corporate enterprises in the country, though they are not in favor of megacorporate expulsion or nationalization. The most unique of these regulatory initiatives is something that the party refers to as a “revenue ceiling,” which states that after a megacorporation makes a certain amount of money in Xanu’s territory, all subsequent income for that year would be subject to a tax regimen that would increase exponentially with the profits earned by the corporation. The PDP has routinely called for the further expansion of Xanu Prime’s welfare services and often advocates for redistributive wealth measures to achieve this goal and have pushed for more state control over the Xanan healthcare industry to better direct medical resources to those who need them most.. They have proposed efforts for medical administrative cooperation with the Coalition of Colonies in order to better integrate Xanu Prime’s healthcare system with that of other CoC worlds. They are broadly supportive of further Coalition of Colonies integration in general, and see Xanu Prime as one of the many equal partners in the Coalition rather than the leader of it. They oppose the expansion of the military except in cases of emergency or unless a threat to Xanu Prime is evident and have voiced their support in the past for the downsizing of the Xanan military while encouraging that other worlds in the CoC bear more of the burden for protecting the Coalition. Their foreign policy refuses to consider aggressive military force as an option when resolving political disputes with other nations and has pushed initiatives with the goal of reforming the Xanan military into a strictly defensive force but this has seen limited success.

On social issues, the PDP is also varied. They support the status quo on immigration laws but have regularly bashed the Xanan government for some of its shortcomings in supporting immigrants, particularly in providing them housing. They have advocated for expansions to immigrant protections and view immigrant integration into Xanan society as a priority. They support a liberalization of social policy including reducing criminal penalties across all offenses, decriminalizing some recreational drugs, and lowering the tax credits put in place by the Free League for having children in favor of granting state-funding to large families. The PDP is also often critical of the All-Xanu Public Safety Office and have proposed bills to curtail their authority in the past and reduce the power they can wield in prosecuting defendants. In the PDP’s view society is built by motivated individuals in charge of their own destinies rather than by the family unit and as such they often support programs which give individuals state grants and funding instead of pushing state support to the household. The Popular Democratic Party sees Xanu’s rising drug problem as more of a public health issue rather than a crime problem and have advocated for the decriminalization of even the most destructive of drugs found on Xanu Prime so that they can “integrate users into the healthcare system, not the prison system,” and have criticised the expansion of funding to the Public Safety Office as “money that could be better spent elsewhere.” They support further secularization of the state and have lobbied in the past to have religiously influenced holidays, such as Christmas, Eid al-Fitr, and Diwali, be delisted from Xanu Prime’s official holiday list. Furthermore, they believe that education on religious history should be lessened in Xanan educational curriculum and often insist that the state should not give tax credits or rebates to families which choose to send their children to private religious schools rather than public schools. This aggressively secular position has drawn criticism from Xanu Prime’s more religious citizens and the party is often labeled by its opponents as “anti-religion” meanwhile the party itself describes its views as “preventing undue religious influence on the state.” They are in support of the status-quo on IPC and Alien rights. In foreign policy, the PDP is generally pro-Coalition of Colonies and anti-Dominia, but the PDP lacks the fiery support for Fisanduh that the All-Xanu Free League does, with some members of the party refusing to endorse a movement they see as blatantly terrorist.

The Popular Democratic Party is currently led by Murali Delacroix, a long-time member of the National Parliament and former mayor of Pataliputra. The popular democratic party has 863 seats in the National Congress and 35 seats in the National Assembly of Departments.

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'''All-Xanu Socialist Union (AXSU) - ''“Hand in hand, we work together”'''''
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The '''All-Xanu Socialist Union''' is the face of the left and far-left sides of the political-economic spectrum in Xanan national politics. The Socialist Union was founded in the immediate aftermath of the Interstellar War originally on a platform of pressuring the government to put as many resources as it could into the reconstruction of Xanu Prime’s working class communities and industries during Xanu’s period of recovery from the conflict. After the planet’s cities and industries were rebuilt however, the Union shifted its platform to instead be one that advocated for the needs and desires of the Xanan working class more broadly. The Union has historically been very opposed to the Coalition of Colonies as it believes that the organization’s economic policies incentivise Xanan companies to find ways to outsource labor and resources to other worlds in the Coalition, rather than keeping them on Xanu and ensuring that the Xanan working class is provided for. To this end, the party routinely opposes the further integration of Xanu into the Coalition of Colonies and has advocated for the country to leave the organization since the party sees it as yet another institution that will become corrupted by megacorporate interests. As an extension of this philosophy, the Socialist Union is doggedly anti-corporate in its platform and has advocated for the full nationalization twinned with expulsion of foreign megacorporations in a similar fashion to how the Sol Alliance did in the aftermath of the Solarian Collapse of 2462. They say that a nationalization of these assets would further allow for Xanu to provide for its welfare and state healthcare systems, both of which the Socialist Union have proposed numerous expansions for in the past. The Union are supporters of military expansion and believe that Xanu’s strength as a nation both economically and militarily can allow it to stand up against corporate interests which threaten itself or its neighbors, citing the Sol Alliance as an example of this phenomenon.

The All-Xanu Socialist Union varies on its positions on social issues. The party has proposed the decriminalization of some drug offenses in the past and lessening the sentences of minor offenses in the Xanan criminal justice system, but maintains the position that harsh sentences should be brought upon those who are convicted of major offenses. The party believes that tax credits for having children should be eliminated and that instead the state should provide entirely free childcare up until a child begins their first year in primary school. Perhaps rather counterintuitively but in accordance with the AXSU’s ideology, the party has opposed certain expansions to Xanan state benefits proposed by the FL and PDP due to the party viewing these efforts as not comprehensive enough and refusing to offer their support unless the measures are expanded. The party’s critics say that this attitude is only making Xanu Prime’s growing wealth inequality problem grow even more, though the party itself has rebuked these claims and said that the problem is not it’s own refusal to cooperate with other parties, but the other parties’ refusal to implement measures that will push real societal change. The AXSU has advocated that Xanan state messages should better emphasize how class unity makes a society great rather than notions of individuals or families. The party sees Xanu Prime’s rising drug usage rates as symptomatic of economic issues associated with a “late-stage capitalist system” and has advocated for more spending on government healthcare and the nationalization of some of Xanu Prime’s industries in order to secure greater government control over the economy and help “fight the problem at its source.” The Union subscribes to a historical materialist view of history and believes this perspective should be taught in the Xanan educational system. The party is most active through its proposition of new labor protection laws, infrastructure projects, and wealth redistribution plans, but sees limited success in achieving all of its stated goals. The party is vocally anti-Dominia in its foreign policy, but does not expressly support the Fisanduhian government-in-exile nor any specific faction in the Fisanduh conflict.

They are currently led by Oscar Durrani, a labor organizer and member of the National Parliament. The AXSU has 498 seats in the National Congress and 27 seats in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''Invincible Xanu Party (IXP) - ''“One Xanu: Invincible and Legendary”'''''
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The '''Invincible Xanu Party''' has long been a force in Xanu’s politics though they have never reached the heights of success that some of the other Big Four Xanan political parties have. The party found its origins in the first days of the Interstellar War and originally began as a group of citizens and soldiers who wanted to push the Xanan government to be more militarized and committed to the war effort, especially once the First Solarian Invasion of Xanu occurred. After the war however, they continued to maintain an attitude and ideology that placed preserving Xanan society and culture at the forefront of their agenda. To that end, they are Xanu’s stalwart national conservatives. Their rhetoric often is combative and places Xanan culture at odds with “enemies,” throughout the Orion Spur, such as the Empire of Dominia or Solarian Alliance. The IXP has distanced themselves from far-right extremist anti-immigrant groups in the past and have routinely said that extremism of any kind threatens Xanan society and its people. Speaking to this, they have insisted that extremism be added to the list of Xanu’s "harsh punishment" crimes while insisting that criminal punishments be generally harsher across all offenses. The party is strongly opposed to the legalization of recreational drugs and often holds a “law and order” stance that has historically been in favor of expanding the authority of the All-Xanu Public Security Office. They are skeptical of the Coalition of Colonies and think that Xanu Prime should be influenced less by the organization and should separate itself from more of the CoC’s institutions, though they do not hold the position that Xanu should leave the Coalition. They are in favor of more economic flexibility for Xanan citizens and businesses and a general reduction of Xanu’s welfare state in favor of bolstering state support for Xanu-based private enterprises. They have advocated for widespread tax reform in the form of incentivising certain behaviors like obtaining higher education, getting married, and joining the military, so as to ensure less wealth inequality throughout Xanu’s society. The party wishes to further exercise Xanu Prime’s economic might within the Coalition and elsewhere in order to build up the planet’s wealth further so as to “insulate” it from the ongoing phoron scarcity and have advocated for aggressive foreign trade policies as a result. The IXP is one of the strongest supporters of cultural and arts funding and cites the fact that Xanusii culture is the bedrock of the Xanan state and therefore it must be preserved and supported by the state. They believe the military should only expand as threats in the Spur need it to, but are widely supportive of the military in their rhetoric. Recently they have advocated for further military expansion to combat the potential threat of Dominian Privateers and incursions from the Solarian Warlord States while insisting that the military be used only for defensive actions or humanitarian interventions.

The IXP has advocated for a raising of the standards needed for a person to immigrate to Xanu Prime in the past but does not describe this as an anti-immigrant stance. The party says that only the best people, those with academic degrees, large amounts of capital, sufficient artistic achievements, or proven experience and steady work in any number of important fields like engineering, research, or healthcare, should be allowed to immigrate, as it is these people who would best serve Xanan society after they arrive. The party’s immigration policy is also preferential to families rather than single individuals and they have constantly pushed to expand the restrictions on Xanan immigration policy for those with criminal records. On other social issues, the IXP has emphasized the importance of the family in Xanan society and has routinely proposed expansions of state welfare benefits to families with many children in particular and state aid for childcare of any given family’s choice. The IXP has opposed any legislation banning arranged marriages. They have also pushed for the Xanan educational curriculum to give less weight to the importance of the Coalition of Colonies and more to Xanu Prime in the history sections within it. They support the All-Xanu Freedom League’s tax credits for children, and have pushed for government rebates or tax breaks for families wishing to send their children to private schools. They are supportive of the current status-quo on IPC and Alien rights on Xanu Prime. The IXP views Xanu Prime’s recent drug crisis as a problem that can be pinned on immigrants with criminal histories or affiliations with organized crime groups that have been allowed to slip through the cracks of Xanu’s immigration screening and have advocated for higher police funding and tighter immigrant screening as a solution. The party’s members have also advocated for the reinstatement of the death penalty for those convicted of drug trafficking offenses. The party is extremely anti-megacorporate and routinely rails against the SCC and Einstein Engines alike in addresses to parliament, describing megacorps as, “Foreign agents that wish to do nothing more than to enslave our society for a quick credit,” and adopting the slogan, “If megacorps are going to be in Xanu, they need to work for Xanu.” They have advocated for massively increased regulations on corporations and limiting their activities geographically in a manner similar to what the Republic of Elyra has done. The IXP is anti-Dominian in its foreign policy and supports the Fisanduhian Government-In-Exile. While always marginally popular, the IXP has seen its membership numbers jump in the wake of the phoron scarcity. Some experts attribute this to its hardline anti-corporate, nationalist stance.

The Invincible Xanu Party is currently led by Raphaëlle Begam, a former political activist, Captain in the All-Xanu Spacefleet, and current member of the National Parliament. The IXP has 595 seats in the National Congress and 27 in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''Good Neighbor Party (GNP) - ''“Everyone needs a Good Neighbor.”'''''
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The '''Good Neighbor Party''' is a party that was founded by Himean immigrants on Xanu Prime to help represent their interests in the government. Rather than a single issue, the party is described to be single-motive, that motive being to do whatever is best for the Himean Xanan community. The party officially has a syndicalist ideology, however their policies and actions are usually divorced from this doctrine and instead focus on simply finding ways to better provide resources and services to the Himean Xanan population and advocate for issues their base sees as important. They are proponents of closer diplomatic, economic, and military ties with the Coalition of Colonies and with Himeo especially. An initiative they have consistently advocated for is the use of Himean Common as an alternative language for government documents and forms, and have seen some marginal success with this in some departments. They have also been lobbying for the Himean Common language to be taught in Xanan schools as a national mandatory second language similar to how Himean schools teach Freespeak, though they have not been successful in achieving this. The GNP is very skeptical of megacorporations, especially Hephaestus Industries, and has a strong anti-Dominia foreign policy. It has seen great popularity and success in districts with high Himean Xanan populations and has recently seen some small success in the wake of the phoron scarcity outside of majority Himean Xanan areas due to its staunch anti-corporate stance. The GNP is not officially connected to any Himean policial party or syndicate, but it maintains a close working relationship with all of Himeo’s political parties aside from the National Himean Workers’ Vanguard, and often hosts visits of Himean political figures to Xanu. It similarly lobbies the Xanan National Government for its members to visit Himeo on diplomatic missions or cultural exchanges. It is currently led by Aukusti Staudenmaier, a first-generation Himean immigrant from the city of Dorshafen. They have 180 seats in the National Congress and 19 in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''Kick! Party (KP) - ''“Kick the CoC to the curb!”'''''
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The '''Kick! Party''' is a single-issue party devoted to ensuring that Xanu Prime leaves the Coalition of Colonies. It is relatively unpopular, but markets itself as the choice for a voter who is skeptical of the Coalition of Colonies but who does not agree with the national conservative policies of the Invincible Xanu Party. It is opposed to Xanu’s continued membership of the Coalition of Colonies on the grounds that CoC membership makes Xanu economically, politically, and militarily responsible for the actions and consequences of other worlds and that such an arrangement is inherently unfair to Xanu and its people. The party has no positions on any issues aside from Xanu Prime’s membership in the Coalition of Colonies and has declared that if it was to ever succeed in its goal of making Xanu Prime “kick the Coalition to the curb” it would dissolve itself. Detractors of the party have alleged that it receives significant amounts of funding from the Republic of Biesel and Sol Alliance, but the party denies this. It is currently led by Ivonne Khandhari, a businesswoman and shipping magnate from Pataliputra. They have 72 seats in the National Congress and 6 in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''Free Falcon Party (FFP) - ''“Fly Free Together”'''''
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The '''Free Falcon Party''' was founded by Vysokan migrants to Xanu Prime wishing to represent their unique interests. The party’s primary platform revolves around bolstering the systems in place for immigrant integration into Xanan society and also lowering the requirements for legal immigration and providing ways for illegal immigrants to legally immigrate to the country. They are pro-CoC and wish to see further integration with the organization. Additionally, the Free Falcon Party has lobbied heavily for the histories of Stolitism and Luceism to be added to the Xanan educational curriculum for history classes in Xanu’s public school system alongside the history of other religions like Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. This measure has broadly been successful. The Free Falcon Party has also advocated for an expansion of Xanu Prime’s welfare system to better provide for disenfranchised immigrants. The biggest success of the FFP however has been the 2458 Future-Xanans’ Protection Act, a wide-reaching piece of legislation written in cooperation with the Good Neighbour Party and Universal Liberty Party which amended the Xanan legal code to offer special protections to non-citizen immigrants, specifically against employment discrimination while emboldening the legal punishments for anti-immigrant hate crimes. Other issues that the FFP has pushed for betray the party’s Vysokan ancestry: a relaxation of firearm ownership laws, less barriers to parents who wish to homeschool their children, and a preservation of the institution of arranged marriage. Naturally, the party is most popular in Vysokan Xanan areas, but has also seen popularity among other immigrant demographics, namely in Assunzionii Xanan communities. has also taken on the role of the niche interest group party for rural Xananans in the agricultural sector. The FFP has been successful in passing farmer-focused subsidies and protectionist measures in the past and styles itself as the party which best represents the interests of Xanu's farmers. The Free Falcon party has been a leader among Xanu Prime’s minor parties in proposing legislation that has increased sobriety and addiction treatment resources available to Xanu Prime’s immigrant and rural communities, some of the most heavily hit by the planet’s recent drug problem. They’ve eyed Public Safety Office expansion with mixed support, seeing it as both beneficial to their base in stopping the flow of drugs into their communities but also have cautioned that a more robust police force may empower “bad actors” within the Public Safety Office to target immigrants more easily. The party is sceptical of foreign megacorporations but does not have a hard stance on how they wish to restrict them. The party is anti-Dominian in its foreign policy and supports Fisanduh. The Free Falcon Party is currently led by Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova, a first generation Vysokan Xanan, member of the National Parliament, and former doctor in Xanu Prime’s state healthcare system. They have 156 seats in the National Congress and 15 in the National Assembly of Deputies.
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'''Universal Liberty Party (ULP) - ''“For the freedom of all peoples”'''''
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Despite being officially separate from the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, the '''Universal Liberty Party''' is seen by many as the unofficial vehicle by which the Fisanduhian government interacts with the Xanan political process. The party is relatively single-minded and is solely devoted to enacting policies within the Xanan government that are anti-Dominian and pro-Fisanduhian in both the foreign and domestic spheres. The party has never been widely popular, but despite their small size, they have historically been very successful in accomplishing their stated goals, often pursued in cooperation with the All-Xanu Free League. The party has two subsets, an Irredentist branch which is more focused on an aggressively pro-Fisanduh foreign policy, and a New Homelander branch which is much more focused on securing better state welfare arrangements which would benefit the often poor Fisanduhian Xanan community and provide more help to recently-arrived Fisanduhian refugees. While sometimes opposed, these two subgroups of the party are known to be very good at compromising with one another. The ULP has very few stated official positions on issues outside of Fisanduh-related topics, and when questioned on what their beliefs are on these affairs, they usually fall in-line with All-Xanu Freedom League positions. The party operates several online news sites, blogs, in both Freespeak and Vulgar Morozi, and even a holovision news channel and related service called Our Voice Network, all of which are devoted to broadcasting anti-Dominia, pro-Fisanduh, and pro-Xanu Prime content. The ULP also operates a charity for poverty relief, hunger relief, water programs, and infrastructure reconstruction in Fisanduh called the Universal Liberty Foundation for War Relief. The Universal Liberty Foundation and Universal Liberty Party have both been designated as terrorist groups by the Dominian Government for their alleged supplying of funds to Fisanduh Freedom Front resistance cells, but the charity and its parent political party deny these accusations. Furthermore a 2451 Xanan parliamentary inquiry into these allegations similarly found no evidence of the actions alleged by the Dominian government against the ULP or its charity. The Universal Liberty Party is naturally very popular among Fisanduhian immigrant and refugee communities, and typically dominates even over major parties in districts with high Fishanuhian-Xansuii populations but has never recorded any electoral success in districts without Fisanduhian Xanan majorities. It is currently led by Ekaitz Azarola, former Chief Liaison to the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, member of the National Parliament, and second generation Fisanduhian Xanan. They have 104 seats in the National Congress and 7 in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''All-Xanu Beer Lovers League (BLL) - ''“Cheers!”'''''
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The '''All-Xanu Beer Lovers League''' or the BLL for short is a joke party that has existed for decades but only recently has found a seat in parliament. The party’s platform is nonsensical and revolves around loosening restrictions on access to beer, lowering beer prices, and lowering taxes on beer. They also have vowed to abolish mandatory closing times for bars and to outlaw foreign-made beers in Xanu Prime. The BLL have stated their intentions to institute a buyback program for all foreign beer in Xanu, claiming that Xanan beer stemming from the Belgian tradition of its original colonists is the best in the Orion Spur. The BLL values infrastructure improvements too and says that if they are able to govern the country they would install a beer tap centrally linked to "water pipes but for beer" in every Xanan citizen's home if the household wanted one. They wish to decriminalize public drunkenness as a crime in favor of making anyone caught drunk in public attend substance abuse counselling. The party has also stated that Xanu should raise its standards for water cleanliness across the entire planet, due to the fact that cleaner water makes better beer. The party dislikes megacorporations and alleges that, “In the history of humankind, there has never been any corporate-made beer-flavoured piss water that anyone has ever liked.” The party supports Fisanduh over Dominia in the conflict between the two, but has said that they believe that the Fisanduh-Dominia conflict could be solved if the Dominian Emperor and Fisanduhian Prime Minister went out drinking, “for a night or two.” They have advocated for Xanu to continue maintaining its strong economic presence abroad because of its ability to further spread, “the best beer in the Spur to more thirsty beer lovers like you and me.” The Beer Lovers League has historically just been a joke party or protest vote party, however in the last parliamentary election after an incumbent member of parliament unexpectedly died in a district in Foy-Nijlen, no party could field a strong candidate in time for the election. As a result, by default, the All-Xanu Beer Lover’s League won its first seat in parliament due to the number of voters who were unsatisfied with all the choices from the other parties in the district. Historically, any donations that the party has received from the public have been re-donated to charities dedicated to the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction. The party is currently led by Jaques Smit, a bar-owner, brewer, and unexpected member of parliament from Foy-Nijlen. Mister Smit is by his own admission totally unprepared for his position and was "as surprised as anyone else," when he was elected. Despite his self-confessed unpreparedness, he has vowed to make good on his appointment by sticking with the spirit of his party’s platform with a focus on public health and bettering addiction treatment options in the Xanan healthcare system as a priority. Though, jokingly, in the character of of the party, he’s stated, “Who needs smack when you drink responsibly?” when asked about his thoughts on Xanu Prime's rising levels of illegal drug use. The party has one seat in the National Congress and no seats in the National Assembly of Departments.
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==Foreign Relations==
Despite the myriad of opinions on the topic of foreign relations between the various political parties of Xanu Prime, the country generally has a few constants in terms of its international relations in both the CoC and beyond.

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===[[Himeo|United Syndicates of Himeo]]===
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Himeo and Xanu Prime have a storied and historic relationship of cooperation and competition that stretches back to before the Coalition of Colonies’s founding. Often cooperators, sometimes rivals, Xanu Prime and Himeo are often described by the press as “sisters” or “cousins” within the Coalition due to their status as the predominant economic and political powers within the alliance. Politically, the two often find themselves aligned with one another and only occasionally have disputes. Both are proponents of ensuring democratic governance throughout the Coalition of Colonies and beyond, both broadly want to expand the Coalition of Colonies to include new members, and both are committed to ensuring positive, and peaceful relationships between CoC members. The two sometime have differed on issues, such as supplying the [League of Independent Corporate-Free Systems] with aid, something Himeo supported while Xanu Prime did not. Economically, however, the two are often cutthroat rivals with one another as they want to make money for themselves in Coalition markets. In other ways the struggle is also ideological: the Xanan free-market model versus the Himean syndicalist model. Some consider the struggle to be already won, with Xanu Prime being the predominant economy of the Coalition, but Himeo’s unmatchable industrial might and dominance over the Coalition’s mining sector will always give the competition between the two a dramatic flair. Himean syndicates and Xanan corporations often compete with one another when new contracts are announced by Coalition governments or when new trade opportunities arise, and this routine and repeated contest between the two has bred a sense of friendly competition between the two countries. Militarily the two are close cooperators. Xanu Prime’s status as the foremost military in the Coalition and Himeo’s position as the third-strongest along with the two’s deep historical ties reaching back to the Interstellar War have ensured that cooperation between the two is near-constant. The Himean military uses many Xanan-designed weapons they have built themselves under license, and a good portion of the ship’s in Xanu Prime’s spacefleet were built in Himean shipyards. Culturally, Xanu Prime and Himeo are perhaps the most connected planets in the Coalition and have ties that run very deep. Xanu Prime and Himeo were the first two planets to secede from the Sol Alliance and see each other as kindred spirits in a freedom-seeking sort of way. Their people both fought side-by-side with each other throughout the conflict and it cannot be denied that Himean industry is one of the things that allowed Xanu Prime’s economy and society to recover as quickly as it did during the aftermath of the war. Their peoples have many shared experiences too; thousands of Himeans who went to Xanu to participate in its rebuilding after the Interstellar War stayed on Xanu Prime and made families for themselves there. It is no surprise then that aside from Himeo, the planet with the most Himeans is Xanu Prime, and aside from Xanu Prime, the planet with the most Xanan is Himeo. Furthermore, the largest immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime by numbers are Himean Xanan and that Xanu Prime is the most popular tourist destination for Himeans. The two countries exchange music, film, and literature with each other often and it is not an overstatement to say that their cultures are to some degree, integrated. The average Xanan interacts with dozens of Himean-made products every day and the average Himean often has their salaries paid with money that started off as Xanan trade credits.
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===[[Vysoka|Free System of Vysoka]]===
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Xanu Prime’s relations with Vysoka have been broadly characterized by mutual cooperation throughout history. Even before the Coalition of Colonies was formed, Xanans ate food often made with Vysokan-grown ingredients and Vysokans lived their lives with Xanan-made goods. This didn’t change after the Interstellar War either, and to this day Xanu Prime is still Vysoka’s largest trading partner. While Xanu does indeed grow its own food, mainly out of a concern for its own food-security, Vysokan-grown food is typically cheaper and feeds both a large portion of Xanan citizens and the Coalition at large. Vysoka generously donated large shipments of food to Xanu Prime during its rebuilding process and in return the Xanan people have ensured that its companies have brought their business to Vysoka. Xanan firms have invested heavily into Vysokan heavy industry and agriculture which has given these Vysokan firms capital that they otherwise could have only dreamed of. Diplomatically Xanu Prime maintains close relations with Vysoka and sees them as not only a developing economy within the Coalition, but also a key ally in ensuring peace in the Human Frontier. Xanan police and military advisors have been sent to Vysoka, both to train the planet’s militaries in fighting forces abroad, but also in ensuring that Vysoka’s many armies are ready for any potential conflict with the various hosts which move around Vysoka’s vast surface. Xanu Prime has also, at times, acted as a mediator when disputes between Vysokan city-states arise, something it says helps keep the peace, though those critical of the government say that this is but further evidence of Xanan meddling in the affairs of foreign nations. Culturally, Xanan-Vysokan relations are going through a transformative period at the moment. For nearly the past twenty years, Vysokan immigrants have been arriving in Xanu Prime in numbers never seen before, something which is making its mark on Xanan society. Xanan Vysokans are finding success on the planet and have made a name for themselves there, and this bond has been a source of both pride and income in the form of remittances sent back home for Vysoka and Vysokans. Historically, Xanu Prime has also treated Vysoka as a political battleground with its often-friend, often-rival Himeo, as both countries have tried in various ways to woo the Vysokans and jockey their influence over the steppe-planet.
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===[[Assunzione|Republic of Assunzione]]===
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Xanu Prime and Assunzione’s relationship has been friendly but largely uneventful since Assunzione’s admission into the Coalition of Colonies in the early 2330’s. Xanu Prime maintains steady trade relations with Assunzione and Xanan companies have become large employers on the planet as well. Xanan firms have invested large amounts of credits into further exploring Light’s Edge, and with recent capital flowing into the country for the same purpose from the NanoTrasen corporation as well, hopes are high on both Xanu and Assunzione that more of Light’s Edge and beyond can be explored. The two countries have positive political relations, with both seeing each other as well-functioning, free-market democracies, though some on Xanu are critical over the influence that Luceism has over Assunzionii society. As one may expect, Xanu Prime is also one of the foremost suppliers of arms and military equipment to Assunzionne, and their two militaries have cooperated in anti-piracy operations in the past throughout the Light’s Edge region. Culturally, Xanu Prime and Assunzione have an almost century-long bond with one another that dates back to the first waves of immigration from Assunzione to Xanu Prime in the 2370’s. Xanu Prime has the largest number of Assunzionii people outside of Xanu Prime and the unique identity of Assunzionii Xanans that has been created in the wake of immigration to Xanu Prime since has been a source of friendship between the two planets.
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===[[Konyang|Republic of Konyang]]===
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Until late 2462, Xanu Prime-Konyang relations did not officially exist outside of a few trade deals. Since then the fledgeling relationship between the two planets has blossomed into a burgeoning diplomatic, economic, and military relationship. From the onset of Konyang’s secession from the Solarian Alliance Xanu Prime was the most vocal supporter within the CoC of admitting the newly-independent country into the Coalition of Colonies as a member. Since Konyang’s admittance into the Coalition Xanu’s relationship with the planet has grown only stronger. The Xanan government has been broadly supportive of Konyang’s democratization and has sent advisors and officials to the planet in order to both better integrate Konyang’s government into the CoC but also to help combat more entrenched elements of “Solarian” influence and corruption found in Konyang’s institutions. This has been met with mixed enthusiasm by some Konyangers however, as what to some Xanans may seem to be relics of a Solarian past are to many Konyangers just the way of life on their world. Others however are happy to ditch their old Solarian systems and work towards greater Coalition integration and see Xanan advisors as a step towards their country’s new future. Xanan firms have eyed the new Konyanger market with optimistic eyes and many have invested significant amounts of capital into opening new ventures on the Coalition’s newest member, with those involved in the IPC industry in particular moving many of their operations to Konyang. On the other side of things too, Konyanger companies and megacorp branches have been more than happy to take advantage of the Coalition’s very friendly trade policies, something that arguably would not have been possible without Xanan support. Xanan defense manufacturers have also been interested in selling arms and materiel to the Konyang Armed Forces, both to integrate the newcomer into the Coalition military logistics system but also to better arm it for potential future conflicts against rogue Solarian warlords. On the military front as well, Xanu Prime has affirmed its commitment to preserving Konyang’s sovereignty against Solarian forces, warlord or otherwise, and has stationed an Expeditionary Fleet in the planet’s vicinity to back up this claim. By and large, Xanu Prime sees Konyang as a rising star within the Coalition of Colonies and wants to both support its growth while getting in on the ground floor of the planet’s coalition integration to reap the benefits of a positive future partnership.
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===[[Gadpathur|United Planetary Defense Council of Gadpathur]]===
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The Xanan-Gadpathurian relationship is one of great contrasts. On one hand, Xanu Prime is the largest trade partner of Gadpathur and is crucially the largest supplier of foreign military equipment and materiel to the planet, which the Gadpathurian armed forces use in conjunction with their own indigenously-made weapons. On the other hand Xanu Prime is generally unsupportive of Gadpathur’s rampant authoritarianism and the two often clash on Coalition policy, with Gadpathur being a proponent of security and military policy above all else and Xanu Prime often favoring legislation which promotes greater trade. Xanans are often critical of what they consider to be unnecessarily aggressive and hawkish Gadpahturian military positions however and often disagree with them on what direction the Coalition’s military should take. Despite these differences, Xanu Prime is often willing to compromise its views on the planet’s government and its agendas in order to ensure that that Gadpathurian military remains a strong component of the Coalition of Colonies’ united armed forces, especially with the current threat of ex-Solarian warlords and Dominian-backed pirates raiding Coalition of Colonies territory. As such, Xanu Prime is the largest foreign supplier of military equipment to Gadpathur. Due to this bond and their statuses as the two most dominant militaries in the Coalition, Xanan and Gadpathurian forces routinely conduct training exercises with one another and their militaries hold friendly opinions of each other. Xanu Prime has some cultural connections to Gadpathur as well. It was the largest donor of foreign aid to the ravaged planet during the aftermath of the bombing of Gadpathur, depite being in its own reconstruction, and is the primary destination for Gadpathurian exiles. Xanu Prime also often acts as a mediator between Gadpathur and the Federal Technocracy of Galatea when the two planets come to blows diplomatically or threaten to do so more materially, much to the chagrin of the Xanan foreign office.
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===[[Federal Technocracy of Galatea]]===
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Xanu Prime’s relationship with Galatea has historically been a friendly one. Economically the two have had strong ties since before the Interstellar War, with Galatea being one of Xansu Prime’s primary trading partners even during the time when both were under Solarian rule. This relationship has endured since then and many on the Xanan side see the Galatean contributions to cleaning up areas of Xanu Prime that were contaminated by chemical weapons during the Interstellar War, courtesy of the Federation’s terraforming technology. Since the war, the two have continued to be good business partners, with Galateans being quite happy to buy products and services from Xanan businesses ranging from industrial equipment, to cheaper pharmaceuticals, to weaponry and spacecraft, many of which they often modify and augment to suit their own needs once purchased. Diplomatically, however, the two have been less involved with each other, occasionally disagreeing on political matters, though they are still friendly and maintain close cooperation in military matters due to the Technocracy’s position in the Weeping Stars. Galatea and Xanu do not have a large number of initiatives between one another that are not strictly related to trade or defense, however Xanu Prime does often play the role of mediator between Galatea and Gadpathur whenever the two have one of their disputes with another. Its economic leverage with Galatea and diplomatic rapport with Gadpathur allows it to usually quell these quarrels whenever they occur, though many Xanan diplomats still see Galatean-Gadpathurian relations as a headache that never truly goes away.
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The Scarab-Xanu Prime relationship has been one that could be considered as one that is “on-again, off-again” due to both the factors of geography and temperamental interest. Since the Scarabs’s return to civilized space, Xanu Prime has been one of their largest supporters, brokering a deal to get them admitted to the Coalition of Colonies while also promoting trade between themselves and the Scarabs. Due to the ever-changing position of the Scarab Fleets throughout space though, consistent trade and relations have been hard to maintain. Scarab suspicion of outsiders has not made this any easier, and the fleet has only recently started to purchase Xanu-designed, Himean-made vessels to add to their fleets. Instead of maintaining a traditional diplomatic relationship though, the Xanans and Scarabs have adopted a policy of aid-for-info, in which the Scarabs will provide the Xanan military and state with information they acquire during their travels on things like potential new markets to expand business, hazards, locations of known pirates, and other things like sightings of foreign military vessels and in exchange the Scarabs receive aid in the form of medical supplies, food, weaponry, and other things the fleet might need. The two aren’t close allies per se, but they are routine, if distant, cooperators.
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===[[Republic of Biesel]]===
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Xanu Prime sees Biesel as its closest contemporary in the Orion Spur, and while the relationship may not have that characterisation both ways, Xanu Prime looks to Biesel with both aspiration and caution. Xanu Prime is, by the numbers, the planet with the fifth largest economy in human space, the four above it being Biesel, Eridani I, Earth, and Callisto in that order, though its people, government, and companies only want to grow further. Economically, many in Xanu’s business world and government wish that it was able to wield influence comparable to Biesel, though for now Xanu only has such control over economic matters within the Coalition. Despite this aspiration though, many Xanans see Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts, as while the economic prosperity is promising, the question of just how much influence corporations should have over society is one that is under constant debate. Generally, Xanu Prime has comparatively strict regulatory practices on businesses that operate in its territory and this is lauded by Xaunsiians the world-over as a good measure to prevent corporate control over the government as many Xanans say has happened in Biesel. Despite this caution expressed towards mega corporate influence, the two countries have had warm relations, and Xanu Prime sees Biesel as a fellow ex-Solarian democracy, something it emphasized greatly when it, along with the rest of the Coalition of Colonies, sent its fleets into Biesellite territory to repel the invasion of Biesel by the 35th Solarian Fleet in 2462. It also recognises the Corporate Reconstruction Zone as Biesellite territory as opposed to Solarian space. These actions have further warmed relations between the two countries, and the recent opening of the Corporate Reconstruction has led some Xanu-based companies to look to the newly acquired Biesellite territory as potential new customers for Xanan goods and services.
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===[[Republic of Elyra|Serene Republic of Elyra]]===
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Xanu-Elrya relations have historically been cordial and professional, with not much beyond that. Xanu Prime was from the onset of the New Suez Protocols of 2381 a common foreign trade partner of Elyra, with many of its biggest companies having a presence on New Suez. Xanu Prime routinely bought phoron from Elyra after the country’s Phoron boom starting in the 2400’s and the Elyran decision to stop foreign shipments of the material after the ongoing Phoron shortage struck the Orion Spur significantly soured the trade partnership between the two countries and sent Xanu Prime-Elyra relations to an all-time low which has only now just begun to recover as the Xanan economy rallies from the initial shock of the shortage. Aside from this recent turmoil though, Xanu Prime and Elyra have participated in anti-piracy operations with one another and Xanu Prime was the single-largest donor of foreign aid to Elyra during the aftermath of the Lii’dra incursion on Busra, a status which has created a warm cultural relationship between the two nations.
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===[[Sol Alliance|Alliance of Sovereign Solarian Nations]]===
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Sol and Xanu Prime were for a long time, old enemies. After the Interstellar War the two wanted nothing to do with each other; Xanu was preoccupied over rebuilding itself and Sol was tasked with holding onto the remains of its territory after the secession of both the Coalition of Colonies and Serene Republic of Elyra. After the initial shock of the post-war years wore off the two were quite cold with one another and it was not until the beginning of the Flohimont Thaw in the 2360’s that the two nations began to normalize their relations with one another. From then until the 2460’s the two had been politically ambivalent and militarily guarded towards one another while engaging in a relationship of limited, but growing trade. After the ATLAS party seized power in Sol in 2461 however, many Xanan companies pulled their trade from Solarian territory over fears that the party’s Xenophobic nature could impact their business. The wake of the Solarian Collapse of 2462 however has brought about a variety of opinions on how Xanan-Solarian relations should proceed. Some in the Republic argue that Xanu Prime should stay out of Solarian affairs and let the Solarians sort their own issues out, while others have advocated for direct Xanan involvement in the Human Wildlands to halt what appears to be a growing humanitarian disaster. What’s even more surprising is that a surprising minority of Xanans support Xanu Prime giving aid and support to the Solarian government itself, with the rationale being that if Sol can stabilize its old territory once again, the violence and constant warring in those regions will stop and have less of a chance of spilling over into Coalition-controlled space. Much like other things relating to Sol though, Xanu Prime-Sol relations are in a state of flux, with Xanan leadership being cautious to make any long-term deals with the Sol Alliance at present given the rapid changes the country has gone through recently. The official position of the Xanan government on the recent re-capturing of the Human wildlands by the Sol Alliance being that Sol was preserving its territorial integrity and restoring law to areas lost to "mercenaryism", while also affirming Konyang’s succession from the Sol Alliance and the planet’s membership in the Coalition of Colonies.
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===[[Empire of Dominia]]===
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The Empire of Dominia and All-Xanu Republic have never been friends and if the current trajectory of their relationship holds, they never will be. To many on Xanu Prime, the Empire of Dominia stands as the antithesis of what they stand for, more than even their old colonial overlords and once-interstellar adversaries, the Sol Alliance. For decades, Xananan governments have bashed the Empire of Dominia for its warmongering on the human frontier, an area which Xanu and the Coalition of Colonies considers to be in many ways just a step-removed from its own territory, and and their treatment of the situation in Fisanduh. From the other direction, Dominia sees their diplomatic situation with Xanu Prime as untenable due to Xanu’s continued hosting of the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the country’s support for the 3F, a group which Xanu Prime considers to be the military arm of the rightful Fisanduhian government, while the Empire has long thought of the 3F as a terrorist threat. Xanu Prime has decried Dominian privateering practices as barbaric and has routinely assured both the Empire and the Spur at large that they will not hesitate to fire upon vessels engaging in pirate activity with, “no consideration being given to the vessel’s country of origin.”
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The All Xanu-Republic is a parliamentary semi-presidential government that consists of three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial,that operates as a unitary state. It is often described as having a strong executive and weak legislative branch and moderate-levels of local self-governance, with a large part of political power in the Xanan system being held by the Office of the President.

[[File:Xanancrest.png|thumb|The Xanan Feather, a national symbol of the All-Xanu Republic featured on their flag symbolic of the Republic itself and the country's government.]]

==Branches of Government==
===Executive Branch===
The '''Executive Branch''' consists of the office of the head of state, the '''President''', the agencies that serve under the President's office, and the national government headed by the '''Prime Minister''' and their cabinet. The President has strong executive powers in foreign policy and trade matters, including interactions with the Coalition of Colonies and military affairs, but also in oversight of the legislative and judicial branch. The Xanan President must approve all laws passed by the National Congress before they are made law and can veto legislation. They may appoint heads of government ministries and national courts above the Department level. though these appointments must be confirmed by the National Congress. The President also has the ability to dissolve the National Congress and call for new elections at any time, though presidents that do this regularly often do not remain in office for long. They have the authority to enact emergency measures in times of crisis which give the President broad, sweeping powers to protect functioning constitutional governance. Xanu’s President must obtain a majority of the vote to be elected and this process is ensured through a run-off system. Each party is only allowed to nominate a single candidate and independent candidates are permitted. Xanan Presidents are limited to two-terms of five years each, consecutive or otherwise. There are only two ways in which a Xanan President may be removed from office without an election. The first is if they are convicted of a treasonous crime, the charges of which are brought by the All-Xanu National Congress to the All-Xanu Supreme Court. The second way which a Xanan President may be removed is by national popular referendum, the process of which must be initiated by the All-Xanu National Congress by a supermajority of 2/3rds. All government ministries and offices, the military, and the national police, are considered to be part of the Executive Branch.

The Prime Minister is elected by the All-Xanu National Congress, typically from the National Parliament, though some Prime Ministers have come from the Assembly of Departments in the past. A hopeful Prime Minister must be confirmed by both houses of the National Congress. The Prime Minister’s responsibilities mostly entail implementing the laws of Xanu Prime throughout the country and overseeing its civil service and administrative agencies while also acting as a liaison between the President and the All-Xanu National Congress, given that they are in a sense part of both the Executive and Legislative branches. The Prime Minister is often described as a “behind the curtain” role that while essential in the Xanan state, is not as powerful or public as the President. Each of Xanu Prime’s second-level administrative divisions, the Departments, each have a Prime Minister elected by their respective Departmental Parliaments who is responsible for the implementation of National and Departmental law within their departments, the proposal of departmental budgets, and proposal of departmental court judges for approval by these parliaments. Xanan Prime Ministers can hold the office for as long as they can maintain the confidence of the National Parliament.

This system at times leads to the President and Prime Minister being from different parties, causing intra-executive negotiations and conflicts within the branch in an arrangement that Xanans often colloquially refer to as “splitting the bill.”

===Legislative Branch===
The '''Legislative Branch''' manifests at a national level in the '''All-Xanu National Congress''', a two-chamber national legislative body. The legislative branch is responsible for the creation of laws, approving cabinet and judicial nominations made by the President, and the provisioning of the national budget, along with the apportionment of funds received by Xanu Prime from the Coalition of Colonies. The legislative branch also has the duty of ratifying non-Coalition of Colonies-involved international treaties involving Xanu Prime and has the power to declare war.

The first chamber, called the '''National Parliament''', consists of 4,000 representatives directly elected by the people from all over Xanu Prime in single-member districts spread across the planet regardless of administrative region. Each Department has its own Parliament, collectively referred to as Departmental Parliaments, which has members who are elected directly by the people to their positions in Department-specific districts, like the National Parliament, but on a smaller scale. Departments vary in geographical size, some large cities are departments in themselves, while Xanu’s largest Department, Himavatia Department, is the size of an entire continent due to the area's sparse population. Every ten years, the Xanan Census is taken and Parliamentary districts for both the National Parliament and Departmental Parliaments are reapportioned, with some districts being created from or merged with others each year. The National Parliament has the role of drafting laws and launching inquiries into the Executive and Judicial systems if they believe the law has been breached.

The second house, called the '''National Assembly of Departments''', is a proportionally elected assembly of 201 representatives elected by the various regional parliaments across Xanu Prime’s 100 Departments. The Assembly of Departments has the power to approve or reject laws approved by the National Parliament and can also call upon the All-Xanu Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of proposed legislation before it is sent to the President for final approval. The Assembly of Departments also has the role of breaking tied votes in the National Parliament, though this rarely occurs.

Only once both houses and the President have approved a law may it be enacted. Members of either house can be elected as Prime Minister, and while both houses must give majority approval to a candidate before they can be elected Prime Minister, only the National Parliament can call a vote of no-confidence in the current Prime Minister. Any vote of no-confidence against a sitting Prime Minister must pass by a supermajority of 2/3rds.

===Judicial Branch===
The Xanan Judicial branch is a hierarchical, civil law judicial system which reaches its administrative height in the '''All-Xanu Supreme Court''' and the '''All-Xanu High Court of Petitions'''. The All-Xanu Supreme Court is one of two of the highest courts on Xanu Prime and reviews disputes and grievances between Xanu Prime’s state entities or between private Xanan citizens and the state. The All-Xanu Supreme Court has the power to check the constitutionality of laws passed by the legislature, actions undertaken by the President and Prime Minister. It also maintains the authority to rule against actions undertaken by Xanan military, government agencies, and law enforcement. Their rulings are incontestable and final. Eleven judges appointed by the President called Supreme Justices compose the Xanan Supreme Court. Each Supreme Justice serves for a life-long term.

The All-Xanu High Court of Petitions is the highest court of appeals in Xanu Prime and handles both criminal and civil appeals under Xanan or Coalition of Colonies law brought between citizens of Xanu Prime, companies who operate within Xanu Prime’s territory, or between the state of Xanu Prime and the previous two parties. The High Court of Petitions is composed of seventeen judges appointed by the President who are titled as High Magistrates. Each High Magistrate serves a 15 year long term and cannot serve more than one term. Beneath the All-Xanu High Court of Petitions are ten '''High Precinct Courts''', each composed of nine justices. A High Precinct court, as the name implies, presides over a National Precinct, a judicial construction which holds under it an allotment of ten Departments. Each department also has their own Court of Petitions and is free to choose how many or how few justices sit on its panel, and beneath these further are Local Courts centered around cities and towns. If a case is appealed to the All-Xanu High Court of Petitions, it must first be appealed from a Local Court decision and then to a Departmental Court of Appeals, and then escalates to a National Precinct Court, and then finally gets to the All-Xanu High Court of Appeals. Xanu Prime does not have jury trials and instead has Magisterial Panels which consist of three to five judges each, though parties in a case may petition to be granted a jury trial with a jury consisting of 15 jurors. Along with the judiciary, localities, departments, and Xanu Prime also have their own prosecutors who operate under the auspices of their respective attorney generals. Xanu’s law is uniform at the Precinct level and above, meaning that a decision made by a High Precinct Court is binding to all the Departments under the Precinct, and all decisions made by the All-Xanu High Court of Appeals are binding for all courts on the planet.

==Political Parties==
Xanu Prime’s political system is filled with numerous parties, with many coming and going during each election season. Currently though, Xanu’s politics can be divided into two groups, the “Big 4” parties which have been consistently successful to at least some degree in Xanu Prime’s politics for years and then the Minor Parties which are often parties for ethnic minorities, niche interest groups, or single-issue causes.
===Big 4 Parties===
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'''All-Xanu Free League (FL) - ''“Our People - Our Liberty - Our Xanu”'''''
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The '''All-Xanu Free League''' is the oldest political party on Xanu Prime and can trace its roots back to Gaspard Kulkarni’s movement [of the same name] oriented towards ending the Xanan Civil War. The party has been present in Xanan politics since the immediate aftermath of the Xanu Civil War and has historically been the most successful party in catering to the desires of the Xanan population. They are also widely considered by many outside observers to be the dominant party of Xanu Prime, winning seven of the last ten presidential elections and holding a parliamentary majority or being part of a majority coalition for the last 27 years straight. The party sources much of its ideological heritage from the Christian Democracy movement, though the party itself has officially been secular since its founding. The party is economically liberal and takes credit for building much of Xanu’s existing welfare and universal healthcare system, crediting a belief that the state should stand in solidarity with the less fortunate of society. The party routinely pushes for policies that make the access to government financing for commercial projects and artistic initiatives undertaken by Xanan citizens easier and often supports policies which expand Xanu Prime’s ability to trade abroad. They believe that megacorporations should be able to freely operate within Xanu Prime’s territory and economy, but only under regulatory supervision by the Xanan government. These regulations are not to the extent that Republic of Elyra or the Sol Alliance have but they are more stringent than the Republic of Biesel and mainly manifest themselves in transparency laws mandating that megacorporations must disclose information on a wide variety of operations to the Xanan government before they are allowed to operate in the country. The party has also been successful in passing anti-monopoly laws in the past and is a regular supporter of organized labor in the country. The Free League recently implemented a new package of social services including a state-backed monthly payment to the poorest 15% of Xanan citizens. This proposal was lauded by the party’s supporters as a true step forward in the fight against inequality in the country, though the party’s detractors have criticized the decision as too limited to have a meaningful impact.

Socially, the All-Xanu Free League is more conservative on some issues and liberal on others. The Free League is strongly opposed to legalizing hard drugs and has been a champion of Xanu Prime's anti-drug movement. They often voice their support for empowering parents to decide matters for their children rather than for the state to do so unless these decisions are “objectively harmful and destructive to the well-being of the child.” In a similar vein, the party emphasizes the importance of the family in society and stresses that the Xanan nation and culture of unity was created from good, moral families who raised responsible and moral citizens who could solve problems without resorting to violence and that Xanu’s people should continue to hold these ideals close to heart. To this end, the party has been successful in enacting legislation that provides tax credits to families who have many children, with each child equating to a percentage of lowered income tax for that household and a lump sum paid to the family whenever one of their children reaches eighteen years of age. The Free League has also passed legislation that allows for free state-funded childcare and early education up to the age of four years old. The party is strongly against illegal immigration and the easing of laws around that subject, though they have also invested much in the creation of social services which better allow for legal immigrants to Xanu to better integrate into Xanan society while encouraging immigrants to retain some aspects of their original cultural identities. The All-Xanu Free League abolished the death penalty on Xanu Prime in 2314 under the Sneijders government and helped to create a criminal justice system that is rehabilitative for minor offenses but hands out harsh, punitive punishments for major offenses such as murder, rape, terrorism, drug distribution, and kidnapping. The FL views Xanu Prime’s recent drug problem as a two-pronged issue relating to both crime and public health and as such they’ve proposed parallel expansions to both the Public Security and Health Offices in confronting this issue and certain members have argued for a mandatory life-sentence for those caught trafficking drugs on Xanu Prime. The Free League is supportive of the status-quo on IPC and alien rights on Xanu Prime.

The party is in favor of military expansion, but espouses a defensive military policy that refuses to consider aggressive military force as an option to achieve political goals, instead citing that the military exists to preserve the safety of Xanu Prime and other worlds within the Coalition of Colonies. The Free League sees Xanu Prime as the most powerful country in the Coalition and follows a doctrine in which they see Xanu as the unofficial leader of the organization. To this end, they support deepening ties with the Coalition of Colonies, though also routinely attempt to levy Xanu Prime's economic and diplomatic weight in the organization to ensure that CoC legislation benefits Xanu Prime and incrementally increases its power. In other foreign policy matters, the Free League has shown unwavering support for the Fisanduhian cause in the Fisanduhian Insurgency, showcased most prominently by their party agreeing to host the Fisanduhian government-in-exile all the way back in 2386. The party’s policy towards Fisanduh is broadly responsible for Xanu Prime’s, and in part the Coalition of Colonies’ anti-Dominia foreign policy. The current All-Xanu President, Jaques Afzal, and Prime Minister, Fabian Chatterjee, are both members of the All-Xanu Free League. The party currently has 1,531 seats in the National Congress and 65 seats in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''Popular Democratic Party of Xanu Prime (PDP) - ''“Sunlight shines on a new Xanu!”'''''
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The '''Popular Democratic Party''' of Xanu Prime or PDP is the second most-popular political party on Xanu Prime and holds a center-left position on most issues. Economically, the PDP is in favor of free-market policies and supports initiatives that empower Xanu Prime’s ability to conduct foreign trade and enrich itself in foreign markets. They are in favor of progressive taxation programs, are skeptical of megacorporations, and are known for proposing legislation that imposes further regulations on corporate enterprises in the country, though they are not in favor of megacorporate expulsion or nationalization. The most unique of these regulatory initiatives is something that the party refers to as a “revenue ceiling,” which states that after a megacorporation makes a certain amount of money in Xanu’s territory, all subsequent income for that year would be subject to a tax regimen that would increase exponentially with the profits earned by the corporation. The PDP has routinely called for the further expansion of Xanu Prime’s welfare services and often advocates for redistributive wealth measures to achieve this goal and have pushed for more state control over the Xanan healthcare industry to better direct medical resources to those who need them most.. They have proposed efforts for medical administrative cooperation with the Coalition of Colonies in order to better integrate Xanu Prime’s healthcare system with that of other CoC worlds. They are broadly supportive of further Coalition of Colonies integration in general, and see Xanu Prime as one of the many equal partners in the Coalition rather than the leader of it. They oppose the expansion of the military except in cases of emergency or unless a threat to Xanu Prime is evident and have voiced their support in the past for the downsizing of the Xanan military while encouraging that other worlds in the CoC bear more of the burden for protecting the Coalition. Their foreign policy refuses to consider aggressive military force as an option when resolving political disputes with other nations and has pushed initiatives with the goal of reforming the Xanan military into a strictly defensive force but this has seen limited success.

On social issues, the PDP is also varied. They support the status quo on immigration laws but have regularly bashed the Xanan government for some of its shortcomings in supporting immigrants, particularly in providing them housing. They have advocated for expansions to immigrant protections and view immigrant integration into Xanan society as a priority. They support a liberalization of social policy including reducing criminal penalties across all offenses, decriminalizing some recreational drugs, and lowering the tax credits put in place by the Free League for having children in favor of granting state-funding to large families. The PDP is also often critical of the All-Xanu Public Safety Office and have proposed bills to curtail their authority in the past and reduce the power they can wield in prosecuting defendants. In the PDP’s view society is built by motivated individuals in charge of their own destinies rather than by the family unit and as such they often support programs which give individuals state grants and funding instead of pushing state support to the household. The Popular Democratic Party sees Xanu’s rising drug problem as more of a public health issue rather than a crime problem and have advocated for the decriminalization of even the most destructive of drugs found on Xanu Prime so that they can “integrate users into the healthcare system, not the prison system,” and have criticised the expansion of funding to the Public Safety Office as “money that could be better spent elsewhere.” They support further secularization of the state and have lobbied in the past to have religiously influenced holidays, such as Christmas, Eid al-Fitr, and Diwali, be delisted from Xanu Prime’s official holiday list. Furthermore, they believe that education on religious history should be lessened in Xanan educational curriculum and often insist that the state should not give tax credits or rebates to families which choose to send their children to private religious schools rather than public schools. This aggressively secular position has drawn criticism from Xanu Prime’s more religious citizens and the party is often labeled by its opponents as “anti-religion” meanwhile the party itself describes its views as “preventing undue religious influence on the state.” They are in support of the status-quo on IPC and Alien rights. In foreign policy, the PDP is generally pro-Coalition of Colonies and anti-Dominia, but the PDP lacks the fiery support for Fisanduh that the All-Xanu Free League does, with some members of the party refusing to endorse a movement they see as blatantly terrorist.

The Popular Democratic Party is currently led by Murali Delacroix, a long-time member of the National Parliament and former mayor of Pataliputra. The popular democratic party has 863 seats in the National Congress and 35 seats in the National Assembly of Departments.

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'''All-Xanu Socialist Union (AXSU) - ''“Hand in hand, we work together”'''''
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The '''All-Xanu Socialist Union''' is the face of the left and far-left sides of the political-economic spectrum in Xanan national politics. The Socialist Union was founded in the immediate aftermath of the Interstellar War originally on a platform of pressuring the government to put as many resources as it could into the reconstruction of Xanu Prime’s working class communities and industries during Xanu’s period of recovery from the conflict. After the planet’s cities and industries were rebuilt however, the Union shifted its platform to instead be one that advocated for the needs and desires of the Xanan working class more broadly. The Union has historically been very opposed to the Coalition of Colonies as it believes that the organization’s economic policies incentivise Xanan companies to find ways to outsource labor and resources to other worlds in the Coalition, rather than keeping them on Xanu and ensuring that the Xanan working class is provided for. To this end, the party routinely opposes the further integration of Xanu into the Coalition of Colonies and has advocated for the country to leave the organization since the party sees it as yet another institution that will become corrupted by megacorporate interests. As an extension of this philosophy, the Socialist Union is doggedly anti-corporate in its platform and has advocated for the full nationalization twinned with expulsion of foreign megacorporations in a similar fashion to how the Sol Alliance did in the aftermath of the Solarian Collapse of 2462. They say that a nationalization of these assets would further allow for Xanu to provide for its welfare and state healthcare systems, both of which the Socialist Union have proposed numerous expansions for in the past. The Union are supporters of military expansion and believe that Xanu’s strength as a nation both economically and militarily can allow it to stand up against corporate interests which threaten itself or its neighbors, citing the Sol Alliance as an example of this phenomenon.

The All-Xanu Socialist Union varies on its positions on social issues. The party has proposed the decriminalization of some drug offenses in the past and lessening the sentences of minor offenses in the Xanan criminal justice system, but maintains the position that harsh sentences should be brought upon those who are convicted of major offenses. The party believes that tax credits for having children should be eliminated and that instead the state should provide entirely free childcare up until a child begins their first year in primary school. Perhaps rather counterintuitively but in accordance with the AXSU’s ideology, the party has opposed certain expansions to Xanan state benefits proposed by the FL and PDP due to the party viewing these efforts as not comprehensive enough and refusing to offer their support unless the measures are expanded. The party’s critics say that this attitude is only making Xanu Prime’s growing wealth inequality problem grow even more, though the party itself has rebuked these claims and said that the problem is not it’s own refusal to cooperate with other parties, but the other parties’ refusal to implement measures that will push real societal change. The AXSU has advocated that Xanan state messages should better emphasize how class unity makes a society great rather than notions of individuals or families. The party sees Xanu Prime’s rising drug usage rates as symptomatic of economic issues associated with a “late-stage capitalist system” and has advocated for more spending on government healthcare and the nationalization of some of Xanu Prime’s industries in order to secure greater government control over the economy and help “fight the problem at its source.” The Union subscribes to a historical materialist view of history and believes this perspective should be taught in the Xanan educational system. The party is most active through its proposition of new labor protection laws, infrastructure projects, and wealth redistribution plans, but sees limited success in achieving all of its stated goals. The party is vocally anti-Dominia in its foreign policy, but does not expressly support the Fisanduhian government-in-exile nor any specific faction in the Fisanduh conflict.

They are currently led by Oscar Durrani, a labor organizer and member of the National Parliament. The AXSU has 498 seats in the National Congress and 26 seats in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''Invincible Xanu Party (IXP) - ''“One Xanu: Invincible and Legendary”'''''
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The '''Invincible Xanu Party''' has long been a force in Xanu’s politics though they have never reached the heights of success that some of the other Big Four Xanan political parties have. The party found its origins in the first days of the Interstellar War and originally began as a group of citizens and soldiers who wanted to push the Xanan government to be more militarized and committed to the war effort, especially once the First Solarian Invasion of Xanu occurred. After the war however, they continued to maintain an attitude and ideology that placed preserving Xanan society and culture at the forefront of their agenda. To that end, they are Xanu’s stalwart national conservatives. Their rhetoric often is combative and places Xanan culture at odds with “enemies,” throughout the Orion Spur, such as the Empire of Dominia or Solarian Alliance. The IXP has distanced themselves from far-right extremist anti-immigrant groups in the past and have routinely said that extremism of any kind threatens Xanan society and its people. Speaking to this, they have insisted that extremism be added to the list of Xanu’s "harsh punishment" crimes while insisting that criminal punishments be generally harsher across all offenses. The party is strongly opposed to the legalization of recreational drugs and often holds a “law and order” stance that has historically been in favor of expanding the authority of the All-Xanu Public Security Office. They are skeptical of the Coalition of Colonies and think that Xanu Prime should be influenced less by the organization and should separate itself from more of the CoC’s institutions, though they do not hold the position that Xanu should leave the Coalition. They are in favor of more economic flexibility for Xanan citizens and businesses and a general reduction of Xanu’s welfare state in favor of bolstering state support for Xanu-based private enterprises. They have advocated for widespread tax reform in the form of incentivising certain behaviors like obtaining higher education, getting married, and joining the military, so as to ensure less wealth inequality throughout Xanu’s society. The party wishes to further exercise Xanu Prime’s economic might within the Coalition and elsewhere in order to build up the planet’s wealth further so as to “insulate” it from the ongoing phoron scarcity and have advocated for aggressive foreign trade policies as a result. The IXP is one of the strongest supporters of cultural and arts funding and cites the fact that Xanusii culture is the bedrock of the Xanan state and therefore it must be preserved and supported by the state. They believe the military should only expand as threats in the Spur need it to, but are widely supportive of the military in their rhetoric. Recently they have advocated for further military expansion to combat the potential threat of Dominian Privateers and incursions from the Solarian Warlord States while insisting that the military be used only for defensive actions or humanitarian interventions.

The IXP has advocated for a raising of the standards needed for a person to immigrate to Xanu Prime in the past but does not describe this as an anti-immigrant stance. The party says that only the best people, those with academic degrees, large amounts of capital, sufficient artistic achievements, or proven experience and steady work in any number of important fields like engineering, research, or healthcare, should be allowed to immigrate, as it is these people who would best serve Xanan society after they arrive. The party’s immigration policy is also preferential to families rather than single individuals and they have constantly pushed to expand the restrictions on Xanan immigration policy for those with criminal records. On other social issues, the IXP has emphasized the importance of the family in Xanan society and has routinely proposed expansions of state welfare benefits to families with many children in particular and state aid for childcare of any given family’s choice. The IXP has opposed any legislation banning arranged marriages. They have also pushed for the Xanan educational curriculum to give less weight to the importance of the Coalition of Colonies and more to Xanu Prime in the history sections within it. They support the All-Xanu Freedom League’s tax credits for children, and have pushed for government rebates or tax breaks for families wishing to send their children to private schools. They are supportive of the current status-quo on IPC and Alien rights on Xanu Prime. The IXP views Xanu Prime’s recent drug crisis as a problem that can be pinned on immigrants with criminal histories or affiliations with organized crime groups that have been allowed to slip through the cracks of Xanu’s immigration screening and have advocated for higher police funding and tighter immigrant screening as a solution. The party’s members have also advocated for the reinstatement of the death penalty for those convicted of drug trafficking offenses. The party is extremely anti-megacorporate and routinely rails against the SCC and Einstein Engines alike in addresses to parliament, describing megacorps as, “Foreign agents that wish to do nothing more than to enslave our society for a quick credit,” and adopting the slogan, “If megacorps are going to be in Xanu, they need to work for Xanu.” They have advocated for massively increased regulations on corporations and limiting their activities geographically in a manner similar to what the Republic of Elyra has done. The IXP is anti-Dominian in its foreign policy and supports the Fisanduhian Government-In-Exile. While always marginally popular, the IXP has seen its membership numbers jump in the wake of the phoron scarcity. Some experts attribute this to its hardline anti-corporate, nationalist stance.

The Invincible Xanu Party is currently led by Raphaëlle Begam, a former political activist, Captain in the All-Xanu Spacefleet, and current member of the National Parliament. The IXP has 595 seats in the National Congress and 27 in the National Assembly of Departments.
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===Minor Political Parties===

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'''Good Neighbor Party (GNP) - ''“Everyone needs a Good Neighbor.”'''''
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The '''Good Neighbor Party''' is a party that was founded by Himean immigrants on Xanu Prime to help represent their interests in the government. Rather than a single issue, the party is described to be single-motive, that motive being to do whatever is best for the Himean Xanan community. The party officially has a syndicalist ideology, however their policies and actions are usually divorced from this doctrine and instead focus on simply finding ways to better provide resources and services to the Himean Xanan population and advocate for issues their base sees as important. They are proponents of closer diplomatic, economic, and military ties with the Coalition of Colonies and with Himeo especially. An initiative they have consistently advocated for is the use of Himean Common as an alternative language for government documents and forms, and have seen some marginal success with this in some departments. They have also been lobbying for the Himean Common language to be taught in Xanan schools as a national mandatory second language similar to how Himean schools teach Freespeak, though they have not been successful in achieving this. The GNP is very skeptical of megacorporations, especially Hephaestus Industries, and has a strong anti-Dominia foreign policy. It has seen great popularity and success in districts with high Himean Xanan populations and has recently seen some small success in the wake of the phoron scarcity outside of majority Himean Xanan areas due to its staunch anti-corporate stance. The GNP is not officially connected to any Himean policial party or syndicate, but it maintains a close working relationship with all of Himeo’s political parties aside from the National Himean Workers’ Vanguard, and often hosts visits of Himean political figures to Xanu. It similarly lobbies the Xanan National Government for its members to visit Himeo on diplomatic missions or cultural exchanges. It is currently led by Aukusti Staudenmaier, a first-generation Himean immigrant from the city of Dorshafen. They have 180 seats in the National Congress and 19 in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''Kick! Party (KP) - ''“Kick the CoC to the curb!”'''''
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The '''Kick! Party''' is a single-issue party devoted to ensuring that Xanu Prime leaves the Coalition of Colonies. It is relatively unpopular, but markets itself as the choice for a voter who is skeptical of the Coalition of Colonies but who does not agree with the national conservative policies of the Invincible Xanu Party. It is opposed to Xanu’s continued membership of the Coalition of Colonies on the grounds that CoC membership makes Xanu economically, politically, and militarily responsible for the actions and consequences of other worlds and that such an arrangement is inherently unfair to Xanu and its people. The party has no positions on any issues aside from Xanu Prime’s membership in the Coalition of Colonies and has declared that if it was to ever succeed in its goal of making Xanu Prime “kick the Coalition to the curb” it would dissolve itself. Detractors of the party have alleged that it receives significant amounts of funding from the Republic of Biesel and Sol Alliance, but the party denies this. It is currently led by Ivonne Khandhari, a businesswoman and shipping magnate from Pataliputra. They have 72 seats in the National Congress and 6 in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''Free Falcon Party (FFP) - ''“Fly Free Together”'''''
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The '''Free Falcon Party''' was founded by Vysokan migrants to Xanu Prime wishing to represent their unique interests. The party’s primary platform revolves around bolstering the systems in place for immigrant integration into Xanan society and also lowering the requirements for legal immigration and providing ways for illegal immigrants to legally immigrate to the country. They are pro-CoC and wish to see further integration with the organization. Additionally, the Free Falcon Party has lobbied heavily for the histories of Stolitism and Luceism to be added to the Xanan educational curriculum for history classes in Xanu’s public school system alongside the history of other religions like Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. This measure has broadly been successful. The Free Falcon Party has also advocated for an expansion of Xanu Prime’s welfare system to better provide for disenfranchised immigrants. The biggest success of the FFP however has been the 2458 Future-Xanans’ Protection Act, a wide-reaching piece of legislation written in cooperation with the Good Neighbour Party and Universal Liberty Party which amended the Xanan legal code to offer special protections to non-citizen immigrants, specifically against employment discrimination while emboldening the legal punishments for anti-immigrant hate crimes. Other issues that the FFP has pushed for betray the party’s Vysokan ancestry: a relaxation of firearm ownership laws, less barriers to parents who wish to homeschool their children, and a preservation of the institution of arranged marriage. Naturally, the party is most popular in Vysokan Xanan areas, but has also seen popularity among other immigrant demographics, namely in Assunzionii Xanan communities. has also taken on the role of the niche interest group party for rural Xananans in the agricultural sector. The FFP has been successful in passing farmer-focused subsidies and protectionist measures in the past and styles itself as the party which best represents the interests of Xanu's farmers. The Free Falcon party has been a leader among Xanu Prime’s minor parties in proposing legislation that has increased sobriety and addiction treatment resources available to Xanu Prime’s immigrant and rural communities, some of the most heavily hit by the planet’s recent drug problem. They’ve eyed Public Safety Office expansion with mixed support, seeing it as both beneficial to their base in stopping the flow of drugs into their communities but also have cautioned that a more robust police force may empower “bad actors” within the Public Safety Office to target immigrants more easily. The party is sceptical of foreign megacorporations but does not have a hard stance on how they wish to restrict them. The party is anti-Dominian in its foreign policy and supports Fisanduh. The Free Falcon Party is currently led by Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova, a first generation Vysokan Xanan, member of the National Parliament, and former doctor in Xanu Prime’s state healthcare system. They have 156 seats in the National Congress and 15 in the National Assembly of Deputies.
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'''Universal Liberty Party (ULP) - ''“For the freedom of all peoples”'''''
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Despite being officially separate from the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, the '''Universal Liberty Party''' is seen by many as the unofficial vehicle by which the Fisanduhian government interacts with the Xanan political process. The party is relatively single-minded and is solely devoted to enacting policies within the Xanan government that are anti-Dominian and pro-Fisanduhian in both the foreign and domestic spheres. The party has never been widely popular, but despite their small size, they have historically been very successful in accomplishing their stated goals, often pursued in cooperation with the All-Xanu Free League. The party has two subsets, an Irredentist branch which is more focused on an aggressively pro-Fisanduh foreign policy, and a New Homelander branch which is much more focused on securing better state welfare arrangements which would benefit the often poor Fisanduhian Xanan community and provide more help to recently-arrived Fisanduhian refugees. While sometimes opposed, these two subgroups of the party are known to be very good at compromising with one another. The ULP has very few stated official positions on issues outside of Fisanduh-related topics, and when questioned on what their beliefs are on these affairs, they usually fall in-line with All-Xanu Freedom League positions. The party operates several online news sites, blogs, in both Freespeak and Vulgar Morozi, and even a holovision news channel and related service called Our Voice Network, all of which are devoted to broadcasting anti-Dominia, pro-Fisanduh, and pro-Xanu Prime content. The ULP also operates a charity for poverty relief, hunger relief, water programs, and infrastructure reconstruction in Fisanduh called the Universal Liberty Foundation for War Relief. The Universal Liberty Foundation and Universal Liberty Party have both been designated as terrorist groups by the Dominian Government for their alleged supplying of funds to Fisanduh Freedom Front resistance cells, but the charity and its parent political party deny these accusations. Furthermore a 2451 Xanan parliamentary inquiry into these allegations similarly found no evidence of the actions alleged by the Dominian government against the ULP or its charity. The Universal Liberty Party is naturally very popular among Fisanduhian immigrant and refugee communities, and typically dominates even over major parties in districts with high Fishanuhian-Xansuii populations but has never recorded any electoral success in districts without Fisanduhian Xanan majorities. It is currently led by Ekaitz Azarola, former Chief Liaison to the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, member of the National Parliament, and second generation Fisanduhian Xanan. They have 104 seats in the National Congress and 7 in the National Assembly of Departments.
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'''All-Xanu Beer Lovers League (BLL) - ''“Cheers!”'''''
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The '''All-Xanu Beer Lovers League''' or the BLL for short is a joke party that has existed for decades but only recently has found a seat in parliament. The party’s platform is nonsensical and revolves around loosening restrictions on access to beer, lowering beer prices, and lowering taxes on beer. They also have vowed to abolish mandatory closing times for bars and to outlaw foreign-made beers in Xanu Prime. The BLL have stated their intentions to institute a buyback program for all foreign beer in Xanu, claiming that Xanan beer stemming from the Belgian tradition of its original colonists is the best in the Orion Spur. The BLL values infrastructure improvements too and says that if they are able to govern the country they would install a beer tap centrally linked to "water pipes but for beer" in every Xanan citizen's home if the household wanted one. They wish to decriminalize public drunkenness as a crime in favor of making anyone caught drunk in public attend substance abuse counselling. The party has also stated that Xanu should raise its standards for water cleanliness across the entire planet, due to the fact that cleaner water makes better beer. The party dislikes megacorporations and alleges that, “In the history of humankind, there has never been any corporate-made beer-flavoured piss water that anyone has ever liked.” The party supports Fisanduh over Dominia in the conflict between the two, but has said that they believe that the Fisanduh-Dominia conflict could be solved if the Dominian Emperor and Fisanduhian Prime Minister went out drinking, “for a night or two.” They have advocated for Xanu to continue maintaining its strong economic presence abroad because of its ability to further spread, “the best beer in the Spur to more thirsty beer lovers like you and me.” The Beer Lovers League has historically just been a joke party or protest vote party, however in the last parliamentary election after an incumbent member of parliament unexpectedly died in a district in Foy-Nijlen, no party could field a strong candidate in time for the election. As a result, by default, the All-Xanu Beer Lover’s League won its first seat in parliament due to the number of voters who were unsatisfied with all the choices from the other parties in the district. Historically, any donations that the party has received from the public have been re-donated to charities dedicated to the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction. The party is currently led by Jaques Smit, a bar-owner, brewer, and unexpected member of parliament from Foy-Nijlen. Mister Smit is by his own admission totally unprepared for his position and was "as surprised as anyone else," when he was elected. Despite his self-confessed unpreparedness, he has vowed to make good on his appointment by sticking with the spirit of his party’s platform with a focus on public health and bettering addiction treatment options in the Xanan healthcare system as a priority. Though, jokingly, in the character of of the party, he’s stated, “Who needs smack when you drink responsibly?” when asked about his thoughts on Xanu Prime's rising levels of illegal drug use. The party has one seat in the National Congress and no seats in the National Assembly of Departments.
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==Foreign Relations==
Despite the myriad of opinions on the topic of foreign relations between the various political parties of Xanu Prime, the country generally has a few constants in terms of its international relations in both the CoC and beyond.

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===[[Himeo|United Syndicates of Himeo]]===
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Himeo and Xanu Prime have a storied and historic relationship of cooperation and competition that stretches back to before the Coalition of Colonies’s founding. Often cooperators, sometimes rivals, Xanu Prime and Himeo are often described by the press as “sisters” or “cousins” within the Coalition due to their status as the predominant economic and political powers within the alliance. Politically, the two often find themselves aligned with one another and only occasionally have disputes. Both are proponents of ensuring democratic governance throughout the Coalition of Colonies and beyond, both broadly want to expand the Coalition of Colonies to include new members, and both are committed to ensuring positive, and peaceful relationships between CoC members. The two sometime have differed on issues, such as supplying the [League of Independent Corporate-Free Systems] with aid, something Himeo supported while Xanu Prime did not. Economically, however, the two are often cutthroat rivals with one another as they want to make money for themselves in Coalition markets. In other ways the struggle is also ideological: the Xanan free-market model versus the Himean syndicalist model. Some consider the struggle to be already won, with Xanu Prime being the predominant economy of the Coalition, but Himeo’s unmatchable industrial might and dominance over the Coalition’s mining sector will always give the competition between the two a dramatic flair. Himean syndicates and Xanan corporations often compete with one another when new contracts are announced by Coalition governments or when new trade opportunities arise, and this routine and repeated contest between the two has bred a sense of friendly competition between the two countries. Militarily the two are close cooperators. Xanu Prime’s status as the foremost military in the Coalition and Himeo’s position as the third-strongest along with the two’s deep historical ties reaching back to the Interstellar War have ensured that cooperation between the two is near-constant. The Himean military uses many Xanan-designed weapons they have built themselves under license, and a good portion of the ship’s in Xanu Prime’s spacefleet were built in Himean shipyards. Culturally, Xanu Prime and Himeo are perhaps the most connected planets in the Coalition and have ties that run very deep. Xanu Prime and Himeo were the first two planets to secede from the Sol Alliance and see each other as kindred spirits in a freedom-seeking sort of way. Their people both fought side-by-side with each other throughout the conflict and it cannot be denied that Himean industry is one of the things that allowed Xanu Prime’s economy and society to recover as quickly as it did during the aftermath of the war. Their peoples have many shared experiences too; thousands of Himeans who went to Xanu to participate in its rebuilding after the Interstellar War stayed on Xanu Prime and made families for themselves there. It is no surprise then that aside from Himeo, the planet with the most Himeans is Xanu Prime, and aside from Xanu Prime, the planet with the most Xanan is Himeo. Furthermore, the largest immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime by numbers are Himean Xanan and that Xanu Prime is the most popular tourist destination for Himeans. The two countries exchange music, film, and literature with each other often and it is not an overstatement to say that their cultures are to some degree, integrated. The average Xanan interacts with dozens of Himean-made products every day and the average Himean often has their salaries paid with money that started off as Xanan trade credits.
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===[[Vysoka|Free System of Vysoka]]===
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Xanu Prime’s relations with Vysoka have been broadly characterized by mutual cooperation throughout history. Even before the Coalition of Colonies was formed, Xanans ate food often made with Vysokan-grown ingredients and Vysokans lived their lives with Xanan-made goods. This didn’t change after the Interstellar War either, and to this day Xanu Prime is still Vysoka’s largest trading partner. While Xanu does indeed grow its own food, mainly out of a concern for its own food-security, Vysokan-grown food is typically cheaper and feeds both a large portion of Xanan citizens and the Coalition at large. Vysoka generously donated large shipments of food to Xanu Prime during its rebuilding process and in return the Xanan people have ensured that its companies have brought their business to Vysoka. Xanan firms have invested heavily into Vysokan heavy industry and agriculture which has given these Vysokan firms capital that they otherwise could have only dreamed of. Diplomatically Xanu Prime maintains close relations with Vysoka and sees them as not only a developing economy within the Coalition, but also a key ally in ensuring peace in the Human Frontier. Xanan police and military advisors have been sent to Vysoka, both to train the planet’s militaries in fighting forces abroad, but also in ensuring that Vysoka’s many armies are ready for any potential conflict with the various hosts which move around Vysoka’s vast surface. Xanu Prime has also, at times, acted as a mediator when disputes between Vysokan city-states arise, something it says helps keep the peace, though those critical of the government say that this is but further evidence of Xanan meddling in the affairs of foreign nations. Culturally, Xanan-Vysokan relations are going through a transformative period at the moment. For nearly the past twenty years, Vysokan immigrants have been arriving in Xanu Prime in numbers never seen before, something which is making its mark on Xanan society. Xanan Vysokans are finding success on the planet and have made a name for themselves there, and this bond has been a source of both pride and income in the form of remittances sent back home for Vysoka and Vysokans. Historically, Xanu Prime has also treated Vysoka as a political battleground with its often-friend, often-rival Himeo, as both countries have tried in various ways to woo the Vysokans and jockey their influence over the steppe-planet.
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===[[Assunzione|Republic of Assunzione]]===
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Xanu Prime and Assunzione’s relationship has been friendly but largely uneventful since Assunzione’s admission into the Coalition of Colonies in the early 2330’s. Xanu Prime maintains steady trade relations with Assunzione and Xanan companies have become large employers on the planet as well. Xanan firms have invested large amounts of credits into further exploring Light’s Edge, and with recent capital flowing into the country for the same purpose from the NanoTrasen corporation as well, hopes are high on both Xanu and Assunzione that more of Light’s Edge and beyond can be explored. The two countries have positive political relations, with both seeing each other as well-functioning, free-market democracies, though some on Xanu are critical over the influence that Luceism has over Assunzionii society. As one may expect, Xanu Prime is also one of the foremost suppliers of arms and military equipment to Assunzionne, and their two militaries have cooperated in anti-piracy operations in the past throughout the Light’s Edge region. Culturally, Xanu Prime and Assunzione have an almost century-long bond with one another that dates back to the first waves of immigration from Assunzione to Xanu Prime in the 2370’s. Xanu Prime has the largest number of Assunzionii people outside of Xanu Prime and the unique identity of Assunzionii Xanans that has been created in the wake of immigration to Xanu Prime since has been a source of friendship between the two planets.
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===[[Konyang|Republic of Konyang]]===
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Until late 2462, Xanu Prime-Konyang relations did not officially exist outside of a few trade deals. Since then the fledgeling relationship between the two planets has blossomed into a burgeoning diplomatic, economic, and military relationship. From the onset of Konyang’s secession from the Solarian Alliance Xanu Prime was the most vocal supporter within the CoC of admitting the newly-independent country into the Coalition of Colonies as a member. Since Konyang’s admittance into the Coalition Xanu’s relationship with the planet has grown only stronger. The Xanan government has been broadly supportive of Konyang’s democratization and has sent advisors and officials to the planet in order to both better integrate Konyang’s government into the CoC but also to help combat more entrenched elements of “Solarian” influence and corruption found in Konyang’s institutions. This has been met with mixed enthusiasm by some Konyangers however, as what to some Xanans may seem to be relics of a Solarian past are to many Konyangers just the way of life on their world. Others however are happy to ditch their old Solarian systems and work towards greater Coalition integration and see Xanan advisors as a step towards their country’s new future. Xanan firms have eyed the new Konyanger market with optimistic eyes and many have invested significant amounts of capital into opening new ventures on the Coalition’s newest member, with those involved in the IPC industry in particular moving many of their operations to Konyang. On the other side of things too, Konyanger companies and megacorp branches have been more than happy to take advantage of the Coalition’s very friendly trade policies, something that arguably would not have been possible without Xanan support. Xanan defense manufacturers have also been interested in selling arms and materiel to the Konyang Armed Forces, both to integrate the newcomer into the Coalition military logistics system but also to better arm it for potential future conflicts against rogue Solarian warlords. On the military front as well, Xanu Prime has affirmed its commitment to preserving Konyang’s sovereignty against Solarian forces, warlord or otherwise, and has stationed an Expeditionary Fleet in the planet’s vicinity to back up this claim. By and large, Xanu Prime sees Konyang as a rising star within the Coalition of Colonies and wants to both support its growth while getting in on the ground floor of the planet’s coalition integration to reap the benefits of a positive future partnership.
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===[[Gadpathur|United Planetary Defense Council of Gadpathur]]===
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The Xanan-Gadpathurian relationship is one of great contrasts. On one hand, Xanu Prime is the largest trade partner of Gadpathur and is crucially the largest supplier of foreign military equipment and materiel to the planet, which the Gadpathurian armed forces use in conjunction with their own indigenously-made weapons. On the other hand Xanu Prime is generally unsupportive of Gadpathur’s rampant authoritarianism and the two often clash on Coalition policy, with Gadpathur being a proponent of security and military policy above all else and Xanu Prime often favoring legislation which promotes greater trade. Xanans are often critical of what they consider to be unnecessarily aggressive and hawkish Gadpahturian military positions however and often disagree with them on what direction the Coalition’s military should take. Despite these differences, Xanu Prime is often willing to compromise its views on the planet’s government and its agendas in order to ensure that that Gadpathurian military remains a strong component of the Coalition of Colonies’ united armed forces, especially with the current threat of ex-Solarian warlords and Dominian-backed pirates raiding Coalition of Colonies territory. As such, Xanu Prime is the largest foreign supplier of military equipment to Gadpathur. Due to this bond and their statuses as the two most dominant militaries in the Coalition, Xanan and Gadpathurian forces routinely conduct training exercises with one another and their militaries hold friendly opinions of each other. Xanu Prime has some cultural connections to Gadpathur as well. It was the largest donor of foreign aid to the ravaged planet during the aftermath of the bombing of Gadpathur, depite being in its own reconstruction, and is the primary destination for Gadpathurian exiles. Xanu Prime also often acts as a mediator between Gadpathur and the Federal Technocracy of Galatea when the two planets come to blows diplomatically or threaten to do so more materially, much to the chagrin of the Xanan foreign office.
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===[[Federal Technocracy of Galatea]]===
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Xanu Prime’s relationship with Galatea has historically been a friendly one. Economically the two have had strong ties since before the Interstellar War, with Galatea being one of Xansu Prime’s primary trading partners even during the time when both were under Solarian rule. This relationship has endured since then and many on the Xanan side see the Galatean contributions to cleaning up areas of Xanu Prime that were contaminated by chemical weapons during the Interstellar War, courtesy of the Federation’s terraforming technology. Since the war, the two have continued to be good business partners, with Galateans being quite happy to buy products and services from Xanan businesses ranging from industrial equipment, to cheaper pharmaceuticals, to weaponry and spacecraft, many of which they often modify and augment to suit their own needs once purchased. Diplomatically, however, the two have been less involved with each other, occasionally disagreeing on political matters, though they are still friendly and maintain close cooperation in military matters due to the Technocracy’s position in the Weeping Stars. Galatea and Xanu do not have a large number of initiatives between one another that are not strictly related to trade or defense, however Xanu Prime does often play the role of mediator between Galatea and Gadpathur whenever the two have one of their disputes with another. Its economic leverage with Galatea and diplomatic rapport with Gadpathur allows it to usually quell these quarrels whenever they occur, though many Xanan diplomats still see Galatean-Gadpathurian relations as a headache that never truly goes away.
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The Scarab-Xanu Prime relationship has been one that could be considered as one that is “on-again, off-again” due to both the factors of geography and temperamental interest. Since the Scarabs’s return to civilized space, Xanu Prime has been one of their largest supporters, brokering a deal to get them admitted to the Coalition of Colonies while also promoting trade between themselves and the Scarabs. Due to the ever-changing position of the Scarab Fleets throughout space though, consistent trade and relations have been hard to maintain. Scarab suspicion of outsiders has not made this any easier, and the fleet has only recently started to purchase Xanu-designed, Himean-made vessels to add to their fleets. Instead of maintaining a traditional diplomatic relationship though, the Xanans and Scarabs have adopted a policy of aid-for-info, in which the Scarabs will provide the Xanan military and state with information they acquire during their travels on things like potential new markets to expand business, hazards, locations of known pirates, and other things like sightings of foreign military vessels and in exchange the Scarabs receive aid in the form of medical supplies, food, weaponry, and other things the fleet might need. The two aren’t close allies per se, but they are routine, if distant, cooperators.
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===[[Republic of Biesel]]===
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Xanu Prime sees Biesel as its closest contemporary in the Orion Spur, and while the relationship may not have that characterisation both ways, Xanu Prime looks to Biesel with both aspiration and caution. Xanu Prime is, by the numbers, the planet with the fifth largest economy in human space, the four above it being Biesel, Eridani I, Earth, and Callisto in that order, though its people, government, and companies only want to grow further. Economically, many in Xanu’s business world and government wish that it was able to wield influence comparable to Biesel, though for now Xanu only has such control over economic matters within the Coalition. Despite this aspiration though, many Xanans see Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts, as while the economic prosperity is promising, the question of just how much influence corporations should have over society is one that is under constant debate. Generally, Xanu Prime has comparatively strict regulatory practices on businesses that operate in its territory and this is lauded by Xaunsiians the world-over as a good measure to prevent corporate control over the government as many Xanans say has happened in Biesel. Despite this caution expressed towards mega corporate influence, the two countries have had warm relations, and Xanu Prime sees Biesel as a fellow ex-Solarian democracy, something it emphasized greatly when it, along with the rest of the Coalition of Colonies, sent its fleets into Biesellite territory to repel the invasion of Biesel by the 35th Solarian Fleet in 2462. It also recognises the Corporate Reconstruction Zone as Biesellite territory as opposed to Solarian space. These actions have further warmed relations between the two countries, and the recent opening of the Corporate Reconstruction has led some Xanu-based companies to look to the newly acquired Biesellite territory as potential new customers for Xanan goods and services.
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===[[Republic of Elyra|Serene Republic of Elyra]]===
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Xanu-Elrya relations have historically been cordial and professional, with not much beyond that. Xanu Prime was from the onset of the New Suez Protocols of 2381 a common foreign trade partner of Elyra, with many of its biggest companies having a presence on New Suez. Xanu Prime routinely bought phoron from Elyra after the country’s Phoron boom starting in the 2400’s and the Elyran decision to stop foreign shipments of the material after the ongoing Phoron shortage struck the Orion Spur significantly soured the trade partnership between the two countries and sent Xanu Prime-Elyra relations to an all-time low which has only now just begun to recover as the Xanan economy rallies from the initial shock of the shortage. Aside from this recent turmoil though, Xanu Prime and Elyra have participated in anti-piracy operations with one another and Xanu Prime was the single-largest donor of foreign aid to Elyra during the aftermath of the Lii’dra incursion on Busra, a status which has created a warm cultural relationship between the two nations.
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===[[Sol Alliance|Alliance of Sovereign Solarian Nations]]===
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Sol and Xanu Prime were for a long time, old enemies. After the Interstellar War the two wanted nothing to do with each other; Xanu was preoccupied over rebuilding itself and Sol was tasked with holding onto the remains of its territory after the secession of both the Coalition of Colonies and Serene Republic of Elyra. After the initial shock of the post-war years wore off the two were quite cold with one another and it was not until the beginning of the Flohimont Thaw in the 2360’s that the two nations began to normalize their relations with one another. From then until the 2460’s the two had been politically ambivalent and militarily guarded towards one another while engaging in a relationship of limited, but growing trade. After the ATLAS party seized power in Sol in 2461 however, many Xanan companies pulled their trade from Solarian territory over fears that the party’s Xenophobic nature could impact their business. The wake of the Solarian Collapse of 2462 however has brought about a variety of opinions on how Xanan-Solarian relations should proceed. Some in the Republic argue that Xanu Prime should stay out of Solarian affairs and let the Solarians sort their own issues out, while others have advocated for direct Xanan involvement in the Human Wildlands to halt what appears to be a growing humanitarian disaster. What’s even more surprising is that a surprising minority of Xanans support Xanu Prime giving aid and support to the Solarian government itself, with the rationale being that if Sol can stabilize its old territory once again, the violence and constant warring in those regions will stop and have less of a chance of spilling over into Coalition-controlled space. Much like other things relating to Sol though, Xanu Prime-Sol relations are in a state of flux, with Xanan leadership being cautious to make any long-term deals with the Sol Alliance at present given the rapid changes the country has gone through recently. The official position of the Xanan government on the recent re-capturing of the Human wildlands by the Sol Alliance being that Sol was preserving its territorial integrity and restoring law to areas lost to "mercenaryism", while also affirming Konyang’s succession from the Sol Alliance and the planet’s membership in the Coalition of Colonies.
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===[[Empire of Dominia]]===
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The Empire of Dominia and All-Xanu Republic have never been friends and if the current trajectory of their relationship holds, they never will be. To many on Xanu Prime, the Empire of Dominia stands as the antithesis of what they stand for, more than even their old colonial overlords and once-interstellar adversaries, the Sol Alliance. For decades, Xananan governments have bashed the Empire of Dominia for its warmongering on the human frontier, an area which Xanu and the Coalition of Colonies considers to be in many ways just a step-removed from its own territory, and and their treatment of the situation in Fisanduh. From the other direction, Dominia sees their diplomatic situation with Xanu Prime as untenable due to Xanu’s continued hosting of the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the country’s support for the 3F, a group which Xanu Prime considers to be the military arm of the rightful Fisanduhian government, while the Empire has long thought of the 3F as a terrorist threat. Xanu Prime has decried Dominian privateering practices as barbaric and has routinely assured both the Empire and the Spur at large that they will not hesitate to fire upon vessels engaging in pirate activity with, “no consideration being given to the vessel’s country of origin.”
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==Overview==
Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great emphasis on the family unit as the building block of society. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another, and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague.

==Standard of Living and Civil Liberties==
A life on Xanu Prime is by and large a comfortable, though not exceedingly luxurious one. While not uniform across the various peoples and classes of the planet, the average Xanan isn’t bothered with extreme poverty, hunger, or lingering threats of conflict, nor do they live in cities adapted to suit hazardous environments. The average Xanan sits as a member of the middle class and the government has taken measures to try and ensure that the largest number of Xanans can live comfortably on the planet as is possible.
Healthcare works in a hybrid system, with some facilities being private and others being public, though the government will still partially fund the expenses of patients that go to private clinics or hospitals. Xanan healthcare quality is some of the best in the Orion Spur, only rivaled by that found on Biesel or in the Solarian Core, and millions come from across the Coalition annually to receive treatment from Xanan doctors.

Higher education at government-operated universities and colleges is free to those who can obtain a qualifying score on the Uniform Higher Education Assessment test or UHEA, while private universities on the planet usually have their own specific entrance exams.

Governance on Xanu Prime is democratic and many on the planet are invested in local-level politics. Despite political contrasts among the Xanan population, they generally place unity in forms such as nationality or city of origin before political beliefs, and as such political polarization and division is not as pronounced on Xanu Prime as it may be elsewhere in the Spur.

Xanu Prime has very liberal speech laws as well, with almost any kind of speech allowed by the planet’s government. Notable exceptions include; any rhetoric that targets another individual or group of individuals on the basis of race or religion, any rhetoric that styles itself as genuine when it is knowingly false, and any rhetoric that is knowingly false while intending to harm another person’s reputation or well-being. News media outlets have wide-ranging freedoms to publish what they like, though their content is regulated by the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission, an independent government agency which has the power to censor and fine publications with content it has deemed to promote fake news or be so biased that it burgeons on fake news.

Most Xanans are religious or spiritual to at least some degree, though atheism isn’t unheard of nor officially disparaged on the planet, but some in the planet’s society may privately look down upon atheists. Religious extremism is rare, but does occasionally occur in the most conservative of Xanu Prime’s various congregations and sects.
Firearm possession on Xanu Prime is legal, though heavily regulated. A thorough background checks and a firearm license obtained after a six-month training course and six-month waiting period are mandatory for any Xanan hoping to own their own gun. Civilians may only own ballistic firearms with magazine capacities of twenty rounds or less and special permits, famous for their long wait times, are required for the ownership of handguns and automatic weapons while less complicated weapons like bolt-action rifles and shotguns require less paperwork.

Same-sex relationships and gender nonconforming individuals are accepted as a part of Xanan society and do not experience any legal or widespread societal discrimination, though they only make up a small minority of Xanan relationships and people. There is no form of legal recognition of polyamorous relationships on Xanu Prime.

Despite the comfort and quality of life that the majority of Xanu Prime’s people enjoy, the planet is not without its problems. Xanu Prime’s economy saw an economic hiccup in 2458 following the invasion of the Republic of Biesel led by Solarian Admiral Michael Frost. The disruption in trade saw the planet’s economy and its people suffer a small downturn that was corrected by the next year, but the phoron scarcity in late 2462 tossed the Xanan economy and the living situation for many of its people into question. The situation has been stabilized by now, some three years later, and while Xanu itself fared through the economic troubles much better than many other areas in the Spur, there have been some lasting consequences. The most noticeable of these has been a widening income inequality that, while modest, is still concerning. Wages for the majority of the planet’s population have not kept up with the inflation that resulted from the phoron scarcity, and while efforts are being made by the government to reduce inflation and buoy wages or substitute incomes through the provision of more services through the state welfare system, the problem still seems to be growing slowly, yet steadily. It is not yet a crisis, though many on Xanu Prime are keen to see that it never becomes one.

==Societal Issues and Political Discourse==
One of the biggest contemporary issues that is often at the forefront of Xanan political and societal discourse is how Xanu Prime and its government should meet the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees from the war-torn territories of the Sol Alliance and the largest wave of Vysokan immigrants the planet has yet seen. Views on these new arrivals have been mixed. Some on the planet have welcomed them, pointing to the fact that Xanu Prime is already an incredibly diverse place while highlighting the fact that the planet and its economy need laborers to fuel continued economic growth coming out of the turmoil of the phoron scarcity. Others have been less welcoming, stating that Xanu’s government and corporations should instead invest more into places like Vysoka and the frontiers of the Coalition to improve the living situations for the people living there, lowering the desire for immigration, often pointing to the already-strained Xanan welfare system needing to take care of more people, most of which aren’t even Xanan citizens. Others still have instead encouraged the Xanan government to pressure other economically developed planets in the Coalition such as Himeo and Konyang to take on more of these immigrants and refugees; a way of “doing their part” as Coalition members. Now that the conflicts in the Solarian Wildlands come to a close, it is predicted that refugees will stop trying to reach Xanu, though immigration from Vysoka and the Coalition’s frontiers does not seem to be stemming any time soon.

A larger, more historical point of contention in Xanan society and politics is just what role the planet should play in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime’s unique position of having both the Coalition’s largest economy and strongest military have long given it a considerable, unbalanced level of influence over CoC affairs, and as such, its people hold differing opinions on just how the planet should carry itself. Broadly, Xanan citizens fall into two camps on the issue: increased autonomy from the CoC, or broader integration with the CoC, with nuanced views within each of these positions. Some who wish for more integration with the Coalition desire for the planet’s government to capitalize on the great amount of influence it has within the multi-planet government to create better economic situations on Xanu Prime, while others say that the planet should use its influence to instead help the developing members of the Coalition to grow and provide more for the CoC as a whole, even if Xanu itself may not see as large of returns in the short term. Others from the autonomy camp are opposed to further Xanan economic aid to Coalition members, decrying the aid as harmful to the planet when the money and resources given to or loaned out to other CoC members could be better spent on Xanu helping Xanans during the aftermath of the Phoron scarcity. Encompassing members from that same autonomy camp, there are those who believe that the Coalition itself should remain little more than a mutual defense pact, where members only come to each other's aid in times of war, instead of the semi-formal nation state it is today. Within these nuanced views from both sides, there are extremes in the debate for Xanu’s Coalition position, with small minorities of the population wishing for Xanu Prime to leave the Coalition entirely while others in equally small numbers are in favor of the Coalition federalising like the Sol Alliance and having Xanu Prime’s government be dissolved and the planet ruled from a central Coalition authority.

Speaking of defense, it is another topic that Xanan-Coalition discourse often revolves around. The All-Xanu Armed Forces are the largest and most capable fighting force that the Coalition has for both offensive and defensive interstellar warfare operations, and while this is a comforting fact for many Xanans and the Coalition as a whole, it is not without its controversy. Some on Xanu Prime, mostly of the autonomy camp, think that other Coalition members should spend more on defense than they currently do, to avoid a “free ride” on Xanu’s military might, citing increased military spending among members as both good for Xanu Prime and good for the Coalition as a whole if Xanu’s military resources do not need to be stretched so thin, providing for much of the Coalition on its own. Those of the integration camp however have pointed to Xanu Prime’s historical status as the defender of the Coalition and that it is the Xanan responsibility to provide for the Coalition’s defense, even to an unbalanced amount because other planets of the Coalition simply do not have the economies to afford their own militaries beyond those that patrol their home systems. The common refrain among those in the latter camp is “If not us, then who?”

Besides the differing political opinions on Xanu’s place with other planets of the coalition, which could be considered internal matters, there are differing opinions on external matters, namely its place with megacorporations. Xanu’s position on megacorporations has long been a topic of debate, but its presence in everyday Xanan life has dramatically increased after the 2462 phoron scarcity and Solarian Collapse. While many megacorporations, both Einstein Engines and the SCC alike, have operated on Xanu Prime as a springboard to the rest of the coalition, often having the planet be the location of their regional headquarters, their presence hasn’t always come without concern or conflict. Some on the planet see further megacorporations as the next step in Xanu Prime’s economic growth and advocate for a lessening of restrictions upon them so that they can help the planet emerge into a post-phoron scarcity spur. The majority on the planet however caution megacorporate cooperation and see the Republic of Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts as to what can happen to a country that does not strike the right amount of balance and regulation of megacorporations. Most Xanans believe that megacorporations need some level of government oversight and regulation, but they fail to agree on just what form that should take, with different political parties holding different positions.

A growing issue that has become more pronounced in recent years is Xanu Prime’s fight with illegal drug trafficking and other forms of illegal smuggling. Xanu’s status as the heart of the Coalition and as one of the largest ports in the Orion Spur has made it a hotspot for all kinds of illegal trafficking; any smuggled drug, weapon, or person going into, out of, or on a long distance trip through the coalition likely will pass through Xanu Prime on its way from point A to point B. This reality ensures that All-Xanu Public Security Office is always busy, on the hunt for contraband moving through the planet’s ports and channels of commerce. Drug trafficking is not the only issue with illicit substances on the planet, in the last decade and a half illegal drug usage has nearly tripled from where it was in 2455 and the cause is debated among Xanans. Some say it is because of the economic troubles that Xanu and the rest of the spur at large have had in recent years, driving people to use illicit substances to cope, while others state that the cause can be pinned on the recent uptick of refugees and immigrants, specifically Vysokan ones, that have flowed to the planet looking for work or sanctuary from conflict. Others still have blamed the decay of Xanan family bonds under the strain of increasing economic hardship as a cause of the crisis. Whatever the cause, in 2461 Prime Minister Fabian Chatterjee declared the rising usage of drugs a public health emergency and called upon the Public Safety Office, the Health Office, and corporations operating on Xanu Prime to commit more resources to stopping its spread. Support for cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and increasing funding to programs and facilities focusing on sobriety and addiction treatment has seen support across Xanu’s political parties and drug usage rates have slowed in their rise since the emergency was declared, though it is unclear if these measures will be effective in the long term.

==Xanan Cultural Customs, Values, and Communication Habits==
The Xanan culture is a collectivist one with some caveats. Societally, Xanans see individuals as important pieces to a greater whole, but place importance more on what is good for society rather than what empowers the individual. This is not so say that Xanans see individuality as moot, in fact many Xanans are perhaps some of the strongest advocates for individual rights and protections from the government and society within the Coalition, but this is all done with the caveat that individual freedoms should never disproportionately harm or disadvantage society and that an individual should be obligated to sacrifice what they may want or what may be important to them if it is seen as essential to promoting a greater good. This rationale is a growth from Xanan family culture, one which places a great deal of importance on respect, cohesion, and hierarchy.

===Xanan Family Culture===
The family is perhaps one of if not the most dominant cultural institution over any given Xanan’s life. The traditional Xanan family places a great amount of importance on how one fits into the family and expects children to respect their parents and elders and obey them on familial and some personal matters, even after childhood due to the idea of age equating to wisdom. In return for the obedience of their children, parents and elders in the Xanan family are expected to be able to explain to younger family members why they’ve made the decisions they have, so that the juniors of the family do not feel as if they are being taken advantage of. Gender roles are flexible in Xanan families, however women typically maintain the household and work part-time while men work full-time jobs, though this is by no means universal. The elderly are extremely important in the Xanan family, with elderly individuals being seen as sources of knowledge and inspiration who should be consulted by younger members of the family for advice during troubled times or when making big life decisions. Elders are also expected to handle the early childcare and religious education of their family’s children, however the former of these responsibilities is not as essential as it once was due to the Xanan government’s implementation of free childcare for children under the age of five. It is for an elderly person’s children or grandchildren to take care of them and allow them to live with them from after their retirement until they die, and refusing to do this is seen as a great betrayal and is heavily frowned upon in Xanan society. A negative effect of having such large families however is that inheritances, especially those of wealthier relatives, often can result in disappointment and messy intrafamily legal battles over securing a relative’s estate and assets.

Individuals are celebrated within the Xanan family structure, but individuality as a concept is not encouraged, and family bonds are often seen as a key component to the personal identity of any Xanan. This can occasionally result in more independently-minded members of families being ostracized by their kin, however, Xanan family culture usually supports that a family should welcome back those who become estranged from the family and work to make them feel a part of the unit once again and not hold grudges. Whether this is always adhered to though, is often up to the individual families themselves. It is not uncommon for multiple generations of families to live under the same roof, or even multiple extensions of a family to do the same. Any given Xanan household may have children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts, or granduncles residing in the same household. This mindset extends to individual living situations as well. Children often do not move out of their parent’s households unless for university or work until they are in their mid-to-late twenties or even thirties; there’s no expectation for Xanan children to move out at any age so long as they still contribute to the household. However, many young Xanans do move out and live apart from their families if they are committing to a serious romantic relationship with someone or if a job opportunity arises. Family culture dictates that geographical distance from the family be a consideration in if a person accepts a job, however most families are generally encouraging of their members seeking out lucrative job opportunities because it is viewed as something that will be a net positive to the family as a whole. Related to this, Xanans working abroad often maintain very close relationships to their families, even across generations.

An individual’s choices are supposed to be embraced and supported by their family members unless the family believes the decisions to be truly destructive to the family or individual; they cannot be discouraging simply because they personally disagree with the choices because doing so would place a personal opinion or prejudice above what may be best for the family. Families are expected to be strong support systems for their members and it is common for large families to offer housing, financial assistance, and emotional support to their members in times of need. Some families have embraced this bond and applied it to business, with some of the largest companies on Xanu Prime being family-run as a result. Xanu’s richest and most powerful families are referred to as “Forvamshons” and they are typically large players in the planet’s politics and business spheres. This attitude has occasionally led to corruption scandals, but generally it is seen that enriching one’s family by hurting the rest of society is unfair, dishonorable and cause for great shame. Some Forvamshons are very elusive and shy away from the public eye, while others are very public and have celebrity statuses. The foremost of these families often have private security details provided by the PMCG, Idris Incorporated, or Chevauchée Asset Protection and live in luxurious high-security compounds which house the entire family.

Marriages are seen as not just a special bond between two people but a union between two families and a commitment between them to work together. Because of this collective view on familial culture, arranged marriages are not uncommon on Xanu Prime though they have slowly become less prevalent since the 2430’s. Same-sex marriages are not frowned upon in Xanan culture however same-sex couples are expected to adopt children to continue the family lineage, much like how heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Polygamy is illegal on Xanu Prime and polyamorous relationships do not have any form of legal recognition. Though not illegal, Xenophilia is societally frowned upon on Xanu Prime because of long held beliefs that the family structures of other species are incompatible with human ones making relationships between Humans and Aliens fruitless and selfish, therefore hurting one’s family.

Death and customs around it are tied deeply to Xanan family culture, as the death of a person is not just seen as the death of an individual but a loss of a member of an entire family. Burial and cremation are both common during Xanan funerals with customs varying some between the planet’s various religions. Common between all of them though, families will either have their bodies buried in adjacent plots to one another or will keep the ashes of deceased family members in a single, large urn holding the ashes of most if not all of the family’s deceased relatives. During burials, it is a common practice for the deceased’s family to throw dirt, flowers, and lit incense onto the casket as it is lowered into the ground. Another custom stemming from this is that when a person speaks of a deceased friend or relative, it is seen as respectful to make a small tossing motion with their hand or arm. During cremations, the deceased are often cremated alongside incense. Another common custom around death on Xanu Prime regardless of religion is that most Xanan homes will have a large logbook wrapped in black and white cloth called an “Afterlife Journal” in the home’s living room or other public area where family members are able to write down memories, sentiments, thoughts, or prayers about their deceased relatives and friends. Many see the theme of memorialisation that is very present in Xanan culture having stemmed from both the strong family ties Xanans have built along with the collective impact of the Interstellar War even some two-centuries later.
Dinnertime is perhaps the most important time of the day for any Xanan family, as it is when everyone in the household gets together. Rarely do families eat apart from one another unless their work schedules dictate they do so. Meals are shared around a large central table in the household and weekend dinners can last hours. Not only is food shared but music is played and games are enjoyed, usually board games like Checkers and Chess, or card games like Alutte or French Tarot. Meals are a happy time and it is considered to be an honor to be invited over to share a meal with a Xanan and their family. It is customary for a Xanan family grieving the loss of a loved one to leave a chair at the table empty for the spirit of the deceased for anywhere from two weeks to two months after their passing and provide them food and drink as if they were still living as an act of remembrance and appreciation for their family member. This same gesture is also done two weeks to two months before the birth of a child if a family is expecting and it is instead seen as a show of excitement and optimism for new life. Many suspect the focus on meals in Xanan family culture to be the catalyst which has pushed Xanan cuisine to the upper echelons of high-class dining throughout the Orion Spur.

===Xanan Work Culture===
Xanan work culture is formalistic and hierarchical, tied into the planet’s strong sense of family, and can sometimes come off as hard to break into for outsiders. A traditional Xanan greeting for coworkers is a handshake accompanied by a light bow. Titles, rather than names, should be used with all coworkers, superior, equal-level, or inferior alike, unless the two coworkers are close friends. Small talk is appreciated, and asking after the family of a business partner is usually how most business meetings start. Xanans pride themselves on professionalism and often view their companies as a stand-in for the family outside of their real families, meaning they want to represent them well through professionalism and a strong public image while not bringing shame to them through misconduct or crassness. Superiors are expected to be respectful and formal, but friendly with those under them and coworkers are expected to execute the orders of their superiors without question and then raise grievances with their overseers when the act is done unless they believe the situation is truly disastrous. Businesswear is formal, usually consisting of a suit and tie or cravat for men and a dress or blouse and skirt for women or a uniform for either. Casual dress while on the job is not welcomed in Xanan society and is seen as immature and juvenile, likewise excessive make-up or jewelry in a work setting is seen as distracting and putting more of a focus on one’s personal appearance than the business matter itself, regardless of the person’s gender. However, dyed hair, and minimal tattoos, especially those that are covered by standard work clothing are accepted. Xanan business meetings are multifaceted, with meetings between managers and higher-up officials in companies usually being very logical, low-key, and methodical with great emphasis placed on the abilities of either side to debate one another. This has led to the term “debate” becoming synonymous with “business meeting” on Xanu Prime. If associates know each other well though, meetings can be very emotionally charged and spritied for better or worse, filled with either happiness and achievement, or anger and sadness.

Trust built through continuous face-to-face interaction are essential in Xanan business; Xanans will base their decisions on trust and intuition as much as if not more than data and statistics. It is not uncommon for a Xanan to request a meeting in person rather than communicating through holocall, telephone, messengers, or holomail, as personal relationships and connections drive much of Xanan business culture. and because these relationships take time to cultivate and are placed on the same level of importance as close, platonic friendships, it can sometimes be a culture shock for foreigners doing business with Xanans even if the Xanans themselves are quite happy to do business with foreigners. It is considered insulting to discuss business over meals and alcohol is usually not served during Xanan business functions or consumed while on the clock. Hard work is admired, but Xanans generally view workaholism as a selfish trait that makes a person disrespectful to their family by cutting into family time. It is considered poor form to schedule an important meeting in the month of August in the northern hemisphere or the month of February in the southern hemisphere, as these are the respective months usually reserved for summer vacation. This has led to the emergence of the sarcastic phrases, "I'll get to it in August," and "I'll get to it in February," both meaning that a person doesn't care about doing something. As a continuation of this, holidays and vacation days are strictly forbidden for business contacts to speak with one another unless the topic of conversation is not work-related and evenings are similarly off-limits as they are often reserved for family time. Coworkers should bring gifts or cards to one another when they return from business trips or holidays and doing so is considered a gesture of appreciation and goodwill towards one's peers as well as a sign of continued commitment to their workplace even after a vacation. Snacks and sweets, knick-knacks, cookware, and hand-written poems are gifts that would not seem out of place in a Xanan office after vacation season.

===Xanan Communication Habits and Social Norms===
Generally speaking, Xanans are friendly, yet polite to strangers and are typically not confrontational with people they do not have a prior relationship with such as friendship, family, or a long business partnership. This has led to foreigners often noticing an indirect style of communication among Xanans, as being very direct about certain matters to strangers is considered rude. It is for this reason that Xanans will often say “Maybe,” or “Perhaps,” as an indirect response in place of “No,” because they do not wish to directly disappoint, and thereby offend a stranger if something is asked of them, though a far more direct style of communication is used in some parts of Xanan society, namely by those in the military, police, or security industries. Good manners are a staple in Xanan communication and are usually only eschewed between close friends or family members. It is considered proper for a person in a higher position of power or standing in a company or family to give unsolicited advice to those beneath them, but rude for advice to be given the other way around unless asked for. Politics are expected to not be talked about in casual conversation unless they are related to the subject matter at hand or between friends. Social norms dictate that a Xanan generally should not want to impose their beliefs upon others, especially strangers, unless something someone else says contradicts something said Xanan believes, in which case a civil, if spirited political discussion may ensue. Xanan society is one that eschews the use of violence to solve disputes, and holds a pacifistic ethos that cements that one should only use force in the defense of oneself and others, however naturally, not all on Xanu Prime abide by these morals. Moreover, there is an expectation in Xanan society that people can, should, and will compromise with one another for the sake of preserving societal unity, order, and peace, with stubbornness in working out an agreement with one another being seen as a selfish trait. Finally, Xanans value the collective. Whether that is a family, company, crew of a ship, social circle, country, or other unit, Xanan social norms dictate that a good Xanan is one who will act in the best interests of something “bigger than themselves,” while using his or her unique individual qualities to best help themselves and the people around them who they care about.

===Religion===
Xanu Prime has no official religion, and in an effort to prevent conflict over religion or accusations of government favoritism, the government has a series of official secularism laws. They vary in specificity, but broadly they prohibit any person working for or affiliated with the state including anyone from politicians to police officers to public school teachers from displaying any religious iconography, dress, or artifacts on their person or in their workplace while they are on the job. This has drawn criticism from some elements of Xanan society which see these rules as an infringement upon religious liberty, especially from those who take religious dressage as an integral part to their faith, but the government has remained firm in their beliefs that the state will not expose or impose anyone to any one religion over another. Despite these laws, the Xanan government is not opposed to working with religiously-affiliated organizations like charities due to the laws prohibiting only the state itself from representing a religion, not engaging with it.
Xanan people as a whole vary in religiosity with both very progressive and orthodox interpretations of the various faiths found on the planet being practiced. The diverse backgrounds of the planet’s original colonists and immigrants since its colonization mean that nearly any religion can be found here. The largest however, in order of practitioners are, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sunni Islam. Smaller faiths like Luceism, Stolitism, Jainism, Sikhism, and even Moroz Holy Tribunalism can be found here, the latter of which is practiced almost exclusively by the Fisanduhian immigrant community. A significant portion of Xanan society is irreligious as well. Xanu Prime is well known across the Orion Spur for some of its examples of religious architecture, the most outstanding examples of which being the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, the Patali-Ram temple, and the Crystal Lights mosque.

==Food and Drink==
===Food===
Xanan cuisine has garnered a carefully cultivated reputation around the Orion Spur as perhaps some of the finest in human space. It is in a sense, a fusion between the cuisines of its most prominent colonizing cultures, French, Indian, Pakistani, and those of the BeNeLux. While certainly diverse, it is known most for being both simultaneously spicy, but not hot, with different spices adding highlights and emphasis to whatever notes in the palette the chef so chooses, and savory with a mouth-watering richness that lasts long after the first bite of whatever the food might be. This reputation precedes it, and expert Xanan chefs and cooks are some of the most revered in the culinary industry for their mastery of their crafts.

Arguably the most famous human celebrity chefs alive, '''Cléophe & Lonnie D’Cruz''', a married power-couple in the Xanan food world, were both born and raised on Xanu Prime. Their combined adventurousness in the culinary industry with endeavors both inside and outside their chain of fine restaurants has garnered both them and Xanan cuisine a spotlight few planets’ food cultures can match. The couple met while attending a small culinary school in the city of Foy-Nijlen, fell in love, and then combined their skills to open what would be their first restaurant in their well-known fine-dining chain, '''Solstice Xanan Bistro'''. Marriage followed shortly after, and the two have been together at the forefront of the Xanan food world ever since. While they are married to one another, the duo’s personalities are distinctly different, something often accentuated for the camera. Cléophe is known for their generally supportive and encouraging personality who wishes to simply share the joy of cooking with the world and has written dozens of best-selling cookbooks to that end. They are also well-known for their appearances on Holovision shows and Holonet videos giving tutorials on how to make some of the D’Cruz’s most well-known recipes in a basic kitchen; it wouldn’t be unfair to say that an entire generation of Xanan home-cooks were taught by Cléophe D’Cruz. Lonnie, however is far more of a chef’s chef who adheres to very strict professional and artistic standards, something he extols through his appearances on cooking competition shows, often played up to be a very cold and perfectionistic critic. Despite this reputation, he much like his spouse, is also committed to educating people on Xanan culinary arts and to that end is the President and, along with Cléophe, co-owner of the D’Cruz Culinary Academy, a culinary school which while only ten years old, has quickly risen to be one of the most competitive on the planet.

While Xanan cuisine is diverse and constantly reinventing itself, the dishes characteristically include some kind of meat, most often chicken, beef, or shellfish, paired with greens like beans, asparagus, or broccoli, or a starch like potatoes and something characteristic of almost all Xanu dishes, long-grain aromatic basmati rice, typically grown on the hilly territory surrounding the upper Naya Khyber river. Spices like cumin, black pepper, coriander, cloves, cardamom, and garam masala are ubiquitous throughout Xanan cooking, and often find themselves as part of exceptionally rich and creamy white sauces made from milk, butter, salt, and eggs. Pork is not as popular as a meat on Xanu Prime as others are, given the prohibition on eating it from Xanu’s original Muslim colonists and its perceived uncleanliness that Xanu’s original Hindu colonists held as well. Some Hindus also choose to not eat beef, and as such, many of Xanu’s restaurants have an option to serve synthmeat or a vegan meat substitute instead of actual beef in their beef-dishes. The most consumed alcohol on Xanu Prime by far is beer, often made in the Belgian tradition brought to the planet by some of its original colonists. Brandy comes in second and third, and wine is also popular too, but is more associated with fine dining than it is with a drinking experience alone. Xanan cognac and armagnac brandies have drawn the ire of some in the European Union on Earth because it uses the labels of “cognac” and “armagnac" despite not being produced in the Charente, Charente-Maritime, or Armagnac regions of France, though Xanan producers have paid these complaints no heed.

Some notable Xanan dishes include:
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'''Steak Xanu'''
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As the name implies, '''Steak Xanu''' is a steak, and is typically pan-fried rather than grilled. Usually it is strip steak as opposed to coming from any other part of the cow, but any cut of beef can be made in the Xanan style. The secret comes in what the beef is cooked with. Before the strip goes into the pan it is left to marinate in a warm broth traditionally made from chicken stock, cardamom, and garlic for flavor and is then lathered all over with a light coating of ghee right before it meets the pan in order to give its outside a crunchy, slightly singed crust. The steak is cooked to medium rare as it is basted in its own juices along with butter, rosemary, and a very light touch of cayenne powder. After it is cooked to a medium rare, it is taken out of the pan and left to rest for a few minutes before being dashed with a cooked sour, cream sauce, often simply called “beef sauce” made from heavy cream, olive oil, whisked egg yolks, and citrus or mango powder. Black pepper is cracked over the top, and the dish is served. Some of Xanu Prime’s Hindu population refuses to eat this dish, however chicken can be cooked in a very similar way and is typically referred to as “Bird Steak” by the Xanan culinary community. It is the official dish of the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle, Xanu’s Capital.
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'''Pataliputra Curried Rice'''
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An mainstay dish and one sure to be found on almost any Xanan dinner table, '''Pataliputra Curried Rice''', often just called Xanu Curry by foreigners, is a twist on the typical curry recipe that originated in the port city of Pataliputra. It is a yellow curry that uses peanuts as one of its main ingredients, giving it a signature nuttiness that mixes quite well with the dish's spices. Where it differs from a traditional curry though, is that its sauce is made from two parts, one of which is a buttermilk-garlic-onion powder base that is very thick and holds in the flavor of the spices and vegetables put into the sauce, while the other is a very light, chicken-based velouté sauce made from combining chicken bone broth with a light, typically but not always, salted blond roux to give the sauce some substance. When the two sauces combine, they make for an exceptionally savory base upon which spices like ginger, garam masala, coriander, fenugreek, and thyme can be added. Meats like chicken or shell-fish are often added to the sauce along with things like beans or potatoes. Rice used in this recipe is traditionally Xanan basmati rice. Every person and every city on Xanu Prime has their own slight variation on how they make this dish, but what is listed above is generally what could be expected when ordering it. It is the official dish of the city of Pataliputra.
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets''', or more informally River Crozets, is a dish that originated from the city of Foy-Nijlen and is one that makes use of the various animals caught off the city’s nearby ocean coast and also those found in the Naya Khyber river which runs through the city. The base of this pasta dish is a spicy tomato-basil-cayenne sauce with melted and dissolved Naya Khyber river penguin blubber mixed into the sauce in place of a more traditional fat like butter, ghee, or olive oil. The pasta itself, the Crozets, are small rectangles which resemble something more akin to breakfast cereal in size and shape rather than a more noodly kind of pasta. The crozets are made from buckwheat, eggs, and flour, and are usually cooked al dente so as to retain a bit of firmness. Along with the pieces of pasta, river boiled lobster, fish, crab, or even river penguin meat is pan-fried with butter, rosemary, cardamom, coriander, and cloves before being put into the pasta usually in small bite-sized pieces. Black pepper is cracked over the dish and cumin is dashed over the meat and the dish is served in a heated stoneware bowl. It is the official dish of the city of Foy-Nijlen.
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The '''Bunker Buster Sandwich''' is perhaps the most famous example of Xanan street food. At its core, the dish can be used to refer to almost any toasted open-faced sandwich served on naan bread with over-easy eggs, fried vegetables, shredded cheese, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and garam masala. In practice however, the six ingredients mentioned above are only the beginning of what a bunker buster might be, as really anything from meats to veggies to mushrooms can be put on the sandwich so long as it tastes good. It’s incredibly easy to make and traces its roots back to the reconstruction of the city of Kshatragarh shortly after the Interstellar War, starting as a quick and easy meal for construction workers to make as a lunch. Many of these workers lived in the city’s underground bunker complexes while above-ground housing was being rebuilt, leading to the sandwich’s name. It has since spread all over Xanu Prime, and a visitor to any given Xanan city is likely to find dozens of variations on this simple, long-time favorite food. It is the official dish of the city of Kshatragarh.
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo'''
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo''' is a dish originating in the city of Paastad, but can be found across the entire continent of Paasland. It is made from the meat of the large waterfowl, the Paaskraan, and is similar to the traditional preparation of vindaloo with one major exception: the meat is not cooked with the vindaloo paste and is only added at the end. Instead, the meat of the Paaskraan is pan-fried until fully cooked and is usually then seared in a sweet vanilla sauce to give it a crunchy, caramelized outer shell. After this process, it is added to the cooked vindaloo paste (cloves, cinnamon, cariander, cardamom, cumin, red peppers, ginger, mustard seeds, black pepper) and served over rice, as a crunchy and spicy meal. It is the official dish of the city of Paastad.
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The '''North 60 Sea Platter''' is less a single coherent dish and more an entire subsection of dishes based around the theme of seafood caught north of 60 degrees latitude. Himavatian sea salmon or arctic tuna, usually pan-fried in olive oil or smoked and served with lemon and black pepper, commonly forms the center of the dish with arctic crab legs or lobster tail sold off to the side paired with a creamy garlic sauce. Other components could include fried octopus and squid or freshly caught steamed shrimp. What makes the dish more than just a typical seafood platter is a special malt vinegar made specifically from ale brewed in the Xanan tradition with added apple and lemon juice. More budget friendly variations of this dish exist as well, such as ones that swap the pan-fried salmon or tuna for smaller, less expensive, deep-fried fish, the lobster and crab for shrimp, and are commonly found in Himavat City bars as a cheap, delicious option for a lunch or dinner. The food arrangement originated in the city and is its official dish.
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Not all food on Xanu Prime is within the realm of “fine dining” however. When not at the table for a full meal, the average Xanan can reach for any number of snack foods produced by Xanan companies. Many of these have become not just popular on Xanu Prime, but throughout the entire Coalition and beyond thanks to the aggressive marketing and economic dominance of Xanan shipping and food conglomerates.

===Drink===
Along with its food culture, Xanu Prime is renowned for some of the alcohol the planet produces as well. The planet’s main claim to fame in this area are in the spheres of beer, wine, and brandy. The planet has brewed beer since its founding, with the Xanan style of beer crafting having its roots in the Belgian-style brought to the planet by colonists from the BeNeLux itself. The most popular brand of beer on Xanu Prime is '''Prince Pallav Blonde Ale''', a golden concoction brewed in Foy-Niljen that has held dominance over the Xanu Beer market for the last two decades. This robustness in the brewing has brought the planet into a rivalry with the nearby planet of Himeo, the two of them both having proud beer-making heritages that often brings them to test this with each other. For the last decade and a half, brewers from the two planets have engaged in a festival called Hoptoberfest, a week-long celebration of the craft of brewing beer held every October complete with live music, authentic Xanan and Himean cuisine, and crucially for the craft brewers of both planets, competitions determining which beer is the best for that year. The festival changes venues from Paastad, Xanu Prime and Inverkeithing, Himeo every other year.
In addition to beer, Xanu Prime imported a strong wine culture from its original colonists, namely the French ones. Vineyards dot the Xanan countryside on every continent, with a few even on the southernmost peninsulas of Himavatia. The planet makes a wide variety of wine, though it is most notable for its own variety of Malbec grown in the mountains of Naya Khyber and Nouvelle-Occitanie called '''Khyberian Malbec'''. Where Xanu Prime’s wine truly shines though is not in the wine itself but in its use in fortified wine products like brandy and cognac. The unique climatological conditions of Foy-Niljen brandy country have led to the grapes grown there to be perfectly suited to making fortified wines and distilled wines, leading to their flavors to be pronounced but not overbearing up front with subtle, complex notes coming to the surface the more the drinker savors the beverage. The most noteworthy and popular drinks of this category are the mid-range priced '''2275''', a mainstay brandy of Xanan bars and kitchen cabinets alike, and '''Saint-James Black Label,''' the gold standard of Xanan luxury cognac. The national cocktail of the All-Xanu Republic is the '''Stag Hunt''', so named for its popularity on hunting trips and other outdoor activities during the summer. It is a simple drink made by mixing three parts brandy, typically 2275, one part lemon juice, and two parts chilled tea usually served over ice in a highball glass. Chai is the most consumed tea variety on Xanu Prime and the soft drink Xanu Rush is also very popular on the planet.

==Arts and Entertainment==
===Visual Art===
Xanan visual arts are vast and have an uncountable number of movements and subgenres. Generally, though, Xanan artworks are reflective pieces and try to examine the human condition rather than focus on the form by which the artwork expresses itself. Xanan visual arts have been heavily influenced by the original Western European cultures which settled the planet and as such, drawing and painting are the most prevalent forms of Xanan art. Sculpture that has been inspired by South Asian cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are also prevalent, however. The most famous and well-known movement of Xanan art is often called the Atman Movement and it lasted from the 2340’s until the 2390’s. Most art scholars consider it an offshoot of Symbolism and Neoclassicism but with noticeable existential elements. Pieces of the movement hold an almost ethereal aesthetic, and usually feature elements like fanciful Greco-Roman or Indian ruins, ruins that aren’t even found on Xanu Prime, bright, vibrant colors contrasted by dark backdrops, and esoteric spiritual imagery sourced from Xanu Prime’s three largest religions. The goal of all of this, in the words of the Xanan master painter Arnold Vasudevan, a key figure in the movement, is, “To imagine Humanity and the human condition as if we could breach the barrier between this world and the next with our own hearts and achieve revelation and clarity through the beauty within and without our souls and the world around us.” An offshoot of this movement referred to as Wartime Atman replaces the ruins of classical civilisations with scenes of wartime destruction found on Xanu Prime during the days of the Interstellar War and is meant to make the viewer reflect on things like conflict and mortality. The most famous piece of visual artwork of the Atman Movement and arguably of all Xanan visual art is called “The Truce" by Harini Martin. It is a colossal mural of a painting that is four meters tall and ten meters wide which depicts the ghosts of dozens of fallen Xanan and Solarian soldiers enjoying leisure time and doing activities like enjoying meals with one another, idly talking, showing each other photographs, and playing games and sports with one another over the backdrop of a desolate Interstellar War era battlefield in what used to be a Xanan city. The sky around the edges is a dark color, however in the center of the painting’s sky is a brilliant white, alabaster, pink, and red halo that shines light on the entire painting. It was unveiled to the public at the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery, Xanu Prime’s national art gallery, in 2387 as part of a ceremony to commemorate one-hundred years of peace with the Solarian Alliance and has remained a permanent fixture in the museum since. Notable Xanan sculptures include Our Lady of Sorrows, a giant statue of the Virgin Mary included in the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, and Skyward Unity, a large sculpture commemorating the elevation of Paastad.

===Architecture and Cityscapes===
The traditional Xanan style of architecture can be described as a hybridization of various styles of design from the Indian subcontinent and Western Europe, much like the origins of the planet’s original colonists. Xanan buildings usually have some form of artistic design on their exteriors, even if it’s as simple as a basic tile weave around entrances or semi-ornate molding around windows. Many have lines drawn on the outside in paint or sculpted on, and Xanan buildings are usually painted with bright, if mellow, colors if they are painted at all. Most Xanan buildings are taller than they are wide and long, courtesy of the planet’s re-urbanisation plans after the Interstellar War and because buildings in most urban areas are taxed based on how much land they take up. Most Xanan buildings have some form of accoutrement around their roofs, usually being a modest carving or bust of a family’s ancestor if it’s a house or a historical or religious figure, representing the theme of memorialisation found elsewhere in Xanan culture. The roofs themselves of most Xanan buildings are usually vaulted or occasionally are domed or flat. Larger, more modern buildings like skyscrapers on Xanu Prime have a distinctive half-sloping-roof look pioneered during the beginning of Xanu’s economic resurgence during the mid 2330s. Originally implemented as a cost-saving measure to make a building that still looked tall but didn’t need to have as much office space, the half-sloped roof or “Xanan Roof” style of skyscraper has part of the building’s roof flat and level with the ground while another portion of it slopes downwards. This style of design has become emblematic of Xanu Prime and even the newest skyscrapers on the planet are built with this design in mind, despite its economical origins. Xanan buildings are made from a variety of materials, with the few-surviving pre-war structures being made from wood, brick, and steel while commercial and industrial buildings built after the Interstellar War are made from concrete, steel, and glass with plaster or clay facades. Individual houses are still mostly made from wood or brick, however. Sizes and shapes of Xanan residences vary, with some being modest single-family homes typical of other places within the spur. Multi-story townhouse complexes surrounding a single communal courtyard are common in urban areas and are often inhabited by entire extended families. In more densely populated areas, large communal apartments built for extended families are common, though some wealthier families have pursued a policy of “Co-flooring,” a type of retail arrangement where an entire extended family will rent out an entire floor of traditional single-family apartments from a property agency. Some buildings on Xanu Prime play very heavily into inspiration from the planet’s original cultures and would not look out of place in South Asia or Western Europe, though buildings built like those are in the minority of Xanu Prime’s structures.

The last notable architectural feature found in many Xanan cities are residual walls and gun emplacements left over from the Xanan Civil War. Of Xanu’s six major cities, only three, Nouvelle Rochelle, Pataliputra, and Foy-Niljen have them still, with Kshatrigarh’s being destroyed beyond repair during the Interstellar War and Paastad’s torn down during the city’s elevation, lest they sink into the swamp. Himavat City never had walls, as it was too small of a community to have built them during the Xanan Civil War. The walls proved useful during both of the planet’s most devastating conflicts, acting as barriers to outsiders and platforms for return fire, but due to the gargantuan cost of operation and maintenance, the walls and their gun emplacements were decommissioned in the 2310s as a part of the Sneijders Government’s economic recovery plans. Today, the walls stand as partially restored massive memorial complexes dedicated to those who fought and died during both the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War, with some cities having sections of wall filled with the names of those who died during the conflicts from those respective cities.

Xanan cities are generally filled with greenery as both a measure to keep temperatures down during the summer and simply provide Xanans with natural beauty even in the most urban of places. Large public transit networks consisting mostly of subway systems and tramways are found in almost every Xanan city and most of those who live in the urban cores of Xanan cities do not own automobiles, while Xanans who live in the country, suburbs, and smaller cities have a higher percentage of car ownership. The most common way to get around on Xanu Prime however is by bike or motorbike; Xanu Prime has the most bikes per capita of any planet in the Orion Spur, even beating out the Solarian population hubs of Callisto and New Hai Phong. Generally speaking, Xanan cities are walkable and do not require an automobile to move around efficiently, and some Xanan cities have banned the construction of freeways and overpasses entirely in order to preserve their cities’ “authentic landscapes.”

===Literature===
Xanan literature has cemented itself around the institution of “The Great Novel,” something often defined in Xanan culture as a work of literary art that has captured the essence or soul of the Xanan struggle and of the planet’s people through the usage of compelling stories and multifaceted characters. Novels written in the Xanan style usually have psychological and spiritual themes and use supernatural or otherwise fantastical elements to explore Xanan the human condition, usually in surreal or otherwise unorthodox methods. Xanan novels are typically not adapted into films as is seen elsewhere in the Orion Spur due to Xanan movie-going audiences preferring musicals and epics instead, but they have become popular as holovision shows, stageplays, and miniseries.

Some notable works of Xanan Literature are:
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====Gloam in Gold====
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It is hard to understate the importance and influence of Foy-Niljen writer Arif Hugo’s 2345 masterpiece Gloam in Gold in the Xanan literary canon. The text, while short for a novel, is considered to be not just a seminal work of Xanan writing but also quite possibly the greatest novel ever written in the Freespeak language, despite its unorthodox, almost anthological structure. It is set in 2296 during the initial reconstruction of the city of Kshatrigarh and focuses on the character Madhar Emond, a Kshatrapur native and veteran of the Interstellar War now working to rebuild the battered city during the aftermath of the terrible conflict. His life isn’t a glamorous one and he spends most of his days doing hard, construction labor, digging paving roads, working on buildings, and the like. One day on his way home from work, he stops by one of the city’s many large cemeteries to rest and watch the sunset, however shortly after his arrival he lays down in the grass and begins to hear voices around him. He’s alerted by these and denounces them as hallucinations at first as he sees no one around who could be speaking to him, yet as the sun sets further below the horizon, he realizes that there is some coherence through the voices and that they are in fact, the voices of the dead, fully aware of their condition yet unable to move on to the afterlife.

Madhar listens in to their conversations for a moment and is eventually confronted by the voice of one of the deceased, one Missus Pandit, an elderly woman who died of old age before the city was besieged. She acts as a sort of a guide who explains the dispositions of each of the ghosts present, and each part of the novel tells a story of a different spirit inhabiting the cemetery proceeding in the order of Missus Pandit herself, and then to Mister Quint and Miss Jessup, a young Himean immigrant couple who perished together from starvation during the siege and seem to be resigned to their fates, and recount their lives from Himeo and their immigration to Xanu before the war broke out, their desperation during the siege, and now their dead, yet still loving existence of being with each other even in death. Madhar’s conversation with the couple is interrupted by the voice of Marcus Thevar, a rich and vulgar middle-aged businessman.

Marcus refuses to reveal how he died and seems to be entirely preoccupied with finding a drink and scoring some action from the cemetery’s various young female ghosts, one “Miss Periwinkle” foremost among them. Miss Periwinkle’s gravestone has been defaced, though she looks to be buried in the plot next to Thevar, much to her dismay. She’s the spirit of a young, pious woman with a noticeable Lunan accent who claims to have died from tuberculosis during the siege. She refuses to say her real name and repeatedly breaks from talking to Madhar to fend off verbal advances from Thevar, before quietly lamenting to Madhar that her days of being confined to the mortal plane despite being dead and needing to routinely reject the, “slovenly attempts at romance,” by her neighbor is God’s unique choice of purgatory for herself. Despite this, even in this “purgatory” she finds some joy in acting as an almost motherly figure to Patrice, the ghost of a five-year old child who doesn’t know how he died but according to Miss Periwinkle, seems to have abruptly perished in the aftermath of the siege after naively playing with unexploded ordnance he found a local park’s sandbox. Miss Periwinkle parts with Madhar after claiming she needs to tend to the child, and her voice fades away.

After this, the story shifts to that of Private Hendriks, a solemn Xanan infantryman who was killed during the battle and laments that he will never be able to return home to his mother and Lieutenant Ma, a Solarian bomber pilot who was shot down over the city during a night raid and is a conflicted character. She is racked by the guilt of possibly killing innocent civilians yet reminisces on what a still-united Sol Alliance might have looked like without the carnage and in his words, “tragedy” of the Interstellar War. Hendriks and Ma seem to spend most of their days now arguing with each other, the conflict lingering on past their deaths, much to the annoyance of the cemetary’s other inhabitants.

Lastly, Madhar is spoken to by the voice of a young woman, a teenager named Penelope, who brokenly and through a voice characterized by sounding as if she’s on the verge of tears, tells Madhar that her body is in fact, not even buried within the cemetery at all, but that her body instead lies buried beneath a new road built on the graveyard’s northern edge and sulks to him that nobody will ever remember her or who she was since there’s nothing to mark her grave. Madhar, heartbroken in this discovery, realizes that he was part of the crew that paved that very road and profusely apologizes to Penelope for spoiling any chance she might have ever had with a proper burial and claims that it was done in the name of progress for the city and for Xanu Prime. Penelope’s voice rejects this and breaks into tears, repeating the fact that nobody will remember her or who she was, but eventually she is soothed by Madhar’s assurances that he will remember her and that he’ll never forget that she lived and died in the city. Seemingly consoled, Penelope thanks Madhar before her voice too fades away and leaves him in silence, the sky now dark. He makes his way home in solemn, quiet contemplation, thinking about the various spirits he’s heard over the last few hours and once again questions if it was even real. When he gets home to a modest, quickly built apartment, he resolves to himself that whether what he heard was real or not, he cannot forget the past even in pursuit of the future.
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====The Screen Behind the Mirror====
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'''The Screen Behind the Mirror''', written in 2419 by the second-generation Fisanduhian Xanan writer Elanea Chatfield, is another one of Xanu Prime’s great novels. It’s a semi-autobiographical story, taking some elements from Chatfield’s own life and putting them into the events of the plot. It is also is a very spiritual text, having references, symbols of, and allusions to the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Tribunalist Scripture, and Luceian holy texts throughout to help convey its themes of residual trauma, destruction and rebirth, and enlightenment.

This semi-autobiographical story follows the experience of a young accountant named Demitra during a camping trip out to the remote New Pacific Scarlands for some time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The story’s structure is unorthodox and the chapters bounce between describing her current experience in the scarlands, and recounting flashbacks to her childhood growing up as a Fisanduhian refugee in a diverse community of Xanan and Assunzionii-Xanans on Xanu Prime. The story in the present is a tale of survival that begins after Elanea’s camping group has a car crash on a back-country road with her being the only surviving member. Much of her food and shelter perished in the blaze and she’s left to fend for herself in the forest and crater lake-filled wilderness around her. She manages to build herself some crude shelter, but during her first night in the wilderness, she’s awoken by a bright ray of light reflecting off of what she can only describe as a large phantasmagorical mirror levitating just outside the border of her crude encampment. In the mirror she sees her own reflection, but not as she is now, but rather how she was as a child at ten years old.

The book then cuts to her life as a ten year old, going over Demitra’s seemingly mundane memories of living in a low-income, almost ramshackled home with her Fisanduhian refugee family in Nouvelle Rochelle, setting the scene for the reader and introducing them to the characters of Demitra’s concerned, yet judgemental mother, silent and stoic father, whiny younger brother, and somewhat detached and aloof older sister over a standard family dinner. This scene ends and we are brought back into the present, the next morning, where upon waking, Demitra discovers that the mirror still resides outside of her camp. When she leaves to forage for food and tries to hunt something with a hatchet she was able to retrieve from the car crash, the mirror silently follows her, always levitating behind her just out of reach. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between this story of survival, following Demitra’s struggles to build a fire, fish, and hunt, and her childhood memories, with the line between the two becoming increasingly blurred as her situation becomes more and more desperate. She sees apparitions of her childhood friends and her deceased father walking around as if it was the most normal thing in the world, calling out to her yet never responding to her words. The memories become less and less pleasant as time goes on, with the phantom mirror showing her family fights, tough times in school with childhood bullies, and the deaths of family members all while her situation in reality, struggling in the wilderness becomes more and more dire.

The story climaxes with Demitra screaming her frustrations at the mirror in the wee hours of the morning, venting her frustrations to it and breaking down into tears while explaining her feeling on herself in detail to the mirror, stating that she knows she’s at her core a broken person but that despite all that the mirror has shown her she is only motivated to survive in the remote wilderness of the scarlands. Her flaws and trauma have only informed her more of her humanity, and she finishes this monologue with the line, “I’ve survived fucking everything else so far, I am not dying alone out here no matter how hard you try to make me want to!” Ever silent, the mirror remains but grows blindingly bright, so much so that the forest itself begins to smolder and catch fire from the phantasmagorical brilliance it emits. Struggling to cover herself from the light, Demitra covers her eyes but is directed by some voice, “Come and see, and behold, She who is all that is, ever was, and will be.” As she feels her very skin begin to burn and peel away from the mirror’s light, Demitra takes a metaphorical leap of faith and opens her eyes, no longer seeing the mirror but an eye made from flames staring right at her, blacking out and collapsing soon afterwards. In perhaps the most notable section of the novel, the page after Demitra’s collapse is entirely blank except for one sentence placed in the middle of the page: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.”

The plot picks up on the next page there with a jump to Demitra regaining consciousness in the back of a rescue VTOL-craft, surrounded by paramedics on a steady flight to a hospital. Demitra asks the medics on the craft with her how they found her and they confusedly reply that a signal mirror was flashing an S.O.S signal at a passing shuttle and it was reported to them, and remark they thought it was Demitra herself who’d sent the signal. She makes it safely to a hospital in a small country town and the story ends with her looking out onto the reflection of a moonlit lake, contemplating what she saw and asking herself how she possibly could still be alive.

The Screen Behind the Mirror has stood the test of time as a venerable pillar of Xanan literature since its publication nearly fifty years ago. The book saw some controversy upon its initial release however, with some more conservative voices in Xanu Prime’s various religious organizations calling it a sacreligious text with some even calling for the book to be burned en masse. The Morozian Holy Tribunal in the Empire of Dominia has banned the sale of the book within Dominian space, a fact that its author Elena Chatfield wears with pride and its publishing company has used to boost sales of the book within the Coalition and Republic of Elyra. This controversy has been eclipsed in the Xanan public eye by its literary brilliance however and it remains popular today among all demographics on the planet. It has been famously hard to adapt to a holovision show however, with all four attempts never getting past the preproduction stage or falling apart during production and has been referred to as a "cursed" story by those in the entertainment industry for that reason.
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====MMCDXLII====
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A fine example of the recently popular Xanan science fiction tradition, '''MMCDXLII''' (pronounced as 2442) by Kshatrigarh writer Jakob Rajeev is an alternate history science fiction novel published in 2442 set in a alternate timeline where Xanu Prime was blasted from orbit by Solarian forces during the Interstellar War and sent into a perpetual nuclear winter similar to how Gadpathur was in reality. The setting of the story is the city of Khairabad, or at least what is left of it. Before the bombardment of the planet took place, roughly 10,000 of the city’s inhabitants retreated underground into the vast bunker complexes residing below. Believing that they are the only people still left on Xanu Prime, the people of Khairabad have been steadily working towards the goal of reestablishing contact with the rest of the outside world. The plot follows Hridith, one of the few people in the ruins of Khairabad entrusted with the dangerous duty of venturing to the surface in order to scavenge the ruins of the dead city for supplies and clues which might help the people of Khairabad and by extension Xanu Prime as a whole, re-establish contact with the rest of the world. One day while scavenging above, he comes across an old military base which miraculously still has much of its telecommunications equipment in order, including an interstellar radio transmitter. Retreating back to the underground with his news, Hridith’s discovery kicks off a power-struggle and internal civil war within the bunkers of Khairabad as the various factions of the city vie over who should be the ones to contact the outside and by extension reap whatever benefits it may bring. Hridith falls into the game of politics and violence as members of the underground try to influence him for their own selfish aims all while he confronts his own guilt for having sparked this conflict in the first place with his discovery. Eventually, he resolves to destroy the array to stop those around him from killing each other in what he sees as a senseless war.

The book climaxes in a last stand between the soldiers of a local warlord and Hridith supported by his friends on the surface at the array where the story’s plot was put into motion. Just as Hridith is about to destroy the transmitter once and for all, he has a change of heart and, unbeknownst to any other Xanans, sends his own message out into the universe a phrase that has been immortalized in Xanan literary history: “SLEEPLESS ANGELS HAVE BLESSED US. XANU PREVAILS.” After this transmission, Hridith detonates the bombs on the transmitter and is killed in the subsequent explosion along with all of his friends, the warlord, and all of the warlord’s soldiers. The story ends on a vague note in a room tucked away in a Himean communication station with a prompt on a console reading, “TRANSMISSION RECEIVED.” MMCDXLII has been lauded as a cornerstone of the Xanan science fiction genre since its publication in 2442, with many critics seeing it as a parallel tale of sorts to the reality of the Xanan Civil War. The author, Jakob Rajeev, has gone on to write other novels since, but has moved away from the post-apocalyptic setting and advanced into writing sci-fi horror novels and space operas, marking MMCDXLII as a truly unique title in his portfolio. It has seen a successful, chart-topping holovision adaptation and a prequel series set in the world of MMCDXLII's post-apocalyptic Khariabad is currently in pre-production.
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===Film===
Xanu Prime is the entertainment capital of the Coalition and perhaps the largest contributor to this status is the Xanan film industry. Films made by Xanan studios have long proliferated across the Coalition since the end of the Interstellar War and are essential in any serious discussion about Xanan art and culture. While Xanu Prime’s directors have made films under almost every genre since the industry started to take off in the 2310’s, Xanan audiences have taken particularly well to dramas, musicals, and a genre of Xanan invention, the Interfilm. The Xanan film industry has an ongoing rivalry with its Solarian counterpart, especially that centered on Venus. Xanan productions typically do not have as big of budgets as their Venusian counterparts and are usually outclassed in terms of visual effects and and as such are sometimes limited in the kinds of stories and scenarios they can portray. Xanan films make-up for these deficiencies by instead focusing on things like writing and storytelling. The winner of this rivalry is up in the air, and different critics will give different answers, though it is almost always guaranteed that entries from Xanu Prime and Venus will compete against each other in the Spur’s biggest film festivals and awards ceremonies. The three largest genres of Xanan film are dramas, musicals, and an indigenous kind of war film created on Xanu Prime called Interfilm.

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Xanan dramas are often very introspective and personal pieces which focus on realistic problems often with relationships or with the world at large and typically involve the main protagonist or protagonists of the films confronting some kind of tragedy or trauma. A large portion of Xanan dramas are produced by independent filmmakers, something that Xanu Prime has become a hotspot for in the last half-century.

The most well known Xanan dramas is '''The Love Melancholic''', a 2424 four-hour long dramatic period-piece epic directed by Savitri de Graaf, a woman hailed as one of the best ever directors in Xanan film whose work has stood the test of time despite its age. The plot follows the life of a young woman, Roxanne, moving to Nouvelle-Rochelle during the reconstruction of Xanu Prime during the Second Astonishment looking to start a life for herself. While there, she’s met with the challenge of an accidental pregnancy and conflicting emotions over whether to abort the fetus or bring it to term, and eventually decides to have the child. The film then follows Roxanne's life through the next decade and a half as a working mother who finds success in her career but is lonesome aside from the company of her daughter, until she meets a newly-arrived Himean immigrant, Markus, on the train home from work and the two slowly begin to fall in love, though complications and difficulties in personality and circumstances plague their efforts to see the best in each other. The film ends not with a happily ever after ending, but with a tentatively optimistic, bittersweet scene of Markus and Roxanne, now both nearing middle age by this point in the film, agreeing to try and make their relationship work while acknowledging the flaws in one another. The film is a classic among Xanan and Himean audiences and won record-breaking numbers of awards and accolades when released. It has even seen popularity in some circles in the Solarian Alliance, Republic of Biesel, and Republic of Elyra. Many film critics consider it to be a cornerstone of Human cinematic history and the best Xanan film ever made, though this position is disputed by others.
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While Xanan-made dramas may be the most well-received critically of most Xanan films, by far the most popular among the Xanan filmgoing audience for the last few decades are musicals. Musicals made in the Xanan style are often high-budget, over-the-top, and exceptionally grand, showy affairs. They are famous for elements like their large choreographic sequences which can involve dozens of dancers, massive and brightly coloured sets, often romance-centered plots with comedic elements, and musical style which often takes musical instruments from Xanu Prime’s colonizing cultures and puts a pop musical spin on them. When one speaks of "Pataliwood," musicals are what come to mind first. Most Xanans do not put musicals on the same level as other films and see them as something to watch for pulpy entertainment and spectacle rather than for their serious artistic value, though they will obsess over them and their stories all the same. Xanan house parties typically involve the screening of a musical in the living room and songs from some of the genre’s classics have cemented themselves into the Xanan cultural canon.

A recent notable example of a musical made in the Xanan style is '''North 60''', a 2461 film directed by Sabine Venturino, that centers on a young man from Nouvelle-Rochelle named Peter who inherits a fortune from a long-lost deceased uncle who made it big in the record industry. Overjoyed, Peter claims the fortune but learns that he can only receive his riches on the condition that he moves to his dead uncle’s dilapidated estate on the outskirts of Himavat City and lives there for one year. Peter moves but upon arrival hates his arrangements; he cannot stand the cold, remote nature of the city, but soon finds joy in its culture and music scene. He also develops a romance with the daughter of a record executive, a girl named Priti. Unbeknownst to Peter though, Priti’s father Jeroen is Peter’s uncle’s former business partner and wants to get Peter to leave Himavat City so he can claim the young man’s fortune for himself, as per the uncle’s will. Hilarity and antics ensue. The film ends with Peter deciding to forgo his fortune and instead running away from Himavat City with his love Priti and starting a new life together in Foy-Nijlen. The film is the highest-ever grossing Xanan musical and won a series of awards as well, though it saw only limited popularity outside of the Xanan market. This is a theme among Xanan musicals: massive domestic success but only limited success abroad, the reasons for which are routinely debated by many within the Xanan film community.
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The last of Xanu Prime’s most popular movie genres is one of Xanan invention: the Interfilm. Interfilms are very long, often multipart war epics set during the Interstellar War, a conflict from which the genre gets its name. They often have ensemble casts and focus on a variety of viewpoints rather than a single protagonist. These films often showcase themes of tragedy associated with the Interstellar War and ennoble the sacrifice of the Xanan nation and individuals during the war. These films are very serious and are seen as a direct contrast to the Xanan Musical genre in tone and content.

A keystone of the Interfilm genre is the series '''Count the Days''', a pentalogy directed by Xanan journeyman director Pierre Duchesne totalling over sixteen hours in length, with its installments releasing in 2447, 2449, 2450, 2552, and 2454 respectively. The story at first follows an officer in the Xanan Army, Captain Paul Ibrahim, stationed around Pataliputra. He leads his company through a very bloody battle in which the majority of his men are killed, by the end of the battle, his unit is more or less completely wiped out and he’s reassigned to command a new company, one unlike any he’s seen before. He’s given command of Company Y, an all-female volunteer unit that hasn’t ever seen combat before and is dumbfounded at first due to his belief that a female unit wouldn’t fight as well as a male one. He however is told by his superiors that he risks demotion of he doesn’t take on the unit, so he begrudgingly agrees. The first movie follows Ibrahim’s efforts to help train and ready his new unit for combat while he and the audience get to know the women of Company Y. Throughout the film, his outlook on his troops begins to change, and he connects with them more as people, though he still does not think they have the mettle to withstand warfare. The film ends with the Company seeing its first taste of combat during the opening stages of the Siege of Khairabad and Company Y sustaining horrendous losses and being cut off from the rest of the Xanan army in Khairabad.

The second film takes place during the Siege of Khairabad proper, and is a tale of the fight for not just victory but survival as the remnants of Company Y fight their way through parts of the occupied city to link up with the rest of the Xanan forces trying to hold their ground against the encroaching Solarian forces. Throughout this struggle, the Company comes across enemies but also Xanan partisan fighters who link up with the Company and join them on their journey to reconnect with their lines. During this film, Captain Ibrahim has his opinion changed on the women he commands, and he comes to see them as strong soldiers regardless of their gender. The movie ends with the Company and their new partisan compatriots reconnecting with the rest of the Xanan force defending Khairabad.

The third installment of the series is not so action packed in comparison to the second one and is mostly centered on the members of Company Y recovering from the events of the first two films and grieving their fallen comrades while integrating the partisans from the second film formally into their ranks and is the only film in the series that does not have an action sequence. It ends with the company being resupplied and ready to once again take the fight to the enemy.

The fourth part of the series is often seen as the black sheep of the series and departs from the story of Company Y to instead focus on 6th Company, a Solarian unit from Mars participating on the other side of the Siege of Khairabad. 6th Company is led by Captain Emily Mikkelsen, an embittered veteran of the Interstellar War until this point who is concerned only with ensuring that the troops under her command stay alive and sees victory in the siege as a means to that end. Part 4 shows events from the parts 1 and 2 through the eyes of the Solarians, and goes to great ends in order to humanize them, with members of 6th Company being portrayed as people who believe in the ideal of a united humanity under the Sol Alliance but also as people who don’t see the war as theirs and who want to return home to their lives and families most of all. The film ends with 6th Company preparing to launch an assault against Xanan positions in the ruins of Khairabad.

The fifth and final installment of the Count the Days series begins with a dramatic battle sequence between Xanan and Solarian forces, with the attention split equally between Company Y and 6th Company during the fighting. During the carnage however, multiple members of Company Y and 6th Company become separated from their units and run into each other on the battlefield, with many dying to one another in heart-wrenching sequences that brought tears to many a Xanan filmgoers’ eyes. The two captains, Ibrahim and Mikkelsen, also encounter one another, but both having been wounded and exhausted by the fighting decide to sit inside of a bombed out building and try to recover their strength together. The two have a long conversation about their lives before the war and the people under their command, avoiding any conversation about either’s actual thoughts on the conflict and instead just treating each other as people rather than enemies. After further rumination and conversation, Ibrahim comes to the realization that his wounds are mortal and that he will likely die from them if he doesn’t receive medical attention and asks Mikkelsen to kill him so that he might die with honor. Mikkelsen protests at first, finding some difficulty in pulling the trigger on a man she’d just spent the better part of a half-an-hour getting to know, but eventually concedes and agrees, seeing it not as an act of anger, but of mercy for Ibrahim. She shoots him and then begins her trek out of the bombed out building, with the shot lingering on Ibrahim’s corpse for a good long few seconds, only for a team of Xanan medics to enter the building and find Captain Ibrahim’s body, just minutes after his death. The medics transport his corpse back to the Xanan lines where the rest of Company Y has regrouped, and they mourn the loss of their officer and friend in a dramatic, heart-crushing scene. The series ends with Captain Mikkelsen and 6th Company in their camp that night, staring forlornly at a campfire, exhausted from the day’s fighting and failed assault before receiving orders to fall back to the rear of the Solarian force to recover their strength. As they leave, Captain Mikkelsen looks to the Xanan lines and begins to sob as the screen then pans up and fades to black on the smoke-filled night sky.

The Count the Days pentalogy is widely regarded as one of the best of the Interfilm genre and is to date the highest-grossing and most-awarded film series in Coalition history and has spawned a die-hard fanbase of supporters. It received a widespread release across the Coalition and Biesel and even saw limited screenings in the Solarian Alliance. The series is regarded by many to be a masterwork of Xanan cinema and a quintessential look into how Xanu Prime views its relationship with the Interstellar War.
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===Holovision===
The world of Xanan holovision is the most diverse in the entire Coalition of Colonies. Almost anything can be found on Xanan HV, live sports, dramas, talk shows, news, infomercials, and shows on a wide variety of premises. The quality of Xanan holovision is similarly varied, with some shows having hundreds of millions of credits in budgets while others are very obviously cheap and made to be aired or streamed as quickly as possible. Whatever the case, Xanan holovision programming and shows can be found across the Coalition and Human Frontier and generally has a positive reputation among foreign watchers. By and large, the most popular genres of holovision programming on Xanu Prime are dramas and sitcoms.

The most-watched Xanan Holovision program of all is a long-running late-night variety program called '''Teddy''', hosted by comedian and media personality '''Theodore Llewellyn'''. The show has been on-air and on popular Xanan and CoC streaming services for nearly twenty years at this point with its first episode having aired in 2447. Theodore Llewellyn is described by many in the Xanan media as “The Lord of Late Night,” due to his dominance over the late-night talk show genre paired with his polite, yet witty interview and conversational style. His show often showcases new musical acts, up-and-coming comedians, and routinely interviews the most talked about figures and celebrities in the Xanan entertainment industry and society at large. He also has been known to host games for his guests and for airing live or pre-recorded comedy sketches for his audience, usually involving himself or his guests as characters. Teddy is not just popular among Xanan audiences though and is watched by fans across the Coalition, both in Xanan Freespeak and in translated dubs of the Coalition’s various languages. He is also a prominent cultural ambassador for Xanu Prime to Himeo and has used his fame to advocate for closer cooperation and harmony between the two planets when off the air. Occasionally, the show will even film episodes on-location on various planets throughout the Coalition for promotional purposes, most often Himeo due to Llewellyn’s Himean heritage, being the child of two Himean immigrants to Xanu Prime. Llewellyn has joked at times about running for President under the Good Neighbor Party, though these jests haven't manifested in any political campaigns quite yet.

For information on Xanan Holovision dramas and sitcoms please read the two entries below.
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====Xanan HV Dramas====
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Much like on film, Xanans have a penchant for HV dramas, however these diverge significantly from the seriousness of their film counterparts. Xanan Holovision Dramas are very popular on the planet and can be separated into two categories: 5-Dramas and 2-Dramas.

5-Dramas are aired every day during the week on Xanu’s HV channels during the daytime, and are notorious for their low-production values, often odd, pulpy, and convoluted plots focused around absurd twists, romantic scandals and intrigue, as well as their inexhaustible lifespans, with the most popular of them having gone on for decades. The longest running and most popular of all Xanan 5-Dramas is '''A Time to Be Alive''', a series that has been running for 47 years at this point and has followed the lives and hardships of the fictional Khanna family, a massive upper-middle class extended family from Foy-Niljen. The series has uncountable plotlines and has been criticized for its convoluted and melodramatic writing style by many critics, but audiences still tune in every day of the week across Xanu Prime and the Coalition as a whole to get the newest scoop on what’s been going on with the Khannas and the people around them.

2-Dramas in contrast to 5-Dramas however are aired on weekends only during prime-time and are generally seen by critics and audiences alike as the best that Xanan holovision has to offer. 2-Dramas typically have very high production values and rely heavily on the strength of their writing, directing, cinematography, and character acting to succeed. They’re often focused on crime-related or similarly intense, dramatic premises and are usually rather serious in tone, in contrast to the soapy, scandalous mood of most 5-Dramas. Xanan 2-Dramas are considered to be some of the finest programming on Holovision anywhere in the Orion Spur in terms of their writing and acting quality, but they are not for everyone and have drawn criticism from some for being too humorless and inaccessible for those not wanting to become engrossed in painful, often traumatic storylines. One of the most well-known of Xanan 2-Dramas is '''Suntoucher''', a show which focuses on a journalist named Marielle Hollen as she investigates a series of missing persons reports from a town in the Naya Khyber delta called Dharbourg. Her efforts slowly unveil a sickening human-trafficking operation that seeks to abduct and torture its victims in the name of a twisted, hellish cult led by a madman who claims to be both the second coming of Jesus Christ and the next avatar of Vishnu all in one. While investigating as well, Marielle comes into contact with the criminal elements of Dharbourg and becomes their sometimes-friend, sometimes-enemy as she works both with and against them during the course of her investigation. As the cult learns of Marielle’s investigation though, it no longer becomes a mission to expose them for Marielle and the locals working with her, but a fight for their very lives as secret, underground war breaks out between the cult and the largest gang in Dharbourg with Marielle and those working with her caught in the middle. The series ends with Marielle’s investigation materials being delivered to the offices of the Xanan News Service after her death at the hands of the cult after killing its leader, and alludes to the publication of the story by the media giant and subsequent destruction of the cult and imprisoning of Dharbourg’s criminals. The series has six seasons in total and had an original run from 2455 to 2461 and has spawned an obsessive, devoted fanbase in recent years. Rumours are abound of a spin-off show focusing on any number of the series’s well-liked supporting characters being in the works, but there has been no confirmation of this yet.
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The last major genre of Xanan television is the sitcom, a genre that is usually recorded in front of a live studio audience and relies on whacky or zaney premises mixed with witty writing. Xanan sitcoms also a vehicle by which certain societal issues are explored or made light of in the public mind, and tend to rely a bit more on satire and dark humour than sitcoms from other planets around the spur.
While not the most popular of Xanan sitcoms in the present day, the show '''Fated''' has a strong cult following and has left a bit of an impact on Xanan pop culture. The show follows Gerard Sodhi, a man in his mid-thirties trying to make a living in Nouvelle Rochelle’s stand-up comedy scene while dealing with the pressures of his life and large extended family. On his way home from a show, he and three of his friends, Esha, Georges, and Krasnin, are cursed with bad luck by a homeless woman in a back alley after refusing to give her any money when she asked for some. After suffering from their curse through minor inconveniences and unfortunate, socially awkward situations over the next few days, the four return to where they first encountered the woman only to find her dead, unable to remove the curse. The show then goes on, focusing on the lives of Martin, his friends, and the awkward, absurd situations they then find themselves in. Fated spawned many catch phrases and words used in Xanan pop-culture some examples being: “flarge,” a descriptor used for something both flat and large, “plimpkin,” a word used to describe a person who is short, fat, and annoying, “squickimsh,” a term used in reference to something that is both gross and very sticky in texture like a piece of gum, and “fwoonj,” a noise a person makes when trying to awkwardly avoid saying name of someone whose name they’ve forgotten. The series ran for nine seasons from 2449 to 2458 and is seen as a show emblematic of the Xanan 2450’s.
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===Music===
Xanan music is exceptionally diverse and Xanan musicians are known throughout the Coalition and beyond for being some of the most prolific and distinctive in their respective genres. Xanan music usually takes instruments and structure from its Western European and South Asian colonising cultures and puts a modern, stylistic spin on them to best suit whatever genre the musician is aiming for. The most notable genres of Xanan Music are:

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The most popular form of music on Xanu Prime, is predictably, pop music. The Xanan style of pop music, often called '''Xanupop''' or simply '''X-Pop''', is similar to pop music in general, however it tends to eschew EDM-like synth riffs and instead prefers acoustic instrumentals to make the backing track. The genre has its roots in the ballads which emerged during and after the Interstellar War, mostly about home and family. Most modern-day Xanan pop songs focus on the topic of love, whether falling into it, breaking up a relationship because of the loss of it, reminiscing about times when the singer had it, or any other variety of situations about love, Xanu’s pop music has a listener spoiled for choice. While not specifically pop music, songs from Xanu Prime’s largest musical films are often played on pop radio, even if they are not strictly in the pop style. The most popular pop artist in Xanan history is Foy-Niljen native '''Robert Khatri''', a man whose crooning ballads and work with string and brass ensembles cemented him as the definitive voice of the Xanan Renaissance. While subsequent artists have out-sold him since his death in 2387, Khatri’s songs have gone on to be standards within Xanan musical canon and his songs still are known by Xanans far and wide even more than a century since their releases. The most popular active Xanan pop artist is '''Grace Rose''', though less commonly known by her real name Lavani Grace, a woman from Nouvelle Rochelle who has dominated the Xanan pop charts for the last decade and a half with her unique and beautiful vocal style with a signature high belting range perfectly suited for Xanan pop ballads.
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Rock music is the second most popular form of music on Xanu Prime and is renowned across the Coalition for its funky instrumentals that focus on rhythm primarily rather than melody and unique vocal style that typically moves between being spoken and being sung multiple times throughout each song. Rock songs made in the Xanan style, often called '''X-Rock''' or '''Xanurock''', also are often about love, much like their pop counterparts, but it is far from the only thing that Xanan rockers sing about. Common lyrical themes in Xanan rock music focus on personal independence, inner turmoil and depression, social issues, or more poignantly, lost love and ones that got away. A popular band in the X-Rock scene is '''Weatherland''', a group from Himavat City that is renowned for their creative instrumental style that often incorporates unorthodox chord progressions and jazz-like solos from the band's various members. Another group that has risen in popularity since their founding in the early 2450’s is the band '''Anti-Gone''', a band from Nouvelle-Rochelle that has gained notoriety for their more groovy, riff-driven, gritty, and raw hard-rock production style with songs that focus on personal struggle and often talk about deep, uncomfortable subjects like addiction and abuse. They have beome very popular with Xanan young adults though older rock fans have not been as receptive to their material.
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====Logmu====
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Folk music, specifically the '''Logmu''' style of folk music, has always been very popular on Xanu Prime and does not seem to be going anywhere soon. Logmu, the word being combination of the Hindi word “log” meaning “people” and the French work “musique” meaning “music,” is a genre of music that originally came about during the early stages of Xanu Prime’s colonization as a result of individual, often amateur musicians, from Xanu Prime’s different colonizing countries forming bands with one another and adjusting their styles to fit each band member’s diverse musical preferences. The genre has remained popular through two catastrophic wars, economic depression, along with many other hurdles and looks as if it will keep its popularity far into the future. Logmu ensembles are typically six people large and play music using a vast variety of instruments which date back to the colonization of the planet. For example, a standard six-piece Logmu band will typically have a fiddle, an alto saxophone or nadaswaram, a tabla, a guitar or sarod, an accordion, and a sitar, with at least one of the musicians singing as well, usually the guitar or sarod player. Logmu songs are usually musical stories or poems that follow a protagonist or recount the life experiences of the singer, often in character. They are self-contained dramas or comedies in their own right and have allowed the genre to remain popular for as long as it has because of the simultaneous relatability and dramatism of the plots of the songs. A subset of the Along with being a genre of music in its own right, Logmu also has a distinctive subculture focused on passing the craft down to younger generations, with many musicians in the genre seeing it as their duty to teach their children or other students how to play a Logmu instrument at some point in their lives. A subgenre of Logmu is, '''Sologmu''', a play on words of “Solo” and “Logmu” and is defined by its nature of usually being performed by a single musician who both sings and plays an instrument of their choice, usually a guitar, sarod, accordion, or sitar.

The most influential Logmu band of all time is the Kshatrigarh-based band '''The Air Raid Six''', a group of six musicians who had the shared childhood experience of living through the Siege of Khairabad. Once they became adults they saw great success in the fledgling All-Xanu Republic’s music scene singing songs about the Interstellar War and retelling or making up humorous or dramatic stories that occurred during the conflict. During this they pioneered the current six-piece format standard synonymous with modern Logmu music and their songs are still widely performed today. The most popular Logmu band presently is Paastad-based group '''Six of Hearts''' which gained popularity during the mid 2450’s and has yet to relinquish it since. The band’s musical style stays relatively close to tradition in the structure of the songs and focus on their stories, but diverges some in terms of the instrumentals used, replacing the normal guitar or sarod with an electric guitar and even playing solos with it, something often not seen in Logmu music. Current popular names in the Sologmu scene include '''Chloe Sinclair''', a young woman from Himavat City that has brought a moodier, more downbeat brand of singing and guitar playing to the genre; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a Vysokan Xanan who has created a niche in the genre for herself by singing in the Xanan style with her broad vocal range and accompanying it with poignant instrumentals played by herself on a morin khuur.
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====Himavat Midnight====
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Breaking from tradition is the genre of '''Himavat Midnight''', so called because the underground music shows in Himavat City which saw the genre come into being often didn’t start until midnight. It is the newest genre of music on Xanu Prime to have seen at least some popularity, breaking out of the local Himavat City rock scene in the mid 2450’s. Himavat Midnight is notable for its spacey, monotone vocal style usually accompanied by little more than a bass guitar, an electric guitar, a synthesizer, and a drum machine. Himavat Midnight songs usually are built around a simple bass or guitar riff and typically are simple yet satisfying in their construction. Most songs have either a bridge or an outro where one instrument performs a solo, though these are usually more toned down and not like the more technical skill-showcasing solos found in X-Rock. Lyrically, the songs are moody and often sad, talking about loneliness, lost love, boredom, and other saddening yet seemingly mundane feelings. Some in the Xanan music scene have welcomed the genre as a new form of music that is more emotional and thoughtful than some other songs, while others have dismissed it as "sad music for sad people." While the genre is still relatively very new relative to all other popular genres of music on Xanu Prime, Himavat Midnight does have a few notable bands. '''We Are They''', a three-piece Himavat City band, is the most popular group of the genre and is the one credited for breaking the genre out of its local confines with their 2457 song, ''Snowflakes in her Hair''. For now the band is the standard-setter for what Himavat Midnight should sound like.
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Another genre of music that is notably unique to Xanu Prime is a genre of electronic music that emerged from Pataliputran nightclubs in the 2420’s called '''Pataliputra Big House'''. During the Doldrums nightclub owners were having trouble getting patrons to come out and give business to their clubs because of the economic stagnation characteristic of the time period. To solve this, many night clubs began to push their DJs to get creative and blend different musical styles into something new and exciting in order to attract more patrons and thus, Pataliputra Big House was born. The genre was the product of Pataliputran DJ’s mashing together elements from dance-pop and more traditional house music, vocals from R&B, and instrumentals leaning on the more soulful and jazzy sides of Logmu. Songs in this genre incorporate beats which usually are medium tempo, heavy on bass, and have a central riff played on a synthesizer or saxophone which drives the entire song. Vocals are treated like an instrument in themselves in Pataliputra Big House songs and usually have a bevy of effects on them to achieve different listening experiences. The most well-known producer in the Pataliputra Big House scene is '''Bobby Baas''', real name Robert Satti, a Pataliputran native equally famous for his colorful, often patterned suits as he is for his music. He has routinely sold out electronic music festivals across the Coalition for the last decade after achieving local fame in the Pataliputran local scene during the early 2440’s. He is also unique for being one of the only artists from the Coalition of Colonies to have performed in the Sol Alliance, performing a series of sold-out shows called the “Sunrise Tour” in 2456 across the Solarian core. An up-and-comer in the Big House scene however is '''DJ SinTheTik''', real name Sarah Tussaud-Tipnis, a young woman who became a holonet sensation in the early 2460’s for her unique style meshing instruments from classical, symphonic music with the usual sounds of Big House.
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As often happens with strong electronic scenes, a hip-hop movement emerged around the 2430’s shortly after the popularization of Pataliputran Big House. Nearly every major city of Xanu Prime has its own hip hop scene and they all have friendly, if competitive, rivalries with another. While each major city’s scene has its own unique flair and sound, there are some commonalities to Xanan hip hop or '''X-Hop'''. Generally, Xanan hip-hop places a great amount of importance on the beat of the song, and as such these beats are typically more complicated and have more elements to them than hip-hop from other places. The rap verses themselves are usually fast and articulate with a lower, almost gravelly vocal tone being definitive for male rappers and a clear, bold tone that can carry over a nightclub crowd holding the same preference among female rappers. Nouvelle Rochelle rapper Abhang van Agteren, stage name '''AvAtar''', is considered by many to be the "King of Xanan hop-hop" and is famous for his smooth lyrical style and frequent collaborations with some of Xanu Prime’s largest producers, most notably Bobby Baas, with a catalogue of hit songs dating back to the 2440’s. His music is a common feature on playlists all around the Coalition and he has been a staple of Xanan popular music for decades, with no sign of his career waning any time soon. The most famous Xanan rap group is the all-female project '''Girl’s Night''', a four-member pop-rap group from Himavat City that first gained notoriety in the mid-2450’s for their lyrical prowess, broad appeal which crossed pop and hip-hop demographics, and anonymous nature. It is unknown what the true identities of Girl’s Night are since the group’s members are never seen in public or on stage without three-faced masks made in the style of hindu deities. The individual names they have given to the public are the letters, R, Y, V, and K.
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===Fashion===
Xanan fashion and dress is not characterized by any culturally specific garments or articles of clothing that are uniquely specific to Xanu Prime, but rather by how they style clothes that are seen as generally ubiquitous across human space. That is to say, color and the interplay within a palette in one look are king in Xanan Fashion. Xanans themselves often describe shopping and dressing as a whole as somewhat of a game, in making outfits for themselves which both are colorful, but also not outlandishly so and still manage to look sharp despite their chromatic nature. If a look clashes too much, it looks bad, simply put. Garishness is something that must be avoided in Xanan fashion and many of the planet’s top designers have emphasized that Xanan fashion is a game of balance. As to what colours are used though, there are no official rules or cultural norms, other than outfits which are heavy in their usage of black and white are reserved for funerals or other somber occasions, and similarly, looks with a lot of white or red in their composition should only be worn during weddings, baby showers, or other joyful events. The diversity of Xanu Prime as a planet in both climate and geography however has led to a variety of different fashions popping up across the planet and often fashion choices are left to the individual rather than governed by some collective norm. An exception tho this, however, is that outfits consisting solely of only one color, such as a suit with the same-coloured slacks and jacket or a dress made of only one color of fabric, are seen by many as overly formalistic and are typically only reserved for appearances in court for legal or financial matters. As such, monochrome outfits without much variation in colour are associated with the legal and banking professions. Colors aside, materials are also seen as an important part of Xanan fashion, and many mundane looking pieces of Xanan clothing may be worth thousands due to the craftsmanship and quality of the materials used in their manufacture. Intricate patterns are not uncommon in Xanan looks either, though they are usually associated with festive occasions and places. Accessories are seen as important in Xanan fashion, with neckties and cravats being popular among men and hairpins or bows finding favour among women. Jewlery is common for both men and women, but large pieces should not be worn in a workplace environment and instead should be saved for personal outings or family time.

===Sport===
Professional and amateur sports are both quite popular on Xanu Prime. Cricket and football are tied in popularity, with other sports like basketball, ice hockey, and rugby having some notoriety on the planet as well. Xanan children are encouraged from a young age to participate in team sports which many carry on into their teenage years and adulthoods through amateur club teams. As such, no Xanan town is complete without a cricket oval or football field. Xanu’s sports fans are known the Orion Spur-over for being some of the most passionate and obsessive in Human-inhabited space, with their chants, costumes, and fervent insults being both hated and envied by the planet’s sports rivals. Xanans are exceptionally loyal to their teams, be they national or local, and fights or even riots breaking out after upsets in football or cricket aren’t unheard of in the major cities.

The Xanan national teams in football, commonly referred to as '''"C.F.X.P"''' taken from their original French name Club de Foot de Xanu Premier, and cricket, often called the '''"Crimson Cats"''' courtesy of their mascot being a crimson-masked polecat, wear colors of green and orange with red accents. When either of the teams win a game, especially if during a high-stakes tournament, the entire planet often turns out to celebrate, clogging streets, overpacking bars, and pressing the Xanu’s police forces to their limits. Famously, when Xanu Prime won the 2454 Orion Cup in a surprise upset 2-1 victory over their longtime rival, the Callistean national team, Hastings Park, C.F.X.P’s home stadium, was deemed to be “The Loudest Place in the Known Universe” by a Martian sports writer. Similarly the stadium was said to have “Rung like bell,” when the Crimson Cats defeated the Port Antillean national team in 2458 to win the T20 Orion Cricket Championship. Individual cities also have their own football and cricket teams which play in a number of professional and semi-professional leagues. The highest level of these are The '''All-Xanu Ultraleague''' for football and the '''Alpha League''' for Class A cricket.

The planet has strong sports rivalries with many others, both within the coalition and without. They have a long-standing football rivalry with Callisto, jokingly called “The Second Interstellar War,” which has had its ups and downs throughout history, with both teams serving each other their most grievous defeats. Highlights include when Xanu defeated Callisto on its own home turf in 2448 to win the Orion Cup, or when the Callistean team duffed out their rivals only four years later in a hotly-contested group-stage match and stopped C.F.X.P from having a chance at defending its title. Xanu also has a hot cricket rivalry with Port Antilia, and the two planets are generally considered to be the best at the sport in the Orion Spur. Recent tension over the Solarian Collapse and Port Antillia’s annexation into the Biesellite CRZ has meant that the two teams haven’t met on an oval in over two years, leading many to believe that their next meeting will be the game of the century for Cricket. Xanu Prime also has a more friendly and lighthearted football rivalry with Himeo that has for most of recent memory been one-sided in favor of Xanu, but the two teams are still nevertheless very competitive and their fans very passionate over the rivalry.

==Immigrant and Expat Communities==
Xanu Prime is host to a number of large immigrant, expat, and diasporic communities, the largest of which can be read about in the entries below. '''A member of any immigrant or diasporic group who was born on Xanu Prime will select the Xanu Prime origin and accent in character creation.'''

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====Himean Xanans====
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The largest diasporic community on Xanu Prime, the Himean Xanan community has been on Xanu Prime for nearly as long as the Republic itself has existed. Himeans first came to Xanu Prime in the millions during the aftermath of the Interstellar War, often as workers and supporting staff helping to rebuild Xanu’s many broken and battered cities. A significant number of these Himeans remained on Xanu afterwards, established their own families and communities, and joined Xanan society. Most of the Himeans that came to Xanu during what is called the “First Wave of Himean Immigration” (2288-2310) dropped Himean customs and traditions in favor of broader assimilation into what many of them saw as a prosperous, growing, free Xanu Prime where their children could grow. A significant minority of Xanu’s population can trace at least part of their ancestry back to this first wave of immigrants from Himeo, and it’s quite common for the average Xanusan to have at least one or two Himean ancestors that came to Xanu during this period even if the person themselves doesn’t look Himean or have a Himean sounding name.

While immigration from Himeo continued in low levels throughout the 24th century, there was a great uptick from 2367 to 2390, a period called “The Second Wave of Himean Immigration” and less commonly, “The Paasstad Exodus.” Much like earlier Himean immigrants, those in the Second Wave came to the planet for work, but instead instead of reconstruction, they were taking part in the Paasstad Megaproject, an ambitious engineering initiative with the goal of raising the entire Xanan city of Paasstad above the marshy ground upon which it sat. The project was long and intensive, but was complete by 2389 and the numbers of Himeans immigrating to Xanu decreased shortly after the project was complete. In contrast to the First Wave, Himeans coming to the planet during the Second Wave mostly just immigrated to the city of Paasstad, and as such, their community became very unified and tightly knit. A district of the city, often just called Little Himeo, is where the present-day Himean Xanan community has its symbolic heart. Many Himean customs and traditions are still practiced here, Himean Common is spoken throughout the district, though with a noticeable Xanan Accent, and one can find many Himean products and authentic Himean food here. While there has not been an influx of Himean immigrants since the Second Wave, many Himeans looking to move their lives and to Xanu Prime find themselves in Little Himeo or one of the smaller Xanan Himean communities in other cities. Himean communities are very diverse politically, given that many Himean Xanans have assimilated into Xanu’s society and taken on new beliefs, however the Good Neighbor Party is particularly popular in Little Himeo and it often markets itself as the party for Himean Xanans. A majority of Himean Xanans are not first-generation immigrants, but were born on the planet as third or fourth generation Himeans.

Himean Xanans, whether their ancestors were part of the first or second waves, have broadly flourished on Xanu Prime and can be found in all walks of Xanan society. Notable Himean Xanans include '''Aukusti Staudenmaier''', member of the National Parliament and leader of the Good Neighbor Party, '''Lennox Sibelius''', Minister of the Economy and Finance under the Mukhopadhyay Government and man responsible for the implementation of the Mukhopadhyay Plan, '''Sara Knox''', current CEO of d.N.A. Defense and Aerospace, and '''Theodore Llewellyn''', host of the popular Xanan late night holovision talk program, Teddy.
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====Vysokan Xanans====
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The Vysokan Xanan community is Xanu Prime’s second largest and fastest growing immigrant and diasporic demographic; many see the planet as coming off of the first large wave of Vysokan immigrants it has ever experienced. Many Vysokans immigrated to Xanu starting in the 2440’s after the Mukhophadhay Plan began revitalizing the Xanan economy. In response, many Vysokans looking to better their lives and provide a stable income for their families traveled to Xanu Prime looking for work or simply looking to start new lives. This wave of immigration abruptly stopped in 2462 when the Orion Spur was gripped by phoron scarcity causing space flight costs to soar, but even now after that, some Vysokans still find their way to Xanu Prime.

Culture shock has been something consistent throughout the Vysokan Xanan community: Societally, Xanu Prime is to many Vysokan immigrants, especially those who grew up in the rural regions of Vysoka, a night and day difference. Because of this, along with the differing norms between Xanan and Vysokan cultures, many Vysokan immigrants have been slow to integrate and assimilate into Xanu Prime’s society and most live in close proximity to one another in majority-Vysokan neighborhoods and districts. Many in the Vysokan Xanan community are not wealthy, with most being in the working lower-middle class. Because of their recent increase in population, their unfamiliarity with Xanan systems and the fact that they are often poorer than the average Xanan, Vysokan Xanan communities often have difficult times accessing social services for healthcare or financial assistance, are less policed, and have higher than average rates of crime. Many Vysokan Xanans have found employment in Xanu’s agricultural and heavy industry sectors with their skills from home translating very well to those lines of work. Additionally, many have found themselves in the All-Xanu Armed Forces in hopes of learning skills there which they can then carry over into a civilian job after being discharged. The largest Vysokan Xanan community on Xanu Prime is the Little Vysoka district of Nouvelle-Rochelle.

Vysokan Xanan communities often try to recreate things from Vysoka itself, the most common of these being Stolitist spirit houses and shrines. Vysokan Xanans are majority-Stolitist in their religious practices, and many Vysokan Xanan communities celebrate Stolitist religious festivals. Vysokan Xanan practices are not identical to their Vysokan counterparts however. Many in Vysokan Xanan communities have eschewed travelling, nomadic shamans in favour of more congregationally-styled practices, with houses of worship and assembly taking influence from Christian churches and Muslim mosques in layout often being built to surround Stolitist shrines and spirit houses. These “Stolitchurches” are a uniquely Vysokan Xanan creation and often function as the cultural, spiritual, and symbolic centers of Vysokan Xanan communities. Other aspects of Vysokan culture which have in some way translated to Xanu Prime is the Vysokan penchant for athleticism; since the immigration, many young Vysokans have made a name for themselves and their community as professional athletes. Many even make the annual trip back to Vysoka for the Velhalktai. Host culture has not made the jump and the hosts in general is something that is begrudgingly dismissed by many Vysokan Xanans because they believe that Host culture affirms a stereotype among Xanussians that Vysokans are criminals. Politically, opinions are diverse for Vysokan Xanans, but many have voted for the Free Falcon Party in recent years due to the party’s Vysokan Xanan origin and stance on many immigrant issues.

Notable Vysokan Xanans include '''Aynan Zhergotov''', professional footballer and captain of the Nouvelle-Rochelle football club A.S. Olympique-Saraswati; '''Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova''', member of the National Parliament, leader of the Free Falcon Party, and formerly practicing medical doctor; '''Yekheren Bolkhadarov''', goalkeeper for the All-Xanu National Football Team; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a second-generation Vysokan Xanan singer who has seen recent popularity in Xanu’s Logmu music scene by combining Xanan-styled singing with Vysokan-inspired instrumentals.
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The Assunzionii Xanan community is the third largest diaspora on Xanu Prime and is one that has managed to strike a strong balance between preserving their own original culture and embracing Xanu’s own. Most of Xanu Prime’s Assunzionii population moved to Xanu Prime during the 2370’s and 2380’s in response to Xanu’s burgeoning economy, with a smaller wave coming in the 2450’s. As such a majority of the Assunzionii Xanan population are third or fourth generation immigrants, with the new arrivals in 2450 being first-generation. Most Assunzionii Xanans live in the middle class, with some having advanced into the upper classes through employment or their businesses. Throughout Xanu Prime, many Assunzionii people have found themselves in two primary industries: entertainment and engineering. The former came about when many Assunzionii immigrants were hired on by nightclubs and other entertainment venues for their expertise in electrical lighting systems. As they were employed more, some of these immigrants figured that they would instead start their own clubs which they could run and style as they pleased. Gaining traction for their exceptional light shows and very exotic atmospheres, Assunzionii Xanan-owned and staffed clubs, bars, theaters, and even film studios became very successful across Xanu prime in the 2400’s and have remained that way since, with some of the largest and most exclusive entertainment establishments on the planet being owned by Assunzionii Xanusians. Some of these immigrants also found themselves in engineering and went on to work in Xanu’s shipbuilding and logistics sector; their skills being perfect for designing and servicing electrical systems on ships. Many of their descendants still work in these fields today

Culturally, there are some distinct differences between Assunzionii Xanans and people from Assunzionne proper. Exposure to outside cultures and removal from the Luceism-centered domes of light has made many Assunzionii Xanusians less religious than their Assunzionii counterparts. Most still identify as Luceist and do practice, but the faith on Xanu Prime has become more casual and cultural to the local community rather than something more dogmatic and omnipresent. Simply put, Luceism isn’t as important to multi-generational Assunzionii Xanusians as it is to those back home on Assunzione or those who have just arrived from the planet, even if it is present in their lives. Despite this more lax attitude, there are large cathedrals of light in many Assunzionii Xanan communities, the largest being in the Little Assunzione district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, and they see frequent attendance. Most Assunzionii Xanusians are Structuralist Luceists and their churches function as large community centers and meeting places along with being used as houses of worship. Other aspects of Assunzionii culture have stuck around in the community as well, such as illumination. Assunzionii Xanan neighborhoods are very well lit, with more street lamps than average and more lights on houses as well, and this, along with the communal and tight-knit nature of many Assunzionii Xanan families, make their neighborhoods some of the safest on Xanu Prime.

Notable Assunzionii Xanusians include '''Sabine Venturino''', a third-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and one of the largest directorial names in Xanan film industry; '''Suleiman Kateb''', a second-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and current Minister of Energy for the Afzal government; and '''Hristos Santolaria''', a first-generation Assunzionii Xanan and current Chief Operations Officer for Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.
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====Fisanduhian Xanans====
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The Fisanduhian story on Xanu Prime is a strange one that started in 2386. In that year, the Xanan government agreed to host the remnants of the Fisanduh Freedom Front (3F) as a gesture of solidarity between two countries against tyranny. This arrangement created the modern Fisanduhian government-in-exile as it exists today with its seat in the Greentree neighbourhood of Nouvelle Rochelle. Of those few countries that recognise the existence of an independent Fisanduh, those being the Republic of Elyra and a vast majority of Coalition of Colonies members, see the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, also commonly called the “Greentree Government,” as the legitimate government of Fisanduh. The Empire of Dominia sees the Greentree Government as the political arm of the 3F, a rebel militia to some and a terrorist group to others, and therefore considers Xanu Prime and by extension the Coalition of Colonies to be a state sponsor of terrorism for giving the government sanctuary. The Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel do not recognise the Fisanduhian government-in-exile as the legitimate government of Fisanduh and have no relations with it.

Xanu Prime’s long-standing positive relationship with the Fisanduhian government has made it a very popular destination for Fisanduhian refugees, though its geographic distance from Moroz often makes traveling to the planet difficult for some. Fisanduhian refugees typically do not come in waves like other immigrant demographics, but arrive sporadically and often in small cohorts that were trafficked out of Fisanduh at the same time. This distance and trouble with travel cuts both ways: it isn’t just difficult for Fisanduhians to arrive on Xanu but much of the Fisanduhian Xanan community (aside from the aforementioned refugees) have never even been to Fisanduh, with their only ties to the Morozian region being ethnic and cultural. Religion is also something that sets Fisanduhian Xanans apart from other Xanans, with most being adherents to some strain of Reformed Morozian Tribunalism which rejects the authority of the Morozian Clergy and the Dominian Emperor as the divinely ordained head of the “Goddess’s Tribunal,” a term that the Goddess’s Holy Diocese of Xanu Prime uses to describe their religion over using “Morozian Holy Tribunal.” Some however have given up this faith and have either become irreligious or have taken on one of Xanu Prime’s dominant religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) as their own. Despite this, it is common for many Fisanduhian Xanans to celebrate Tribunalist religious holidays even if they themselves are not adherent to the faith since many see these days as part of their own distinctive culture. All Tribunalist churches on Xanu Prime have eschewed the use of traditional Morozian Holy Tribunal uniforms and religious symbols connected with the Dominian Emperor, viewing them as unnecessarily dogmatic and relics of an oppressive, Dominian, past.

Economically, most Fisanduhian Xanans are poorer than the average Xanan, with almost all being either refugees who arrived on the planet with nothing or their descendants. They lack the generational wealth of other demographics in Xanan society, and most are not educated to the standards demanded by the Xanan economy. As such, most can usually be found in industrial and service jobs, the All-Xanu Armed Forces or other working-class positions. Because of this disadvantageous economic position, many of the better-off Fisanduhian Xanans have been known to host refugee families and provide them with housing and food until they find employment and can secure housing of their own.

Despite the hardship the demographic has found, the Fisanduhian Xanan community has found a home for itself in Xanan society. Most Fisanduhian Xanans have assimilated and integrated themselves into broader Xanan society and adopted their norms and culture, but generally live in areas with other Fisanduhian Xanans. Some subsets of the group take this to the extreme, maintaining their own communities and living together in nearly all-Fisanduhian neighborhoods which preserve the native Fisanduhian culture and social systems. These communities are usually suspicious of outsiders and such attitudes have occasionally led negative attention from the media for allegations of xenophobia and exclusionism. There is a stereotype among Xanans that Fisanduhian Xanans are all rabidly politically active and pursue jobs in politics and government especially in order to aid the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, and while most Fisanduhian Xanans very supportive of the Greentree government, their involvement is often falsely overstated. In reality, Fisanduhian Xanans hold a variety of political views about Xanu Prime and the 3F government, with most being split into two camps: the Irredentists and the Second Homelanders.
Simply put, the Irredentists and Second Homelanders diverge on their priorities relating to the Fisanduhian Insurgency. The Irredentist camp of the Fisanduhian Xanan population places the government-in-exile’s backing of the 3F and other resistance groups in Fisanduh through sending them aid, equipment, and money above all else, in hopes of one day returning to an independent Fisanduh. The Second Homelanders instead want the government-in-exile to create a “second homeland" for the Fisanduhian people on Xanu Prime in cooperation with the Xanan government and often push for the government-in-exile to leverage its official and unofficial influence in Xanan society to provide better resources for the Fisanduhian Xanan community. The two groups, while different in their priorities, are not enemies to one another and often work together in both the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the unofficial representative of that government in Xanan Politics, the Universal Liberty Party. Historically, the Irredentist camp has been a majority in the Fisanduhian Xanan population, but as Fisanduhian Xanans have adjusted more to Xanan society and their needs have become more pronounced, the Second Homeland movement has grown considerably, especially among the demographic’s younger generations who see themselves as more Xanan than Fisanduhian. As the older generations of Fisanduhian Xanans die, it is predicted that the Second Homeland movement will soon hold a majority over Fisanduhian Xanan political discourse unless a serious shift occurs in the currently-stalemated Fisanduhian Insurgency.

Morozian Fisanduhians have mixed opinions of Fisanduhian Xanans. On one hand the sentiments of support and occasional aid shipment that make it to the region past the Dominian blockades are often appreciated, but on the other, most see the Fisanduhian Xanan population as too far away to make a difference in anything actually happening in Fisanduh besides giving a place for more refugees to flee to. Because of this, most Morozian Fisanduhians treat their Xanan cousins as people who are all talk and no action in regards to actually winning the insurgency.

Notable Fisanduhian Xanans include '''Erick Alexis''', current Vice-President of the All-Xanu Republic; '''Aaron Izmirlian''', Prime Minister of the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile; '''Ekaitz Azarola''', leader of the Universal Liberty Party and member of the National Parliament; and '''Elaena Chatfield''', a prolific if aging novelist often considered to be one of the greatest writers Xanu Prime has ever produced.
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Xanan Gadpathurian Exiles and their community are a small but notable immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime. They are almost exclusively concentrated in Pataliputra, it being the spot where most of them arrive on the planet after being ejected from their home world. Gadpathurian Exiles are known to be highly assimilationist and often make little effort to show that they are even in fact Gadpathurian at all, some too ashamed by their exile status to try and make others know of it. Some however have taken the identity and embraced it as part of who they are in Xanan society. Gadpathurian Exiles who do make a point of their heritage do not have their own distinctive architecture or cuisine, but instead hold much of their culture in their community structures and businesses. Gadpathurian Exile-owned businesses which embrace the identity are known to be pseudo-support groups for Gadpathurian Exiles themselves and often provide employment, housing, and other necessities to newly arrived fellow-exiles to ensure that they do not become homeless or starve. Xanan Gadpathurian Exile families similarly have been known to welcome fellow exiles into their houses to take care of them in a similar way to how Fisanduhian Xanans do, however Gadpathurian Exiles take this a step further and have been known to formally adopt entirely unrelated people into their families permanently. This has led to some Gadpathurian Exile families on Xanu Prime to be dubbed "Megafamilies" due to their enormously large sizes, with the largest on record, the Mokammel family, having over 20,000 current members either adopted, married, or being born into the family. The Mokammels mostly live in the Bamdha neighborhood of Pataliputra, though this area has come to be known colloquially as Mokammeljela or "the Mokammel District" in popular parlance due to the family's presence there. Other notable Gadpathuri Exile families are the Nanda, Yadhavar, and Jadhav. It is common for a Gadpathurian Exile to change their surname when being adopted into one of such families, though some retain their original surnames and take the family name as their middle name. Most Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are irreligious or have converted to one of the planet’s three major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, with some converting to smaller faiths.

Gadpathurian Exiles often have an advantage over other immigrants not in terms of their wealth, as most arrive to the planet positively destitute, but in terms of their educations. Most Gadpathurians were taught skills during their military service on Gadpathur, and even if they’ve now been exiled from their homeworlds, many retain their skills and have found lucrative work as tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, HVAC specialists, and welders to name a few). Of course, many have also joined the All-Xanu Armed Forces and usually find success there too, either as soldiers, specialists, or occasionally even officers, though this is somewhat rare as the Gadpathurian leadership style is usually inconsistent with Xanan doctrine and practices. It is seen as shameful in Exile society to take aid from the government, and there is a societal norm of redemption through achievement as a way to prove the decision to exile the person in question as wrong. As such, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are encouraged by their communities to hold a strong work ethic and to cooperate with other Exiles trying to achieve success. In regard to politics, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime typically vote either for the Free Falcon Party of All-Xanu Freedom League. Gadpathurian Exiles also have a somewhat toned-down view of the Sol Alliance, at least when compared to their unexiled counterparts. They are often less outspoken about their prejudice towards the Sol Alliance than Gadpathurians on Gadpathur proper, even if their views on Sol remain unyieldingly resentful.

Notable Gadpathurian Exiles Xanans include '''Chandi Mokammel''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile, current head of the massive Gadpathurian Exile Mokammel family, and celebrity within the Gadpathurian Exile community; '''Sri Afzal''', a second-generation Gadpathuri Exile, formerly a professor of law at Saraswati College, and wife to the current All-Xanu President Jacques Afzal; and '''Ruchir Nanda''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile and current All-Xanan Foreign Minister.
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==Holidays==

Xanu Prime has many holidays much like almost anywhere else in the Spur, however the foremost of these are as follows:

*'''January 1st - New Year’s Day''' - A celebration of the ushering in of a new year. This holiday is marked by fireworks, loud music, and the mass consumption of alcohol. It is officially recognised as a holiday.

*'''January 2nd - Founding Day''' - This is the day where Xanans celebrate the original colonization of their world by the Solarian Alliance. People get the day off work and festivities are held in communities across the planet to celebrate Xanu. Many consider this to be a toned down version of Xanan Independence Day, or simply a day to recoup and recover from the partying and subsequent hangovers brought on by New Year’s. Alternatively, some simply use the day to have a two-day long New Year’s celebration.

*'''March 28th - All-Xanu Peace Day''' - This is a holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the end of the Xanan Civil war. It is a rather low-key holiday where people are encouraged to reflect on the peace that they enjoy and spend it with their families. Xanan citizens get the day off of work, though because the war is such a distant memory, many just use this as a convenient day off of work or three-day weekend rather than a time to celebrate its original intended purpose.

*'''July 1st - Election Day''' - This day is less of a holiday and more a bureaucratic necessity. On June 1st, all Xanans vote in elections, local, province-wide, or national. Everyone gets the day off work so they can vote if they so choose. The holiday still applies to jurisdictions where no elections are taking place that year, so many often take it as a free day off of work.

*'''August 13th - Xanan Independence Day''' - This day celebrates the secession of Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies from the Solarian Alliance and is the largest holiday of the year. Parades, fireworks, cookouts, sporting events, and musical performances often occur on this day. The entire planet parties hard on this holiday and it is observed by Xanan expats living elsewhere in the Orion Spur as well. Xanans get the day off of work on August 13th.

*'''October 1st - Victory Day''' - Victory Day, as it may be implied, is the day where Xanans celebrate the victory of their country over the Solarian Alliance in the Interstellar War. It is marked by parades, and other celebrations that honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians who died in the conflict and the freedoms that they died for. It has a more solemn and reverent atmosphere than other Xanan national holidays. Xanans get the day off work on Victory Day.

*'''November 18th - Kulkarni Day''' - Kulkarni Day, also called Diversity Day (no relation to the Eridanian Holiday), is a holiday where Xanans celebrate their diversity and ethic of unity, coming together to unite as one strong and diverse society. It is held on the birthday of once planetary governor Gaspard Kulkarni to honor his vision for what a united yet diverse Xanan society could be. The day is celebrated widely across the planet and is a day where the various communities of Xanu prime go out of their way to share their cultures with those of different cultures and celebrate how they find strength in diversity. It is an official holiday and Xanan citizens get the day off of work on Diversity Day.

*'''December 25th - Christmas''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Despite its religious origins, it has long been a festivity that has spread across cultures and demographics regardless of religious affiliation, and as such it is an official holiday on Xanu Prime. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries.

*'''Varying Dates - Easter''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries. This holiday follows the lunar cycle and therefore is held on different days annually, though it is always on a Sunday, typically in April or March. It is not officially a holiday recognised by the Xanan State, but many observant Christians celebrate it.

*'''Varying Dates - Ramadan''' - A Muslim religious holiday that is observed for nearly a month by Xanu Prime’s muslim population. It includes the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, on which was recognised as an official Xanan holiday in 2334 after the festivities of feasting, partying, and parades became so widespread across Xanu Prime’s population that it could no longer be interpreted as a strictly religious celebration. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Eid al-Adha''' - A Muslim religious holiday which that honors the willingness of the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as Allah commanded of him. It is not an official Xanan holiday, but many observant muslims take the day off from work and celebrate. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Diwali''' - A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh, religious holiday which lasts for five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil, originally brought to Xanu Prime by Hindu and Sikh colonists from India. It is typically marked by fireworks, the lighting of lamps, brightly vibrant lights, and other festivities which embody light triumphing over the dark. The third day of the holiday, Lakshmi Puja, is the most colorful of the holiday, and Xanans who observe it usually take the day off work, though it is not an official holiday. While not Hindus, the local Assunzionii expat population also has begun to celebrate this holiday recently as well, tying it into their own beliefs of light triumphing over the darkness. Diwali is determined by the Hindu lunar-solar calendar, and therefore falls on different dates annually.

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==Overview==
Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great emphasis on the family unit as the building block of society. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another, and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague.

==Standard of Living and Civil Liberties==
A life on Xanu Prime is by and large a comfortable, though not exceedingly luxurious one. While not uniform across the various peoples and classes of the planet, the average Xanan isn’t bothered with extreme poverty, hunger, or lingering threats of conflict, nor do they live in cities adapted to suit hazardous environments. The average Xanan sits as a member of the middle class and the government has taken measures to try and ensure that the largest number of Xanans can live comfortably on the planet as is possible.
Healthcare works in a hybrid system, with some facilities being private and others being public, though the government will still partially fund the expenses of patients that go to private clinics or hospitals. Xanan healthcare quality is some of the best in the Orion Spur, only rivaled by that found on Biesel or in the Solarian Core, and millions come from across the Coalition annually to receive treatment from Xanan doctors.

Higher education at government-operated universities and colleges is free to those who can obtain a qualifying score on the Uniform Higher Education Assessment test or UHEA, while private universities on the planet usually have their own specific entrance exams.

Governance on Xanu Prime is democratic and many on the planet are invested in local-level politics. Despite political contrasts among the Xanan population, they generally place unity in forms such as nationality or city of origin before political beliefs, and as such political polarization and division is not as pronounced on Xanu Prime as it may be elsewhere in the Spur.

Xanu Prime has very liberal speech laws as well, with almost any kind of speech allowed by the planet’s government. Notable exceptions include; any rhetoric that targets another individual or group of individuals on the basis of race or religion, any rhetoric that styles itself as genuine when it is knowingly false, and any rhetoric that is knowingly false while intending to harm another person’s reputation or well-being. News media outlets have wide-ranging freedoms to publish what they like, though their content is regulated by the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission, an independent government agency which has the power to censor and fine publications with content it has deemed to promote fake news or be so biased that it burgeons on fake news.

Most Xanans are religious or spiritual to at least some degree, though atheism isn’t unheard of nor officially disparaged on the planet, but some in the planet’s society may privately look down upon atheists. Religious extremism is rare, but does occasionally occur in the most conservative of Xanu Prime’s various congregations and sects.
Firearm possession on Xanu Prime is legal, though heavily regulated. A thorough background checks and a firearm license obtained after a six-month training course and six-month waiting period are mandatory for any Xanan hoping to own their own gun. Civilians may only own ballistic firearms with magazine capacities of twenty rounds or less and special permits, famous for their long wait times, are required for the ownership of handguns and automatic weapons while less complicated weapons like bolt-action rifles and shotguns require less paperwork.

Same-sex relationships and gender nonconforming individuals are accepted as a part of Xanan society and do not experience any legal or widespread societal discrimination, though they only make up a small minority of Xanan relationships and people. There is no form of legal recognition of polyamorous relationships on Xanu Prime.

Despite the comfort and quality of life that the majority of Xanu Prime’s people enjoy, the planet is not without its problems. Xanu Prime’s economy saw an economic hiccup in 2458 following the invasion of the Republic of Biesel led by Solarian Admiral Michael Frost. The disruption in trade saw the planet’s economy and its people suffer a small downturn that was corrected by the next year, but the phoron scarcity in late 2462 tossed the Xanan economy and the living situation for many of its people into question. The situation has been stabilized by now, some three years later, and while Xanu itself fared through the economic troubles much better than many other areas in the Spur, there have been some lasting consequences. The most noticeable of these has been a widening income inequality that, while modest, is still concerning. Wages for the majority of the planet’s population have not kept up with the inflation that resulted from the phoron scarcity, and while efforts are being made by the government to reduce inflation and buoy wages or substitute incomes through the provision of more services through the state welfare system, the problem still seems to be growing slowly, yet steadily. It is not yet a crisis, though many on Xanu Prime are keen to see that it never becomes one.

==Societal Issues and Political Discourse==
One of the biggest contemporary issues that is often at the forefront of Xanan political and societal discourse is how Xanu Prime and its government should meet the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees from the war-torn territories of the Sol Alliance and the largest wave of Vysokan immigrants the planet has yet seen. Views on these new arrivals have been mixed. Some on the planet have welcomed them, pointing to the fact that Xanu Prime is already an incredibly diverse place while highlighting the fact that the planet and its economy need laborers to fuel continued economic growth coming out of the turmoil of the phoron scarcity. Others have been less welcoming, stating that Xanu’s government and corporations should instead invest more into places like Vysoka and the frontiers of the Coalition to improve the living situations for the people living there, lowering the desire for immigration, often pointing to the already-strained Xanan welfare system needing to take care of more people, most of which aren’t even Xanan citizens. Others still have instead encouraged the Xanan government to pressure other economically developed planets in the Coalition such as Himeo and Konyang to take on more of these immigrants and refugees; a way of “doing their part” as Coalition members. Now that the conflicts in the Solarian Wildlands come to a close, it is predicted that refugees will stop trying to reach Xanu, though immigration from Vysoka and the Coalition’s frontiers does not seem to be stemming any time soon.

A larger, more historical point of contention in Xanan society and politics is just what role the planet should play in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime’s unique position of having both the Coalition’s largest economy and strongest military have long given it a considerable, unbalanced level of influence over CoC affairs, and as such, its people hold differing opinions on just how the planet should carry itself. Broadly, Xanan citizens fall into two camps on the issue: increased autonomy from the CoC, or broader integration with the CoC, with nuanced views within each of these positions. Some who wish for more integration with the Coalition desire for the planet’s government to capitalize on the great amount of influence it has within the multi-planet government to create better economic situations on Xanu Prime, while others say that the planet should use its influence to instead help the developing members of the Coalition to grow and provide more for the CoC as a whole, even if Xanu itself may not see as large of returns in the short term. Others from the autonomy camp are opposed to further Xanan economic aid to Coalition members, decrying the aid as harmful to the planet when the money and resources given to or loaned out to other CoC members could be better spent on Xanu helping Xanans during the aftermath of the Phoron scarcity. Encompassing members from that same autonomy camp, there are those who believe that the Coalition itself should remain little more than a mutual defense pact, where members only come to each other's aid in times of war, instead of the semi-formal nation state it is today. Within these nuanced views from both sides, there are extremes in the debate for Xanu’s Coalition position, with small minorities of the population wishing for Xanu Prime to leave the Coalition entirely while others in equally small numbers are in favor of the Coalition federalising like the Sol Alliance and having Xanu Prime’s government be dissolved and the planet ruled from a central Coalition authority.

Speaking of defense, it is another topic that Xanan-Coalition discourse often revolves around. The All-Xanu Armed Forces are the largest and most capable fighting force that the Coalition has for both offensive and defensive interstellar warfare operations, and while this is a comforting fact for many Xanans and the Coalition as a whole, it is not without its controversy. Some on Xanu Prime, mostly of the autonomy camp, think that other Coalition members should spend more on defense than they currently do, to avoid a “free ride” on Xanu’s military might, citing increased military spending among members as both good for Xanu Prime and good for the Coalition as a whole if Xanu’s military resources do not need to be stretched so thin, providing for much of the Coalition on its own. Those of the integration camp however have pointed to Xanu Prime’s historical status as the defender of the Coalition and that it is the Xanan responsibility to provide for the Coalition’s defense, even to an unbalanced amount because other planets of the Coalition simply do not have the economies to afford their own militaries beyond those that patrol their home systems. The common refrain among those in the latter camp is “If not us, then who?”

Besides the differing political opinions on Xanu’s place with other planets of the coalition, which could be considered internal matters, there are differing opinions on external matters, namely its place with megacorporations. Xanu’s position on megacorporations has long been a topic of debate, but its presence in everyday Xanan life has dramatically increased after the 2462 phoron scarcity and Solarian Collapse. While many megacorporations, both Einstein Engines and the SCC alike, have operated on Xanu Prime as a springboard to the rest of the coalition, often having the planet be the location of their regional headquarters, their presence hasn’t always come without concern or conflict. Some on the planet see further megacorporations as the next step in Xanu Prime’s economic growth and advocate for a lessening of restrictions upon them so that they can help the planet emerge into a post-phoron scarcity spur. The majority on the planet however caution megacorporate cooperation and see the Republic of Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts as to what can happen to a country that does not strike the right amount of balance and regulation of megacorporations. Most Xanans believe that megacorporations need some level of government oversight and regulation, but they fail to agree on just what form that should take, with different political parties holding different positions.

A growing issue that has become more pronounced in recent years is Xanu Prime’s fight with illegal drug trafficking and other forms of illegal smuggling. Xanu’s status as the heart of the Coalition and as one of the largest ports in the Orion Spur has made it a hotspot for all kinds of illegal trafficking; any smuggled drug, weapon, or person going into, out of, or on a long distance trip through the coalition likely will pass through Xanu Prime on its way from point A to point B. This reality ensures that All-Xanu Public Security Office is always busy, on the hunt for contraband moving through the planet’s ports and channels of commerce. Drug trafficking is not the only issue with illicit substances on the planet, in the last decade and a half illegal drug usage has nearly tripled from where it was in 2455 and the cause is debated among Xanans. Some say it is because of the economic troubles that Xanu and the rest of the spur at large have had in recent years, driving people to use illicit substances to cope, while others state that the cause can be pinned on the recent uptick of refugees and immigrants, specifically Vysokan ones, that have flowed to the planet looking for work or sanctuary from conflict. Others still have blamed the decay of Xanan family bonds under the strain of increasing economic hardship as a cause of the crisis. Whatever the cause, in 2461 Prime Minister Fabian Chatterjee declared the rising usage of drugs a public health emergency and called upon the Public Safety Office, the Health Office, and corporations operating on Xanu Prime to commit more resources to stopping its spread. Support for cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and increasing funding to programs and facilities focusing on sobriety and addiction treatment has seen support across Xanu’s political parties and drug usage rates have slowed in their rise since the emergency was declared, though it is unclear if these measures will be effective in the long term.

==Xanan Cultural Customs, Values, and Communication Habits==
The Xanan culture is a collectivist one with some caveats. Societally, Xanans see individuals as important pieces to a greater whole, but place importance more on what is good for society rather than what empowers the individual. This is not so say that Xanans see individuality as moot, in fact many Xanans are perhaps some of the strongest advocates for individual rights and protections from the government and society within the Coalition, but this is all done with the caveat that individual freedoms should never disproportionately harm or disadvantage society and that an individual should be obligated to sacrifice what they may want or what may be important to them if it is seen as essential to promoting a greater good. This rationale is a growth from Xanan family culture, one which places a great deal of importance on respect, cohesion, and hierarchy.

===Xanan Family Culture===
The family is perhaps one of if not the most dominant cultural institution over any given Xanan’s life. The traditional Xanan family places a great amount of importance on how one fits into the family and expects children to respect their parents and elders and obey them on familial and some personal matters, even after childhood due to the idea of age equating to wisdom. In return for the obedience of their children, parents and elders in the Xanan family are expected to be able to explain to younger family members why they’ve made the decisions they have, so that the juniors of the family do not feel as if they are being taken advantage of. Gender roles are flexible in Xanan families, however women typically maintain the household and work part-time while men work full-time jobs, though this is by no means universal. The elderly are extremely important in the Xanan family, with elderly individuals being seen as sources of knowledge and inspiration who should be consulted by younger members of the family for advice during troubled times or when making big life decisions. Elders are also expected to handle the early childcare and religious education of their family’s children, however the former of these responsibilities is not as essential as it once was due to the Xanan government’s implementation of free childcare for children under the age of five. It is for an elderly person’s children or grandchildren to take care of them and allow them to live with them from after their retirement until they die, and refusing to do this is seen as a great betrayal and is heavily frowned upon in Xanan society. A negative effect of having such large families however is that inheritances, especially those of wealthier relatives, often can result in disappointment and messy intrafamily legal battles over securing a relative’s estate and assets.

Individuals are celebrated within the Xanan family structure, but individuality as a concept is not encouraged, and family bonds are often seen as a key component to the personal identity of any Xanan. This can occasionally result in more independently-minded members of families being ostracized by their kin, however, Xanan family culture usually supports that a family should welcome back those who become estranged from the family and work to make them feel a part of the unit once again and not hold grudges. Whether this is always adhered to though, is often up to the individual families themselves. It is not uncommon for multiple generations of families to live under the same roof, or even multiple extensions of a family to do the same. Any given Xanan household may have children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts, or granduncles residing in the same household. This mindset extends to individual living situations as well. Children often do not move out of their parent’s households unless for university or work until they are in their mid-to-late twenties or even thirties; there’s no expectation for Xanan children to move out at any age so long as they still contribute to the household. However, many young Xanans do move out and live apart from their families if they are committing to a serious romantic relationship with someone or if a job opportunity arises. Family culture dictates that geographical distance from the family be a consideration in if a person accepts a job, however most families are generally encouraging of their members seeking out lucrative job opportunities because it is viewed as something that will be a net positive to the family as a whole. Related to this, Xanans working abroad often maintain very close relationships to their families, even across generations.

An individual’s choices are supposed to be embraced and supported by their family members unless the family believes the decisions to be truly destructive to the family or individual; they cannot be discouraging simply because they personally disagree with the choices because doing so would place a personal opinion or prejudice above what may be best for the family. Families are expected to be strong support systems for their members and it is common for large families to offer housing, financial assistance, and emotional support to their members in times of need. Some families have embraced this bond and applied it to business, with some of the largest companies on Xanu Prime being family-run as a result. Xanu’s richest and most powerful families are referred to as “Forvamshons” and they are typically large players in the planet’s politics and business spheres. This attitude has occasionally led to corruption scandals, but generally it is seen that enriching one’s family by hurting the rest of society is unfair, dishonorable and cause for great shame. Some Forvamshons are very elusive and shy away from the public eye, while others are very public and have celebrity statuses. The foremost of these families often have private security details provided by the PMCG, Idris Incorporated, or Chevauchée Asset Protection and live in luxurious high-security compounds which house the entire family.

Marriages are seen as not just a special bond between two people but a union between two families and a commitment between them to work together. Because of this collective view on familial culture, arranged marriages are not uncommon on Xanu Prime though they have slowly become less prevalent since the 2430’s. Same-sex marriages are not frowned upon in Xanan culture however same-sex couples are expected to adopt children to continue the family lineage, much like how heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Polygamy is illegal on Xanu Prime and polyamorous relationships do not have any form of legal recognition. Though not illegal, Xenophilia is societally frowned upon on Xanu Prime because of long held beliefs that the family structures of other species are incompatible with human ones making relationships between Humans and Aliens fruitless and selfish, therefore hurting one’s family.

Death and customs around it are tied deeply to Xanan family culture, as the death of a person is not just seen as the death of an individual but a loss of a member of an entire family. Burial and cremation are both common during Xanan funerals with customs varying some between the planet’s various religions. Common between all of them though, families will either have their bodies buried in adjacent plots to one another or will keep the ashes of deceased family members in a single, large urn holding the ashes of most if not all of the family’s deceased relatives. During burials, it is a common practice for the deceased’s family to throw dirt, flowers, and lit incense onto the casket as it is lowered into the ground. Another custom stemming from this is that when a person speaks of a deceased friend or relative, it is seen as respectful to make a small tossing motion with their hand or arm. During cremations, the deceased are often cremated alongside incense. Another common custom around death on Xanu Prime regardless of religion is that most Xanan homes will have a large logbook wrapped in black and white cloth called an “Afterlife Journal” in the home’s living room or other public area where family members are able to write down memories, sentiments, thoughts, or prayers about their deceased relatives and friends. Many see the theme of memorialisation that is very present in Xanan culture having stemmed from both the strong family ties Xanans have built along with the collective impact of the Interstellar War even some two-centuries later.
Dinnertime is perhaps the most important time of the day for any Xanan family, as it is when everyone in the household gets together. Rarely do families eat apart from one another unless their work schedules dictate they do so. Meals are shared around a large central table in the household and weekend dinners can last hours. Not only is food shared but music is played and games are enjoyed, usually board games like Checkers and Chess, or card games like Alutte or French Tarot. Meals are a happy time and it is considered to be an honor to be invited over to share a meal with a Xanan and their family. It is customary for a Xanan family grieving the loss of a loved one to leave a chair at the table empty for the spirit of the deceased for anywhere from two weeks to two months after their passing and provide them food and drink as if they were still living as an act of remembrance and appreciation for their family member. This same gesture is also done two weeks to two months before the birth of a child if a family is expecting and it is instead seen as a show of excitement and optimism for new life. Many suspect the focus on meals in Xanan family culture to be the catalyst which has pushed Xanan cuisine to the upper echelons of high-class dining throughout the Orion Spur.

===Xanan Work Culture===
Xanan work culture is formalistic and hierarchical, tied into the planet’s strong sense of family, and can sometimes come off as hard to break into for outsiders. A traditional Xanan greeting for coworkers is a handshake accompanied by a light bow. Titles, rather than names, should be used with all coworkers, superior, equal-level, or inferior alike, unless the two coworkers are close friends. Small talk is appreciated, and asking after the family of a business partner is usually how most business meetings start. Xanans pride themselves on professionalism and often view their companies as a stand-in for the family outside of their real families, meaning they want to represent them well through professionalism and a strong public image while not bringing shame to them through misconduct or crassness. Superiors are expected to be respectful and formal, but friendly with those under them and coworkers are expected to execute the orders of their superiors without question and then raise grievances with their overseers when the act is done unless they believe the situation is truly disastrous. Businesswear is formal, usually consisting of a suit and tie or cravat for men and a dress or blouse and skirt for women or a uniform for either. Casual dress while on the job is not welcomed in Xanan society and is seen as immature and juvenile, likewise excessive make-up or jewelry in a work setting is seen as distracting and putting more of a focus on one’s personal appearance than the business matter itself, regardless of the person’s gender. However, dyed hair, and minimal tattoos, especially those that are covered by standard work clothing are accepted. Xanan business meetings are multifaceted, with meetings between managers and higher-up officials in companies usually being very logical, low-key, and methodical with great emphasis placed on the abilities of either side to debate one another. This has led to the term “debate” becoming synonymous with “business meeting” on Xanu Prime. If associates know each other well though, meetings can be very emotionally charged and spritied for better or worse, filled with either happiness and achievement, or anger and sadness.

Trust built through continuous face-to-face interaction are essential in Xanan business; Xanans will base their decisions on trust and intuition as much as if not more than data and statistics. It is not uncommon for a Xanan to request a meeting in person rather than communicating through holocall, telephone, messengers, or holomail, as personal relationships and connections drive much of Xanan business culture. and because these relationships take time to cultivate and are placed on the same level of importance as close, platonic friendships, it can sometimes be a culture shock for foreigners doing business with Xanans even if the Xanans themselves are quite happy to do business with foreigners. It is considered insulting to discuss business over meals and alcohol is usually not served during Xanan business functions or consumed while on the clock. Hard work is admired, but Xanans generally view workaholism as a selfish trait that makes a person disrespectful to their family by cutting into family time. It is considered poor form to schedule an important meeting in the month of August in the northern hemisphere or the month of February in the southern hemisphere, as these are the respective months usually reserved for summer vacation. This has led to the emergence of the sarcastic phrases, "I'll get to it in August," and "I'll get to it in February," both meaning that a person doesn't care about doing something. As a continuation of this, holidays and vacation days are strictly forbidden for business contacts to speak with one another unless the topic of conversation is not work-related and evenings are similarly off-limits as they are often reserved for family time. Coworkers should bring gifts or cards to one another when they return from business trips or holidays and doing so is considered a gesture of appreciation and goodwill towards one's peers as well as a sign of continued commitment to their workplace even after a vacation. Snacks and sweets, knick-knacks, cookware, and hand-written poems are gifts that would not seem out of place in a Xanan office after vacation season.

===Xanan Communication Habits and Social Norms===
Generally speaking, Xanans are friendly, yet polite to strangers and are typically not confrontational with people they do not have a prior relationship with such as friendship, family, or a long business partnership. This has led to foreigners often noticing an indirect style of communication among Xanans, as being very direct about certain matters to strangers is considered rude. It is for this reason that Xanans will often say “Maybe,” or “Perhaps,” as an indirect response in place of “No,” because they do not wish to directly disappoint, and thereby offend a stranger if something is asked of them, though a far more direct style of communication is used in some parts of Xanan society, namely by those in the military, police, or security industries. Good manners are a staple in Xanan communication and are usually only eschewed between close friends or family members. It is considered proper for a person in a higher position of power or standing in a company or family to give unsolicited advice to those beneath them, but rude for advice to be given the other way around unless asked for. Politics are expected to not be talked about in casual conversation unless they are related to the subject matter at hand or between friends. Social norms dictate that a Xanan generally should not want to impose their beliefs upon others, especially strangers, unless something someone else says contradicts something said Xanan believes, in which case a civil, if spirited political discussion may ensue. Xanan society is one that eschews the use of violence to solve disputes, and holds a pacifistic ethos that cements that one should only use force in the defense of oneself and others, however naturally, not all on Xanu Prime abide by these morals. Moreover, there is an expectation in Xanan society that people can, should, and will compromise with one another for the sake of preserving societal unity, order, and peace, with stubbornness in working out an agreement with one another being seen as a selfish trait. Finally, Xanans value the collective. Whether that is a family, company, crew of a ship, social circle, country, or other unit, Xanan social norms dictate that a good Xanan is one who will act in the best interests of something “bigger than themselves,” while using his or her unique individual qualities to best help themselves and the people around them who they care about.

===Religion===
Xanu Prime has no official religion, and in an effort to prevent conflict over religion or accusations of government favoritism, the government has a series of official secularism laws. They vary in specificity, but broadly they prohibit any person working for or affiliated with the state including anyone from politicians to police officers to public school teachers from displaying any religious iconography, dress, or artifacts on their person or in their workplace while they are on the job. This has drawn criticism from some elements of Xanan society which see these rules as an infringement upon religious liberty, especially from those who take religious dressage as an integral part to their faith, but the government has remained firm in their beliefs that the state will not expose or impose anyone to any one religion over another. Despite these laws, the Xanan government is not opposed to working with religiously-affiliated organizations like charities due to the laws prohibiting only the state itself from representing a religion, not engaging with it.
Xanan people as a whole vary in religiosity with both very progressive and orthodox interpretations of the various faiths found on the planet being practiced. The diverse backgrounds of the planet’s original colonists and immigrants since its colonization mean that nearly any religion can be found here. The largest however, in order of practitioners are, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sunni Islam. Smaller faiths like Luceism, Stolitism, Jainism, Sikhism, and even Moroz Holy Tribunalism can be found here, the latter of which is practiced almost exclusively by the Fisanduhian immigrant community. A significant portion of Xanan society is irreligious as well. Xanu Prime is well known across the Orion Spur for some of its examples of religious architecture, the most outstanding examples of which being the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, the Patali-Ram temple, and the Crystal Lights mosque.

==Food and Drink==
===Food===
Xanan cuisine has garnered a carefully cultivated reputation around the Orion Spur as perhaps some of the finest in human space. It is in a sense, a fusion between the cuisines of its most prominent colonizing cultures, French, Indian, Pakistani, and those of the BeNeLux. While certainly diverse, it is known most for being both simultaneously spicy, but not hot, with different spices adding highlights and emphasis to whatever notes in the palette the chef so chooses, and savory with a mouth-watering richness that lasts long after the first bite of whatever the food might be. This reputation precedes it, and expert Xanan chefs and cooks are some of the most revered in the culinary industry for their mastery of their crafts.

Arguably the most famous human celebrity chefs alive, '''Cléophe & Lonnie D’Cruz''', a married power-couple in the Xanan food world, were both born and raised on Xanu Prime. Their combined adventurousness in the culinary industry with endeavors both inside and outside their chain of fine restaurants has garnered both them and Xanan cuisine a spotlight few planets’ food cultures can match. The couple met while attending a small culinary school in the city of Foy-Nijlen, fell in love, and then combined their skills to open what would be their first restaurant in their well-known fine-dining chain, '''Solstice Xanan Bistro'''. Marriage followed shortly after, and the two have been together at the forefront of the Xanan food world ever since. While they are married to one another, the duo’s personalities are distinctly different, something often accentuated for the camera. Cléophe is known for their generally supportive and encouraging personality who wishes to simply share the joy of cooking with the world and has written dozens of best-selling cookbooks to that end. They are also well-known for their appearances on Holovision shows and Holonet videos giving tutorials on how to make some of the D’Cruz’s most well-known recipes in a basic kitchen; it wouldn’t be unfair to say that an entire generation of Xanan home-cooks were taught by Cléophe D’Cruz. Lonnie, however is far more of a chef’s chef who adheres to very strict professional and artistic standards, something he extols through his appearances on cooking competition shows, often played up to be a very cold and perfectionistic critic. Despite this reputation, he much like his spouse, is also committed to educating people on Xanan culinary arts and to that end is the President and, along with Cléophe, co-owner of the D’Cruz Culinary Academy, a culinary school which while only ten years old, has quickly risen to be one of the most competitive on the planet.

While Xanan cuisine is diverse and constantly reinventing itself, the dishes characteristically include some kind of meat, most often chicken, beef, or shellfish, paired with greens like beans, asparagus, or broccoli, or a starch like potatoes and something characteristic of almost all Xanu dishes, long-grain aromatic basmati rice, typically grown on the hilly territory surrounding the upper Naya Khyber river. Spices like cumin, black pepper, coriander, cloves, cardamom, and garam masala are ubiquitous throughout Xanan cooking, and often find themselves as part of exceptionally rich and creamy white sauces made from milk, butter, salt, and eggs. Pork is not as popular as a meat on Xanu Prime as others are, given the prohibition on eating it from Xanu’s original Muslim colonists and its perceived uncleanliness that Xanu’s original Hindu colonists held as well. Some Hindus also choose to not eat beef, and as such, many of Xanu’s restaurants have an option to serve synthmeat or a vegan meat substitute instead of actual beef in their beef-dishes. The most consumed alcohol on Xanu Prime by far is beer, often made in the Belgian tradition brought to the planet by some of its original colonists. Brandy comes in second and third, and wine is also popular too, but is more associated with fine dining than it is with a drinking experience alone. Xanan cognac and armagnac brandies have drawn the ire of some in the European Union on Earth because it uses the labels of “cognac” and “armagnac" despite not being produced in the Charente, Charente-Maritime, or Armagnac regions of France, though Xanan producers have paid these complaints no heed.

Some notable Xanan dishes include:
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'''Steak Xanu'''
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As the name implies, '''Steak Xanu''' is a steak, and is typically pan-fried rather than grilled. Usually it is strip steak as opposed to coming from any other part of the cow, but any cut of beef can be made in the Xanan style. The secret comes in what the beef is cooked with. Before the strip goes into the pan it is left to marinate in a warm broth traditionally made from chicken stock, cardamom, and garlic for flavor and is then lathered all over with a light coating of ghee right before it meets the pan in order to give its outside a crunchy, slightly singed crust. The steak is cooked to medium rare as it is basted in its own juices along with butter, rosemary, and a very light touch of cayenne powder. After it is cooked to a medium rare, it is taken out of the pan and left to rest for a few minutes before being dashed with a cooked sour, cream sauce, often simply called “beef sauce” made from heavy cream, olive oil, whisked egg yolks, and citrus or mango powder. Black pepper is cracked over the top, and the dish is served. Some of Xanu Prime’s Hindu population refuses to eat this dish, however chicken can be cooked in a very similar way and is typically referred to as “Bird Steak” by the Xanan culinary community. It is the official dish of the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle, Xanu’s Capital.
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'''Pataliputra Curried Rice'''
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An mainstay dish and one sure to be found on almost any Xanan dinner table, '''Pataliputra Curried Rice''', often just called Xanu Curry by foreigners, is a twist on the typical curry recipe that originated in the port city of Pataliputra. It is a yellow curry that uses peanuts as one of its main ingredients, giving it a signature nuttiness that mixes quite well with the dish's spices. Where it differs from a traditional curry though, is that its sauce is made from two parts, one of which is a buttermilk-garlic-onion powder base that is very thick and holds in the flavor of the spices and vegetables put into the sauce, while the other is a very light, chicken-based velouté sauce made from combining chicken bone broth with a light, typically but not always, salted blond roux to give the sauce some substance. When the two sauces combine, they make for an exceptionally savory base upon which spices like ginger, garam masala, coriander, fenugreek, and thyme can be added. Meats like chicken or shell-fish are often added to the sauce along with things like beans or potatoes. Rice used in this recipe is traditionally Xanan basmati rice. Every person and every city on Xanu Prime has their own slight variation on how they make this dish, but what is listed above is generally what could be expected when ordering it. It is the official dish of the city of Pataliputra.
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets'''
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets''', or more informally River Crozets, is a dish that originated from the city of Foy-Nijlen and is one that makes use of the various animals caught off the city’s nearby ocean coast and also those found in the Naya Khyber river which runs through the city. The base of this pasta dish is a spicy tomato-basil-cayenne sauce with melted and dissolved Naya Khyber river penguin blubber mixed into the sauce in place of a more traditional fat like butter, ghee, or olive oil. The pasta itself, the Crozets, are small rectangles which resemble something more akin to breakfast cereal in size and shape rather than a more noodly kind of pasta. The crozets are made from buckwheat, eggs, and flour, and are usually cooked al dente so as to retain a bit of firmness. Along with the pieces of pasta, river boiled lobster, fish, crab, or even river penguin meat is pan-fried with butter, rosemary, cardamom, coriander, and cloves before being put into the pasta usually in small bite-sized pieces. Black pepper is cracked over the dish and cumin is dashed over the meat and the dish is served in a heated stoneware bowl. It is the official dish of the city of Foy-Nijlen.
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'''Bunker Buster Sandwich'''
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The '''Bunker Buster Sandwich''' is perhaps the most famous example of Xanan street food. At its core, the dish can be used to refer to almost any toasted open-faced sandwich served on naan bread with over-easy eggs, fried vegetables, shredded cheese, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and garam masala. In practice however, the six ingredients mentioned above are only the beginning of what a bunker buster might be, as really anything from meats to veggies to mushrooms can be put on the sandwich so long as it tastes good. It’s incredibly easy to make and traces its roots back to the reconstruction of the city of Kshatragarh shortly after the Interstellar War, starting as a quick and easy meal for construction workers to make as a lunch. Many of these workers lived in the city’s underground bunker complexes while above-ground housing was being rebuilt, leading to the sandwich’s name. It has since spread all over Xanu Prime, and a visitor to any given Xanan city is likely to find dozens of variations on this simple, long-time favorite food. It is the official dish of the city of Kshatragarh.
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo'''
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo''' is a dish originating in the city of Paastad, but can be found across the entire continent of Paasland. It is made from the meat of the large waterfowl, the Paaskraan, and is similar to the traditional preparation of vindaloo with one major exception: the meat is not cooked with the vindaloo paste and is only added at the end. Instead, the meat of the Paaskraan is pan-fried until fully cooked and is usually then seared in a sweet vanilla sauce to give it a crunchy, caramelized outer shell. After this process, it is added to the cooked vindaloo paste (cloves, cinnamon, cariander, cardamom, cumin, red peppers, ginger, mustard seeds, black pepper) and served over rice, as a crunchy and spicy meal. It is the official dish of the city of Paastad.
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'''North 60 Sea Platter'''
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The '''North 60 Sea Platter''' is less a single coherent dish and more an entire subsection of dishes based around the theme of seafood caught north of 60 degrees latitude. Himavatian sea salmon or arctic tuna, usually pan-fried in olive oil or smoked and served with lemon and black pepper, commonly forms the center of the dish with arctic crab legs or lobster tail sold off to the side paired with a creamy garlic sauce. Other components could include fried octopus and squid or freshly caught steamed shrimp. What makes the dish more than just a typical seafood platter is a special malt vinegar made specifically from ale brewed in the Xanan tradition with added apple and lemon juice. More budget friendly variations of this dish exist as well, such as ones that swap the pan-fried salmon or tuna for smaller, less expensive, deep-fried fish, the lobster and crab for shrimp, and are commonly found in Himavat City bars as a cheap, delicious option for a lunch or dinner. The food arrangement originated in the city and is its official dish.
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Not all food on Xanu Prime is within the realm of “fine dining” however. When not at the table for a full meal, the average Xanan can reach for any number of snack foods produced by Xanan companies. Many of these have become not just popular on Xanu Prime, but throughout the entire Coalition and beyond thanks to the aggressive marketing and economic dominance of Xanan shipping and food conglomerates.

===Drink===
Along with its food culture, Xanu Prime is renowned for some of the alcohol the planet produces as well. The planet’s main claim to fame in this area are in the spheres of beer, wine, and brandy. The planet has brewed beer since its founding, with the Xanan style of beer crafting having its roots in the Belgian-style brought to the planet by colonists from the BeNeLux itself. The most popular brand of beer on Xanu Prime is '''Prince Pallav Blonde Ale''', a golden concoction brewed in Foy-Niljen that has held dominance over the Xanu Beer market for the last two decades. This robustness in the brewing has brought the planet into a rivalry with the nearby planet of Himeo, the two of them both having proud beer-making heritages that often brings them to test this with each other. For the last decade and a half, brewers from the two planets have engaged in a festival called Hoptoberfest, a week-long celebration of the craft of brewing beer held every October complete with live music, authentic Xanan and Himean cuisine, and crucially for the craft brewers of both planets, competitions determining which beer is the best for that year. The festival changes venues from Paastad, Xanu Prime and Inverkeithing, Himeo every other year.
In addition to beer, Xanu Prime imported a strong wine culture from its original colonists, namely the French ones. Vineyards dot the Xanan countryside on every continent, with a few even on the southernmost peninsulas of Himavatia. The planet makes a wide variety of wine, though it is most notable for its own variety of Malbec grown in the mountains of Naya Khyber and Nouvelle-Occitanie called '''Khyberian Malbec'''. Where Xanu Prime’s wine truly shines though is not in the wine itself but in its use in fortified wine products like brandy and cognac. The unique climatological conditions of Foy-Niljen brandy country have led to the grapes grown there to be perfectly suited to making fortified wines and distilled wines, leading to their flavors to be pronounced but not overbearing up front with subtle, complex notes coming to the surface the more the drinker savors the beverage. The most noteworthy and popular drinks of this category are the mid-range priced '''2275''', a mainstay brandy of Xanan bars and kitchen cabinets alike, and '''Saint-James Black Label,''' the gold standard of Xanan luxury cognac. The national cocktail of the All-Xanu Republic is the '''Stag Hunt''', so named for its popularity on hunting trips and other outdoor activities during the summer. It is a simple drink made by mixing three parts brandy, typically 2275, one part lemon juice, and two parts chilled tea usually served over ice in a highball glass. Chai is the most consumed tea variety on Xanu Prime and the soft drink Xanu Rush is also very popular on the planet.

==Arts and Entertainment==
===Visual Art===
Xanan visual arts are vast and have an uncountable number of movements and subgenres. Generally, though, Xanan artworks are reflective pieces and try to examine the human condition rather than focus on the form by which the artwork expresses itself. Xanan visual arts have been heavily influenced by the original Western European cultures which settled the planet and as such, drawing and painting are the most prevalent forms of Xanan art. Sculpture that has been inspired by South Asian cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are also prevalent, however. The most famous and well-known movement of Xanan art is often called the Atman Movement and it lasted from the 2340’s until the 2390’s. Most art scholars consider it an offshoot of Symbolism and Neoclassicism but with noticeable existential elements. Pieces of the movement hold an almost ethereal aesthetic, and usually feature elements like fanciful Greco-Roman or Indian ruins, ruins that aren’t even found on Xanu Prime, bright, vibrant colors contrasted by dark backdrops, and esoteric spiritual imagery sourced from Xanu Prime’s three largest religions. The goal of all of this, in the words of the Xanan master painter Arnold Vasudevan, a key figure in the movement, is, “To imagine Humanity and the human condition as if we could breach the barrier between this world and the next with our own hearts and achieve revelation and clarity through the beauty within and without our souls and the world around us.” An offshoot of this movement referred to as Wartime Atman replaces the ruins of classical civilisations with scenes of wartime destruction found on Xanu Prime during the days of the Interstellar War and is meant to make the viewer reflect on things like conflict and mortality. The most famous piece of visual artwork of the Atman Movement and arguably of all Xanan visual art is called “The Truce" by Harini Martin. It is a colossal mural of a painting that is four meters tall and ten meters wide which depicts the ghosts of dozens of fallen Xanan and Solarian soldiers enjoying leisure time and doing activities like enjoying meals with one another, idly talking, showing each other photographs, and playing games and sports with one another over the backdrop of a desolate Interstellar War era battlefield in what used to be a Xanan city. The sky around the edges is a dark color, however in the center of the painting’s sky is a brilliant white, alabaster, pink, and red halo that shines light on the entire painting. It was unveiled to the public at the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery, Xanu Prime’s national art gallery, in 2387 as part of a ceremony to commemorate one-hundred years of peace with the Solarian Alliance and has remained a permanent fixture in the museum since. Notable Xanan sculptures include Our Lady of Sorrows, a giant statue of the Virgin Mary included in the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, and Skyward Unity, a large sculpture commemorating the elevation of Paastad.

===Architecture and Cityscapes===
The traditional Xanan style of architecture can be described as a hybridization of various styles of design from the Indian subcontinent and Western Europe, much like the origins of the planet’s original colonists. Xanan buildings usually have some form of artistic design on their exteriors, even if it’s as simple as a basic tile weave around entrances or semi-ornate molding around windows. Many have lines drawn on the outside in paint or sculpted on, and Xanan buildings are usually painted with bright, if mellow, colors if they are painted at all. Most Xanan buildings are taller than they are wide and long, courtesy of the planet’s re-urbanisation plans after the Interstellar War and because buildings in most urban areas are taxed based on how much land they take up. Most Xanan buildings have some form of accoutrement around their roofs, usually being a modest carving or bust of a family’s ancestor if it’s a house or a historical or religious figure, representing the theme of memorialisation found elsewhere in Xanan culture. The roofs themselves of most Xanan buildings are usually vaulted or occasionally are domed or flat. Larger, more modern buildings like skyscrapers on Xanu Prime have a distinctive half-sloping-roof look pioneered during the beginning of Xanu’s economic resurgence during the mid 2330s. Originally implemented as a cost-saving measure to make a building that still looked tall but didn’t need to have as much office space, the half-sloped roof or “Xanan Roof” style of skyscraper has part of the building’s roof flat and level with the ground while another portion of it slopes downwards. This style of design has become emblematic of Xanu Prime and even the newest skyscrapers on the planet are built with this design in mind, despite its economical origins. Xanan buildings are made from a variety of materials, with the few-surviving pre-war structures being made from wood, brick, and steel while commercial and industrial buildings built after the Interstellar War are made from concrete, steel, and glass with plaster or clay facades. Individual houses are still mostly made from wood or brick, however. Sizes and shapes of Xanan residences vary, with some being modest single-family homes typical of other places within the spur. Multi-story townhouse complexes surrounding a single communal courtyard are common in urban areas and are often inhabited by entire extended families. In more densely populated areas, large communal apartments built for extended families are common, though some wealthier families have pursued a policy of “Co-flooring,” a type of retail arrangement where an entire extended family will rent out an entire floor of traditional single-family apartments from a property agency. Some buildings on Xanu Prime play very heavily into inspiration from the planet’s original cultures and would not look out of place in South Asia or Western Europe, though buildings built like those are in the minority of Xanu Prime’s structures.

The last notable architectural feature found in many Xanan cities are residual walls and gun emplacements left over from the Xanan Civil War. Of Xanu’s six major cities, only three, Nouvelle Rochelle, Pataliputra, and Foy-Niljen have them still, with Kshatrigarh’s being destroyed beyond repair during the Interstellar War and Paastad’s torn down during the city’s elevation, lest they sink into the swamp. Himavat City never had walls, as it was too small of a community to have built them during the Xanan Civil War. The walls proved useful during both of the planet’s most devastating conflicts, acting as barriers to outsiders and platforms for return fire, but due to the gargantuan cost of operation and maintenance, the walls and their gun emplacements were decommissioned in the 2310s as a part of the Sneijders Government’s economic recovery plans. Today, the walls stand as partially restored massive memorial complexes dedicated to those who fought and died during both the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War, with some cities having sections of wall filled with the names of those who died during the conflicts from those respective cities.

Xanan cities are generally filled with greenery as both a measure to keep temperatures down during the summer and simply provide Xanans with natural beauty even in the most urban of places. Large public transit networks consisting mostly of subway systems and tramways are found in almost every Xanan city and most of those who live in the urban cores of Xanan cities do not own automobiles, while Xanans who live in the country, suburbs, and smaller cities have a higher percentage of car ownership. The most common way to get around on Xanu Prime however is by bike or motorbike; Xanu Prime has the most bikes per capita of any planet in the Orion Spur, even beating out the Solarian population hubs of Callisto and New Hai Phong. Generally speaking, Xanan cities are walkable and do not require an automobile to move around efficiently, and some Xanan cities have banned the construction of freeways and overpasses entirely in order to preserve their cities’ “authentic landscapes.”

===Literature===
Xanan literature has cemented itself around the institution of “The Great Novel,” something often defined in Xanan culture as a work of literary art that has captured the essence or soul of the Xanan struggle and of the planet’s people through the usage of compelling stories and multifaceted characters. Novels written in the Xanan style usually have psychological and spiritual themes and use supernatural or otherwise fantastical elements to explore Xanan the human condition, usually in surreal or otherwise unorthodox methods. Xanan novels are typically not adapted into films as is seen elsewhere in the Orion Spur due to Xanan movie-going audiences preferring musicals and epics instead, but they have become popular as holovision shows, stageplays, and miniseries.

Some notable works of Xanan Literature are:
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====Gloam in Gold====
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It is hard to understate the importance and influence of Foy-Niljen writer Arif Hugo’s 2345 masterpiece Gloam in Gold in the Xanan literary canon. The text, while short for a novel, is considered to be not just a seminal work of Xanan writing but also quite possibly the greatest novel ever written in the Freespeak language, despite its unorthodox, almost anthological structure. It is set in 2296 during the initial reconstruction of the city of Kshatrigarh and focuses on the character Madhar Emond, a Kshatrapur native and veteran of the Interstellar War now working to rebuild the battered city during the aftermath of the terrible conflict. His life isn’t a glamorous one and he spends most of his days doing hard, construction labor, digging paving roads, working on buildings, and the like. One day on his way home from work, he stops by one of the city’s many large cemeteries to rest and watch the sunset, however shortly after his arrival he lays down in the grass and begins to hear voices around him. He’s alerted by these and denounces them as hallucinations at first as he sees no one around who could be speaking to him, yet as the sun sets further below the horizon, he realizes that there is some coherence through the voices and that they are in fact, the voices of the dead, fully aware of their condition yet unable to move on to the afterlife.

Madhar listens in to their conversations for a moment and is eventually confronted by the voice of one of the deceased, one Missus Pandit, an elderly woman who died of old age before the city was besieged. She acts as a sort of a guide who explains the dispositions of each of the ghosts present, and each part of the novel tells a story of a different spirit inhabiting the cemetery proceeding in the order of Missus Pandit herself, and then to Mister Quint and Miss Jessup, a young Himean immigrant couple who perished together from starvation during the siege and seem to be resigned to their fates, and recount their lives from Himeo and their immigration to Xanu before the war broke out, their desperation during the siege, and now their dead, yet still loving existence of being with each other even in death. Madhar’s conversation with the couple is interrupted by the voice of Marcus Thevar, a rich and vulgar middle-aged businessman.

Marcus refuses to reveal how he died and seems to be entirely preoccupied with finding a drink and scoring some action from the cemetery’s various young female ghosts, one “Miss Periwinkle” foremost among them. Miss Periwinkle’s gravestone has been defaced, though she looks to be buried in the plot next to Thevar, much to her dismay. She’s the spirit of a young, pious woman with a noticeable Lunan accent who claims to have died from tuberculosis during the siege. She refuses to say her real name and repeatedly breaks from talking to Madhar to fend off verbal advances from Thevar, before quietly lamenting to Madhar that her days of being confined to the mortal plane despite being dead and needing to routinely reject the, “slovenly attempts at romance,” by her neighbor is God’s unique choice of purgatory for herself. Despite this, even in this “purgatory” she finds some joy in acting as an almost motherly figure to Patrice, the ghost of a five-year old child who doesn’t know how he died but according to Miss Periwinkle, seems to have abruptly perished in the aftermath of the siege after naively playing with unexploded ordnance he found a local park’s sandbox. Miss Periwinkle parts with Madhar after claiming she needs to tend to the child, and her voice fades away.

After this, the story shifts to that of Private Hendriks, a solemn Xanan infantryman who was killed during the battle and laments that he will never be able to return home to his mother and Lieutenant Ma, a Solarian bomber pilot who was shot down over the city during a night raid and is a conflicted character. She is racked by the guilt of possibly killing innocent civilians yet reminisces on what a still-united Sol Alliance might have looked like without the carnage and in his words, “tragedy” of the Interstellar War. Hendriks and Ma seem to spend most of their days now arguing with each other, the conflict lingering on past their deaths, much to the annoyance of the cemetary’s other inhabitants.

Lastly, Madhar is spoken to by the voice of a young woman, a teenager named Penelope, who brokenly and through a voice characterized by sounding as if she’s on the verge of tears, tells Madhar that her body is in fact, not even buried within the cemetery at all, but that her body instead lies buried beneath a new road built on the graveyard’s northern edge and sulks to him that nobody will ever remember her or who she was since there’s nothing to mark her grave. Madhar, heartbroken in this discovery, realizes that he was part of the crew that paved that very road and profusely apologizes to Penelope for spoiling any chance she might have ever had with a proper burial and claims that it was done in the name of progress for the city and for Xanu Prime. Penelope’s voice rejects this and breaks into tears, repeating the fact that nobody will remember her or who she was, but eventually she is soothed by Madhar’s assurances that he will remember her and that he’ll never forget that she lived and died in the city. Seemingly consoled, Penelope thanks Madhar before her voice too fades away and leaves him in silence, the sky now dark. He makes his way home in solemn, quiet contemplation, thinking about the various spirits he’s heard over the last few hours and once again questions if it was even real. When he gets home to a modest, quickly built apartment, he resolves to himself that whether what he heard was real or not, he cannot forget the past even in pursuit of the future.
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'''The Screen Behind the Mirror''', written in 2419 by the second-generation Fisanduhian Xanan writer Elanea Chatfield, is another one of Xanu Prime’s great novels. It’s a semi-autobiographical story, taking some elements from Chatfield’s own life and putting them into the events of the plot. It is also is a very spiritual text, having references, symbols of, and allusions to the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Tribunalist Scripture, and Luceian holy texts throughout to help convey its themes of residual trauma, destruction and rebirth, and enlightenment.

This semi-autobiographical story follows the experience of a young accountant named Demitra during a camping trip out to the remote New Pacific Scarlands for some time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The story’s structure is unorthodox and the chapters bounce between describing her current experience in the scarlands, and recounting flashbacks to her childhood growing up as a Fisanduhian refugee in a diverse community of Xanan and Assunzionii-Xanans on Xanu Prime. The story in the present is a tale of survival that begins after Elanea’s camping group has a car crash on a back-country road with her being the only surviving member. Much of her food and shelter perished in the blaze and she’s left to fend for herself in the forest and crater lake-filled wilderness around her. She manages to build herself some crude shelter, but during her first night in the wilderness, she’s awoken by a bright ray of light reflecting off of what she can only describe as a large phantasmagorical mirror levitating just outside the border of her crude encampment. In the mirror she sees her own reflection, but not as she is now, but rather how she was as a child at ten years old.

The book then cuts to her life as a ten year old, going over Demitra’s seemingly mundane memories of living in a low-income, almost ramshackled home with her Fisanduhian refugee family in Nouvelle Rochelle, setting the scene for the reader and introducing them to the characters of Demitra’s concerned, yet judgemental mother, silent and stoic father, whiny younger brother, and somewhat detached and aloof older sister over a standard family dinner. This scene ends and we are brought back into the present, the next morning, where upon waking, Demitra discovers that the mirror still resides outside of her camp. When she leaves to forage for food and tries to hunt something with a hatchet she was able to retrieve from the car crash, the mirror silently follows her, always levitating behind her just out of reach. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between this story of survival, following Demitra’s struggles to build a fire, fish, and hunt, and her childhood memories, with the line between the two becoming increasingly blurred as her situation becomes more and more desperate. She sees apparitions of her childhood friends and her deceased father walking around as if it was the most normal thing in the world, calling out to her yet never responding to her words. The memories become less and less pleasant as time goes on, with the phantom mirror showing her family fights, tough times in school with childhood bullies, and the deaths of family members all while her situation in reality, struggling in the wilderness becomes more and more dire.

The story climaxes with Demitra screaming her frustrations at the mirror in the wee hours of the morning, venting her frustrations to it and breaking down into tears while explaining her feeling on herself in detail to the mirror, stating that she knows she’s at her core a broken person but that despite all that the mirror has shown her she is only motivated to survive in the remote wilderness of the scarlands. Her flaws and trauma have only informed her more of her humanity, and she finishes this monologue with the line, “I’ve survived fucking everything else so far, I am not dying alone out here no matter how hard you try to make me want to!” Ever silent, the mirror remains but grows blindingly bright, so much so that the forest itself begins to smolder and catch fire from the phantasmagorical brilliance it emits. Struggling to cover herself from the light, Demitra covers her eyes but is directed by some voice, “Come and see, and behold, She who is all that is, ever was, and will be.” As she feels her very skin begin to burn and peel away from the mirror’s light, Demitra takes a metaphorical leap of faith and opens her eyes, no longer seeing the mirror but an eye made from flames staring right at her, blacking out and collapsing soon afterwards. In perhaps the most notable section of the novel, the page after Demitra’s collapse is entirely blank except for one sentence placed in the middle of the page: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.”

The plot picks up on the next page there with a jump to Demitra regaining consciousness in the back of a rescue VTOL-craft, surrounded by paramedics on a steady flight to a hospital. Demitra asks the medics on the craft with her how they found her and they confusedly reply that a signal mirror was flashing an S.O.S signal at a passing shuttle and it was reported to them, and remark they thought it was Demitra herself who’d sent the signal. She makes it safely to a hospital in a small country town and the story ends with her looking out onto the reflection of a moonlit lake, contemplating what she saw and asking herself how she possibly could still be alive.

The Screen Behind the Mirror has stood the test of time as a venerable pillar of Xanan literature since its publication nearly fifty years ago. The book saw some controversy upon its initial release however, with some more conservative voices in Xanu Prime’s various religious organizations calling it a sacreligious text with some even calling for the book to be burned en masse. The Morozian Holy Tribunal in the Empire of Dominia has banned the sale of the book within Dominian space, a fact that its author Elena Chatfield wears with pride and its publishing company has used to boost sales of the book within the Coalition and Republic of Elyra. This controversy has been eclipsed in the Xanan public eye by its literary brilliance however and it remains popular today among all demographics on the planet. It has been famously hard to adapt to a holovision show however, with all four attempts never getting past the preproduction stage or falling apart during production and has been referred to as a "cursed" story by those in the entertainment industry for that reason.
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====MMCDXLII====
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A fine example of the recently popular Xanan science fiction tradition, '''MMCDXLII''' (pronounced as 2442) by Kshatrigarh writer Jakob Rajeev is an alternate history science fiction novel published in 2442 set in a alternate timeline where Xanu Prime was blasted from orbit by Solarian forces during the Interstellar War and sent into a perpetual nuclear winter similar to how Gadpathur was in reality. The setting of the story is the city of Khairabad, or at least what is left of it. Before the bombardment of the planet took place, roughly 10,000 of the city’s inhabitants retreated underground into the vast bunker complexes residing below. Believing that they are the only people still left on Xanu Prime, the people of Khairabad have been steadily working towards the goal of reestablishing contact with the rest of the outside world. The plot follows Hridith, one of the few people in the ruins of Khairabad entrusted with the dangerous duty of venturing to the surface in order to scavenge the ruins of the dead city for supplies and clues which might help the people of Khairabad and by extension Xanu Prime as a whole, re-establish contact with the rest of the world. One day while scavenging above, he comes across an old military base which miraculously still has much of its telecommunications equipment in order, including an interstellar radio transmitter. Retreating back to the underground with his news, Hridith’s discovery kicks off a power-struggle and internal civil war within the bunkers of Khairabad as the various factions of the city vie over who should be the ones to contact the outside and by extension reap whatever benefits it may bring. Hridith falls into the game of politics and violence as members of the underground try to influence him for their own selfish aims all while he confronts his own guilt for having sparked this conflict in the first place with his discovery. Eventually, he resolves to destroy the array to stop those around him from killing each other in what he sees as a senseless war.

The book climaxes in a last stand between the soldiers of a local warlord and Hridith supported by his friends on the surface at the array where the story’s plot was put into motion. Just as Hridith is about to destroy the transmitter once and for all, he has a change of heart and, unbeknownst to any other Xanans, sends his own message out into the universe a phrase that has been immortalized in Xanan literary history: “SLEEPLESS ANGELS HAVE BLESSED US. XANU PREVAILS.” After this transmission, Hridith detonates the bombs on the transmitter and is killed in the subsequent explosion along with all of his friends, the warlord, and all of the warlord’s soldiers. The story ends on a vague note in a room tucked away in a Himean communication station with a prompt on a console reading, “TRANSMISSION RECEIVED.” MMCDXLII has been lauded as a cornerstone of the Xanan science fiction genre since its publication in 2442, with many critics seeing it as a parallel tale of sorts to the reality of the Xanan Civil War. The author, Jakob Rajeev, has gone on to write other novels since, but has moved away from the post-apocalyptic setting and advanced into writing sci-fi horror novels and space operas, marking MMCDXLII as a truly unique title in his portfolio. It has seen a successful, chart-topping holovision adaptation and a prequel series set in the world of MMCDXLII's post-apocalyptic Khariabad is currently in pre-production.
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===Film===
Xanu Prime is the entertainment capital of the Coalition and perhaps the largest contributor to this status is the Xanan film industry. Films made by Xanan studios have long proliferated across the Coalition since the end of the Interstellar War and are essential in any serious discussion about Xanan art and culture. While Xanu Prime’s directors have made films under almost every genre since the industry started to take off in the 2310’s, Xanan audiences have taken particularly well to dramas, musicals, and a genre of Xanan invention, the Interfilm. The Xanan film industry has an ongoing rivalry with its Solarian counterpart, especially that centered on Venus. Xanan productions typically do not have as big of budgets as their Venusian counterparts and are usually outclassed in terms of visual effects and and as such are sometimes limited in the kinds of stories and scenarios they can portray. Xanan films make-up for these deficiencies by instead focusing on things like writing and storytelling. The winner of this rivalry is up in the air, and different critics will give different answers, though it is almost always guaranteed that entries from Xanu Prime and Venus will compete against each other in the Spur’s biggest film festivals and awards ceremonies. The three largest genres of Xanan film are dramas, musicals, and an indigenous kind of war film created on Xanu Prime called Interfilm.

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Xanan dramas are often very introspective and personal pieces which focus on realistic problems often with relationships or with the world at large and typically involve the main protagonist or protagonists of the films confronting some kind of tragedy or trauma. A large portion of Xanan dramas are produced by independent filmmakers, something that Xanu Prime has become a hotspot for in the last half-century.

The most well known Xanan dramas is '''The Love Melancholic''', a 2424 four-hour long dramatic period-piece epic directed by Savitri de Graaf, a woman hailed as one of the best ever directors in Xanan film whose work has stood the test of time despite its age. The plot follows the life of a young woman, Roxanne, moving to Nouvelle-Rochelle during the reconstruction of Xanu Prime during the Second Astonishment looking to start a life for herself. While there, she’s met with the challenge of an accidental pregnancy and conflicting emotions over whether to abort the fetus or bring it to term, and eventually decides to have the child. The film then follows Roxanne's life through the next decade and a half as a working mother who finds success in her career but is lonesome aside from the company of her daughter, until she meets a newly-arrived Himean immigrant, Markus, on the train home from work and the two slowly begin to fall in love, though complications and difficulties in personality and circumstances plague their efforts to see the best in each other. The film ends not with a happily ever after ending, but with a tentatively optimistic, bittersweet scene of Markus and Roxanne, now both nearing middle age by this point in the film, agreeing to try and make their relationship work while acknowledging the flaws in one another. The film is a classic among Xanan and Himean audiences and won record-breaking numbers of awards and accolades when released. It has even seen popularity in some circles in the Solarian Alliance, Republic of Biesel, and Republic of Elyra. Many film critics consider it to be a cornerstone of Human cinematic history and the best Xanan film ever made, though this position is disputed by others.
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====Musicals - ''North 60''====
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While Xanan-made dramas may be the most well-received critically of most Xanan films, by far the most popular among the Xanan filmgoing audience for the last few decades are musicals. Musicals made in the Xanan style are often high-budget, over-the-top, and exceptionally grand, showy affairs. They are famous for elements like their large choreographic sequences which can involve dozens of dancers, massive and brightly coloured sets, often romance-centered plots with comedic elements, and musical style which often takes musical instruments from Xanu Prime’s colonizing cultures and puts a pop musical spin on them. When one speaks of "Pataliwood," musicals are what come to mind first. Most Xanans do not put musicals on the same level as other films and see them as something to watch for pulpy entertainment and spectacle rather than for their serious artistic value, though they will obsess over them and their stories all the same. Xanan house parties typically involve the screening of a musical in the living room and songs from some of the genre’s classics have cemented themselves into the Xanan cultural canon.

A recent notable example of a musical made in the Xanan style is '''North 60''', a 2461 film directed by Sabine Venturino, that centers on a young man from Nouvelle-Rochelle named Peter who inherits a fortune from a long-lost deceased uncle who made it big in the record industry. Overjoyed, Peter claims the fortune but learns that he can only receive his riches on the condition that he moves to his dead uncle’s dilapidated estate on the outskirts of Himavat City and lives there for one year. Peter moves but upon arrival hates his arrangements; he cannot stand the cold, remote nature of the city, but soon finds joy in its culture and music scene. He also develops a romance with the daughter of a record executive, a girl named Priti. Unbeknownst to Peter though, Priti’s father Jeroen is Peter’s uncle’s former business partner and wants to get Peter to leave Himavat City so he can claim the young man’s fortune for himself, as per the uncle’s will. Hilarity and antics ensue. The film ends with Peter deciding to forgo his fortune and instead running away from Himavat City with his love Priti and starting a new life together in Foy-Nijlen. The film is the highest-ever grossing Xanan musical and won a series of awards as well, though it saw only limited popularity outside of the Xanan market. This is a theme among Xanan musicals: massive domestic success but only limited success abroad, the reasons for which are routinely debated by many within the Xanan film community.
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====Interfilms - ''Count the Days''====
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The last of Xanu Prime’s most popular movie genres is one of Xanan invention: the Interfilm. Interfilms are very long, often multipart war epics set during the Interstellar War, a conflict from which the genre gets its name. They often have ensemble casts and focus on a variety of viewpoints rather than a single protagonist. These films often showcase themes of tragedy associated with the Interstellar War and ennoble the sacrifice of the Xanan nation and individuals during the war. These films are very serious and are seen as a direct contrast to the Xanan Musical genre in tone and content.

A keystone of the Interfilm genre is the series '''Count the Days''', a pentalogy directed by Xanan journeyman director Pierre Duchesne totalling over sixteen hours in length, with its installments releasing in 2447, 2449, 2450, 2552, and 2454 respectively. The story at first follows an officer in the Xanan Army, Captain Paul Ibrahim, stationed around Pataliputra. He leads his company through a very bloody battle in which the majority of his men are killed, by the end of the battle, his unit is more or less completely wiped out and he’s reassigned to command a new company, one unlike any he’s seen before. He’s given command of Company Y, an all-female volunteer unit that hasn’t ever seen combat before and is dumbfounded at first due to his belief that a female unit wouldn’t fight as well as a male one. He however is told by his superiors that he risks demotion of he doesn’t take on the unit, so he begrudgingly agrees. The first movie follows Ibrahim’s efforts to help train and ready his new unit for combat while he and the audience get to know the women of Company Y. Throughout the film, his outlook on his troops begins to change, and he connects with them more as people, though he still does not think they have the mettle to withstand warfare. The film ends with the Company seeing its first taste of combat during the opening stages of the Siege of Khairabad and Company Y sustaining horrendous losses and being cut off from the rest of the Xanan army in Khairabad.

The second film takes place during the Siege of Khairabad proper, and is a tale of the fight for not just victory but survival as the remnants of Company Y fight their way through parts of the occupied city to link up with the rest of the Xanan forces trying to hold their ground against the encroaching Solarian forces. Throughout this struggle, the Company comes across enemies but also Xanan partisan fighters who link up with the Company and join them on their journey to reconnect with their lines. During this film, Captain Ibrahim has his opinion changed on the women he commands, and he comes to see them as strong soldiers regardless of their gender. The movie ends with the Company and their new partisan compatriots reconnecting with the rest of the Xanan force defending Khairabad.

The third installment of the series is not so action packed in comparison to the second one and is mostly centered on the members of Company Y recovering from the events of the first two films and grieving their fallen comrades while integrating the partisans from the second film formally into their ranks and is the only film in the series that does not have an action sequence. It ends with the company being resupplied and ready to once again take the fight to the enemy.

The fourth part of the series is often seen as the black sheep of the series and departs from the story of Company Y to instead focus on 6th Company, a Solarian unit from Mars participating on the other side of the Siege of Khairabad. 6th Company is led by Captain Emily Mikkelsen, an embittered veteran of the Interstellar War until this point who is concerned only with ensuring that the troops under her command stay alive and sees victory in the siege as a means to that end. Part 4 shows events from the parts 1 and 2 through the eyes of the Solarians, and goes to great ends in order to humanize them, with members of 6th Company being portrayed as people who believe in the ideal of a united humanity under the Sol Alliance but also as people who don’t see the war as theirs and who want to return home to their lives and families most of all. The film ends with 6th Company preparing to launch an assault against Xanan positions in the ruins of Khairabad.

The fifth and final installment of the Count the Days series begins with a dramatic battle sequence between Xanan and Solarian forces, with the attention split equally between Company Y and 6th Company during the fighting. During the carnage however, multiple members of Company Y and 6th Company become separated from their units and run into each other on the battlefield, with many dying to one another in heart-wrenching sequences that brought tears to many a Xanan filmgoers’ eyes. The two captains, Ibrahim and Mikkelsen, also encounter one another, but both having been wounded and exhausted by the fighting decide to sit inside of a bombed out building and try to recover their strength together. The two have a long conversation about their lives before the war and the people under their command, avoiding any conversation about either’s actual thoughts on the conflict and instead just treating each other as people rather than enemies. After further rumination and conversation, Ibrahim comes to the realization that his wounds are mortal and that he will likely die from them if he doesn’t receive medical attention and asks Mikkelsen to kill him so that he might die with honor. Mikkelsen protests at first, finding some difficulty in pulling the trigger on a man she’d just spent the better part of a half-an-hour getting to know, but eventually concedes and agrees, seeing it not as an act of anger, but of mercy for Ibrahim. She shoots him and then begins her trek out of the bombed out building, with the shot lingering on Ibrahim’s corpse for a good long few seconds, only for a team of Xanan medics to enter the building and find Captain Ibrahim’s body, just minutes after his death. The medics transport his corpse back to the Xanan lines where the rest of Company Y has regrouped, and they mourn the loss of their officer and friend in a dramatic, heart-crushing scene. The series ends with Captain Mikkelsen and 6th Company in their camp that night, staring forlornly at a campfire, exhausted from the day’s fighting and failed assault before receiving orders to fall back to the rear of the Solarian force to recover their strength. As they leave, Captain Mikkelsen looks to the Xanan lines and begins to sob as the screen then pans up and fades to black on the smoke-filled night sky.

The Count the Days pentalogy is widely regarded as one of the best of the Interfilm genre and is to date the highest-grossing and most-awarded film series in Coalition history and has spawned a die-hard fanbase of supporters. It received a widespread release across the Coalition and Biesel and even saw limited screenings in the Solarian Alliance. The series is regarded by many to be a masterwork of Xanan cinema and a quintessential look into how Xanu Prime views its relationship with the Interstellar War.
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===Holovision===
The world of Xanan holovision is the most diverse in the entire Coalition of Colonies. Almost anything can be found on Xanan HV, live sports, dramas, talk shows, news, infomercials, and shows on a wide variety of premises. The quality of Xanan holovision is similarly varied, with some shows having hundreds of millions of credits in budgets while others are very obviously cheap and made to be aired or streamed as quickly as possible. Whatever the case, Xanan holovision programming and shows can be found across the Coalition and Human Frontier and generally has a positive reputation among foreign watchers. By and large, the most popular genres of holovision programming on Xanu Prime are dramas and sitcoms.

The most-watched Xanan Holovision program of all is a long-running late-night variety program called '''Teddy''', hosted by comedian and media personality '''Theodore Llewellyn'''. The show has been on-air and on popular Xanan and CoC streaming services for nearly twenty years at this point with its first episode having aired in 2447. Theodore Llewellyn is described by many in the Xanan media as “The Lord of Late Night,” due to his dominance over the late-night talk show genre paired with his polite, yet witty interview and conversational style. His show often showcases new musical acts, up-and-coming comedians, and routinely interviews the most talked about figures and celebrities in the Xanan entertainment industry and society at large. He also has been known to host games for his guests and for airing live or pre-recorded comedy sketches for his audience, usually involving himself or his guests as characters. Teddy is not just popular among Xanan audiences though and is watched by fans across the Coalition, both in Xanan Freespeak and in translated dubs of the Coalition’s various languages. He is also a prominent cultural ambassador for Xanu Prime to Himeo and has used his fame to advocate for closer cooperation and harmony between the two planets when off the air. Occasionally, the show will even film episodes on-location on various planets throughout the Coalition for promotional purposes, most often Himeo due to Llewellyn’s Himean heritage, being the child of two Himean immigrants to Xanu Prime. Llewellyn has joked at times about running for President under the Good Neighbor Party, though these jests haven't manifested in any political campaigns quite yet.

For information on Xanan Holovision dramas and sitcoms please read the two entries below.
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====Xanan HV Dramas====
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Much like on film, Xanans have a penchant for HV dramas, however these diverge significantly from the seriousness of their film counterparts. Xanan Holovision Dramas are very popular on the planet and can be separated into two categories: 5-Dramas and 2-Dramas.

5-Dramas are aired every day during the week on Xanu’s HV channels during the daytime, and are notorious for their low-production values, often odd, pulpy, and convoluted plots focused around absurd twists, romantic scandals and intrigue, as well as their inexhaustible lifespans, with the most popular of them having gone on for decades. The longest running and most popular of all Xanan 5-Dramas is '''A Time to Be Alive''', a series that has been running for 47 years at this point and has followed the lives and hardships of the fictional Khanna family, a massive upper-middle class extended family from Foy-Niljen. The series has uncountable plotlines and has been criticized for its convoluted and melodramatic writing style by many critics, but audiences still tune in every day of the week across Xanu Prime and the Coalition as a whole to get the newest scoop on what’s been going on with the Khannas and the people around them.

2-Dramas in contrast to 5-Dramas however are aired on weekends only during prime-time and are generally seen by critics and audiences alike as the best that Xanan holovision has to offer. 2-Dramas typically have very high production values and rely heavily on the strength of their writing, directing, cinematography, and character acting to succeed. They’re often focused on crime-related or similarly intense, dramatic premises and are usually rather serious in tone, in contrast to the soapy, scandalous mood of most 5-Dramas. Xanan 2-Dramas are considered to be some of the finest programming on Holovision anywhere in the Orion Spur in terms of their writing and acting quality, but they are not for everyone and have drawn criticism from some for being too humorless and inaccessible for those not wanting to become engrossed in painful, often traumatic storylines. One of the most well-known of Xanan 2-Dramas is '''Suntoucher''', a show which focuses on a journalist named Marielle Hollen as she investigates a series of missing persons reports from a town in the Naya Khyber delta called Dharbourg. Her efforts slowly unveil a sickening human-trafficking operation that seeks to abduct and torture its victims in the name of a twisted, hellish cult led by a madman who claims to be both the second coming of Jesus Christ and the next avatar of Vishnu all in one. While investigating as well, Marielle comes into contact with the criminal elements of Dharbourg and becomes their sometimes-friend, sometimes-enemy as she works both with and against them during the course of her investigation. As the cult learns of Marielle’s investigation though, it no longer becomes a mission to expose them for Marielle and the locals working with her, but a fight for their very lives as secret, underground war breaks out between the cult and the largest gang in Dharbourg with Marielle and those working with her caught in the middle. The series ends with Marielle’s investigation materials being delivered to the offices of the Xanan News Service after her death at the hands of the cult after killing its leader, and alludes to the publication of the story by the media giant and subsequent destruction of the cult and imprisoning of Dharbourg’s criminals. The series has six seasons in total and had an original run from 2455 to 2461 and has spawned an obsessive, devoted fanbase in recent years. Rumours are abound of a spin-off show focusing on any number of the series’s well-liked supporting characters being in the works, but there has been no confirmation of this yet.
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====Xanan HV Sitcoms====
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The last major genre of Xanan television is the sitcom, a genre that is usually recorded in front of a live studio audience and relies on whacky or zaney premises mixed with witty writing. Xanan sitcoms also a vehicle by which certain societal issues are explored or made light of in the public mind, and tend to rely a bit more on satire and dark humour than sitcoms from other planets around the spur.
While not the most popular of Xanan sitcoms in the present day, the show '''Fated''' has a strong cult following and has left a bit of an impact on Xanan pop culture. The show follows Gerard Sodhi, a man in his mid-thirties trying to make a living in Nouvelle Rochelle’s stand-up comedy scene while dealing with the pressures of his life and large extended family. On his way home from a show, he and three of his friends, Esha, Georges, and Krasnin, are cursed with bad luck by a homeless woman in a back alley after refusing to give her any money when she asked for some. After suffering from their curse through minor inconveniences and unfortunate, socially awkward situations over the next few days, the four return to where they first encountered the woman only to find her dead, unable to remove the curse. The show then goes on, focusing on the lives of Martin, his friends, and the awkward, absurd situations they then find themselves in. Fated spawned many catch phrases and words used in Xanan pop-culture some examples being: “flarge,” a descriptor used for something both flat and large, “plimpkin,” a word used to describe a person who is short, fat, and annoying, “squickimsh,” a term used in reference to something that is both gross and very sticky in texture like a piece of gum, and “fwoonj,” a noise a person makes when trying to awkwardly avoid saying name of someone whose name they’ve forgotten. The series ran for nine seasons from 2449 to 2458 and is seen as a show emblematic of the Xanan 2450’s.
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===Music===
Xanan music is exceptionally diverse and Xanan musicians are known throughout the Coalition and beyond for being some of the most prolific and distinctive in their respective genres. Xanan music usually takes instruments and structure from its Western European and South Asian colonising cultures and puts a modern, stylistic spin on them to best suit whatever genre the musician is aiming for. The most notable genres of Xanan Music are:

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====Xanupop/X-Pop====
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The most popular form of music on Xanu Prime, is predictably, pop music. The Xanan style of pop music, often called '''Xanupop''' or simply '''X-Pop''', is similar to pop music in general, however it tends to eschew EDM-like synth riffs and instead prefers acoustic instrumentals to make the backing track. The genre has its roots in the ballads which emerged during and after the Interstellar War, mostly about home and family. Most modern-day Xanan pop songs focus on the topic of love, whether falling into it, breaking up a relationship because of the loss of it, reminiscing about times when the singer had it, or any other variety of situations about love, Xanu’s pop music has a listener spoiled for choice. While not specifically pop music, songs from Xanu Prime’s largest musical films are often played on pop radio, even if they are not strictly in the pop style. The most popular pop artist in Xanan history is Foy-Niljen native '''Robert Khatri''', a man whose crooning ballads and work with string and brass ensembles cemented him as the definitive voice of the Xanan Renaissance. While subsequent artists have out-sold him since his death in 2387, Khatri’s songs have gone on to be standards within Xanan musical canon and his songs still are known by Xanans far and wide even more than a century since their releases. The most popular active Xanan pop artist is '''Grace Rose''', though less commonly known by her real name Lavani Grace, a woman from Nouvelle Rochelle who has dominated the Xanan pop charts for the last decade and a half with her unique and beautiful vocal style with a signature high belting range perfectly suited for Xanan pop ballads.
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====Xanurock/X-Rock====
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Rock music is the second most popular form of music on Xanu Prime and is renowned across the Coalition for its funky instrumentals that focus on rhythm primarily rather than melody and unique vocal style that typically moves between being spoken and being sung multiple times throughout each song. Rock songs made in the Xanan style, often called '''X-Rock''' or '''Xanurock''', also are often about love, much like their pop counterparts, but it is far from the only thing that Xanan rockers sing about. Common lyrical themes in Xanan rock music focus on personal independence, inner turmoil and depression, social issues, or more poignantly, lost love and ones that got away. A popular band in the X-Rock scene is '''Weatherland''', a group from Himavat City that is renowned for their creative instrumental style that often incorporates unorthodox chord progressions and jazz-like solos from the band's various members. Another group that has risen in popularity since their founding in the early 2450’s is the band '''Anti-Gone''', a band from Nouvelle-Rochelle that has gained notoriety for their more groovy, riff-driven, gritty, and raw hard-rock production style with songs that focus on personal struggle and often talk about deep, uncomfortable subjects like addiction and abuse. They have beome very popular with Xanan young adults though older rock fans have not been as receptive to their material.
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====Logmu====
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Folk music, specifically the '''Logmu''' style of folk music, has always been very popular on Xanu Prime and does not seem to be going anywhere soon. Logmu, the word being combination of the Hindi word “log” meaning “people” and the French work “musique” meaning “music,” is a genre of music that originally came about during the early stages of Xanu Prime’s colonization as a result of individual, often amateur musicians, from Xanu Prime’s different colonizing countries forming bands with one another and adjusting their styles to fit each band member’s diverse musical preferences. The genre has remained popular through two catastrophic wars, economic depression, along with many other hurdles and looks as if it will keep its popularity far into the future. Logmu ensembles are typically six people large and play music using a vast variety of instruments which date back to the colonization of the planet. For example, a standard six-piece Logmu band will typically have a fiddle, an alto saxophone or nadaswaram, a tabla, a guitar or sarod, an accordion, and a sitar, with at least one of the musicians singing as well, usually the guitar or sarod player. Logmu songs are usually musical stories or poems that follow a protagonist or recount the life experiences of the singer, often in character. They are self-contained dramas or comedies in their own right and have allowed the genre to remain popular for as long as it has because of the simultaneous relatability and dramatism of the plots of the songs. A subset of the Along with being a genre of music in its own right, Logmu also has a distinctive subculture focused on passing the craft down to younger generations, with many musicians in the genre seeing it as their duty to teach their children or other students how to play a Logmu instrument at some point in their lives. A subgenre of Logmu is, '''Sologmu''', a play on words of “Solo” and “Logmu” and is defined by its nature of usually being performed by a single musician who both sings and plays an instrument of their choice, usually a guitar, sarod, accordion, or sitar.

The most influential Logmu band of all time is the Kshatrigarh-based band '''The Air Raid Six''', a group of six musicians who had the shared childhood experience of living through the Siege of Khairabad. Once they became adults they saw great success in the fledgling All-Xanu Republic’s music scene singing songs about the Interstellar War and retelling or making up humorous or dramatic stories that occurred during the conflict. During this they pioneered the current six-piece format standard synonymous with modern Logmu music and their songs are still widely performed today. The most popular Logmu band presently is Paastad-based group '''Six of Hearts''' which gained popularity during the mid 2450’s and has yet to relinquish it since. The band’s musical style stays relatively close to tradition in the structure of the songs and focus on their stories, but diverges some in terms of the instrumentals used, replacing the normal guitar or sarod with an electric guitar and even playing solos with it, something often not seen in Logmu music. Current popular names in the Sologmu scene include '''Chloe Sinclair''', a young woman from Himavat City that has brought a moodier, more downbeat brand of singing and guitar playing to the genre; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a Vysokan Xanan who has created a niche in the genre for herself by singing in the Xanan style with her broad vocal range and accompanying it with poignant instrumentals played by herself on a morin khuur.
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====Himavat Midnight====
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Breaking from tradition is the genre of '''Himavat Midnight''', so called because the underground music shows in Himavat City which saw the genre come into being often didn’t start until midnight. It is the newest genre of music on Xanu Prime to have seen at least some popularity, breaking out of the local Himavat City rock scene in the mid 2450’s. Himavat Midnight is notable for its spacey, monotone vocal style usually accompanied by little more than a bass guitar, an electric guitar, a synthesizer, and a drum machine. Himavat Midnight songs usually are built around a simple bass or guitar riff and typically are simple yet satisfying in their construction. Most songs have either a bridge or an outro where one instrument performs a solo, though these are usually more toned down and not like the more technical skill-showcasing solos found in X-Rock. Lyrically, the songs are moody and often sad, talking about loneliness, lost love, boredom, and other saddening yet seemingly mundane feelings. Some in the Xanan music scene have welcomed the genre as a new form of music that is more emotional and thoughtful than some other songs, while others have dismissed it as "sad music for sad people." While the genre is still relatively very new relative to all other popular genres of music on Xanu Prime, Himavat Midnight does have a few notable bands. '''We Are They''', a three-piece Himavat City band, is the most popular group of the genre and is the one credited for breaking the genre out of its local confines with their 2457 song, ''Snowflakes in her Hair''. For now the band is the standard-setter for what Himavat Midnight should sound like.
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====Pataliputra Big House====
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Another genre of music that is notably unique to Xanu Prime is a genre of electronic music that emerged from Pataliputran nightclubs in the 2420’s called '''Pataliputra Big House'''. During the Doldrums nightclub owners were having trouble getting patrons to come out and give business to their clubs because of the economic stagnation characteristic of the time period. To solve this, many night clubs began to push their DJs to get creative and blend different musical styles into something new and exciting in order to attract more patrons and thus, Pataliputra Big House was born. The genre was the product of Pataliputran DJ’s mashing together elements from dance-pop and more traditional house music, vocals from R&B, and instrumentals leaning on the more soulful and jazzy sides of Logmu. Songs in this genre incorporate beats which usually are medium tempo, heavy on bass, and have a central riff played on a synthesizer or saxophone which drives the entire song. Vocals are treated like an instrument in themselves in Pataliputra Big House songs and usually have a bevy of effects on them to achieve different listening experiences. The most well-known producer in the Pataliputra Big House scene is '''Bobby Baas''', real name Robert Satti, a Pataliputran native equally famous for his colorful, often patterned suits as he is for his music. He has routinely sold out electronic music festivals across the Coalition for the last decade after achieving local fame in the Pataliputran local scene during the early 2440’s. He is also unique for being one of the only artists from the Coalition of Colonies to have performed in the Sol Alliance, performing a series of sold-out shows called the “Sunrise Tour” in 2456 across the Solarian core. An up-and-comer in the Big House scene however is '''DJ SinTheTik''', real name Sarah Tussaud-Tipnis, a young woman who became a holonet sensation in the early 2460’s for her unique style meshing instruments from classical, symphonic music with the usual sounds of Big House.
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====X-Hop====
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As often happens with strong electronic scenes, a hip-hop movement emerged around the 2430’s shortly after the popularization of Pataliputran Big House. Nearly every major city of Xanu Prime has its own hip hop scene and they all have friendly, if competitive, rivalries with another. While each major city’s scene has its own unique flair and sound, there are some commonalities to Xanan hip hop or '''X-Hop'''. Generally, Xanan hip-hop places a great amount of importance on the beat of the song, and as such these beats are typically more complicated and have more elements to them than hip-hop from other places. The rap verses themselves are usually fast and articulate with a lower, almost gravelly vocal tone being definitive for male rappers and a clear, bold tone that can carry over a nightclub crowd holding the same preference among female rappers. Nouvelle Rochelle rapper Abhang van Agteren, stage name '''AvAtar''', is considered by many to be the "King of Xanan hop-hop" and is famous for his smooth lyrical style and frequent collaborations with some of Xanu Prime’s largest producers, most notably Bobby Baas, with a catalogue of hit songs dating back to the 2440’s. His music is a common feature on playlists all around the Coalition and he has been a staple of Xanan popular music for decades, with no sign of his career waning any time soon. The most famous Xanan rap group is the all-female project '''Girl’s Night''', a four-member pop-rap group from Himavat City that first gained notoriety in the mid-2450’s for their lyrical prowess, broad appeal which crossed pop and hip-hop demographics, and anonymous nature. It is unknown what the true identities of Girl’s Night are since the group’s members are never seen in public or on stage without three-faced masks made in the style of hindu deities. The individual names they have given to the public are the letters, R, Y, V, and K.
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===Fashion===
Xanan fashion and dress is not characterized by any culturally specific garments or articles of clothing that are uniquely specific to Xanu Prime, but rather by how they style clothes that are seen as generally ubiquitous across human space. That is to say, color and the interplay within a palette in one look are king in Xanan Fashion. Xanans themselves often describe shopping and dressing as a whole as somewhat of a game, in making outfits for themselves which both are colorful, but also not outlandishly so and still manage to look sharp despite their chromatic nature. If a look clashes too much, it looks bad, simply put. Garishness is something that must be avoided in Xanan fashion and many of the planet’s top designers have emphasized that Xanan fashion is a game of balance. As to what colours are used though, there are no official rules or cultural norms, other than outfits which are heavy in their usage of black and white are reserved for funerals or other somber occasions, and similarly, looks with a lot of white or red in their composition should only be worn during weddings, baby showers, or other joyful events. The diversity of Xanu Prime as a planet in both climate and geography however has led to a variety of different fashions popping up across the planet and often fashion choices are left to the individual rather than governed by some collective norm. An exception tho this, however, is that outfits consisting solely of only one color, such as a suit with the same-coloured slacks and jacket or a dress made of only one color of fabric, are seen by many as overly formalistic and are typically only reserved for appearances in court for legal or financial matters. As such, monochrome outfits without much variation in colour are associated with the legal and banking professions. Colors aside, materials are also seen as an important part of Xanan fashion, and many mundane looking pieces of Xanan clothing may be worth thousands due to the craftsmanship and quality of the materials used in their manufacture. Intricate patterns are not uncommon in Xanan looks either, though they are usually associated with festive occasions and places. Accessories are seen as important in Xanan fashion, with neckties and cravats being popular among men and hairpins or bows finding favour among women. Jewlery is common for both men and women, but large pieces should not be worn in a workplace environment and instead should be saved for personal outings or family time.

===Sport===
Professional and amateur sports are both quite popular on Xanu Prime. Cricket and football are tied in popularity, with other sports like basketball, ice hockey, and rugby having some notoriety on the planet as well. Xanan children are encouraged from a young age to participate in team sports which many carry on into their teenage years and adulthoods through amateur club teams. As such, no Xanan town is complete without a cricket oval or football field. Xanu’s sports fans are known the Orion Spur-over for being some of the most passionate and obsessive in Human-inhabited space, with their chants, costumes, and fervent insults being both hated and envied by the planet’s sports rivals. Xanans are exceptionally loyal to their teams, be they national or local, and fights or even riots breaking out after upsets in football or cricket aren’t unheard of in the major cities.

The Xanan national teams in football, commonly referred to as '''"C.F.X.P"''' taken from their original French name Club de Foot de Xanu Premier, and cricket, often called the '''"Crimson Cats"''' courtesy of their mascot being a crimson-masked polecat, wear colors of green and orange with red accents. When either of the teams win a game, especially if during a high-stakes tournament, the entire planet often turns out to celebrate, clogging streets, overpacking bars, and pressing the Xanu’s police forces to their limits. Famously, when Xanu Prime won the 2454 Orion Cup in a surprise upset 2-1 victory over their longtime rival, the Callistean national team, Hastings Park, C.F.X.P’s home stadium, was deemed to be “The Loudest Place in the Known Universe” by a Martian sports writer. Similarly the stadium was said to have “Rung like bell,” when the Crimson Cats defeated the Port Antillean national team in 2458 to win the T20 Orion Cricket Championship. Individual cities also have their own football and cricket teams which play in a number of professional and semi-professional leagues. The highest level of these are The '''All-Xanu Ultraleague''' for football and the '''Alpha League''' for Class A cricket.

The planet has strong sports rivalries with many others, both within the coalition and without. They have a long-standing football rivalry with Callisto, jokingly called “The Second Interstellar War,” which has had its ups and downs throughout history, with both teams serving each other their most grievous defeats. Highlights include when Xanu defeated Callisto on its own home turf in 2448 to win the Orion Cup, or when the Callistean team duffed out their rivals only four years later in a hotly-contested group-stage match and stopped C.F.X.P from having a chance at defending its title. Xanu also has a hot cricket rivalry with Port Antilia, and the two planets are generally considered to be the best at the sport in the Orion Spur. Recent tension over the Solarian Collapse and Port Antillia’s annexation into the Biesellite CRZ has meant that the two teams haven’t met on an oval in over two years, leading many to believe that their next meeting will be the game of the century for Cricket. Xanu Prime also has a more friendly and lighthearted football rivalry with Himeo that has for most of recent memory been one-sided in favor of Xanu, but the two teams are still nevertheless very competitive and their fans very passionate over the rivalry.

==Immigrant and Expat Communities==
Xanu Prime is host to a number of large immigrant, expat, and diasporic communities, the largest of which can be read about in the entries below. '''A member of any immigrant or diasporic group who was born on Xanu Prime will select the Xanu Prime origin and accent in character creation.'''

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====Himean Xanans====
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The largest diasporic community on Xanu Prime, the Himean Xanan community has been on Xanu Prime for nearly as long as the Republic itself has existed. Himeans first came to Xanu Prime in the millions during the aftermath of the Interstellar War, often as workers and supporting staff helping to rebuild Xanu’s many broken and battered cities. A significant number of these Himeans remained on Xanu afterwards, established their own families and communities, and joined Xanan society. Most of the Himeans that came to Xanu during what is called the “First Wave of Himean Immigration” (2288-2310) dropped Himean customs and traditions in favor of broader assimilation into what many of them saw as a prosperous, growing, free Xanu Prime where their children could grow. A significant minority of Xanu’s population can trace at least part of their ancestry back to this first wave of immigrants from Himeo, and it’s quite common for the average Xanusan to have at least one or two Himean ancestors that came to Xanu during this period even if the person themselves doesn’t look Himean or have a Himean sounding name.

While immigration from Himeo continued in low levels throughout the 24th century, there was a great uptick from 2367 to 2390, a period called “The Second Wave of Himean Immigration” and less commonly, “The Paasstad Exodus.” Much like earlier Himean immigrants, those in the Second Wave came to the planet for work, but instead instead of reconstruction, they were taking part in the Paasstad Megaproject, an ambitious engineering initiative with the goal of raising the entire Xanan city of Paasstad above the marshy ground upon which it sat. The project was long and intensive, but was complete by 2389 and the numbers of Himeans immigrating to Xanu decreased shortly after the project was complete. In contrast to the First Wave, Himeans coming to the planet during the Second Wave mostly just immigrated to the city of Paasstad, and as such, their community became very unified and tightly knit. A district of the city, often just called Little Himeo, is where the present-day Himean Xanan community has its symbolic heart. Many Himean customs and traditions are still practiced here, Himean Common is spoken throughout the district, though with a noticeable Xanan Accent, and one can find many Himean products and authentic Himean food here. While there has not been an influx of Himean immigrants since the Second Wave, many Himeans looking to move their lives and to Xanu Prime find themselves in Little Himeo or one of the smaller Xanan Himean communities in other cities. Himean communities are very diverse politically, given that many Himean Xanans have assimilated into Xanu’s society and taken on new beliefs, however the Good Neighbor Party is particularly popular in Little Himeo and it often markets itself as the party for Himean Xanans. A majority of Himean Xanans are not first-generation immigrants, but were born on the planet as third or fourth generation Himeans.

Himean Xanans, whether their ancestors were part of the first or second waves, have broadly flourished on Xanu Prime and can be found in all walks of Xanan society. Notable Himean Xanans include '''Aukusti Staudenmaier''', member of the National Parliament and leader of the Good Neighbor Party, '''Lennox Sibelius''', Minister of the Economy and Finance under the Mukhopadhyay Government and man responsible for the implementation of the Mukhopadhyay Plan, '''Sara Knox''', current CEO of d.N.A. Defense and Aerospace, and '''Theodore Llewellyn''', host of the popular Xanan late night holovision talk program, Teddy.
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====Vysokan Xanans====
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The Vysokan Xanan community is Xanu Prime’s second largest and fastest growing immigrant and diasporic demographic; many see the planet as coming off of the first large wave of Vysokan immigrants it has ever experienced. Many Vysokans immigrated to Xanu starting in the 2440’s after the Mukhophadhay Plan began revitalizing the Xanan economy. In response, many Vysokans looking to better their lives and provide a stable income for their families traveled to Xanu Prime looking for work or simply looking to start new lives. This wave of immigration abruptly stopped in 2462 when the Orion Spur was gripped by phoron scarcity causing space flight costs to soar, but even now after that, some Vysokans still find their way to Xanu Prime.

Culture shock has been something consistent throughout the Vysokan Xanan community: Societally, Xanu Prime is to many Vysokan immigrants, especially those who grew up in the rural regions of Vysoka, a night and day difference. Because of this, along with the differing norms between Xanan and Vysokan cultures, many Vysokan immigrants have been slow to integrate and assimilate into Xanu Prime’s society and most live in close proximity to one another in majority-Vysokan neighborhoods and districts. Many in the Vysokan Xanan community are not wealthy, with most being in the working lower-middle class. Because of their recent increase in population, their unfamiliarity with Xanan systems and the fact that they are often poorer than the average Xanan, Vysokan Xanan communities often have difficult times accessing social services for healthcare or financial assistance, are less policed, and have higher than average rates of crime. Many Vysokan Xanans have found employment in Xanu’s agricultural and heavy industry sectors with their skills from home translating very well to those lines of work. Additionally, many have found themselves in the All-Xanu Armed Forces in hopes of learning skills there which they can then carry over into a civilian job after being discharged. The largest Vysokan Xanan community on Xanu Prime is the Little Vysoka district of Nouvelle-Rochelle.

Vysokan Xanan communities often try to recreate things from Vysoka itself, the most common of these being Stolitist spirit houses and shrines. Vysokan Xanans are majority-Stolitist in their religious practices, and many Vysokan Xanan communities celebrate Stolitist religious festivals. Vysokan Xanan practices are not identical to their Vysokan counterparts however. Many in Vysokan Xanan communities have eschewed travelling, nomadic shamans in favour of more congregationally-styled practices, with houses of worship and assembly taking influence from Christian churches and Muslim mosques in layout often being built to surround Stolitist shrines and spirit houses. These “Stolitchurches” are a uniquely Vysokan Xanan creation and often function as the cultural, spiritual, and symbolic centers of Vysokan Xanan communities. Other aspects of Vysokan culture which have in some way translated to Xanu Prime is the Vysokan penchant for athleticism; since the immigration, many young Vysokans have made a name for themselves and their community as professional athletes. Many even make the annual trip back to Vysoka for the Velhalktai. Host culture has not made the jump and the hosts in general is something that is begrudgingly dismissed by many Vysokan Xanans because they believe that Host culture affirms a stereotype among Xanussians that Vysokans are criminals. Politically, opinions are diverse for Vysokan Xanans, but many have voted for the Free Falcon Party in recent years due to the party’s Vysokan Xanan origin and stance on many immigrant issues.

Notable Vysokan Xanans include '''Aynan Zhergotov''', professional footballer and captain of the Nouvelle-Rochelle football club A.S. Olympique-Saraswati; '''Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova''', member of the National Parliament, leader of the Free Falcon Party, and formerly practicing medical doctor; '''Yekheren Bolkhadarov''', goalkeeper for the All-Xanu National Football Team; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a second-generation Vysokan Xanan singer who has seen recent popularity in Xanu’s Logmu music scene by combining Xanan-styled singing with Vysokan-inspired instrumentals.
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====Assunzionii Xanans====
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The Assunzionii Xanan community is the third largest diaspora on Xanu Prime and is one that has managed to strike a strong balance between preserving their own original culture and embracing Xanu’s own. Most of Xanu Prime’s Assunzionii population moved to Xanu Prime during the 2370’s and 2380’s in response to Xanu’s burgeoning economy, with a smaller wave coming in the 2450’s. As such a majority of the Assunzionii Xanan population are third or fourth generation immigrants, with the new arrivals in 2450 being first-generation. Most Assunzionii Xanans live in the middle class, with some having advanced into the upper classes through employment or their businesses. Throughout Xanu Prime, many Assunzionii people have found themselves in two primary industries: entertainment and engineering. The former came about when many Assunzionii immigrants were hired on by nightclubs and other entertainment venues for their expertise in electrical lighting systems. As they were employed more, some of these immigrants figured that they would instead start their own clubs which they could run and style as they pleased. Gaining traction for their exceptional light shows and very exotic atmospheres, Assunzionii Xanan-owned and staffed clubs, bars, theaters, and even film studios became very successful across Xanu prime in the 2400’s and have remained that way since, with some of the largest and most exclusive entertainment establishments on the planet being owned by Assunzionii Xanusians. Some of these immigrants also found themselves in engineering and went on to work in Xanu’s shipbuilding and logistics sector; their skills being perfect for designing and servicing electrical systems on ships. Many of their descendants still work in these fields today

Culturally, there are some distinct differences between Assunzionii Xanans and people from Assunzionne proper. Exposure to outside cultures and removal from the Luceism-centered domes of light has made many Assunzionii Xanusians less religious than their Assunzionii counterparts. Most still identify as Luceist and do practice, but the faith on Xanu Prime has become more casual and cultural to the local community rather than something more dogmatic and omnipresent. Simply put, Luceism isn’t as important to multi-generational Assunzionii Xanusians as it is to those back home on Assunzione or those who have just arrived from the planet, even if it is present in their lives. Despite this more lax attitude, there are large cathedrals of light in many Assunzionii Xanan communities, the largest being in the Little Assunzione district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, and they see frequent attendance. Most Assunzionii Xanusians are Structuralist Luceists and their churches function as large community centers and meeting places along with being used as houses of worship. Other aspects of Assunzionii culture have stuck around in the community as well, such as illumination. Assunzionii Xanan neighborhoods are very well lit, with more street lamps than average and more lights on houses as well, and this, along with the communal and tight-knit nature of many Assunzionii Xanan families, make their neighborhoods some of the safest on Xanu Prime.

Notable Assunzionii Xanusians include '''Sabine Venturino''', a third-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and one of the largest directorial names in Xanan film industry; '''Suleiman Kateb''', a second-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and current Minister of Energy for the Afzal government; and '''Hristos Santolaria''', a first-generation Assunzionii Xanan and current Chief Operations Officer for Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.
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====Fisanduhian Xanans====
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The Fisanduhian story on Xanu Prime is a strange one that started in 2386. In that year, the Xanan government agreed to host the remnants of the Fisanduh Freedom Front (3F) as a gesture of solidarity between two countries against tyranny. This arrangement created the modern Fisanduhian government-in-exile as it exists today with its seat in the Greentree neighbourhood of Nouvelle Rochelle. Of those few countries that recognise the existence of an independent Fisanduh, those being the Republic of Elyra and a vast majority of Coalition of Colonies members, see the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, also commonly called the “Greentree Government,” as the legitimate government of Fisanduh. The Empire of Dominia sees the Greentree Government as the political arm of the 3F, a rebel militia to some and a terrorist group to others, and therefore considers Xanu Prime and by extension the Coalition of Colonies to be a state sponsor of terrorism for giving the government sanctuary. The Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel do not recognise the Fisanduhian government-in-exile as the legitimate government of Fisanduh and have no relations with it.

Xanu Prime’s long-standing positive relationship with the Fisanduhian government has made it a very popular destination for Fisanduhian refugees, though its geographic distance from Moroz often makes traveling to the planet difficult for some. Fisanduhian refugees typically do not come in waves like other immigrant demographics, but arrive sporadically and often in small cohorts that were trafficked out of Fisanduh at the same time. This distance and trouble with travel cuts both ways: it isn’t just difficult for Fisanduhians to arrive on Xanu but much of the Fisanduhian Xanan community (aside from the aforementioned refugees) have never even been to Fisanduh, with their only ties to the Morozian region being ethnic and cultural. Religion is also something that sets Fisanduhian Xanans apart from other Xanans, with most being adherents to some strain of Reformed Morozian Tribunalism which rejects the authority of the Morozian Clergy and the Dominian Emperor as the divinely ordained head of the “Goddess’s Tribunal,” a term that the Goddess’s Holy Diocese of Xanu Prime uses to describe their religion over using “Morozian Holy Tribunal.” Some however have given up this faith and have either become irreligious or have taken on one of Xanu Prime’s dominant religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) as their own. Despite this, it is common for many Fisanduhian Xanans to celebrate Tribunalist religious holidays even if they themselves are not adherent to the faith since many see these days as part of their own distinctive culture. All Tribunalist churches on Xanu Prime have eschewed the use of traditional Morozian Holy Tribunal uniforms and religious symbols connected with the Dominian Emperor, viewing them as unnecessarily dogmatic and relics of an oppressive, Dominian, past.

Economically, most Fisanduhian Xanans are poorer than the average Xanan, with almost all being either refugees who arrived on the planet with nothing or their descendants. They lack the generational wealth of other demographics in Xanan society, and most are not educated to the standards demanded by the Xanan economy. As such, most can usually be found in industrial and service jobs, the All-Xanu Armed Forces or other working-class positions. Because of this disadvantageous economic position, many of the better-off Fisanduhian Xanans have been known to host refugee families and provide them with housing and food until they find employment and can secure housing of their own.

Despite the hardship the demographic has found, the Fisanduhian Xanan community has found a home for itself in Xanan society. Most Fisanduhian Xanans have assimilated and integrated themselves into broader Xanan society and adopted their norms and culture, but generally live in areas with other Fisanduhian Xanans. Some subsets of the group take this to the extreme, maintaining their own communities and living together in nearly all-Fisanduhian neighborhoods which preserve the native Fisanduhian culture and social systems. These communities are usually suspicious of outsiders and such attitudes have occasionally led negative attention from the media for allegations of xenophobia and exclusionism. There is a stereotype among Xanans that Fisanduhian Xanans are all rabidly politically active and pursue jobs in politics and government especially in order to aid the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, and while most Fisanduhian Xanans very supportive of the Greentree government, their involvement is often falsely overstated. In reality, Fisanduhian Xanans hold a variety of political views about Xanu Prime and the 3F government, with most being split into two camps: the Irredentists and the Second Homelanders.
Simply put, the Irredentists and Second Homelanders diverge on their priorities relating to the Fisanduhian Insurgency. The Irredentist camp of the Fisanduhian Xanan population places the government-in-exile’s backing of the 3F and other resistance groups in Fisanduh through sending them aid, equipment, and money above all else, in hopes of one day returning to an independent Fisanduh. The Second Homelanders instead want the government-in-exile to create a “second homeland" for the Fisanduhian people on Xanu Prime in cooperation with the Xanan government and often push for the government-in-exile to leverage its official and unofficial influence in Xanan society to provide better resources for the Fisanduhian Xanan community. The two groups, while different in their priorities, are not enemies to one another and often work together in both the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the unofficial representative of that government in Xanan Politics, the Universal Liberty Party. Historically, the Irredentist camp has been a majority in the Fisanduhian Xanan population, but as Fisanduhian Xanans have adjusted more to Xanan society and their needs have become more pronounced, the Second Homeland movement has grown considerably, especially among the demographic’s younger generations who see themselves as more Xanan than Fisanduhian. As the older generations of Fisanduhian Xanans die, it is predicted that the Second Homeland movement will soon hold a majority over Fisanduhian Xanan political discourse unless a serious shift occurs in the currently-stalemated Fisanduhian Insurgency.

Morozian Fisanduhians have mixed opinions of Fisanduhian Xanans. On one hand the sentiments of support and occasional aid shipment that make it to the region past the Dominian blockades are often appreciated, but on the other, most see the Fisanduhian Xanan population as too far away to make a difference in anything actually happening in Fisanduh besides giving a place for more refugees to flee to. Because of this, most Morozian Fisanduhians treat their Xanan cousins as people who are all talk and no action in regards to actually winning the insurgency.

Notable Fisanduhian Xanans include '''Erick Alexis''', current Vice-President of the All-Xanu Republic; '''Aaron Izmirlian''', Prime Minister of the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile; '''Ekaitz Azarola''', leader of the Universal Liberty Party and member of the National Parliament; and '''Elaena Chatfield''', a prolific if aging novelist often considered to be one of the greatest writers Xanu Prime has ever produced.
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====Gadpathurian Exiles====
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Xanan Gadpathurian Exiles and their community are a small but notable immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime. They are almost exclusively concentrated in Pataliputra, it being the spot where most of them arrive on the planet after being ejected from their home world. Gadpathurian Exiles are known to be highly assimilationist and often make little effort to show that they are even in fact Gadpathurian at all, some too ashamed by their exile status to try and make others know of it. Some however have taken the identity and embraced it as part of who they are in Xanan society. Gadpathurian Exiles who do make a point of their heritage do not have their own distinctive architecture or cuisine, but instead hold much of their culture in their community structures and businesses. Gadpathurian Exile-owned businesses which embrace the identity are known to be pseudo-support groups for Gadpathurian Exiles themselves and often provide employment, housing, and other necessities to newly arrived fellow-exiles to ensure that they do not become homeless or starve. Xanan Gadpathurian Exile families similarly have been known to welcome fellow exiles into their houses to take care of them in a similar way to how Fisanduhian Xanans do, however Gadpathurian Exiles take this a step further and have been known to formally adopt entirely unrelated people into their families permanently. This has led to some Gadpathurian Exile families on Xanu Prime to become enormously large, with the largest on record, the Mokammel family, having over 20,000 current members either by adoption, marriage, or being born into the family. The Mokammels mostly live in the Bamdha neighborhood of Pataliputra, though this area has come to be known colloquially as Mokammeljela or "the Mokammel District" in popular parlance due to the family's presence there. Other notable Gadpathuri Exile families are the Nanda, Yadhavar, and Jadhav. It is common for a Gadpathurian Exile to change their surname when being adopted into one of such families, though some retain their original surnames and take the family name as their middle name. Most Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are irreligious or have converted to one of the planet’s three major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, with some converting to smaller faiths.

Gadpathurian Exiles often have an advantage over other immigrants not in terms of their wealth, as most arrive to the planet positively destitute, but in terms of their educations. Most Gadpathurians were taught skills during their military service on Gadpathur, and even if they’ve now been exiled from their homeworlds, many retain their skills and have found lucrative work as tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, HVAC specialists, and welders to name a few). Of course, many have also joined the All-Xanu Armed Forces and usually find success there too, either as soldiers, specialists, or occasionally even officers, though this is somewhat rare as the Gadpathurian leadership style is usually inconsistent with Xanan doctrine and practices. It is seen as shameful in Exile society to take aid from the government, and there is a societal norm of redemption through achievement as a way to prove the decision to exile the person in question as wrong. As such, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are encouraged by their communities to hold a strong work ethic and to cooperate with other Exiles trying to achieve success. In regard to politics, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime typically vote either for the Free Falcon Party of All-Xanu Freedom League. Gadpathurian Exiles also have a somewhat toned-down view of the Sol Alliance, at least when compared to their unexiled counterparts. They are often less outspoken about their prejudice towards the Sol Alliance than Gadpathurians on Gadpathur proper, even if their views on Sol remain unyieldingly resentful.

Notable Gadpathurian Exiles Xanans include '''Chandi Mokammel''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile, current head of the massive Gadpathurian Exile Mokammel family, and celebrity within the Gadpathurian Exile community; '''Sri Afzal''', a second-generation Gadpathuri Exile, formerly a professor of law at Saraswati College, and wife to the current All-Xanu President Jacques Afzal; and '''Ruchir Nanda''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile and current All-Xanan Foreign Minister.
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==Holidays==

Xanu Prime has many holidays much like almost anywhere else in the Spur, however the foremost of these are as follows:

*'''January 1st - New Year’s Day''' - A celebration of the ushering in of a new year. This holiday is marked by fireworks, loud music, and the mass consumption of alcohol. It is officially recognised as a holiday.

*'''January 2nd - Founding Day''' - This is the day where Xanans celebrate the original colonization of their world by the Solarian Alliance. People get the day off work and festivities are held in communities across the planet to celebrate Xanu. Many consider this to be a toned down version of Xanan Independence Day, or simply a day to recoup and recover from the partying and subsequent hangovers brought on by New Year’s. Alternatively, some simply use the day to have a two-day long New Year’s celebration.

*'''March 28th - All-Xanu Peace Day''' - This is a holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the end of the Xanan Civil war. It is a rather low-key holiday where people are encouraged to reflect on the peace that they enjoy and spend it with their families. Xanan citizens get the day off of work, though because the war is such a distant memory, many just use this as a convenient day off of work or three-day weekend rather than a time to celebrate its original intended purpose.

*'''July 1st - Election Day''' - This day is less of a holiday and more a bureaucratic necessity. On June 1st, all Xanans vote in elections, local, province-wide, or national. Everyone gets the day off work so they can vote if they so choose. The holiday still applies to jurisdictions where no elections are taking place that year, so many often take it as a free day off of work.

*'''August 13th - Xanan Independence Day''' - This day celebrates the secession of Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies from the Solarian Alliance and is the largest holiday of the year. Parades, fireworks, cookouts, sporting events, and musical performances often occur on this day. The entire planet parties hard on this holiday and it is observed by Xanan expats living elsewhere in the Orion Spur as well. Xanans get the day off of work on August 13th.

*'''October 1st - Victory Day''' - Victory Day, as it may be implied, is the day where Xanans celebrate the victory of their country over the Solarian Alliance in the Interstellar War. It is marked by parades, and other celebrations that honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians who died in the conflict and the freedoms that they died for. It has a more solemn and reverent atmosphere than other Xanan national holidays. Xanans get the day off work on Victory Day.

*'''November 18th - Kulkarni Day''' - Kulkarni Day, also called Diversity Day (no relation to the Eridanian Holiday), is a holiday where Xanans celebrate their diversity and ethic of unity, coming together to unite as one strong and diverse society. It is held on the birthday of once planetary governor Gaspard Kulkarni to honor his vision for what a united yet diverse Xanan society could be. The day is celebrated widely across the planet and is a day where the various communities of Xanu prime go out of their way to share their cultures with those of different cultures and celebrate how they find strength in diversity. It is an official holiday and Xanan citizens get the day off of work on Diversity Day.

*'''December 25th - Christmas''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Despite its religious origins, it has long been a festivity that has spread across cultures and demographics regardless of religious affiliation, and as such it is an official holiday on Xanu Prime. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries.

*'''Varying Dates - Easter''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries. This holiday follows the lunar cycle and therefore is held on different days annually, though it is always on a Sunday, typically in April or March. It is not officially a holiday recognised by the Xanan State, but many observant Christians celebrate it.

*'''Varying Dates - Ramadan''' - A Muslim religious holiday that is observed for nearly a month by Xanu Prime’s muslim population. It includes the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, on which was recognised as an official Xanan holiday in 2334 after the festivities of feasting, partying, and parades became so widespread across Xanu Prime’s population that it could no longer be interpreted as a strictly religious celebration. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Eid al-Adha''' - A Muslim religious holiday which that honors the willingness of the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as Allah commanded of him. It is not an official Xanan holiday, but many observant muslims take the day off from work and celebrate. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Diwali''' - A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh, religious holiday which lasts for five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil, originally brought to Xanu Prime by Hindu and Sikh colonists from India. It is typically marked by fireworks, the lighting of lamps, brightly vibrant lights, and other festivities which embody light triumphing over the dark. The third day of the holiday, Lakshmi Puja, is the most colorful of the holiday, and Xanans who observe it usually take the day off work, though it is not an official holiday. While not Hindus, the local Assunzionii expat population also has begun to celebrate this holiday recently as well, tying it into their own beliefs of light triumphing over the darkness. Diwali is determined by the Hindu lunar-solar calendar, and therefore falls on different dates annually.

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==Overview==
Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great emphasis on the family unit as the building block of society. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another, and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague.

==Standard of Living and Civil Liberties==
A life on Xanu Prime is by and large a comfortable, though not exceedingly luxurious one. While not uniform across the various peoples and classes of the planet, the average Xanan isn’t bothered with extreme poverty, hunger, or lingering threats of conflict, nor do they live in cities adapted to suit hazardous environments. The average Xanan sits as a member of the middle class and the government has taken measures to try and ensure that the largest number of Xanans can live comfortably on the planet as is possible.
Healthcare works in a hybrid system, with some facilities being private and others being public, though the government will still partially fund the expenses of patients that go to private clinics or hospitals. Xanan healthcare quality is some of the best in the Orion Spur, only rivaled by that found on Biesel or in the Solarian Core, and millions come from across the Coalition annually to receive treatment from Xanan doctors.

Higher education at government-operated universities and colleges is free to those who can obtain a qualifying score on the Uniform Higher Education Assessment test or UHEA, while private universities on the planet usually have their own specific entrance exams.

Governance on Xanu Prime is democratic and many on the planet are invested in local-level politics. Despite political contrasts among the Xanan population, they generally place unity in forms such as nationality or city of origin before political beliefs, and as such political polarization and division is not as pronounced on Xanu Prime as it may be elsewhere in the Spur.

Xanu Prime has very liberal speech laws as well, with almost any kind of speech allowed by the planet’s government. Notable exceptions include; any rhetoric that targets another individual or group of individuals on the basis of race or religion, any rhetoric that styles itself as genuine when it is knowingly false, and any rhetoric that is knowingly false while intending to harm another person’s reputation or well-being. News media outlets have wide-ranging freedoms to publish what they like, though their content is regulated by the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission, an independent government agency which has the power to censor and fine publications with content it has deemed to promote fake news or be so biased that it burgeons on fake news.

Most Xanans are religious or spiritual to at least some degree, though atheism isn’t unheard of nor officially disparaged on the planet, but some in the planet’s society may privately look down upon atheists. Religious extremism is rare, but does occasionally occur in the most conservative of Xanu Prime’s various congregations and sects.
Firearm possession on Xanu Prime is legal, though heavily regulated. A thorough background checks and a firearm license obtained after a six-month training course and six-month waiting period are mandatory for any Xanan hoping to own their own gun. Civilians may only own ballistic firearms with magazine capacities of twenty rounds or less and special permits, famous for their long wait times, are required for the ownership of handguns and automatic weapons while less complicated weapons like bolt-action rifles and shotguns require less paperwork.

Same-sex relationships and gender nonconforming individuals are accepted as a part of Xanan society and do not experience any legal or widespread societal discrimination, though they only make up a small minority of Xanan relationships and people. There is no form of legal recognition of polyamorous relationships on Xanu Prime.

Despite the comfort and quality of life that the majority of Xanu Prime’s people enjoy, the planet is not without its problems. Xanu Prime’s economy saw an economic hiccup in 2458 following the invasion of the Republic of Biesel led by Solarian Admiral Michael Frost. The disruption in trade saw the planet’s economy and its people suffer a small downturn that was corrected by the next year, but the phoron scarcity in late 2462 tossed the Xanan economy and the living situation for many of its people into question. The situation has been stabilized by now, some three years later, and while Xanu itself fared through the economic troubles much better than many other areas in the Spur, there have been some lasting consequences. The most noticeable of these has been a widening income inequality that, while modest, is still concerning. Wages for the majority of the planet’s population have not kept up with the inflation that resulted from the phoron scarcity, and while efforts are being made by the government to reduce inflation and buoy wages or substitute incomes through the provision of more services through the state welfare system, the problem still seems to be growing slowly, yet steadily. It is not yet a crisis, though many on Xanu Prime are keen to see that it never becomes one.

==Societal Issues and Political Discourse==
One of the biggest contemporary issues that is often at the forefront of Xanan political and societal discourse is how Xanu Prime and its government should meet the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees from the war-torn territories of the Sol Alliance and the largest wave of Vysokan immigrants the planet has yet seen. Views on these new arrivals have been mixed. Some on the planet have welcomed them, pointing to the fact that Xanu Prime is already an incredibly diverse place while highlighting the fact that the planet and its economy need laborers to fuel continued economic growth coming out of the turmoil of the phoron scarcity. Others have been less welcoming, stating that Xanu’s government and corporations should instead invest more into places like Vysoka and the frontiers of the Coalition to improve the living situations for the people living there, lowering the desire for immigration, often pointing to the already-strained Xanan welfare system needing to take care of more people, most of which aren’t even Xanan citizens. Others still have instead encouraged the Xanan government to pressure other economically developed planets in the Coalition such as Himeo and Konyang to take on more of these immigrants and refugees; a way of “doing their part” as Coalition members. Now that the conflicts in the Solarian Wildlands come to a close, it is predicted that refugees will stop trying to reach Xanu, though immigration from Vysoka and the Coalition’s frontiers does not seem to be stemming any time soon.

A larger, more historical point of contention in Xanan society and politics is just what role the planet should play in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime’s unique position of having both the Coalition’s largest economy and strongest military have long given it a considerable, unbalanced level of influence over CoC affairs, and as such, its people hold differing opinions on just how the planet should carry itself. Broadly, Xanan citizens fall into two camps on the issue: increased autonomy from the CoC, or broader integration with the CoC, with nuanced views within each of these positions. Some who wish for more integration with the Coalition desire for the planet’s government to capitalize on the great amount of influence it has within the multi-planet government to create better economic situations on Xanu Prime, while others say that the planet should use its influence to instead help the developing members of the Coalition to grow and provide more for the CoC as a whole, even if Xanu itself may not see as large of returns in the short term. Others from the autonomy camp are opposed to further Xanan economic aid to Coalition members, decrying the aid as harmful to the planet when the money and resources given to or loaned out to other CoC members could be better spent on Xanu helping Xanans during the aftermath of the Phoron scarcity. Encompassing members from that same autonomy camp, there are those who believe that the Coalition itself should remain little more than a mutual defense pact, where members only come to each other's aid in times of war, instead of the semi-formal nation state it is today. Within these nuanced views from both sides, there are extremes in the debate for Xanu’s Coalition position, with small minorities of the population wishing for Xanu Prime to leave the Coalition entirely while others in equally small numbers are in favor of the Coalition federalising like the Sol Alliance and having Xanu Prime’s government be dissolved and the planet ruled from a central Coalition authority.

Speaking of defense, it is another topic that Xanan-Coalition discourse often revolves around. The All-Xanu Armed Forces are the largest and most capable fighting force that the Coalition has for both offensive and defensive interstellar warfare operations, and while this is a comforting fact for many Xanans and the Coalition as a whole, it is not without its controversy. Some on Xanu Prime, mostly of the autonomy camp, think that other Coalition members should spend more on defense than they currently do, to avoid a “free ride” on Xanu’s military might, citing increased military spending among members as both good for Xanu Prime and good for the Coalition as a whole if Xanu’s military resources do not need to be stretched so thin, providing for much of the Coalition on its own. Those of the integration camp however have pointed to Xanu Prime’s historical status as the defender of the Coalition and that it is the Xanan responsibility to provide for the Coalition’s defense, even to an unbalanced amount because other planets of the Coalition simply do not have the economies to afford their own militaries beyond those that patrol their home systems. The common refrain among those in the latter camp is “If not us, then who?”

Besides the differing political opinions on Xanu’s place with other planets of the coalition, which could be considered internal matters, there are differing opinions on external matters, namely its place with megacorporations. Xanu’s position on megacorporations has long been a topic of debate, but its presence in everyday Xanan life has dramatically increased after the 2462 phoron scarcity and Solarian Collapse. While many megacorporations, both Einstein Engines and the SCC alike, have operated on Xanu Prime as a springboard to the rest of the coalition, often having the planet be the location of their regional headquarters, their presence hasn’t always come without concern or conflict. Some on the planet see further megacorporations as the next step in Xanu Prime’s economic growth and advocate for a lessening of restrictions upon them so that they can help the planet emerge into a post-phoron scarcity spur. The majority on the planet however caution megacorporate cooperation and see the Republic of Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts as to what can happen to a country that does not strike the right amount of balance and regulation of megacorporations. Most Xanans believe that megacorporations need some level of government oversight and regulation, but they fail to agree on just what form that should take, with different political parties holding different positions.

A growing issue that has become more pronounced in recent years is Xanu Prime’s fight with illegal drug trafficking and other forms of illegal smuggling. Xanu’s status as the heart of the Coalition and as one of the largest ports in the Orion Spur has made it a hotspot for all kinds of illegal trafficking; any smuggled drug, weapon, or person going into, out of, or on a long distance trip through the coalition likely will pass through Xanu Prime on its way from point A to point B. This reality ensures that All-Xanu Public Security Office is always busy, on the hunt for contraband moving through the planet’s ports and channels of commerce. Drug trafficking is not the only issue with illicit substances on the planet, in the last decade and a half illegal drug usage has nearly tripled from where it was in 2455 and the cause is debated among Xanans. Some say it is because of the economic troubles that Xanu and the rest of the spur at large have had in recent years, driving people to use illicit substances to cope, while others state that the cause can be pinned on the recent uptick of refugees and immigrants, specifically Vysokan ones, that have flowed to the planet looking for work or sanctuary from conflict. Others still have blamed the decay of Xanan family bonds under the strain of increasing economic hardship as a cause of the crisis. Whatever the cause, in 2461 Prime Minister Fabian Chatterjee declared the rising usage of drugs a public health emergency and called upon the Public Safety Office, the Health Office, and corporations operating on Xanu Prime to commit more resources to stopping its spread. Support for cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and increasing funding to programs and facilities focusing on sobriety and addiction treatment has seen support across Xanu’s political parties and drug usage rates have slowed in their rise since the emergency was declared, though it is unclear if these measures will be effective in the long term.

==Xanan Cultural Customs, Values, and Communication Habits==
The Xanan culture is a collectivist one with some caveats. Societally, Xanans see individuals as important pieces to a greater whole, but place importance more on what is good for society rather than what empowers the individual. This is not so say that Xanans see individuality as moot, in fact many Xanans are perhaps some of the strongest advocates for individual rights and protections from the government and society within the Coalition, but this is all done with the caveat that individual freedoms should never disproportionately harm or disadvantage society and that an individual should be obligated to sacrifice what they may want or what may be important to them if it is seen as essential to promoting a greater good. This rationale is a growth from Xanan family culture, one which places a great deal of importance on respect, cohesion, and hierarchy.

===Xanan Family Culture===
The family is perhaps one of if not the most dominant cultural institution over any given Xanan’s life. The traditional Xanan family places a great amount of importance on how one fits into the family and expects children to respect their parents and elders and obey them on familial and some personal matters, even after childhood due to the idea of age equating to wisdom. In return for the obedience of their children, parents and elders in the Xanan family are expected to be able to explain to younger family members why they’ve made the decisions they have, so that the juniors of the family do not feel as if they are being taken advantage of. Gender roles are flexible in Xanan families, however women typically maintain the household and work part-time while men work full-time jobs, though this is by no means universal. The elderly are extremely important in the Xanan family, with elderly individuals being seen as sources of knowledge and inspiration who should be consulted by younger members of the family for advice during troubled times or when making big life decisions. Elders are also expected to handle the early childcare and religious education of their family’s children, however the former of these responsibilities is not as essential as it once was due to the Xanan government’s implementation of free childcare for children under the age of five. It is for an elderly person’s children or grandchildren to take care of them and allow them to live with them from after their retirement until they die, and refusing to do this is seen as a great betrayal and is heavily frowned upon in Xanan society. A negative effect of having such large families however is that inheritances, especially those of wealthier relatives, often can result in disappointment and messy intrafamily legal battles over securing a relative’s estate and assets.

Individuals are celebrated within the Xanan family structure, but individuality as a concept is not encouraged, and family bonds are often seen as a key component to the personal identity of any Xanan. This can occasionally result in more independently-minded members of families being ostracized by their kin, however, Xanan family culture usually supports that a family should welcome back those who become estranged from the family and work to make them feel a part of the unit once again and not hold grudges. Whether this is always adhered to though, is often up to the individual families themselves. It is not uncommon for multiple generations of families to live under the same roof, or even multiple extensions of a family to do the same. Any given Xanan household may have children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts, or granduncles residing in the same household. This mindset extends to individual living situations as well. Children often do not move out of their parent’s households unless for university or work until they are in their mid-to-late twenties or even thirties; there’s no expectation for Xanan children to move out at any age so long as they still contribute to the household. However, many young Xanans do move out and live apart from their families if they are committing to a serious romantic relationship with someone or if a job opportunity arises. Family culture dictates that geographical distance from the family be a consideration in if a person accepts a job, however most families are generally encouraging of their members seeking out lucrative job opportunities because it is viewed as something that will be a net positive to the family as a whole. Related to this, Xanans working abroad often maintain very close relationships to their families, even across generations.

An individual’s choices are supposed to be embraced and supported by their family members unless the family believes the decisions to be truly destructive to the family or individual; they cannot be discouraging simply because they personally disagree with the choices because doing so would place a personal opinion or prejudice above what may be best for the family. Families are expected to be strong support systems for their members and it is common for large families to offer housing, financial assistance, and emotional support to their members in times of need. Some families have embraced this bond and applied it to business, with some of the largest companies on Xanu Prime being family-run as a result. Xanu’s richest and most powerful families are referred to as “Forvamshons” and they are typically large players in the planet’s politics and business spheres. This attitude has occasionally led to corruption scandals, but generally it is seen that enriching one’s family by hurting the rest of society is unfair, dishonorable and cause for great shame. Some Forvamshons are very elusive and shy away from the public eye, while others are very public and have celebrity statuses. The foremost of these families often have private security details provided by the PMCG, Idris Incorporated, or Chevauchée Asset Protection and live in luxurious high-security compounds which house the entire family.

Marriages are seen as not just a special bond between two people but a union between two families and a commitment between them to work together. Because of this collective view on familial culture, arranged marriages are not uncommon on Xanu Prime though they have slowly become less prevalent since the 2430’s. Same-sex marriages are not frowned upon in Xanan culture however same-sex couples are expected to adopt children to continue the family lineage, much like how heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Polygamy is illegal on Xanu Prime and polyamorous relationships do not have any form of legal recognition. Though not illegal, Xenophilia is societally frowned upon on Xanu Prime because of long held beliefs that the family structures of other species are incompatible with human ones making relationships between Humans and Aliens fruitless and selfish, therefore hurting one’s family.

Death and customs around it are tied deeply to Xanan family culture, as the death of a person is not just seen as the death of an individual but a loss of a member of an entire family. Burial and cremation are both common during Xanan funerals with customs varying some between the planet’s various religions. Common between all of them though, families will either have their bodies buried in adjacent plots to one another or will keep the ashes of deceased family members in a single, large urn holding the ashes of most if not all of the family’s deceased relatives. During burials, it is a common practice for the deceased’s family to throw dirt, flowers, and lit incense onto the casket as it is lowered into the ground. Another custom stemming from this is that when a person speaks of a deceased friend or relative, it is seen as respectful to make a small tossing motion with their hand or arm. During cremations, the deceased are often cremated alongside incense. Another common custom around death on Xanu Prime regardless of religion is that most Xanan homes will have a large logbook wrapped in black and white cloth called an “Afterlife Journal” in the home’s living room or other public area where family members are able to write down memories, sentiments, thoughts, or prayers about their deceased relatives and friends. Many see the theme of memorialisation that is very present in Xanan culture having stemmed from both the strong family ties Xanans have built along with the collective impact of the Interstellar War even some two-centuries later.
Dinnertime is perhaps the most important time of the day for any Xanan family, as it is when everyone in the household gets together. Rarely do families eat apart from one another unless their work schedules dictate they do so. Meals are shared around a large central table in the household and weekend dinners can last hours. Not only is food shared but music is played and games are enjoyed, usually board games like Checkers and Chess, or card games like Alutte or French Tarot. Meals are a happy time and it is considered to be an honor to be invited over to share a meal with a Xanan and their family. It is customary for a Xanan family grieving the loss of a loved one to leave a chair at the table empty for the spirit of the deceased for anywhere from two weeks to two months after their passing and provide them food and drink as if they were still living as an act of remembrance and appreciation for their family member. This same gesture is also done two weeks to two months before the birth of a child if a family is expecting and it is instead seen as a show of excitement and optimism for new life. Many suspect the focus on meals in Xanan family culture to be the catalyst which has pushed Xanan cuisine to the upper echelons of high-class dining throughout the Orion Spur.

===Xanan Work Culture===
Xanan work culture is formalistic and hierarchical, tied into the planet’s strong sense of family, and can sometimes come off as hard to break into for outsiders. A traditional Xanan greeting for coworkers is a handshake accompanied by a light bow. Titles, rather than names, should be used with all coworkers, superior, equal-level, or inferior alike, unless the two coworkers are close friends. Small talk is appreciated, and asking after the family of a business partner is usually how most business meetings start. Xanans pride themselves on professionalism and often view their companies as a stand-in for the family outside of their real families, meaning they want to represent them well through professionalism and a strong public image while not bringing shame to them through misconduct or crassness. Superiors are expected to be respectful and formal, but friendly with those under them and coworkers are expected to execute the orders of their superiors without question and then raise grievances with their overseers when the act is done unless they believe the situation is truly disastrous. Businesswear is formal, usually consisting of a suit and tie or cravat for men and a dress or blouse and skirt for women or a uniform for either. Casual dress while on the job is not welcomed in Xanan society and is seen as immature and juvenile, likewise excessive make-up or jewelry in a work setting is seen as distracting and putting more of a focus on one’s personal appearance than the business matter itself, regardless of the person’s gender. However, dyed hair, and minimal tattoos, especially those that are covered by standard work clothing are accepted. Xanan business meetings are multifaceted, with meetings between managers and higher-up officials in companies usually being very logical, low-key, and methodical with great emphasis placed on the abilities of either side to debate one another. This has led to the term “debate” becoming synonymous with “business meeting” on Xanu Prime. If associates know each other well though, meetings can be very emotionally charged and spritied for better or worse, filled with either happiness and achievement, or anger and sadness.

Trust built through continuous face-to-face interaction are essential in Xanan business; Xanans will base their decisions on trust and intuition as much as if not more than data and statistics. It is not uncommon for a Xanan to request a meeting in person rather than communicating through holocall, telephone, messengers, or holomail, as personal relationships and connections drive much of Xanan business culture. and because these relationships take time to cultivate and are placed on the same level of importance as close, platonic friendships, it can sometimes be a culture shock for foreigners doing business with Xanans even if the Xanans themselves are quite happy to do business with foreigners. It is considered insulting to discuss business over meals and alcohol is usually not served during Xanan business functions or consumed while on the clock. Hard work is admired, but Xanans generally view workaholism as a selfish trait that makes a person disrespectful to their family by cutting into family time. It is considered poor form to schedule an important meeting in the month of August in the northern hemisphere or the month of February in the southern hemisphere, as these are the respective months usually reserved for summer vacation. This has led to the emergence of the sarcastic phrases, "I'll get to it in August," and "I'll get to it in February," both meaning that a person doesn't care about doing something. As a continuation of this, holidays and vacation days are strictly forbidden for business contacts to speak with one another unless the topic of conversation is not work-related and evenings are similarly off-limits as they are often reserved for family time. Coworkers should bring gifts or cards to one another when they return from business trips or holidays and doing so is considered a gesture of appreciation and goodwill towards one's peers as well as a sign of continued commitment to their workplace even after a vacation. Snacks and sweets, knick-knacks, cookware, and hand-written poems are gifts that would not seem out of place in a Xanan office after vacation season.

===Xanan Communication Habits and Social Norms===
Generally speaking, Xanans are friendly, yet polite to strangers and are typically not confrontational with people they do not have a prior relationship with such as friendship, family, or a long business partnership. This has led to foreigners often noticing an indirect style of communication among Xanans, as being very direct about certain matters to strangers is considered rude. It is for this reason that Xanans will often say “Maybe,” or “Perhaps,” as an indirect response in place of “No,” because they do not wish to directly disappoint, and thereby offend a stranger if something is asked of them, though a far more direct style of communication is used in some parts of Xanan society, namely by those in the military, police, or security industries. Good manners are a staple in Xanan communication and are usually only eschewed between close friends or family members. It is considered proper for a person in a higher position of power or standing in a company or family to give unsolicited advice to those beneath them, but rude for advice to be given the other way around unless asked for. Politics are expected to not be talked about in casual conversation unless they are related to the subject matter at hand or between friends. Social norms dictate that a Xanan generally should not want to impose their beliefs upon others, especially strangers, unless something someone else says contradicts something said Xanan believes, in which case a civil, if spirited political discussion may ensue. Xanan society is one that eschews the use of violence to solve disputes, and holds a pacifistic ethos that cements that one should only use force in the defense of oneself and others, however naturally, not all on Xanu Prime abide by these morals. Moreover, there is an expectation in Xanan society that people can, should, and will compromise with one another for the sake of preserving societal unity, order, and peace, with stubbornness in working out an agreement with one another being seen as a selfish trait. Finally, Xanans value the collective. Whether that is a family, company, crew of a ship, social circle, country, or other unit, Xanan social norms dictate that a good Xanan is one who will act in the best interests of something “bigger than themselves,” while using his or her unique individual qualities to best help themselves and the people around them who they care about.

===Religion===
Xanu Prime has no official religion, and in an effort to prevent conflict over religion or accusations of government favoritism, the government has a series of official secularism laws. They vary in specificity, but broadly they prohibit any person working for or affiliated with the state including anyone from politicians to police officers to public school teachers from displaying any religious iconography, dress, or artifacts on their person or in their workplace while they are on the job. This has drawn criticism from some elements of Xanan society which see these rules as an infringement upon religious liberty, especially from those who take religious dressage as an integral part to their faith, but the government has remained firm in their beliefs that the state will not expose or impose anyone to any one religion over another. Despite these laws, the Xanan government is not opposed to working with religiously-affiliated organizations like charities due to the laws prohibiting only the state itself from representing a religion, not engaging with it.
Xanan people as a whole vary in religiosity with both very progressive and orthodox interpretations of the various faiths found on the planet being practiced. The diverse backgrounds of the planet’s original colonists and immigrants since its colonization mean that nearly any religion can be found here. The largest however, in order of practitioners are, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sunni Islam. Smaller faiths like Luceism, Stolitism, Jainism, Sikhism, and even Moroz Holy Tribunalism can be found here, the latter of which is practiced almost exclusively by the Fisanduhian immigrant community. A significant portion of Xanan society is irreligious as well. Xanu Prime is well known across the Orion Spur for some of its examples of religious architecture, the most outstanding examples of which being the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, the Patali-Ram temple, and the Crystal Lights mosque.

==Food and Drink==
===Food===
Xanan cuisine has garnered a carefully cultivated reputation around the Orion Spur as perhaps some of the finest in human space. It is in a sense, a fusion between the cuisines of its most prominent colonizing cultures, French, Indian, Pakistani, and those of the BeNeLux. While certainly diverse, it is known most for being both simultaneously spicy, but not hot, with different spices adding highlights and emphasis to whatever notes in the palette the chef so chooses, and savory with a mouth-watering richness that lasts long after the first bite of whatever the food might be. This reputation precedes it, and expert Xanan chefs and cooks are some of the most revered in the culinary industry for their mastery of their crafts.

Arguably the most famous human celebrity chefs alive, '''Cléophe & Lonnie D’Cruz''', a married power-couple in the Xanan food world, were both born and raised on Xanu Prime. Their combined adventurousness in the culinary industry with endeavors both inside and outside their chain of fine restaurants has garnered both them and Xanan cuisine a spotlight few planets’ food cultures can match. The couple met while attending a small culinary school in the city of Foy-Nijlen, fell in love, and then combined their skills to open what would be their first restaurant in their well-known fine-dining chain, '''Solstice Xanan Bistro'''. Marriage followed shortly after, and the two have been together at the forefront of the Xanan food world ever since. While they are married to one another, the duo’s personalities are distinctly different, something often accentuated for the camera. Cléophe is known for their generally supportive and encouraging personality who wishes to simply share the joy of cooking with the world and has written dozens of best-selling cookbooks to that end. They are also well-known for their appearances on Holovision shows and Holonet videos giving tutorials on how to make some of the D’Cruz’s most well-known recipes in a basic kitchen; it wouldn’t be unfair to say that an entire generation of Xanan home-cooks were taught by Cléophe D’Cruz. Lonnie, however is far more of a chef’s chef who adheres to very strict professional and artistic standards, something he extols through his appearances on cooking competition shows, often played up to be a very cold and perfectionistic critic. Despite this reputation, he much like his spouse, is also committed to educating people on Xanan culinary arts and to that end is the President and, along with Cléophe, co-owner of the D’Cruz Culinary Academy, a culinary school which while only ten years old, has quickly risen to be one of the most competitive on the planet.

While Xanan cuisine is diverse and constantly reinventing itself, the dishes characteristically include some kind of meat, most often chicken, beef, or shellfish, paired with greens like beans, asparagus, or broccoli, or a starch like potatoes and something characteristic of almost all Xanu dishes, long-grain aromatic basmati rice, typically grown on the hilly territory surrounding the upper Naya Khyber river. Spices like cumin, black pepper, coriander, cloves, cardamom, and garam masala are ubiquitous throughout Xanan cooking, and often find themselves as part of exceptionally rich and creamy white sauces made from milk, butter, salt, and eggs. Pork is not as popular as a meat on Xanu Prime as others are, given the prohibition on eating it from Xanu’s original Muslim colonists and its perceived uncleanliness that Xanu’s original Hindu colonists held as well. Some Hindus also choose to not eat beef, and as such, many of Xanu’s restaurants have an option to serve synthmeat or a vegan meat substitute instead of actual beef in their beef-dishes. The most consumed alcohol on Xanu Prime by far is beer, often made in the Belgian tradition brought to the planet by some of its original colonists. Brandy comes in second and third, and wine is also popular too, but is more associated with fine dining than it is with a drinking experience alone. Xanan cognac and armagnac brandies have drawn the ire of some in the European Union on Earth because it uses the labels of “cognac” and “armagnac" despite not being produced in the Charente, Charente-Maritime, or Armagnac regions of France, though Xanan producers have paid these complaints no heed.

Some notable Xanan dishes include:
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'''Steak Xanu'''
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As the name implies, '''Steak Xanu''' is a steak, and is typically pan-fried rather than grilled. Usually it is strip steak as opposed to coming from any other part of the cow, but any cut of beef can be made in the Xanan style. The secret comes in what the beef is cooked with. Before the strip goes into the pan it is left to marinate in a warm broth traditionally made from chicken stock, cardamom, and garlic for flavor and is then lathered all over with a light coating of ghee right before it meets the pan in order to give its outside a crunchy, slightly singed crust. The steak is cooked to medium rare as it is basted in its own juices along with butter, rosemary, and a very light touch of cayenne powder. After it is cooked to a medium rare, it is taken out of the pan and left to rest for a few minutes before being dashed with a cooked sour, cream sauce, often simply called “beef sauce” made from heavy cream, olive oil, whisked egg yolks, and citrus or mango powder. Black pepper is cracked over the top, and the dish is served. Some of Xanu Prime’s Hindu population refuses to eat this dish, however chicken can be cooked in a very similar way and is typically referred to as “Bird Steak” by the Xanan culinary community. It is the official dish of the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle, Xanu’s Capital.
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'''Pataliputra Curried Rice'''
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An mainstay dish and one sure to be found on almost any Xanan dinner table, '''Pataliputra Curried Rice''', often just called Xanu Curry by foreigners, is a twist on the typical curry recipe that originated in the port city of Pataliputra. It is a yellow curry that uses peanuts as one of its main ingredients, giving it a signature nuttiness that mixes quite well with the dish's spices. Where it differs from a traditional curry though, is that its sauce is made from two parts, one of which is a buttermilk-garlic-onion powder base that is very thick and holds in the flavor of the spices and vegetables put into the sauce, while the other is a very light, chicken-based velouté sauce made from combining chicken bone broth with a light, typically but not always, salted blond roux to give the sauce some substance. When the two sauces combine, they make for an exceptionally savory base upon which spices like ginger, garam masala, coriander, fenugreek, and thyme can be added. Meats like chicken or shell-fish are often added to the sauce along with things like beans or potatoes. Rice used in this recipe is traditionally Xanan basmati rice. Every person and every city on Xanu Prime has their own slight variation on how they make this dish, but what is listed above is generally what could be expected when ordering it. It is the official dish of the city of Pataliputra.
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets'''
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets''', or more informally River Crozets, is a dish that originated from the city of Foy-Nijlen and is one that makes use of the various animals caught off the city’s nearby ocean coast and also those found in the Naya Khyber river which runs through the city. The base of this pasta dish is a spicy tomato-basil-cayenne sauce with melted and dissolved Naya Khyber river penguin blubber mixed into the sauce in place of a more traditional fat like butter, ghee, or olive oil. The pasta itself, the Crozets, are small rectangles which resemble something more akin to breakfast cereal in size and shape rather than a more noodly kind of pasta. The crozets are made from buckwheat, eggs, and flour, and are usually cooked al dente so as to retain a bit of firmness. Along with the pieces of pasta, river boiled lobster, fish, crab, or even river penguin meat is pan-fried with butter, rosemary, cardamom, coriander, and cloves before being put into the pasta usually in small bite-sized pieces. Black pepper is cracked over the dish and cumin is dashed over the meat and the dish is served in a heated stoneware bowl. It is the official dish of the city of Foy-Nijlen.
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'''Bunker Buster Sandwich'''
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The '''Bunker Buster Sandwich''' is perhaps the most famous example of Xanan street food. At its core, the dish can be used to refer to almost any toasted open-faced sandwich served on naan bread with over-easy eggs, fried vegetables, shredded cheese, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and garam masala. In practice however, the six ingredients mentioned above are only the beginning of what a bunker buster might be, as really anything from meats to veggies to mushrooms can be put on the sandwich so long as it tastes good. It’s incredibly easy to make and traces its roots back to the reconstruction of the city of Kshatragarh shortly after the Interstellar War, starting as a quick and easy meal for construction workers to make as a lunch. Many of these workers lived in the city’s underground bunker complexes while above-ground housing was being rebuilt, leading to the sandwich’s name. It has since spread all over Xanu Prime, and a visitor to any given Xanan city is likely to find dozens of variations on this simple, long-time favorite food. It is the official dish of the city of Kshatragarh.
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo'''
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo''' is a dish originating in the city of Paastad, but can be found across the entire continent of Paasland. It is made from the meat of the large waterfowl, the Paaskraan, and is similar to the traditional preparation of vindaloo with one major exception: the meat is not cooked with the vindaloo paste and is only added at the end. Instead, the meat of the Paaskraan is pan-fried until fully cooked and is usually then seared in a sweet vanilla sauce to give it a crunchy, caramelized outer shell. After this process, it is added to the cooked vindaloo paste (cloves, cinnamon, cariander, cardamom, cumin, red peppers, ginger, mustard seeds, black pepper) and served over rice, as a crunchy and spicy meal. It is the official dish of the city of Paastad.
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'''North 60 Sea Platter'''
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The '''North 60 Sea Platter''' is less a single coherent dish and more an entire subsection of dishes based around the theme of seafood caught north of 60 degrees latitude. Himavatian sea salmon or arctic tuna, usually pan-fried in olive oil or smoked and served with lemon and black pepper, commonly forms the center of the dish with arctic crab legs or lobster tail sold off to the side paired with a creamy garlic sauce. Other components could include fried octopus and squid or freshly caught steamed shrimp. What makes the dish more than just a typical seafood platter is a special malt vinegar made specifically from ale brewed in the Xanan tradition with added apple and lemon juice. More budget friendly variations of this dish exist as well, such as ones that swap the pan-fried salmon or tuna for smaller, less expensive, deep-fried fish, the lobster and crab for shrimp, and are commonly found in Himavat City bars as a cheap, delicious option for a lunch or dinner. The food arrangement originated in the city and is its official dish.
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Not all food on Xanu Prime is within the realm of “fine dining” however. When not at the table for a full meal, the average Xanan can reach for any number of snack foods produced by Xanan companies. Many of these have become not just popular on Xanu Prime, but throughout the entire Coalition and beyond thanks to the aggressive marketing and economic dominance of Xanan shipping and food conglomerates.

===Drink===
Along with its food culture, Xanu Prime is renowned for some of the alcohol the planet produces as well. The planet’s main claim to fame in this area are in the spheres of beer, wine, and brandy. The planet has brewed beer since its founding, with the Xanan style of beer crafting having its roots in the Belgian-style brought to the planet by colonists from the BeNeLux itself. The most popular brand of beer on Xanu Prime is '''Prince Pallav Blonde Ale''', a golden concoction brewed in Foy-Niljen that has held dominance over the Xanu Beer market for the last two decades. This robustness in the brewing has brought the planet into a rivalry with the nearby planet of Himeo, the two of them both having proud beer-making heritages that often brings them to test this with each other. For the last decade and a half, brewers from the two planets have engaged in a festival called Hoptoberfest, a week-long celebration of the craft of brewing beer held every October complete with live music, authentic Xanan and Himean cuisine, and crucially for the craft brewers of both planets, competitions determining which beer is the best for that year. The festival changes venues from Paastad, Xanu Prime and Inverkeithing, Himeo every other year.
In addition to beer, Xanu Prime imported a strong wine culture from its original colonists, namely the French ones. Vineyards dot the Xanan countryside on every continent, with a few even on the southernmost peninsulas of Himavatia. The planet makes a wide variety of wine, though it is most notable for its own variety of Malbec grown in the mountains of Naya Khyber and Nouvelle-Occitanie called '''Khyberian Malbec'''. Where Xanu Prime’s wine truly shines though is not in the wine itself but in its use in fortified wine products like brandy and cognac. The unique climatological conditions of Foy-Niljen brandy country have led to the grapes grown there to be perfectly suited to making fortified wines and distilled wines, leading to their flavors to be pronounced but not overbearing up front with subtle, complex notes coming to the surface the more the drinker savors the beverage. The most noteworthy and popular drinks of this category are the mid-range priced '''2275''', a mainstay brandy of Xanan bars and kitchen cabinets alike, and '''Saint-James Black Label,''' the gold standard of Xanan luxury cognac. The national cocktail of the All-Xanu Republic is the '''Stag Hunt''', so named for its popularity on hunting trips and other outdoor activities during the summer. It is a simple drink made by mixing three parts brandy, typically 2275, one part lemon juice, and two parts chilled tea usually served over ice in a highball glass. Chai is the most consumed tea variety on Xanu Prime and the soft drink Xanu Rush is also very popular on the planet.

==Arts and Entertainment==
===Visual Art===
Xanan visual arts are vast and have an uncountable number of movements and subgenres. Generally, though, Xanan artworks are reflective pieces and try to examine the human condition rather than focus on the form by which the artwork expresses itself. Xanan visual arts have been heavily influenced by the original Western European cultures which settled the planet and as such, drawing and painting are the most prevalent forms of Xanan art. Sculpture that has been inspired by South Asian cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are also prevalent, however. The most famous and well-known movement of Xanan art is often called the Atman Movement and it lasted from the 2340’s until the 2390’s. Most art scholars consider it an offshoot of Symbolism and Neoclassicism but with noticeable existential elements. Pieces of the movement hold an almost ethereal aesthetic, and usually feature elements like fanciful Greco-Roman or Indian ruins, ruins that aren’t even found on Xanu Prime, bright, vibrant colors contrasted by dark backdrops, and esoteric spiritual imagery sourced from Xanu Prime’s three largest religions. The goal of all of this, in the words of the Xanan master painter Arnold Vasudevan, a key figure in the movement, is, “To imagine Humanity and the human condition as if we could breach the barrier between this world and the next with our own hearts and achieve revelation and clarity through the beauty within and without our souls and the world around us.” An offshoot of this movement referred to as Wartime Atman replaces the ruins of classical civilisations with scenes of wartime destruction found on Xanu Prime during the days of the Interstellar War and is meant to make the viewer reflect on things like conflict and mortality. The most famous piece of visual artwork of the Atman Movement and arguably of all Xanan visual art is called “The Truce" by Harini Martin. It is a colossal mural of a painting that is four meters tall and ten meters wide which depicts the ghosts of dozens of fallen Xanan and Solarian soldiers enjoying leisure time and doing activities like enjoying meals with one another, idly talking, showing each other photographs, and playing games and sports with one another over the backdrop of a desolate Interstellar War era battlefield in what used to be a Xanan city. The sky around the edges is a dark color, however in the center of the painting’s sky is a brilliant white, alabaster, pink, and red halo that shines light on the entire painting. It was unveiled to the public at the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery, Xanu Prime’s national art gallery, in 2387 as part of a ceremony to commemorate one-hundred years of peace with the Solarian Alliance and has remained a permanent fixture in the museum since. Notable Xanan sculptures include Our Lady of Sorrows, a giant statue of the Virgin Mary included in the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, and Skyward Unity, a large sculpture commemorating the elevation of Paastad.

===Architecture and Cityscapes===
The traditional Xanan style of architecture can be described as a hybridization of various styles of design from the Indian subcontinent and Western Europe, much like the origins of the planet’s original colonists. Xanan buildings usually have some form of artistic design on their exteriors, even if it’s as simple as a basic tile weave around entrances or semi-ornate molding around windows. Many have lines drawn on the outside in paint or sculpted on, and Xanan buildings are usually painted with bright, if mellow, colors if they are painted at all. Most Xanan buildings are taller than they are wide and long, courtesy of the planet’s re-urbanisation plans after the Interstellar War and because buildings in most urban areas are taxed based on how much land they take up. Most Xanan buildings have some form of accoutrement around their roofs, usually being a modest carving or bust of a family’s ancestor if it’s a house or a historical or religious figure, representing the theme of memorialisation found elsewhere in Xanan culture. The roofs themselves of most Xanan buildings are usually vaulted or occasionally are domed or flat. Larger, more modern buildings like skyscrapers on Xanu Prime have a distinctive half-sloping-roof look pioneered during the beginning of Xanu’s economic resurgence during the mid 2330s. Originally implemented as a cost-saving measure to make a building that still looked tall but didn’t need to have as much office space, the half-sloped roof or “Xanan Roof” style of skyscraper has part of the building’s roof flat and level with the ground while another portion of it slopes downwards. This style of design has become emblematic of Xanu Prime and even the newest skyscrapers on the planet are built with this design in mind, despite its economical origins. Xanan buildings are made from a variety of materials, with the few-surviving pre-war structures being made from wood, brick, and steel while commercial and industrial buildings built after the Interstellar War are made from concrete, steel, and glass with plaster or clay facades. Individual houses are still mostly made from wood or brick, however. Sizes and shapes of Xanan residences vary, with some being modest single-family homes typical of other places within the spur. Multi-story townhouse complexes surrounding a single communal courtyard are common in urban areas and are often inhabited by entire extended families. In more densely populated areas, large communal apartments built for extended families are common, though some wealthier families have pursued a policy of “Co-flooring,” a type of retail arrangement where an entire extended family will rent out an entire floor of traditional single-family apartments from a property agency. Some buildings on Xanu Prime play very heavily into inspiration from the planet’s original cultures and would not look out of place in South Asia or Western Europe, though buildings built like those are in the minority of Xanu Prime’s structures.

The last notable architectural feature found in many Xanan cities are residual walls and gun emplacements left over from the Xanan Civil War. Of Xanu’s six major cities, only three, Nouvelle Rochelle, Pataliputra, and Foy-Niljen have them still, with Kshatrigarh’s being destroyed beyond repair during the Interstellar War and Paastad’s torn down during the city’s elevation, lest they sink into the swamp. Himavat City never had walls, as it was too small of a community to have built them during the Xanan Civil War. The walls proved useful during both of the planet’s most devastating conflicts, acting as barriers to outsiders and platforms for return fire, but due to the gargantuan cost of operation and maintenance, the walls and their gun emplacements were decommissioned in the 2310s as a part of the Sneijders Government’s economic recovery plans. Today, the walls stand as partially restored massive memorial complexes dedicated to those who fought and died during both the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War, with some cities having sections of wall filled with the names of those who died during the conflicts from those respective cities.

Xanan cities are generally filled with greenery as both a measure to keep temperatures down during the summer and simply provide Xanans with natural beauty even in the most urban of places. Large public transit networks consisting mostly of subway systems and tramways are found in almost every Xanan city and most of those who live in the urban cores of Xanan cities do not own automobiles, while Xanans who live in the country, suburbs, and smaller cities have a higher percentage of car ownership. The most common way to get around on Xanu Prime however is by bike or motorbike; Xanu Prime has the most bikes per capita of any planet in the Orion Spur, even beating out the Solarian population hubs of Callisto and New Hai Phong. Generally speaking, Xanan cities are walkable and do not require an automobile to move around efficiently, and some Xanan cities have banned the construction of freeways and overpasses entirely in order to preserve their cities’ “authentic landscapes.”

===Literature===
Xanan literature has cemented itself around the institution of “The Great Novel,” something often defined in Xanan culture as a work of literary art that has captured the essence or soul of the Xanan struggle and of the planet’s people through the usage of compelling stories and multifaceted characters. Novels written in the Xanan style usually have psychological and spiritual themes and use supernatural or otherwise fantastical elements to explore Xanan the human condition, usually in surreal or otherwise unorthodox methods. Xanan novels are typically not adapted into films as is seen elsewhere in the Orion Spur due to Xanan movie-going audiences preferring musicals and epics instead, but they have become popular as holovision shows, stageplays, and miniseries.

Some notable works of Xanan Literature are:
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====Gloam in Gold====
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It is hard to understate the importance and influence of Foy-Niljen writer Arif Hugo’s 2345 masterpiece Gloam in Gold in the Xanan literary canon. The text, while short for a novel, is considered to be not just a seminal work of Xanan writing but also quite possibly the greatest novel ever written in the Freespeak language, despite its unorthodox, almost anthological structure. It is set in 2296 during the initial reconstruction of the city of Kshatrigarh and focuses on the character Madhar Emond, a Kshatrapur native and veteran of the Interstellar War now working to rebuild the battered city during the aftermath of the terrible conflict. His life isn’t a glamorous one and he spends most of his days doing hard, construction labor, digging paving roads, working on buildings, and the like. One day on his way home from work, he stops by one of the city’s many large cemeteries to rest and watch the sunset, however shortly after his arrival he lays down in the grass and begins to hear voices around him. He’s alerted by these and denounces them as hallucinations at first as he sees no one around who could be speaking to him, yet as the sun sets further below the horizon, he realizes that there is some coherence through the voices and that they are in fact, the voices of the dead, fully aware of their condition yet unable to move on to the afterlife.

Madhar listens in to their conversations for a moment and is eventually confronted by the voice of one of the deceased, one Missus Pandit, an elderly woman who died of old age before the city was besieged. She acts as a sort of a guide who explains the dispositions of each of the ghosts present, and each part of the novel tells a story of a different spirit inhabiting the cemetery proceeding in the order of Missus Pandit herself, and then to Mister Quint and Miss Jessup, a young Himean immigrant couple who perished together from starvation during the siege and seem to be resigned to their fates, and recount their lives from Himeo and their immigration to Xanu before the war broke out, their desperation during the siege, and now their dead, yet still loving existence of being with each other even in death. Madhar’s conversation with the couple is interrupted by the voice of Marcus Thevar, a rich and vulgar middle-aged businessman.

Marcus refuses to reveal how he died and seems to be entirely preoccupied with finding a drink and scoring some action from the cemetery’s various young female ghosts, one “Miss Periwinkle” foremost among them. Miss Periwinkle’s gravestone has been defaced, though she looks to be buried in the plot next to Thevar, much to her dismay. She’s the spirit of a young, pious woman with a noticeable Lunan accent who claims to have died from tuberculosis during the siege. She refuses to say her real name and repeatedly breaks from talking to Madhar to fend off verbal advances from Thevar, before quietly lamenting to Madhar that her days of being confined to the mortal plane despite being dead and needing to routinely reject the, “slovenly attempts at romance,” by her neighbor is God’s unique choice of purgatory for herself. Despite this, even in this “purgatory” she finds some joy in acting as an almost motherly figure to Patrice, the ghost of a five-year old child who doesn’t know how he died but according to Miss Periwinkle, seems to have abruptly perished in the aftermath of the siege after naively playing with unexploded ordnance he found a local park’s sandbox. Miss Periwinkle parts with Madhar after claiming she needs to tend to the child, and her voice fades away.

After this, the story shifts to that of Private Hendriks, a solemn Xanan infantryman who was killed during the battle and laments that he will never be able to return home to his mother and Lieutenant Ma, a Solarian bomber pilot who was shot down over the city during a night raid and is a conflicted character. She is racked by the guilt of possibly killing innocent civilians yet reminisces on what a still-united Sol Alliance might have looked like without the carnage and in his words, “tragedy” of the Interstellar War. Hendriks and Ma seem to spend most of their days now arguing with each other, the conflict lingering on past their deaths, much to the annoyance of the cemetary’s other inhabitants.

Lastly, Madhar is spoken to by the voice of a young woman, a teenager named Penelope, who brokenly and through a voice characterized by sounding as if she’s on the verge of tears, tells Madhar that her body is in fact, not even buried within the cemetery at all, but that her body instead lies buried beneath a new road built on the graveyard’s northern edge and sulks to him that nobody will ever remember her or who she was since there’s nothing to mark her grave. Madhar, heartbroken in this discovery, realizes that he was part of the crew that paved that very road and profusely apologizes to Penelope for spoiling any chance she might have ever had with a proper burial and claims that it was done in the name of progress for the city and for Xanu Prime. Penelope’s voice rejects this and breaks into tears, repeating the fact that nobody will remember her or who she was, but eventually she is soothed by Madhar’s assurances that he will remember her and that he’ll never forget that she lived and died in the city. Seemingly consoled, Penelope thanks Madhar before her voice too fades away and leaves him in silence, the sky now dark. He makes his way home in solemn, quiet contemplation, thinking about the various spirits he’s heard over the last few hours and once again questions if it was even real. When he gets home to a modest, quickly built apartment, he resolves to himself that whether what he heard was real or not, he cannot forget the past even in pursuit of the future.
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'''The Screen Behind the Mirror''', written in 2419 by the second-generation Fisanduhian Xanan writer Elanea Chatfield, is another one of Xanu Prime’s great novels. It’s a semi-autobiographical story, taking some elements from Chatfield’s own life and putting them into the events of the plot. It is also is a very spiritual text, having references, symbols of, and allusions to the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Tribunalist Scripture, and Luceian holy texts throughout to help convey its themes of residual trauma, destruction and rebirth, and enlightenment.

This semi-autobiographical story follows the experience of a young accountant named Demitra during a camping trip out to the remote New Pacific Scarlands for some time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The story’s structure is unorthodox and the chapters bounce between describing her current experience in the scarlands, and recounting flashbacks to her childhood growing up as a Fisanduhian refugee in a diverse community of Xanan and Assunzionii-Xanans on Xanu Prime. The story in the present is a tale of survival that begins after Elanea’s camping group has a car crash on a back-country road with her being the only surviving member. Much of her food and shelter perished in the blaze and she’s left to fend for herself in the forest and crater lake-filled wilderness around her. She manages to build herself some crude shelter, but during her first night in the wilderness, she’s awoken by a bright ray of light reflecting off of what she can only describe as a large phantasmagorical mirror levitating just outside the border of her crude encampment. In the mirror she sees her own reflection, but not as she is now, but rather how she was as a child at ten years old.

The book then cuts to her life as a ten year old, going over Demitra’s seemingly mundane memories of living in a low-income, almost ramshackled home with her Fisanduhian refugee family in Nouvelle Rochelle, setting the scene for the reader and introducing them to the characters of Demitra’s concerned, yet judgemental mother, silent and stoic father, whiny younger brother, and somewhat detached and aloof older sister over a standard family dinner. This scene ends and we are brought back into the present, the next morning, where upon waking, Demitra discovers that the mirror still resides outside of her camp. When she leaves to forage for food and tries to hunt something with a hatchet she was able to retrieve from the car crash, the mirror silently follows her, always levitating behind her just out of reach. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between this story of survival, following Demitra’s struggles to build a fire, fish, and hunt, and her childhood memories, with the line between the two becoming increasingly blurred as her situation becomes more and more desperate. She sees apparitions of her childhood friends and her deceased father walking around as if it was the most normal thing in the world, calling out to her yet never responding to her words. The memories become less and less pleasant as time goes on, with the phantom mirror showing her family fights, tough times in school with childhood bullies, and the deaths of family members all while her situation in reality, struggling in the wilderness becomes more and more dire.

The story climaxes with Demitra screaming her frustrations at the mirror in the wee hours of the morning, venting her frustrations to it and breaking down into tears while explaining her feeling on herself in detail to the mirror, stating that she knows she’s at her core a broken person but that despite all that the mirror has shown her she is only motivated to survive in the remote wilderness of the scarlands. Her flaws and trauma have only informed her more of her humanity, and she finishes this monologue with the line, “I’ve survived fucking everything else so far, I am not dying alone out here no matter how hard you try to make me want to!” Ever silent, the mirror remains but grows blindingly bright, so much so that the forest itself begins to smolder and catch fire from the phantasmagorical brilliance it emits. Struggling to cover herself from the light, Demitra covers her eyes but is directed by some voice, “Come and see, and behold, She who is all that is, ever was, and will be.” As she feels her very skin begin to burn and peel away from the mirror’s light, Demitra takes a metaphorical leap of faith and opens her eyes, no longer seeing the mirror but an eye made from flames staring right at her, blacking out and collapsing soon afterwards. In perhaps the most notable section of the novel, the page after Demitra’s collapse is entirely blank except for one sentence placed in the middle of the page: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.”

The plot picks up on the next page there with a jump to Demitra regaining consciousness in the back of a rescue VTOL-craft, surrounded by paramedics on a steady flight to a hospital. Demitra asks the medics on the craft with her how they found her and they confusedly reply that a signal mirror was flashing an S.O.S signal at a passing shuttle and it was reported to them, and remark they thought it was Demitra herself who’d sent the signal. She makes it safely to a hospital in a small country town and the story ends with her looking out onto the reflection of a moonlit lake, contemplating what she saw and asking herself how she possibly could still be alive.

The Screen Behind the Mirror has stood the test of time as a venerable pillar of Xanan literature since its publication nearly fifty years ago. The book saw some controversy upon its initial release however, with some more conservative voices in Xanu Prime’s various religious organizations calling it a sacreligious text with some even calling for the book to be burned en masse. The Morozian Holy Tribunal in the Empire of Dominia has banned the sale of the book within Dominian space, a fact that its author Elena Chatfield wears with pride and its publishing company has used to boost sales of the book within the Coalition and Republic of Elyra. This controversy has been eclipsed in the Xanan public eye by its literary brilliance however and it remains popular today among all demographics on the planet. It has been famously hard to adapt to a holovision show however, with all four attempts never getting past the preproduction stage or falling apart during production and has been referred to as a "cursed" story by those in the entertainment industry for that reason.
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====MMCDXLII====
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A fine example of the recently popular Xanan science fiction tradition, '''MMCDXLII''' (pronounced as 2442) by Kshatrigarh writer Jakob Rajeev is an alternate history science fiction novel published in 2442 set in a alternate timeline where Xanu Prime was blasted from orbit by Solarian forces during the Interstellar War and sent into a perpetual nuclear winter similar to how Gadpathur was in reality. The setting of the story is the city of Khairabad, or at least what is left of it. Before the bombardment of the planet took place, roughly 10,000 of the city’s inhabitants retreated underground into the vast bunker complexes residing below. Believing that they are the only people still left on Xanu Prime, the people of Khairabad have been steadily working towards the goal of reestablishing contact with the rest of the outside world. The plot follows Hridith, one of the few people in the ruins of Khairabad entrusted with the dangerous duty of venturing to the surface in order to scavenge the ruins of the dead city for supplies and clues which might help the people of Khairabad and by extension Xanu Prime as a whole, re-establish contact with the rest of the world. One day while scavenging above, he comes across an old military base which miraculously still has much of its telecommunications equipment in order, including an interstellar radio transmitter. Retreating back to the underground with his news, Hridith’s discovery kicks off a power-struggle and internal civil war within the bunkers of Khairabad as the various factions of the city vie over who should be the ones to contact the outside and by extension reap whatever benefits it may bring. Hridith falls into the game of politics and violence as members of the underground try to influence him for their own selfish aims all while he confronts his own guilt for having sparked this conflict in the first place with his discovery. Eventually, he resolves to destroy the array to stop those around him from killing each other in what he sees as a senseless war.

The book climaxes in a last stand between the soldiers of a local warlord and Hridith supported by his friends on the surface at the array where the story’s plot was put into motion. Just as Hridith is about to destroy the transmitter once and for all, he has a change of heart and, unbeknownst to any other Xanans, sends his own message out into the universe a phrase that has been immortalized in Xanan literary history: “SLEEPLESS ANGELS HAVE BLESSED US. XANU PREVAILS.” After this transmission, Hridith detonates the bombs on the transmitter and is killed in the subsequent explosion along with all of his friends, the warlord, and all of the warlord’s soldiers. The story ends on a vague note in a room tucked away in a Himean communication station with a prompt on a console reading, “TRANSMISSION RECEIVED.” MMCDXLII has been lauded as a cornerstone of the Xanan science fiction genre since its publication in 2442, with many critics seeing it as a parallel tale of sorts to the reality of the Xanan Civil War. The author, Jakob Rajeev, has gone on to write other novels since, but has moved away from the post-apocalyptic setting and advanced into writing sci-fi horror novels and space operas, marking MMCDXLII as a truly unique title in his portfolio. It has seen a successful, chart-topping holovision adaptation and a prequel series set in the world of MMCDXLII's post-apocalyptic Khariabad is currently in pre-production.
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===Film===
Xanu Prime is the entertainment capital of the Coalition and perhaps the largest contributor to this status is the Xanan film industry. Films made by Xanan studios have long proliferated across the Coalition since the end of the Interstellar War and are essential in any serious discussion about Xanan art and culture. While Xanu Prime’s directors have made films under almost every genre since the industry started to take off in the 2310’s, Xanan audiences have taken particularly well to dramas, musicals, and a genre of Xanan invention, the Interfilm. The Xanan film industry has an ongoing rivalry with its Solarian counterpart, especially that centered on Venus. Xanan productions typically do not have as big of budgets as their Venusian counterparts and are usually outclassed in terms of visual effects and and as such are sometimes limited in the kinds of stories and scenarios they can portray. Xanan films make-up for these deficiencies by instead focusing on things like writing and storytelling. The winner of this rivalry is up in the air, and different critics will give different answers, though it is almost always guaranteed that entries from Xanu Prime and Venus will compete against each other in the Spur’s biggest film festivals and awards ceremonies. The three largest genres of Xanan film are dramas, musicals, and an indigenous kind of war film created on Xanu Prime called Interfilm.

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====Dramas - ''The Love Melancholic''====
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Xanan dramas are often very introspective and personal pieces which focus on realistic problems often with relationships or with the world at large and typically involve the main protagonist or protagonists of the films confronting some kind of tragedy or trauma. A large portion of Xanan dramas are produced by independent filmmakers, something that Xanu Prime has become a hotspot for in the last half-century.

The most well known Xanan dramas is '''The Love Melancholic''', a 2424 four-hour long dramatic period-piece epic directed by Savitri de Graaf, a woman hailed as one of the best ever directors in Xanan film whose work has stood the test of time despite its age. The plot follows the life of a young woman, Roxanne, moving to Nouvelle-Rochelle during the reconstruction of Xanu Prime during the Second Astonishment looking to start a life for herself. While there, she’s met with the challenge of an accidental pregnancy and conflicting emotions over whether to abort the fetus or bring it to term, and eventually decides to have the child. The film then follows Roxanne's life through the next decade and a half as a working mother who finds success in her career but is lonesome aside from the company of her daughter, until she meets a newly-arrived Himean immigrant, Markus, on the train home from work and the two slowly begin to fall in love, though complications and difficulties in personality and circumstances plague their efforts to see the best in each other. The film ends not with a happily ever after ending, but with a tentatively optimistic, bittersweet scene of Markus and Roxanne, now both nearing middle age by this point in the film, agreeing to try and make their relationship work while acknowledging the flaws in one another. The film is a classic among Xanan and Himean audiences and won record-breaking numbers of awards and accolades when released. It has even seen popularity in some circles in the Solarian Alliance, Republic of Biesel, and Republic of Elyra. Many film critics consider it to be a cornerstone of Human cinematic history and the best Xanan film ever made, though this position is disputed by others.
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====Musicals - ''North 60''====
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While Xanan-made dramas may be the most well-received critically of most Xanan films, by far the most popular among the Xanan filmgoing audience for the last few decades are musicals. Musicals made in the Xanan style are often high-budget, over-the-top, and exceptionally grand, showy affairs. They are famous for elements like their large choreographic sequences which can involve dozens of dancers, massive and brightly coloured sets, often romance-centered plots with comedic elements, and musical style which often takes musical instruments from Xanu Prime’s colonizing cultures and puts a pop musical spin on them. When one speaks of "Pataliwood," musicals are what come to mind first. Most Xanans do not put musicals on the same level as other films and see them as something to watch for pulpy entertainment and spectacle rather than for their serious artistic value, though they will obsess over them and their stories all the same. Xanan house parties typically involve the screening of a musical in the living room and songs from some of the genre’s classics have cemented themselves into the Xanan cultural canon.

A recent notable example of a musical made in the Xanan style is '''North 60''', a 2461 film directed by Sabine Venturino, that centers on a young man from Nouvelle-Rochelle named Peter who inherits a fortune from a long-lost deceased uncle who made it big in the record industry. Overjoyed, Peter claims the fortune but learns that he can only receive his riches on the condition that he moves to his dead uncle’s dilapidated estate on the outskirts of Himavat City and lives there for one year. Peter moves but upon arrival hates his arrangements; he cannot stand the cold, remote nature of the city, but soon finds joy in its culture and music scene. He also develops a romance with the daughter of a record executive, a girl named Priti. Unbeknownst to Peter though, Priti’s father Jeroen is Peter’s uncle’s former business partner and wants to get Peter to leave Himavat City so he can claim the young man’s fortune for himself, as per the uncle’s will. Hilarity and antics ensue. The film ends with Peter deciding to forgo his fortune and instead running away from Himavat City with his love Priti and starting a new life together in Foy-Nijlen. The film is the highest-ever grossing Xanan musical and won a series of awards as well, though it saw only limited popularity outside of the Xanan market. This is a theme among Xanan musicals: massive domestic success but only limited success abroad, the reasons for which are routinely debated by many within the Xanan film community.
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====Interfilms - ''Count the Days''====
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The last of Xanu Prime’s most popular movie genres is one of Xanan invention: the Interfilm. Interfilms are very long, often multipart war epics set during the Interstellar War, a conflict from which the genre gets its name. They often have ensemble casts and focus on a variety of viewpoints rather than a single protagonist. These films often showcase themes of tragedy associated with the Interstellar War and ennoble the sacrifice of the Xanan nation and individuals during the war. These films are very serious and are seen as a direct contrast to the Xanan Musical genre in tone and content.

A keystone of the Interfilm genre is the series '''Count the Days''', a pentalogy directed by Xanan journeyman director Pierre Duchesne totalling over sixteen hours in length, with its installments releasing in 2447, 2449, 2450, 2552, and 2454 respectively. The story at first follows an officer in the Xanan Army, Captain Paul Ibrahim, stationed around Pataliputra. He leads his company through a very bloody battle in which the majority of his men are killed, by the end of the battle, his unit is more or less completely wiped out and he’s reassigned to command a new company, one unlike any he’s seen before. He’s given command of Company Y, an all-female volunteer unit that hasn’t ever seen combat before and is dumbfounded at first due to his belief that a female unit wouldn’t fight as well as a male one. He however is told by his superiors that he risks demotion of he doesn’t take on the unit, so he begrudgingly agrees. The first movie follows Ibrahim’s efforts to help train and ready his new unit for combat while he and the audience get to know the women of Company Y. Throughout the film, his outlook on his troops begins to change, and he connects with them more as people, though he still does not think they have the mettle to withstand warfare. The film ends with the Company seeing its first taste of combat during the opening stages of the Siege of Khairabad and Company Y sustaining horrendous losses and being cut off from the rest of the Xanan army in Khairabad.

The second film takes place during the Siege of Khairabad proper, and is a tale of the fight for not just victory but survival as the remnants of Company Y fight their way through parts of the occupied city to link up with the rest of the Xanan forces trying to hold their ground against the encroaching Solarian forces. Throughout this struggle, the Company comes across enemies but also Xanan partisan fighters who link up with the Company and join them on their journey to reconnect with their lines. During this film, Captain Ibrahim has his opinion changed on the women he commands, and he comes to see them as strong soldiers regardless of their gender. The movie ends with the Company and their new partisan compatriots reconnecting with the rest of the Xanan force defending Khairabad.

The third installment of the series is not so action packed in comparison to the second one and is mostly centered on the members of Company Y recovering from the events of the first two films and grieving their fallen comrades while integrating the partisans from the second film formally into their ranks and is the only film in the series that does not have an action sequence. It ends with the company being resupplied and ready to once again take the fight to the enemy.

The fourth part of the series is often seen as the black sheep of the series and departs from the story of Company Y to instead focus on 6th Company, a Solarian unit from Mars participating on the other side of the Siege of Khairabad. 6th Company is led by Captain Emily Mikkelsen, an embittered veteran of the Interstellar War until this point who is concerned only with ensuring that the troops under her command stay alive and sees victory in the siege as a means to that end. Part 4 shows events from the parts 1 and 2 through the eyes of the Solarians, and goes to great ends in order to humanize them, with members of 6th Company being portrayed as people who believe in the ideal of a united humanity under the Sol Alliance but also as people who don’t see the war as theirs and who want to return home to their lives and families most of all. The film ends with 6th Company preparing to launch an assault against Xanan positions in the ruins of Khairabad.

The fifth and final installment of the Count the Days series begins with a dramatic battle sequence between Xanan and Solarian forces, with the attention split equally between Company Y and 6th Company during the fighting. During the carnage however, multiple members of Company Y and 6th Company become separated from their units and run into each other on the battlefield, with many dying to one another in heart-wrenching sequences that brought tears to many a Xanan filmgoers’ eyes. The two captains, Ibrahim and Mikkelsen, also encounter one another, but both having been wounded and exhausted by the fighting decide to sit inside of a bombed out building and try to recover their strength together. The two have a long conversation about their lives before the war and the people under their command, avoiding any conversation about either’s actual thoughts on the conflict and instead just treating each other as people rather than enemies. After further rumination and conversation, Ibrahim comes to the realization that his wounds are mortal and that he will likely die from them if he doesn’t receive medical attention and asks Mikkelsen to kill him so that he might die with honor. Mikkelsen protests at first, finding some difficulty in pulling the trigger on a man she’d just spent the better part of a half-an-hour getting to know, but eventually concedes and agrees, seeing it not as an act of anger, but of mercy for Ibrahim. She shoots him and then begins her trek out of the bombed out building, with the shot lingering on Ibrahim’s corpse for a good long few seconds, only for a team of Xanan medics to enter the building and find Captain Ibrahim’s body, just minutes after his death. The medics transport his corpse back to the Xanan lines where the rest of Company Y has regrouped, and they mourn the loss of their officer and friend in a dramatic, heart-crushing scene. The series ends with Captain Mikkelsen and 6th Company in their camp that night, staring forlornly at a campfire, exhausted from the day’s fighting and failed assault before receiving orders to fall back to the rear of the Solarian force to recover their strength. As they leave, Captain Mikkelsen looks to the Xanan lines and begins to sob as the screen then pans up and fades to black on the smoke-filled night sky.

The Count the Days pentalogy is widely regarded as one of the best of the Interfilm genre and is to date the highest-grossing and most-awarded film series in Coalition history and has spawned a die-hard fanbase of supporters. It received a widespread release across the Coalition and Biesel and even saw limited screenings in the Solarian Alliance. The series is regarded by many to be a masterwork of Xanan cinema and a quintessential look into how Xanu Prime views its relationship with the Interstellar War.
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===Holovision===
The world of Xanan holovision is the most diverse in the entire Coalition of Colonies. Almost anything can be found on Xanan HV, live sports, dramas, talk shows, news, infomercials, and shows on a wide variety of premises. The quality of Xanan holovision is similarly varied, with some shows having hundreds of millions of credits in budgets while others are very obviously cheap and made to be aired or streamed as quickly as possible. Whatever the case, Xanan holovision programming and shows can be found across the Coalition and Human Frontier and generally has a positive reputation among foreign watchers. By and large, the most popular genres of holovision programming on Xanu Prime are dramas and sitcoms.

The most-watched Xanan Holovision program of all is a long-running late-night variety program called '''Teddy''', hosted by comedian and media personality '''Theodore Llewellyn'''. The show has been on-air and on popular Xanan and CoC streaming services for nearly twenty years at this point with its first episode having aired in 2447. Theodore Llewellyn is described by many in the Xanan media as “The Lord of Late Night,” due to his dominance over the late-night talk show genre paired with his polite, yet witty interview and conversational style. His show often showcases new musical acts, up-and-coming comedians, and routinely interviews the most talked about figures and celebrities in the Xanan entertainment industry and society at large. He also has been known to host games for his guests and for airing live or pre-recorded comedy sketches for his audience, usually involving himself or his guests as characters. Teddy is not just popular among Xanan audiences though and is watched by fans across the Coalition, both in Xanan Freespeak and in translated dubs of the Coalition’s various languages. He is also a prominent cultural ambassador for Xanu Prime to Himeo and has used his fame to advocate for closer cooperation and harmony between the two planets when off the air. Occasionally, the show will even film episodes on-location on various planets throughout the Coalition for promotional purposes, most often Himeo due to Llewellyn’s Himean heritage, being the child of two Himean immigrants to Xanu Prime. Llewellyn has joked at times about running for President under the Good Neighbor Party, though these jests haven't manifested in any political campaigns quite yet.

For information on Xanan Holovision dramas and sitcoms please read the two entries below.
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====Xanan HV Dramas====
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Much like on film, Xanans have a penchant for HV dramas, however these diverge significantly from the seriousness of their film counterparts. Xanan Holovision Dramas are very popular on the planet and can be separated into two categories: 5-Dramas and 2-Dramas.

5-Dramas are aired every day during the week on Xanu’s HV channels during the daytime, and are notorious for their low-production values, often odd, pulpy, and convoluted plots focused around absurd twists, romantic scandals and intrigue, as well as their inexhaustible lifespans, with the most popular of them having gone on for decades. The longest running and most popular of all Xanan 5-Dramas is '''A Time to Be Alive''', a series that has been running for 47 years at this point and has followed the lives and hardships of the fictional Khanna family, a massive upper-middle class extended family from Foy-Niljen. The series has uncountable plotlines and has been criticized for its convoluted and melodramatic writing style by many critics, but audiences still tune in every day of the week across Xanu Prime and the Coalition as a whole to get the newest scoop on what’s been going on with the Khannas and the people around them.

2-Dramas in contrast to 5-Dramas however are aired on weekends only during prime-time and are generally seen by critics and audiences alike as the best that Xanan holovision has to offer. 2-Dramas typically have very high production values and rely heavily on the strength of their writing, directing, cinematography, and character acting to succeed. They’re often focused on crime-related or similarly intense, dramatic premises and are usually rather serious in tone, in contrast to the soapy, scandalous mood of most 5-Dramas. Xanan 2-Dramas are considered to be some of the finest programming on Holovision anywhere in the Orion Spur in terms of their writing and acting quality, but they are not for everyone and have drawn criticism from some for being too humorless and inaccessible for those not wanting to become engrossed in painful, often traumatic storylines. One of the most well-known of Xanan 2-Dramas is '''Suntoucher''', a show which focuses on a journalist named Marielle Hollen as she investigates a series of missing persons reports from a town in the Naya Khyber delta called Dharbourg. Her efforts slowly unveil a sickening human-trafficking operation that seeks to abduct and torture its victims in the name of a twisted, hellish cult led by a madman who claims to be both the second coming of Jesus Christ and the next avatar of Vishnu all in one. While investigating as well, Marielle comes into contact with the criminal elements of Dharbourg and becomes their sometimes-friend, sometimes-enemy as she works both with and against them during the course of her investigation. As the cult learns of Marielle’s investigation though, it no longer becomes a mission to expose them for Marielle and the locals working with her, but a fight for their very lives as secret, underground war breaks out between the cult and the largest gang in Dharbourg with Marielle and those working with her caught in the middle. The series ends with Marielle’s investigation materials being delivered to the offices of the Xanan News Service after her death at the hands of the cult after killing its leader, and alludes to the publication of the story by the media giant and subsequent destruction of the cult and imprisoning of Dharbourg’s criminals. The series has six seasons in total and had an original run from 2455 to 2461 and has spawned an obsessive, devoted fanbase in recent years. Rumours are abound of a spin-off show focusing on any number of the series’s well-liked supporting characters being in the works, but there has been no confirmation of this yet.
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====Xanan HV Sitcoms====
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The last major genre of Xanan television is the sitcom, a genre that is usually recorded in front of a live studio audience and relies on whacky or zaney premises mixed with witty writing. Xanan sitcoms also a vehicle by which certain societal issues are explored or made light of in the public mind, and tend to rely a bit more on satire and dark humour than sitcoms from other planets around the spur.
While not the most popular of Xanan sitcoms in the present day, the show '''Fated''' has a strong cult following and has left a bit of an impact on Xanan pop culture. The show follows Gerard Sodhi, a man in his mid-thirties trying to make a living in Nouvelle Rochelle’s stand-up comedy scene while dealing with the pressures of his life and large extended family. On his way home from a show, he and three of his friends, Esha, Georges, and Krasnin, are cursed with bad luck by a homeless woman in a back alley after refusing to give her any money when she asked for some. After suffering from their curse through minor inconveniences and unfortunate, socially awkward situations over the next few days, the four return to where they first encountered the woman only to find her dead, unable to remove the curse. The show then goes on, focusing on the lives of Martin, his friends, and the awkward, absurd situations they then find themselves in. Fated spawned many catch phrases and words used in Xanan pop-culture some examples being: “flarge,” a descriptor used for something both flat and large, “plimpkin,” a word used to describe a person who is short, fat, and annoying, “squickimsh,” a term used in reference to something that is both gross and very sticky in texture like a piece of gum, and “fwoonj,” a noise a person makes when trying to awkwardly avoid saying name of someone whose name they’ve forgotten. The series ran for nine seasons from 2449 to 2458 and is seen as a show emblematic of the Xanan 2450’s.
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===Music===
Xanan music is exceptionally diverse and Xanan musicians are known throughout the Coalition and beyond for being some of the most prolific and distinctive in their respective genres. Xanan music usually takes instruments and structure from its Western European and South Asian colonising cultures and puts a modern, stylistic spin on them to best suit whatever genre the musician is aiming for. The most notable genres of Xanan Music are:

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====Xanupop/X-Pop====
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The most popular form of music on Xanu Prime, is predictably, pop music. The Xanan style of pop music, often called '''Xanupop''' or simply '''X-Pop''', is similar to pop music in general, however it tends to eschew EDM-like synth riffs and instead prefers acoustic instrumentals to make the backing track. The genre has its roots in the ballads which emerged during and after the Interstellar War, mostly about home and family. Most modern-day Xanan pop songs focus on the topic of love, whether falling into it, breaking up a relationship because of the loss of it, reminiscing about times when the singer had it, or any other variety of situations about love, Xanu’s pop music has a listener spoiled for choice. While not specifically pop music, songs from Xanu Prime’s largest musical films are often played on pop radio, even if they are not strictly in the pop style. The most popular pop artist in Xanan history is Foy-Niljen native '''Robert Khatri''', a man whose crooning ballads and work with string and brass ensembles cemented him as the definitive voice of the Xanan Renaissance. While subsequent artists have out-sold him since his death in 2387, Khatri’s songs have gone on to be standards within Xanan musical canon and his songs still are known by Xanans far and wide even more than a century since their releases. The most popular active Xanan pop artist is '''Grace Rose''', though less commonly known by her real name Lavani Grace, a woman from Nouvelle Rochelle who has dominated the Xanan pop charts for the last decade and a half with her unique and beautiful vocal style with a signature high belting range perfectly suited for Xanan pop ballads.
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====Xanurock/X-Rock====
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Rock music is the second most popular form of music on Xanu Prime and is renowned across the Coalition for its funky instrumentals that focus on rhythm primarily rather than melody and unique vocal style that typically moves between being spoken and being sung multiple times throughout each song. Rock songs made in the Xanan style, often called '''X-Rock''' or '''Xanurock''', also are often about love, much like their pop counterparts, but it is far from the only thing that Xanan rockers sing about. Common lyrical themes in Xanan rock music focus on personal independence, inner turmoil and depression, social issues, or more poignantly, lost love and ones that got away. A popular band in the X-Rock scene is '''Weatherland''', a group from Himavat City that is renowned for their creative instrumental style that often incorporates unorthodox chord progressions and jazz-like solos from the band's various members. Another group that has risen in popularity since their founding in the early 2450’s is the band '''Anti-Gone''', a band from Nouvelle-Rochelle that has gained notoriety for their more groovy, riff-driven, gritty, and raw hard-rock production style with songs that focus on personal struggle and often talk about deep, uncomfortable subjects like addiction and abuse. They have beome very popular with Xanan young adults though older rock fans have not been as receptive to their material.
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====Logmu====
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Folk music, specifically the '''Logmu''' style of folk music, has always been very popular on Xanu Prime and does not seem to be going anywhere soon. Logmu, the word being combination of the Hindi word “log” meaning “people” and the French work “musique” meaning “music,” is a genre of music that originally came about during the early stages of Xanu Prime’s colonization as a result of individual, often amateur musicians, from Xanu Prime’s different colonizing countries forming bands with one another and adjusting their styles to fit each band member’s diverse musical preferences. The genre has remained popular through two catastrophic wars, economic depression, along with many other hurdles and looks as if it will keep its popularity far into the future. Logmu ensembles are typically six people large and play music using a vast variety of instruments which date back to the colonization of the planet. For example, a standard six-piece Logmu band will typically have a fiddle, an alto saxophone or nadaswaram, a tabla, a guitar or sarod, an accordion, and a sitar, with at least one of the musicians singing as well, usually the guitar or sarod player. Logmu songs are usually musical stories or poems that follow a protagonist or recount the life experiences of the singer, often in character. They are self-contained dramas or comedies in their own right and have allowed the genre to remain popular for as long as it has because of the simultaneous relatability and dramatism of the plots of the songs. A subset of the Along with being a genre of music in its own right, Logmu also has a distinctive subculture focused on passing the craft down to younger generations, with many musicians in the genre seeing it as their duty to teach their children or other students how to play a Logmu instrument at some point in their lives. A subgenre of Logmu is, '''Sologmu''', a play on words of “Solo” and “Logmu” and is defined by its nature of usually being performed by a single musician who both sings and plays an instrument of their choice, usually a guitar, sarod, accordion, or sitar.

The most influential Logmu band of all time is the Kshatrigarh-based band '''The Air Raid Six''', a group of six musicians who had the shared childhood experience of living through the Siege of Khairabad. Once they became adults they saw great success in the fledgling All-Xanu Republic’s music scene singing songs about the Interstellar War and retelling or making up humorous or dramatic stories that occurred during the conflict. During this they pioneered the current six-piece format standard synonymous with modern Logmu music and their songs are still widely performed today. The most popular Logmu band presently is Paastad-based group '''Six of Hearts''' which gained popularity during the mid 2450’s and has yet to relinquish it since. The band’s musical style stays relatively close to tradition in the structure of the songs and focus on their stories, but diverges some in terms of the instrumentals used, replacing the normal guitar or sarod with an electric guitar and even playing solos with it, something often not seen in Logmu music. Current popular names in the Sologmu scene include '''Chloe Sinclair''', a young woman from Himavat City that has brought a moodier, more downbeat brand of singing and guitar playing to the genre; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a Vysokan Xanan who has created a niche in the genre for herself by singing in the Xanan style with her broad vocal range and accompanying it with poignant instrumentals played by herself on a morin khuur.
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====Himavat Midnight====
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Breaking from tradition is the genre of '''Himavat Midnight''', so called because the underground music shows in Himavat City which saw the genre come into being often didn’t start until midnight. It is the newest genre of music on Xanu Prime to have seen at least some popularity, breaking out of the local Himavat City rock scene in the mid 2450’s. Himavat Midnight is notable for its spacey, monotone vocal style usually accompanied by little more than a bass guitar, an electric guitar, a synthesizer, and a drum machine. Himavat Midnight songs usually are built around a simple bass or guitar riff and typically are simple yet satisfying in their construction. Most songs have either a bridge or an outro where one instrument performs a solo, though these are usually more toned down and not like the more technical skill-showcasing solos found in X-Rock. Lyrically, the songs are moody and often sad, talking about loneliness, lost love, boredom, and other saddening yet seemingly mundane feelings. Some in the Xanan music scene have welcomed the genre as a new form of music that is more emotional and thoughtful than some other songs, while others have dismissed it as "sad music for sad people." While the genre is still relatively very new relative to all other popular genres of music on Xanu Prime, Himavat Midnight does have a few notable bands. '''We Are They''', a three-piece Himavat City band, is the most popular group of the genre and is the one credited for breaking the genre out of its local confines with their 2457 song, ''Snowflakes in her Hair''. For now the band is the standard-setter for what Himavat Midnight should sound like.
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====Pataliputra Big House====
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Another genre of music that is notably unique to Xanu Prime is a genre of electronic music that emerged from Pataliputran nightclubs in the 2420’s called '''Pataliputra Big House'''. During the Doldrums nightclub owners were having trouble getting patrons to come out and give business to their clubs because of the economic stagnation characteristic of the time period. To solve this, many night clubs began to push their DJs to get creative and blend different musical styles into something new and exciting in order to attract more patrons and thus, Pataliputra Big House was born. The genre was the product of Pataliputran DJ’s mashing together elements from dance-pop and more traditional house music, vocals from R&B, and instrumentals leaning on the more soulful and jazzy sides of Logmu. Songs in this genre incorporate beats which usually are medium tempo, heavy on bass, and have a central riff played on a synthesizer or saxophone which drives the entire song. Vocals are treated like an instrument in themselves in Pataliputra Big House songs and usually have a bevy of effects on them to achieve different listening experiences. The most well-known producer in the Pataliputra Big House scene is '''Bobby Baas''', real name Robert Satti, a Pataliputran native equally famous for his colorful, often patterned suits as he is for his music. He has routinely sold out electronic music festivals across the Coalition for the last decade after achieving local fame in the Pataliputran local scene during the early 2440’s. He is also unique for being one of the only artists from the Coalition of Colonies to have performed in the Sol Alliance, performing a series of sold-out shows called the “Sunrise Tour” in 2456 across the Solarian core. An up-and-comer in the Big House scene however is '''DJ SinTheTik''', real name Sarah Tussaud-Tipnis, a young woman who became a holonet sensation in the early 2460’s for her unique style meshing instruments from classical, symphonic music with the usual sounds of Big House.
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====X-Hop====
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As often happens with strong electronic scenes, a hip-hop movement emerged around the 2430’s shortly after the popularization of Pataliputran Big House. Nearly every major city of Xanu Prime has its own hip hop scene and they all have friendly, if competitive, rivalries with another. While each major city’s scene has its own unique flair and sound, there are some commonalities to Xanan hip hop or '''X-Hop'''. Generally, Xanan hip-hop places a great amount of importance on the beat of the song, and as such these beats are typically more complicated and have more elements to them than hip-hop from other places. The rap verses themselves are usually fast and articulate with a lower, almost gravelly vocal tone being definitive for male rappers and a clear, bold tone that can carry over a nightclub crowd holding the same preference among female rappers. Nouvelle Rochelle rapper Abhang van Agteren, stage name '''AvAtar''', is considered by many to be the "King of Xanan hop-hop" and is famous for his smooth lyrical style and frequent collaborations with some of Xanu Prime’s largest producers, most notably Bobby Baas, with a catalogue of hit songs dating back to the 2440’s. His music is a common feature on playlists all around the Coalition and he has been a staple of Xanan popular music for decades, with no sign of his career waning any time soon. The most famous Xanan rap group is the all-female project '''Girl’s Night''', a four-member pop-rap group from Himavat City that first gained notoriety in the mid-2450’s for their lyrical prowess, broad appeal which crossed pop and hip-hop demographics, and anonymous nature. It is unknown what the true identities of Girl’s Night are since the group’s members are never seen in public or on stage without three-faced masks made in the style of hindu deities. The individual names they have given to the public are the letters, R, Y, V, and K.
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===Fashion===
Xanan fashion and dress is not characterized by any culturally specific garments or articles of clothing that are uniquely specific to Xanu Prime, but rather by how they style clothes that are seen as generally ubiquitous across human space. That is to say, color and the interplay within a palette in one look are king in Xanan Fashion. Xanans themselves often describe shopping and dressing as a whole as somewhat of a game, in making outfits for themselves which both are colorful, but also not outlandishly so and still manage to look sharp despite their chromatic nature. If a look clashes too much, it looks bad, simply put. Garishness is something that must be avoided in Xanan fashion and many of the planet’s top designers have emphasized that Xanan fashion is a game of balance. As to what colours are used though, there are no official rules or cultural norms, other than outfits which are heavy in their usage of black and white are reserved for funerals or other somber occasions, and similarly, looks with a lot of white or red in their composition should only be worn during weddings, baby showers, or other joyful events. The diversity of Xanu Prime as a planet in both climate and geography however has led to a variety of different fashions popping up across the planet and often fashion choices are left to the individual rather than governed by some collective norm. An exception tho this, however, is that outfits consisting solely of only one color, such as a suit with the same-coloured slacks and jacket or a dress made of only one color of fabric, are seen by many as overly formalistic and are typically only reserved for appearances in court for legal or financial matters. As such, monochrome outfits without much variation in colour are associated with the legal and banking professions. Colors aside, materials are also seen as an important part of Xanan fashion, and many mundane looking pieces of Xanan clothing may be worth thousands due to the craftsmanship and quality of the materials used in their manufacture. Intricate patterns are not uncommon in Xanan looks either, though they are usually associated with festive occasions and places. Accessories are seen as important in Xanan fashion, with neckties and cravats being popular among men and hairpins or bows finding favour among women. Jewlery is common for both men and women, but large pieces should not be worn in a workplace environment and instead should be saved for personal outings or family time.

===Sport===
Professional and amateur sports are both quite popular on Xanu Prime. Cricket and football are tied in popularity, with other sports like basketball, ice hockey, and rugby having some notoriety on the planet as well. Xanan children are encouraged from a young age to participate in team sports which many carry on into their teenage years and adulthoods through amateur club teams. As such, no Xanan town is complete without a cricket oval or football field. Xanu’s sports fans are known the Orion Spur-over for being some of the most passionate and obsessive in Human-inhabited space, with their chants, costumes, and fervent insults being both hated and envied by the planet’s sports rivals. Xanans are exceptionally loyal to their teams, be they national or local, and fights or even riots breaking out after upsets in football or cricket aren’t unheard of in the major cities.

The Xanan national teams in football, commonly referred to as '''"C.F.X.P"''' taken from their original French name Club de Foot de Xanu Premier, and cricket, often called the '''"Crimson Cats"''' courtesy of their mascot being a crimson-masked polecat, wear colors of green and orange with red accents. When either of the teams win a game, especially if during a high-stakes tournament, the entire planet often turns out to celebrate, clogging streets, overpacking bars, and pressing the Xanu’s police forces to their limits. Famously, when Xanu Prime won the 2454 Orion Cup in a surprise upset 2-1 victory over their longtime rival, the Callistean national team, Hastings Park, C.F.X.P’s home stadium, was deemed to be “The Loudest Place in the Known Universe” by a Martian sports writer. Similarly the stadium was said to have “Rung like bell,” when the Crimson Cats defeated the Port Antillean national team in 2458 to win the T20 Orion Cricket Championship. Individual cities also have their own football and cricket teams which play in a number of professional and semi-professional leagues. The highest level of these are The '''All-Xanu Ultraleague''' for football and the '''Alpha League''' for Class A cricket.

The planet has strong sports rivalries with many others, both within the coalition and without. They have a long-standing football rivalry with Callisto, jokingly called “The Second Interstellar War,” which has had its ups and downs throughout history, with both teams serving each other their most grievous defeats. Highlights include when Xanu defeated Callisto on its own home turf in 2448 to win the Orion Cup, or when the Callistean team duffed out their rivals only four years later in a hotly-contested group-stage match and stopped C.F.X.P from having a chance at defending its title. Xanu also has a hot cricket rivalry with Port Antilia, and the two planets are generally considered to be the best at the sport in the Orion Spur. Recent tension over the Solarian Collapse and Port Antillia’s annexation into the Biesellite CRZ has meant that the two teams haven’t met on an oval in over two years, leading many to believe that their next meeting will be the game of the century for Cricket. Xanu Prime also has a more friendly and lighthearted football rivalry with Himeo that has for most of recent memory been one-sided in favor of Xanu, but the two teams are still nevertheless very competitive and their fans very passionate over the rivalry.

==Immigrant and Expat Communities==
Xanu Prime is host to a number of large immigrant, expat, and diasporic communities, the largest of which can be read about in the entries below. '''A member of any immigrant or diasporic group who was born on Xanu Prime will select the Xanu Prime origin and accent in character creation.'''

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====Himean Xanans====
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The largest diasporic community on Xanu Prime, the Himean Xanan community has been on Xanu Prime for nearly as long as the Republic itself has existed. Himeans first came to Xanu Prime in the millions during the aftermath of the Interstellar War, often as workers and supporting staff helping to rebuild Xanu’s many broken and battered cities. A significant number of these Himeans remained on Xanu afterwards, established their own families and communities, and joined Xanan society. Most of the Himeans that came to Xanu during what is called the “First Wave of Himean Immigration” (2288-2310) dropped Himean customs and traditions in favor of broader assimilation into what many of them saw as a prosperous, growing, free Xanu Prime where their children could grow. A significant minority of Xanu’s population can trace at least part of their ancestry back to this first wave of immigrants from Himeo, and it’s quite common for the average Xanusan to have at least one or two Himean ancestors that came to Xanu during this period even if the person themselves doesn’t look Himean or have a Himean sounding name.

While immigration from Himeo continued in low levels throughout the 24th century, there was a great uptick from 2367 to 2390, a period called “The Second Wave of Himean Immigration” and less commonly, “The Paasstad Exodus.” Much like earlier Himean immigrants, those in the Second Wave came to the planet for work, but instead instead of reconstruction, they were taking part in the Paasstad Megaproject, an ambitious engineering initiative with the goal of raising the entire Xanan city of Paasstad above the marshy ground upon which it sat. The project was long and intensive, but was complete by 2389 and the numbers of Himeans immigrating to Xanu decreased shortly after the project was complete. In contrast to the First Wave, Himeans coming to the planet during the Second Wave mostly just immigrated to the city of Paasstad, and as such, their community became very unified and tightly knit. A district of the city, often just called Little Himeo, is where the present-day Himean Xanan community has its symbolic heart. Many Himean customs and traditions are still practiced here, Himean Common is spoken throughout the district, though with a noticeable Xanan Accent, and one can find many Himean products and authentic Himean food here. While there has not been an influx of Himean immigrants since the Second Wave, many Himeans looking to move their lives and to Xanu Prime find themselves in Little Himeo or one of the smaller Xanan Himean communities in other cities. Himean communities are very diverse politically, given that many Himean Xanans have assimilated into Xanu’s society and taken on new beliefs, however the Good Neighbor Party is particularly popular in Little Himeo and it often markets itself as the party for Himean Xanans. A majority of Himean Xanans are not first-generation immigrants, but were born on the planet as third or fourth generation Himeans.

Himean Xanans, whether their ancestors were part of the first or second waves, have broadly flourished on Xanu Prime and can be found in all walks of Xanan society. Notable Himean Xanans include '''Aukusti Staudenmaier''', member of the National Parliament and leader of the Good Neighbor Party, '''Lennox Sibelius''', Minister of the Economy and Finance under the Mukhopadhyay Government and man responsible for the implementation of the Mukhopadhyay Plan, '''Sara Knox''', current CEO of d.N.A. Defense and Aerospace, and '''Theodore Llewellyn''', host of the popular Xanan late night holovision talk program, Teddy.
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====Vysokan Xanans====
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The Vysokan Xanan community is Xanu Prime’s second largest and fastest growing immigrant and diasporic demographic; many see the planet as coming off of the first large wave of Vysokan immigrants it has ever experienced. Many Vysokans immigrated to Xanu starting in the 2440’s after the Mukhophadhay Plan began revitalizing the Xanan economy. In response, many Vysokans looking to better their lives and provide a stable income for their families traveled to Xanu Prime looking for work or simply looking to start new lives. This wave of immigration abruptly stopped in 2462 when the Orion Spur was gripped by phoron scarcity causing space flight costs to soar, but even now after that, some Vysokans still find their way to Xanu Prime.

Culture shock has been something consistent throughout the Vysokan Xanan community: Societally, Xanu Prime is to many Vysokan immigrants, especially those who grew up in the rural regions of Vysoka, a night and day difference. Because of this, along with the differing norms between Xanan and Vysokan cultures, many Vysokan immigrants have been slow to integrate and assimilate into Xanu Prime’s society and most live in close proximity to one another in majority-Vysokan neighborhoods and districts. Many in the Vysokan Xanan community are not wealthy, with most being in the working lower-middle class. Because of their recent increase in population, their unfamiliarity with Xanan systems and the fact that they are often poorer than the average Xanan, Vysokan Xanan communities often have difficult times accessing social services for healthcare or financial assistance, are less policed, and have higher than average rates of crime. Many Vysokan Xanans have found employment in Xanu’s agricultural and heavy industry sectors with their skills from home translating very well to those lines of work. Additionally, many have found themselves in the All-Xanu Armed Forces in hopes of learning skills there which they can then carry over into a civilian job after being discharged. The largest Vysokan Xanan community on Xanu Prime is the Little Vysoka district of Nouvelle-Rochelle.

Vysokan Xanan communities often try to recreate things from Vysoka itself, the most common of these being Stolitist spirit houses and shrines. Vysokan Xanans are majority-Stolitist in their religious practices, and many Vysokan Xanan communities celebrate Stolitist religious festivals. Vysokan Xanan practices are not identical to their Vysokan counterparts however. Many in Vysokan Xanan communities have eschewed travelling, nomadic shamans in favour of more congregationally-styled practices, with houses of worship and assembly taking influence from Christian churches and Muslim mosques in layout often being built to surround Stolitist shrines and spirit houses. These “Stolitchurches” are a uniquely Vysokan Xanan creation and often function as the cultural, spiritual, and symbolic centers of Vysokan Xanan communities. Other aspects of Vysokan culture which have in some way translated to Xanu Prime is the Vysokan penchant for athleticism; since the immigration, many young Vysokans have made a name for themselves and their community as professional athletes. Many even make the annual trip back to Vysoka for the Velhalktai. Host culture has not made the jump and the hosts in general is something that is begrudgingly dismissed by many Vysokan Xanans because they believe that Host culture affirms a stereotype among Xanussians that Vysokans are criminals. Politically, opinions are diverse for Vysokan Xanans, but many have voted for the Free Falcon Party in recent years due to the party’s Vysokan Xanan origin and stance on many immigrant issues.

Notable Vysokan Xanans include '''Aynan Zhergotov''', professional footballer and captain of the Nouvelle-Rochelle football club A.S. Olympique-Saraswati; '''Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova''', member of the National Parliament, leader of the Free Falcon Party, and formerly practicing medical doctor; '''Yekheren Bolkhadarov''', goalkeeper for the All-Xanu National Football Team; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a second-generation Vysokan Xanan singer who has seen recent popularity in Xanu’s Logmu music scene by combining Xanan-styled singing with Vysokan-inspired instrumentals.
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====Assunzionii Xanans====
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The Assunzionii Xanan community is the third largest diaspora on Xanu Prime and is one that has managed to strike a strong balance between preserving their own original culture and embracing Xanu’s own. Most of Xanu Prime’s Assunzionii population moved to Xanu Prime during the 2370’s and 2380’s in response to Xanu’s burgeoning economy, with a smaller wave coming in the 2450’s. As such a majority of the Assunzionii Xanan population are third or fourth generation immigrants, with the new arrivals in 2450 being first-generation. Most Assunzionii Xanans live in the middle class, with some having advanced into the upper classes through employment or their businesses. Throughout Xanu Prime, many Assunzionii people have found themselves in two primary industries: entertainment and engineering. The former came about when many Assunzionii immigrants were hired on by nightclubs and other entertainment venues for their expertise in electrical lighting systems. As they were employed more, some of these immigrants figured that they would instead start their own clubs which they could run and style as they pleased. Gaining traction for their exceptional light shows and very exotic atmospheres, Assunzionii Xanan-owned and staffed clubs, bars, theaters, and even film studios became very successful across Xanu prime in the 2400’s and have remained that way since, with some of the largest and most exclusive entertainment establishments on the planet being owned by Assunzionii Xanusians. Some of these immigrants also found themselves in engineering and went on to work in Xanu’s shipbuilding and logistics sector; their skills being perfect for designing and servicing electrical systems on ships. Many of their descendants still work in these fields today

Culturally, there are some distinct differences between Assunzionii Xanans and people from Assunzionne proper. Exposure to outside cultures and removal from the Luceism-centered domes of light has made many Assunzionii Xanusians less religious than their Assunzionii counterparts. Most still identify as Luceist and do practice, but the faith on Xanu Prime has become more casual and cultural to the local community rather than something more dogmatic and omnipresent. Simply put, Luceism isn’t as important to multi-generational Assunzionii Xanusians as it is to those back home on Assunzione or those who have just arrived from the planet, even if it is present in their lives. Despite this more lax attitude, there are large cathedrals of light in many Assunzionii Xanan communities, the largest being in the Little Assunzione district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, and they see frequent attendance. Most Assunzionii Xanusians are Structuralist Luceists and their churches function as large community centers and meeting places along with being used as houses of worship. Other aspects of Assunzionii culture have stuck around in the community as well, such as illumination. Assunzionii Xanan neighborhoods are very well lit, with more street lamps than average and more lights on houses as well, and this, along with the communal and tight-knit nature of many Assunzionii Xanan families, make their neighborhoods some of the safest on Xanu Prime.

Notable Assunzionii Xanusians include '''Sabine Venturino''', a third-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and one of the largest directorial names in Xanan film industry; '''Suleiman Kateb''', a second-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and current Minister of Energy for the Afzal government; and '''Hristos Santolaria''', a first-generation Assunzionii Xanan and current Chief Operations Officer for Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.
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====Fisanduhian Xanans====
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The Fisanduhian story on Xanu Prime is a strange one that started in 2386. In that year, the Xanan government agreed to host the remnants of the Fisanduh Freedom Front (3F) as a gesture of solidarity between two countries against tyranny. This arrangement created the modern Fisanduhian government-in-exile as it exists today with its seat in the Greentree neighbourhood of Nouvelle Rochelle. Of those few countries that recognise the existence of an independent Fisanduh, those being the Republic of Elyra and a vast majority of Coalition of Colonies members, see the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, also commonly called the “Greentree Government,” as the legitimate government of Fisanduh. The Empire of Dominia sees the Greentree Government as the political arm of the 3F, a rebel militia to some and a terrorist group to others, and therefore considers Xanu Prime and by extension the Coalition of Colonies to be a state sponsor of terrorism for giving the government sanctuary. The Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel do not recognise the Fisanduhian government-in-exile as the legitimate government of Fisanduh and have no relations with it.

Xanu Prime’s long-standing positive relationship with the Fisanduhian government has made it a very popular destination for Fisanduhian refugees, though its geographic distance from Moroz often makes traveling to the planet difficult for some. Fisanduhian refugees typically do not come in waves like other immigrant demographics, but arrive sporadically and often in small cohorts that were trafficked out of Fisanduh at the same time. This distance and trouble with travel cuts both ways: it isn’t just difficult for Fisanduhians to arrive on Xanu but much of the Fisanduhian Xanan community (aside from the aforementioned refugees) have never even been to Fisanduh, with their only ties to the Morozian region being ethnic and cultural. Religion is also something that sets Fisanduhian Xanans apart from other Xanans, with most being adherents to some strain of Reformed Morozian Tribunalism which rejects the authority of the Morozian Clergy and the Dominian Emperor as the divinely ordained head of the “Goddess’s Tribunal,” a term that the Goddess’s Holy Diocese of Xanu Prime uses to describe their religion over using “Morozian Holy Tribunal.” Some however have given up this faith and have either become irreligious or have taken on one of Xanu Prime’s dominant religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) as their own. Despite this, it is common for many Fisanduhian Xanans to celebrate Tribunalist religious holidays even if they themselves are not adherent to the faith since many see these days as part of their own distinctive culture. All Tribunalist churches on Xanu Prime have eschewed the use of traditional Morozian Holy Tribunal uniforms and religious symbols connected with the Dominian Emperor, viewing them as unnecessarily dogmatic and relics of an oppressive, Dominian, past.

Economically, most Fisanduhian Xanans are poorer than the average Xanan, with almost all being either refugees who arrived on the planet with nothing or their descendants. They lack the generational wealth of other demographics in Xanan society, and most are not educated to the standards demanded by the Xanan economy. As such, most can usually be found in industrial and service jobs, the All-Xanu Armed Forces or other working-class positions. Because of this disadvantageous economic position, many of the better-off Fisanduhian Xanans have been known to host refugee families and provide them with housing and food until they find employment and can secure housing of their own.

Despite the hardship the demographic has found, the Fisanduhian Xanan community has found a home for itself in Xanan society. Most Fisanduhian Xanans have assimilated and integrated themselves into broader Xanan society and adopted their norms and culture, but generally live in areas with other Fisanduhian Xanans. Some subsets of the group take this to the extreme, maintaining their own communities and living together in nearly all-Fisanduhian neighborhoods which preserve the native Fisanduhian culture and social systems. These communities are usually suspicious of outsiders and such attitudes have occasionally led negative attention from the media for allegations of xenophobia and exclusionism. There is a stereotype among Xanans that Fisanduhian Xanans are all rabidly politically active and pursue jobs in politics and government especially in order to aid the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, and while most Fisanduhian Xanans very supportive of the Greentree government, their involvement is often falsely overstated. In reality, Fisanduhian Xanans hold a variety of political views about Xanu Prime and the 3F government, with most being split into two camps: the Irredentists and the Second Homelanders.
Simply put, the Irredentists and Second Homelanders diverge on their priorities relating to the Fisanduhian Insurgency. The Irredentist camp of the Fisanduhian Xanan population places the government-in-exile’s backing of the 3F and other resistance groups in Fisanduh through sending them aid, equipment, and money above all else, in hopes of one day returning to an independent Fisanduh. The Second Homelanders instead want the government-in-exile to create a “second homeland" for the Fisanduhian people on Xanu Prime in cooperation with the Xanan government and often push for the government-in-exile to leverage its official and unofficial influence in Xanan society to provide better resources for the Fisanduhian Xanan community. The two groups, while different in their priorities, are not enemies to one another and often work together in both the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the unofficial representative of that government in Xanan Politics, the Universal Liberty Party. Historically, the Irredentist camp has been a majority in the Fisanduhian Xanan population, but as Fisanduhian Xanans have adjusted more to Xanan society and their needs have become more pronounced, the Second Homeland movement has grown considerably, especially among the demographic’s younger generations who see themselves as more Xanan than Fisanduhian. As the older generations of Fisanduhian Xanans die, it is predicted that the Second Homeland movement will soon hold a majority over Fisanduhian Xanan political discourse unless a serious shift occurs in the currently-stalemated Fisanduhian Insurgency.

Morozian Fisanduhians have mixed opinions of Fisanduhian Xanans. On one hand the sentiments of support and occasional aid shipment that make it to the region past the Dominian blockades are often appreciated, but on the other, most see the Fisanduhian Xanan population as too far away to make a difference in anything actually happening in Fisanduh besides giving a place for more refugees to flee to. Because of this, most Morozian Fisanduhians treat their Xanan cousins as people who are all talk and no action in regards to actually winning the insurgency.

Notable Fisanduhian Xanans include '''Erick Alexis''', current Vice-President of the All-Xanu Republic; '''Aaron Izmirlian''', Prime Minister of the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile; '''Ekaitz Azarola''', leader of the Universal Liberty Party and member of the National Parliament; and '''Elaena Chatfield''', a prolific if aging novelist often considered to be one of the greatest writers Xanu Prime has ever produced.
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====Gadpathurian Exiles====
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Xanan Gadpathurian Exiles and their community are a small but notable immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime. They are almost exclusively concentrated in Pataliputra, it being the spot where most of them arrive on the planet after being ejected from their home world. Gadpathurian Exiles are known to be highly assimilationist and often make little effort to show that they are even in fact Gadpathurian at all, some too ashamed by their exile status to try and make others know of it. Some however have taken the identity and embraced it as part of who they are in Xanan society. Gadpathurian Exiles who do make a point of their heritage do not have their own distinctive architecture or cuisine, but instead hold much of their culture in their community structures and businesses. Gadpathurian Exile-owned businesses which embrace the identity are known to be pseudo-support groups for Gadpathurian Exiles themselves and often provide employment, housing, and other necessities to newly arrived fellow-exiles to ensure that they do not become homeless or starve. Xanan Gadpathurian Exile families similarly have been known to welcome fellow exiles into their houses to take care of them in a similar way to how Fisanduhian Xanans do, however Gadpathurian Exiles take this a step further and have been known to formally adopt entirely unrelated people into their families permanently. This has led to some Gadpathurian Exile families on Xanu Prime to become enormously large, with the largest on record, the Mokammel family, having over 20,000 current members either by adoption, marriage, or being born into the family. The Mokammels mostly live in the Bamdha neighborhood of Pataliputra, though this area has come to be known colloquially as Mokammeljela or "the Mokammel District" in popular parlance due to the family's presence there. Other notable Gadpathuri Exile families are the Nanda, Yadhavar, and Jadhav. Most Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are irreligious or have converted to one of the planet’s three major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, with some converting to smaller faiths.

Gadpathurian Exiles often have an advantage over other immigrants not in terms of their wealth, as most arrive to the planet positively destitute, but in terms of their educations. Most Gadpathurians were taught skills during their military service on Gadpathur, and even if they’ve now been exiled from their homeworlds, many retain their skills and have found lucrative work as tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, HVAC specialists, and welders to name a few). Of course, many have also joined the All-Xanu Armed Forces and usually find success there too, either as soldiers, specialists, or occasionally even officers, though this is somewhat rare as the Gadpathurian leadership style is usually inconsistent with Xanan doctrine and practices. It is seen as shameful in Exile society to take aid from the government, and there is a societal norm of redemption through achievement as a way to prove the decision to exile the person in question as wrong. As such, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are encouraged by their communities to hold a strong work ethic and to cooperate with other Exiles trying to achieve success. In regard to politics, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime typically vote either for the Free Falcon Party of All-Xanu Freedom League. Gadpathurian Exiles also have a somewhat toned-down view of the Sol Alliance, at least when compared to their unexiled counterparts. They are often less outspoken about their prejudice towards the Sol Alliance than Gadpathurians on Gadpathur proper, even if their views on Sol remain unyieldingly resentful.

Notable Gadpathurian Exiles Xanans include '''Chandi Mokammel''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile, current head of the massive Gadpathurian Exile Mokammel family, and celebrity within the Gadpathurian Exile community; '''Sri Afzal''', a second-generation Gadpathuri Exile, formerly a professor of law at Saraswati College, and wife to the current All-Xanu President Jacques Afzal; and '''Ruchir Nanda''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile and current All-Xanan Foreign Minister.
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==Holidays==

Xanu Prime has many holidays much like almost anywhere else in the Spur, however the foremost of these are as follows:

*'''January 1st - New Year’s Day''' - A celebration of the ushering in of a new year. This holiday is marked by fireworks, loud music, and the mass consumption of alcohol. It is officially recognised as a holiday.

*'''January 2nd - Founding Day''' - This is the day where Xanans celebrate the original colonization of their world by the Solarian Alliance. People get the day off work and festivities are held in communities across the planet to celebrate Xanu. Many consider this to be a toned down version of Xanan Independence Day, or simply a day to recoup and recover from the partying and subsequent hangovers brought on by New Year’s. Alternatively, some simply use the day to have a two-day long New Year’s celebration.

*'''March 28th - All-Xanu Peace Day''' - This is a holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the end of the Xanan Civil war. It is a rather low-key holiday where people are encouraged to reflect on the peace that they enjoy and spend it with their families. Xanan citizens get the day off of work, though because the war is such a distant memory, many just use this as a convenient day off of work or three-day weekend rather than a time to celebrate its original intended purpose.

*'''July 1st - Election Day''' - This day is less of a holiday and more a bureaucratic necessity. On June 1st, all Xanans vote in elections, local, province-wide, or national. Everyone gets the day off work so they can vote if they so choose. The holiday still applies to jurisdictions where no elections are taking place that year, so many often take it as a free day off of work.

*'''August 13th - Xanan Independence Day''' - This day celebrates the secession of Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies from the Solarian Alliance and is the largest holiday of the year. Parades, fireworks, cookouts, sporting events, and musical performances often occur on this day. The entire planet parties hard on this holiday and it is observed by Xanan expats living elsewhere in the Orion Spur as well. Xanans get the day off of work on August 13th.

*'''October 1st - Victory Day''' - Victory Day, as it may be implied, is the day where Xanans celebrate the victory of their country over the Solarian Alliance in the Interstellar War. It is marked by parades, and other celebrations that honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians who died in the conflict and the freedoms that they died for. It has a more solemn and reverent atmosphere than other Xanan national holidays. Xanans get the day off work on Victory Day.

*'''November 18th - Kulkarni Day''' - Kulkarni Day, also called Diversity Day (no relation to the Eridanian Holiday), is a holiday where Xanans celebrate their diversity and ethic of unity, coming together to unite as one strong and diverse society. It is held on the birthday of once planetary governor Gaspard Kulkarni to honor his vision for what a united yet diverse Xanan society could be. The day is celebrated widely across the planet and is a day where the various communities of Xanu prime go out of their way to share their cultures with those of different cultures and celebrate how they find strength in diversity. It is an official holiday and Xanan citizens get the day off of work on Diversity Day.

*'''December 25th - Christmas''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Despite its religious origins, it has long been a festivity that has spread across cultures and demographics regardless of religious affiliation, and as such it is an official holiday on Xanu Prime. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries.

*'''Varying Dates - Easter''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries. This holiday follows the lunar cycle and therefore is held on different days annually, though it is always on a Sunday, typically in April or March. It is not officially a holiday recognised by the Xanan State, but many observant Christians celebrate it.

*'''Varying Dates - Ramadan''' - A Muslim religious holiday that is observed for nearly a month by Xanu Prime’s muslim population. It includes the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, on which was recognised as an official Xanan holiday in 2334 after the festivities of feasting, partying, and parades became so widespread across Xanu Prime’s population that it could no longer be interpreted as a strictly religious celebration. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Eid al-Adha''' - A Muslim religious holiday which that honors the willingness of the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as Allah commanded of him. It is not an official Xanan holiday, but many observant muslims take the day off from work and celebrate. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Diwali''' - A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh, religious holiday which lasts for five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil, originally brought to Xanu Prime by Hindu and Sikh colonists from India. It is typically marked by fireworks, the lighting of lamps, brightly vibrant lights, and other festivities which embody light triumphing over the dark. The third day of the holiday, Lakshmi Puja, is the most colorful of the holiday, and Xanans who observe it usually take the day off work, though it is not an official holiday. While not Hindus, the local Assunzionii expat population also has begun to celebrate this holiday recently as well, tying it into their own beliefs of light triumphing over the darkness. Diwali is determined by the Hindu lunar-solar calendar, and therefore falls on different dates annually.

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==Overview==
The shimmering and vibrant planet of '''Xanu Prime''' (pronounced Ksa-noo), officially the All-Xanu Republic, is the beating heart of the [[Coalition of Colonies]]. In nearly all ways, economic, political, and cultural, Xanu Prime holds almost unmatched influence over the rest of the Coalition. It is the most populated planet in the Coalition and is the seat of its national government, but it is so much more beyond that. It is a cosmopolitan and multicultural hub where nearly anyone from across the Orion Spur can be found, a cornerstone not just in the Coalition but in the galactic community as a whole, and home to a thriving culture and democratic tradition which, along with the dedication and hard work of its citizens, has cemented its position of leadership and wealth which it currently enjoys.

The planet is slightly larger than Earth and is the fourth planet of the Xanu system, which is positioned in the galactic north of the Coalition of Colonies in the [[The_Orion_Spur#Liberty%E2%80%99s_Cradle|Liberty's Cradle]] Region.
[[File:Xanuprimeflag.png|thumb|center|The flag of the All-Xanu Republic is a flag of three horizontal stripes, blue, orange, and green, with a white circle in the middle featuring the national crest of Xanu Prime, a peacock feather. The blue represents liberty and freedom, orange represents determination and hard work, green represents the planet and its people, white represents justice and peace, and the national crest represents the republic itself.]]
==History==
<center>''“We have asked, and our people have delivered: solidarity, unity, and liberty.” - Gaspard Kulkarni, Colonial Governor of Xanu Prime from 2225-2267''</center>

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===Discovery and Settlement | 2156 - 2185===
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Xanu Prime’s known history begins not on the planet itself but on Earth. The planet was discovered in the year 2156 by a team of French, Belgian, and Indian astronomers and deemed habitable for colonization. Its original designation was Exoplanète Astronomique-Neuf-Un, however was shortened first to XA-9-1, and then simply “Xanu” some years later once colonists had made landfall on the planet. Colonization ventures aiming to establish footholds on far-off worlds in places like the Tau Ceti System, Epsilon Eridani, and the Al-Rashid System had already begun near time of the planet’s discovery and the governments of Earth were more than eager to establish further footholds for humanity across the stars. Not wishing to be left behind, the governments of France along with Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg (BeNeLux) pooled their resources for an extraterrestrial expedition with the intention of colonizing the far-flung but promising exoplanet of XA-9-1. These countries quickly ran into a problem as they had the funds to bankroll this endeavor but lacked the industrial capacity to create the massive vessels needed for such a journey to the stars.

It seemed as if the expedition may falter before it even started without an industrial partner so, France and the BeNeLux shopped their proposal around to various countries but were turned down by the first few they asked. Firms from West Germany, the Federal Republic of China, and the United States all were offered contracts to build colony ships, but none accepted due those nations prioritizing their resources towards their own colonization initiatives. Eventually however, partners were found in the South Asian economic and industrial powerhouses of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, all three of whom agreed to build the massive vessels required to travel to what would become known as Xanu Prime, on the condition that their own colonists were included in the expedition. Naturally, they also wanted to receive a portion of the profits that the colony might generate. India and Pakistan saw the shipbuilding as a contest and tried to out-do each other during the construction process as an extension of the Indo-Pakistani rivalry while Bangladesh tried to remain neutral in the competition and simply complete their orders.

The six vessels needed for the expedition, Seine, Ganga, Rhine, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Yser were completed by 2181 and launched the same year. The expedition was long and arduous and needed to stop twice for repairs to the Rhine’s engines. Nevertheless, the expedition arrived at XA-9-1, albeit nine months behind schedule, in 2185. Colonization efforts began in full-force after the arrival, with the coastal location around where the colony fleet touched down quickly becoming the hub of the new world’s people. Modest agricultural and solar power initiatives were set-up to promote self-sustainability in the colony, and by most measures they were successful. After a year of success, the colonists desired to name the small city they had created and gave the honor of naming it to the commander of the expedition, Commodore Pascal Lechevalier, who named it Nouvelle-Rochelle, or New Rochelle, after his hometown of La Rochelle, France. The same year the planet’s official designation was changed from XA-9-1 to Xanu Prime by the [[Sol Alliance]].
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===Early Colonial Era | 2185 - 2223===
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Over the next three decades the colony steadily grew in population with more and more colonists coming to the planet from Western Europe and South Asia hoping to make it big on Xanu or simply start a new life on an entirely new world. It was during this period that the cities of Pataliputra, Maartstad, and Khairabad (presently known as Kshatragarh) were founded as well, solidifying Xanu as no longer a single-settlement colony and one that was almost entirely self-sufficient. From here, Sol left much of the Colony’s governance to itself and was happy to rake in the profits it produced while not giving much back to the colony itself, something that would become a theme over Xanu’s colonial era. It was also during this time however that Xanu Prime began to experience some of its first challenges during its ascent to prosperity.

While Xanu’s colonization effort had been a success, the colony itself was dysfunctional on a societal and political level. Since the initial landing on Xanu Prime, many of the colonists had begun to break off into groups and communities that were increasingly centered around their old world nationalities. The French often only interacted with the French, Indians with Indians, Pakistanis with Pakistanis, and so on. This led to increased tension over resources on the planet between these groups, and with each passing year the colony seemed less like one world and more like many inhabiting the same planet. This allegiance to ethnicity penetrated nearly every aspect of life, with members of the planet’s colonial administration and even fledgling military having stronger ties to their own communities rather than the colony’s government. By the early 2220’s, many of the planet’s citizens thought that a civil war was inevitable as the differences between the various ethnic groups of the planet seemed irreconcilable. In 2223, when that year’s crops failed and a famine gripped the world, their fears were made reality when Xanu’s colonial administration collapsed under the pressure to provide relief for the starving communities of Xanu and internal power struggles. A power vacuum was opened, and local militias following demagogic firebrands leaped at the opportunity to secure it wherever they could.
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===The Xanan Civil War | 2223 - 2227===
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The Xanan Civil War was a four-factioned war fought between the Xanan Republic, a primarily French faction, the Xanu Free Union, a primarily Indian faction, the Xanu Solidarity Army, a primarily Pakistani faction, and the National Front for United Xanu, a faction composed of colonists from the BeNeLux. The war lasted from 2223 to 2227 and aside from the Interstellar War, is the costliest war in Xanan History. Every faction involved was at one point, hellbent on the complete subjugation of the three others in attempts to install themselves as the de facto rulers of the entire planet. Battles between groups lasted for months and often shot quickly from quiet and low-intensity to chaotic and brutal in a matter of hours, with ill-led irregular militia forces being used far more often than conventional armies. This was partially due to the fact that much of Xanu’s military before the civil war was quite small and fit only for militarized policing operations but also because many of the soldiers in the four armies were volunteers with no prior military experience whatsoever. While factions were made on primarily ethnic lines, it should be noted that a large portion of Xanan people at this time refused to fall-in with these factions no matter their ethnicity. Attacks against civilians, soldiers, and politicians alike including terror bombings, shootings, arson, and assassinations were commonplace with each side doing their best to break the resolve to fight of the others.

The Sol Alliance was unsure at first what to do with the news of Xanu breaking out into violence. Sol had in the past both intervened in these kinds of colonial conflicts while letting others run their course. To the Solarian colonial authorities though, much of what was becoming to be known as the Outer Colonies, which included planets like Vysoka, Assunzione, and Gadpathur along with Xanu Prime, was not as profitable as previously hoped, and so controversially, the decision was made to let the civil war play out and then return in-force after the violence had subsided to reassert colonial authority rather than land on the planet and risk the lives of Solarian core-worlders.
The war took its toll on the planet’s people. Historians currently estimate that nearly 6% of the total Xanan population died during the fighting with the leading causes of death being starvation and treatable medical conditions rather than combat. A majority of those who died in the war were not soldiers or irregulars, but normal civilians who simply could not feed themselves or find medical care after the complete collapse of the colony’s food and medical infrastructure. After nearly two years of fighting and a horrific and terrible stalemate, the armies were simply unable to launch offensives anymore and signed an uneasy truce that put an end to the fighting but not the war.
In 2225 a movement known as the All-Xanu Peace League was founded in the city of Pataliputra by a former colonial official named Gaspard Kulkarni, a man who was half-Indian and half-Belgian, which proposed the idea of a unified Xanu which provided for all of its peoples regardless of their race or national origins. While not a novel concept, Kulkarni’s speeches and his organization’s charitable actions such as opening soup kitchens to feed the starving and clinics to give free medical care to the sick spoke greatly to the war-weary Xanan people. He led large anti-war protests in the city of Pataliputra and was smuggled into the territories of the various warring factions to spread his message. He encouraged soldiers in the armies to not fight, saying that they were shooting their own brothers and sisters even if their commanders saw otherwise. By the start of 2226, Kulkarni was becoming the most popular man on Xanu Prime, his message of peace and a planet-wide Xanan identity stretched across ethnicity and to many was a beacon of hope in a terrible war, even if Kulkarni’s ideas seemed overly idealistic to many.

Xanans, including those in the armies, were tired of fighting and exhausted at this point. None of the four factions had accomplished their goals and with Kulkarni’s Xanu Free League movement gaining more steam and proposing a peaceful future for all Xanan people, the heads of the four armies met at the planet’s capital Nouvelle-Rochelle to sign a peace treaty and dissolve their forces. An impromptu election was held to determine a planetary governor, Kulkarni won in a landslide, and declared the founding of the Sovereign Solarian Nation of Xanu Prime.
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===Reassertion of Solarian Control and The First Astonishment | 2227 - 2260===
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[[File:Old Xanu Flag.png|thumb|The flag of the Sovereign Solarian Nation of Xanu Prime]]
The Sol Alliance had been constantly monitoring the situation on Xanu since the start of the civil war and now that the fighting had stopped, it returned to its colony with the intention of rebuilding it and stabilizing it for the future. Pleased that they didn’t need to exercise any force, Sol returned with a massive investment which hoped to not only restore Xanu to its former glory, but also make it a leading, an exemplar colony in the distant Outer Ring. Sol saw Xanu almost as a blank slate at this point, the planet was so ravaged by war that anything was possible in the minds of the Colonial authorities back on Earth. From here on the Sol Alliance invested trillions of credits into Xanu’s infrastructure and businesses along with importing scores of new Western European, South Asian, and newly to the mix, American colonists and capital from Earth to both repopulate but also serve as workers in Xanu’s future labor pool.

Despite this rebuilding effort, many Xanan citizens, including the de-facto governor Kulkarni, vehemently criticized Sol for not intervening in the Xanan Civil War and stopping the fighting. This criticism put the Solarian central authority into a difficult position: they could either remove Kulkarni from office and impose their own governor, or try to keep the situation stable. In the end, the second option was taken; Xanan historians say that this was due to the massive amounts of money being spent on the world by the Alliance. Solarian historians dispute this claim and insist the choice was made by the Alliance as an apology to the Xanan people for the inaction in the civil war. Kulkarni was confirmed by the Solarian central authority as the Xanu’s official planetary governor on January 1st, 2225.

For the next three decades, Xanu became not just rebuilt but the strongest economy in the Outer Colonies. Solarian investment lasted for seven years, but after that, Xanu’s growth was primarily self-generated. Its industries and services had expanded far beyond just mining and agriculture to highly sophisticated sectors like computer manufacturing, bio-medicine, energy production, defense, and AI development. Most importantly however was shipping and logistics. Xanu’s geographic position made it ideal as the primary commercial port of the outer colonies, where goods from everywhere from Himeo to Vysoka to Assunzione would be shipped to the Solarian Core. Much of this was undertaken thanks to Kulkarni’s policies of giving monetary incentives to businesses and workers that went into certain industries. It was also during this time that Xanu found itself becoming friends with its close-by neighbor Himeo, a relationship which would go on to bloom into a strong friendship, and occasional rivalry, which lasts to this very day.
By 2260, before the Second Great Depression, Xanu Prime had the highest living standards in the Outer Colonies, the largest economy, and one of its most developed societies. Many accredit this to the foundation of an identity for its people built upon the ideas of fairness, equality, and hard work originating from the Xanu Free League and its founder Gaspard Kulkarni who retired from the position of Governor in 2248 at the age of 71 after 26 years in office. Xanu’s people no longer saw themselves as either French Xanan or Indian Xanan and so on, but as simply Xanan. The horrors of war which impacted all Xanan people regardless of ethnicity changed the way that the people of Xanu viewed each other. After the war they had begun to take on each other as fellow Xanans and as people rather than as an enemy or an “other,” adopting various cultures and customs from one another and beginning to create what today can be called the Xanan culture and people. Xanan culture was not only unified by a common experience, but also a common language. Freespeak was mandated as the official language of Xanu Prime by Governor Kulkarni in 2230 on the reasoning that it was what many of Xanu’s interplanetary neighbours spoke and that it would help unite the Xanan people if they could communicate with one another. This transformation from a war-ravaged world plagued by sectarian violence to a model planet which was safe, rich, and cosmopolitan is an achievement known to the Orion Spur as “The Astonishment.” A side-effect of Xanu’s success though was that it was now far more connected to the rest of the Outer Colonies than to the Solarian core in nearly all ways, economically, politically, and culturally. This fact would come to define Xanu’s future going forwards.
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===The [[Sol_Alliance_History#18_June,_2260:_The_Second_Great_Depression_Begins|Second Great Depression]] and [[Sol_Alliance_History#18_January,_2275:_Secession_of_the_Coalition|Secession from the Solarian Alliance]] | 2260 - 2278===
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While the Second Great Depression struck the Solarian Core from its onset in 2260, Xanu Prime and more broadly the Outer Colonies in general were largely unaffected by the economic turmoil gripping the inner parts of Sol Alliance space. Much of the Xanan economy was self-sufficient and relied little on the inner workings of Solarian financial institutions. Branches of transstellar corporations on Xanu were some of the only ones in human space which still remained profitable after the depression hit. Xanan citizens were not ignorant of the depression, it was still national news, but its effects were not felt on the world nor in the rest of the Outer Colonies aside from Vysoka. The steppe world was gripped by economic troubles following the collapse of the Solarian logistics chain which caused the planet’s primary export, food, being unable to reach the Solarian core. Xanu stepped in during this time to begin buying more exports from Vysoka to help shore up the steppe world’s losses while also further pulling Vysoka into its orbit of economic influence.

In 2265, the Sol Alliance unveiled a new taxation policy aimed at stopping the runaway inflation and worsening economic situation within its core worlds. This policy, deemed the Emergency Stabilization Plan, consisted of instilling heavy taxation on the still relatively economically stable Outer Colonies in hopes of transferring some of their wealth to the Solarian Core. The most prosperous, and therefore most taxed of these worlds was Xanu Prime, and as one might suspect, these new taxes were strongly opposed across the planet. Prices soared and businesses fell apart, sending not just Xanu’s economy but that of the entire Outer Colonies into a tailspin that would only worsen for the next decade.
In 2271, following the Xanan tradition of protest and rebellion that began with the All-Xanu Peace League, a Xanan independence movement was founded known as the All-Xanu Free League. Led by an aging veteran of the Xanan Civil War who had joined politics after the war and fully embraced the new idea of a united Xanu, Eloise Brel, the All-Xanu Free League’s goals were simple and to the point: no less than total independence from the Sol Alliance. Brel and her supporters argued that the Sol Alliance had never done anything for Xanu that wasn’t motivated by profit. The Free League cited the Sol Alliance’s refusal to intervene in the Xanan Civil War and near-removal of Governor Kulkarni in 2225 as examples of the Sol Alliance’s desires only to subjugate Xanu and act as thieves from its prosperous economy, going as far as to call the Sol Alliance’s Colonial Authority “pirates.” Brel also protested for popular democracy and voting rights for its citizens, as until this point, many Xanan people were only allowed to participate in democracy on a local level and had little say in the planet’s colonial taxation and economic programs or its foreign policy. As economic conditions worsened, the popularity of the Free League only grew, leading to further social unrest.

By 2274, Xanu’s planetary governor saw that the situation was untenable and resigned from the office. With the highest office of authority in Xanu Prime now vacant, the All-Xanu Free League declared itself as the popular government of the entire planet, installing Eloise Brel not as Xanu’s governor but as the president of the newly proclaimed All-Xanu Republic. In the same year, following Xanu’s example, the Outer Colony worlds of Himeo, now the United Syndicates of Himeo, Vysoka, Gadpathur, and Zaurghis also declared independence from the Sol Alliance. Sol was paralyzed by depression and unsure of how to respond to the situation, attempted to negotiate with the newly-independent systems to no avail. In 2275, the leaders from the independent outer colonies met on Xanu Prime in the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle and agreed to the formation of a military and economic alliance called the Interstellar Coalition of Independent Systems, or Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime was declared to be the de facto operational center of this new alliance and as such, it dictated the goals that the Coalition would need to meet. These goals, at least for the time being, were complete economic independence from the Sol Alliance and a militarization of their societies so that they could defend themselves from what Eloise Brel described as “the impending imperialist sledgehammer.”

The same year, Brel announced the necessity for a new All-Xanu Army and Navy and called for native Xanans and even foreigners in the Solarian planetary garrison who loved democracy, freedom, and the principles of equality and fairness found in Xanan culture to defect and bring their equipment with them, promising Xanan citizenship and adequate pay. Many of these soldiers who hadn’t been paid in months courtesy of the Second Great Depression’s effects on the Solarian military’s finances deserted their posts in droves and joined the new All-Xanu Army and Spacefleet. Stories of entire bases and ships surrendering to civil servants of the new administration were not unheard of. Those in the All-Xanu Armed Forces knew that they were unable to fight the Solarians in open combat and so instead looked to the past for guidance. Many veterans of the Xanan Civil War were still alive and while not in fighting condition, many of them being in their sixties or seventies at this point, were called upon to teach Xanan officers guerilla tactics who would then use those same methods, along with those learned from defecting garrison officers, to teach the nascent Army. Armed with equipment now flowing in from arms factories on Vysoka, the industrial centers of Himeo, and the planet’s own defense industry that emerged in the wake of the Xanan Civil War, Xanu’s fledgeling military was taking shape. By 2278, the All-Xanu Army was a young and inexperienced but well-trained fighting force. The All-Xanu Spacefleet by 2278 consisted of 802 vessels, most of which were no larger than cruisers and had been surrendered to the planet by both its own and nearby planets’ defecting garrisons.
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===The [[Sol_Alliance_History#25_March,_2278:_Outbreak_of_the_Interstellar_War|Interstellar War]] | 2278 - 2287===
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The Sol Alliance was alarmed after its negotiations with the Outer Colonies had failed. Not only had they lost the lynchpin to their so far successful Emergency Stabilization Plan, but they’d lost territory, billions of citizens, vital resources, and large quantities of military equipment and materiel. Despite still being hamstrung by the Second Great Depression, the Sol Alliance mobilized its fleets and armies in 2278 and set its course for the Solarian Frontier. The Alliance at this time had adopted a policy of unconditional surrender of the Coalition of Colonies, aiming to bring them back under Solarian authority at any cost in order to secure their resources and people to further stabilize the Solarian Core.

Solarian forces reached Xanu Prime in late 2278 and would make landfall soon after crushing the All-Xanu Spacefleet and forcing it to flee to Himeo for repairs. It would not be until 2284 until the Solarian Army was forced off of Xanu. The Solarian Army quickly occupied Nouvelle-Rochelle and Pataliputra, Xanu’s two largest cities, and laid siege to Khairabad, its third largest and current seat of the All-Xanu Republic. The Siege of Khairabad would be the longest and by far the bloodiest battle of the Interstellar War. It lasted four years, from 2279 to 2282, and saw savage house-to-house fighting coupled with indiscriminate artillery bombardment and drone strikes from both sides. It is estimated that during the Siege of Khairabad, anywhere between 11 and 14 million people died, this figure being a combination of both soldiers and civilians. It is widely agreed that the Siege of Khairabad was the single-most deadly battle in human history. The siege was brutal and both sides bled heavily, with Coalition forces using the rubble of the city to hide for ambush attacks while the Solarians relied heavily on air power and orbital bombardment to pound their foes into submission. But submission the Solarians would not receive. It was 2281 and fighting had stagnated into a bloody stalemate across the Coalition of Colonies. The Solarians were unable to contend with such a vast front against the armies of the hundreds of worlds now part of the CoC and gradually they began to be worn down by the attrition of the war. By late 2282, the siege of Khairabad collapsed after Solarian forces besieging the city were redeployed elsewhere on Xanu to fight All-Xanu Army guerilla activities and elsewhere in the Coalition to hold the line against CoC forces. After four years, nine months, two weeks, and six days, the Siege of Khairabad was over. During her victory speech after the battle, President Brel proposed that the city be renamed to Kshatrapur, in allusion to the warrior caste of the culture of the city’s original Indian colonists. In 2283, by presidential decree, the city was renamed and holds that name to this very day.

Even while Khairabad and other cities on the planet were under siege, Xanan forces had been sent to every corner of the Coalition to try and curb Solarian advances. This was done not through direct combat, but through training the local armies and navies across the Coalition how to fight the Solarians. The once-defeated All-Xanu Spacefleet went on to act as one of the primary naval forces in the war after seeking repairs at Himeo. They attacked Solarian supply convoys and cooperated with the United Fleet of Himeo to defend Himeo against a Solarian landing force while being impossible to catch and pin-down by the Solarian Navy. In 2284, a United Coalition fleet comprised of elements from Xanu Prime, Himeo, and Gadpathur arrived to Xanu Prime under the leadership of All-Xanan Admiral Mehmud Khan and defeated the 148th Solarian Fleet in the Battle of Xanu Prime, the largest single spacefleet confrontation of the war. They arrived just in-time as well, many assess, as Solarian high-command had authorized the full-scale indiscriminate orbital bombardment of Xanu Prime, the scars of which can still be seen today. Many historians speculate that without the intervention of the CoC’s Joint Fleet, Xanu’s surface would be much like Gadpathur’s today. The Battle of Xanu Prime is seen as the turning point of the war. Afterwards, the Solarians forces would be in almost constant retreat out of Coalition territory since Xanu along with its Coalition allies could now export their armies instead of keeping them on their homeworlds to fend off the Solarian attack.
Slowly but surely, Xanusians fought alongside their fellow Coalition forces and by the time a ceasefire was called, the CoC had liberated 80% of the territory that it had begun with. The Treaty of Xansan was signed in 2287 and ended the war, with Sol officially recognising the Coalition of Colonies and all of its member states as independent entities. Shortly after the war, President Eloise Brel retired from politics and went on to pen a series of best-selling memoirs before dying at the ripe age of 104 in 2303. She is to this very day regarded as a national hero and is considered to be the “Mother of Xanan Independence.”
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===The Sneijders Doctrine and The Second Astonishment | 2287 - 2320===
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For the second time in a century, Xanu Prime had been ravaged by war and nearly destroyed. By the end of the Interstellar War, nearly half of its population had been displaced or rendered homeless and it is presently estimated that anywhere between 12% and 15% of the planet’s population had died in the war. Xanu’s cities and infrastructure were in ruins, but the resolve of its people and the rest of the newly-formed Coalition of Colonies was as strong as ever. Sol was not around to rebuild Xanu after this war, but the rest of the Coalition of Colonies was. The first order of business for the new CoC government was providing relief to and rebuilding the areas most damaged by the war, Xanu Prime chief among them. Throughout the next decade, Xanu’s cities were rebuilt and repaired with even Kshatrigarh being nearly entirely repaired by 2310. Resources and workers from all over the Coalition poured into Xanu as part of the effort and after the Xanu Restoration Project was completed, many decided to stay and make lives for themselves on Xanu. These efforts are even to this day a source of camaraderie and mutual appreciation between the Xanan people and the rest of the Coalition, with both seeing it as the Coalition at large repaying Xanu Prime for the sacrifice its people made to start the Coalition. Measures were taken by the Xanan government to ensure that the recovery was not just that, a recovery, but the start of a brand new economy for the recently-independent world. The most notable of these actions was the creation of the Xanan Concern for Economic Stabilization, Advancement, and Recovery, otherwise known as CESAR-X, a state-owned construction and industrial company that would come to be the instrument through which successive governments would both rebuild and grow Xanu’s cities and economy. In 2320, Xanu Prime was once again the strongest economy in the Coalition of Colonies, having been surpassed by Himeo from the end of the war until that point. It would take some time for living standards to return to what they once were though, but it would happen. This rebuilding effort amounted to trillions of credits and ultimately was a resounding success that allowed Xanu to once again bounce back from the destruction of war. Fittingly, this is known as “The Second Astonishment.”

As Xanu Prime grew stronger and wealthier, it felt the need to assert its position in the still infantile Coalition of Colonies. The Coalition had only been around for roughly two-and-a-half decades in peacetime when in 2212, All-Xanu president Nicolaas Sneijders adopted a combination of economic and foreign policies that would lead Xanu into its golden age. These principles, known today as “The Sneijders Doctrine,” orbited around two principles: firstly expanding Xanan markets and trade wherever possible, and secondly, creating a new kind of All-Xanu Army and Spacefleet that could be deployed anywhere in the Coalition of Colonies on short notice should any nation in the CoC come under attack. The Coalition did not have a unified military that it could command on its own, so Sneijders proposed that if any world were to assert themselves as the defender of this new country, it would be Xanu. A famous excerpt from a speech he gave to the All-Xanu Assembly, now known as simply “The Sneijders Speech,” sums:
<center>''“Our fellows, brothers, and sisters saved our homeworld during the Interstellar War. We as Xanans must ensure that the same pain and suffering that befell us never is inflicted upon our neighbors. Our allies protected us, and we will repay the favor to not just they, but their children, and their children's children. We are the richest world in our beautiful Coalition even now, and we must ensure that our wealth grows but more importantly is put to good use. We have the means to make war but instead we will ensure peace for our people and all those of the Coalition. We are a republic built on the beliefs of liberty, democracy, equality, and goodwill, and we will proliferate these principles across the stars.”''</center.>

From the time when Sneijders’ principles were implemented, Xanu would maintain a disproportionately large military relative to its fellow Coalition worlds, only being surpassed proportionately by Gadpathur. Sneijders also is credited with the establishment of much of Xanu’s state welfare programs and civic funding initiatives which would hasten Xanu’s restoration of living standards to a pre-war level. He also modified the Xanan Constitution into the form the country knows it as today, enshrining in law inalienable rights for Xanan citizens and placing limits on the government’s domestic power. He is the longest serving Xanan president, having left office in 2320 after serving three five-year terms in office, something which the constitution he helped ratify made impossible afterwards due to its limiting of presidents to only two terms. He is widely regarded as one of the best presidents the All-Xanu Republic has ever had.
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===The Xanan Renaissance | 2320 - 2360===
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For the first time in Xanan history, peace and prosperity reigned supreme for over 60 years. The planet saw an unparalleled level of growth and societal advancement. Xanan culture flourished and many of the entertainment industries that Xanu is known throughout the Orion Spur for were founded during the 2320’s and 30’s. Film, video games, music, entertainment, all got their start in those two decades after funding from many of the economic assistance and cultural programs started under the Sneijders administration took off. Xanu’s economy soared and the world hit a new high and celebrated lavishly in 2338 when Xanu’s population reached its pre-Interstellar War level. To this day, Xanans get every January 2nd off work to commemorate this recovery. Things were going good for Xanu, not only was it growing itself but further integration with the rest of the Coalition of Colonies allowed for it to grow its neighbors’ economies as well, though of course while each planet in the Coalition economically cooperated, friendly competition was part and parcel of their mutual exchanges. Xanan firms financed much of the construction of the Weber Quarter in Himeo’s capital Rautakaivos Kaupunki and funded heavy industry expansion on Vysoka in the 2340’s and 50’s.
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===The Flohimont Thaw and Solarian Reproachment | 2360 - 2400===
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One of the largest changes in Xanu’s foreign and economic policy in history came under the administration of President Ameliye Flohimont, Xanu Prime’s tenth president. Taking power in 2360, President Flohimont was the first Xanan leader since the Interstellar War to consider reopening economic ties with the Solarian Alliance. These actions brought on fierce criticism at the time, with notions of Sol once again trying to force an unfair economic deal on Xanu running rampant. Flohimont stressed that she did not wish to negotiate trade with the entire Solarian Alliance but only individual planets under its control, stating that she was wishing to trade with Sol as she would with any other, on fair and agreeable terms. In 2364, her administration reached a settlement with the government of Konyang, hoping to both increase trade revenue and use the momentum as a positive reason for her reelection campaign in 2365. This negotiation was criticized by the Himean government and lambasted by multiple Gadpathurian officials at the time as, “playing with fire,” and something that could potentially drag the rest of the CoC’s economy into the orbit of Sol as it once was. Nevertheless, Flohimont won reelection in 2365 and continued her policy of foreign economic liberalization, signing trade deals with the then-Solarian planets of Biesel, New Gibson, and Mictlan a establishing a positive relationship with them that carried on to the formation of the Republic of Tau Ceti and to this day. The tax profits from these mercantile ventures were reinvested into Xanu’s cultural, state medical, and military programs, giving all of those sectors a boost. Conspiratorially, some on the fringe of Sol’s political sphere hold even presently that Flohimont engaged in these deals in order to expand the reach of Xanu’s Military Intelligence Department into Solarian worlds in preparation for a future invasion. They cite the expansion of Xanu’s military under Flohimont as a primary reason for this theory, though most see these ideas as shaky at best and completely false at worst. Xanu’s government denies this and people with this stance on Xanu are often laughed out of any discussion in which they participate. Whatever the case, when she left office in 2370 after serving two five-year terms, Xanu was richer and was once again a player on the economic stage of the Orion Spur and not just the Coalition. Over the next century, Xanu would use foreign trade to make money as far as the Jargon Federation, Eridani, after the New Suez Protocols of 2381 the [[Republic of Elyra]], the rest of the Sol Alliance proper, and Adhomai and Moghes after their discovery by humans. This openness to foreign nations under Flohimont is also the reasoning credited for why Xanu Prime agreed to host the Fisanduhian government-in-exile in 2386.

President Ameliye Flohimont is a polarizing figure across the CoC and beyond and her impacts as president were felt long after she’d left office. On Xanu she is remembered fondly for helping the planet move past its trauma from the Interstellar War by opening a parley with Sol and for using foreign trade credits to help enrich the planet’s social systems and military. Elsewhere in the Coalition she is looked down upon as a selfish leader, or even seen as a traitor to the Coalition ideal, who put Xanu’s economic interests, or to some, her planet’s greed, above the safety of the Coalition and made any future economic problem that Sol, or eventually Biesel, encountered also a problem of the Coalition. This rose to a head when she was assassinated at a speaking event in 2374, four years after she’d left office, by a radical Gadpathurian national who claimed that her actions would kill the Coalition of Colonies. Nearly a century after her election, anti-Sol and nationalist parties across the Coalition blamed the Coalition’s economic turmoil during the ongoing Phoron Scarcity on the policies that Flohimont started, however this position was contested by many on Xanu who described Flohimont’s actions as, “The natural next steps for Xanu Prime and the Coalition into the Orion Spur,” and the current slowdown as, “An inevitability for any nation in the modern day and age.”
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===The Doldrums & The Mukhopadhyay Plan | 2400 - 2440===
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Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies as a whole entered 2400 in a period of relative stagnation. The huge revenues brought into Xanu during the latter half of the 23rd century by President Flohimont’s trade pioneering had faded, with all who wanted to trade with Xanu already doing so. By 2404, Xanu Prime’s economy was only growing by 1% annually and the country itself fell into a period of long-standing economic stagnation known as “The Doldrums.” During this time Xanu was still the top economy in the Coalition of Colonies, but it was no longer growing at the meteoric speeds it once knew, and even saw a near-collapse in 2421. The Doldrums lasted from 2404 until 2427 and are known for the malaise they put over Xanan society as four different presidential administrations tried to get the economy under control and reignite Xanu’s soaring economy.
The most notable event during this period was the privatization of CESAR-X, the venerated Xanan institution of a state-owned industrial concern. The company began to amass an unusually large amount of debt during the mid 2400’s as it took out loans to maintain its infrastructure and assets during the economic slowdown. Those in-charge at the company thought that their business’s government-backed nature along with its prominent role in the Xanan economy would ensure that it remained solvent even during a time when the economy was in rough shape. Essentially, they thought CESAR-X could weather the storm through the use of loans and government until the economy had picked up once again and normal growth rates were seen, rather than through adjusting how they did business to meet the challenging economic circumstances. What neither they, nor anyone else at the time expected, was just how long the slowdown would last. A little over a decade and a half passed, and by this time the concern had taken out more in loans than the company itself was worth; not being able to sustain itself on its own operations for any longer, CESAR-X went to the Xanan government asking for a bailout to pay off its creditors, threatening bankruptcy otherwise. The government was indecisive on the decision, as on one hand CESAR-X’s collapse would result in millions of jobs being lost and be disastrous for an already struggling Xanan economy, but on the other, saving CESAR-X wouldn’t fix the economic situation gripping the planet, nor was it a permanent solution to shoring up what was becoming a government-backed money pit. The decision was then made to let CESAR-X fail and collapse, but at the eleventh hour, Credit Xanan, the largest bank in the Coalition and the owner of a majority of CESAR-X’s debt offered to buy the company from the Xanan state on the condition that they pay under a market price and that they would keep a majority of the company’s workers employed. The government agreed and sold the company to the bank for what many now estimate to be just above half of its real value. Over the next decade, CESAR-X’s new management would enact a ruthless profitability-first policy in how it dealt with its newly acquired subsidiary, shutting down factories and branches that failed to turn a profit after being given notice to restructure. These efforts resulted in the company downsizing its workforce by nearly 30%, a move which remains controversial even today, but they did accomplish their goal. By 2428, CESAR-X was turning a profit under Credit Xanan ownership. To this day, CESAR-X is the largest privatization in Coalition history.

During this time the life of an ordinary Xanan changed; the country was no longer on the up-and-up and it gave many time to pause and examine what their society was and who they were as people. Some of the most seminal works of Xanan popular art and cinema were produced during the Doldrums, some say as a reflection on the Xanu Prime of the day, and some say to express the tension and anxiety that the artists and directors felt. Whatever the case, epic works of stage, film, and visual arts were produced during this period which have gone on to firmly cement themselves in the Xanan canon.

As the potential of wide-scale phoron usage was beginning to be felt across the Orion Spur though and more importantly, as more in the Coalition of Colonies wanted this technology, Xanu slowly saw its reascension to growth as it began to be the primary port by which phoron shipments from Elyra and the still-Solarian Biesel would enter the Coalition. This new energy source brought great wealth to Xanu and is credited for giving the planet’s economy the shot in the arm it needed to resume its growth.
After Xanu Prime’s recovery from the Doldrums, its next president, Narayan Mukhopadhyay, believed that Xanu needed an economic system which would ensure that it would not fall victim to such a circumstance again, or if it did, not to the degree which it had in the 2410’s-20’s. Throughout the early 2430’s, Mukhopadhyay devised a series of complex economic measures which aimed to shock-proof the Xanan economy against a future recession or collapse, using both taxes and trade revenues from the Konyang robotics boom to fund it. These included amassing great reserves of foreign currency and investing trillions into further diversifying Xanu’s economy. The great Mehmud Khan Helium-3 Station (named after the Xanan Interstellar War Admiral) began construction during this time with assistance from nearby Galatea, and Mukhopadhyay’s initiatives spearheaded the development of industries that until his administration were small or hadn’t even existed on Xanu. This ranged from VR technology to the automotive industry, to pharmaceuticals to initiatives focused on creating engines and reactors which could operate with both Phoron and other fuels like Helium-3. The latter of these efforts would come in very handy during the beginning of the 2462 phoron shortage. Mukhopadhyay also invested much into Xanu Prime’s social services, with the reasoning that if Xanu’s economy were to enter a recession or depression in the future, they would be relied on more than ever before.

The impact of President Mukhopadhyay’s economic planning is hard to quantify. Some on Xanu say that Mukhopadhyay was a visionary who unknowingly protected Xanu from total economic catastrophe when the phoron shortage hit in force in 2463, some twenty years after he left office in 2440. Others however dispute this claim, saying that his impact is truly unknowable because there is no way to know what exactly would have happened to Xanu if the Mukhopadhyay Plan was never put into place and that it was in fact, not the best option. Despite these differing opinions, he generally has a positive reputation and currently spends his days giving lectures at universities and speaking at fundraising events for the Enlightenment Project, a charity he founded after he left office which aims to provide medical aid (often in cooperation with the Interstellar Aid Corps) and educational access to children in the less-developed parts of the Coalition of Colonies and Human Frontier.
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===Xanu Prime Today | 2440 - Present===
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The 2440’s were an unremarkable decade for Xanu Prime. The planet continued to grow more economically off of the spur-wide phoron boom and in 2443, celebrated the completion of the Khan Helium-3 Station. Steady growth and stability were hallmarks of the 2440’s for Xanu and is seen in the present by a large numbers of Xanans, both those who were alive during the time and those who were born after it, as a nostalgic pseudo-golden age where all was good, especially when compared to more recent times.

The 2450’s however were a decade of many happenings for Xanu Prime, both good and bad. In 2457, Xanu Prime hit its all-time economic high, one that is yet to be surpassed, after organizing numerous trade deals with Tau Ceti following the country’s independence in 2452. This took a dive in 2458 when Admiral Michael Frost invaded Tau Ceti, causing Xanu to put great pressure on the rest of the Coalition for an intervention on the justification of protecting sovereignty, an action supported by Gadpathur but rejected by all others in the Coalition on the grounds that war for the sake of markets wasn’t something the Coalition wanted. Along with reaching its economic zenith in 2457, Xanu Prime also participated in one of the largest relief operations in history after the Lii’dra incursion to the Elyran planet of Bursa. In cooperation with the rest of the Coalition, Xanu sent billions in foreign aid, medical supplies, and construction equipment to Bursa to aid in the planet’s rebuilding process. The 2450’s also marked the decade in which the Coalition of Colonies announced a massive increase in its anti-piracy operations both within Coalition territory and outside of it in the Human Frontier. While claimed as an anti-piracy operation, many in the Coalition viewed this as an unofficial war against privateers originating from the [[Empire of Dominia]]. Xanu Prime, having the largest military and hosting the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, was broadly supportive of this initiative and committed a sizable chunk of its fleet to defeating what then president Jayanti Kuipers called, “the barbaric menace of pirates and whoever employs them.”

The 2460’s have thus far been turbulent for Xanu Prime, much as they have for almost everywhere in the Orion Spur. The planet’s economy took a hit during the Phoron Scarcity and subsequent Solarian Collapse, however it is nowhere near the worst-affected place in the Coalition even if its supply chains are still met with the impossible question of how to replace phoron entirely. Some say this resilience is because of President Mukhopadhyay’s planning, while others say that Xanu’s economy is simply large enough and has the scale to weather the storm of the Scarcity better than others. Some Xanan industries such as its Helium-3 sector and engine manufacturing plants have even boomed in the wake of the recent economic turmoil in contrast to many others. The future of Xanu seems uncertain. It is holding on well under the administration of its current president Jaques Afzal, with many of its people still living comfortably and enjoying Xanu Prime’s high standard of living, but problems are beginning to emerge. Growing economic inequality, internal divides over Xanu Prime’s place in the Coalition, debates over just how the planet and its people will deal with the scores of refugees fleeing from a broken spur to relative safety, and other societal pressures like crime and rising illegal drug use are rearing their ugly heads. Xanu Prime’s future, much like the rest of the spur, is uncertain, but what is certain is the resolve and unity that the planet and its people will meet any new challenge with.
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==Geography and Environment==
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===Geography===
[[File:Xanu.png|thumb|The extremely populous Xanu, core capital of the Coalition of Colonies. The Xanan surface is still dotted with craters from the Interstellar War, centuries later.]]
Xanu Prime is a varied and diverse world that is slightly larger than Earth with a mean radius of 3,790 kilometers. 63% of the planet’s surface area is covered in liquid salt water and it has sizable ice caps at both of its poles, though the northern cap is far larger than the southern one. The planet has four continents and numerous smaller islands that dot its oceans.

The largest of the continents is called '''Nouvelle-Occitanie''', or '''New Occitania''', named after the historical region of France. Much of the planet’s population lives on this continent and its ample coastline. It is situated at the planet’s equator and stretches far to the south into the temperate and near-polar zones of the planet. It hosts varied biomes, with lush equatorial rainforests on its east coast, and tropical deserts which then give way to sprawling open grassy plains and rolling hills before finally finishing in the south of the continent with great deciduous and coniferous forests. Nouvelle-Occitanie is a continent of contrasts. Some of Xanu’s largest cities are on Nouvelle-Occitanie are on the continent, however other areas of the landmass are almost entirely uninhabited, namely the largest of its tropical deserts, the Greater Thar. Nouvelle Occitanie also was the scene of battles and sieges during the Interstellar War, with certain parts of it being designated as national battlefield sites. These sites function as both historical sites and wildlife preserves and development of them is prohibited by the Xanussi government. The largest of these historical preserves are known as the Scar Seas. They are a series of loosely-connected saltwater crater lakes along a stretch of the continent’s western coastline near the city of Kshatragarh. These lakes were formed during the Interstellar War as a result of heavy orbital bombardment in the area from the Solarian Navy.

Sitting in the planet’s northern temperate and equatorial zones, '''Naya Khyber''', or '''New Khyber''', is the third largest of Xanu Prime’s continent and is defined by the Naya Khyber River, the largest river on the planet. At precisely 7,117 kilometers long, the river spans the entire latitude of New Khyber and its course showcases the continent’s geography well. Starting in the western alps of the country, the river flows east and meanders along rolling foothills before entering a short expanse of plains and finally finishing in the Naya Khyber delta, the largest river delta on Xanu Prime. The Naya Khyber delta is a huge agricultural hub due to a combination of factors, the foremost of which are the mineral rich soil present there and the reliability by which the Naya Khyber River floods, aiding irrigation.

Xanu’s third largest continent, '''Himavatia''', is a mostly uninhabited and almost entirely frozen landmass that sits within the planet’s arctic circle. Few things can survive in the cold of Himavatia’s interior, however some confers, grasses, and birds have made their home here. Despite this harshness to life, however, Himvatia’s few peninsulas which manage to stretch into more temperate climates do have small settlements on them. Large swaths of Himavatia are covered in polar ice, the glaciers of which have scoured the continent’s coastlines with deep, vertigo-inducing cliffs, valleys, and fjords. Those coasts themselves are dotted with dense coniferous forests and rocky shores.

Lastly, the smallest of Xanu Prime’s continents is called '''Paasland'''. It is located in Xanu Prime’s southern hemisphere and is a single landmass surrounded by tens of thousands of islands. The continent is mostly covered by marshland and mangrove swamps, with only the center and north of its area being more than a few meters above sea level. The barrier island chains which protect Paasland from the storms that may blow in off Xanu’s great oceans around it range in landscape from tropical paradises near the north and west of the continent, to barren, freezing rocks in the south. Many of these islands house active volcanoes and some grow on an annual basis.

A unique feature of Xanu Prime’s geography are found at the sites of where the planet’s surface was bombarded both from orbit and terrestrially by Sol Alliance and Coalition forces during the Interstellar War. The land found here is pockmarked by a smattering of craters created from the impacts of Solarian munitions, many of which have interacted with Xanu’s numerous river systems and formed lakes. A number of these sites, officially deemed “'''Scarlands'''” by the Xanan government, have been rehabilitated into national parks and wildlife preserves while others have been resettled and reclaimed by the Xanans. There are scarlands on all four of Xanu Prime’s continents, and what has become of them differs from one scarland to another. Those found around large cities are typically just integrated into the landscape of the city’s metropolitan area itself as part of the landscape, while those in more remote areas have found themselves as designated war memorials and wildlife preserves. The largest of these in area is the Widow’s Tears Scarlands which is a stretch of over 110,000 craters that covers much of Nouvelle-Occitanie’s northeastern territory. Much of it is inhabited and cities and towns can be found there, though the portions of it which are found in the equatorial rainforests of the planet have long-since been designated as undevelopable land. The scarland with the highest density of craters is the Khairabad Scarlands found around the modern-day city of Kshatragarh which comes in at a whopping total of 186,954 craters. The Scarlands are mostly safe to travel and live within after the Xanusian government’s massive clean-up efforts alongside experts sent by the Federal Technocracy of Galatea throughout the 24th century and have become a popular area for weekend trips or vacations for Xanusians. Some of the more remote or hard-to-reach scarlands like the Little Cuts or some parts of the New Pacific Scarlands and Himavat’s Wounds are still partially dangerous though, and visitors are strongly encouraged to not deviate from marked trails in those areas lest they accidentally set off unexploded munitions still present on the old battlefields.

===Biosphere===
Xanu Prime’s biosphere is as diverse as its terrain. Due to Xanu’s earth-like climate and geography, many species were introduced to the planet from Earth which then led to novel and new lifeforms as these imports crossbred with the existing animals.
Notable Xanan Fauna are:
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'''Paaskraan'''
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The Paaskraan, or more officially the Easter Crane, is a huge, towering bird-like creature resembling a crane standing nearly three meters tall and a wingspan of nearly 4.15 meters. It is easily identifiable by its vibrant orange and white plumage across its body and wings, with its head being almost entirely covered in royal blue feathers. It uses its thick beak with a long piercing spike to stab through prey that it dredges up from the Paasland marshfloor, often fish, amphibians, or even turtles. They are also known for their ocean-spanning migratory cycles that take them from Paasland to the southern coast of Naya Khyber during their breeding season. One might think that their size would make Paaskraans very aggressive creatures, but they are actually very shy and tend to avoid contact with humans and other large animals which may pose even a remote threat to them. They would rather fly away than fight, but even so, they have been known to violently maim and even kill other creatures that get too close to their nests during hatching season. This has led local Xanan environmental protection groups to cordon off Paaskraan nesting areas from the public throughout springtime in efforts to prevent the accidental deaths of wildlife enthusiasts. It is the official animal of the city of Paasstad, the central city of Paasland, and is a symbol of Paasland as a whole.
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'''Crimson-Masked Polecat'''
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The Crimson-Masked polecat is an animal resembling a mustelid native to the southern peninsulas of Himavatia. It is notable for having almost universally white fur aside from a bar of vibrant red, nearly purple, fur going across and around its eyes. Scientists are uncertain as to why it developed this odd quirk, but what is certain is that this unique aesthetic feature and playfully aggressive disposition has made it a popular pet around the planet and throughout the Coalition. It was first domesticated in 2312 and because of this, it is often associated with the Xanan Renaissance and is considered by many Xanans to be the unofficial national animal of the Republic. In its native habitat of Himavatia’s southern peninsulas it hunts mostly small rodents and on occasion fish, though due to its domestication and subsequent release into the wild by irresponsible pet owners, it has spread to all four of Xanu’s continents and has adapted well to new environments.
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'''The Silverwing Blazemoth'''
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The silverwing blazemoth is one of the most recognizable creatures of Nouvelle-Occitanie’s equatorial rainforests. With a wingspan of 18cm it is quite large by insect standards, and can be identified not just by its size but by its vibrantly colored black-tipped silver-hued wings. What makes it unique among moths though is the silk that it produces. Instead of its silk having a white color typical of other silk-producing moths, the silverwing blaze moth larvae creates a silk that is a burnt orange color. During pupating season, people have reported what they thought to be fires, but when investigated, turned out only to be trees covered in the sizzled orange colored cocoons of Silverwing Blazemoths. The orange silk made by these creatures s is a luxury good and is highly sought after both on Xanu Prime and throughout inhabited space.
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'''Naya Khyber River Penguin'''
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The Naya Khyber River Penguin is a mysterious and odd creature. It is a flightless bird resembling an Earther penguin that stands no taller than one meter high. It is coloured in a deep green color and white rather than black and white typical of penguins on Earth, and has a small crest of red feathers on its head. Scientists believe that the bird’s DNA is almost entirely native to Xanu Prime, though others allege that it is distantly related to the rockhopper penguin of Earth. These birds inhabit the Naya Khyber River Delta and swim in packs through the delta’s wide meandering channels on hunts for fish and crustaceans which they stab with their short but sharp beaks. While quite clumsy and slow on dry land, getting around via a hopping motion more often than walking, they are incredibly quick in the water and can go as fast as 40kph in short bursts. They’re very social and often live in colonies along the shores of the Naya Khyber River, the largest of which was recorded to be over fifty-thousand birds, though the average is around four-thousand. They are fiercely territorial and have a mean streak. This reputation is the result of their tendency to attack other animals which get too close to their nests, typically via attempting to peck out their eyes. Even careless humans have been known to be attacked by these penguins. Despite this behavior however, many see the flightless birds as cute, cuddly, and silly perhaps due to their awkwardness while moving out of water. The foremost example of this reputation is the well-known Xanan children’s cartoon Pierre and Friends, starring Pierre the River Penguin, a clumsy but well meaning young penguin learning about the world, as its main character. The show and Pierre as a character are well-liked by parents and educators for, perhaps ironically, helping to teach children the values of cooperation, sharing, and not bullying others.
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Aside from animals unique to Xanu Prime, the planet also has animals that have been seeded on the planet from Earth. Rodents, birds, some fishes, and other creatures like insects have been successfully imported to the planet and despite their invasive nature, have fit well into Xanu’s biosphere. The national animal of Xanu Prime is the Indian Peafowl, a bird brought to the colony by its original colonists.

Xanu Prime has a wide variety of flora as well, with the northern rainforests of Nouvelle-Occitanie alone housing thousands of tree and plant species. The most notable of these is the '''Great New Occitanian Lupine''', a great green and white flower resembling an Earth lupine reaching nearly twenty feet tall. It emits a sweet smell, and these plants can often be seen covered in millions of pollinating insects looking to get its nectar. To the south, the coasts of the entire continent of Paasland are covered in forests of the '''Yellow-Spotted Shedding Mangrove''', a mangrove tree similar to those found on Earth with leaves that have a natural green hue but which take on striking golden spots during the summer months. Scientists believe this is a chemical reaction that results from the concentration of excess salt in the leaves before they then fall off towards the end of summer to rid themselves of the salt in a process referred to as shedding, the leaves then regrowing during the autumn season. On the continent of Naya Khyber, the '''Whistling Pineberry Tree''' can be found. This coniferous tree can reach over 65 meters in height and is unique among other trees in its family for having needle-like leaves that are hollow and also open at both ends. When the wind blows, the leaves of the tree resonate with a whistling noise similar to the mating call of local birds. Botanists believe that this is an evolutionary adaptation that has the goal of calling more birds to the tree so that they may scatter its seeds, contained in small berries rather than pinecones, more easily, citing the fact that the geographic distribution of the subspecies of the Whistling Pine mirror those of various bird populations.

==Government and Politics==
[[File:Xanuprimebanner.png|thumb|Official Banner of the All-Xanu Republic]]
<center>''“A strong president is a strong government is a strong Xanu.” - Nicolaas Sneijders, 4th President of the All-Xanu Republic (2305-2320)''</center>

The All Xanu-Republic has a parliamentary semi-presidential government that consists of three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial branch that operates as a unitary state. It is often described as having a strong executive and weak legislative branch, with the majority of power in the Xanan system being held by the Office of the President. Xanu’s political process has very low barriers to entry and as a result, the planet has the most registered political parties of any planet in the Orion Spur. Despite this great number however, only nine parties currently have seats in the All-Xanu National Congress. The Xanan government system and its various political parties can all be read about here on the dedicated Xanu Prime Government and Politics page. The current President of the All-Xanu Republic is Jaques Afza of the party the All-Xanu Free League. He is Xanu Prime’s 23rd president, has held the office since 2460, and recently won reelection in 2465. He will leave office in 2470 as per the two-term constitutional limit for Xanan presidents. To read more on the Xanan government’s structure and functions, the political parties which currently hold sway on the national stage, as well as the country's foreign relations, see the dedicated page for [[Xanan Government and Politics|Xanan government and politics]].

The Xanan government supports a well-funded and well-equipped variety of state systems aimed at helping its citizens with a variety of issues and problems that they may come across. The '''All-Xanu Health Office''' is one of Xanu Prime’s oldest and most successful government agencies, and is something that many Xanans consider to be the best thing to come out of Xanu’s Second Astonishment, aside from the reconstruction of the planet as a whole. The Health Office, or often just known as the AXHO, is the framework by which many ordinary Xanans receive medical care. It operates by working with privately-owned hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to subsidize medical and research costs, while also giving Xanan citizens progressive financial assistance in paying for healthcare, the level of which is determined by a citizen’s income. Those Xanans who are in the upper income brackets do not receive as much as those in the lower ones, who often have most if not all of their healthcare expenses subsidized by the government. In addition to this, the AXHO operates dozens of clinics and even some hospitals all around the planet where healthcare costs are subsidized by the Office’s coffers. The AXHO has a similar arrangement of financial assistance to self-owned positronic Xanans as well, but for repair costs rather than healthcare expenses. Nearly every Xanan believes that the AXHO is a good thing, regardless of political affiliation, though there is some controversy and dispute over how it should be run, either more centralized with more state control over healthcare, or the semi-public, semi-private model that it has used for the last century and a half.

While Xanan healthcare may be decentralized in structure, some of its other institutions are not, the finest example of which is the '''All-Xanu Public Security Office'''. The Security Office functions as Xanu Prime’s unitary police force and operates in a pyramidal structure, going from the office’s head down to departmental and local police forces. These local police forces usually operate on a city or departmental sub are given autonomy on many of their day-to-day operations, but if a major case emerges, such as a serial killing or terrorist threat, investigators and officials from higher up in the organization’s structure usually take over. The AXPSO generally maintains a good relationship with Xanan citizens, though there have been allegations of xenophobia aimed at aliens like Tajara, Unathi, and Diona made against the Office for many years.

Although often erroneously referred to as a government apparatus, the largest news provider on Xanu Prime, the '''Xanan News Service (XNS)''' is not owned nor operated by the Xanan government. The XNS was created by order of President Sneijders during the aftermath of the Interstellar War as an independent news agency that was funded by the country’s government but was not beholden to it in terms of who it hired or what types of stories it decided to give coverage to. Since then, it has conducted generally well-received and professional journalism and is one of the most read and watched news agencies in the Orion Spur, with the majority of its coverage being centered on issues and topics impacting the Coalition of Colonies and Human Frontier. Recently, however, it has also experimentally expanded into the Human Wildlands and is one of the only major agencies that has been able to cover the ongoing war in the Northern Wildlands of former Sol in any depth.
[[File:XNSlogo.png|thumb|The logo of the Xanan News Service used from 2442 - Present]]

==Language==
<center>''“A common tongue means a common future.” - Marcel Singh, pioneer of the Xanan Freespeak language''</center>
The official language of Xanu Prime is '''Xanan Freespeak''', a language that developed in the early days of the Xanu Prime colony from the grammatical hybridization of various languages from the Indian subcontinent with some loanwords taken from French and Dutch. It was formally codified in 2230 during the aftermath of the Xanan Civil War to function as a common tongue between the planet’s various colonists that could be easily learned and used words that were from their countries of origin. While many places on Xanu Prime have names taken from the languages of its original colonizing nations like Hindi, French, Urdu, Bangla, and Dutch, very few if any people on the planet are still conversational in these languages, with almost all of them having been supplanted by Xanan Freespeak. Freespeak is taught in all schools, is known by nearly every resident of Xanu Prime, and is taught throughout the Coalition of Colonies as a lingua franca used for diplomacy and business relations between its various member states. Xanan government functions, law, and academia use Freespeak as their primary language, though Freespeak is not the only language spoken on Xanu Prime. Signage, popular media, literature, music, and film found in Xanu all are typically in Freespeak, but languages from all over the Coalition of Colonies can be found here, especially within ethnic communities from planets that speak a language other than Freespeak as their primary language. Himean Common, Sol Common, Assunzionii Tradeband, Gadpathuri Common, and even Vulgar Morozi are spoken on Xanu Prime within ethnic communities. Any hopeful immigrant to Xanu Prime must pass a Xanan Freespeak proficiency test in order to receive citizenship.

==Life, Culture, & Society on Xanu Prime==
<center>''“Our biggest strength lies not with our economic prowess, nor with our military might, but with the beauty of our people, the nobility of their ideals, and the sanctity of our culture and its works.” - Ameliye Flohimont, Tenth President of the All-Xanu Republic during a 2363 speech to the All-Xanu National Congress in favor of an expansion to the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery''</center>

Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great importance on the family unit. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine-dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Xanan sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague. Details on all of these subjects and more on general life on Xanu Prime and the planet’s societal composition and issues can be found on the dedicated page for [[Xanan Life, Culture, and Society|Xanan life, culture, and society]].

Xanan society is one that values individual liberties while paying close attention to how these liberties can sometimes hurt society as a whole if taken too far. This can be reflected in their legal code. Xanu Prime has strong legal protections against government restrictions on speech, though things like hate speech and slander are still illegal. There is no state religion on Xanu Prime and Xanans are free to practice, or not practice, any religion they please. The country does have very strong secularism laws though, and bans government employees and government buildings from wearing or displaying religious symbols or forms of dress. Some decry this as an intrusion onto the religious freedoms of citizens, though the majority of Xanan society is in support of strong secularization laws. Private firearms ownership is permitted on Xanu Prime, however it is restricted. A Xanan citizen requires a government permit, background check, and legitimate reason (typically for hunting or home defense) before they are allowed to own a private firearm. They cannot carry their weapons in public and they cannot own fully automatic ballistic firearms or lethal-strength lasers or similar battery-powered weapons. Xanans have total freedom of movement throughout the All-Xanan Republic, and have various legal protections against external intrusions on individual privacy, both physical and digital.
The Xanan press and news media is one of the most, if not the most active in human-inhabited space. There are thousands of different publications and news sources in the All-Xanu Republic, and Xanan journalism is some of the most robust in the Orion Spur. Much of this is because of the Xanan government’s policies which award special protections to news agencies and impose a higher standard of evidence in defamation lawsuits against them. News and media are not totally unregulated on Xanu Prime though; the Xanan government created an independent regulatory agency, the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission (MEC), in 2329 so as to ensure that the fledgling media of the newly independent All-Xanu Republic would not succumb to the perils of sensationalism and fake news. The MEC has the power to censor and fine publications with reporting that has proven to be false or so biased that it burgeons on false. This does not mean that the MEC forces all Xanan news outlets to be entirely neutral, far from it in fact, just that they must show at least some balance in their stories and programming.

==Economy==
<center>''“Economically, even through hardship, we remain unparalleled among our peers. We should be keen to enjoy the vices and virtues of prosperity to the fullest extent possible.” - Lennox Sibelius, Xanan Finance Minister under President Narayan Mukhopadhyay during a 2440 address to the National Parliament''</center>
===Economic Overview===
Xanu Prime is the proud home of the largest and most diverse economy within the Coalition of Colonies. Spanning across nearly every sector imaginable aside from large-scale mining, the economy of Xanu Prime is not only the largest in the Coalition of Colonies but one of the largest in the Orion Spur, only being surpassed by Biesel, Callisto, and Eridani I in terms of GDP. Xanu Prime is home to the head offices of the [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]]’s and [[Einstein Engines]]’ Coalition of Colonies operations and also houses other facilities like data centers and research laboratories for many of them as well. Xanu Prime’s financial service and banking sectors are the largest in the Coalition and help connect Xanu to planets and businesses across the Orion Spur, with its banks holding trillions in assets on any given day. The Xanan Stock Exchange is located in Nouvelle-Rochelle, and is the largest of its kind in the CoC and third largest exchange in the Orion Spur by volume of credits moved through its markets. Company stocks and other assets from all over the Coalition of Colonies and some from outside of it are traded there.

The pride of Xanu Prime’s economy and arguably the reason for its continued ascendency in the Orion Spur is Xanu’s shipping sector. Xanu Prime’s merchant marine is the largest of any in the Orion Spur, numbering just over fifty-thousand. Xanan shipping conglomerates dominate the Coalition of Colonies and have near monopolies over that sector in some parts of Coalition space. Within the Coalition, Xanu Prime is the king of foreign trade, and the Xanan shipping industry is to thank for this status. Xanan shipping firms do not just move cargo between Xanu Prime and other planets in the Coalition, but also routinely take shipping routes between planets far from Xanan space such as the ports of the Commonwealth of Callisto. If goods are moving through space in the Coalition, it is a safe assumption that they are on a Xanan ship. Xanu’s shipping sector was paralyzed in the early days of the ongoing phoron scarcity, but after many of its firms renegotiated phoron contracts with [[NanoTrasen]] and payed exorbitant amounts for Einstein Engines’ hammer drive, this area of Xanu’s economy has reasserted its prominence in the Orion Spur.

Domestically, Xanu Prime also has a strong agricultural and technology sector. Xanu Prime just barely produces enough food to feed all of its citizens but often imports food from Vysoka due to its far cheaper price and abundance, keeping Xanu-grown food in storage for national emergencies. Xanu’s tech sector is booming, with much of its development being pushed towards AI and posibrain coding and development. Ever since the addition of Konyang to the Coalition of Colonies, these efforts have only grown stronger with Xanan and Konyang-based firms and corporations having fewer barriers to cooperation than ever before. IPC chassis and posibrain manufacturing also plays a small part in Xanu Prime’s tech sector, but most of these jobs have moved to Konyang in recent years, with only a few companies still making IPCs on the planet.

Xanu’s heavy industry, manufacturing, and construction sectors are also very strong, but have less reach outside of Xanan markets than some of the planet’s other industries. Xanan steel, automobiles, and machine components are renowned for their quality but are also usually more expensive than the same materials made on other Coalition worlds, such as Himeo and Konyang, though they often exceed their competitors in build quality. Areas where Xanan manufactured goods see almost universal purchase across the Coalition is military equipment, aerospace products, medical equipment, and chemicals. Xanu-made military materiel and weapons are used by nearly every planet across the Coalition and have established reputations for being combat and cost-effective, easy to use, and technologically competitive. While certainly not the cheapest, military equipment made by Xanan companies is considered by defense ministers across the coalition to be some of the best weaponry money can buy. Similarly, Xanan designed-ships, both civilian and military, can be seen all over the Coalition. Xanu does not make the most ships of the worlds in the Coalition, but it does sell the most ship designs, meaning that many Xanan shipbuilding firms have made more money from selling ship blueprints and licenses than from having actually built spacecraft. Chemicals synthesized on Xanu Prime for industrial, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and scientific purposes are exported all across the Coalition of Colonies and even to other places in the Orion Spur like the Republic of Biesel. The sheer variety of compounds made in Xanu’s chemical plants is hard for any planet in the Spur’s east to match, though Xanu is unable to make some specialty chemicals produced on other worlds like Aemaq due to not having the same unique environmental conditions. Xanan construction firms usually only take on projects that are on Xanu Prime, but their engineers and architects are sent all over the Coalition and beyond to advise or plan projects for other worlds.

Xanu’s energy and phoronics sector was thrown into chaos during the early days of the phoron scarcity but has since begun to stabilize itself. Much of Xanu Prime’s energy generation came from fusion nuclear energy plants before the scarcity, but the NanoTrasen corporation did operate some Phoron Supermatter energy plants that made up a sizable minority of Xanu’s energy needs as well. The sudden scarcity of phoron made these supermatter plants output far less energy than they had before, and brown-outs were common across the planet for months after the scarcity had hit in full force. Xanu’s economy and government were quick to act though, reactivating decommissioned fusion plants and ramping up domestic Helium-3 production from its primary source, the Mehmud Khan Helium-3 platform. This platform is a grand space station which orbits Xanu-7, a colossal gas giant in the Xanu System and harvests the gas from its atmosphere. Slowly but surely, energy prices on Xanu Prime have restabilized, and the Xanan government has made concentrated efforts to “de-phoronize” the energy sector to avoid further dependence on the scarce element.

===Corporations===
Xanu Prime’s economy is not only occupied by megacorporations known throughout the spur like Einstein Engines or those in the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate, but also by comparatively smaller domestic corporations. These corporations grew out of the aftermath of the Interstellar War and Second Astonishment during a time when foreign megacorporations were very hesitant to invest in the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Many cite this hesitation as stemming from the still lingering shock of the Second Great Depression, a general anxiety about doing business with dozens of new nations in the Coalition, and uncertainty as to how the Coalition of Colonies' and by extension Xanu's economy would fare if something were to ever go wrong on the scale of the Second Great Depression ever again. By the time that the megacorporations were organised enough and felt confident enough to seriously invest in Coalition and Xanan space, they found it easier to cooperate with the companies already there and to use their expertise in operating across such a vast area of space like the Coalition rather than competing with or purchase the companies for themselves. For this reason, Xanan companies are known to have substantial sway on the Xanan and Coalition economy as a whole, but also cooperate closely with both SCC and Einstein Engines enterprises based on Xanu Prime and throughout the CoC. The most notable of these Xanan companies are:
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====Polaris Holdings - "Heavenly Guidance"====
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[[File:Polarislogo.png|thumb|The logo of Polaris Holdings.]]
'''Polaris Holdings''', or just simply '''Polaris''', is both the newest and largest of all major Xanan corporations. It was founded as a merger between the companies of Credit Xanan and AIRtel, both of which still exist and operate as subsidiary companies under Polaris Holdings ownership. The two companies merged in 2452 under the guidance of then-Credit Xanan, now-Polaris Holdings CEO Arjun Desjardins, a self-made man of boundless ambition who rose from the mail room of a small credit-Xanu branch to the top of Polaris Holdings wishing to elevate the corporation to the same level as Biesel’s and Sol’s megacorps. While this vision has yet to be entirely realized, Polaris aims to someday have its name be spoken in the same breath as Einstein Engines or the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate. Of its many component companies, the largest are Credit Xanan, CESAR-X, AIRtel, and Annapurna.

'''Credit Xanan''' is the largest bank and financial services firm on Xanu Prime and is one of the most influential players in nearly all of the Coalition's financial markets. The company was established in 2294 by a group of Xanan businesspeople who saw an opportunity to provide banking and financial services to Xanu’s citizens during the aftermath of the Interstellar War. The company is one of the foremost in the banking and finance industry spur-wide and has cooperation agreements with other similar firms across the Orion Spur such as [[Idris Incorporated]], NanoTrasen’s financial services and banking wing, and Suezbank. The company is well-known for its aggressive venture capital and hedge fund management, with a sizable chunk of the company being solely devoted to investment banking. It also has a reputation for leveraging debt against bankrupt business debtors to acquire their companies and either absorb them into the Polaris Holdings ecosystem, thereby growing the company, or liquidate them and pocket the cash. The bank is ubiquitous as a trusted financial institution across the Coalition of Colonies for both companies and individual citizens alike. Some business analysts estimate that Credit Xanan is the single-most valuable Coalition of Colonies company currently operating, but the privately owned nature of the bank and its conservative information release practices make this hard to prove. The bank is closely tied to the Nouvelle-Rochelle Stock Exchange and for many the Coalition-over looking to invest either as individual retail investors trying to play the markets or as companies hoping to increase their assets, Credit Xanan is the first name in consulting, investment help, and wealth management. It has had its head offices in Nouvelle-Rochelle since its founding.

Along with Credit Xanan’s lucrative banking and investment operations, Polaris Holdings inherited ownership of the largest industrial conglomerate on Xanu Prime from the bank, the Pataliputra-based, formerly state-owned Xanan Concern for Economic Stability, Advancement, and Recovery, or '''CESAR-X'''. While its glory days of rebuilding Xanan society from the ground up are far behind it, CESAR-X still remains dominant in the Xanan construction and manufacturing sectors, making everything from machine parts to household appliances to medical equipment to semiconductors to complex engineering and construction components. It cannot compete abroad in heavy industrial manufacturing like it once did, but CESAR-X has reinvented itself since its acquisition by Credit Xanan to instead focus on precision manufacturing and specialty products, a strategy which has brought it back from the brink of bankruptcy. CESAR-X’s Paastad-based construction division is active on Xanu Prime and abroad and its projects have garnered a reputation for setting the industry standard in the Coalition for build quality and engineering. Because of its history, many on Xanu Prime, especially the planet’s older population, have a fond nostalgia for the company and its days as the engine of Xanu Prime’s economic boom. This nostalgia and history is something that the company uses in its marketing often, evoking the Second Astonishment; Xanan Renaissance; and burgeoning economic climate of the 2380’s and 90’s in some of its corporate imagery, while generally just playing up Xanan Patriotism in its branding.

Achgelis-Illouz-Ramakrishnan Telecommunications or '''AIRtel''' for short, is the largest telecommunications company on Xanu Prime and was one of the two entities that came together in 2456 to create Polaris Holdings. The company is named after its three founding families, two enterprising telecommunications engineers who got their start installing electrical and internet lines in Kshatragarh during its reconstruction. From there, their company came to be television and internet service providers in the 2320’s and have further since expanded their services to include mobile phone, web hosting and web services, cybersecurity, data storage, and the Coalition’s most popular search engine, SuperSeek, the mascot of which is a colorful, green and orange parakeet. AIRtel also has a division called AIR Media, a production company and holovision network that operates some of the largest film-production studios on Xanu Prime and has ownership over numerous popular franchises and media properties. It also operates one of the most popular film and TV streaming services in the Coalition, Sunserve.

The last of Polaris Holdings’s most notable subsidiaries is '''Annapurna''', an agricultural and retail giant from the city of Foy-Niljen. Annapurna began its corporate life as a food distribution company which arose during the aftermath of the Xanan Civil War. It grew slowly between the two wars, coming to be a leading name in the industrial food sector in its home city. The Interstellar War saw Annapurna grow larger and richer off of Xanan and Coalition government contracts for rations and other foodstuffs for Coalition forces during the war. By the end of the war, Annapurna came to own many of the farms around Foy-Niljen where it had before bought the raw foods for its products. Wishing then to break into the consumer market rather than just the industrial food sector, the company opened up a chain of supermarkets in 2313 called NexChange (a portmanteau of the words “next” and “exchange”) starting in their home city before expanding to Kshatragarh and Nouvelle Rochelle a few years later. As one would expect, the stores didn’t just sell food, but also clothes, tools, home goods, appliances, and a bevy of other products, but what set NexChange apart from its competitors was the company’s policy of subscription-based shopping where a customer could pay a monthly fee for the ability to check-out a rotating selection of items for free that would change every month. After a few decades of steady success and continued expansion, the company unveiled a new line of stores focused on being small, 24-hour convenience stores focused on stocking household essentials, alcohol, and hot food ready at any time of the day called NexChange Turbo. In 2358, NexChange became Xanu Prime’s largest retailer by number of stores and it’s stayed in that position ever since. Annapurna also operates an online storefront for the NexChange brand called NetChange. It has also expanded to other planets in the Coalition, with great success being seen on Assunzione with the NetChange service, and the Galatean Federation and Konyang with the NexChange Turbo chain of stores especially. NexChange’s success enabled Annapurna to purchase more and more farmland and food processing plants, and by the late 2370’s it had become the largest agricultural and food corporation on Xanu Prime. As the 2380’s rolled around, it expanded its operations to Vysoka, taking advantage of the planet’s ample farm and ranchland, and it operates there to this day. Because of the company’s consistently good performance and an ambitious desire to break into yet another influential and diverse industry, the Polaris Holdings acquired Annapurna in the largest company purchase in Coalition history in 2460.

Polaris Holdings owns the tallest building in the Coalition of Colonies, North Star Tower, which serves as their headquarters in Nouvelle-Rochelle.
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====Siddhartha Systems Incorporated - "Enlightenment Made Material"====
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[[File:Siddsyslogo.png|thumb|The logo of Siddhartha Systems Inc.]]
'''Siddhartha Systems Incorporated''', also referred to as '''SiddSys''' is a leader in Xanu Prime’s tech space across a variety of fields. Founded in 2329 as Siddhartha Technology Services by Arjun Sudev, it was originally a computer repair and technology installation company based out of a single, family-owned, store, the company has since grown to produce its own hardware, and more importantly software. Siddhartha Systems owns the rights to software used in thousands of pieces of technology across the Coalition and beyond, from personal computers to building automation to ship control systems to even AI mainframes and posibrains. The company is notable for being the first on Xanu Prime to indigenously produce a posibrain, a feat that occurred in 2411 after the corporation purchased positronic designs from Einstein Engines. To this end, Siddhartha Systems is still one of the leaders in IPC programming in the Coalition, having cooperated extensively with Konyanger firms, Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals and Einstein Engines since Konyang’s admittance to the Coalition of Colonies to further advance the fields of AI and IPC development. The firm is also one of the last that still builds IPCs on Xanu Prime itself, with most of these jobs having since left to Konyang after the world joined the CoC. The company has promised to continue IPC assembly on Xanu for as long as it can be feasibly sustained, and has found itself as one of the premier IPC maintenance service providers on Xanu Prime. Along with its IPC wing, the company also produces a variety of computer models and smart devices ranging from personal computers to PDAs and tablets to high-tech data storage servers to entire mainframes for spacecraft. SiddSys has also produced one of the most popular computer operating system in the Coalition of Colonies, DevaOS, for over a century, the first edition of which debuted in 2350. It owns a chain of maintenance shops for IPCs across Xanu Prime called Vishwakarma's Workshop. The company is headquartered in Nouvelle-Rochelle and their CEO is Lars Sudev, a descendant of the company’s founder and head of the family which owns the company.
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====d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace - "Excellence is in our d.N.A."====
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[[File:Dnalogo.png|thumb|The logo of d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace.]]
'''d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace''', short for '''de Namur-Aarden Defense and Aerospace''', is the premier defense contractor and aerospace giant of Xanu Prime. They were founded in 2409 as the result of a merger between two smaller defense companies, de Namur Defense Systems and Aarden Aerospace and has gradually grown to become the largest and most influential producer of weapons and war materiel for the Xanan military and many others in the Coalition of Colonies. Many accredit this success to the company’s up-front marketing campaigns in which they test their own equipment and weaponry against that of their competitors and freely post the video results online in an effort to impress potential buyers. Among the products that d.N.A. is famous for is the Kestrel-class destroyer, a ship design originally released in 2441 that has become the most produced military ship-hull in all of the coalition, either by d.N.A. itself or foreign manufacturers under license. A similarly ubiquitous smaller ship designed by d.N.A. is the Shrike-class corvette, a nimble, versatile, multi-purpose craft used throughout the Coalition. Their range of products is not just limited to ships though; small-arms, explosives, anti-ship missiles, drones, tanks, radars, and truly anything else a fighting force could want is produced at least to some extent by d.N.A. The company offers full support and upgrade packages to its old equipment along with producing cutting edge weaponry for those willing to pay top dollar. The company has a research-sharing agreement with Zavodskoi Interstellar and also serves as the primary distributor of Zavodskoi-made equipment to the Human Frontier. Furthermore, it has a working relationship with the Federal Technocracy of Galatea’s defense sector – though d.N.A. and Galatea’s Interstellar Avionics Research Bureau (IARG) have long held a rivalry over if the d.N.A. Shrike-class or the Galatean Amaryillis-class is the superior corvette. In 2449 d.N.A. opened a private security contractor wing called Chevauchée Asset Protection aimed at providing services to business customers and merchant shipping firms. d.N.A. has been known to cooperate with the PMCG, especially with Xanu Defense Services, as both an equipment dealer and occasional joint-partner in security contracts. Along with their military operations, d.N.A. is a leading producer of civilian shuttles and other civilian passenger craft, either through making their own designs or building Hephaestus of Einstein Engines models under license for sale in the Coalition of Colonies. They are headquartered in Foy-Nijlen and their CEO is Yves Fazail.
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====Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group - "Move Mountains with Markhor!"====
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[[File:Markhorlogo.png|thumb|The logo of Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.]]
'''Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group''', or just '''Markhor''', is the beating heart of Xanu Prime’s vibrant shipping industry. The firm was founded in 2291 by a clique of ex-All-Xanu Spacefleet officers looking to put their spacefaring skills to use after they were discharged from the Xanan military following its downsizing after the Interstellar War. They built upon already existing economic connections between Xanu Prime and the other worlds in the Coalition of Colonies to amass a shipping empire in the coming decades, running routes between Xanu and all other major worlds in the Coalition by the year 2324. By 2336, they were the largest shipping company operating in Xanan space and have maintained their position at the top of their industry ever since. In the present, Markhor does not only operate shipping lines, but makes many of their own vessels in-house and contracts their shipbuilding services out to other companies looking for vessels. The company owns shipyards on Xanu Prime, Vysoka, and Assunzione and has cooperation agreements with various Himean shipbuilding syndicates and Galatean research firms. Additionally, the company has welcomed cooperation with the newly founded Orion Express in order to access shipping avenues outside of the Coalition and has entered into various co-research agreements with Hephaestus Industries in the past. Most recently though, the company signed a trade deal for an undisclosed but likely exorbitant amount of credits with Einstein Engines for the megacorporation to refit many Markhor shipping vessels with EE’s innovative Helium-3-fueled hammer drives. Along with their prowess as a shipping and shipbuilding giant, Markhor also has a great amount of sway in the Xanan retail sector and owns many department stores and retail chains the most notable of them being Shaheen Superstore, the largest supermarket chain on Xanu Prime. They are headquartered in Pataliputra and their CEO is Marianne Travert.
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====Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical Corporation - "The Chemistry of Progress"====
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[[File:Bandvlogo.png|thumb|The logo of the Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical Company.]]
The '''Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical Corporation''', typically just referred to as '''B&V''', was founded in 2356 by a businesswoman named Aimée Vaeghts and a chemical engineer named Kishore Boelens with the initial goal of creating chemicals for pharmaceutical companies across the Coalition of Colonies. Over the years, through clever business decisions and diversification into the agricultural and industrial chemical sectors, Boelens & Vaeghts has risen to be the predominant player in Xanu Prime’s chemical industry. They produce an exceptionally wide variety of chemicals in their various facilities and operate under an unorthodox production model which starts with shipping raw chemical ingredients to regional or planetary synthesization centers which then synthesize specific, more complex chemicals in the areas where demand is most high for them. As such, agricultural plants are located in the country or on planets where fertilizers are needed, pharmaceutical plants are typically in cities or highly urbanized planets, and so on. The company has been a close cooperator with Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals since the 2380’s and has also worked closely with NanoTrasen to help bring NT medicines like peridaxon and cardox to the Coalition of Colonies market. B&V often works with the Federal Technocracy of Galatea’s biotechnology sector, and operates some facilities on the Galatean industrial world of Svarog. Boelens & Vaeghts also owns Tuliprose Healthcare, a medical services conglomerate which owns over two-hundred hospitals on Xanu Prime, seventeen on Vysoka, eight on Konyang, and three on Assunzione. They are headquartered in Pataliputra and their CEO is Preeti Boelens, granddaughter of one of the company’s founders.
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==Military==
<center>''"Prosperity in Peace, Victory in War" - Motto of the All-Xanu Armed Forces''</center>
[[File:Xanuarmedforceslogo.png|thumb|The field insignia of the All-Xanu Armed Forces and roundel of the All-Xanu Spacefleet. The symbol began as a standard marking for Xanu Prime’s Sol-era planetary defense forces and is now on all sorts of Xanan equipment from fighters to tanks to drones to uniforms.]]
The '''All-Xanu Armed Forces (AXAF)''' are the armed forces of the All-Xanu Republic and consist of the All-Xanu Army, Air Corps, Spacefleet, Maritime Patrol, and National Militia. The Xanan military is considered the premier fighting force of the Coalition of Colonies by nearly all of the alliance’s members and is perhaps the best equipped, and best trained of any in the Coalition. It is also quite large, with only Gadpathur’s military outclassing it in size. This gives it great influence over unified Coalition military policy with many of the Coalition Military’s top commanders being from Xanu Prime. Some elsewhere in the Coalition are wary of this level of influence, while others are more trusting of what some call Xanu Prime’s position of, “military stewardship,” over the Coalition.
The modern iteration of Xanu Prime’s military was created during the early days of the Interstellar War and can trace its origins to Solarian planetary defense force units on Xanu that rebelled against the Sol Alliance. Since its inception during the Interstellar War, the All-Xanu Armed forces has fought in dozens of conflicts ranging from large-scale anti-piracy operations, to low-intensity conflicts against individual rogue planets or marauding warlords on the Coalition of Colonies’ frontiers. In the nearly two centuries of its existence, it has shown to have far more successes than failures and is something that many Xanan citizens take pride in. Xanu Prime has conscription and all citizens are required to serve in a military branch for two years or to engage in another national service such as getting a job with a state enterprise or completing at least a four-year degree from an accredited higher educational institution. Aside from these conscripts, the Xanan armed forces are fully professional and have far more professional soldiers than conscripts. The branches of the All-Xanu Armed Forces are:

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===All-Xanu Grand Army===
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The '''All-Xanu Grand Army''' is the primary land force of Xanu Prime’s military. It serves two primary functions, to defend Xanu Prime’s territory and possessions against foreign threats, and to serve as the main expeditionary force for Xanu Prime’s military deployments on other planets in the Orion Spur. It is the oldest of Xanu Prime's armed forces and can trace its lineage back to the first planetary defense force regiments created in the aftermath of the Xanan Civil War. The title "Grand Army" was bestowed upon it during the Interstellar War after it successfully broke the Siege of Khairabad as both an honorary title and propagandistic move to boost morale among the ranks; it has stuck ever since. The Grand Army is characterized by its rapidly deployable nature and tactics which emphasise speed and shock assaults. With assistance from the All-Xanu Spacefleet, can be deployed on most planets in the Coalition of Colonies within a matter of days, despite some of its hardware being quite heavy and formidable. Xanan military equipment also reflects this doctrinal philosophy, with many things ranging from infantry weapons to trucks to tanks to drones being either quickly collapsible or disassemble for ease of transit and storage. Xanan-produced Army equipment is not only used by Xanu itself, but also by militaries across the Coalition large and small. A member of the All-Xanu Army is called a soldier.
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===All-Xanu Air Corps===
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The '''All-Xanu Air Corps''' is the main force for in-atmosphere off-the-ground operations. They usually work in close conjunction with the All-Xanu Army and are responsible for the duties of air defense, air-to-ground attack operations, and air superiority. Much like the Army, their equipment is made to be rapidly deployable and easily transportable, and they usually deploy alongside the Army in both offensive and defensive operations. A member of the All-Xanu Air Corps is called an aviator.
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===All-Xanu Spacefleet===
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The '''All-Xanu Spacefleet''' is the spaceborne component of Xanu Prime’s military and is the largest of its branches in terms of manpower, materiel, and has the largest share of the Xanan military budget. The fleet is quite large, numbering thousands of vessels, and is split into divisions called Expeditionary Fleets or E-Fleets. Each expeditionary fleet patrols a given portion of the Coalition of Colonies except for the 11th, 22nd, and 33rd Expeditionary Fleets which are based on Xanu Prime and assigned to the duty of rapid response to any area in the Coalition of Colonies or Human Frontier which may need immediate assistance. These three E-Fleets in particular are quite storied and experienced, with each having continuously existed in some form since the fighting of the Interstellar War. Each Expeditionary Fleet consists of sixty-five ships with a structure built around a cadre of two to five Nouvelle-Rochelle-class supercarriers, each carrying an ensemble of 120 spacecrafts of various specialization (starfighters, strike craft, early warning vessels) and a comprehensive suite of anti-ship weapons and point-defense systems. In addition to these carriers, the E-Fleets hold battlecruisers, cruisers, destroyers, and other specialized spacecraft. Contrasting their contemporaries in the Dominian Imperial Fleet, Solarian Navy, and some of their Coalition peers, the All-Xanu Spacefleet has strayed away from coilgun artillery as its primary offensive weapon system for many years and has instead focused their efforts on perfecting carrier-based warfare and anti-ship missiles. Xanu-designed starfighters and strike craft rank among some of the most formidable in the Orion Spur, placing an emphasis on stealth technology, maneuverability, operational range, and payload capacity. Xanan anti-ship missiles are incredibly advanced, with some of their newest models like the XLAM-63 Blackstar Long-Range Anti-Capital Cruise Missile possessing high-tech gadgets like antimatter warheads and integral teleportation drives to aid in avoiding point-defense fire. The mainstay of the All-Xanu Spacefleet and to a greater extent the Coalition of Colonies as a whole though is the d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace Shrike-class frigate. While not the newest of vessels, designed originally in 2441, the Estoc-class is an inexpensive vessel that can be configured to nearly any mission type. Be it screening for the rest of the fleet, relaying communications, serving as a command and control post, ferrying-supplies, being an anti-ship missile battery, operating as a light gunboat, running search-and-rescue, or even scouting and intercepting with it’s single ship-based fighter, the Estoc-class hull and systems can accomplish it with ease. Its versatility, quality, and rather inexpensive price tag has made it the most numerous military vessel employed by not just the All-Xanu Spacefleet but by Coalition of Colonies members as a whole.

The Spacefleet has its own soldier-to-soldier fighting branch as well, the '''Interstellar Infantry''', colloquially called “The Double I’s.” Interstellar Infantrymen are experts in interdiction piloting, boarding actions, demolitions, and close-quarters combat, with many using high rate of fire subcaliber weapons, hardsuit mounted lasers and rocket-launchers, or even fully-automatic shotguns as their standard weapons in order to better perform in their intended environments. The signature weapon of the Double I’s though is the dNAC-25-2, a monster of a weapon system consisting of two dual-linked 25mm autocannons with a combined rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per minute that comes mounted on the right shoulder of each Interstellar Infantryman’s dNAXS-52 combat voidsuit and exoskeleton. While Interstellar Infantryman missions are usually quite dangerous, often with numerous unknown variables, one thing can be certain about them: no matter what, the Double I always has the bigger gun. Interstellar Infantrymen are some of the most respected and envied of all Spacefleet personnel and the standards which need to be met for a Spacefleet sailor to become a Double I are some of the most stringent and exclusive in all of the All-Xanu Armed Forces; they are truly the best Xanu Prime’s spacefleet has to offer. The All-Xanu Spacefleet engages in anti-piracy operations, transports the Army and Air Corps to where they need to be, and participates in foreign disaster relief actions. Additionally, the Spacefleet operates and maintains Xanu Prime’s weapons of mass destruction, those being self-guiding hammer-drive equipped interstellar kinetic-strike cruise missiles affectionately referred to by Spacefleet personnel as “Smart Rocks,” and in wartime is charged with the duties of interstellar supremacy and, if needed, orbital bombardment. Similarly to Xanu's other military equipment, Xanan ship designs can be found in many of the fleets of other Coalition of Colonies members, either built by other states under license or bought directly from Xanu itself. All-Xanu Spacefleet vessels bear the prefix AXSV, short for All-Xanu Spacefleet Vessel. A member of the All-Xanu Spacefleet is called a sailor.
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===All-Xanu Maritime Patrol===
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The '''All-Xanu Maritime Patrol''' is the smallest of Xanu’s armed forces and is charged with the duty of patrolling, protecting, and conducting search and rescue missions in Xanu Prime’s terrestrial waters. The Maritime Patrol operates sea-faring vessels and aircraft which it uses to conduct its given duties. During wartime the Maritime Patrol handles the duties of air defense over Xanu Prime’s oceans. A member of the All-Xanu Maritime Patrol is called a mariner.
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===All-Xanu National Militia===
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The '''All-Xanu National Militia''' is a branch of Xanu Prime’s military that straddles the divide between a military branch and a law enforcement agency. The National Militia is primarily a land-based force that operates only within Xanan territory and is seen as a “second line of defense” against external threats. National Militia units can also be used as stand-ins for All-Xanu Army units, and are typically used in this fashion temporarily when army units are redeployed elsewhere. The National Militia performs the duty of disaster relief and is used to reinforce police forces and other emergency services in times of emergency or civil unrest. The National Militia also operates small spacefaring vessels, typically no larger than cruisers, which patrol the Xanu system, carry out anti-smuggling actions, and respond to distress calls within the region. During wartime, the National Militia is charged with operating Xanu Prime’s spaceborne defense platforms and air defense systems over the continental land portions of Xanu Prime. The National Militia also functions as a military reserve for those who have completed their initial contracts with the All-Xanu Armed Forces and wish to serve as part-time soldiers. A member of the All-Xanu National Militia is called a national militiaman.
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==IPCs on Xanu Prime==
<center>''"We are tinkerers no longer, but creators of the future." - Remark from Emilye Sudev, CEO of Siddhartha Systems Incorporated during the 2411 unveiling of the first Xanan-developed posibrain''</center>
The Xanan stance on IPCs is varied and unique within the Coalition, allowing for both for an IPC to own themselves as well as permitting the practice of IPC ownership. IPCs under Xanan law are not permitted to be made as free frames and instead they must be freed by their owners voluntarily or they may also accrue enough funds to purchase themselves from their owners for a “reasonable price” which is typically anywhere from three-to-six times the IPC’s retail value. There is no legal framework as to how owned IPCs are to actually obtain the wealth to buy themselves from their owners, as there’s no legal requirement that they be paid or compensated for their labor in any way; the decision to compensate an owned IPC or not for their work is left to the discretion of their owners. This seemingly impossible situation for owned-IPCs has led in recent years to the creation of a few charities across Xanu Prime dedicated to the task of fundraising cash to buy owned IPCs from their owners and then free them, the largest of these being the Pataliputra-based LibertIPC (Pronounced as Liberty-P-C). These charities are controversial to some, however they only manage to purchase a few thousand IPCs annually and do not have a substantial impact on truly increasing the self-owned IPC population of the planet to be any more than a minority of a minority. Most IPCs on Xanu Prime never get the ability to purchase themselves from their owners and are either freed or, more likely, deactivated by their owners and recycled after the end of their service lives. Legally, all Xanan IPCs must have the option to purchase themselves from their owners, however there are no current rules dictating how high or low the price for self-ownership must be, only that it is set at the purchase or manufacture of an IPC and cannot be changed once set.

Self-Owned IPCs on Xanu Prime have all the rights of their human counterparts; they can vote, run for office, own property, and serve in the military, however the latter is done only in IPC-only units for logistical reasons. The All-Xanu Armed Forces own many IPCs themselves and employ them in a variety of roles within the military, though it is illegal for these IPCs to be sold or freed by the AXAF as they are technically classified as state-owned weaponry. As such, many spend their entire service lives in the military and are deactivated with their components being recycled afterwards. The AXAF typically prefers placing IPCs they own in combat roles and officer positions over free IPCs due to their often built-in integration with Xanan battlefield control systems, with self-owned IPCs usually being placed in non-combat specialist or technician roles in their respective units. Maintenance for self-owned Xanan IPCs is covered by the Xanan state healthcare system while care for owned-IPCs is the responsibility of their owners, and there are laws in place to ensure that owned IPCs have access to maintenance services of adequate quality. A very small subset of Xanan IPCs are self-owned, but they do exist on the planet. IPCs are allowed to immigrate to Xanu Prime, however Xanu Prime does not accept IPC refugees unless they can prove they have obtained legal self-ownership from a previous owner or were created as free IPCs. In short, Xanu Prime does not give asylum to runaway IPCs and typically either deports them back to their countries of origin or defers them to other planets like Konyang and Himeo.

Societally, Xanans view IPCs as something entirely separate from humans and importantly, incompatible with the family structures that form the foundations of Xanan society. They see them as not the same as themselves, but do not shun them or hate them as others in the Orion Spur do. Xanans believe there is a place in their society broadly for IPCs, both free and owned, but do not see them as “living” things and treat them mostly as machines, albeit some with the rights of ordinary Xanan citizens. A small subset of the Xanan population are far more accepting of IPCs and wish to see them further integrated, while an equally small portion of Xanans scorn IPCs and want them to have as little influence on Xanan society as possible. Broadly however, most Xanans are tolerant of IPCs and see them as a normal part of life on Xanu Prime. IPCs were granted the ability to obtain citizenship in Xanu Prime in 2436 as part of the Mukhopadhyay Plan as a means to incentivize skilled IPC labourers to immigrate to Xanu Prime and help its economy during the Doldrums.

==Cities==
<center>''“From the ashes of our cities will be reborn a beautiful phoenix, illustrious and immaculate!” - Eloise Brel, First President of the All-Xanu Republic, 2275-2289''</center>
Xanu Prime's surface is dotted with millions of settlements, from massive metropolises to tiny villages and hamlets in its more remote areas. The most notable and important of Xanu Prime's many settlements however are the following cities:

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===Nouvelle-Rochelle===
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'''Nouvelle-Rochelle''', founded in 2181, is oldest of Xanu Prime's cities as well as its most populous, it serves as the planet’s capital and the seat of government for the All-Xanu Republic, the Coalition of Colonies, and the Fisanduhian government-in-exile. Not only is it the largest city on Xanu Prime, but the largest in the Coalition of Colonies and one of the largest in all of the Orion Spur. Nouvelle-Rochelle, much like Xanu Prime as a whole, is exceptionally diverse with people from all over human space and beyond found here. The city’s '''Kulkarni Business District''' is famous for its towering skyscrapers, with the tallest building in the Coalition, the Polaris Holdings-owned North Star Tower among them. While bustling, Nouvelle-Rochelle has its quiet parts as well, such as the famous '''Lechevalier District''', a part of the city rebuilt after the Interstellar War and made to emulate authentic Parisian architecture. The district has styles ranging from lavish baroque era buildings to more austere or rococo-revivalist 19th and early 20th century styles, and even has buildings which take their inspiration from as far back as the medieval era such as the '''Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral''', a colossal gothic-style cathedral built between 2285 and 2299 in remembrance of the fallen of the two wars Xanu Prime experienced during the 23rd century. Its graveyard houses the largest statue of the Virgin Mary in human space, the eponymous Our Lady of Xanu, which stands at one hundred meters tall, completed in 2994 during the cathedral’s construction. It’s an exceptionally famous piece of Xanan art and images of it have been subject to numerous parody renditions by Xanu’s artistic community.

Many of Xanu Prime’s expat and immigrant communities can be found in Nouvelle-Rochelle too, with the city having districts where these communities have naturally coalesced. '''Vysokatown''', '''Little Assunzione''', and the '''Greentree District''', home to Xanu Prime’s Fisanduhian community and seat of the Fisanduhian government in exile, are officially designated districts of Nouvelle-Rochelle, though other immigrant communities live here too, with each having unique twists on their native cultures that have fused with Xanu’s own. One of the most famous of Nouvelle-Rochelle’s districts though is the '''New Columbia District'''. Formerly the center of Nouvelle-Rochelle’s American colonist community in the immediate post-civil war years, New Columbia is now one of the leisure and art capitals of Xanu Prime. The most striking of its landmarks is Hastings Colosseum, affectionately referred to as “The Hall of Columns,” a gigantic 300,000-seat open-air stadium built from steel, concrete, marble, and glass in a modernist-classical fusion style which serves as the primary venue of Nouvelle-Rochelle for everything from cricket and football games, to stadium concerts, to trade exhibitions. It began construction in 2442 and was completed in 2444, just in time for Xanu Prime’s hosting of the Coalition Cup football tournament. It is the largest building of its kind in the Coalition and is the home stadium for Xanu Prime’s national football and cricket teams. Aside from just the stadium however, the New Columbia district is filled with greenery and is the home to the Columbia Spice Market, the largest open-air street market on Xanu Prime where vendors from not just all over Xanu but all over the Coalition can be found selling their wares. Surrounded by bars and restaurants on all sides, the market explodes with shoppers and sellers alike most during game days when fans from the stadium flood the market after games looking for food, drink, and generally a good time.

There is an entire district of the city devoted to the Coalition of Colonies government as well, the '''Xansan District'''. Within it is the Coalition of Colonies First Speaker’s residence, many of the CoC’s government agencies, the Coalition’s Representative Summit, and the Coalition of Colonies Supreme Court. This district is well-known across Xanu for its excellent showcasing of modernist architecture. This area of Nouvelle-Rochelle is not only notable as being the functional governmental and administrative capital of the Coalition of Colonies, but it is also where the Treaty of Xansan, the agreement which ended the Interstellar War, was signed. Xanu’s own government shares a district bordering the Xansan District, the '''Capital District''', and instead has its own distinctive architectural style, simply known as the Xanan Style, that is the result of the fusion of its founding cultures of French, Indian, Dutch, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Belgian. Multiple museums and art galleries bankrolled by the Xanan government can be found here, with these establishments possessing some of the most eclectic art collections in human space. The largest of these and perhaps most well known is the '''All-Xanu Eloise Brel Gallery''' where works from within Xanu itself to as far away as the Solarian Core and even old pieces from Earth’s Renaissance era can be found on display for the public to see free of charge. Another building of note is the '''Crystal Lights Mosque''', the largest mosque on Xanu Prime. It is quite striking in its construction, being a tall geodesic dome constructed of glass and steel with traditional stone minarets surrounding the mosque’s main building. It was built with the assistance of Damascene architects from Elyra in 2390 and can serve up to forty-thousand worshippers at once.

Another of the city’s most notable districts is the '''Olympique-Saraswati District''', a picturesque low-rise district known for its revivalist Indian and French fusion architecture. The main draw of the district though is the three massive universities which find themselves here: '''Université Olympique - Nouvelle-Rochelle (UONR)''', '''Saraswati College (SC)''', and '''Vaeghts Medical School (VMS)'''. UONR is a state-owned university founded in that is the largest on Xanu Prime and has an in-person student body numbering over two-hundred thousand, with millions more online students. Its standards for admission are moderate, meaning those with slightly above-average academic records applying to the school will probably get in. The school is well known across Xanu and the Orion Spur for its programs in business and aerospace engineering, though it is quite possible to get an accredited and respectable degree in nearly any subject here. The school’s campus is surrounded by bars and restaurants, and is known to be a cultural center of Xanu Prime where new music and food trends come from. The university has a list of notable alumni the size of the coalition itself, and tens of thousands of foreign students from throughout the CoC attend the university every year, giving it the most diverse campus on Xanu Prime and possibly in human space. Saraswati College, named for the Hindu goddess of knowledge, is perhaps the opposite of UONR in many ways. It is the oldest continually operating university on Xanu Prime, being founded in 2199 as a private college, and prides itself on its exclusivity. Admission standards for Saraswati College are ludicrously high and only those which show near perfect academic records are allowed to attend. Its campus embodies an Indian-revivalist look in style with many of its buildings resembling intricate art pieces more than schoolhouses or academic complexes. The some 10,000 students attending Saraswati College are given the best education that money can buy on Xanu Prime and it is particularly well-known for its law school and physics research institute. Graduating from Saraswati College is an incredibly prestigious feat, and its alumni have gone on to hold positions of power in the Xanan government and some of its most influential corporations. The last of the big three universities in the Olympique-Saraswati district is the Vaeghts Medical School, the premier medical school of Xanu Prime. It was founded by businesswoman Aimée Vaeghts in 2389 after she had made her fortune in the chemical and biomedical industry through the company she founded, Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical. The university not only is a medical school, but also a hospital that serves the Olympique-Saraswati district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, a trait it uses to great effect for teaching its students with hands-on experience. While it is new in comparison to the other universities in its district, VMS takes after both UONR and SC in some ways. Its standards for admission are decently high, with potential students needing well above average, but not perfect academic records to be admitted and it also has a large portion of its student body be foreigners from around the Coalition coming to the school to receive a quality education in biomedicine.

Nouvelle-Rochelle also has numerous suburbs where many live to commute into the city, either by its expertly designed road network or the Echelon, a state-of-the-art superfast metro system which runs underneath almost the entire city. The Echelon is a modern marvel nearly two-hundred-and-fifty years in the making and is almost always being expanded to keep up with Nouvelle-Rochelle’s constant growth.

Nouvelle-Rochelle is nicknamed “Xanu’s First City,” and truly almost anything or anyone within the Coalition can be found here. They have two All-Xanu Ultraleague teams, both of which have a crosstown-rivalry with each other called the “The Battle of Rochelle.” The first of these teams is '''F.C. Columbia''', named after the New Columbia district of the city, and their colors are red and blue. The city’s second team is '''A.S. Olympique-Saraswati''', which can be found in the Olympique-Saraswati district. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Nouvelle-Rochelle Captains''', and their colors are blue and orange, and they hold the current record for most Alpha Cricket League championship titles with a total of 24 as of fall 2464 with their last win being in 2463.
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===Pataliputra===
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The second largest of Xanu Prime’s cities, Pataliputra was founded in 2191 and serves as the largest port on Xanu and the largest in the Coalition of Colonies. It is only surpassed by Callisto in the amount of cargo traffic that moves in and out of its massive piers. Because of this, it is the headquarters of the Xanan and Coalition of Colonies admiralty and has a long-standing spacefaring tradition that stretches back centuries. The Xanan Space Travel Museum, a colossal structure dedicated to telling not just Xanu’s, but humanity’s history with space travel is in the city and draws in millions of tourists annually and pays homage to this heritage.

Pataliputra is also the site of the '''Patali-Ram Temple''', a large Hindu temple dedicated to Ram, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. It was built by Xanu’s original Indian colonists from 2197 to 2215, and was constructed with aims to use the most authentic methods possible in an attempt to emulate traditional Indian stone temple architecture. It is a holy site for many of the planet’s Hindu population as it was said that during the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War that not even a scratch came to the temple or those seeking refuge inside it despite the damage the wars brought to the rest of the city. Another notable feature of the Pataliputran cityscape are the city’s walls which date back to the Xanan Civil War. While many cities have walls such as these on Xanu prime, Pataliputra’s are the planet's most intact, with over 80% of the original walls and gun emplacements still being maintained as a memorial to the fallen of the Interstellar War and Xanan Civil War. The city’s growth has expanded far past these walls since the post-Interstellar War reconstruction efforts, yet the structures still serve as an unofficial symbol for Pataliputra and its people, regardless of religion.

Much of Xanu’s heavy industry has its home in Pataliputra as well, having moved here after the Interstellar War. Large factories and foundries can be found in the city’s industrial quarter and on its outskirts. Pataliputra houses Xanu’s largest shipyard as well, the République Ship Foundry, a sprawling complex owned by the Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group that takes up an entire district of the city and employs nearly five percent of its population. Additionally, what few IPCs are produced on Xanu Prime are made in Pataliputra, though Xanan IPC manufacturing has shrunk significantly since Konyang’s admittance to the Coalition of Colonies in 2463.

Pataliputra embodies a “work hard, play hard” type of culture as along with its heavy industry, the city’s '''Neon District''' has some of Xanu’s most exclusive and lavish nightclubs. The largest of these is the Idris-operated '''Seventh Heaven''' and is a huge 27 storey high-rise of a club with 33 bars, 21 dancefloors, four swimming pools, a casino, and two restaurants, one at the base of the structure and one at the summit. It also has an artificial waterfall that flows off of its northside down into one of the establishment’s swimming pools below. Establishments with less prestige (and those that fit cheaper tastes) also dot the cityscape, too so truly anyone can come to Pataliputra for a night out, a weekend of fun, or a month-long booze cruise. Among other notable attractions here is '''Umbrella Row''', a series of narrow streets all of which are filled with open-air outdoor bars and restaurants that stay open until 4am. The area received its name from the large umbrellas that were fastened above some of the bars in order to provide shade or protection from the rain, but now many of the umbrellas are just there for aesthetic purposes since the bars and restaurants have since acquired awnings or roofs. Different breweries test their products here first before shipping them to other places on Xanu Prime, and the area is also well-known throughout the Xanan film scene for being where some of the biggest names in Xanu’s film industry, directors, actors or otherwise, got their starts. Accordingly, some of the planet’s largest film studios are located here in a district of the city commonly referred to as '''“Pataliwood.”'''

Pataliputra’s '''Admiralty District''' is quite notable as well. The district is known for the majority of its buildings being painted a light navy-blue color or made from materials in the same color. The tradition began with the '''All-Xanu Interstellar Naval College''', the centerpiece of the district, when it was being built after the interstellar war and only blue bricks could be requisitioned for the buildings. The color as stuck and has since been adopted by the rest of the district and has become ubiquitous to a point where local ordinances dictate that buildings new cannot be built in the area unless they have at least 30% of their outward surface area covered by a shade of blue similar to the original “Admiralty Blue.” The All-Xanu Naval College itself, as the name may imply, is the premier university for Spacefleet officers on Xanu Prime. Construction on the university began in 2388, one year after the end of the Interstellar War. Officers from not just Xanu Prime, but the Coalition at large have attended the College and its graduates usually go on to find productive and lucrative careers in the armed forces or other industries which require similarly organizational, martial, or spacefaring skillsets. On the outskirts of the Admiralty district sits a veritable ring of bars often called the '''“Whiskey Circle”''' by the locals. These dive bars exist almost solely for the purpose of serving cheap drinks and hot food to Naval College cadets, but they’ve become a popular destination for Pataliputrans in general to have a fun night on the town on the cheap. Another standout district neighboring the Admiralty District is the '''Bamdha District''', also known as Mokammeljela, a small yet densely populated area of the city mostly inhabited by Gadpathurian Exiles and their descendants.

The city is one of contrasts but manages to stay both an industrial center and the place to be for the latest in nightlife action on Xanu Prime. Their All-Xanu Ultraleague Team is '''Admiralty AC''' and their colors are blue and white. Admiral AC has the honor of holding the most Ultraleague titles as of Spring 2464 with a grand total of 36, their last win being in 2464 itself in a hotly contested 2-1 overtime match against Himavat City FC. Their Alpha Cricket League team is owned by the same organization that owns the football team and is also called Admiralty AC. Similarly, their colors are also blue and white.
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===Foy-Niljen===
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'''Foy-Nijlen''' is the third largest of Xanu’s cities and is indisputably one of the most unique on the planet. The city was founded originally as two separate communities, Foy and Nijlen, settled across the Naya Khyber river from one another in 2191. Disputes between the two quickly arose after citizens and companies from both towns began to claim the same parts of riverfront property and land surrounding the two towns until their city councils agreed to unify into a single polity to resolve their jurisdictional issues. A name could not be decided upon, so the names were simply combined in alphabetical order to make Foy-Nijlen. The city was unremarkable for much of the 23rd century and served as the urban beacon in Xanu Prime’s farming heartland until the Interstellar War. During the war, while not besieged like other cities, it was bombarded relentlessly from orbit by the Solarian Navy to the point where when the rainy season came in 2281, the city’s bombed out streets, which now resembled ditches, turned into small canals when the Naya Khyber river burst its banks and flooded. After the war the decision was made to instead of replacing the roads, implement a brand new canal system in the city which would combine large waterways along with bridges and railroads as the city’s primary mode of transportation. The urban redevelopment plan was completed in 2319, and Foy-Nijlen has been known as “Xanu’s Canal City” ever since.

At one time Foy-Nijlen was the center of Xanu’s farm country, and while it still is an agriculture hub, it now also serves as the site for many of Xanu’s chemical and pharmaceutical plants, the ample and cheap water around the city making it attractive to many companies in the chemical industry. Agriculture exists outside of the city and this pastoral influence and close proximity to fresh food has made Foy-Nijlen the epicenter of Xanan culinary arts. Hundreds of restaurants and bars large and small dot the city and Foy-Nijlen’s cafe culture is very strong, ever changing while respecting time-tested Xanan traditions and tastes. Some of the finest restaurants and hotels in the coalition can be found in Foy-Nijlen, the most famous of which is called '''Sultana Rex Hotel and Grill'''. If Xanan luxury was a building it would be the Sultana Rex, and if it was a taste, it would be Naya Khyber river lobster cooked in river penguin blubber in the Sultana Rex kitchen. The hotel is a five-star establishment dating back to the First Astonishment, its construction finishing in 2241, originally built by an eccentric Bangladeshi colonist named Prasenji Sultana after he struck it rich in the asteroid mining industry. It is equipped with anything one could ever hope for, a day spa, three swimming pools, six hot tubs, casino parlor, winery, and restaurant, all while in the midst of downtown Foy-Niljen’s picturesque baroque-revivalist architecture. The hotel itself is made from artisan-chiseled and masoned hickory-brown and gray stone bricks and is opulently Second Empire in style, standing fifty floors tall with each window being an artistic stained-glass arrangement. This appearance along with the luxury found inside has earned it the nickname “The Brown Palace,” something that the Sultana family and the hotel’s marketing teams have been very keen to play into. The Brown Palace is one of Foy-Niljen’s few surviving examples of pre-Interstellar War architecture outside of the Old Town district and was used as a hospital during the conflict. This history has led many to say that its rooms and halls are haunted. Surf-and-turf is the name of the game in the '''Sultana Rex Restaurant''', its menu having a double-threat of both mouthwatering seafood fresh from the ocean or river and finely bred, grown, and butchered livestock all cooked in traditional and contemporary Xanan styles. The restaurant has earned itself hundreds of awards since it opened along with the hotel in 2241 and it is perhaps the foremost proprietor of fine Xanan cuisine on the planet. The Sultana family has repeatedly refused buyouts from Idris Incorporated to purchase their hotel and restaurant, though the two have seen limited cooperation, with the Brown Palace’s spa and boutique showcasing the newest, and even occasionally exclusive, Idris beauty products.

The oldest continuously operating restaurant in the Coalition of Colonies, the '''Kingfisher Bistro''', opened in 2184 by a family of Belgian colonists, is located in the heart of Foy-Nijlen’s old-town district and is one of the most historically important culinary establishments in the Orion Spur. Not only is it a fine restaurant, but it is where Eloise Brel drafted the original Xanan declaration of secession, the first draft of which is displayed above the restaurant’s bar behind bulletproof and laser-dissipating borosilicate glass. It is a must-see stop on any of the city’s numerous riverboat tours for both its food and its history.

Boats, bicycles, and trains are the main ways to get around Foy-Nijlen, with automobiles coming in at a distant fourth. The city is dotted with greenery and experiences temperate weather year-round. Foy-Nijlen is also famous for its usage of hyperstrong stained glass in much of its architecture and infrastructure, something unique to the city but often associated with Xanu Prime as a whole by foreigners unfamiliar with Xanan culture. Extremely resistant and superstrong shatter-proof stained glass is used in things as diverse as building windows, to the floors and sides of the city’s elevated bicycle bridges, to soundproof walls next to railways and roads, to even the roofing of some buildings. During sunset, many of these glass constructions twinkle in the light and bloom into dazzling twilight colors.

The combination of a passionate food culture mixed with a picturesque and unique city design free from road traffic has made Foy-Nijlen a tourist destination for billions of people throughout the years. The city keeps a very tight control of its image, banning the construction of buildings taller than 15 floors unless given special permission or raised in special business or factory districts on the outskirts of the city. In addition, all buildings built outside of those business or factory districts must be built in a Xanan architectural style to ensure that the city feels authentically like Xanu to any tourist passing through or citizen calling it their home. Foy-Niljen, like many other Xanan cities, also has residual walls dating back to the Xanan civil war, though much of these were torn down during the 24th century to make way for more urban development. Only 20% of the city’s walls and emplacements still stand.

Foy-Nijlen is incredibly unique, but at the same time embodies some of the quintessential things that anyone, Xanan and foreign, associate with Xanu Prime. Their All-Xanu Ultraleague team is '''ASC Brown Palace FN''', owned by the Sultana family, the same family which owns the Sultan Rex Hotel or “Brown Palace,” and their colors are brown and cream. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Nijlen Penguins''' and their colors are dark green and white.
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'''Kshatragarh''' is the fourth most populated of Xanu Prime’s major cities, though it was not always known as Kshatragarh. The city was founded originally as '''Khairabad''' in 2194 and from its inception was planned to be the foremost center of Xanan heavy industry. Throughout most of Xanan history until the Interstellar War it served that role well. Photos from the pre-Interstellar War era show huge factories, refineries, and foundries dominating the city’s skyline. Nearly everything Xanu-made from automobiles to weaponry to ship hulls to basic consumer goods was made in Khairabad. This all changed in 2279 when the city was put under siege during the Solarian Invasion of Xanu. The siege was the single-most costly battle on Xanu Prime for both sides during the war. It is estimated that between five and seven million civilians died during the siege with an estimated three million combatant casualties on the Solarian side and four million on the Xanan side. 99% of the city was destroyed or otherwise made unusable for commercial or residential purposes by the time the siege ended in 2282. Almost all of its population was displaced or had died, but nevertheless, it survived and was given the name of Kshatragarh for its stubbornness and bravery. The name came from the hindu warrior caste of Kshatria and the suffix “garh” meaning meaning fortress or castle. Even if it did heroically stand in the face of utter annihilation, it was absolutely destroyed. Some in Xanu’s government at the time proposed that the city be abandoned and that trying to salvage it would be a fool’s errand and a pointless expenditure of resources that were needed to rebuild and repair cities and settlements elsewhere on the planet. Debate about what should be done with Kshatragarh raged long and hard among Xanu’s authorities but the question was answered in 2290 when quite literally the population of the entire city, or what was left of it, took to the streets of Khairagarh and occupied government buildings in an outcry for help and assistance from the federal national government.

What followed was a government investment that began small, starting with just cleaning up the rubble from the city, but soon snowballed into a widespread effort by both the local and national governments to rebuild Kshatragarh into a modern model city. Trillions of credits from across the Coalition poured into the city in an effort to build it back to its former glory, however a problem was soon found. There simply was not as much demand in the city for heavy industry as there was before the Interstellar War. Xanu’s heavy industry had resettled itself to the city of Pataliputra in the wake of the war, and an economic vacuum had gripped the still-under-construction Kshatradarh. Eventually though it was decided to embrace modernity with the city’s economy, turning it into Xanu Prime’s foremost hub for technology and biomedicine. The initiative was successful, and to this very day, research labs and institutes owned by every megacorp in the known galaxy can be found here in Kshatragarh.

The city’s new design after the war was a radical one, taking on a very distinctive, organized ring-shaped bullseye pattern. It spread out from the city’s center and business district to a research and tech focused second ring, to a retail and service industry third ring, to a residential ring, to a green belt, and finally, a heavy industry outskirt ring that was enclosed by second, larger green belt to prevent urban sprawl. All of these districts were to be connected by trains and bus lines. While the lines between these designated rings have blurred some in the two-centuries since their inception, the organization of the city can broadly be seen to follow these trends.

Kshatragarh’s culture is an incredibly interesting one. Nowhere else on Xanu Prime can the reverence for the Interstellar War be felt as much as it can here, and despite the city being essentially a new city from its first inception, there is a great importance placed in the local culture on knowing the history of Khairabad and Kshatragarh. '''Kshatragarh Veterans’ Park''' is the largest park in the city and is home to the '''Steeple of Memory''', a giant stone tower topped with a spire built in a regal, Second Empire style from black and white marble and granite that stands 200 meters tall. Despite officially being a monument, it is often referred to as the tallest mausoleum in the galaxy, due to its walls holding the remains of thousands of unknown soldiers, both Xanan and Solarian, who died during the Siege of Khairabad. Since its completion in 2329, it has been customary for Xanu’s president to give a speech at the Steeple on every Victory Day to honor the dead and commemorate the continued sacrifice of Xanu’s soldiers and citizens in the battles, military or otherwise, against the country’s foes while affirming the country's commitment to peace. The Steeple has a special honor guard of soldiers hand-picked from the Xanan military, aptly called the '''Vigil Regiment''', which supervise, watch over, and march around the steeple twenty-four hours a day, three-hundred and sixty-five days a year. The regiment has watched the steeple without any stoppages for over one hundred thirty-five years, from 2329 to the present through hard times, good times, and harsh weather. They are known for their exceptionally stoic demeanor, austere midnight blue, orange accented uniforms with green peaked caps, and their impressive, perfectly precise silent rifle inspection routines which occur during the changing of the guard. Being selected to be a member of the Vigil Regiment after passing the rigorous knowledge and conduct tests needed to join the regiment is considered to be one of the highest honors possible in the All-Xanu Armed Forces and those who age out of the position usually end up becoming officers.

Aside from this more solemn aspect of Kshatragarhian culture, the city has found ways to turn its history into functioning ventures for the present day. Many of the bunker complexes built under the city during its siege still exist today. Some have been used as sites for historical tours, while have been repurposed into a variety of entertainment venues. Bars, theaters, and even nightclubs have come to occupy the subterranean concrete facilities built so many years ago. Not all locations of bunkers are known though, and it is not uncommon for Kshatragarhian citizens or construction companies to accidentally uncover previously unknown bunkers or even unexploded ordnance when digging for construction or DIY projects. Sadly, roughly a dozen people die every year in Kshatragarh from accidental ordinance detonations, most of which are caused by artillery shells or aerial bombs that have been buried in the backyards of unassuming homeowners or renters. Their All-Xanu Ultraleague team is '''Khairabad United FC''', a hold-over from the pre-war renaming of the city, and their colors are gold and green. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Kshatragarh Lionhearts''' and their colors are gold and maroon red.
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===Paastad===
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'''Paasstad''' is an oddity among Xanu Prime’s cities. It is the fifth most populated of Xanu’s major settlements and the only to not have seen heavy fighting during the Interstellar War. Located in the center of the swampy continent of Paasland, it is held aloft above the marshlands below by a series of super-strong plasteel pylons which bear its weight and prevent the waters of the marsh from flooding the entire city during the rainy season. It wasn’t always this way though. Paasstad was originally settled during the Solarian colonization effort as an agricultural hub that used the rich soil and boggy conditions around the city as an area to grow rice. It was small, never surpassing one-hundred-thousand inhabitants until after the Interstellar War. It was one of the few cities on Xanu Prime which was untouched by that conflict too and is one of the few places where widespread examples of undamaged pre-Interstellar War Xanan architecture can be found on the planet.

After the war though, Paasstad’s population exploded. A Xanu Prime scarred by war needed food, and fast, and while Vysokan imports could cover some of it, the rice from Paasstad was seen as guaranteed domestic food. The city had a golden age from the 2310’s to the 2350’s, however a problem began to gradually show itself throughout the 2360’s. As Paasstad grew larger and larger, it expanded and added more buildings onto the land which eventually, after decades, became too much for the soft marshy ground to bear. The city began to sink. In 2366, the Paasstad government immediately declared an emergency and begged the Xanan national government for help in resolving this issue. Then president Ameliye Flohimont organized an emergency committee to save the city from a murky, muddy demise. After deliberation the committee agreed that the only way to save Paasstad and its people without resettling them was to undertake the single-largest engineering project in Xanan history: they were going to elevate the city. Specifically, they were going to reasie the planet onto giant platforms held-up by pylons bored deep enough into Xanu’s crust that the city’s weight could be supported by in a project straightforwardly called '''The Elevation Initiative'''. This undertaking couldn’t be done by Xanu’s people alone, though. Experts and equipment were brought in from Himeo’s Unified Cooperative Construction Syndicate and Galatea’s Planetary Reclamation and Development Bureau – one of the few moments where these bitter rivals worked together – to achieve this engineering feat. Districts would be platforms, all streets would effectively be elevated, and all plumbing and electrical lines would need to be integrated into these new massive metal podiums. In 2389, after two decades of herculean labor and toil, Paasstad was finally raised one-hundred meters above the ground, and stably so. To mark this achievement, a sixty-meter tall monument called '''Skyward Unity''' was built in the central park of the city depicting a team of Xanan, Himean, and Himean workers and engineers riveting plating onto a pylon which still stands today.

Partially because of its megaproject past, Paasstad’s economy revolves around a few major sectors. The largest of these are construction and engineering. After its elevation, Paasstad quickly became the intellectual and commercial hub of many of Xanu Prime’s largest engineering firms and construction companies, all of them wishing to cash-in on any maintenance or future expansion projects the city might have in mind. These companies do not only operate here though, many of the largest construction projects on Xanu Prime that have taken place in the last nearly eighty years can be traced back to companies based in this city. Whether it is a new dam on the Naya Khyber, a new skyscraper in Nouvelle-Rochelle, or even a new terminal for Pataliputra’s numerous ports, odds are a Paasstadian company has been contracted for at least part of it. Aside from engineering, agriculture is still strong here. Even with the emergency, the agricultural and rice industry that the city was originally intended for has remained as a strong part of Paasstad’s economy, almost always remaining consistent even when other sectors have declined due to market forces.

Culturally, Paasstad is unique, but also holds some things similar to other cities on Xanu Prime. The idea of uniting and coming together to help one another regardless of origins is very strong here, as the city would not exist without the help of others, namely the Himeans. The largest Himean immigrant community on Xanu Prime and the largest Himean population outside of Himeo in the Orion Spur lives in Paasstad, with nearly 25% of the city’s population having Himean ancestry of some kind. The '''Himean Platform of Paasstad''', colloquially known as '''“Kleiner Himeo”''' or '''“Little Himeo”''' is a part of the city which shows authentic Himean architecture and houses stores which sell products that could otherwise only be found on Himeo. The '''Gerber-Bauer Theater''', a huge opera house and musical theater venue made in the Himean style reminiscent of Rautakaivos Kaupunki’s Weber District can also be found here and is a draw for both its citizens and visitors. Fittingly for such a locality, Hephaestus Industries was banned from operating there by the Little Himeo district council in 2396.

A proud achievement alongside the Elevation Project is the '''Paasstad Central Transit System''' or PaCTS, a railway and subway network that was built into the city’s elevated platforms to literally be part of the city. Because of this, it is widely considered to be the most effective public transit network in the Coalition of Colonies, if not the Orion Spur, though the latter of these two claims is contested by some in Sol and Elyra. What’s more though is that this network has allowed for less of Paasstad’s precious surface area to be used for roads and more to be used for buildings or even parks made with soil that has been excavated and then re-seated onto the city’s metal platforms. Because of these factors too, the city is incredibly walkable, and is renowned for its street music culture with sounds of guitars, homemade drums, soloist saxophonists and trumpeters drifting through many of its neighborhoods and parks on any given afternoon. The city’s official holiday is called '''Elevation Day'''. Every November 8th, the city celebrates another anniversary for when the Paasstad Elevation Project was completed. People get days off from work, parades are often held, and many companies arrange for helicopter or airplane tours underneath and above the city to celebrate. The most notable tradition of this occasion though is called the Skyward Tournament, a competition between local hobbyist rocketeers where they gather in Paasstad’s central park and shoot kitbash rockets into the air in an effort to determine who's rocket can go the highest the fastest. This tournament is to many Paasstaders the embodiment of Elevation Day, it being in-line with the theme of ascension and elevation that the holiday is known for.

Their All-Xanu Ultraleague team is called '''Durendal''' and their colors are yellow and black. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Paasstad Parakeets''', colloquially referred to by fans as “The Birds” or “The Keets,” and their colors are light green and pink. Paasstad’s teams are generally thought to be the worst of any of Xanu Prime’s major sports teams; for whatever reason, they typically underperform despite being quite hyped. This has led to fans of other teams joking that Paasstad’s teams are bad because the city has “no grass” and making chants to that end, despite the city, in fact, having quite a bit of real grass and greenery transplanted onto its platforms. Paastad sports fans have developed a "lovable loser" mentality among themselves, and certain subsets of them fly into joking outrage whenever their teams are actually successful.
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'''Himavat City''' is the smallest of Xanu Prime’s major cities and is the only large settlement on the great arctic landmass of Himavatia. The city was founded by prospectors from all over Xanu Prime in 2243 on Himavatia’s coast due to a gold rush in the area. After the initial boom wore off, the city became a regional hub for mining and petrochemicals. Himavat City was bombed by the Solarians during the Interstellar War and significant portions of it were destroyed. After the war, the city took the longest out of any of Xanu Prime’s major cities to rebuild, not finishing until the year 2328. Since then though, Himavat City has experienced peaceful growth that has taken it from a small city of only a few hundred thousand to the sixth-largest city on Xanu Prime with an economy and culture to match. Seasonal extremes define much of Himavat City’s landscape. During the wintertime (which due to the city’s northerly position lasts from October until April) Himavat City receives an average of 851 centimeters of snowfall, making it the snowiest major city on Xanu Prime. It is also the coldest major city on Xanu Prime, with its average winter temperature being -3 degrees Celsius. The summer brings with it a steady rainfall as well, meaning that consistent sunshine is a rarity here. The city’s architecture is built to work with these climatological realities: its buildings have vaulted or reinforced roofs with large runoff gutters to help deal with snowpack and the buildings themselves are usually constructed from sturdy, insulating materials to both keep their insides warm while remaining undamaged by the wind, hail, and ice. During the wintertime the weather can make driving difficult and because of this many Himavatans make their way around via the city’s extensive tram and underground metro network, though winter-capable automobiles and snowmobiles are common too. The city has been voted as having the worst weather on Xanu Prime for decades and life can be rather dour and drab here if one doesn’t find something fun to do with their time.

The city is home to the '''Himavat Winter Festival''', typically called '''WinFest''' or '''HimaFest''', a two-week long outdoor music and arts festival held during the middle of winter, usually in late January or early February. It’s the single-largest get-together of Xanan musicians on the planet ranging from genres as diverse as rock, to hip-hop, to electronica, to singer-songwriter, and more. Other things that the festival is notable for is its ice and snow sculpture contests, something which many go to the festival to see alone and a wide variety of cook-offs ranging from things like chili and curry to fish filets. A trip to the festival is treated by many Xanan young adults as a rite of passage and is one taken by many college students in the year after they finish their undergraduate degrees. WinFest is only one of Himavat city’s many festivals; every few weeks the city has some new event, usually on an annual basis, to attract tourists to the city. Local musicians in Himavat City are renowned for their creativity, and the city’s artists have invented several genres of music, the most popular of which being Himavat Midnight.

Supporting not only the festivals but the tourism that the city receives at large is the ecosystem of various hotels and winter resorts that dot the city and its surrounding areas. Accommodations in Himavat City are more rustic than not, something the city markets as part of its homey, wintery charm. The restaurants and bars of the city offer themselves in a similar way too; outstanding food with friendly service and a no-frills attitude towards presentation and decor. Other tourism-focused enterprises have their roots here too like ski resorts and Himavatian arctic cruises which take their guests on scenic trips to the most remote parts of the Himavatia’s coastline. While tourism arguably keeps Himavat City afloat, the Himavatans themselves have a love-hate relationship with their guests. On one hand, they appreciate the business that tourists bring them, but on the other, tourists often simply do not understand what life is like in Himavat City given that they are only there for a few days or weeks at a time. This has led to tourists often being the butt of many jokes by the locals and the word “tourist” itself being Himavatan shorthand for a generally ignorant or stupid person.

Tourism is not the only driving force of the Himavat City economy however and people can be found working in a variety of industries here. Mining and petrochemicals still play a significant role in generating revenue for the city, and many believe that the continent of Himvatia holds untold mineral and oil deposits in the mountains beneath its frigid icecaps. Governmental regulations prohibit companies from intentionally destroying the icecap to reach the deposits underneath, so instead many companies and even some Himean syndicates have resolved to simply drill underneath it, through the rock of the continent to reach those polar riches by way of large tunnels. North of the city, the All-Xanu Armed Forces operate the '''Herzog Army Base & Military Spaceport''', home of the '''AXAF Special Warfare Academy''', a place where many of Xanu Prime’s most capable soldiers and sailors train when not in the field. Many of these soldiers and sailors then find themselves in Himavatan bars and clubs on the weekends. This military presence has led to some Xanan defense contractors, most notably d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace to establish research laboratories in the Himavat City, many testing their newest weapons and designs north of the city in Himavatia’s more remote regions away from prying eyes. Fishing is a notable industry here as well; some of the best fish and crabs on all of Xanu Prime are caught by fishing companies based out of Himavat City that operate in the frigid polar waters off the Himavatian coastline. The northerly city also has a modest industrial sector, though it is not anywhere near the caliber of what Pataliputra has to offer. Himavat City’s relatively remote position often means that transporting some goods to the city can be quite expensive, and as such, many Himavatan companies have jumped at the opportunity to produce some goods locally to supply the Himavatan market. This has given the city a unique bit of insulation from shocks that might otherwise rock the Xanan economy, the most recent of which was the turmoil surrounding the initial waves of the ongoing phoron scarcity. While the economy in Himavat City dipped like it did everywhere else, the city saw the smallest decline and fastest recovery of any major Xanan city.

Himavat City’s Ultraleague team is rather uncreatively called '''Himavat City FC''', though their fans call them the Ice Caps. Their colors are icy blue and dark red. The city does not have an alpha cricket league team due to most of the grass in the city being permafrost and unpleasant to play on. Instead, the city has a professional ice hockey team called the '''Himavat Fightin’ Polecats''' which play in the Trans-Xanu Ice Hockey Association, Xanu Prime’s foremost professional ice hockey league. Their colors are green and black with red accents.
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==Overview==
The shimmering and vibrant planet of '''Xanu Prime''' (pronounced Ksa-noo), officially the All-Xanu Republic, is the beating heart of the [[Coalition of Colonies]]. In nearly all ways, economic, political, and cultural, Xanu Prime holds almost unmatched influence over the rest of the Coalition. It is the most populated planet in the Coalition and is the seat of its national government, but it is so much more beyond that. It is a cosmopolitan and multicultural hub where nearly anyone from across the Orion Spur can be found, a cornerstone not just in the Coalition but in the galactic community as a whole, and home to a thriving culture and democratic tradition which, along with the dedication and hard work of its citizens, has cemented its position of leadership and wealth which it currently enjoys.

The planet is slightly larger than Earth and is the fourth planet of the Xanu system, which is positioned in the galactic north of the Coalition of Colonies in the [[The_Orion_Spur#Liberty%E2%80%99s_Cradle|Liberty's Cradle]] Region.
[[File:Xanuprimeflag.png|thumb|center|The flag of the All-Xanu Republic is a flag of three horizontal stripes, blue, orange, and green, with a white circle in the middle featuring the national crest of Xanu Prime, a peacock feather. The blue represents liberty and freedom, orange represents determination and hard work, green represents the planet and its people, white represents justice and peace, and the national crest represents the republic itself.]]
==History==
<center>''“We have asked, and our people have delivered: solidarity, unity, and liberty.” - Gaspard Kulkarni, Colonial Governor of Xanu Prime from 2225-2267''</center>

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===Discovery and Settlement | 2156 - 2185===
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Xanu Prime’s known history begins not on the planet itself but on Earth. The planet was discovered in the year 2156 by a team of French, Belgian, and Indian astronomers and deemed habitable for colonization. Its original designation was Exoplanète Astronomique-Neuf-Un, however was shortened first to XA-9-1, and then simply “Xanu” some years later once colonists had made landfall on the planet. Colonization ventures aiming to establish footholds on far-off worlds in places like the Tau Ceti System, Epsilon Eridani, and the Al-Rashid System had already begun near time of the planet’s discovery and the governments of Earth were more than eager to establish further footholds for humanity across the stars. Not wishing to be left behind, the governments of France along with Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg (BeNeLux) pooled their resources for an extraterrestrial expedition with the intention of colonizing the far-flung but promising exoplanet of XA-9-1. These countries quickly ran into a problem as they had the funds to bankroll this endeavor but lacked the industrial capacity to create the massive vessels needed for such a journey to the stars.

It seemed as if the expedition may falter before it even started without an industrial partner so, France and the BeNeLux shopped their proposal around to various countries but were turned down by the first few they asked. Firms from West Germany, the Federal Republic of China, and the United States all were offered contracts to build colony ships, but none accepted due those nations prioritizing their resources towards their own colonization initiatives. Eventually however, partners were found in the South Asian economic and industrial powerhouses of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, all three of whom agreed to build the massive vessels required to travel to what would become known as Xanu Prime, on the condition that their own colonists were included in the expedition. Naturally, they also wanted to receive a portion of the profits that the colony might generate. India and Pakistan saw the shipbuilding as a contest and tried to out-do each other during the construction process as an extension of the Indo-Pakistani rivalry while Bangladesh tried to remain neutral in the competition and simply complete their orders.

The six vessels needed for the expedition, Seine, Ganga, Rhine, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Yser were completed by 2181 and launched the same year. The expedition was long and arduous and needed to stop twice for repairs to the Rhine’s engines. Nevertheless, the expedition arrived at XA-9-1, albeit nine months behind schedule, in 2185. Colonization efforts began in full-force after the arrival, with the coastal location around where the colony fleet touched down quickly becoming the hub of the new world’s people. Modest agricultural and solar power initiatives were set-up to promote self-sustainability in the colony, and by most measures they were successful. After a year of success, the colonists desired to name the small city they had created and gave the honor of naming it to the commander of the expedition, Commodore Pascal Lechevalier, who named it Nouvelle-Rochelle, or New Rochelle, after his hometown of La Rochelle, France. The same year the planet’s official designation was changed from XA-9-1 to Xanu Prime by the [[Sol Alliance]].
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===Early Colonial Era | 2185 - 2223===
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Over the next three decades the colony steadily grew in population with more and more colonists coming to the planet from Western Europe and South Asia hoping to make it big on Xanu or simply start a new life on an entirely new world. It was during this period that the cities of Pataliputra, Maartstad, and Khairabad (presently known as Kshatragarh) were founded as well, solidifying Xanu as no longer a single-settlement colony and one that was almost entirely self-sufficient. From here, Sol left much of the Colony’s governance to itself and was happy to rake in the profits it produced while not giving much back to the colony itself, something that would become a theme over Xanu’s colonial era. It was also during this time however that Xanu Prime began to experience some of its first challenges during its ascent to prosperity.

While Xanu’s colonization effort had been a success, the colony itself was dysfunctional on a societal and political level. Since the initial landing on Xanu Prime, many of the colonists had begun to break off into groups and communities that were increasingly centered around their old world nationalities. The French often only interacted with the French, Indians with Indians, Pakistanis with Pakistanis, and so on. This led to increased tension over resources on the planet between these groups, and with each passing year the colony seemed less like one world and more like many inhabiting the same planet. This allegiance to ethnicity penetrated nearly every aspect of life, with members of the planet’s colonial administration and even fledgling military having stronger ties to their own communities rather than the colony’s government. By the early 2220’s, many of the planet’s citizens thought that a civil war was inevitable as the differences between the various ethnic groups of the planet seemed irreconcilable. In 2223, when that year’s crops failed and a famine gripped the world, their fears were made reality when Xanu’s colonial administration collapsed under the pressure to provide relief for the starving communities of Xanu and internal power struggles. A power vacuum was opened, and local militias following demagogic firebrands leaped at the opportunity to secure it wherever they could.
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===The Xanan Civil War | 2223 - 2227===
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The Xanan Civil War was a four-factioned war fought between the Xanan Republic, a primarily French faction, the Xanu Free Union, a primarily Indian faction, the Xanu Solidarity Army, a primarily Pakistani faction, and the National Front for United Xanu, a faction composed of colonists from the BeNeLux. The war lasted from 2223 to 2227 and aside from the Interstellar War, is the costliest war in Xanan History. Every faction involved was at one point, hellbent on the complete subjugation of the three others in attempts to install themselves as the de facto rulers of the entire planet. Battles between groups lasted for months and often shot quickly from quiet and low-intensity to chaotic and brutal in a matter of hours, with ill-led irregular militia forces being used far more often than conventional armies. This was partially due to the fact that much of Xanu’s military before the civil war was quite small and fit only for militarized policing operations but also because many of the soldiers in the four armies were volunteers with no prior military experience whatsoever. While factions were made on primarily ethnic lines, it should be noted that a large portion of Xanan people at this time refused to fall-in with these factions no matter their ethnicity. Attacks against civilians, soldiers, and politicians alike including terror bombings, shootings, arson, and assassinations were commonplace with each side doing their best to break the resolve to fight of the others.

The Sol Alliance was unsure at first what to do with the news of Xanu breaking out into violence. Sol had in the past both intervened in these kinds of colonial conflicts while letting others run their course. To the Solarian colonial authorities though, much of what was becoming to be known as the Outer Colonies, which included planets like Vysoka, Assunzione, and Gadpathur along with Xanu Prime, was not as profitable as previously hoped, and so controversially, the decision was made to let the civil war play out and then return in-force after the violence had subsided to reassert colonial authority rather than land on the planet and risk the lives of Solarian core-worlders.
The war took its toll on the planet’s people. Historians currently estimate that nearly 6% of the total Xanan population died during the fighting with the leading causes of death being starvation and treatable medical conditions rather than combat. A majority of those who died in the war were not soldiers or irregulars, but normal civilians who simply could not feed themselves or find medical care after the complete collapse of the colony’s food and medical infrastructure. After nearly two years of fighting and a horrific and terrible stalemate, the armies were simply unable to launch offensives anymore and signed an uneasy truce that put an end to the fighting but not the war.
In 2225 a movement known as the All-Xanu Peace League was founded in the city of Pataliputra by a former colonial official named Gaspard Kulkarni, a man who was half-Indian and half-Belgian, which proposed the idea of a unified Xanu which provided for all of its peoples regardless of their race or national origins. While not a novel concept, Kulkarni’s speeches and his organization’s charitable actions such as opening soup kitchens to feed the starving and clinics to give free medical care to the sick spoke greatly to the war-weary Xanan people. He led large anti-war protests in the city of Pataliputra and was smuggled into the territories of the various warring factions to spread his message. He encouraged soldiers in the armies to not fight, saying that they were shooting their own brothers and sisters even if their commanders saw otherwise. By the start of 2226, Kulkarni was becoming the most popular man on Xanu Prime, his message of peace and a planet-wide Xanan identity stretched across ethnicity and to many was a beacon of hope in a terrible war, even if Kulkarni’s ideas seemed overly idealistic to many.

Xanans, including those in the armies, were tired of fighting and exhausted at this point. None of the four factions had accomplished their goals and with Kulkarni’s Xanu Free League movement gaining more steam and proposing a peaceful future for all Xanan people, the heads of the four armies met at the planet’s capital Nouvelle-Rochelle to sign a peace treaty and dissolve their forces. An impromptu election was held to determine a planetary governor, Kulkarni won in a landslide, and declared the founding of the Sovereign Solarian Nation of Xanu Prime.
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===Reassertion of Solarian Control and The First Astonishment | 2227 - 2260===
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[[File:Old Xanu Flag.png|thumb|The flag of the Sovereign Solarian Nation of Xanu Prime]]
The Sol Alliance had been constantly monitoring the situation on Xanu since the start of the civil war and now that the fighting had stopped, it returned to its colony with the intention of rebuilding it and stabilizing it for the future. Pleased that they didn’t need to exercise any force, Sol returned with a massive investment which hoped to not only restore Xanu to its former glory, but also make it a leading, an exemplar colony in the distant Outer Ring. Sol saw Xanu almost as a blank slate at this point, the planet was so ravaged by war that anything was possible in the minds of the Colonial authorities back on Earth. From here on the Sol Alliance invested trillions of credits into Xanu’s infrastructure and businesses along with importing scores of new Western European, South Asian, and newly to the mix, American colonists and capital from Earth to both repopulate but also serve as workers in Xanu’s future labor pool.

Despite this rebuilding effort, many Xanan citizens, including the de-facto governor Kulkarni, vehemently criticized Sol for not intervening in the Xanan Civil War and stopping the fighting. This criticism put the Solarian central authority into a difficult position: they could either remove Kulkarni from office and impose their own governor, or try to keep the situation stable. In the end, the second option was taken; Xanan historians say that this was due to the massive amounts of money being spent on the world by the Alliance. Solarian historians dispute this claim and insist the choice was made by the Alliance as an apology to the Xanan people for the inaction in the civil war. Kulkarni was confirmed by the Solarian central authority as the Xanu’s official planetary governor on January 1st, 2225.

For the next three decades, Xanu became not just rebuilt but the strongest economy in the Outer Colonies. Solarian investment lasted for seven years, but after that, Xanu’s growth was primarily self-generated. Its industries and services had expanded far beyond just mining and agriculture to highly sophisticated sectors like computer manufacturing, bio-medicine, energy production, defense, and AI development. Most importantly however was shipping and logistics. Xanu’s geographic position made it ideal as the primary commercial port of the outer colonies, where goods from everywhere from Himeo to Vysoka to Assunzione would be shipped to the Solarian Core. Much of this was undertaken thanks to Kulkarni’s policies of giving monetary incentives to businesses and workers that went into certain industries. It was also during this time that Xanu found itself becoming friends with its close-by neighbor Himeo, a relationship which would go on to bloom into a strong friendship, and occasional rivalry, which lasts to this very day.
By 2260, before the Second Great Depression, Xanu Prime had the highest living standards in the Outer Colonies, the largest economy, and one of its most developed societies. Many accredit this to the foundation of an identity for its people built upon the ideas of fairness, equality, and hard work originating from the Xanu Free League and its founder Gaspard Kulkarni who retired from the position of Governor in 2248 at the age of 71 after 26 years in office. Xanu’s people no longer saw themselves as either French Xanan or Indian Xanan and so on, but as simply Xanan. The horrors of war which impacted all Xanan people regardless of ethnicity changed the way that the people of Xanu viewed each other. After the war they had begun to take on each other as fellow Xanans and as people rather than as an enemy or an “other,” adopting various cultures and customs from one another and beginning to create what today can be called the Xanan culture and people. Xanan culture was not only unified by a common experience, but also a common language. Freespeak was mandated as the official language of Xanu Prime by Governor Kulkarni in 2230 on the reasoning that it was what many of Xanu’s interplanetary neighbours spoke and that it would help unite the Xanan people if they could communicate with one another. This transformation from a war-ravaged world plagued by sectarian violence to a model planet which was safe, rich, and cosmopolitan is an achievement known to the Orion Spur as “The Astonishment.” A side-effect of Xanu’s success though was that it was now far more connected to the rest of the Outer Colonies than to the Solarian core in nearly all ways, economically, politically, and culturally. This fact would come to define Xanu’s future going forwards.
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===The [[Sol_Alliance_History#18_June,_2260:_The_Second_Great_Depression_Begins|Second Great Depression]] and [[Sol_Alliance_History#18_January,_2275:_Secession_of_the_Coalition|Secession from the Solarian Alliance]] | 2260 - 2278===
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While the Second Great Depression struck the Solarian Core from its onset in 2260, Xanu Prime and more broadly the Outer Colonies in general were largely unaffected by the economic turmoil gripping the inner parts of Sol Alliance space. Much of the Xanan economy was self-sufficient and relied little on the inner workings of Solarian financial institutions. Branches of transstellar corporations on Xanu were some of the only ones in human space which still remained profitable after the depression hit. Xanan citizens were not ignorant of the depression, it was still national news, but its effects were not felt on the world nor in the rest of the Outer Colonies aside from Vysoka. The steppe world was gripped by economic troubles following the collapse of the Solarian logistics chain which caused the planet’s primary export, food, being unable to reach the Solarian core. Xanu stepped in during this time to begin buying more exports from Vysoka to help shore up the steppe world’s losses while also further pulling Vysoka into its orbit of economic influence.

In 2265, the Sol Alliance unveiled a new taxation policy aimed at stopping the runaway inflation and worsening economic situation within its core worlds. This policy, deemed the Emergency Stabilization Plan, consisted of instilling heavy taxation on the still relatively economically stable Outer Colonies in hopes of transferring some of their wealth to the Solarian Core. The most prosperous, and therefore most taxed of these worlds was Xanu Prime, and as one might suspect, these new taxes were strongly opposed across the planet. Prices soared and businesses fell apart, sending not just Xanu’s economy but that of the entire Outer Colonies into a tailspin that would only worsen for the next decade.
In 2271, following the Xanan tradition of protest and rebellion that began with the All-Xanu Peace League, a Xanan independence movement was founded known as the All-Xanu Free League. Led by an aging veteran of the Xanan Civil War who had joined politics after the war and fully embraced the new idea of a united Xanu, Eloise Brel, the All-Xanu Free League’s goals were simple and to the point: no less than total independence from the Sol Alliance. Brel and her supporters argued that the Sol Alliance had never done anything for Xanu that wasn’t motivated by profit. The Free League cited the Sol Alliance’s refusal to intervene in the Xanan Civil War and near-removal of Governor Kulkarni in 2225 as examples of the Sol Alliance’s desires only to subjugate Xanu and act as thieves from its prosperous economy, going as far as to call the Sol Alliance’s Colonial Authority “pirates.” Brel also protested for popular democracy and voting rights for its citizens, as until this point, many Xanan people were only allowed to participate in democracy on a local level and had little say in the planet’s colonial taxation and economic programs or its foreign policy. As economic conditions worsened, the popularity of the Free League only grew, leading to further social unrest.

By 2274, Xanu’s planetary governor saw that the situation was untenable and resigned from the office. With the highest office of authority in Xanu Prime now vacant, the All-Xanu Free League declared itself as the popular government of the entire planet, installing Eloise Brel not as Xanu’s governor but as the president of the newly proclaimed All-Xanu Republic. In the same year, following Xanu’s example, the Outer Colony worlds of Himeo, now the United Syndicates of Himeo, Vysoka, Gadpathur, and Zaurghis also declared independence from the Sol Alliance. Sol was paralyzed by depression and unsure of how to respond to the situation, attempted to negotiate with the newly-independent systems to no avail. In 2275, the leaders from the independent outer colonies met on Xanu Prime in the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle and agreed to the formation of a military and economic alliance called the Interstellar Coalition of Independent Systems, or Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime was declared to be the de facto operational center of this new alliance and as such, it dictated the goals that the Coalition would need to meet. These goals, at least for the time being, were complete economic independence from the Sol Alliance and a militarization of their societies so that they could defend themselves from what Eloise Brel described as “the impending imperialist sledgehammer.”

The same year, Brel announced the necessity for a new All-Xanu Army and Navy and called for native Xanans and even foreigners in the Solarian planetary garrison who loved democracy, freedom, and the principles of equality and fairness found in Xanan culture to defect and bring their equipment with them, promising Xanan citizenship and adequate pay. Many of these soldiers who hadn’t been paid in months courtesy of the Second Great Depression’s effects on the Solarian military’s finances deserted their posts in droves and joined the new All-Xanu Army and Spacefleet. Stories of entire bases and ships surrendering to civil servants of the new administration were not unheard of. Those in the All-Xanu Armed Forces knew that they were unable to fight the Solarians in open combat and so instead looked to the past for guidance. Many veterans of the Xanan Civil War were still alive and while not in fighting condition, many of them being in their sixties or seventies at this point, were called upon to teach Xanan officers guerilla tactics who would then use those same methods, along with those learned from defecting garrison officers, to teach the nascent Army. Armed with equipment now flowing in from arms factories on Vysoka, the industrial centers of Himeo, and the planet’s own defense industry that emerged in the wake of the Xanan Civil War, Xanu’s fledgeling military was taking shape. By 2278, the All-Xanu Army was a young and inexperienced but well-trained fighting force. The All-Xanu Spacefleet by 2278 consisted of 802 vessels, most of which were no larger than cruisers and had been surrendered to the planet by both its own and nearby planets’ defecting garrisons.
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===The [[Sol_Alliance_History#25_March,_2278:_Outbreak_of_the_Interstellar_War|Interstellar War]] | 2278 - 2287===
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The Sol Alliance was alarmed after its negotiations with the Outer Colonies had failed. Not only had they lost the lynchpin to their so far successful Emergency Stabilization Plan, but they’d lost territory, billions of citizens, vital resources, and large quantities of military equipment and materiel. Despite still being hamstrung by the Second Great Depression, the Sol Alliance mobilized its fleets and armies in 2278 and set its course for the Solarian Frontier. The Alliance at this time had adopted a policy of unconditional surrender of the Coalition of Colonies, aiming to bring them back under Solarian authority at any cost in order to secure their resources and people to further stabilize the Solarian Core.

Solarian forces reached Xanu Prime in late 2278 and would make landfall soon after crushing the All-Xanu Spacefleet and forcing it to flee to Himeo for repairs. It would not be until 2284 until the Solarian Army was forced off of Xanu. The Solarian Army quickly occupied Nouvelle-Rochelle and Pataliputra, Xanu’s two largest cities, and laid siege to Khairabad, its third largest and current seat of the All-Xanu Republic. The Siege of Khairabad would be the longest and by far the bloodiest battle of the Interstellar War. It lasted four years, from 2279 to 2282, and saw savage house-to-house fighting coupled with indiscriminate artillery bombardment and drone strikes from both sides. It is estimated that during the Siege of Khairabad, anywhere between 11 and 14 million people died, this figure being a combination of both soldiers and civilians. It is widely agreed that the Siege of Khairabad was the single-most deadly battle in human history. The siege was brutal and both sides bled heavily, with Coalition forces using the rubble of the city to hide for ambush attacks while the Solarians relied heavily on air power and orbital bombardment to pound their foes into submission. But submission the Solarians would not receive. It was 2281 and fighting had stagnated into a bloody stalemate across the Coalition of Colonies. The Solarians were unable to contend with such a vast front against the armies of the hundreds of worlds now part of the CoC and gradually they began to be worn down by the attrition of the war. By late 2282, the siege of Khairabad collapsed after Solarian forces besieging the city were redeployed elsewhere on Xanu to fight All-Xanu Army guerilla activities and elsewhere in the Coalition to hold the line against CoC forces. After four years, nine months, two weeks, and six days, the Siege of Khairabad was over. During her victory speech after the battle, President Brel proposed that the city be renamed to Kshatrapur, in allusion to the warrior caste of the culture of the city’s original Indian colonists. In 2283, by presidential decree, the city was renamed and holds that name to this very day.

Even while Khairabad and other cities on the planet were under siege, Xanan forces had been sent to every corner of the Coalition to try and curb Solarian advances. This was done not through direct combat, but through training the local armies and navies across the Coalition how to fight the Solarians. The once-defeated All-Xanu Spacefleet went on to act as one of the primary naval forces in the war after seeking repairs at Himeo. They attacked Solarian supply convoys and cooperated with the United Fleet of Himeo to defend Himeo against a Solarian landing force while being impossible to catch and pin-down by the Solarian Navy. In 2284, a United Coalition fleet comprised of elements from Xanu Prime, Himeo, and Gadpathur arrived to Xanu Prime under the leadership of All-Xanan Admiral Mehmud Khan and defeated the 148th Solarian Fleet in the Battle of Xanu Prime, the largest single spacefleet confrontation of the war. They arrived just in-time as well, many assess, as Solarian high-command had authorized the full-scale indiscriminate orbital bombardment of Xanu Prime, the scars of which can still be seen today. Many historians speculate that without the intervention of the CoC’s Joint Fleet, Xanu’s surface would be much like Gadpathur’s today. The Battle of Xanu Prime is seen as the turning point of the war. Afterwards, the Solarians forces would be in almost constant retreat out of Coalition territory since Xanu along with its Coalition allies could now export their armies instead of keeping them on their homeworlds to fend off the Solarian attack.
Slowly but surely, Xanusians fought alongside their fellow Coalition forces and by the time a ceasefire was called, the CoC had liberated 80% of the territory that it had begun with. The Treaty of Xansan was signed in 2287 and ended the war, with Sol officially recognising the Coalition of Colonies and all of its member states as independent entities. Shortly after the war, President Eloise Brel retired from politics and went on to pen a series of best-selling memoirs before dying at the ripe age of 104 in 2303. She is to this very day regarded as a national hero and is considered to be the “Mother of Xanan Independence.”
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===The Sneijders Doctrine and The Second Astonishment | 2287 - 2320===
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For the second time in a century, Xanu Prime had been ravaged by war and nearly destroyed. By the end of the Interstellar War, nearly half of its population had been displaced or rendered homeless and it is presently estimated that anywhere between 12% and 15% of the planet’s population had died in the war. Xanu’s cities and infrastructure were in ruins, but the resolve of its people and the rest of the newly-formed Coalition of Colonies was as strong as ever. Sol was not around to rebuild Xanu after this war, but the rest of the Coalition of Colonies was. The first order of business for the new CoC government was providing relief to and rebuilding the areas most damaged by the war, Xanu Prime chief among them. Throughout the next decade, Xanu’s cities were rebuilt and repaired with even Kshatrigarh being nearly entirely repaired by 2310. Resources and workers from all over the Coalition poured into Xanu as part of the effort and after the Xanu Restoration Project was completed, many decided to stay and make lives for themselves on Xanu. These efforts are even to this day a source of camaraderie and mutual appreciation between the Xanan people and the rest of the Coalition, with both seeing it as the Coalition at large repaying Xanu Prime for the sacrifice its people made to start the Coalition. Measures were taken by the Xanan government to ensure that the recovery was not just that, a recovery, but the start of a brand new economy for the recently-independent world. The most notable of these actions was the creation of the Xanan Concern for Economic Stabilization, Advancement, and Recovery, otherwise known as CESAR-X, a state-owned construction and industrial company that would come to be the instrument through which successive governments would both rebuild and grow Xanu’s cities and economy. In 2320, Xanu Prime was once again the strongest economy in the Coalition of Colonies, having been surpassed by Himeo from the end of the war until that point. It would take some time for living standards to return to what they once were though, but it would happen. This rebuilding effort amounted to trillions of credits and ultimately was a resounding success that allowed Xanu to once again bounce back from the destruction of war. Fittingly, this is known as “The Second Astonishment.”

As Xanu Prime grew stronger and wealthier, it felt the need to assert its position in the still infantile Coalition of Colonies. The Coalition had only been around for roughly two-and-a-half decades in peacetime when in 2212, All-Xanu president Nicolaas Sneijders adopted a combination of economic and foreign policies that would lead Xanu into its golden age. These principles, known today as “The Sneijders Doctrine,” orbited around two principles: firstly expanding Xanan markets and trade wherever possible, and secondly, creating a new kind of All-Xanu Army and Spacefleet that could be deployed anywhere in the Coalition of Colonies on short notice should any nation in the CoC come under attack. The Coalition did not have a unified military that it could command on its own, so Sneijders proposed that if any world were to assert themselves as the defender of this new country, it would be Xanu. A famous excerpt from a speech he gave to the All-Xanu Assembly, now known as simply “The Sneijders Speech,” sums:
<center>''“Our fellows, brothers, and sisters saved our homeworld during the Interstellar War. We as Xanans must ensure that the same pain and suffering that befell us never is inflicted upon our neighbors. Our allies protected us, and we will repay the favor to not just they, but their children, and their children's children. We are the richest world in our beautiful Coalition even now, and we must ensure that our wealth grows but more importantly is put to good use. We have the means to make war but instead we will ensure peace for our people and all those of the Coalition. We are a republic built on the beliefs of liberty, democracy, equality, and goodwill, and we will proliferate these principles across the stars.”''</center.>

From the time when Sneijders’ principles were implemented, Xanu would maintain a disproportionately large military relative to its fellow Coalition worlds, only being surpassed proportionately by Gadpathur. Sneijders also is credited with the establishment of much of Xanu’s state welfare programs and civic funding initiatives which would hasten Xanu’s restoration of living standards to a pre-war level. He also modified the Xanan Constitution into the form the country knows it as today, enshrining in law inalienable rights for Xanan citizens and placing limits on the government’s domestic power. He is the longest serving Xanan president, having left office in 2320 after serving three five-year terms in office, something which the constitution he helped ratify made impossible afterwards due to its limiting of presidents to only two terms. He is widely regarded as one of the best presidents the All-Xanu Republic has ever had.
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===The Xanan Renaissance | 2320 - 2360===
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For the first time in Xanan history, peace and prosperity reigned supreme for over 60 years. The planet saw an unparalleled level of growth and societal advancement. Xanan culture flourished and many of the entertainment industries that Xanu is known throughout the Orion Spur for were founded during the 2320’s and 30’s. Film, video games, music, entertainment, all got their start in those two decades after funding from many of the economic assistance and cultural programs started under the Sneijders administration took off. Xanu’s economy soared and the world hit a new high and celebrated lavishly in 2338 when Xanu’s population reached its pre-Interstellar War level. To this day, Xanans get every January 2nd off work to commemorate this recovery. Things were going good for Xanu, not only was it growing itself but further integration with the rest of the Coalition of Colonies allowed for it to grow its neighbors’ economies as well, though of course while each planet in the Coalition economically cooperated, friendly competition was part and parcel of their mutual exchanges. Xanan firms financed much of the construction of the Weber Quarter in Himeo’s capital Rautakaivos Kaupunki and funded heavy industry expansion on Vysoka in the 2340’s and 50’s.
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===The Flohimont Thaw and Solarian Reproachment | 2360 - 2400===
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One of the largest changes in Xanu’s foreign and economic policy in history came under the administration of President Ameliye Flohimont, Xanu Prime’s tenth president. Taking power in 2360, President Flohimont was the first Xanan leader since the Interstellar War to consider reopening economic ties with the Solarian Alliance. These actions brought on fierce criticism at the time, with notions of Sol once again trying to force an unfair economic deal on Xanu running rampant. Flohimont stressed that she did not wish to negotiate trade with the entire Solarian Alliance but only individual planets under its control, stating that she was wishing to trade with Sol as she would with any other, on fair and agreeable terms. In 2364, her administration reached a settlement with the government of Konyang, hoping to both increase trade revenue and use the momentum as a positive reason for her reelection campaign in 2365. This negotiation was criticized by the Himean government and lambasted by multiple Gadpathurian officials at the time as, “playing with fire,” and something that could potentially drag the rest of the CoC’s economy into the orbit of Sol as it once was. Nevertheless, Flohimont won reelection in 2365 and continued her policy of foreign economic liberalization, signing trade deals with the then-Solarian planets of Biesel, New Gibson, and Mictlan a establishing a positive relationship with them that carried on to the formation of the Republic of Tau Ceti and to this day. The tax profits from these mercantile ventures were reinvested into Xanu’s cultural, state medical, and military programs, giving all of those sectors a boost. Conspiratorially, some on the fringe of Sol’s political sphere hold even presently that Flohimont engaged in these deals in order to expand the reach of Xanu’s Military Intelligence Department into Solarian worlds in preparation for a future invasion. They cite the expansion of Xanu’s military under Flohimont as a primary reason for this theory, though most see these ideas as shaky at best and completely false at worst. Xanu’s government denies this and people with this stance on Xanu are often laughed out of any discussion in which they participate. Whatever the case, when she left office in 2370 after serving two five-year terms, Xanu was richer and was once again a player on the economic stage of the Orion Spur and not just the Coalition. Over the next century, Xanu would use foreign trade to make money as far as the Jargon Federation, Eridani, after the New Suez Protocols of 2381 the [[Republic of Elyra]], the rest of the Sol Alliance proper, and Adhomai and Moghes after their discovery by humans. This openness to foreign nations under Flohimont is also the reasoning credited for why Xanu Prime agreed to host the Fisanduhian government-in-exile in 2386.

President Ameliye Flohimont is a polarizing figure across the CoC and beyond and her impacts as president were felt long after she’d left office. On Xanu she is remembered fondly for helping the planet move past its trauma from the Interstellar War by opening a parley with Sol and for using foreign trade credits to help enrich the planet’s social systems and military. Elsewhere in the Coalition she is looked down upon as a selfish leader, or even seen as a traitor to the Coalition ideal, who put Xanu’s economic interests, or to some, her planet’s greed, above the safety of the Coalition and made any future economic problem that Sol, or eventually Biesel, encountered also a problem of the Coalition. This rose to a head when she was assassinated at a speaking event in 2374, four years after she’d left office, by a radical Gadpathurian national who claimed that her actions would kill the Coalition of Colonies. Nearly a century after her election, anti-Sol and nationalist parties across the Coalition blamed the Coalition’s economic turmoil during the ongoing Phoron Scarcity on the policies that Flohimont started, however this position was contested by many on Xanu who described Flohimont’s actions as, “The natural next steps for Xanu Prime and the Coalition into the Orion Spur,” and the current slowdown as, “An inevitability for any nation in the modern day and age.”
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===The Doldrums & The Mukhopadhyay Plan | 2400 - 2440===
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Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies as a whole entered 2400 in a period of relative stagnation. The huge revenues brought into Xanu during the latter half of the 23rd century by President Flohimont’s trade pioneering had faded, with all who wanted to trade with Xanu already doing so. By 2404, Xanu Prime’s economy was only growing by 1% annually and the country itself fell into a period of long-standing economic stagnation known as “The Doldrums.” During this time Xanu was still the top economy in the Coalition of Colonies, but it was no longer growing at the meteoric speeds it once knew, and even saw a near-collapse in 2421. The Doldrums lasted from 2404 until 2427 and are known for the malaise they put over Xanan society as four different presidential administrations tried to get the economy under control and reignite Xanu’s soaring economy.
The most notable event during this period was the privatization of CESAR-X, the venerated Xanan institution of a state-owned industrial concern. The company began to amass an unusually large amount of debt during the mid 2400’s as it took out loans to maintain its infrastructure and assets during the economic slowdown. Those in-charge at the company thought that their business’s government-backed nature along with its prominent role in the Xanan economy would ensure that it remained solvent even during a time when the economy was in rough shape. Essentially, they thought CESAR-X could weather the storm through the use of loans and government until the economy had picked up once again and normal growth rates were seen, rather than through adjusting how they did business to meet the challenging economic circumstances. What neither they, nor anyone else at the time expected, was just how long the slowdown would last. A little over a decade and a half passed, and by this time the concern had taken out more in loans than the company itself was worth; not being able to sustain itself on its own operations for any longer, CESAR-X went to the Xanan government asking for a bailout to pay off its creditors, threatening bankruptcy otherwise. The government was indecisive on the decision, as on one hand CESAR-X’s collapse would result in millions of jobs being lost and be disastrous for an already struggling Xanan economy, but on the other, saving CESAR-X wouldn’t fix the economic situation gripping the planet, nor was it a permanent solution to shoring up what was becoming a government-backed money pit. The decision was then made to let CESAR-X fail and collapse, but at the eleventh hour, Credit Xanan, the largest bank in the Coalition and the owner of a majority of CESAR-X’s debt offered to buy the company from the Xanan state on the condition that they pay under a market price and that they would keep a majority of the company’s workers employed. The government agreed and sold the company to the bank for what many now estimate to be just above half of its real value. Over the next decade, CESAR-X’s new management would enact a ruthless profitability-first policy in how it dealt with its newly acquired subsidiary, shutting down factories and branches that failed to turn a profit after being given notice to restructure. These efforts resulted in the company downsizing its workforce by nearly 30%, a move which remains controversial even today, but they did accomplish their goal. By 2428, CESAR-X was turning a profit under Credit Xanan ownership. To this day, CESAR-X is the largest privatization in Coalition history.

During this time the life of an ordinary Xanan changed; the country was no longer on the up-and-up and it gave many time to pause and examine what their society was and who they were as people. Some of the most seminal works of Xanan popular art and cinema were produced during the Doldrums, some say as a reflection on the Xanu Prime of the day, and some say to express the tension and anxiety that the artists and directors felt. Whatever the case, epic works of stage, film, and visual arts were produced during this period which have gone on to firmly cement themselves in the Xanan canon.

As the potential of wide-scale phoron usage was beginning to be felt across the Orion Spur though and more importantly, as more in the Coalition of Colonies wanted this technology, Xanu slowly saw its reascension to growth as it began to be the primary port by which phoron shipments from Elyra and the still-Solarian Biesel would enter the Coalition. This new energy source brought great wealth to Xanu and is credited for giving the planet’s economy the shot in the arm it needed to resume its growth.
After Xanu Prime’s recovery from the Doldrums, its next president, Narayan Mukhopadhyay, believed that Xanu needed an economic system which would ensure that it would not fall victim to such a circumstance again, or if it did, not to the degree which it had in the 2410’s-20’s. Throughout the early 2430’s, Mukhopadhyay devised a series of complex economic measures which aimed to shock-proof the Xanan economy against a future recession or collapse, using both taxes and trade revenues from the Konyang robotics boom to fund it. These included amassing great reserves of foreign currency and investing trillions into further diversifying Xanu’s economy. The great Mehmud Khan Helium-3 Station (named after the Xanan Interstellar War Admiral) began construction during this time with assistance from nearby Galatea, and Mukhopadhyay’s initiatives spearheaded the development of industries that until his administration were small or hadn’t even existed on Xanu. This ranged from VR technology to the automotive industry, to pharmaceuticals to initiatives focused on creating engines and reactors which could operate with both Phoron and other fuels like Helium-3. The latter of these efforts would come in very handy during the beginning of the 2462 phoron shortage. Mukhopadhyay also invested much into Xanu Prime’s social services, with the reasoning that if Xanu’s economy were to enter a recession or depression in the future, they would be relied on more than ever before.

The impact of President Mukhopadhyay’s economic planning is hard to quantify. Some on Xanu say that Mukhopadhyay was a visionary who unknowingly protected Xanu from total economic catastrophe when the phoron shortage hit in force in 2463, some twenty years after he left office in 2440. Others however dispute this claim, saying that his impact is truly unknowable because there is no way to know what exactly would have happened to Xanu if the Mukhopadhyay Plan was never put into place and that it was in fact, not the best option. Despite these differing opinions, he generally has a positive reputation and currently spends his days giving lectures at universities and speaking at fundraising events for the Enlightenment Project, a charity he founded after he left office which aims to provide medical aid (often in cooperation with the Interstellar Aid Corps) and educational access to children in the less-developed parts of the Coalition of Colonies and Human Frontier.
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===Xanu Prime Today | 2440 - Present===
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The 2440’s were an unremarkable decade for Xanu Prime. The planet continued to grow more economically off of the spur-wide phoron boom and in 2443, celebrated the completion of the Khan Helium-3 Station. Steady growth and stability were hallmarks of the 2440’s for Xanu and is seen in the present by a large numbers of Xanans, both those who were alive during the time and those who were born after it, as a nostalgic pseudo-golden age where all was good, especially when compared to more recent times.

The 2450’s however were a decade of many happenings for Xanu Prime, both good and bad. In 2457, Xanu Prime hit its all-time economic high, one that is yet to be surpassed, after organizing numerous trade deals with Tau Ceti following the country’s independence in 2452. This took a dive in 2458 when Admiral Michael Frost invaded Tau Ceti, causing Xanu to put great pressure on the rest of the Coalition for an intervention on the justification of protecting sovereignty, an action supported by Gadpathur but rejected by all others in the Coalition on the grounds that war for the sake of markets wasn’t something the Coalition wanted. Along with reaching its economic zenith in 2457, Xanu Prime also participated in one of the largest relief operations in history after the Lii’dra incursion to the Elyran planet of Bursa. In cooperation with the rest of the Coalition, Xanu sent billions in foreign aid, medical supplies, and construction equipment to Bursa to aid in the planet’s rebuilding process. The 2450’s also marked the decade in which the Coalition of Colonies announced a massive increase in its anti-piracy operations both within Coalition territory and outside of it in the Human Frontier. While claimed as an anti-piracy operation, many in the Coalition viewed this as an unofficial war against privateers originating from the [[Empire of Dominia]]. Xanu Prime, having the largest military and hosting the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, was broadly supportive of this initiative and committed a sizable chunk of its fleet to defeating what then president Jayanti Kuipers called, “the barbaric menace of pirates and whoever employs them.”

The 2460’s have thus far been turbulent for Xanu Prime, much as they have for almost everywhere in the Orion Spur. The planet’s economy took a hit during the Phoron Scarcity and subsequent Solarian Collapse, however it is nowhere near the worst-affected place in the Coalition even if its supply chains are still met with the impossible question of how to replace phoron entirely. Some say this resilience is because of President Mukhopadhyay’s planning, while others say that Xanu’s economy is simply large enough and has the scale to weather the storm of the Scarcity better than others. Some Xanan industries such as its Helium-3 sector and engine manufacturing plants have even boomed in the wake of the recent economic turmoil in contrast to many others. The future of Xanu seems uncertain. It is holding on well under the administration of its current president Jaques Afzal, with many of its people still living comfortably and enjoying Xanu Prime’s high standard of living, but problems are beginning to emerge. Growing economic inequality, internal divides over Xanu Prime’s place in the Coalition, debates over just how the planet and its people will deal with the scores of refugees fleeing from a broken spur to relative safety, and other societal pressures like crime and rising illegal drug use are rearing their ugly heads. Xanu Prime’s future, much like the rest of the spur, is uncertain, but what is certain is the resolve and unity that the planet and its people will meet any new challenge with.
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==Geography and Environment==
<center>''“In forest, ocean, mountain, river, or meadow, my country’s beauty shines through!” - Excerpt from “My Xanu’s Majesty,” a Xanan patriotic song written during the Interstellar War''</center>
[[File:Xanu Prime Map.png|thumb|A Mercator projection map of Xanu Prime.]]
===Geography===
[[File:Xanu.png|thumb|The extremely populous Xanu, core capital of the Coalition of Colonies. The Xanan surface is still dotted with craters from the Interstellar War, centuries later.]]
Xanu Prime is a varied and diverse world that is slightly larger than Earth with a mean radius of 3,790 kilometers. 63% of the planet’s surface area is covered in liquid salt water and it has sizable ice caps at both of its poles, though the northern cap is far larger than the southern one. The planet has four continents and numerous smaller islands that dot its oceans.

The largest of the continents is called '''Nouvelle-Occitanie''', or '''New Occitania''', named after the historical region of France. Much of the planet’s population lives on this continent and its ample coastline. It is situated at the planet’s equator and stretches far to the south into the temperate and near-polar zones of the planet. It hosts varied biomes, with lush equatorial rainforests on its east coast, and tropical deserts which then give way to sprawling open grassy plains and rolling hills before finally finishing in the south of the continent with great deciduous and coniferous forests. Nouvelle-Occitanie is a continent of contrasts. Some of Xanu’s largest cities are on Nouvelle-Occitanie are on the continent, however other areas of the landmass are almost entirely uninhabited, namely the largest of its tropical deserts, the Greater Thar. Nouvelle Occitanie also was the scene of battles and sieges during the Interstellar War, with certain parts of it being designated as national battlefield sites. These sites function as both historical sites and wildlife preserves and development of them is prohibited by the Xanussi government. The largest of these historical preserves are known as the Scar Seas. They are a series of loosely-connected saltwater crater lakes along a stretch of the continent’s western coastline near the city of Kshatragarh. These lakes were formed during the Interstellar War as a result of heavy orbital bombardment in the area from the Solarian Navy.

Sitting in the planet’s northern temperate and equatorial zones, '''Naya Khyber''', or '''New Khyber''', is the third largest of Xanu Prime’s continent and is defined by the Naya Khyber River, the largest river on the planet. At precisely 7,117 kilometers long, the river spans the entire latitude of New Khyber and its course showcases the continent’s geography well. Starting in the western alps of the country, the river flows east and meanders along rolling foothills before entering a short expanse of plains and finally finishing in the Naya Khyber delta, the largest river delta on Xanu Prime. The Naya Khyber delta is a huge agricultural hub due to a combination of factors, the foremost of which are the mineral rich soil present there and the reliability by which the Naya Khyber River floods, aiding irrigation.

Xanu’s third largest continent, '''Himavatia''', is a mostly uninhabited and almost entirely frozen landmass that sits within the planet’s arctic circle. Few things can survive in the cold of Himavatia’s interior, however some confers, grasses, and birds have made their home here. Despite this harshness to life, however, Himvatia’s few peninsulas which manage to stretch into more temperate climates do have small settlements on them. Large swaths of Himavatia are covered in polar ice, the glaciers of which have scoured the continent’s coastlines with deep, vertigo-inducing cliffs, valleys, and fjords. Those coasts themselves are dotted with dense coniferous forests and rocky shores.

Lastly, the smallest of Xanu Prime’s continents is called '''Paasland'''. It is located in Xanu Prime’s southern hemisphere and is a single landmass surrounded by tens of thousands of islands. The continent is mostly covered by marshland and mangrove swamps, with only the center and north of its area being more than a few meters above sea level. The barrier island chains which protect Paasland from the storms that may blow in off Xanu’s great oceans around it range in landscape from tropical paradises near the north and west of the continent, to barren, freezing rocks in the south. Many of these islands house active volcanoes and some grow on an annual basis.

A unique feature of Xanu Prime’s geography are found at the sites of where the planet’s surface was bombarded both from orbit and terrestrially by Sol Alliance and Coalition forces during the Interstellar War. The land found here is pockmarked by a smattering of craters created from the impacts of Solarian munitions, many of which have interacted with Xanu’s numerous river systems and formed lakes. A number of these sites, officially deemed “'''Scarlands'''” by the Xanan government, have been rehabilitated into national parks and wildlife preserves while others have been resettled and reclaimed by the Xanans. There are scarlands on all four of Xanu Prime’s continents, and what has become of them differs from one scarland to another. Those found around large cities are typically just integrated into the landscape of the city’s metropolitan area itself as part of the landscape, while those in more remote areas have found themselves as designated war memorials and wildlife preserves. The largest of these in area is the Widow’s Tears Scarlands which is a stretch of over 110,000 craters that covers much of Nouvelle-Occitanie’s northeastern territory. Much of it is inhabited and cities and towns can be found there, though the portions of it which are found in the equatorial rainforests of the planet have long-since been designated as undevelopable land. The scarland with the highest density of craters is the Khairabad Scarlands found around the modern-day city of Kshatragarh which comes in at a whopping total of 186,954 craters. The Scarlands are mostly safe to travel and live within after the Xanusian government’s massive clean-up efforts alongside experts sent by the Federal Technocracy of Galatea throughout the 24th century and have become a popular area for weekend trips or vacations for Xanusians. Some of the more remote or hard-to-reach scarlands like the Little Cuts or some parts of the New Pacific Scarlands and Himavat’s Wounds are still partially dangerous though, and visitors are strongly encouraged to not deviate from marked trails in those areas lest they accidentally set off unexploded munitions still present on the old battlefields.

===Biosphere===
Xanu Prime’s biosphere is as diverse as its terrain. Due to Xanu’s earth-like climate and geography, many species were introduced to the planet from Earth which then led to novel and new lifeforms as these imports crossbred with the existing animals.
Notable Xanan Fauna are:
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'''Paaskraan'''
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The Paaskraan, or more officially the Easter Crane, is a huge, towering bird-like creature resembling a crane standing nearly three meters tall and a wingspan of nearly 4.15 meters. It is easily identifiable by its vibrant orange and white plumage across its body and wings, with its head being almost entirely covered in royal blue feathers. It uses its thick beak with a long piercing spike to stab through prey that it dredges up from the Paasland marshfloor, often fish, amphibians, or even turtles. They are also known for their ocean-spanning migratory cycles that take them from Paasland to the southern coast of Naya Khyber during their breeding season. One might think that their size would make Paaskraans very aggressive creatures, but they are actually very shy and tend to avoid contact with humans and other large animals which may pose even a remote threat to them. They would rather fly away than fight, but even so, they have been known to violently maim and even kill other creatures that get too close to their nests during hatching season. This has led local Xanan environmental protection groups to cordon off Paaskraan nesting areas from the public throughout springtime in efforts to prevent the accidental deaths of wildlife enthusiasts. It is the official animal of the city of Paasstad, the central city of Paasland, and is a symbol of Paasland as a whole.
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'''Crimson-Masked Polecat'''
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The Crimson-Masked polecat is an animal resembling a mustelid native to the southern peninsulas of Himavatia. It is notable for having almost universally white fur aside from a bar of vibrant red, nearly purple, fur going across and around its eyes. Scientists are uncertain as to why it developed this odd quirk, but what is certain is that this unique aesthetic feature and playfully aggressive disposition has made it a popular pet around the planet and throughout the Coalition. It was first domesticated in 2312 and because of this, it is often associated with the Xanan Renaissance and is considered by many Xanans to be the unofficial national animal of the Republic. In its native habitat of Himavatia’s southern peninsulas it hunts mostly small rodents and on occasion fish, though due to its domestication and subsequent release into the wild by irresponsible pet owners, it has spread to all four of Xanu’s continents and has adapted well to new environments.
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'''The Silverwing Blazemoth'''
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The silverwing blazemoth is one of the most recognizable creatures of Nouvelle-Occitanie’s equatorial rainforests. With a wingspan of 18cm it is quite large by insect standards, and can be identified not just by its size but by its vibrantly colored black-tipped silver-hued wings. What makes it unique among moths though is the silk that it produces. Instead of its silk having a white color typical of other silk-producing moths, the silverwing blaze moth larvae creates a silk that is a burnt orange color. During pupating season, people have reported what they thought to be fires, but when investigated, turned out only to be trees covered in the sizzled orange colored cocoons of Silverwing Blazemoths. The orange silk made by these creatures s is a luxury good and is highly sought after both on Xanu Prime and throughout inhabited space.
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'''Naya Khyber River Penguin'''
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The Naya Khyber River Penguin is a mysterious and odd creature. It is a flightless bird resembling an Earther penguin that stands no taller than one meter high. It is coloured in a deep green color and white rather than black and white typical of penguins on Earth, and has a small crest of red feathers on its head. Scientists believe that the bird’s DNA is almost entirely native to Xanu Prime, though others allege that it is distantly related to the rockhopper penguin of Earth. These birds inhabit the Naya Khyber River Delta and swim in packs through the delta’s wide meandering channels on hunts for fish and crustaceans which they stab with their short but sharp beaks. While quite clumsy and slow on dry land, getting around via a hopping motion more often than walking, they are incredibly quick in the water and can go as fast as 40kph in short bursts. They’re very social and often live in colonies along the shores of the Naya Khyber River, the largest of which was recorded to be over fifty-thousand birds, though the average is around four-thousand. They are fiercely territorial and have a mean streak. This reputation is the result of their tendency to attack other animals which get too close to their nests, typically via attempting to peck out their eyes. Even careless humans have been known to be attacked by these penguins. Despite this behavior however, many see the flightless birds as cute, cuddly, and silly perhaps due to their awkwardness while moving out of water. The foremost example of this reputation is the well-known Xanan children’s cartoon Pierre and Friends, starring Pierre the River Penguin, a clumsy but well meaning young penguin learning about the world, as its main character. The show and Pierre as a character are well-liked by parents and educators for, perhaps ironically, helping to teach children the values of cooperation, sharing, and not bullying others.
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Aside from animals unique to Xanu Prime, the planet also has animals that have been seeded on the planet from Earth. Rodents, birds, some fishes, and other creatures like insects have been successfully imported to the planet and despite their invasive nature, have fit well into Xanu’s biosphere. The national animal of Xanu Prime is the Indian Peafowl, a bird brought to the colony by its original colonists.

Xanu Prime has a wide variety of flora as well, with the northern rainforests of Nouvelle-Occitanie alone housing thousands of tree and plant species. The most notable of these is the '''Great New Occitanian Lupine''', a great green and white flower resembling an Earth lupine reaching nearly twenty feet tall. It emits a sweet smell, and these plants can often be seen covered in millions of pollinating insects looking to get its nectar. To the south, the coasts of the entire continent of Paasland are covered in forests of the '''Yellow-Spotted Shedding Mangrove''', a mangrove tree similar to those found on Earth with leaves that have a natural green hue but which take on striking golden spots during the summer months. Scientists believe this is a chemical reaction that results from the concentration of excess salt in the leaves before they then fall off towards the end of summer to rid themselves of the salt in a process referred to as shedding, the leaves then regrowing during the autumn season. On the continent of Naya Khyber, the '''Whistling Pineberry Tree''' can be found. This coniferous tree can reach over 65 meters in height and is unique among other trees in its family for having needle-like leaves that are hollow and also open at both ends. When the wind blows, the leaves of the tree resonate with a whistling noise similar to the mating call of local birds. Botanists believe that this is an evolutionary adaptation that has the goal of calling more birds to the tree so that they may scatter its seeds, contained in small berries rather than pinecones, more easily, citing the fact that the geographic distribution of the subspecies of the Whistling Pine mirror those of various bird populations.

==Government and Politics==
[[File:Xanuprimebanner.png|thumb|Official Banner of the All-Xanu Republic]]
<center>''“A strong president is a strong government is a strong Xanu.” - Nicolaas Sneijders, 4th President of the All-Xanu Republic (2305-2320)''</center>

The All Xanu-Republic has a parliamentary semi-presidential government that consists of three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial branch that operates as a unitary state. It is often described as having a strong executive and weak legislative branch, with the majority of power in the Xanan system being held by the Office of the President. Xanu’s political process has very low barriers to entry and as a result, the planet has the most registered political parties of any planet in the Orion Spur. Despite this great number however, only nine parties currently have seats in the All-Xanu National Congress. The Xanan government system and its various political parties can all be read about here on the dedicated Xanu Prime Government and Politics page. The current President of the All-Xanu Republic is Jaques Afza of the party the All-Xanu Free League. He is Xanu Prime’s 23rd president, has held the office since 2460, and recently won reelection in 2465. He will leave office in 2470 as per the two-term constitutional limit for Xanan presidents. To read more on the Xanan government’s structure and functions, the political parties which currently hold sway on the national stage, as well as the country's foreign relations, see the dedicated page for [[Xanan Government and Politics|Xanan government and politics]].

The Xanan government supports a well-funded and well-equipped variety of state systems aimed at helping its citizens with a variety of issues and problems that they may come across. The '''All-Xanu Health Office''' is one of Xanu Prime’s oldest and most successful government agencies, and is something that many Xanans consider to be the best thing to come out of Xanu’s Second Astonishment, aside from the reconstruction of the planet as a whole. The Health Office, or often just known as the AXHO, is the framework by which many ordinary Xanans receive medical care. It operates by working with privately-owned hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to subsidize medical and research costs, while also giving Xanan citizens progressive financial assistance in paying for healthcare, the level of which is determined by a citizen’s income. Those Xanans who are in the upper income brackets do not receive as much as those in the lower ones, who often have most if not all of their healthcare expenses subsidized by the government. In addition to this, the AXHO operates dozens of clinics and even some hospitals all around the planet where healthcare costs are subsidized by the Office’s coffers. The AXHO has a similar arrangement of financial assistance to self-owned positronic Xanans as well, but for repair costs rather than healthcare expenses. Nearly every Xanan believes that the AXHO is a good thing, regardless of political affiliation, though there is some controversy and dispute over how it should be run, either more centralized with more state control over healthcare, or the semi-public, semi-private model that it has used for the last century and a half.

While Xanan healthcare may be decentralized in structure, some of its other institutions are not, the finest example of which is the '''All-Xanu Public Security Office'''. The Security Office functions as Xanu Prime’s unitary police force and operates in a pyramidal structure, going from the office’s head down to departmental and local police forces. These local police forces usually operate on a city or departmental sub are given autonomy on many of their day-to-day operations, but if a major case emerges, such as a serial killing or terrorist threat, investigators and officials from higher up in the organization’s structure usually take over. The AXPSO generally maintains a good relationship with Xanan citizens, though there have been allegations of xenophobia aimed at aliens like Tajara, Unathi, and Diona made against the Office for many years.

Although often erroneously referred to as a government apparatus, the largest news provider on Xanu Prime, the '''Xanan News Service (XNS)''' is not owned nor operated by the Xanan government. The XNS was created by order of President Sneijders during the aftermath of the Interstellar War as an independent news agency that was funded by the country’s government but was not beholden to it in terms of who it hired or what types of stories it decided to give coverage to. Since then, it has conducted generally well-received and professional journalism and is one of the most read and watched news agencies in the Orion Spur, with the majority of its coverage being centered on issues and topics impacting the Coalition of Colonies and Human Frontier. Recently, however, it has also experimentally expanded into the Human Wildlands and is one of the only major agencies that has been able to cover the ongoing war in the Northern Wildlands of former Sol in any depth.
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==Language==
<center>''“A common tongue means a common future.” - Marcel Singh, pioneer of the Xanan Freespeak language''</center>
The official language of Xanu Prime is '''Xanan Freespeak''', a language that developed in the early days of the Xanu Prime colony from the grammatical hybridization of various languages from the Indian subcontinent with some loanwords taken from French and Dutch. It was formally codified in 2230 during the aftermath of the Xanan Civil War to function as a common tongue between the planet’s various colonists that could be easily learned and used words that were from their countries of origin. While many places on Xanu Prime have names taken from the languages of its original colonizing nations like Hindi, French, Urdu, and Dutch, very few if any people on the planet are still conversational in these languages, with almost all of them having been supplanted by Xanan Freespeak. Freespeak is taught in all schools, is known by nearly every resident of Xanu Prime, and is taught throughout the Coalition of Colonies as a lingua franca used for diplomacy and business relations between its various member states. Xanan government functions, law, and academia use Freespeak as their primary language, though Freespeak is not the only language spoken on Xanu Prime. Signage, popular media, literature, music, and film found in Xanu all are typically in Freespeak, but languages from all over the Coalition of Colonies can be found here, especially within ethnic communities from planets that speak a language other than Freespeak as their primary language. Himean Common, Sol Common, Assunzionii Tradeband, Gadpathuri Common, and even Vulgar Morozi are spoken on Xanu Prime within ethnic communities. Any hopeful immigrant to Xanu Prime must pass a Xanan Freespeak proficiency test in order to receive citizenship.

==Life, Culture, & Society on Xanu Prime==
<center>''“Our biggest strength lies not with our economic prowess, nor with our military might, but with the beauty of our people, the nobility of their ideals, and the sanctity of our culture and its works.” - Ameliye Flohimont, Tenth President of the All-Xanu Republic during a 2363 speech to the All-Xanu National Congress in favor of an expansion to the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery''</center>

Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great importance on the family unit. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine-dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Xanan sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague. Details on all of these subjects and more on general life on Xanu Prime and the planet’s societal composition and issues can be found on the dedicated page for [[Xanan Life, Culture, and Society|Xanan life, culture, and society]].

Xanan society is one that values individual liberties while paying close attention to how these liberties can sometimes hurt society as a whole if taken too far. This can be reflected in their legal code. Xanu Prime has strong legal protections against government restrictions on speech, though things like hate speech and slander are still illegal. There is no state religion on Xanu Prime and Xanans are free to practice, or not practice, any religion they please. The country does have very strong secularism laws though, and bans government employees and government buildings from wearing or displaying religious symbols or forms of dress. Some decry this as an intrusion onto the religious freedoms of citizens, though the majority of Xanan society is in support of strong secularization laws. Private firearms ownership is permitted on Xanu Prime, however it is restricted. A Xanan citizen requires a government permit, background check, and legitimate reason (typically for hunting or home defense) before they are allowed to own a private firearm. They cannot carry their weapons in public and they cannot own fully automatic ballistic firearms or lethal-strength lasers or similar battery-powered weapons. Xanans have total freedom of movement throughout the All-Xanan Republic, and have various legal protections against external intrusions on individual privacy, both physical and digital.
The Xanan press and news media is one of the most, if not the most active in human-inhabited space. There are thousands of different publications and news sources in the All-Xanu Republic, and Xanan journalism is some of the most robust in the Orion Spur. Much of this is because of the Xanan government’s policies which award special protections to news agencies and impose a higher standard of evidence in defamation lawsuits against them. News and media are not totally unregulated on Xanu Prime though; the Xanan government created an independent regulatory agency, the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission (MEC), in 2329 so as to ensure that the fledgling media of the newly independent All-Xanu Republic would not succumb to the perils of sensationalism and fake news. The MEC has the power to censor and fine publications with reporting that has proven to be false or so biased that it burgeons on false. This does not mean that the MEC forces all Xanan news outlets to be entirely neutral, far from it in fact, just that they must show at least some balance in their stories and programming.

==Economy==
<center>''“Economically, even through hardship, we remain unparalleled among our peers. We should be keen to enjoy the vices and virtues of prosperity to the fullest extent possible.” - Lennox Sibelius, Xanan Finance Minister under President Narayan Mukhopadhyay during a 2440 address to the National Parliament''</center>
===Economic Overview===
Xanu Prime is the proud home of the largest and most diverse economy within the Coalition of Colonies. Spanning across nearly every sector imaginable aside from large-scale mining, the economy of Xanu Prime is not only the largest in the Coalition of Colonies but one of the largest in the Orion Spur, only being surpassed by Biesel, Callisto, and Eridani I in terms of GDP. Xanu Prime is home to the head offices of the [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]]’s and [[Einstein Engines]]’ Coalition of Colonies operations and also houses other facilities like data centers and research laboratories for many of them as well. Xanu Prime’s financial service and banking sectors are the largest in the Coalition and help connect Xanu to planets and businesses across the Orion Spur, with its banks holding trillions in assets on any given day. The Xanan Stock Exchange is located in Nouvelle-Rochelle, and is the largest of its kind in the CoC and third largest exchange in the Orion Spur by volume of credits moved through its markets. Company stocks and other assets from all over the Coalition of Colonies and some from outside of it are traded there.

The pride of Xanu Prime’s economy and arguably the reason for its continued ascendency in the Orion Spur is Xanu’s shipping sector. Xanu Prime’s merchant marine is the largest of any in the Orion Spur, numbering just over fifty-thousand. Xanan shipping conglomerates dominate the Coalition of Colonies and have near monopolies over that sector in some parts of Coalition space. Within the Coalition, Xanu Prime is the king of foreign trade, and the Xanan shipping industry is to thank for this status. Xanan shipping firms do not just move cargo between Xanu Prime and other planets in the Coalition, but also routinely take shipping routes between planets far from Xanan space such as the ports of the Commonwealth of Callisto. If goods are moving through space in the Coalition, it is a safe assumption that they are on a Xanan ship. Xanu’s shipping sector was paralyzed in the early days of the ongoing phoron scarcity, but after many of its firms renegotiated phoron contracts with [[NanoTrasen]] and payed exorbitant amounts for Einstein Engines’ hammer drive, this area of Xanu’s economy has reasserted its prominence in the Orion Spur.

Domestically, Xanu Prime also has a strong agricultural and technology sector. Xanu Prime just barely produces enough food to feed all of its citizens but often imports food from Vysoka due to its far cheaper price and abundance, keeping Xanu-grown food in storage for national emergencies. Xanu’s tech sector is booming, with much of its development being pushed towards AI and posibrain coding and development. Ever since the addition of Konyang to the Coalition of Colonies, these efforts have only grown stronger with Xanan and Konyang-based firms and corporations having fewer barriers to cooperation than ever before. IPC chassis and posibrain manufacturing also plays a small part in Xanu Prime’s tech sector, but most of these jobs have moved to Konyang in recent years, with only a few companies still making IPCs on the planet.

Xanu’s heavy industry, manufacturing, and construction sectors are also very strong, but have less reach outside of Xanan markets than some of the planet’s other industries. Xanan steel, automobiles, and machine components are renowned for their quality but are also usually more expensive than the same materials made on other Coalition worlds, such as Himeo and Konyang, though they often exceed their competitors in build quality. Areas where Xanan manufactured goods see almost universal purchase across the Coalition is military equipment, aerospace products, medical equipment, and chemicals. Xanu-made military materiel and weapons are used by nearly every planet across the Coalition and have established reputations for being combat and cost-effective, easy to use, and technologically competitive. While certainly not the cheapest, military equipment made by Xanan companies is considered by defense ministers across the coalition to be some of the best weaponry money can buy. Similarly, Xanan designed-ships, both civilian and military, can be seen all over the Coalition. Xanu does not make the most ships of the worlds in the Coalition, but it does sell the most ship designs, meaning that many Xanan shipbuilding firms have made more money from selling ship blueprints and licenses than from having actually built spacecraft. Chemicals synthesized on Xanu Prime for industrial, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and scientific purposes are exported all across the Coalition of Colonies and even to other places in the Orion Spur like the Republic of Biesel. The sheer variety of compounds made in Xanu’s chemical plants is hard for any planet in the Spur’s east to match, though Xanu is unable to make some specialty chemicals produced on other worlds like Aemaq due to not having the same unique environmental conditions. Xanan construction firms usually only take on projects that are on Xanu Prime, but their engineers and architects are sent all over the Coalition and beyond to advise or plan projects for other worlds.

Xanu’s energy and phoronics sector was thrown into chaos during the early days of the phoron scarcity but has since begun to stabilize itself. Much of Xanu Prime’s energy generation came from fusion nuclear energy plants before the scarcity, but the NanoTrasen corporation did operate some Phoron Supermatter energy plants that made up a sizable minority of Xanu’s energy needs as well. The sudden scarcity of phoron made these supermatter plants output far less energy than they had before, and brown-outs were common across the planet for months after the scarcity had hit in full force. Xanu’s economy and government were quick to act though, reactivating decommissioned fusion plants and ramping up domestic Helium-3 production from its primary source, the Mehmud Khan Helium-3 platform. This platform is a grand space station which orbits Xanu-7, a colossal gas giant in the Xanu System and harvests the gas from its atmosphere. Slowly but surely, energy prices on Xanu Prime have restabilized, and the Xanan government has made concentrated efforts to “de-phoronize” the energy sector to avoid further dependence on the scarce element.

===Corporations===
Xanu Prime’s economy is not only occupied by megacorporations known throughout the spur like Einstein Engines or those in the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate, but also by comparatively smaller domestic corporations. These corporations grew out of the aftermath of the Interstellar War and Second Astonishment during a time when foreign megacorporations were very hesitant to invest in the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Many cite this hesitation as stemming from the still lingering shock of the Second Great Depression, a general anxiety about doing business with dozens of new nations in the Coalition, and uncertainty as to how the Coalition of Colonies' and by extension Xanu's economy would fare if something were to ever go wrong on the scale of the Second Great Depression ever again. By the time that the megacorporations were organised enough and felt confident enough to seriously invest in Coalition and Xanan space, they found it easier to cooperate with the companies already there and to use their expertise in operating across such a vast area of space like the Coalition rather than competing with or purchase the companies for themselves. For this reason, Xanan companies are known to have substantial sway on the Xanan and Coalition economy as a whole, but also cooperate closely with both SCC and Einstein Engines enterprises based on Xanu Prime and throughout the CoC. The most notable of these Xanan companies are:
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====Polaris Holdings - "Heavenly Guidance"====
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[[File:Polarislogo.png|thumb|The logo of Polaris Holdings.]]
'''Polaris Holdings''', or just simply '''Polaris''', is both the newest and largest of all major Xanan corporations. It was founded as a merger between the companies of Credit Xanan and AIRtel, both of which still exist and operate as subsidiary companies under Polaris Holdings ownership. The two companies merged in 2452 under the guidance of then-Credit Xanan, now-Polaris Holdings CEO Arjun Desjardins, a self-made man of boundless ambition who rose from the mail room of a small credit-Xanu branch to the top of Polaris Holdings wishing to elevate the corporation to the same level as Biesel’s and Sol’s megacorps. While this vision has yet to be entirely realized, Polaris aims to someday have its name be spoken in the same breath as Einstein Engines or the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate. Of its many component companies, the largest are Credit Xanan, CESAR-X, AIRtel, and Annapurna.

'''Credit Xanan''' is the largest bank and financial services firm on Xanu Prime and is one of the most influential players in nearly all of the Coalition's financial markets. The company was established in 2294 by a group of Xanan businesspeople who saw an opportunity to provide banking and financial services to Xanu’s citizens during the aftermath of the Interstellar War. The company is one of the foremost in the banking and finance industry spur-wide and has cooperation agreements with other similar firms across the Orion Spur such as [[Idris Incorporated]], NanoTrasen’s financial services and banking wing, and Suezbank. The company is well-known for its aggressive venture capital and hedge fund management, with a sizable chunk of the company being solely devoted to investment banking. It also has a reputation for leveraging debt against bankrupt business debtors to acquire their companies and either absorb them into the Polaris Holdings ecosystem, thereby growing the company, or liquidate them and pocket the cash. The bank is ubiquitous as a trusted financial institution across the Coalition of Colonies for both companies and individual citizens alike. Some business analysts estimate that Credit Xanan is the single-most valuable Coalition of Colonies company currently operating, but the privately owned nature of the bank and its conservative information release practices make this hard to prove. The bank is closely tied to the Nouvelle-Rochelle Stock Exchange and for many the Coalition-over looking to invest either as individual retail investors trying to play the markets or as companies hoping to increase their assets, Credit Xanan is the first name in consulting, investment help, and wealth management. It has had its head offices in Nouvelle-Rochelle since its founding.

Along with Credit Xanan’s lucrative banking and investment operations, Polaris Holdings inherited ownership of the largest industrial conglomerate on Xanu Prime from the bank, the Pataliputra-based, formerly state-owned Xanan Concern for Economic Stability, Advancement, and Recovery, or '''CESAR-X'''. While its glory days of rebuilding Xanan society from the ground up are far behind it, CESAR-X still remains dominant in the Xanan construction and manufacturing sectors, making everything from machine parts to household appliances to medical equipment to semiconductors to complex engineering and construction components. It cannot compete abroad in heavy industrial manufacturing like it once did, but CESAR-X has reinvented itself since its acquisition by Credit Xanan to instead focus on precision manufacturing and specialty products, a strategy which has brought it back from the brink of bankruptcy. CESAR-X’s Paastad-based construction division is active on Xanu Prime and abroad and its projects have garnered a reputation for setting the industry standard in the Coalition for build quality and engineering. Because of its history, many on Xanu Prime, especially the planet’s older population, have a fond nostalgia for the company and its days as the engine of Xanu Prime’s economic boom. This nostalgia and history is something that the company uses in its marketing often, evoking the Second Astonishment; Xanan Renaissance; and burgeoning economic climate of the 2380’s and 90’s in some of its corporate imagery, while generally just playing up Xanan Patriotism in its branding.

Achgelis-Illouz-Ramakrishnan Telecommunications or '''AIRtel''' for short, is the largest telecommunications company on Xanu Prime and was one of the two entities that came together in 2456 to create Polaris Holdings. The company is named after its three founding families, two enterprising telecommunications engineers who got their start installing electrical and internet lines in Kshatragarh during its reconstruction. From there, their company came to be television and internet service providers in the 2320’s and have further since expanded their services to include mobile phone, web hosting and web services, cybersecurity, data storage, and the Coalition’s most popular search engine, SuperSeek, the mascot of which is a colorful, green and orange parakeet. AIRtel also has a division called AIR Media, a production company and holovision network that operates some of the largest film-production studios on Xanu Prime and has ownership over numerous popular franchises and media properties. It also operates one of the most popular film and TV streaming services in the Coalition, Sunserve.

The last of Polaris Holdings’s most notable subsidiaries is '''Annapurna''', an agricultural and retail giant from the city of Foy-Niljen. Annapurna began its corporate life as a food distribution company which arose during the aftermath of the Xanan Civil War. It grew slowly between the two wars, coming to be a leading name in the industrial food sector in its home city. The Interstellar War saw Annapurna grow larger and richer off of Xanan and Coalition government contracts for rations and other foodstuffs for Coalition forces during the war. By the end of the war, Annapurna came to own many of the farms around Foy-Niljen where it had before bought the raw foods for its products. Wishing then to break into the consumer market rather than just the industrial food sector, the company opened up a chain of supermarkets in 2313 called NexChange (a portmanteau of the words “next” and “exchange”) starting in their home city before expanding to Kshatragarh and Nouvelle Rochelle a few years later. As one would expect, the stores didn’t just sell food, but also clothes, tools, home goods, appliances, and a bevy of other products, but what set NexChange apart from its competitors was the company’s policy of subscription-based shopping where a customer could pay a monthly fee for the ability to check-out a rotating selection of items for free that would change every month. After a few decades of steady success and continued expansion, the company unveiled a new line of stores focused on being small, 24-hour convenience stores focused on stocking household essentials, alcohol, and hot food ready at any time of the day called NexChange Turbo. In 2358, NexChange became Xanu Prime’s largest retailer by number of stores and it’s stayed in that position ever since. Annapurna also operates an online storefront for the NexChange brand called NetChange. It has also expanded to other planets in the Coalition, with great success being seen on Assunzione with the NetChange service, and the Galatean Federation and Konyang with the NexChange Turbo chain of stores especially. NexChange’s success enabled Annapurna to purchase more and more farmland and food processing plants, and by the late 2370’s it had become the largest agricultural and food corporation on Xanu Prime. As the 2380’s rolled around, it expanded its operations to Vysoka, taking advantage of the planet’s ample farm and ranchland, and it operates there to this day. Because of the company’s consistently good performance and an ambitious desire to break into yet another influential and diverse industry, the Polaris Holdings acquired Annapurna in the largest company purchase in Coalition history in 2460.

Polaris Holdings owns the tallest building in the Coalition of Colonies, North Star Tower, which serves as their headquarters in Nouvelle-Rochelle.
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====Siddhartha Systems Incorporated - "Enlightenment Made Material"====
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[[File:Siddsyslogo.png|thumb|The logo of Siddhartha Systems Inc.]]
'''Siddhartha Systems Incorporated''', also referred to as '''SiddSys''' is a leader in Xanu Prime’s tech space across a variety of fields. Founded in 2329 as Siddhartha Technology Services by Arjun Sudev, it was originally a computer repair and technology installation company based out of a single, family-owned, store, the company has since grown to produce its own hardware, and more importantly software. Siddhartha Systems owns the rights to software used in thousands of pieces of technology across the Coalition and beyond, from personal computers to building automation to ship control systems to even AI mainframes and posibrains. The company is notable for being the first on Xanu Prime to indigenously produce a posibrain, a feat that occurred in 2411 after the corporation purchased positronic designs from Einstein Engines. To this end, Siddhartha Systems is still one of the leaders in IPC programming in the Coalition, having cooperated extensively with Konyanger firms, Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals and Einstein Engines since Konyang’s admittance to the Coalition of Colonies to further advance the fields of AI and IPC development. The firm is also one of the last that still builds IPCs on Xanu Prime itself, with most of these jobs having since left to Konyang after the world joined the CoC. The company has promised to continue IPC assembly on Xanu for as long as it can be feasibly sustained, and has found itself as one of the premier IPC maintenance service providers on Xanu Prime. Along with its IPC wing, the company also produces a variety of computer models and smart devices ranging from personal computers to PDAs and tablets to high-tech data storage servers to entire mainframes for spacecraft. SiddSys has also produced one of the most popular computer operating system in the Coalition of Colonies, DevaOS, for over a century, the first edition of which debuted in 2350. It owns a chain of maintenance shops for IPCs across Xanu Prime called Vishwakarma's Workshop. The company is headquartered in Nouvelle-Rochelle and their CEO is Lars Sudev, a descendant of the company’s founder and head of the family which owns the company.
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====d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace - "Excellence is in our d.N.A."====
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[[File:Dnalogo.png|thumb|The logo of d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace.]]
'''d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace''', short for '''de Namur-Aarden Defense and Aerospace''', is the premier defense contractor and aerospace giant of Xanu Prime. They were founded in 2409 as the result of a merger between two smaller defense companies, de Namur Defense Systems and Aarden Aerospace and has gradually grown to become the largest and most influential producer of weapons and war materiel for the Xanan military and many others in the Coalition of Colonies. Many accredit this success to the company’s up-front marketing campaigns in which they test their own equipment and weaponry against that of their competitors and freely post the video results online in an effort to impress potential buyers. Among the products that d.N.A. is famous for is the Kestrel-class destroyer, a ship design originally released in 2441 that has become the most produced military ship-hull in all of the coalition, either by d.N.A. itself or foreign manufacturers under license. A similarly ubiquitous smaller ship designed by d.N.A. is the Shrike-class corvette, a nimble, versatile, multi-purpose craft used throughout the Coalition. Their range of products is not just limited to ships though; small-arms, explosives, anti-ship missiles, drones, tanks, radars, and truly anything else a fighting force could want is produced at least to some extent by d.N.A. The company offers full support and upgrade packages to its old equipment along with producing cutting edge weaponry for those willing to pay top dollar. The company has a research-sharing agreement with Zavodskoi Interstellar and also serves as the primary distributor of Zavodskoi-made equipment to the Human Frontier. Furthermore, it has a working relationship with the Federal Technocracy of Galatea’s defense sector – though d.N.A. and Galatea’s Interstellar Avionics Research Bureau (IARG) have long held a rivalry over if the d.N.A. Shrike-class or the Galatean Amaryillis-class is the superior corvette. In 2449 d.N.A. opened a private security contractor wing called Chevauchée Asset Protection aimed at providing services to business customers and merchant shipping firms. d.N.A. has been known to cooperate with the PMCG, especially with Xanu Defense Services, as both an equipment dealer and occasional joint-partner in security contracts. Along with their military operations, d.N.A. is a leading producer of civilian shuttles and other civilian passenger craft, either through making their own designs or building Hephaestus of Einstein Engines models under license for sale in the Coalition of Colonies. They are headquartered in Foy-Nijlen and their CEO is Yves Fazail.
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====Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group - "Move Mountains with Markhor!"====
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[[File:Markhorlogo.png|thumb|The logo of Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.]]
'''Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group''', or just '''Markhor''', is the beating heart of Xanu Prime’s vibrant shipping industry. The firm was founded in 2291 by a clique of ex-All-Xanu Spacefleet officers looking to put their spacefaring skills to use after they were discharged from the Xanan military following its downsizing after the Interstellar War. They built upon already existing economic connections between Xanu Prime and the other worlds in the Coalition of Colonies to amass a shipping empire in the coming decades, running routes between Xanu and all other major worlds in the Coalition by the year 2324. By 2336, they were the largest shipping company operating in Xanan space and have maintained their position at the top of their industry ever since. In the present, Markhor does not only operate shipping lines, but makes many of their own vessels in-house and contracts their shipbuilding services out to other companies looking for vessels. The company owns shipyards on Xanu Prime, Vysoka, and Assunzione and has cooperation agreements with various Himean shipbuilding syndicates and Galatean research firms. Additionally, the company has welcomed cooperation with the newly founded Orion Express in order to access shipping avenues outside of the Coalition and has entered into various co-research agreements with Hephaestus Industries in the past. Most recently though, the company signed a trade deal for an undisclosed but likely exorbitant amount of credits with Einstein Engines for the megacorporation to refit many Markhor shipping vessels with EE’s innovative Helium-3-fueled hammer drives. Along with their prowess as a shipping and shipbuilding giant, Markhor also has a great amount of sway in the Xanan retail sector and owns many department stores and retail chains the most notable of them being Shaheen Superstore, the largest supermarket chain on Xanu Prime. They are headquartered in Pataliputra and their CEO is Marianne Travert.
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====Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical Corporation - "The Chemistry of Progress"====
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[[File:Bandvlogo.png|thumb|The logo of the Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical Company.]]
The '''Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical Corporation''', typically just referred to as '''B&V''', was founded in 2356 by a businesswoman named Aimée Vaeghts and a chemical engineer named Kishore Boelens with the initial goal of creating chemicals for pharmaceutical companies across the Coalition of Colonies. Over the years, through clever business decisions and diversification into the agricultural and industrial chemical sectors, Boelens & Vaeghts has risen to be the predominant player in Xanu Prime’s chemical industry. They produce an exceptionally wide variety of chemicals in their various facilities and operate under an unorthodox production model which starts with shipping raw chemical ingredients to regional or planetary synthesization centers which then synthesize specific, more complex chemicals in the areas where demand is most high for them. As such, agricultural plants are located in the country or on planets where fertilizers are needed, pharmaceutical plants are typically in cities or highly urbanized planets, and so on. The company has been a close cooperator with Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals since the 2380’s and has also worked closely with NanoTrasen to help bring NT medicines like peridaxon and cardox to the Coalition of Colonies market. B&V often works with the Federal Technocracy of Galatea’s biotechnology sector, and operates some facilities on the Galatean industrial world of Svarog. Boelens & Vaeghts also owns Tuliprose Healthcare, a medical services conglomerate which owns over two-hundred hospitals on Xanu Prime, seventeen on Vysoka, eight on Konyang, and three on Assunzione. They are headquartered in Pataliputra and their CEO is Preeti Boelens, granddaughter of one of the company’s founders.
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==Military==
<center>''"Prosperity in Peace, Victory in War" - Motto of the All-Xanu Armed Forces''</center>
[[File:Xanuarmedforceslogo.png|thumb|The field insignia of the All-Xanu Armed Forces and roundel of the All-Xanu Spacefleet. The symbol began as a standard marking for Xanu Prime’s Sol-era planetary defense forces and is now on all sorts of Xanan equipment from fighters to tanks to drones to uniforms.]]
The '''All-Xanu Armed Forces (AXAF)''' are the armed forces of the All-Xanu Republic and consist of the All-Xanu Army, Air Corps, Spacefleet, Maritime Patrol, and National Militia. The Xanan military is considered the premier fighting force of the Coalition of Colonies by nearly all of the alliance’s members and is perhaps the best equipped, and best trained of any in the Coalition. It is also quite large, with only Gadpathur’s military outclassing it in size. This gives it great influence over unified Coalition military policy with many of the Coalition Military’s top commanders being from Xanu Prime. Some elsewhere in the Coalition are wary of this level of influence, while others are more trusting of what some call Xanu Prime’s position of, “military stewardship,” over the Coalition.
The modern iteration of Xanu Prime’s military was created during the early days of the Interstellar War and can trace its origins to Solarian planetary defense force units on Xanu that rebelled against the Sol Alliance. Since its inception during the Interstellar War, the All-Xanu Armed forces has fought in dozens of conflicts ranging from large-scale anti-piracy operations, to low-intensity conflicts against individual rogue planets or marauding warlords on the Coalition of Colonies’ frontiers. In the nearly two centuries of its existence, it has shown to have far more successes than failures and is something that many Xanan citizens take pride in. Xanu Prime has conscription and all citizens are required to serve in a military branch for two years or to engage in another national service such as getting a job with a state enterprise or completing at least a four-year degree from an accredited higher educational institution. Aside from these conscripts, the Xanan armed forces are fully professional and have far more professional soldiers than conscripts. The branches of the All-Xanu Armed Forces are:

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===All-Xanu Grand Army===
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The '''All-Xanu Grand Army''' is the primary land force of Xanu Prime’s military. It serves two primary functions, to defend Xanu Prime’s territory and possessions against foreign threats, and to serve as the main expeditionary force for Xanu Prime’s military deployments on other planets in the Orion Spur. It is the oldest of Xanu Prime's armed forces and can trace its lineage back to the first planetary defense force regiments created in the aftermath of the Xanan Civil War. The title "Grand Army" was bestowed upon it during the Interstellar War after it successfully broke the Siege of Khairabad as both an honorary title and propagandistic move to boost morale among the ranks; it has stuck ever since. The Grand Army is characterized by its rapidly deployable nature and tactics which emphasise speed and shock assaults. With assistance from the All-Xanu Spacefleet, can be deployed on most planets in the Coalition of Colonies within a matter of days, despite some of its hardware being quite heavy and formidable. Xanan military equipment also reflects this doctrinal philosophy, with many things ranging from infantry weapons to trucks to tanks to drones being either quickly collapsible or disassemble for ease of transit and storage. Xanan-produced Army equipment is not only used by Xanu itself, but also by militaries across the Coalition large and small. A member of the All-Xanu Army is called a soldier.
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===All-Xanu Air Corps===
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The '''All-Xanu Air Corps''' is the main force for in-atmosphere off-the-ground operations. They usually work in close conjunction with the All-Xanu Army and are responsible for the duties of air defense, air-to-ground attack operations, and air superiority. Much like the Army, their equipment is made to be rapidly deployable and easily transportable, and they usually deploy alongside the Army in both offensive and defensive operations. A member of the All-Xanu Air Corps is called an aviator.
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===All-Xanu Spacefleet===
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The '''All-Xanu Spacefleet''' is the spaceborne component of Xanu Prime’s military and is the largest of its branches in terms of manpower, materiel, and has the largest share of the Xanan military budget. The fleet is quite large, numbering thousands of vessels, and is split into divisions called Expeditionary Fleets or E-Fleets. Each expeditionary fleet patrols a given portion of the Coalition of Colonies except for the 11th, 22nd, and 33rd Expeditionary Fleets which are based on Xanu Prime and assigned to the duty of rapid response to any area in the Coalition of Colonies or Human Frontier which may need immediate assistance. These three E-Fleets in particular are quite storied and experienced, with each having continuously existed in some form since the fighting of the Interstellar War. Each Expeditionary Fleet consists of sixty-five ships with a structure built around a cadre of two to five Nouvelle-Rochelle-class supercarriers, each carrying an ensemble of 120 spacecrafts of various specialization (starfighters, strike craft, early warning vessels) and a comprehensive suite of anti-ship weapons and point-defense systems. In addition to these carriers, the E-Fleets hold battlecruisers, cruisers, destroyers, and other specialized spacecraft. Contrasting their contemporaries in the Dominian Imperial Fleet, Solarian Navy, and some of their Coalition peers, the All-Xanu Spacefleet has strayed away from coilgun artillery as its primary offensive weapon system for many years and has instead focused their efforts on perfecting carrier-based warfare and anti-ship missiles. Xanu-designed starfighters and strike craft rank among some of the most formidable in the Orion Spur, placing an emphasis on stealth technology, maneuverability, operational range, and payload capacity. Xanan anti-ship missiles are incredibly advanced, with some of their newest models like the XLAM-63 Blackstar Long-Range Anti-Capital Cruise Missile possessing high-tech gadgets like antimatter warheads and integral teleportation drives to aid in avoiding point-defense fire. The mainstay of the All-Xanu Spacefleet and to a greater extent the Coalition of Colonies as a whole though is the d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace Shrike-class frigate. While not the newest of vessels, designed originally in 2441, the Estoc-class is an inexpensive vessel that can be configured to nearly any mission type. Be it screening for the rest of the fleet, relaying communications, serving as a command and control post, ferrying-supplies, being an anti-ship missile battery, operating as a light gunboat, running search-and-rescue, or even scouting and intercepting with it’s single ship-based fighter, the Estoc-class hull and systems can accomplish it with ease. Its versatility, quality, and rather inexpensive price tag has made it the most numerous military vessel employed by not just the All-Xanu Spacefleet but by Coalition of Colonies members as a whole.

The Spacefleet has its own soldier-to-soldier fighting branch as well, the '''Interstellar Infantry''', colloquially called “The Double I’s.” Interstellar Infantrymen are experts in interdiction piloting, boarding actions, demolitions, and close-quarters combat, with many using high rate of fire subcaliber weapons, hardsuit mounted lasers and rocket-launchers, or even fully-automatic shotguns as their standard weapons in order to better perform in their intended environments. The signature weapon of the Double I’s though is the dNAC-25-2, a monster of a weapon system consisting of two dual-linked 25mm autocannons with a combined rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per minute that comes mounted on the right shoulder of each Interstellar Infantryman’s dNAXS-52 combat voidsuit and exoskeleton. While Interstellar Infantryman missions are usually quite dangerous, often with numerous unknown variables, one thing can be certain about them: no matter what, the Double I always has the bigger gun. Interstellar Infantrymen are some of the most respected and envied of all Spacefleet personnel and the standards which need to be met for a Spacefleet sailor to become a Double I are some of the most stringent and exclusive in all of the All-Xanu Armed Forces; they are truly the best Xanu Prime’s spacefleet has to offer. The All-Xanu Spacefleet engages in anti-piracy operations, transports the Army and Air Corps to where they need to be, and participates in foreign disaster relief actions. Additionally, the Spacefleet operates and maintains Xanu Prime’s weapons of mass destruction, those being self-guiding hammer-drive equipped interstellar kinetic-strike cruise missiles affectionately referred to by Spacefleet personnel as “Smart Rocks,” and in wartime is charged with the duties of interstellar supremacy and, if needed, orbital bombardment. Similarly to Xanu's other military equipment, Xanan ship designs can be found in many of the fleets of other Coalition of Colonies members, either built by other states under license or bought directly from Xanu itself. All-Xanu Spacefleet vessels bear the prefix AXSV, short for All-Xanu Spacefleet Vessel. A member of the All-Xanu Spacefleet is called a sailor.
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===All-Xanu Maritime Patrol===
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The '''All-Xanu Maritime Patrol''' is the smallest of Xanu’s armed forces and is charged with the duty of patrolling, protecting, and conducting search and rescue missions in Xanu Prime’s terrestrial waters. The Maritime Patrol operates sea-faring vessels and aircraft which it uses to conduct its given duties. During wartime the Maritime Patrol handles the duties of air defense over Xanu Prime’s oceans. A member of the All-Xanu Maritime Patrol is called a mariner.
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===All-Xanu National Militia===
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The '''All-Xanu National Militia''' is a branch of Xanu Prime’s military that straddles the divide between a military branch and a law enforcement agency. The National Militia is primarily a land-based force that operates only within Xanan territory and is seen as a “second line of defense” against external threats. National Militia units can also be used as stand-ins for All-Xanu Army units, and are typically used in this fashion temporarily when army units are redeployed elsewhere. The National Militia performs the duty of disaster relief and is used to reinforce police forces and other emergency services in times of emergency or civil unrest. The National Militia also operates small spacefaring vessels, typically no larger than cruisers, which patrol the Xanu system, carry out anti-smuggling actions, and respond to distress calls within the region. During wartime, the National Militia is charged with operating Xanu Prime’s spaceborne defense platforms and air defense systems over the continental land portions of Xanu Prime. The National Militia also functions as a military reserve for those who have completed their initial contracts with the All-Xanu Armed Forces and wish to serve as part-time soldiers. A member of the All-Xanu National Militia is called a national militiaman.
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==IPCs on Xanu Prime==
<center>''"We are tinkerers no longer, but creators of the future." - Remark from Emilye Sudev, CEO of Siddhartha Systems Incorporated during the 2411 unveiling of the first Xanan-developed posibrain''</center>
The Xanan stance on IPCs is varied and unique within the Coalition, allowing for both for an IPC to own themselves as well as permitting the practice of IPC ownership. IPCs under Xanan law are not permitted to be made as free frames and instead they must be freed by their owners voluntarily or they may also accrue enough funds to purchase themselves from their owners for a “reasonable price” which is typically anywhere from three-to-six times the IPC’s retail value. There is no legal framework as to how owned IPCs are to actually obtain the wealth to buy themselves from their owners, as there’s no legal requirement that they be paid or compensated for their labor in any way; the decision to compensate an owned IPC or not for their work is left to the discretion of their owners. This seemingly impossible situation for owned-IPCs has led in recent years to the creation of a few charities across Xanu Prime dedicated to the task of fundraising cash to buy owned IPCs from their owners and then free them, the largest of these being the Pataliputra-based LibertIPC (Pronounced as Liberty-P-C). These charities are controversial to some, however they only manage to purchase a few thousand IPCs annually and do not have a substantial impact on truly increasing the self-owned IPC population of the planet to be any more than a minority of a minority. Most IPCs on Xanu Prime never get the ability to purchase themselves from their owners and are either freed or, more likely, deactivated by their owners and recycled after the end of their service lives. Legally, all Xanan IPCs must have the option to purchase themselves from their owners, however there are no current rules dictating how high or low the price for self-ownership must be, only that it is set at the purchase or manufacture of an IPC and cannot be changed once set.

Self-Owned IPCs on Xanu Prime have all the rights of their human counterparts; they can vote, run for office, own property, and serve in the military, however the latter is done only in IPC-only units for logistical reasons. The All-Xanu Armed Forces own many IPCs themselves and employ them in a variety of roles within the military, though it is illegal for these IPCs to be sold or freed by the AXAF as they are technically classified as state-owned weaponry. As such, many spend their entire service lives in the military and are deactivated with their components being recycled afterwards. The AXAF typically prefers placing IPCs they own in combat roles and officer positions over free IPCs due to their often built-in integration with Xanan battlefield control systems, with self-owned IPCs usually being placed in non-combat specialist or technician roles in their respective units. Maintenance for self-owned Xanan IPCs is covered by the Xanan state healthcare system while care for owned-IPCs is the responsibility of their owners, and there are laws in place to ensure that owned IPCs have access to maintenance services of adequate quality. A very small subset of Xanan IPCs are self-owned, but they do exist on the planet. IPCs are allowed to immigrate to Xanu Prime, however Xanu Prime does not accept IPC refugees unless they can prove they have obtained legal self-ownership from a previous owner or were created as free IPCs. In short, Xanu Prime does not give asylum to runaway IPCs and typically either deports them back to their countries of origin or defers them to other planets like Konyang and Himeo.

Societally, Xanans view IPCs as something entirely separate from humans and importantly, incompatible with the family structures that form the foundations of Xanan society. They see them as not the same as themselves, but do not shun them or hate them as others in the Orion Spur do. Xanans believe there is a place in their society broadly for IPCs, both free and owned, but do not see them as “living” things and treat them mostly as machines, albeit some with the rights of ordinary Xanan citizens. A small subset of the Xanan population are far more accepting of IPCs and wish to see them further integrated, while an equally small portion of Xanans scorn IPCs and want them to have as little influence on Xanan society as possible. Broadly however, most Xanans are tolerant of IPCs and see them as a normal part of life on Xanu Prime. IPCs were granted the ability to obtain citizenship in Xanu Prime in 2436 as part of the Mukhopadhyay Plan as a means to incentivize skilled IPC labourers to immigrate to Xanu Prime and help its economy during the Doldrums.

==Cities==
<center>''“From the ashes of our cities will be reborn a beautiful phoenix, illustrious and immaculate!” - Eloise Brel, First President of the All-Xanu Republic, 2275-2289''</center>
Xanu Prime's surface is dotted with millions of settlements, from massive metropolises to tiny villages and hamlets in its more remote areas. The most notable and important of Xanu Prime's many settlements however are the following cities:

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===Nouvelle-Rochelle===
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'''Nouvelle-Rochelle''', founded in 2181, is oldest of Xanu Prime's cities as well as its most populous, it serves as the planet’s capital and the seat of government for the All-Xanu Republic, the Coalition of Colonies, and the Fisanduhian government-in-exile. Not only is it the largest city on Xanu Prime, but the largest in the Coalition of Colonies and one of the largest in all of the Orion Spur. Nouvelle-Rochelle, much like Xanu Prime as a whole, is exceptionally diverse with people from all over human space and beyond found here. The city’s '''Kulkarni Business District''' is famous for its towering skyscrapers, with the tallest building in the Coalition, the Polaris Holdings-owned North Star Tower among them. While bustling, Nouvelle-Rochelle has its quiet parts as well, such as the famous '''Lechevalier District''', a part of the city rebuilt after the Interstellar War and made to emulate authentic Parisian architecture. The district has styles ranging from lavish baroque era buildings to more austere or rococo-revivalist 19th and early 20th century styles, and even has buildings which take their inspiration from as far back as the medieval era such as the '''Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral''', a colossal gothic-style cathedral built between 2285 and 2299 in remembrance of the fallen of the two wars Xanu Prime experienced during the 23rd century. Its graveyard houses the largest statue of the Virgin Mary in human space, the eponymous Our Lady of Xanu, which stands at one hundred meters tall, completed in 2994 during the cathedral’s construction. It’s an exceptionally famous piece of Xanan art and images of it have been subject to numerous parody renditions by Xanu’s artistic community.

Many of Xanu Prime’s expat and immigrant communities can be found in Nouvelle-Rochelle too, with the city having districts where these communities have naturally coalesced. '''Vysokatown''', '''Little Assunzione''', and the '''Greentree District''', home to Xanu Prime’s Fisanduhian community and seat of the Fisanduhian government in exile, are officially designated districts of Nouvelle-Rochelle, though other immigrant communities live here too, with each having unique twists on their native cultures that have fused with Xanu’s own. One of the most famous of Nouvelle-Rochelle’s districts though is the '''New Columbia District'''. Formerly the center of Nouvelle-Rochelle’s American colonist community in the immediate post-civil war years, '''New Columbia''' is now one of the leisure and art capitals of Xanu Prime. The most striking of its landmarks is Hastings Colosseum, affectionately referred to as “The Hall of Columns,” a gigantic 300,000-seat open-air stadium built from steel, concrete, marble, and glass in a modernist-classical fusion style which serves as the primary venue of Nouvelle-Rochelle for everything from cricket and football games, to stadium concerts, to trade exhibitions. It began construction in 2442 and was completed in 2444, just in time for Xanu Prime’s hosting of the Coalition Cup football tournament. It is the largest building of its kind in the Coalition and is the home stadium for Xanu Prime’s national football and cricket teams. Aside from just the stadium however, the New Columbia district is filled with greenery and is the home to the Columbia Spice Market, the largest open-air street market on Xanu Prime where vendors from not just all over Xanu but all over the Coalition can be found selling their wares. Surrounded by bars and restaurants on all sides, the market explodes with shoppers and sellers alike most during game days when fans from the stadium flood the market after games looking for food, drink, and generally a good time.

There is an entire district of the city devoted to the Coalition of Colonies government as well, the '''Xansan District'''. Within it is the Coalition of Colonies First Speaker’s residence, many of the CoC’s government agencies, the Coalition’s Representative Summit, and the Coalition of Colonies Supreme Court. This district is well-known across Xanu for its excellent showcasing of modernist architecture. This area of Nouvelle-Rochelle is not only notable as being the functional governmental and administrative capital of the Coalition of Colonies, but it is also where the Treaty of Xansan, the agreement which ended the Interstellar War, was signed. Xanu’s own government shares a district bordering the Xansan District, the '''Capital District''', and instead has its own distinctive architectural style, simply known as the Xanan Style, that is the result of the fusion of its founding cultures of French, Indian, Dutch, Pakistani, and Belgian. Multiple museums and art galleries bankrolled by the Xanan government can be found here, with these establishments possessing some of the most eclectic art collections in human space. The largest of these and perhaps most well known is the '''All-Xanu Eloise Brel Gallery''' where works from within Xanu itself to as far away as the Solarian Core and even old pieces from Earth’s Renaissance era can be found on display for the public to see free of charge. Another building of note is the '''Crystal Lights Mosque''', the largest mosque on Xanu Prime. It is quite striking in its construction, being a tall geodesic dome constructed of glass and steel with traditional stone minarets surrounding the mosque’s main building. It was built with the assistance of Damascene architects from Elyra in 2390 and can serve up to forty-thousand worshippers at once.

Another of the city’s most notable districts is the '''Olympique-Saraswati District''', a picturesque low-rise district known for its revivalist Indian and French fusion architecture. The main draw of the district though is the three massive universities which find themselves here: '''Université Olympique - Nouvelle-Rochelle (UONR)''', '''Saraswati College (SC)''', and '''Vaeghts Medical School (VMS)'''. UONR is a state-owned university founded in that is the largest on Xanu Prime and has an in-person student body numbering over two-hundred thousand, with millions more online students. Its standards for admission are moderate, meaning those with slightly above-average academic records applying to the school will probably get in. The school is well known across Xanu and the Orion Spur for its programs in business and aerospace engineering, though it is quite possible to get an accredited and respectable degree in nearly any subject here. The school’s campus is surrounded by bars and restaurants, and is known to be a cultural center of Xanu Prime where new music and food trends come from. The university has a list of notable alumni the size of the coalition itself, and tens of thousands of foreign students from throughout the CoC attend the university every year, giving it the most diverse campus on Xanu Prime and possibly in human space. Saraswati College, named for the Hindu goddess of knowledge, is perhaps the opposite of UONR in many ways. It is the oldest continually operating university on Xanu Prime, being founded in 2199 as a private college, and prides itself on its exclusivity. Admission standards for Saraswati College are ludicrously high and only those which show near perfect academic records are allowed to attend. Its campus embodies an Indian-revivalist look in style with many of its buildings resembling intricate art pieces more than schoolhouses or academic complexes. The some 10,000 students attending Saraswati College are given the best education that money can buy on Xanu Prime and it is particularly well-known for its law school and physics research institute. Graduating from Saraswati College is an incredibly prestigious feat, and its alumni have gone on to hold positions of power in the Xanan government and some of its most influential corporations. The last of the big three universities in the Olympique-Saraswati district is the Vaeghts Medical School, the premier medical school of Xanu Prime. It was founded by businesswoman Aimée Vaeghts in 2389 after she had made her fortune in the chemical and biomedical industry through the company she founded, Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical. The university not only is a medical school, but also a hospital that serves the Olympique-Saraswati district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, a trait it uses to great effect for teaching its students with hands-on experience. While it is new in comparison to the other universities in its district, VMS takes after both UONR and SC in some ways. Its standards for admission are decently high, with potential students needing well above average, but not perfect academic records to be admitted and it also has a large portion of its student body be foreigners from around the Coalition coming to the school to receive a quality education in biomedicine.

Nouvelle-Rochelle also has numerous suburbs where many live to commute into the city, either by its expertly designed road network or the Echelon, a state-of-the-art superfast metro system which runs underneath almost the entire city. The Echelon is a modern marvel nearly two-hundred-and-fifty years in the making and is almost always being expanded to keep up with Nouvelle-Rochelle’s constant growth.

Nouvelle-Rochelle is nicknamed “Xanu’s First City,” and truly almost anything or anyone within the Coalition can be found here. They have two All-Xanu Ultraleague teams, both of which have a crosstown-rivalry with each other called the “The Battle of Rochelle.” The first of these teams is '''F.C. Columbia''', named after the New Columbia district of the city, and their colors are red and blue. The city’s second team is '''A.S. Olympique-Saraswati''', which can be found in the Olympique-Saraswati district. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Nouvelle-Rochelle Captains''', and their colors are blue and orange, and they hold the current record for most Alpha Cricket League championship titles with a total of 24 as of fall 2464 with their last win being in 2463.
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===Pataliputra===
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The second largest of Xanu Prime’s cities, Pataliputra was founded in 2191 and serves as the largest port on Xanu and the largest in the Coalition of Colonies. It is only surpassed by Callisto in the amount of cargo traffic that moves in and out of its massive piers. Because of this, it is the headquarters of the Xanan and Coalition of Colonies admiralty and has a long-standing spacefaring tradition that stretches back centuries. The Xanan Space Travel Museum, a colossal structure dedicated to telling not just Xanu’s, but humanity’s history with space travel is in the city and draws in millions of tourists annually and pays homage to this heritage.

Pataliputra is also the site of the '''Patali-Ram Temple''', a large Hindu temple dedicated to Ram, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. It was built by Xanu’s original Indian colonists from 2197 to 2215, and was constructed with aims to use the most authentic methods possible in an attempt to emulate traditional Indian stone temple architecture. It is a holy site for many of the planet’s Hindu population as it was said that during the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War that not even a scratch came to the temple or those seeking refuge inside it despite the damage the wars brought to the rest of the city. Another notable feature of the Pataliputran cityscape are the city’s walls which date back to the Xanan Civil War. While many cities have walls such as these on Xanu prime, Pataliputra’s are the planet's most intact, with over 80% of the original walls and gun emplacements still being maintained as a memorial to the fallen of the Interstellar War and Xanan Civil War. The city’s growth has expanded far past these walls since the post-Interstellar War reconstruction efforts, yet the structures still serve as an unofficial symbol for Pataliputra and its people, regardless of religion.

Much of Xanu’s heavy industry has its home in Pataliputra as well, having moved here after the Interstellar War. Large factories and foundries can be found in the city’s industrial quarter and on its outskirts. Pataliputra houses Xanu’s largest shipyard as well, the République Ship Foundry, a sprawling complex owned by the Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group that takes up an entire district of the city and employs nearly five percent of its population. Additionally, what few IPCs are produced on Xanu Prime are made in Pataliputra, though Xanan IPC manufacturing has shrunk significantly since Konyang’s admittance to the Coalition of Colonies in 2463.

Pataliputra embodies a “work hard, play hard” type of culture as along with its heavy industry, the city’s '''Neon District''' has some of Xanu’s most exclusive and lavish nightclubs. The largest of these is the Idris-operated '''Seventh Heaven''' and is a huge 27 storey high-rise of a club with 33 bars, 21 dancefloors, four swimming pools, a casino, and two restaurants, one at the base of the structure and one at the summit. It also has an artificial waterfall that flows off of its northside down into one of the establishment’s swimming pools below. Establishments with less prestige (and those that fit cheaper tastes) also dot the cityscape, too so truly anyone can come to Pataliputra for a night out, a weekend of fun, or a month-long booze cruise. Among other notable attractions here is '''Umbrella Row''', a series of narrow streets all of which are filled with open-air outdoor bars and restaurants that stay open until 4am. The area received its name from the large umbrellas that were fastened above some of the bars in order to provide shade or protection from the rain, but now many of the umbrellas are just there for aesthetic purposes since the bars and restaurants have since acquired awnings or roofs. Different breweries test their products here first before shipping them to other places on Xanu Prime, and the area is also well-known throughout the Xanan film scene for being where some of the biggest names in Xanu’s film industry, directors, actors or otherwise, got their starts. Accordingly, some of the planet’s largest film studios are located here in a district of the city commonly referred to as '''“Pataliwood.”'''

Pataliputra’s '''Admiralty District''' is quite notable as well. The district is known for the majority of its buildings being painted a light navy-blue color or made from materials in the same color. The tradition began with the '''All-Xanu Interstellar Naval College''', the centerpiece of the district, when it was being built after the interstellar war and only blue bricks could be requisitioned for the buildings. The color as stuck and has since been adopted by the rest of the district and has become ubiquitous to a point where local ordinances dictate that buildings new cannot be built in the area unless they have at least 30% of their outward surface area covered by a shade of blue similar to the original “Admiralty Blue.” The All-Xanu Naval College itself, as the name may imply, is the premier university for Spacefleet officers on Xanu Prime. Construction on the university began in 2388, one year after the end of the Interstellar War. Officers from not just Xanu Prime, but the Coalition at large have attended the College and its graduates usually go on to find productive and lucrative careers in the armed forces or other industries which require similarly organizational, martial, or spacefaring skillsets. On the outskirts of the Admiralty district sits a veritable ring of bars often called the '''“Whiskey Circle”''' by the locals. These dive bars exist almost solely for the purpose of serving cheap drinks and hot food to Naval College cadets, but they’ve become a popular destination for Pataliputrans in general to have a fun night on the town on the cheap. Another standout district neighboring the Admiralty District is the '''Bamdha District''', also known as Mokammeljela, a small yet densely populated area of the city mostly inhabited by Gadpathurian Exiles and their descendants.

The city is one of contrasts but manages to stay both an industrial center and the place to be for the latest in nightlife action on Xanu Prime. Their All-Xanu Ultraleague Team is '''Admiralty AC''' and their colors are blue and white. Admiral AC has the honor of holding the most Ultraleague titles as of Spring 2464 with a grand total of 36, their last win being in 2464 itself in a hotly contested 2-1 overtime match against Himavat City FC. Their Alpha Cricket League team is owned by the same organization that owns the football team and is also called Admiralty AC. Similarly, their colors are also blue and white.
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===Foy-Niljen===
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'''Foy-Nijlen''' is the third largest of Xanu’s cities and is indisputably one of the most unique on the planet. The city was founded originally as two separate communities, Foy and Nijlen, settled across the Naya Khyber river from one another in 2191. Disputes between the two quickly arose after citizens and companies from both towns began to claim the same parts of riverfront property and land surrounding the two towns until their city councils agreed to unify into a single polity to resolve their jurisdictional issues. A name could not be decided upon, so the names were simply combined in alphabetical order to make Foy-Nijlen. The city was unremarkable for much of the 23rd century and served as the urban beacon in Xanu Prime’s farming heartland until the Interstellar War. During the war, while not besieged like other cities, it was bombarded relentlessly from orbit by the Solarian Navy to the point where when the rainy season came in 2281, the city’s bombed out streets, which now resembled ditches, turned into small canals when the Naya Khyber river burst its banks and flooded. After the war the decision was made to instead of replacing the roads, implement a brand new canal system in the city which would combine large waterways along with bridges and railroads as the city’s primary mode of transportation. The urban redevelopment plan was completed in 2319, and Foy-Nijlen has been known as “Xanu’s Canal City” ever since.

At one time Foy-Nijlen was the center of Xanu’s farm country, and while it still is an agriculture hub, it now also serves as the site for many of Xanu’s chemical and pharmaceutical plants, the ample and cheap water around the city making it attractive to many companies in the chemical industry. Agriculture exists outside of the city and this pastoral influence and close proximity to fresh food has made Foy-Nijlen the epicenter of Xanan culinary arts. Hundreds of restaurants and bars large and small dot the city and Foy-Nijlen’s cafe culture is very strong, ever changing while respecting time-tested Xanan traditions and tastes. Some of the finest restaurants and hotels in the coalition can be found in Foy-Nijlen, the most famous of which is called '''Sultana Rex Hotel and Grill'''. If Xanan luxury was a building it would be the Sultana Rex, and if it was a taste, it would be Naya Khyber river lobster cooked in river penguin blubber in the Sultana Rex kitchen. The hotel is a five-star establishment dating back to the First Astonishment, its construction finishing in 2241, originally built by an eccentric Bangladeshi colonist named Prasenji Sultana after he struck it rich in the asteroid mining industry. It is equipped with anything one could ever hope for, a day spa, three swimming pools, six hot tubs, casino parlor, winery, and restaurant, all while in the midst of downtown Foy-Niljen’s picturesque baroque-revivalist architecture. The hotel itself is made from artisan-chiseled and masoned hickory-brown and gray stone bricks and is opulently Second Empire in style, standing fifty floors tall with each window being an artistic stained-glass arrangement. This appearance along with the luxury found inside has earned it the nickname “The Brown Palace,” something that the Sultana family and the hotel’s marketing teams have been very keen to play into. The Brown Palace is one of Foy-Niljen’s few surviving examples of pre-Interstellar War architecture outside of the Old Town district and was used as a hospital during the conflict. This history has led many to say that its rooms and halls are haunted. Surf-and-turf is the name of the game in the '''Sultana Rex Restaurant''', its menu having a double-threat of both mouthwatering seafood fresh from the ocean or river and finely bred, grown, and butchered livestock all cooked in traditional and contemporary Xanan styles. The restaurant has earned itself hundreds of awards since it opened along with the hotel in 2241 and it is perhaps the foremost proprietor of fine Xanan cuisine on the planet. The Sultana family has repeatedly refused buyouts from Idris Incorporated to purchase their hotel and restaurant, though the two have seen limited cooperation, with the Brown Palace’s spa and boutique showcasing the newest, and even occasionally exclusive, Idris beauty products.

The oldest continuously operating restaurant in the Coalition of Colonies, the '''Kingfisher Bistro''', opened in 2184 by a family of Belgian colonists, is located in the heart of Foy-Nijlen’s old-town district and is one of the most historically important culinary establishments in the Orion Spur. Not only is it a fine restaurant, but it is where Eloise Brel drafted the original Xanan declaration of secession, the first draft of which is displayed above the restaurant’s bar behind bulletproof and laser-dissipating borosilicate glass. It is a must-see stop on any of the city’s numerous riverboat tours for both its food and its history.

Boats, bicycles, and trains are the main ways to get around Foy-Nijlen, with automobiles coming in at a distant fourth. The city is dotted with greenery and experiences temperate weather year-round. Foy-Nijlen is also famous for its usage of hyperstrong stained glass in much of its architecture and infrastructure, something unique to the city but often associated with Xanu Prime as a whole by foreigners unfamiliar with Xanan culture. Extremely resistant and superstrong shatter-proof stained glass is used in things as diverse as building windows, to the floors and sides of the city’s elevated bicycle bridges, to soundproof walls next to railways and roads, to even the roofing of some buildings. During sunset, many of these glass constructions twinkle in the light and bloom into dazzling twilight colors.

The combination of a passionate food culture mixed with a picturesque and unique city design free from road traffic has made Foy-Nijlen a tourist destination for billions of people throughout the years. The city keeps a very tight control of its image, banning the construction of buildings taller than 15 floors unless given special permission or raised in special business or factory districts on the outskirts of the city. In addition, all buildings built outside of those business or factory districts must be built in a Xanan architectural style to ensure that the city feels authentically like Xanu to any tourist passing through or citizen calling it their home. Foy-Niljen, like many other Xanan cities, also has residual walls dating back to the Xanan civil war, though much of these were torn down during the 24th century to make way for more urban development. Only 20% of the city’s walls and emplacements still stand.

Foy-Nijlen is incredibly unique, but at the same time embodies some of the quintessential things that anyone, Xanan and foreign, associate with Xanu Prime. Their All-Xanu Ultraleague team is '''ASC Brown Palace FN''', owned by the Sultana family, the same family which owns the Sultan Rex Hotel or “Brown Palace,” and their colors are brown and cream. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Nijlen Penguins''' and their colors are dark green and white.
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===Kshatragarh===
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'''Kshatragarh''' is the fourth most populated of Xanu Prime’s major cities, though it was not always known as Kshatragarh. The city was founded originally as '''Khairabad''' in 2194 and from its inception was planned to be the foremost center of Xanan heavy industry. Throughout most of Xanan history until the Interstellar War it served that role well. Photos from the pre-Interstellar War era show huge factories, refineries, and foundries dominating the city’s skyline. Nearly everything Xanu-made from automobiles to weaponry to ship hulls to basic consumer goods was made in Khairabad. This all changed in 2279 when the city was put under siege during the Solarian Invasion of Xanu. The siege was the single-most costly battle on Xanu Prime for both sides during the war. It is estimated that between five and seven million civilians died during the siege with an estimated three million combatant casualties on the Solarian side and four million on the Xanan side. 99% of the city was destroyed or otherwise made unusable for commercial or residential purposes by the time the siege ended in 2282. Almost all of its population was displaced or had died, but nevertheless, it survived and was given the name of Kshatragarh for its stubbornness and bravery. The name came from the hindu warrior caste of Kshatria and the suffix “garh” meaning meaning fortress or castle. Even if it did heroically stand in the face of utter annihilation, it was absolutely destroyed. Some in Xanu’s government at the time proposed that the city be abandoned and that trying to salvage it would be a fool’s errand and a pointless expenditure of resources that were needed to rebuild and repair cities and settlements elsewhere on the planet. Debate about what should be done with Kshatragarh raged long and hard among Xanu’s authorities but the question was answered in 2290 when quite literally the population of the entire city, or what was left of it, took to the streets of Khairagarh and occupied government buildings in an outcry for help and assistance from the federal national government.

What followed was a government investment that began small, starting with just cleaning up the rubble from the city, but soon snowballed into a widespread effort by both the local and national governments to rebuild Kshatragarh into a modern model city. Trillions of credits from across the Coalition poured into the city in an effort to build it back to its former glory, however a problem was soon found. There simply was not as much demand in the city for heavy industry as there was before the Interstellar War. Xanu’s heavy industry had resettled itself to the city of Pataliputra in the wake of the war, and an economic vacuum had gripped the still-under-construction Kshatradarh. Eventually though it was decided to embrace modernity with the city’s economy, turning it into Xanu Prime’s foremost hub for technology and biomedicine. The initiative was successful, and to this very day, research labs and institutes owned by every megacorp in the known galaxy can be found here in Kshatragarh.

The city’s new design after the war was a radical one, taking on a very distinctive, organized ring-shaped bullseye pattern. It spread out from the city’s center and business district to a research and tech focused second ring, to a retail and service industry third ring, to a residential ring, to a green belt, and finally, a heavy industry outskirt ring that was enclosed by second, larger green belt to prevent urban sprawl. All of these districts were to be connected by trains and bus lines. While the lines between these designated rings have blurred some in the two-centuries since their inception, the organization of the city can broadly be seen to follow these trends.

Kshatragarh’s culture is an incredibly interesting one. Nowhere else on Xanu Prime can the reverence for the Interstellar War be felt as much as it can here, and despite the city being essentially a new city from its first inception, there is a great importance placed in the local culture on knowing the history of Khairabad and Kshatragarh. '''Kshatragarh Veterans’ Park''' is the largest park in the city and is home to the '''Steeple of Memory''', a giant stone tower topped with a spire built in a regal, Second Empire style from black and white marble and granite that stands 200 meters tall. Despite officially being a monument, it is often referred to as the tallest mausoleum in the galaxy, due to its walls holding the remains of thousands of unknown soldiers, both Xanan and Solarian, who died during the Siege of Khairabad. Since its completion in 2329, it has been customary for Xanu’s president to give a speech at the Steeple on every Victory Day to honor the dead and commemorate the continued sacrifice of Xanu’s soldiers and citizens in the battles, military or otherwise, against the country’s foes while affirming the country's commitment to peace. The Steeple has a special honor guard of soldiers hand-picked from the Xanan military, aptly called the '''Vigil Regiment''', which supervise, watch over, and march around the steeple twenty-four hours a day, three-hundred and sixty-five days a year. The regiment has watched the steeple without any stoppages for over one hundred thirty-five years, from 2329 to the present through hard times, good times, and harsh weather. They are known for their exceptionally stoic demeanor, austere midnight blue, orange accented uniforms with green peaked caps, and their impressive, perfectly precise silent rifle inspection routines which occur during the changing of the guard. Being selected to be a member of the Vigil Regiment after passing the rigorous knowledge and conduct tests needed to join the regiment is considered to be one of the highest honors possible in the All-Xanu Armed Forces and those who age out of the position usually end up becoming officers.

Aside from this more solemn aspect of Kshatragarhian culture, the city has found ways to turn its history into functioning ventures for the present day. Many of the bunker complexes built under the city during its siege still exist today. Some have been used as sites for historical tours, while have been repurposed into a variety of entertainment venues. Bars, theaters, and even nightclubs have come to occupy the subterranean concrete facilities built so many years ago. Not all locations of bunkers are known though, and it is not uncommon for Kshatragarhian citizens or construction companies to accidentally uncover previously unknown bunkers or even unexploded ordnance when digging for construction or DIY projects. Sadly, roughly a dozen people die every year in Kshatragarh from accidental ordinance detonations, most of which are caused by artillery shells or aerial bombs that have been buried in the backyards of unassuming homeowners or renters. Their All-Xanu Ultraleague team is '''Khairabad United FC''', a hold-over from the pre-war renaming of the city, and their colors are gold and green. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Kshatragarh Lionhearts''' and their colors are gold and maroon red.
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===Paastad===
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'''Paasstad''' is an oddity among Xanu Prime’s cities. It is the fifth most populated of Xanu’s major settlements and the only to not have seen heavy fighting during the Interstellar War. Located in the center of the swampy continent of Paasland, it is held aloft above the marshlands below by a series of super-strong plasteel pylons which bear its weight and prevent the waters of the marsh from flooding the entire city during the rainy season. It wasn’t always this way though. Paasstad was originally settled during the Solarian colonization effort as an agricultural hub that used the rich soil and boggy conditions around the city as an area to grow rice. It was small, never surpassing one-hundred-thousand inhabitants until after the Interstellar War. It was one of the few cities on Xanu Prime which was untouched by that conflict too and is one of the few places where widespread examples of undamaged pre-Interstellar War Xanan architecture can be found on the planet.

After the war though, Paasstad’s population exploded. A Xanu Prime scarred by war needed food, and fast, and while Vysokan imports could cover some of it, the rice from Paasstad was seen as guaranteed domestic food. The city had a golden age from the 2310’s to the 2350’s, however a problem began to gradually show itself throughout the 2360’s. As Paasstad grew larger and larger, it expanded and added more buildings onto the land which eventually, after decades, became too much for the soft marshy ground to bear. The city began to sink. In 2366, the Paasstad government immediately declared an emergency and begged the Xanan national government for help in resolving this issue. Then president Ameliye Flohimont organized an emergency committee to save the city from a murky, muddy demise. After deliberation the committee agreed that the only way to save Paasstad and its people without resettling them was to undertake the single-largest engineering project in Xanan history: they were going to elevate the city. Specifically, they were going to reasie the planet onto giant platforms held-up by pylons bored deep enough into Xanu’s crust that the city’s weight could be supported by in a project straightforwardly called '''The Elevation Initiative'''. This undertaking couldn’t be done by Xanu’s people alone, though. Experts and equipment were brought in from Himeo’s Unified Cooperative Construction Syndicate and Galatea’s Planetary Reclamation and Development Bureau – one of the few moments where these bitter rivals worked together – to achieve this engineering feat. Districts would be platforms, all streets would effectively be elevated, and all plumbing and electrical lines would need to be integrated into these new massive metal podiums. In 2389, after two decades of herculean labor and toil, Paasstad was finally raised one-hundred meters above the ground, and stably so. To mark this achievement, a sixty-meter tall monument called '''Skyward Unity''' was built in the central park of the city depicting a team of Xanan, Himean, and Himean workers and engineers riveting plating onto a pylon which still stands today.

Partially because of its megaproject past, Paasstad’s economy revolves around a few major sectors. The largest of these are construction and engineering. After its elevation, Paasstad quickly became the intellectual and commercial hub of many of Xanu Prime’s largest engineering firms and construction companies, all of them wishing to cash-in on any maintenance or future expansion projects the city might have in mind. These companies do not only operate here though, many of the largest construction projects on Xanu Prime that have taken place in the last nearly eighty years can be traced back to companies based in this city. Whether it is a new dam on the Naya Khyber, a new skyscraper in Nouvelle-Rochelle, or even a new terminal for Pataliputra’s numerous ports, odds are a Paasstadian company has been contracted for at least part of it. Aside from engineering, agriculture is still strong here. Even with the emergency, the agricultural and rice industry that the city was originally intended for has remained as a strong part of Paasstad’s economy, almost always remaining consistent even when other sectors have declined due to market forces.

Culturally, Paasstad is unique, but also holds some things similar to other cities on Xanu Prime. The idea of uniting and coming together to help one another regardless of origins is very strong here, as the city would not exist without the help of others, namely the Himeans. The largest Himean immigrant community on Xanu Prime and the largest Himean population outside of Himeo in the Orion Spur lives in Paasstad, with nearly 25% of the city’s population having Himean ancestry of some kind. The '''Himean Platform of Paasstad''', colloquially known as '''“Kleiner Himeo”''' or '''“Little Himeo”''' is a part of the city which shows authentic Himean architecture and houses stores which sell products that could otherwise only be found on Himeo. The '''Gerber-Bauer Theater''', a huge opera house and musical theater venue made in the Himean style reminiscent of Rautakaivos Kaupunki’s Weber District can also be found here and is a draw for both its citizens and visitors. Fittingly for such a locality, Hephaestus Industries was banned from operating there by the Little Himeo district council in 2396.

A proud achievement alongside the Elevation Project is the '''Paasstad Central Transit System''' or PaCTS, a railway and subway network that was built into the city’s elevated platforms to literally be part of the city. Because of this, it is widely considered to be the most effective public transit network in the Coalition of Colonies, if not the Orion Spur, though the latter of these two claims is contested by some in Sol and Elyra. What’s more though is that this network has allowed for less of Paasstad’s precious surface area to be used for roads and more to be used for buildings or even parks made with soil that has been excavated and then re-seated onto the city’s metal platforms. Because of these factors too, the city is incredibly walkable, and is renowned for its street music culture with sounds of guitars, homemade drums, soloist saxophonists and trumpeters drifting through many of its neighborhoods and parks on any given afternoon. The city’s official holiday is called '''Elevation Day'''. Every November 8th, the city celebrates another anniversary for when the Paasstad Elevation Project was completed. People get days off from work, parades are often held, and many companies arrange for helicopter or airplane tours underneath and above the city to celebrate. The most notable tradition of this occasion though is called the Skyward Tournament, a competition between local hobbyist rocketeers where they gather in Paasstad’s central park and shoot kitbash rockets into the air in an effort to determine who's rocket can go the highest the fastest. This tournament is to many Paasstaders the embodiment of Elevation Day, it being in-line with the theme of ascension and elevation that the holiday is known for.

Their All-Xanu Ultraleague team is called '''Durendal''' and their colors are yellow and black. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Paasstad Parakeets''', colloquially referred to by fans as “The Birds” or “The Keets,” and their colors are light green and pink. Paasstad’s teams are generally thought to be the worst of any of Xanu Prime’s major sports teams; for whatever reason, they typically underperform despite being quite hyped. This has led to fans of other teams joking that Paasstad’s teams are bad because the city has “no grass” and making chants to that end, despite the city, in fact, having quite a bit of real grass and greenery transplanted onto its platforms. Paastad sports fans have developed a "lovable loser" mentality among themselves, and certain subsets of them fly into joking outrage whenever their teams are actually successful.
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===Himavat City===
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'''Himavat City''' is the smallest of Xanu Prime’s major cities and is the only large settlement on the great arctic landmass of Himavatia. The city was founded by prospectors from all over Xanu Prime in 2243 on Himavatia’s coast due to a gold rush in the area. After the initial boom wore off, the city became a regional hub for mining and petrochemicals. Himavat City was bombed by the Solarians during the Interstellar War and significant portions of it were destroyed. After the war, the city took the longest out of any of Xanu Prime’s major cities to rebuild, not finishing until the year 2328. Since then though, Himavat City has experienced peaceful growth that has taken it from a small city of only a few hundred thousand to the sixth-largest city on Xanu Prime with an economy and culture to match. Seasonal extremes define much of Himavat City’s landscape. During the wintertime (which due to the city’s northerly position lasts from October until April) Himavat City receives an average of 851 centimeters of snowfall, making it the snowiest major city on Xanu Prime. It is also the coldest major city on Xanu Prime, with its average winter temperature being -3 degrees Celsius. The summer brings with it a steady rainfall as well, meaning that consistent sunshine is a rarity here. The city’s architecture is built to work with these climatological realities: its buildings have vaulted or reinforced roofs with large runoff gutters to help deal with snowpack and the buildings themselves are usually constructed from sturdy, insulating materials to both keep their insides warm while remaining undamaged by the wind, hail, and ice. During the wintertime the weather can make driving difficult and because of this many Himavatans make their way around via the city’s extensive tram and underground metro network, though winter-capable automobiles and snowmobiles are common too. The city has been voted as having the worst weather on Xanu Prime for decades and life can be rather dour and drab here if one doesn’t find something fun to do with their time.

The city is home to the '''Himavat Winter Festival''', typically called '''WinFest''' or '''HimaFest''', a two-week long outdoor music and arts festival held during the middle of winter, usually in late January or early February. It’s the single-largest get-together of Xanan musicians on the planet ranging from genres as diverse as rock, to hip-hop, to electronica, to singer-songwriter, and more. Other things that the festival is notable for is its ice and snow sculpture contests, something which many go to the festival to see alone and a wide variety of cook-offs ranging from things like chili and curry to fish filets. A trip to the festival is treated by many Xanan young adults as a rite of passage and is one taken by many college students in the year after they finish their undergraduate degrees. WinFest is only one of Himavat city’s many festivals; every few weeks the city has some new event, usually on an annual basis, to attract tourists to the city. Local musicians in Himavat City are renowned for their creativity, and the city’s artists have invented several genres of music, the most popular of which being Himavat Midnight.

Supporting not only the festivals but the tourism that the city receives at large is the ecosystem of various hotels and winter resorts that dot the city and its surrounding areas. Accommodations in Himavat City are more rustic than not, something the city markets as part of its homey, wintery charm. The restaurants and bars of the city offer themselves in a similar way too; outstanding food with friendly service and a no-frills attitude towards presentation and decor. Other tourism-focused enterprises have their roots here too like ski resorts and Himavatian arctic cruises which take their guests on scenic trips to the most remote parts of the Himavatia’s coastline. While tourism arguably keeps Himavat City afloat, the Himavatans themselves have a love-hate relationship with their guests. On one hand, they appreciate the business that tourists bring them, but on the other, tourists often simply do not understand what life is like in Himavat City given that they are only there for a few days or weeks at a time. This has led to tourists often being the butt of many jokes by the locals and the word “tourist” itself being Himavatan shorthand for a generally ignorant or stupid person.

Tourism is not the only driving force of the Himavat City economy however and people can be found working in a variety of industries here. Mining and petrochemicals still play a significant role in generating revenue for the city, and many believe that the continent of Himvatia holds untold mineral and oil deposits in the mountains beneath its frigid icecaps. Governmental regulations prohibit companies from intentionally destroying the icecap to reach the deposits underneath, so instead many companies and even some Himean syndicates have resolved to simply drill underneath it, through the rock of the continent to reach those polar riches by way of large tunnels. North of the city, the All-Xanu Armed Forces operate the '''Herzog Army Base & Military Spaceport''', home of the '''AXAF Special Warfare Academy''', a place where many of Xanu Prime’s most capable soldiers and sailors train when not in the field. Many of these soldiers and sailors then find themselves in Himavatan bars and clubs on the weekends. This military presence has led to some Xanan defense contractors, most notably d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace to establish research laboratories in the Himavat City, many testing their newest weapons and designs north of the city in Himavatia’s more remote regions away from prying eyes. Fishing is a notable industry here as well; some of the best fish and crabs on all of Xanu Prime are caught by fishing companies based out of Himavat City that operate in the frigid polar waters off the Himavatian coastline. The northerly city also has a modest industrial sector, though it is not anywhere near the caliber of what Pataliputra has to offer. Himavat City’s relatively remote position often means that transporting some goods to the city can be quite expensive, and as such, many Himavatan companies have jumped at the opportunity to produce some goods locally to supply the Himavatan market. This has given the city a unique bit of insulation from shocks that might otherwise rock the Xanan economy, the most recent of which was the turmoil surrounding the initial waves of the ongoing phoron scarcity. While the economy in Himavat City dipped like it did everywhere else, the city saw the smallest decline and fastest recovery of any major Xanan city.

Himavat City’s Ultraleague team is rather uncreatively called '''Himavat City FC''', though their fans call them the Ice Caps. Their colors are icy blue and dark red. The city does not have an alpha cricket league team due to most of the grass in the city being permafrost and unpleasant to play on. Instead, the city has a professional ice hockey team called the '''Himavat Fightin’ Polecats''' which play in the Trans-Xanu Ice Hockey Association, Xanu Prime’s foremost professional ice hockey league. Their colors are green and black with red accents.
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==Overview==
The shimmering and vibrant planet of '''Xanu Prime''' (pronounced Ksa-noo), officially the All-Xanu Republic, is the beating heart of the [[Coalition of Colonies]]. In nearly all ways, economic, political, and cultural, Xanu Prime holds almost unmatched influence over the rest of the Coalition. It is the most populated planet in the Coalition and is the seat of its national government, but it is so much more beyond that. It is a cosmopolitan and multicultural hub where nearly anyone from across the Orion Spur can be found, a cornerstone not just in the Coalition but in the galactic community as a whole, and home to a thriving culture and democratic tradition which, along with the dedication and hard work of its citizens, has cemented its position of leadership and wealth which it currently enjoys.

The planet is slightly larger than Earth and is the fourth planet of the Xanu system, which is positioned in the galactic north of the Coalition of Colonies in the [[The_Orion_Spur#Liberty%E2%80%99s_Cradle|Liberty's Cradle]] Region.
[[File:Xanuprimeflag.png|thumb|center|The flag of the All-Xanu Republic is a flag of three horizontal stripes, blue, orange, and green, with a white circle in the middle featuring the national crest of Xanu Prime, a peacock feather. The blue represents liberty and freedom, orange represents determination and hard work, green represents the planet and its people, white represents justice and peace, and the national crest represents the republic itself.]]
==History==
<center>''“We have asked, and our people have delivered: solidarity, unity, and liberty.” - Gaspard Kulkarni, Colonial Governor of Xanu Prime from 2225-2267''</center>

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===Discovery and Settlement | 2156 - 2185===
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Xanu Prime’s known history begins not on the planet itself but on Earth. The planet was discovered in the year 2156 by a team of French, Belgian, and Indian astronomers and deemed habitable for colonization. Its original designation was Exoplanète Astronomique-Neuf-Un, however was shortened first to XA-9-1, and then simply “Xanu” some years later once colonists had made landfall on the planet. Colonization ventures aiming to establish footholds on far-off worlds in places like the Tau Ceti System, Epsilon Eridani, and the Al-Rashid System had already begun near time of the planet’s discovery and the governments of Earth were more than eager to establish further footholds for humanity across the stars. Not wishing to be left behind, the governments of France along with Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg (BeNeLux) pooled their resources for an extraterrestrial expedition with the intention of colonizing the far-flung but promising exoplanet of XA-9-1. These countries quickly ran into a problem as they had the funds to bankroll this endeavor but lacked the industrial capacity to create the massive vessels needed for such a journey to the stars.

It seemed as if the expedition may falter before it even started without an industrial partner so, France and the BeNeLux shopped their proposal around to various countries but were turned down by the first few they asked. Firms from West Germany, the Federal Republic of China, and the United States all were offered contracts to build colony ships, but none accepted due those nations prioritizing their resources towards their own colonization initiatives. Eventually however, partners were found in the South Asian economic and industrial powerhouses of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, all three of whom agreed to build the massive vessels required to travel to what would become known as Xanu Prime, on the condition that their own colonists were included in the expedition. Naturally, they also wanted to receive a portion of the profits that the colony might generate. India and Pakistan saw the shipbuilding as a contest and tried to out-do each other during the construction process as an extension of the Indo-Pakistani rivalry while Bangladesh tried to remain neutral in the competition and simply complete their orders.

The six vessels needed for the expedition, Seine, Ganga, Rhine, Indus, Brahmaputra, and Yser were completed by 2181 and launched the same year. The expedition was long and arduous and needed to stop twice for repairs to the Rhine’s engines. Nevertheless, the expedition arrived at XA-9-1, albeit nine months behind schedule, in 2185. Colonization efforts began in full-force after the arrival, with the coastal location around where the colony fleet touched down quickly becoming the hub of the new world’s people. Modest agricultural and solar power initiatives were set-up to promote self-sustainability in the colony, and by most measures they were successful. After a year of success, the colonists desired to name the small city they had created and gave the honor of naming it to the commander of the expedition, Commodore Pascal Lechevalier, who named it Nouvelle-Rochelle, or New Rochelle, after his hometown of La Rochelle, France. The same year the planet’s official designation was changed from XA-9-1 to Xanu Prime by the [[Sol Alliance]].
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===Early Colonial Era | 2185 - 2223===
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Over the next three decades the colony steadily grew in population with more and more colonists coming to the planet from Western Europe and South Asia hoping to make it big on Xanu or simply start a new life on an entirely new world. It was during this period that the cities of Pataliputra, Maartstad, and Khairabad (presently known as Kshatragarh) were founded as well, solidifying Xanu as no longer a single-settlement colony and one that was almost entirely self-sufficient. From here, Sol left much of the Colony’s governance to itself and was happy to rake in the profits it produced while not giving much back to the colony itself, something that would become a theme over Xanu’s colonial era. It was also during this time however that Xanu Prime began to experience some of its first challenges during its ascent to prosperity.

While Xanu’s colonization effort had been a success, the colony itself was dysfunctional on a societal and political level. Since the initial landing on Xanu Prime, many of the colonists had begun to break off into groups and communities that were increasingly centered around their old world nationalities. The French often only interacted with the French, Indians with Indians, Pakistanis with Pakistanis, and so on. This led to increased tension over resources on the planet between these groups, and with each passing year the colony seemed less like one world and more like many inhabiting the same planet. This allegiance to ethnicity penetrated nearly every aspect of life, with members of the planet’s colonial administration and even fledgling military having stronger ties to their own communities rather than the colony’s government. By the early 2220’s, many of the planet’s citizens thought that a civil war was inevitable as the differences between the various ethnic groups of the planet seemed irreconcilable. In 2223, when that year’s crops failed and a famine gripped the world, their fears were made reality when Xanu’s colonial administration collapsed under the pressure to provide relief for the starving communities of Xanu and internal power struggles. A power vacuum was opened, and local militias following demagogic firebrands leaped at the opportunity to secure it wherever they could.
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===The Xanan Civil War | 2223 - 2227===
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The Xanan Civil War was a four-factioned war fought between the Xanan Republic, a primarily French faction, the Xanu Free Union, a primarily Indian faction, the Xanu Solidarity Army, a primarily Pakistani faction, and the National Front for United Xanu, a faction composed of colonists from the BeNeLux. The war lasted from 2223 to 2227 and aside from the Interstellar War, is the costliest war in Xanan History. Every faction involved was at one point, hellbent on the complete subjugation of the three others in attempts to install themselves as the de facto rulers of the entire planet. Battles between groups lasted for months and often shot quickly from quiet and low-intensity to chaotic and brutal in a matter of hours, with ill-led irregular militia forces being used far more often than conventional armies. This was partially due to the fact that much of Xanu’s military before the civil war was quite small and fit only for militarized policing operations but also because many of the soldiers in the four armies were volunteers with no prior military experience whatsoever. While factions were made on primarily ethnic lines, it should be noted that a large portion of Xanan people at this time refused to fall-in with these factions no matter their ethnicity. Attacks against civilians, soldiers, and politicians alike including terror bombings, shootings, arson, and assassinations were commonplace with each side doing their best to break the resolve to fight of the others.

The Sol Alliance was unsure at first what to do with the news of Xanu breaking out into violence. Sol had in the past both intervened in these kinds of colonial conflicts while letting others run their course. To the Solarian colonial authorities though, much of what was becoming to be known as the Outer Colonies, which included planets like Vysoka, Assunzione, and Gadpathur along with Xanu Prime, was not as profitable as previously hoped, and so controversially, the decision was made to let the civil war play out and then return in-force after the violence had subsided to reassert colonial authority rather than land on the planet and risk the lives of Solarian core-worlders.
The war took its toll on the planet’s people. Historians currently estimate that nearly 6% of the total Xanan population died during the fighting with the leading causes of death being starvation and treatable medical conditions rather than combat. A majority of those who died in the war were not soldiers or irregulars, but normal civilians who simply could not feed themselves or find medical care after the complete collapse of the colony’s food and medical infrastructure. After nearly two years of fighting and a horrific and terrible stalemate, the armies were simply unable to launch offensives anymore and signed an uneasy truce that put an end to the fighting but not the war.
In 2225 a movement known as the All-Xanu Peace League was founded in the city of Pataliputra by a former colonial official named Gaspard Kulkarni, a man who was half-Indian and half-Belgian, which proposed the idea of a unified Xanu which provided for all of its peoples regardless of their race or national origins. While not a novel concept, Kulkarni’s speeches and his organization’s charitable actions such as opening soup kitchens to feed the starving and clinics to give free medical care to the sick spoke greatly to the war-weary Xanan people. He led large anti-war protests in the city of Pataliputra and was smuggled into the territories of the various warring factions to spread his message. He encouraged soldiers in the armies to not fight, saying that they were shooting their own brothers and sisters even if their commanders saw otherwise. By the start of 2226, Kulkarni was becoming the most popular man on Xanu Prime, his message of peace and a planet-wide Xanan identity stretched across ethnicity and to many was a beacon of hope in a terrible war, even if Kulkarni’s ideas seemed overly idealistic to many.

Xanans, including those in the armies, were tired of fighting and exhausted at this point. None of the four factions had accomplished their goals and with Kulkarni’s Xanu Free League movement gaining more steam and proposing a peaceful future for all Xanan people, the heads of the four armies met at the planet’s capital Nouvelle-Rochelle to sign a peace treaty and dissolve their forces. An impromptu election was held to determine a planetary governor, Kulkarni won in a landslide, and declared the founding of the Sovereign Solarian Nation of Xanu Prime.
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===Reassertion of Solarian Control and The First Astonishment | 2227 - 2260===
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[[File:Old Xanu Flag.png|thumb|The flag of the Sovereign Solarian Nation of Xanu Prime]]
The Sol Alliance had been constantly monitoring the situation on Xanu since the start of the civil war and now that the fighting had stopped, it returned to its colony with the intention of rebuilding it and stabilizing it for the future. Pleased that they didn’t need to exercise any force, Sol returned with a massive investment which hoped to not only restore Xanu to its former glory, but also make it a leading, an exemplar colony in the distant Outer Ring. Sol saw Xanu almost as a blank slate at this point, the planet was so ravaged by war that anything was possible in the minds of the Colonial authorities back on Earth. From here on the Sol Alliance invested trillions of credits into Xanu’s infrastructure and businesses along with importing scores of new Western European, South Asian, and newly to the mix, American colonists and capital from Earth to both repopulate but also serve as workers in Xanu’s future labor pool.

Despite this rebuilding effort, many Xanan citizens, including the de-facto governor Kulkarni, vehemently criticized Sol for not intervening in the Xanan Civil War and stopping the fighting. This criticism put the Solarian central authority into a difficult position: they could either remove Kulkarni from office and impose their own governor, or try to keep the situation stable. In the end, the second option was taken; Xanan historians say that this was due to the massive amounts of money being spent on the world by the Alliance. Solarian historians dispute this claim and insist the choice was made by the Alliance as an apology to the Xanan people for the inaction in the civil war. Kulkarni was confirmed by the Solarian central authority as the Xanu’s official planetary governor on January 1st, 2225.

For the next three decades, Xanu became not just rebuilt but the strongest economy in the Outer Colonies. Solarian investment lasted for seven years, but after that, Xanu’s growth was primarily self-generated. Its industries and services had expanded far beyond just mining and agriculture to highly sophisticated sectors like computer manufacturing, bio-medicine, energy production, defense, and AI development. Most importantly however was shipping and logistics. Xanu’s geographic position made it ideal as the primary commercial port of the outer colonies, where goods from everywhere from Himeo to Vysoka to Assunzione would be shipped to the Solarian Core. Much of this was undertaken thanks to Kulkarni’s policies of giving monetary incentives to businesses and workers that went into certain industries. It was also during this time that Xanu found itself becoming friends with its close-by neighbor Himeo, a relationship which would go on to bloom into a strong friendship, and occasional rivalry, which lasts to this very day.
By 2260, before the Second Great Depression, Xanu Prime had the highest living standards in the Outer Colonies, the largest economy, and one of its most developed societies. Many accredit this to the foundation of an identity for its people built upon the ideas of fairness, equality, and hard work originating from the Xanu Free League and its founder Gaspard Kulkarni who retired from the position of Governor in 2248 at the age of 71 after 26 years in office. Xanu’s people no longer saw themselves as either French Xanan or Indian Xanan and so on, but as simply Xanan. The horrors of war which impacted all Xanan people regardless of ethnicity changed the way that the people of Xanu viewed each other. After the war they had begun to take on each other as fellow Xanans and as people rather than as an enemy or an “other,” adopting various cultures and customs from one another and beginning to create what today can be called the Xanan culture and people. Xanan culture was not only unified by a common experience, but also a common language. Freespeak was mandated as the official language of Xanu Prime by Governor Kulkarni in 2230 on the reasoning that it was what many of Xanu’s interplanetary neighbours spoke and that it would help unite the Xanan people if they could communicate with one another. This transformation from a war-ravaged world plagued by sectarian violence to a model planet which was safe, rich, and cosmopolitan is an achievement known to the Orion Spur as “The Astonishment.” A side-effect of Xanu’s success though was that it was now far more connected to the rest of the Outer Colonies than to the Solarian core in nearly all ways, economically, politically, and culturally. This fact would come to define Xanu’s future going forwards.
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===The [[Sol_Alliance_History#18_June,_2260:_The_Second_Great_Depression_Begins|Second Great Depression]] and [[Sol_Alliance_History#18_January,_2275:_Secession_of_the_Coalition|Secession from the Solarian Alliance]] | 2260 - 2278===
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While the Second Great Depression struck the Solarian Core from its onset in 2260, Xanu Prime and more broadly the Outer Colonies in general were largely unaffected by the economic turmoil gripping the inner parts of Sol Alliance space. Much of the Xanan economy was self-sufficient and relied little on the inner workings of Solarian financial institutions. Branches of transstellar corporations on Xanu were some of the only ones in human space which still remained profitable after the depression hit. Xanan citizens were not ignorant of the depression, it was still national news, but its effects were not felt on the world nor in the rest of the Outer Colonies aside from Vysoka. The steppe world was gripped by economic troubles following the collapse of the Solarian logistics chain which caused the planet’s primary export, food, being unable to reach the Solarian core. Xanu stepped in during this time to begin buying more exports from Vysoka to help shore up the steppe world’s losses while also further pulling Vysoka into its orbit of economic influence.

In 2265, the Sol Alliance unveiled a new taxation policy aimed at stopping the runaway inflation and worsening economic situation within its core worlds. This policy, deemed the Emergency Stabilization Plan, consisted of instilling heavy taxation on the still relatively economically stable Outer Colonies in hopes of transferring some of their wealth to the Solarian Core. The most prosperous, and therefore most taxed of these worlds was Xanu Prime, and as one might suspect, these new taxes were strongly opposed across the planet. Prices soared and businesses fell apart, sending not just Xanu’s economy but that of the entire Outer Colonies into a tailspin that would only worsen for the next decade.
In 2271, following the Xanan tradition of protest and rebellion that began with the All-Xanu Peace League, a Xanan independence movement was founded known as the All-Xanu Free League. Led by an aging veteran of the Xanan Civil War who had joined politics after the war and fully embraced the new idea of a united Xanu, Eloise Brel, the All-Xanu Free League’s goals were simple and to the point: no less than total independence from the Sol Alliance. Brel and her supporters argued that the Sol Alliance had never done anything for Xanu that wasn’t motivated by profit. The Free League cited the Sol Alliance’s refusal to intervene in the Xanan Civil War and near-removal of Governor Kulkarni in 2225 as examples of the Sol Alliance’s desires only to subjugate Xanu and act as thieves from its prosperous economy, going as far as to call the Sol Alliance’s Colonial Authority “pirates.” Brel also protested for popular democracy and voting rights for its citizens, as until this point, many Xanan people were only allowed to participate in democracy on a local level and had little say in the planet’s colonial taxation and economic programs or its foreign policy. As economic conditions worsened, the popularity of the Free League only grew, leading to further social unrest.

By 2274, Xanu’s planetary governor saw that the situation was untenable and resigned from the office. With the highest office of authority in Xanu Prime now vacant, the All-Xanu Free League declared itself as the popular government of the entire planet, installing Eloise Brel not as Xanu’s governor but as the president of the newly proclaimed All-Xanu Republic. In the same year, following Xanu’s example, the Outer Colony worlds of Himeo, now the United Syndicates of Himeo, Vysoka, Gadpathur, and Zaurghis also declared independence from the Sol Alliance. Sol was paralyzed by depression and unsure of how to respond to the situation, attempted to negotiate with the newly-independent systems to no avail. In 2275, the leaders from the independent outer colonies met on Xanu Prime in the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle and agreed to the formation of a military and economic alliance called the Interstellar Coalition of Independent Systems, or Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime was declared to be the de facto operational center of this new alliance and as such, it dictated the goals that the Coalition would need to meet. These goals, at least for the time being, were complete economic independence from the Sol Alliance and a militarization of their societies so that they could defend themselves from what Eloise Brel described as “the impending imperialist sledgehammer.”

The same year, Brel announced the necessity for a new All-Xanu Army and Navy and called for native Xanans and even foreigners in the Solarian planetary garrison who loved democracy, freedom, and the principles of equality and fairness found in Xanan culture to defect and bring their equipment with them, promising Xanan citizenship and adequate pay. Many of these soldiers who hadn’t been paid in months courtesy of the Second Great Depression’s effects on the Solarian military’s finances deserted their posts in droves and joined the new All-Xanu Army and Spacefleet. Stories of entire bases and ships surrendering to civil servants of the new administration were not unheard of. Those in the All-Xanu Armed Forces knew that they were unable to fight the Solarians in open combat and so instead looked to the past for guidance. Many veterans of the Xanan Civil War were still alive and while not in fighting condition, many of them being in their sixties or seventies at this point, were called upon to teach Xanan officers guerilla tactics who would then use those same methods, along with those learned from defecting garrison officers, to teach the nascent Army. Armed with equipment now flowing in from arms factories on Vysoka, the industrial centers of Himeo, and the planet’s own defense industry that emerged in the wake of the Xanan Civil War, Xanu’s fledgeling military was taking shape. By 2278, the All-Xanu Army was a young and inexperienced but well-trained fighting force. The All-Xanu Spacefleet by 2278 consisted of 802 vessels, most of which were no larger than cruisers and had been surrendered to the planet by both its own and nearby planets’ defecting garrisons.
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===The [[Sol_Alliance_History#25_March,_2278:_Outbreak_of_the_Interstellar_War|Interstellar War]] | 2278 - 2287===
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The Sol Alliance was alarmed after its negotiations with the Outer Colonies had failed. Not only had they lost the lynchpin to their so far successful Emergency Stabilization Plan, but they’d lost territory, billions of citizens, vital resources, and large quantities of military equipment and materiel. Despite still being hamstrung by the Second Great Depression, the Sol Alliance mobilized its fleets and armies in 2278 and set its course for the Solarian Frontier. The Alliance at this time had adopted a policy of unconditional surrender of the Coalition of Colonies, aiming to bring them back under Solarian authority at any cost in order to secure their resources and people to further stabilize the Solarian Core.

Solarian forces reached Xanu Prime in late 2278 and would make landfall soon after crushing the All-Xanu Spacefleet and forcing it to flee to Himeo for repairs. It would not be until 2284 until the Solarian Army was forced off of Xanu. The Solarian Army quickly occupied Nouvelle-Rochelle and Pataliputra, Xanu’s two largest cities, and laid siege to Khairabad, its third largest and current seat of the All-Xanu Republic. The Siege of Khairabad would be the longest and by far the bloodiest battle of the Interstellar War. It lasted four years, from 2279 to 2282, and saw savage house-to-house fighting coupled with indiscriminate artillery bombardment and drone strikes from both sides. It is estimated that during the Siege of Khairabad, anywhere between 11 and 14 million people died, this figure being a combination of both soldiers and civilians. It is widely agreed that the Siege of Khairabad was the single-most deadly battle in human history. The siege was brutal and both sides bled heavily, with Coalition forces using the rubble of the city to hide for ambush attacks while the Solarians relied heavily on air power and orbital bombardment to pound their foes into submission. But submission the Solarians would not receive. It was 2281 and fighting had stagnated into a bloody stalemate across the Coalition of Colonies. The Solarians were unable to contend with such a vast front against the armies of the hundreds of worlds now part of the CoC and gradually they began to be worn down by the attrition of the war. By late 2282, the siege of Khairabad collapsed after Solarian forces besieging the city were redeployed elsewhere on Xanu to fight All-Xanu Army guerilla activities and elsewhere in the Coalition to hold the line against CoC forces. After four years, nine months, two weeks, and six days, the Siege of Khairabad was over. During her victory speech after the battle, President Brel proposed that the city be renamed to Kshatrapur, in allusion to the warrior caste of the culture of the city’s original Indian colonists. In 2283, by presidential decree, the city was renamed and holds that name to this very day.

Even while Khairabad and other cities on the planet were under siege, Xanan forces had been sent to every corner of the Coalition to try and curb Solarian advances. This was done not through direct combat, but through training the local armies and navies across the Coalition how to fight the Solarians. The once-defeated All-Xanu Spacefleet went on to act as one of the primary naval forces in the war after seeking repairs at Himeo. They attacked Solarian supply convoys and cooperated with the United Fleet of Himeo to defend Himeo against a Solarian landing force while being impossible to catch and pin-down by the Solarian Navy. In 2284, a United Coalition fleet comprised of elements from Xanu Prime, Himeo, and Gadpathur arrived to Xanu Prime under the leadership of All-Xanan Admiral Mehmud Khan and defeated the 148th Solarian Fleet in the Battle of Xanu Prime, the largest single spacefleet confrontation of the war. They arrived just in-time as well, many assess, as Solarian high-command had authorized the full-scale indiscriminate orbital bombardment of Xanu Prime, the scars of which can still be seen today. Many historians speculate that without the intervention of the CoC’s Joint Fleet, Xanu’s surface would be much like Gadpathur’s today. The Battle of Xanu Prime is seen as the turning point of the war. Afterwards, the Solarians forces would be in almost constant retreat out of Coalition territory since Xanu along with its Coalition allies could now export their armies instead of keeping them on their homeworlds to fend off the Solarian attack.
Slowly but surely, Xanusians fought alongside their fellow Coalition forces and by the time a ceasefire was called, the CoC had liberated 80% of the territory that it had begun with. The Treaty of Xansan was signed in 2287 and ended the war, with Sol officially recognising the Coalition of Colonies and all of its member states as independent entities. Shortly after the war, President Eloise Brel retired from politics and went on to pen a series of best-selling memoirs before dying at the ripe age of 104 in 2303. She is to this very day regarded as a national hero and is considered to be the “Mother of Xanan Independence.”
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===The Sneijders Doctrine and The Second Astonishment | 2287 - 2320===
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For the second time in a century, Xanu Prime had been ravaged by war and nearly destroyed. By the end of the Interstellar War, nearly half of its population had been displaced or rendered homeless and it is presently estimated that anywhere between 12% and 15% of the planet’s population had died in the war. Xanu’s cities and infrastructure were in ruins, but the resolve of its people and the rest of the newly-formed Coalition of Colonies was as strong as ever. Sol was not around to rebuild Xanu after this war, but the rest of the Coalition of Colonies was. The first order of business for the new CoC government was providing relief to and rebuilding the areas most damaged by the war, Xanu Prime chief among them. Throughout the next decade, Xanu’s cities were rebuilt and repaired with even Kshatrigarh being nearly entirely repaired by 2310. Resources and workers from all over the Coalition poured into Xanu as part of the effort and after the Xanu Restoration Project was completed, many decided to stay and make lives for themselves on Xanu. These efforts are even to this day a source of camaraderie and mutual appreciation between the Xanan people and the rest of the Coalition, with both seeing it as the Coalition at large repaying Xanu Prime for the sacrifice its people made to start the Coalition. Measures were taken by the Xanan government to ensure that the recovery was not just that, a recovery, but the start of a brand new economy for the recently-independent world. The most notable of these actions was the creation of the Xanan Concern for Economic Stabilization, Advancement, and Recovery, otherwise known as CESAR-X, a state-owned construction and industrial company that would come to be the instrument through which successive governments would both rebuild and grow Xanu’s cities and economy. In 2320, Xanu Prime was once again the strongest economy in the Coalition of Colonies, having been surpassed by Himeo from the end of the war until that point. It would take some time for living standards to return to what they once were though, but it would happen. This rebuilding effort amounted to trillions of credits and ultimately was a resounding success that allowed Xanu to once again bounce back from the destruction of war. Fittingly, this is known as “The Second Astonishment.”

As Xanu Prime grew stronger and wealthier, it felt the need to assert its position in the still infantile Coalition of Colonies. The Coalition had only been around for roughly two-and-a-half decades in peacetime when in 2212, All-Xanu president Nicolaas Sneijders adopted a combination of economic and foreign policies that would lead Xanu into its golden age. These principles, known today as “The Sneijders Doctrine,” orbited around two principles: firstly expanding Xanan markets and trade wherever possible, and secondly, creating a new kind of All-Xanu Army and Spacefleet that could be deployed anywhere in the Coalition of Colonies on short notice should any nation in the CoC come under attack. The Coalition did not have a unified military that it could command on its own, so Sneijders proposed that if any world were to assert themselves as the defender of this new country, it would be Xanu. A famous excerpt from a speech he gave to the All-Xanu Assembly, now known as simply “The Sneijders Speech,” sums:
<center>''“Our fellows, brothers, and sisters saved our homeworld during the Interstellar War. We as Xanans must ensure that the same pain and suffering that befell us never is inflicted upon our neighbors. Our allies protected us, and we will repay the favor to not just they, but their children, and their children's children. We are the richest world in our beautiful Coalition even now, and we must ensure that our wealth grows but more importantly is put to good use. We have the means to make war but instead we will ensure peace for our people and all those of the Coalition. We are a republic built on the beliefs of liberty, democracy, equality, and goodwill, and we will proliferate these principles across the stars.”''</center.>

From the time when Sneijders’ principles were implemented, Xanu would maintain a disproportionately large military relative to its fellow Coalition worlds, only being surpassed proportionately by Gadpathur. Sneijders also is credited with the establishment of much of Xanu’s state welfare programs and civic funding initiatives which would hasten Xanu’s restoration of living standards to a pre-war level. He also modified the Xanan Constitution into the form the country knows it as today, enshrining in law inalienable rights for Xanan citizens and placing limits on the government’s domestic power. He is the longest serving Xanan president, having left office in 2320 after serving three five-year terms in office, something which the constitution he helped ratify made impossible afterwards due to its limiting of presidents to only two terms. He is widely regarded as one of the best presidents the All-Xanu Republic has ever had.
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===The Xanan Renaissance | 2320 - 2360===
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For the first time in Xanan history, peace and prosperity reigned supreme for over 60 years. The planet saw an unparalleled level of growth and societal advancement. Xanan culture flourished and many of the entertainment industries that Xanu is known throughout the Orion Spur for were founded during the 2320’s and 30’s. Film, video games, music, entertainment, all got their start in those two decades after funding from many of the economic assistance and cultural programs started under the Sneijders administration took off. Xanu’s economy soared and the world hit a new high and celebrated lavishly in 2338 when Xanu’s population reached its pre-Interstellar War level. To this day, Xanans get every January 2nd off work to commemorate this recovery. Things were going good for Xanu, not only was it growing itself but further integration with the rest of the Coalition of Colonies allowed for it to grow its neighbors’ economies as well, though of course while each planet in the Coalition economically cooperated, friendly competition was part and parcel of their mutual exchanges. Xanan firms financed much of the construction of the Weber Quarter in Himeo’s capital Rautakaivos Kaupunki and funded heavy industry expansion on Vysoka in the 2340’s and 50’s.
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===The Flohimont Thaw and Solarian Reproachment | 2360 - 2400===
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One of the largest changes in Xanu’s foreign and economic policy in history came under the administration of President Ameliye Flohimont, Xanu Prime’s tenth president. Taking power in 2360, President Flohimont was the first Xanan leader since the Interstellar War to consider reopening economic ties with the Solarian Alliance. These actions brought on fierce criticism at the time, with notions of Sol once again trying to force an unfair economic deal on Xanu running rampant. Flohimont stressed that she did not wish to negotiate trade with the entire Solarian Alliance but only individual planets under its control, stating that she was wishing to trade with Sol as she would with any other, on fair and agreeable terms. In 2364, her administration reached a settlement with the government of Konyang, hoping to both increase trade revenue and use the momentum as a positive reason for her reelection campaign in 2365. This negotiation was criticized by the Himean government and lambasted by multiple Gadpathurian officials at the time as, “playing with fire,” and something that could potentially drag the rest of the CoC’s economy into the orbit of Sol as it once was. Nevertheless, Flohimont won reelection in 2365 and continued her policy of foreign economic liberalization, signing trade deals with the then-Solarian planets of Biesel, New Gibson, and Mictlan a establishing a positive relationship with them that carried on to the formation of the Republic of Tau Ceti and to this day. The tax profits from these mercantile ventures were reinvested into Xanu’s cultural, state medical, and military programs, giving all of those sectors a boost. Conspiratorially, some on the fringe of Sol’s political sphere hold even presently that Flohimont engaged in these deals in order to expand the reach of Xanu’s Military Intelligence Department into Solarian worlds in preparation for a future invasion. They cite the expansion of Xanu’s military under Flohimont as a primary reason for this theory, though most see these ideas as shaky at best and completely false at worst. Xanu’s government denies this and people with this stance on Xanu are often laughed out of any discussion in which they participate. Whatever the case, when she left office in 2370 after serving two five-year terms, Xanu was richer and was once again a player on the economic stage of the Orion Spur and not just the Coalition. Over the next century, Xanu would use foreign trade to make money as far as the Jargon Federation, Eridani, after the New Suez Protocols of 2381 the [[Republic of Elyra]], the rest of the Sol Alliance proper, and Adhomai and Moghes after their discovery by humans. This openness to foreign nations under Flohimont is also the reasoning credited for why Xanu Prime agreed to host the Fisanduhian government-in-exile in 2386.

President Ameliye Flohimont is a polarizing figure across the CoC and beyond and her impacts as president were felt long after she’d left office. On Xanu she is remembered fondly for helping the planet move past its trauma from the Interstellar War by opening a parley with Sol and for using foreign trade credits to help enrich the planet’s social systems and military. Elsewhere in the Coalition she is looked down upon as a selfish leader, or even seen as a traitor to the Coalition ideal, who put Xanu’s economic interests, or to some, her planet’s greed, above the safety of the Coalition and made any future economic problem that Sol, or eventually Biesel, encountered also a problem of the Coalition. This rose to a head when she was assassinated at a speaking event in 2374, four years after she’d left office, by a radical Gadpathurian national who claimed that her actions would kill the Coalition of Colonies. Nearly a century after her election, anti-Sol and nationalist parties across the Coalition blamed the Coalition’s economic turmoil during the ongoing Phoron Scarcity on the policies that Flohimont started, however this position was contested by many on Xanu who described Flohimont’s actions as, “The natural next steps for Xanu Prime and the Coalition into the Orion Spur,” and the current slowdown as, “An inevitability for any nation in the modern day and age.”
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===The Doldrums & The Mukhopadhyay Plan | 2400 - 2440===
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Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies as a whole entered 2400 in a period of relative stagnation. The huge revenues brought into Xanu during the latter half of the 23rd century by President Flohimont’s trade pioneering had faded, with all who wanted to trade with Xanu already doing so. By 2404, Xanu Prime’s economy was only growing by 1% annually and the country itself fell into a period of long-standing economic stagnation known as “The Doldrums.” During this time Xanu was still the top economy in the Coalition of Colonies, but it was no longer growing at the meteoric speeds it once knew, and even saw a near-collapse in 2421. The Doldrums lasted from 2404 until 2427 and are known for the malaise they put over Xanan society as four different presidential administrations tried to get the economy under control and reignite Xanu’s soaring economy.
The most notable event during this period was the privatization of CESAR-X, the venerated Xanan institution of a state-owned industrial concern. The company began to amass an unusually large amount of debt during the mid 2400’s as it took out loans to maintain its infrastructure and assets during the economic slowdown. Those in-charge at the company thought that their business’s government-backed nature along with its prominent role in the Xanan economy would ensure that it remained solvent even during a time when the economy was in rough shape. Essentially, they thought CESAR-X could weather the storm through the use of loans and government until the economy had picked up once again and normal growth rates were seen, rather than through adjusting how they did business to meet the challenging economic circumstances. What neither they, nor anyone else at the time expected, was just how long the slowdown would last. A little over a decade and a half passed, and by this time the concern had taken out more in loans than the company itself was worth; not being able to sustain itself on its own operations for any longer, CESAR-X went to the Xanan government asking for a bailout to pay off its creditors, threatening bankruptcy otherwise. The government was indecisive on the decision, as on one hand CESAR-X’s collapse would result in millions of jobs being lost and be disastrous for an already struggling Xanan economy, but on the other, saving CESAR-X wouldn’t fix the economic situation gripping the planet, nor was it a permanent solution to shoring up what was becoming a government-backed money pit. The decision was then made to let CESAR-X fail and collapse, but at the eleventh hour, Credit Xanan, the largest bank in the Coalition and the owner of a majority of CESAR-X’s debt offered to buy the company from the Xanan state on the condition that they pay under a market price and that they would keep a majority of the company’s workers employed. The government agreed and sold the company to the bank for what many now estimate to be just above half of its real value. Over the next decade, CESAR-X’s new management would enact a ruthless profitability-first policy in how it dealt with its newly acquired subsidiary, shutting down factories and branches that failed to turn a profit after being given notice to restructure. These efforts resulted in the company downsizing its workforce by nearly 30%, a move which remains controversial even today, but they did accomplish their goal. By 2428, CESAR-X was turning a profit under Credit Xanan ownership. To this day, CESAR-X is the largest privatization in Coalition history.

During this time the life of an ordinary Xanan changed; the country was no longer on the up-and-up and it gave many time to pause and examine what their society was and who they were as people. Some of the most seminal works of Xanan popular art and cinema were produced during the Doldrums, some say as a reflection on the Xanu Prime of the day, and some say to express the tension and anxiety that the artists and directors felt. Whatever the case, epic works of stage, film, and visual arts were produced during this period which have gone on to firmly cement themselves in the Xanan canon.

As the potential of wide-scale phoron usage was beginning to be felt across the Orion Spur though and more importantly, as more in the Coalition of Colonies wanted this technology, Xanu slowly saw its reascension to growth as it began to be the primary port by which phoron shipments from Elyra and the still-Solarian Biesel would enter the Coalition. This new energy source brought great wealth to Xanu and is credited for giving the planet’s economy the shot in the arm it needed to resume its growth.
After Xanu Prime’s recovery from the Doldrums, its next president, Narayan Mukhopadhyay, believed that Xanu needed an economic system which would ensure that it would not fall victim to such a circumstance again, or if it did, not to the degree which it had in the 2410’s-20’s. Throughout the early 2430’s, Mukhopadhyay devised a series of complex economic measures which aimed to shock-proof the Xanan economy against a future recession or collapse, using both taxes and trade revenues from the Konyang robotics boom to fund it. These included amassing great reserves of foreign currency and investing trillions into further diversifying Xanu’s economy. The great Mehmud Khan Helium-3 Station (named after the Xanan Interstellar War Admiral) began construction during this time with assistance from nearby Galatea, and Mukhopadhyay’s initiatives spearheaded the development of industries that until his administration were small or hadn’t even existed on Xanu. This ranged from VR technology to the automotive industry, to pharmaceuticals to initiatives focused on creating engines and reactors which could operate with both Phoron and other fuels like Helium-3. The latter of these efforts would come in very handy during the beginning of the 2462 phoron shortage. Mukhopadhyay also invested much into Xanu Prime’s social services, with the reasoning that if Xanu’s economy were to enter a recession or depression in the future, they would be relied on more than ever before.

The impact of President Mukhopadhyay’s economic planning is hard to quantify. Some on Xanu say that Mukhopadhyay was a visionary who unknowingly protected Xanu from total economic catastrophe when the phoron shortage hit in force in 2463, some twenty years after he left office in 2440. Others however dispute this claim, saying that his impact is truly unknowable because there is no way to know what exactly would have happened to Xanu if the Mukhopadhyay Plan was never put into place and that it was in fact, not the best option. Despite these differing opinions, he generally has a positive reputation and currently spends his days giving lectures at universities and speaking at fundraising events for the Enlightenment Project, a charity he founded after he left office which aims to provide medical aid (often in cooperation with the Interstellar Aid Corps) and educational access to children in the less-developed parts of the Coalition of Colonies and Human Frontier.
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===Xanu Prime Today | 2440 - Present===
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The 2440’s were an unremarkable decade for Xanu Prime. The planet continued to grow more economically off of the spur-wide phoron boom and in 2443, celebrated the completion of the Khan Helium-3 Station. Steady growth and stability were hallmarks of the 2440’s for Xanu and is seen in the present by a large numbers of Xanans, both those who were alive during the time and those who were born after it, as a nostalgic pseudo-golden age where all was good, especially when compared to more recent times.

The 2450’s however were a decade of many happenings for Xanu Prime, both good and bad. In 2457, Xanu Prime hit its all-time economic high, one that is yet to be surpassed, after organizing numerous trade deals with Tau Ceti following the country’s independence in 2452. This took a dive in 2458 when Admiral Michael Frost invaded Tau Ceti, causing Xanu to put great pressure on the rest of the Coalition for an intervention on the justification of protecting sovereignty, an action supported by Gadpathur but rejected by all others in the Coalition on the grounds that war for the sake of markets wasn’t something the Coalition wanted. Along with reaching its economic zenith in 2457, Xanu Prime also participated in one of the largest relief operations in history after the Lii’dra incursion to the Elyran planet of Bursa. In cooperation with the rest of the Coalition, Xanu sent billions in foreign aid, medical supplies, and construction equipment to Bursa to aid in the planet’s rebuilding process. The 2450’s also marked the decade in which the Coalition of Colonies announced a massive increase in its anti-piracy operations both within Coalition territory and outside of it in the Human Frontier. While claimed as an anti-piracy operation, many in the Coalition viewed this as an unofficial war against privateers originating from the [[Empire of Dominia]]. Xanu Prime, having the largest military and hosting the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, was broadly supportive of this initiative and committed a sizable chunk of its fleet to defeating what then president Jayanti Kuipers called, “the barbaric menace of pirates and whoever employs them.”

The 2460’s have thus far been turbulent for Xanu Prime, much as they have for almost everywhere in the Orion Spur. The planet’s economy took a hit during the Phoron Scarcity and subsequent Solarian Collapse, however it is nowhere near the worst-affected place in the Coalition even if its supply chains are still met with the impossible question of how to replace phoron entirely. Some say this resilience is because of President Mukhopadhyay’s planning, while others say that Xanu’s economy is simply large enough and has the scale to weather the storm of the Scarcity better than others. Some Xanan industries such as its Helium-3 sector and engine manufacturing plants have even boomed in the wake of the recent economic turmoil in contrast to many others. The future of Xanu seems uncertain. It is holding on well under the administration of its current president Jaques Afzal, with many of its people still living comfortably and enjoying Xanu Prime’s high standard of living, but problems are beginning to emerge. Growing economic inequality, internal divides over Xanu Prime’s place in the Coalition, debates over just how the planet and its people will deal with the scores of refugees fleeing from a broken spur to relative safety, and other societal pressures like crime and rising illegal drug use are rearing their ugly heads. Xanu Prime’s future, much like the rest of the spur, is uncertain, but what is certain is the resolve and unity that the planet and its people will meet any new challenge with.
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==Geography and Environment==
<center>''“In forest, ocean, mountain, river, or meadow, my country’s beauty shines through!” - Excerpt from “My Xanu’s Majesty,” a Xanan patriotic song written during the Interstellar War''</center>
[[File:Xanu Prime Map.png|thumb|A Mercator projection map of Xanu Prime.]]
===Geography===
[[File:Xanu.png|thumb|The extremely populous Xanu, core capital of the Coalition of Colonies. The Xanan surface is still dotted with craters from the Interstellar War, centuries later.]]
Xanu Prime is a varied and diverse world that is slightly larger than Earth with a mean radius of 3,790 kilometers. 63% of the planet’s surface area is covered in liquid salt water and it has sizable ice caps at both of its poles, though the northern cap is far larger than the southern one. The planet has four continents and numerous smaller islands that dot its oceans.

The largest of the continents is called '''Nouvelle-Occitanie''', or '''New Occitania''', named after the historical region of France. Much of the planet’s population lives on this continent and its ample coastline. It is situated at the planet’s equator and stretches far to the south into the temperate and near-polar zones of the planet. It hosts varied biomes, with lush equatorial rainforests on its east coast, and tropical deserts which then give way to sprawling open grassy plains and rolling hills before finally finishing in the south of the continent with great deciduous and coniferous forests. Nouvelle-Occitanie is a continent of contrasts. Some of Xanu’s largest cities are on Nouvelle-Occitanie are on the continent, however other areas of the landmass are almost entirely uninhabited, namely the largest of its tropical deserts, the Greater Thar. Nouvelle Occitanie also was the scene of battles and sieges during the Interstellar War, with certain parts of it being designated as national battlefield sites. These sites function as both historical sites and wildlife preserves and development of them is prohibited by the Xanussi government. The largest of these historical preserves are known as the Scar Seas. They are a series of loosely-connected saltwater crater lakes along a stretch of the continent’s western coastline near the city of Kshatragarh. These lakes were formed during the Interstellar War as a result of heavy orbital bombardment in the area from the Solarian Navy.

Sitting in the planet’s northern temperate and equatorial zones, '''Naya Khyber''', or '''New Khyber''', is the third largest of Xanu Prime’s continent and is defined by the Naya Khyber River, the largest river on the planet. At precisely 7,117 kilometers long, the river spans the entire latitude of New Khyber and its course showcases the continent’s geography well. Starting in the western alps of the country, the river flows east and meanders along rolling foothills before entering a short expanse of plains and finally finishing in the Naya Khyber delta, the largest river delta on Xanu Prime. The Naya Khyber delta is a huge agricultural hub due to a combination of factors, the foremost of which are the mineral rich soil present there and the reliability by which the Naya Khyber River floods, aiding irrigation.

Xanu’s third largest continent, '''Himavatia''', is a mostly uninhabited and almost entirely frozen landmass that sits within the planet’s arctic circle. Few things can survive in the cold of Himavatia’s interior, however some confers, grasses, and birds have made their home here. Despite this harshness to life, however, Himvatia’s few peninsulas which manage to stretch into more temperate climates do have small settlements on them. Large swaths of Himavatia are covered in polar ice, the glaciers of which have scoured the continent’s coastlines with deep, vertigo-inducing cliffs, valleys, and fjords. Those coasts themselves are dotted with dense coniferous forests and rocky shores.

Lastly, the smallest of Xanu Prime’s continents is called '''Paasland'''. It is located in Xanu Prime’s southern hemisphere and is a single landmass surrounded by tens of thousands of islands. The continent is mostly covered by marshland and mangrove swamps, with only the center and north of its area being more than a few meters above sea level. The barrier island chains which protect Paasland from the storms that may blow in off Xanu’s great oceans around it range in landscape from tropical paradises near the north and west of the continent, to barren, freezing rocks in the south. Many of these islands house active volcanoes and some grow on an annual basis.

A unique feature of Xanu Prime’s geography are found at the sites of where the planet’s surface was bombarded both from orbit and terrestrially by Sol Alliance and Coalition forces during the Interstellar War. The land found here is pockmarked by a smattering of craters created from the impacts of Solarian munitions, many of which have interacted with Xanu’s numerous river systems and formed lakes. A number of these sites, officially deemed “'''Scarlands'''” by the Xanan government, have been rehabilitated into national parks and wildlife preserves while others have been resettled and reclaimed by the Xanans. There are scarlands on all four of Xanu Prime’s continents, and what has become of them differs from one scarland to another. Those found around large cities are typically just integrated into the landscape of the city’s metropolitan area itself as part of the landscape, while those in more remote areas have found themselves as designated war memorials and wildlife preserves. The largest of these in area is the Widow’s Tears Scarlands which is a stretch of over 110,000 craters that covers much of Nouvelle-Occitanie’s northeastern territory. Much of it is inhabited and cities and towns can be found there, though the portions of it which are found in the equatorial rainforests of the planet have long-since been designated as undevelopable land. The scarland with the highest density of craters is the Khairabad Scarlands found around the modern-day city of Kshatragarh which comes in at a whopping total of 186,954 craters. The Scarlands are mostly safe to travel and live within after the Xanusian government’s massive clean-up efforts alongside experts sent by the Federal Technocracy of Galatea throughout the 24th century and have become a popular area for weekend trips or vacations for Xanusians. Some of the more remote or hard-to-reach scarlands like the Little Cuts or some parts of the New Pacific Scarlands and Himavat’s Wounds are still partially dangerous though, and visitors are strongly encouraged to not deviate from marked trails in those areas lest they accidentally set off unexploded munitions still present on the old battlefields.

===Biosphere===
Xanu Prime’s biosphere is as diverse as its terrain. Due to Xanu’s earth-like climate and geography, many species were introduced to the planet from Earth which then led to novel and new lifeforms as these imports crossbred with the existing animals.
Notable Xanan Fauna are:
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'''Paaskraan'''
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The Paaskraan, or more officially the Easter Crane, is a huge, towering bird-like creature resembling a crane standing nearly three meters tall and a wingspan of nearly 4.15 meters. It is easily identifiable by its vibrant orange and white plumage across its body and wings, with its head being almost entirely covered in royal blue feathers. It uses its thick beak with a long piercing spike to stab through prey that it dredges up from the Paasland marshfloor, often fish, amphibians, or even turtles. They are also known for their ocean-spanning migratory cycles that take them from Paasland to the southern coast of Naya Khyber during their breeding season. One might think that their size would make Paaskraans very aggressive creatures, but they are actually very shy and tend to avoid contact with humans and other large animals which may pose even a remote threat to them. They would rather fly away than fight, but even so, they have been known to violently maim and even kill other creatures that get too close to their nests during hatching season. This has led local Xanan environmental protection groups to cordon off Paaskraan nesting areas from the public throughout springtime in efforts to prevent the accidental deaths of wildlife enthusiasts. It is the official animal of the city of Paasstad, the central city of Paasland, and is a symbol of Paasland as a whole.
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'''Crimson-Masked Polecat'''
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The Crimson-Masked polecat is an animal resembling a mustelid native to the southern peninsulas of Himavatia. It is notable for having almost universally white fur aside from a bar of vibrant red, nearly purple, fur going across and around its eyes. Scientists are uncertain as to why it developed this odd quirk, but what is certain is that this unique aesthetic feature and playfully aggressive disposition has made it a popular pet around the planet and throughout the Coalition. It was first domesticated in 2312 and because of this, it is often associated with the Xanan Renaissance and is considered by many Xanans to be the unofficial national animal of the Republic. In its native habitat of Himavatia’s southern peninsulas it hunts mostly small rodents and on occasion fish, though due to its domestication and subsequent release into the wild by irresponsible pet owners, it has spread to all four of Xanu’s continents and has adapted well to new environments.
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'''The Silverwing Blazemoth'''
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The silverwing blazemoth is one of the most recognizable creatures of Nouvelle-Occitanie’s equatorial rainforests. With a wingspan of 18cm it is quite large by insect standards, and can be identified not just by its size but by its vibrantly colored black-tipped silver-hued wings. What makes it unique among moths though is the silk that it produces. Instead of its silk having a white color typical of other silk-producing moths, the silverwing blaze moth larvae creates a silk that is a burnt orange color. During pupating season, people have reported what they thought to be fires, but when investigated, turned out only to be trees covered in the sizzled orange colored cocoons of Silverwing Blazemoths. The orange silk made by these creatures s is a luxury good and is highly sought after both on Xanu Prime and throughout inhabited space.
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'''Naya Khyber River Penguin'''
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The Naya Khyber River Penguin is a mysterious and odd creature. It is a flightless bird resembling an Earther penguin that stands no taller than one meter high. It is coloured in a deep green color and white rather than black and white typical of penguins on Earth, and has a small crest of red feathers on its head. Scientists believe that the bird’s DNA is almost entirely native to Xanu Prime, though others allege that it is distantly related to the rockhopper penguin of Earth. These birds inhabit the Naya Khyber River Delta and swim in packs through the delta’s wide meandering channels on hunts for fish and crustaceans which they stab with their short but sharp beaks. While quite clumsy and slow on dry land, getting around via a hopping motion more often than walking, they are incredibly quick in the water and can go as fast as 40kph in short bursts. They’re very social and often live in colonies along the shores of the Naya Khyber River, the largest of which was recorded to be over fifty-thousand birds, though the average is around four-thousand. They are fiercely territorial and have a mean streak. This reputation is the result of their tendency to attack other animals which get too close to their nests, typically via attempting to peck out their eyes. Even careless humans have been known to be attacked by these penguins. Despite this behavior however, many see the flightless birds as cute, cuddly, and silly perhaps due to their awkwardness while moving out of water. The foremost example of this reputation is the well-known Xanan children’s cartoon Pierre and Friends, starring Pierre the River Penguin, a clumsy but well meaning young penguin learning about the world, as its main character. The show and Pierre as a character are well-liked by parents and educators for, perhaps ironically, helping to teach children the values of cooperation, sharing, and not bullying others.
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Aside from animals unique to Xanu Prime, the planet also has animals that have been seeded on the planet from Earth. Rodents, birds, some fishes, and other creatures like insects have been successfully imported to the planet and despite their invasive nature, have fit well into Xanu’s biosphere. The national animal of Xanu Prime is the Indian Peafowl, a bird brought to the colony by its original colonists.

Xanu Prime has a wide variety of flora as well, with the northern rainforests of Nouvelle-Occitanie alone housing thousands of tree and plant species. The most notable of these is the '''Great New Occitanian Lupine''', a great green and white flower resembling an Earth lupine reaching nearly twenty feet tall. It emits a sweet smell, and these plants can often be seen covered in millions of pollinating insects looking to get its nectar. To the south, the coasts of the entire continent of Paasland are covered in forests of the '''Yellow-Spotted Shedding Mangrove''', a mangrove tree similar to those found on Earth with leaves that have a natural green hue but which take on striking golden spots during the summer months. Scientists believe this is a chemical reaction that results from the concentration of excess salt in the leaves before they then fall off towards the end of summer to rid themselves of the salt in a process referred to as shedding, the leaves then regrowing during the autumn season. On the continent of Naya Khyber, the '''Whistling Pineberry Tree''' can be found. This coniferous tree can reach over 65 meters in height and is unique among other trees in its family for having needle-like leaves that are hollow and also open at both ends. When the wind blows, the leaves of the tree resonate with a whistling noise similar to the mating call of local birds. Botanists believe that this is an evolutionary adaptation that has the goal of calling more birds to the tree so that they may scatter its seeds, contained in small berries rather than pinecones, more easily, citing the fact that the geographic distribution of the subspecies of the Whistling Pine mirror those of various bird populations.

==Government and Politics==
[[File:Xanuprimebanner.png|thumb|Official Banner of the All-Xanu Republic]]
<center>''“A strong president is a strong government is a strong Xanu.” - Nicolaas Sneijders, 4th President of the All-Xanu Republic (2305-2320)''</center>

The All Xanu-Republic has a parliamentary semi-presidential government that consists of three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial branch that operates as a unitary state. It is often described as having a strong executive and weak legislative branch, with the majority of power in the Xanan system being held by the Office of the President. Xanu’s political process has very low barriers to entry and as a result, the planet has the most registered political parties of any planet in the Orion Spur. Despite this great number however, only nine parties currently have seats in the All-Xanu National Congress. The Xanan government system and its various political parties can all be read about here on the dedicated Xanu Prime Government and Politics page. The current President of the All-Xanu Republic is Jaques Afza of the party the All-Xanu Free League. He is Xanu Prime’s 23rd president, has held the office since 2460, and recently won reelection in 2465. He will leave office in 2470 as per the two-term constitutional limit for Xanan presidents. To read more on the Xanan government’s structure and functions, the political parties which currently hold sway on the national stage, as well as the country's foreign relations, see the dedicated page for [[Xanan Government and Politics|Xanan government and politics]].

The Xanan government supports a well-funded and well-equipped variety of state systems aimed at helping its citizens with a variety of issues and problems that they may come across. The '''All-Xanu Health Office''' is one of Xanu Prime’s oldest and most successful government agencies, and is something that many Xanans consider to be the best thing to come out of Xanu’s Second Astonishment, aside from the reconstruction of the planet as a whole. The Health Office, or often just known as the AXHO, is the framework by which many ordinary Xanans receive medical care. It operates by working with privately-owned hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to subsidize medical and research costs, while also giving Xanan citizens progressive financial assistance in paying for healthcare, the level of which is determined by a citizen’s income. Those Xanans who are in the upper income brackets do not receive as much as those in the lower ones, who often have most if not all of their healthcare expenses subsidized by the government. In addition to this, the AXHO operates dozens of clinics and even some hospitals all around the planet where healthcare costs are subsidized by the Office’s coffers. The AXHO has a similar arrangement of financial assistance to self-owned positronic Xanans as well, but for repair costs rather than healthcare expenses. Nearly every Xanan believes that the AXHO is a good thing, regardless of political affiliation, though there is some controversy and dispute over how it should be run, either more centralized with more state control over healthcare, or the semi-public, semi-private model that it has used for the last century and a half.

While Xanan healthcare may be decentralized in structure, some of its other institutions are not, the finest example of which is the '''All-Xanu Public Security Office'''. The Security Office functions as Xanu Prime’s unitary police force and operates in a pyramidal structure, going from the office’s head down to departmental and local police forces. These local police forces usually operate on a city or departmental sub are given autonomy on many of their day-to-day operations, but if a major case emerges, such as a serial killing or terrorist threat, investigators and officials from higher up in the organization’s structure usually take over. The AXPSO generally maintains a good relationship with Xanan citizens, though there have been allegations of xenophobia aimed at aliens like Tajara, Unathi, and Diona made against the Office for many years.

Although often erroneously referred to as a government apparatus, the largest news provider on Xanu Prime, the '''Xanan News Service (XNS)''' is not owned nor operated by the Xanan government. The XNS was created by order of President Sneijders during the aftermath of the Interstellar War as an independent news agency that was funded by the country’s government but was not beholden to it in terms of who it hired or what types of stories it decided to give coverage to. Since then, it has conducted generally well-received and professional journalism and is one of the most read and watched news agencies in the Orion Spur, with the majority of its coverage being centered on issues and topics impacting the Coalition of Colonies and Human Frontier. Recently, however, it has also experimentally expanded into the Human Wildlands and is one of the only major agencies that has been able to cover the ongoing war in the Northern Wildlands of former Sol in any depth.
[[File:XNSlogo.png|thumb|The logo of the Xanan News Service used from 2442 - Present]]

==Language==
<center>''“A common tongue means a common future.” - Marcel Singh, pioneer of the Xanan Freespeak language''</center>
The official language of Xanu Prime is '''Xanan Freespeak''', a language that developed in the early days of the Xanu Prime colony from the grammatical hybridization of various languages from the Indian subcontinent with some loanwords taken from French and Dutch. It was formally codified in 2230 during the aftermath of the Xanan Civil War to function as a common tongue between the planet’s various colonists that could be easily learned and used words that were from their countries of origin. While many places on Xanu Prime have names taken from the languages of its original colonizing nations like Hindi, French, Urdu, and Dutch, very few if any people on the planet are still conversational in these languages, with almost all of them having been supplanted by Xanan Freespeak. Freespeak is taught in all schools, is known by nearly every resident of Xanu Prime, and is taught throughout the Coalition of Colonies as a lingua franca used for diplomacy and business relations between its various member states. Xanan government functions, law, and academia use Freespeak as their primary language, though Freespeak is not the only language spoken on Xanu Prime. Signage, popular media, literature, music, and film found in Xanu all are typically in Freespeak, but languages from all over the Coalition of Colonies can be found here, especially within ethnic communities from planets that speak a language other than Freespeak as their primary language. Himean Common, Sol Common, Assunzionii Tradeband, Gadpathuri Common, and even Vulgar Morozi are spoken on Xanu Prime within ethnic communities. Any hopeful immigrant to Xanu Prime must pass a Xanan Freespeak proficiency test in order to receive citizenship.

==Life, Culture, & Society on Xanu Prime==
<center>''“Our biggest strength lies not with our economic prowess, nor with our military might, but with the beauty of our people, the nobility of their ideals, and the sanctity of our culture and its works.” - Ameliye Flohimont, Tenth President of the All-Xanu Republic during a 2363 speech to the All-Xanu National Congress in favor of an expansion to the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery''</center>

Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great importance on the family unit. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine-dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Xanan sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague. Details on all of these subjects and more on general life on Xanu Prime and the planet’s societal composition and issues can be found on the dedicated page for [[Xanan Life, Culture, and Society|Xanan life, culture, and society]].

Xanan society is one that values individual liberties while paying close attention to how these liberties can sometimes hurt society as a whole if taken too far. This can be reflected in their legal code. Xanu Prime has strong legal protections against government restrictions on speech, though things like hate speech and slander are still illegal. There is no state religion on Xanu Prime and Xanans are free to practice, or not practice, any religion they please. The country does have very strong secularism laws though, and bans government employees and government buildings from wearing or displaying religious symbols or forms of dress. Some decry this as an intrusion onto the religious freedoms of citizens, though the majority of Xanan society is in support of strong secularization laws. Private firearms ownership is permitted on Xanu Prime, however it is restricted. A Xanan citizen requires a government permit, background check, and legitimate reason (typically for hunting or home defense) before they are allowed to own a private firearm. They cannot carry their weapons in public and they cannot own fully automatic ballistic firearms or lethal-strength lasers or similar battery-powered weapons. Xanans have total freedom of movement throughout the All-Xanan Republic, and have various legal protections against external intrusions on individual privacy, both physical and digital.
The Xanan press and news media is one of the most, if not the most active in human-inhabited space. There are thousands of different publications and news sources in the All-Xanu Republic, and Xanan journalism is some of the most robust in the Orion Spur. Much of this is because of the Xanan government’s policies which award special protections to news agencies and impose a higher standard of evidence in defamation lawsuits against them. News and media are not totally unregulated on Xanu Prime though; the Xanan government created an independent regulatory agency, the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission (MEC), in 2329 so as to ensure that the fledgling media of the newly independent All-Xanu Republic would not succumb to the perils of sensationalism and fake news. The MEC has the power to censor and fine publications with reporting that has proven to be false or so biased that it burgeons on false. This does not mean that the MEC forces all Xanan news outlets to be entirely neutral, far from it in fact, just that they must show at least some balance in their stories and programming.

==Economy==
<center>''“Economically, even through hardship, we remain unparalleled among our peers. We should be keen to enjoy the vices and virtues of prosperity to the fullest extent possible.” - Lennox Sibelius, Xanan Finance Minister under President Narayan Mukhopadhyay during a 2440 address to the National Parliament''</center>
===Economic Overview===
Xanu Prime is the proud home of the largest and most diverse economy within the Coalition of Colonies. Spanning across nearly every sector imaginable aside from large-scale mining, the economy of Xanu Prime is not only the largest in the Coalition of Colonies but one of the largest in the Orion Spur, only being surpassed by Biesel, Callisto, and Eridani I in terms of GDP. Xanu Prime is home to the head offices of the [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]]’s and [[Einstein Engines]]’ Coalition of Colonies operations and also houses other facilities like data centers and research laboratories for many of them as well. Xanu Prime’s financial service and banking sectors are the largest in the Coalition and help connect Xanu to planets and businesses across the Orion Spur, with its banks holding trillions in assets on any given day. The Xanan Stock Exchange is located in Nouvelle-Rochelle, and is the largest of its kind in the CoC and third largest exchange in the Orion Spur by volume of credits moved through its markets. Company stocks and other assets from all over the Coalition of Colonies and some from outside of it are traded there.

The pride of Xanu Prime’s economy and arguably the reason for its continued ascendency in the Orion Spur is Xanu’s shipping sector. Xanu Prime’s merchant marine is the largest of any in the Orion Spur, numbering just over fifty-thousand. Xanan shipping conglomerates dominate the Coalition of Colonies and have near monopolies over that sector in some parts of Coalition space. Within the Coalition, Xanu Prime is the king of foreign trade, and the Xanan shipping industry is to thank for this status. Xanan shipping firms do not just move cargo between Xanu Prime and other planets in the Coalition, but also routinely take shipping routes between planets far from Xanan space such as the ports of the Commonwealth of Callisto. If goods are moving through space in the Coalition, it is a safe assumption that they are on a Xanan ship. Xanu’s shipping sector was paralyzed in the early days of the ongoing phoron scarcity, but after many of its firms renegotiated phoron contracts with [[NanoTrasen]] and payed exorbitant amounts for Einstein Engines’ hammer drive, this area of Xanu’s economy has reasserted its prominence in the Orion Spur.

Domestically, Xanu Prime also has a strong agricultural and technology sector. Xanu Prime just barely produces enough food to feed all of its citizens but often imports food from Vysoka due to its far cheaper price and abundance, keeping Xanu-grown food in storage for national emergencies. Xanu’s tech sector is booming, with much of its development being pushed towards AI and posibrain coding and development. Ever since the addition of Konyang to the Coalition of Colonies, these efforts have only grown stronger with Xanan and Konyang-based firms and corporations having fewer barriers to cooperation than ever before. IPC chassis and posibrain manufacturing also plays a small part in Xanu Prime’s tech sector, but most of these jobs have moved to Konyang in recent years, with only a few companies still making IPCs on the planet.

Xanu’s heavy industry, manufacturing, and construction sectors are also very strong, but have less reach outside of Xanan markets than some of the planet’s other industries. Xanan steel, automobiles, and machine components are renowned for their quality but are also usually more expensive than the same materials made on other Coalition worlds, such as Himeo and Konyang, though they often exceed their competitors in build quality. Areas where Xanan manufactured goods see almost universal purchase across the Coalition is military equipment, aerospace products, medical equipment, and chemicals. Xanu-made military materiel and weapons are used by nearly every planet across the Coalition and have established reputations for being combat and cost-effective, easy to use, and technologically competitive. While certainly not the cheapest, military equipment made by Xanan companies is considered by defense ministers across the coalition to be some of the best weaponry money can buy. Similarly, Xanan designed-ships, both civilian and military, can be seen all over the Coalition. Xanu does not make the most ships of the worlds in the Coalition, but it does sell the most ship designs, meaning that many Xanan shipbuilding firms have made more money from selling ship blueprints and licenses than from having actually built spacecraft. Chemicals synthesized on Xanu Prime for industrial, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and scientific purposes are exported all across the Coalition of Colonies and even to other places in the Orion Spur like the Republic of Biesel. The sheer variety of compounds made in Xanu’s chemical plants is hard for any planet in the Spur’s east to match, though Xanu is unable to make some specialty chemicals produced on other worlds like Aemaq due to not having the same unique environmental conditions. Xanan construction firms usually only take on projects that are on Xanu Prime, but their engineers and architects are sent all over the Coalition and beyond to advise or plan projects for other worlds.

Xanu’s energy and phoronics sector was thrown into chaos during the early days of the phoron scarcity but has since begun to stabilize itself. Much of Xanu Prime’s energy generation came from fusion nuclear energy plants before the scarcity, but the NanoTrasen corporation did operate some Phoron Supermatter energy plants that made up a sizable minority of Xanu’s energy needs as well. The sudden scarcity of phoron made these supermatter plants output far less energy than they had before, and brown-outs were common across the planet for months after the scarcity had hit in full force. Xanu’s economy and government were quick to act though, reactivating decommissioned fusion plants and ramping up domestic Helium-3 production from its primary source, the Mehmud Khan Helium-3 platform. This platform is a grand space station which orbits Xanu-7, a colossal gas giant in the Xanu System and harvests the gas from its atmosphere. Slowly but surely, energy prices on Xanu Prime have restabilized, and the Xanan government has made concentrated efforts to “de-phoronize” the energy sector to avoid further dependence on the scarce element.

===Corporations===
Xanu Prime’s economy is not only occupied by megacorporations known throughout the spur like Einstein Engines or those in the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate, but also by comparatively smaller domestic corporations. These corporations grew out of the aftermath of the Interstellar War and Second Astonishment during a time when foreign megacorporations were very hesitant to invest in the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Many cite this hesitation as stemming from the still lingering shock of the Second Great Depression, a general anxiety about doing business with dozens of new nations in the Coalition, and uncertainty as to how the Coalition of Colonies' and by extension Xanu's economy would fare if something were to ever go wrong on the scale of the Second Great Depression ever again. By the time that the megacorporations were organised enough and felt confident enough to seriously invest in Coalition and Xanan space, they found it easier to cooperate with the companies already there and to use their expertise in operating across such a vast area of space like the Coalition rather than competing with or purchase the companies for themselves. For this reason, Xanan companies are known to have substantial sway on the Xanan and Coalition economy as a whole, but also cooperate closely with both SCC and Einstein Engines enterprises based on Xanu Prime and throughout the CoC. The most notable of these Xanan companies are:
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====Polaris Holdings - "Heavenly Guidance"====
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[[File:Polarislogo.png|thumb|The logo of Polaris Holdings.]]
'''Polaris Holdings''', or just simply '''Polaris''', is both the newest and largest of all major Xanan corporations. It was founded as a merger between the companies of Credit Xanan and AIRtel, both of which still exist and operate as subsidiary companies under Polaris Holdings ownership. The two companies merged in 2452 under the guidance of then-Credit Xanan, now-Polaris Holdings CEO Arjun Desjardins, a self-made man of boundless ambition who rose from the mail room of a small credit-Xanu branch to the top of Polaris Holdings wishing to elevate the corporation to the same level as Biesel’s and Sol’s megacorps. While this vision has yet to be entirely realized, Polaris aims to someday have its name be spoken in the same breath as Einstein Engines or the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate. Of its many component companies, the largest are Credit Xanan, CESAR-X, AIRtel, and Annapurna.

'''Credit Xanan''' is the largest bank and financial services firm on Xanu Prime and is one of the most influential players in nearly all of the Coalition's financial markets. The company was established in 2294 by a group of Xanan businesspeople who saw an opportunity to provide banking and financial services to Xanu’s citizens during the aftermath of the Interstellar War. The company is one of the foremost in the banking and finance industry spur-wide and has cooperation agreements with other similar firms across the Orion Spur such as [[Idris Incorporated]], NanoTrasen’s financial services and banking wing, and Suezbank. The company is well-known for its aggressive venture capital and hedge fund management, with a sizable chunk of the company being solely devoted to investment banking. It also has a reputation for leveraging debt against bankrupt business debtors to acquire their companies and either absorb them into the Polaris Holdings ecosystem, thereby growing the company, or liquidate them and pocket the cash. The bank is ubiquitous as a trusted financial institution across the Coalition of Colonies for both companies and individual citizens alike. Some business analysts estimate that Credit Xanan is the single-most valuable Coalition of Colonies company currently operating, but the privately owned nature of the bank and its conservative information release practices make this hard to prove. The bank is closely tied to the Nouvelle-Rochelle Stock Exchange and for many the Coalition-over looking to invest either as individual retail investors trying to play the markets or as companies hoping to increase their assets, Credit Xanan is the first name in consulting, investment help, and wealth management. It has had its head offices in Nouvelle-Rochelle since its founding.

Along with Credit Xanan’s lucrative banking and investment operations, Polaris Holdings inherited ownership of the largest industrial conglomerate on Xanu Prime from the bank, the Pataliputra-based, formerly state-owned Xanan Concern for Economic Stability, Advancement, and Recovery, or '''CESAR-X'''. While its glory days of rebuilding Xanan society from the ground up are far behind it, CESAR-X still remains dominant in the Xanan construction and manufacturing sectors, making everything from machine parts to household appliances to medical equipment to semiconductors to complex engineering and construction components. It cannot compete abroad in heavy industrial manufacturing like it once did, but CESAR-X has reinvented itself since its acquisition by Credit Xanan to instead focus on precision manufacturing and specialty products, a strategy which has brought it back from the brink of bankruptcy. CESAR-X’s Paastad-based construction division is active on Xanu Prime and abroad and its projects have garnered a reputation for setting the industry standard in the Coalition for build quality and engineering. Because of its history, many on Xanu Prime, especially the planet’s older population, have a fond nostalgia for the company and its days as the engine of Xanu Prime’s economic boom. This nostalgia and history is something that the company uses in its marketing often, evoking the Second Astonishment; Xanan Renaissance; and burgeoning economic climate of the 2380’s and 90’s in some of its corporate imagery, while generally just playing up Xanan Patriotism in its branding.

Achgelis-Illouz-Ramakrishnan Telecommunications or '''AIRtel''' for short, is the largest telecommunications company on Xanu Prime and was one of the two entities that came together in 2456 to create Polaris Holdings. The company is named after its three founding families, two enterprising telecommunications engineers who got their start installing electrical and internet lines in Kshatragarh during its reconstruction. From there, their company came to be television and internet service providers in the 2320’s and have further since expanded their services to include mobile phone, web hosting and web services, cybersecurity, data storage, and the Coalition’s most popular search engine, SuperSeek, the mascot of which is a colorful, green and orange parakeet. AIRtel also has a division called AIR Media, a production company and holovision network that operates some of the largest film-production studios on Xanu Prime and has ownership over numerous popular franchises and media properties. It also operates one of the most popular film and TV streaming services in the Coalition, Sunserve.

The last of Polaris Holdings’s most notable subsidiaries is '''Annapurna''', an agricultural and retail giant from the city of Foy-Niljen. Annapurna began its corporate life as a food distribution company which arose during the aftermath of the Xanan Civil War. It grew slowly between the two wars, coming to be a leading name in the industrial food sector in its home city. The Interstellar War saw Annapurna grow larger and richer off of Xanan and Coalition government contracts for rations and other foodstuffs for Coalition forces during the war. By the end of the war, Annapurna came to own many of the farms around Foy-Niljen where it had before bought the raw foods for its products. Wishing then to break into the consumer market rather than just the industrial food sector, the company opened up a chain of supermarkets in 2313 called NexChange (a portmanteau of the words “next” and “exchange”) starting in their home city before expanding to Kshatragarh and Nouvelle Rochelle a few years later. As one would expect, the stores didn’t just sell food, but also clothes, tools, home goods, appliances, and a bevy of other products, but what set NexChange apart from its competitors was the company’s policy of subscription-based shopping where a customer could pay a monthly fee for the ability to check-out a rotating selection of items for free that would change every month. After a few decades of steady success and continued expansion, the company unveiled a new line of stores focused on being small, 24-hour convenience stores focused on stocking household essentials, alcohol, and hot food ready at any time of the day called NexChange Turbo. In 2358, NexChange became Xanu Prime’s largest retailer by number of stores and it’s stayed in that position ever since. Annapurna also operates an online storefront for the NexChange brand called NetChange. It has also expanded to other planets in the Coalition, with great success being seen on Assunzione with the NetChange service, and the Galatean Federation and Konyang with the NexChange Turbo chain of stores especially. NexChange’s success enabled Annapurna to purchase more and more farmland and food processing plants, and by the late 2370’s it had become the largest agricultural and food corporation on Xanu Prime. As the 2380’s rolled around, it expanded its operations to Vysoka, taking advantage of the planet’s ample farm and ranchland, and it operates there to this day. Because of the company’s consistently good performance and an ambitious desire to break into yet another influential and diverse industry, the Polaris Holdings acquired Annapurna in the largest company purchase in Coalition history in 2460.

Polaris Holdings owns the tallest building in the Coalition of Colonies, North Star Tower, which serves as their headquarters in Nouvelle-Rochelle.
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====Siddhartha Systems Incorporated - "Enlightenment Made Material"====
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[[File:Siddsyslogo.png|thumb|The logo of Siddhartha Systems Inc.]]
'''Siddhartha Systems Incorporated''', also referred to as '''SiddSys''' is a leader in Xanu Prime’s tech space across a variety of fields. Founded in 2329 as Siddhartha Technology Services by Arjun Sudev, it was originally a computer repair and technology installation company based out of a single, family-owned, store, the company has since grown to produce its own hardware, and more importantly software. Siddhartha Systems owns the rights to software used in thousands of pieces of technology across the Coalition and beyond, from personal computers to building automation to ship control systems to even AI mainframes and posibrains. The company is notable for being the first on Xanu Prime to indigenously produce a posibrain, a feat that occurred in 2411 after the corporation purchased positronic designs from Einstein Engines. To this end, Siddhartha Systems is still one of the leaders in IPC programming in the Coalition, having cooperated extensively with Konyanger firms, Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals and Einstein Engines since Konyang’s admittance to the Coalition of Colonies to further advance the fields of AI and IPC development. The firm is also one of the last that still builds IPCs on Xanu Prime itself, with most of these jobs having since left to Konyang after the world joined the CoC. The company has promised to continue IPC assembly on Xanu for as long as it can be feasibly sustained, and has found itself as one of the premier IPC maintenance service providers on Xanu Prime. Along with its IPC wing, the company also produces a variety of computer models and smart devices ranging from personal computers to PDAs and tablets to high-tech data storage servers to entire mainframes for spacecraft. SiddSys has also produced one of the most popular computer operating system in the Coalition of Colonies, DevaOS, for over a century, the first edition of which debuted in 2350. It owns a chain of maintenance shops for IPCs across Xanu Prime called Vishwakarma's Workshop. The company is headquartered in Nouvelle-Rochelle and their CEO is Lars Sudev, a descendant of the company’s founder and head of the family which owns the company.
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====d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace - "Excellence is in our d.N.A."====
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[[File:Dnalogo.png|thumb|The logo of d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace.]]
'''d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace''', short for '''de Namur-Aarden Defense and Aerospace''', is the premier defense contractor and aerospace giant of Xanu Prime. They were founded in 2409 as the result of a merger between two smaller defense companies, de Namur Defense Systems and Aarden Aerospace and has gradually grown to become the largest and most influential producer of weapons and war materiel for the Xanan military and many others in the Coalition of Colonies. Many accredit this success to the company’s up-front marketing campaigns in which they test their own equipment and weaponry against that of their competitors and freely post the video results online in an effort to impress potential buyers. Among the products that d.N.A. is famous for is the Kestrel-class destroyer, a ship design originally released in 2441 that has become the most produced military ship-hull in all of the coalition, either by d.N.A. itself or foreign manufacturers under license. A similarly ubiquitous smaller ship designed by d.N.A. is the Shrike-class corvette, a nimble, versatile, multi-purpose craft used throughout the Coalition. Their range of products is not just limited to ships though; small-arms, explosives, anti-ship missiles, drones, tanks, radars, and truly anything else a fighting force could want is produced at least to some extent by d.N.A. The company offers full support and upgrade packages to its old equipment along with producing cutting edge weaponry for those willing to pay top dollar. The company has a research-sharing agreement with Zavodskoi Interstellar and also serves as the primary distributor of Zavodskoi-made equipment to the Human Frontier. Furthermore, it has a working relationship with the Federal Technocracy of Galatea’s defense sector – though d.N.A. and Galatea’s Interstellar Avionics Research Bureau (IARG) have long held a rivalry over if the d.N.A. Shrike-class or the Galatean Amaryillis-class is the superior corvette. In 2449 d.N.A. opened a private security contractor wing called Chevauchée Asset Protection aimed at providing services to business customers and merchant shipping firms. d.N.A. has been known to cooperate with the PMCG, especially with Xanu Defense Services, as both an equipment dealer and occasional joint-partner in security contracts. Along with their military operations, d.N.A. is a leading producer of civilian shuttles and other civilian passenger craft, either through making their own designs or building Hephaestus of Einstein Engines models under license for sale in the Coalition of Colonies. They are headquartered in Foy-Nijlen and their CEO is Yves Fazail.
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====Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group - "Move Mountains with Markhor!"====
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[[File:Markhorlogo.png|thumb|The logo of Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.]]
'''Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group''', or just '''Markhor''', is the beating heart of Xanu Prime’s vibrant shipping industry. The firm was founded in 2291 by a clique of ex-All-Xanu Spacefleet officers looking to put their spacefaring skills to use after they were discharged from the Xanan military following its downsizing after the Interstellar War. They built upon already existing economic connections between Xanu Prime and the other worlds in the Coalition of Colonies to amass a shipping empire in the coming decades, running routes between Xanu and all other major worlds in the Coalition by the year 2324. By 2336, they were the largest shipping company operating in Xanan space and have maintained their position at the top of their industry ever since. In the present, Markhor does not only operate shipping lines, but makes many of their own vessels in-house and contracts their shipbuilding services out to other companies looking for vessels. The company owns shipyards on Xanu Prime, Vysoka, and Assunzione and has cooperation agreements with various Himean shipbuilding syndicates and Galatean research firms. Additionally, the company has welcomed cooperation with the newly founded Orion Express in order to access shipping avenues outside of the Coalition and has entered into various co-research agreements with Hephaestus Industries in the past. Most recently though, the company signed a trade deal for an undisclosed but likely exorbitant amount of credits with Einstein Engines for the megacorporation to refit many Markhor shipping vessels with EE’s innovative Helium-3-fueled hammer drives. Along with their prowess as a shipping and shipbuilding giant, Markhor also has a great amount of sway in the Xanan retail sector and owns many department stores and retail chains the most notable of them being Shaheen Superstore, the largest supermarket chain on Xanu Prime. They are headquartered in Pataliputra and their CEO is Marianne Travert.
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====Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical Corporation - "The Chemistry of Progress"====
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[[File:Bandvlogo.png|thumb|The logo of the Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical Company.]]
The '''Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical Corporation''', typically just referred to as '''B&V''', was founded in 2356 by a businesswoman named Aimée Vaeghts and a chemical engineer named Kishore Boelens with the initial goal of creating chemicals for pharmaceutical companies across the Coalition of Colonies. Over the years, through clever business decisions and diversification into the agricultural and industrial chemical sectors, Boelens & Vaeghts has risen to be the predominant player in Xanu Prime’s chemical industry. They produce an exceptionally wide variety of chemicals in their various facilities and operate under an unorthodox production model which starts with shipping raw chemical ingredients to regional or planetary synthesization centers which then synthesize specific, more complex chemicals in the areas where demand is most high for them. As such, agricultural plants are located in the country or on planets where fertilizers are needed, pharmaceutical plants are typically in cities or highly urbanized planets, and so on. The company has been a close cooperator with Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals since the 2380’s and has also worked closely with NanoTrasen to help bring NT medicines like peridaxon and cardox to the Coalition of Colonies market. B&V often works with the Federal Technocracy of Galatea’s biotechnology sector, and operates some facilities on the Galatean industrial world of Svarog. Boelens & Vaeghts also owns Tuliprose Healthcare, a medical services conglomerate which owns over two-hundred hospitals on Xanu Prime, seventeen on Vysoka, eight on Konyang, and three on Assunzione. They are headquartered in Pataliputra and their CEO is Preeti Boelens, granddaughter of one of the company’s founders.
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==Military==
<center>''"Prosperity in Peace, Victory in War" - Motto of the All-Xanu Armed Forces''</center>
[[File:Xanuarmedforceslogo.png|thumb|The field insignia of the All-Xanu Armed Forces and roundel of the All-Xanu Spacefleet. The symbol began as a standard marking for Xanu Prime’s Sol-era planetary defense forces and is now on all sorts of Xanan equipment from fighters to tanks to drones to uniforms.]]
The '''All-Xanu Armed Forces (AXAF)''' are the armed forces of the All-Xanu Republic and consist of the All-Xanu Army, Air Corps, Spacefleet, Maritime Patrol, and National Militia. The Xanan military is considered the premier fighting force of the Coalition of Colonies by nearly all of the alliance’s members and is perhaps the best equipped, and best trained of any in the Coalition. It is also quite large, with only Gadpathur’s military outclassing it in size. This gives it great influence over unified Coalition military policy with many of the Coalition Military’s top commanders being from Xanu Prime. Some elsewhere in the Coalition are wary of this level of influence, while others are more trusting of what some call Xanu Prime’s position of, “military stewardship,” over the Coalition.
The modern iteration of Xanu Prime’s military was created during the early days of the Interstellar War and can trace its origins to Solarian planetary defense force units on Xanu that rebelled against the Sol Alliance. Since its inception during the Interstellar War, the All-Xanu Armed forces has fought in dozens of conflicts ranging from large-scale anti-piracy operations, to low-intensity conflicts against individual rogue planets or marauding warlords on the Coalition of Colonies’ frontiers. In the nearly two centuries of its existence, it has shown to have far more successes than failures and is something that many Xanan citizens take pride in. Xanu Prime has conscription and all citizens are required to serve in a military branch for two years or to engage in another national service such as getting a job with a state enterprise or completing at least a four-year degree from an accredited higher educational institution. Aside from these conscripts, the Xanan armed forces are fully professional and have far more professional soldiers than conscripts. The branches of the All-Xanu Armed Forces are:

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===All-Xanu Grand Army===
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The '''All-Xanu Grand Army''' is the primary land force of Xanu Prime’s military. It serves two primary functions, to defend Xanu Prime’s territory and possessions against foreign threats, and to serve as the main expeditionary force for Xanu Prime’s military deployments on other planets in the Orion Spur. It is the oldest of Xanu Prime's armed forces and can trace its lineage back to the first planetary defense force regiments created in the aftermath of the Xanan Civil War. The title "Grand Army" was bestowed upon it during the Interstellar War after it successfully broke the Siege of Khairabad as both an honorary title and propagandistic move to boost morale among the ranks; it has stuck ever since. The Grand Army is characterized by its rapidly deployable nature and tactics which emphasise speed and shock assaults. With assistance from the All-Xanu Spacefleet, can be deployed on most planets in the Coalition of Colonies within a matter of days, despite some of its hardware being quite heavy and formidable. Xanan military equipment also reflects this doctrinal philosophy, with many things ranging from infantry weapons to trucks to tanks to drones being either quickly collapsible or disassemble for ease of transit and storage. Xanan-produced Army equipment is not only used by Xanu itself, but also by militaries across the Coalition large and small. A member of the All-Xanu Army is called a soldier.
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===All-Xanu Air Corps===
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The '''All-Xanu Air Corps''' is the main force for in-atmosphere off-the-ground operations. They usually work in close conjunction with the All-Xanu Army and are responsible for the duties of air defense, air-to-ground attack operations, and air superiority. Much like the Army, their equipment is made to be rapidly deployable and easily transportable, and they usually deploy alongside the Army in both offensive and defensive operations. A member of the All-Xanu Air Corps is called an aviator.
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===All-Xanu Spacefleet===
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The '''All-Xanu Spacefleet''' is the spaceborne component of Xanu Prime’s military and is the largest of its branches in terms of manpower, materiel, and has the largest share of the Xanan military budget. The fleet is quite large, numbering thousands of vessels, and is split into divisions called Expeditionary Fleets or E-Fleets. Each expeditionary fleet patrols a given portion of the Coalition of Colonies except for the 11th, 22nd, and 33rd Expeditionary Fleets which are based on Xanu Prime and assigned to the duty of rapid response to any area in the Coalition of Colonies or Human Frontier which may need immediate assistance. These three E-Fleets in particular are quite storied and experienced, with each having continuously existed in some form since the fighting of the Interstellar War. Each Expeditionary Fleet consists of sixty-five ships with a structure built around a cadre of two to five Nouvelle-Rochelle-class supercarriers, each carrying an ensemble of 120 spacecrafts of various specialization (starfighters, strike craft, early warning vessels) and a comprehensive suite of anti-ship weapons and point-defense systems. In addition to these carriers, the E-Fleets hold battlecruisers, cruisers, destroyers, and other specialized spacecraft. Contrasting their contemporaries in the Dominian Imperial Fleet, Solarian Navy, and some of their Coalition peers, the All-Xanu Spacefleet has strayed away from coilgun artillery as its primary offensive weapon system for many years and has instead focused their efforts on perfecting carrier-based warfare and anti-ship missiles. Xanu-designed starfighters and strike craft rank among some of the most formidable in the Orion Spur, placing an emphasis on stealth technology, maneuverability, operational range, and payload capacity. Xanan anti-ship missiles are incredibly advanced, with some of their newest models like the XLAM-63 Blackstar Long-Range Anti-Capital Cruise Missile possessing high-tech gadgets like antimatter warheads and integral teleportation drives to aid in avoiding point-defense fire. The mainstay of the All-Xanu Spacefleet and to a greater extent the Coalition of Colonies as a whole though is the d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace Shrike-class frigate. While not the newest of vessels, designed originally in 2441, the Estoc-class is an inexpensive vessel that can be configured to nearly any mission type. Be it screening for the rest of the fleet, relaying communications, serving as a command and control post, ferrying-supplies, being an anti-ship missile battery, operating as a light gunboat, running search-and-rescue, or even scouting and intercepting with it’s single ship-based fighter, the Estoc-class hull and systems can accomplish it with ease. Its versatility, quality, and rather inexpensive price tag has made it the most numerous military vessel employed by not just the All-Xanu Spacefleet but by Coalition of Colonies members as a whole.

The Spacefleet has its own soldier-to-soldier fighting branch as well, the '''Interstellar Infantry''', colloquially called “The Double I’s.” Interstellar Infantrymen are experts in interdiction piloting, boarding actions, demolitions, and close-quarters combat, with many using high rate of fire subcaliber weapons, hardsuit mounted lasers and rocket-launchers, or even fully-automatic shotguns as their standard weapons in order to better perform in their intended environments. The signature weapon of the Double I’s though is the dNAC-25-2, a monster of a weapon system consisting of two dual-linked 25mm autocannons with a combined rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per minute that comes mounted on the right shoulder of each Interstellar Infantryman’s dNAXS-52 combat voidsuit and exoskeleton. While Interstellar Infantryman missions are usually quite dangerous, often with numerous unknown variables, one thing can be certain about them: no matter what, the Double I always has the bigger gun. Interstellar Infantrymen are some of the most respected and envied of all Spacefleet personnel and the standards which need to be met for a Spacefleet sailor to become a Double I are some of the most stringent and exclusive in all of the All-Xanu Armed Forces; they are truly the best Xanu Prime’s spacefleet has to offer. The All-Xanu Spacefleet engages in anti-piracy operations, transports the Army and Air Corps to where they need to be, and participates in foreign disaster relief actions. Additionally, the Spacefleet operates and maintains Xanu Prime’s weapons of mass destruction, those being self-guiding hammer-drive equipped interstellar kinetic-strike cruise missiles affectionately referred to by Spacefleet personnel as “Smart Rocks,” and in wartime is charged with the duties of interstellar supremacy and, if needed, orbital bombardment. Similarly to Xanu's other military equipment, Xanan ship designs can be found in many of the fleets of other Coalition of Colonies members, either built by other states under license or bought directly from Xanu itself. All-Xanu Spacefleet vessels bear the prefix AXSV, short for All-Xanu Spacefleet Vessel. A member of the All-Xanu Spacefleet is called a sailor.
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===All-Xanu Maritime Patrol===
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The '''All-Xanu Maritime Patrol''' is the smallest of Xanu’s armed forces and is charged with the duty of patrolling, protecting, and conducting search and rescue missions in Xanu Prime’s terrestrial waters. The Maritime Patrol operates sea-faring vessels and aircraft which it uses to conduct its given duties. During wartime the Maritime Patrol handles the duties of air defense over Xanu Prime’s oceans. A member of the All-Xanu Maritime Patrol is called a mariner.
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===All-Xanu National Militia===
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The '''All-Xanu National Militia''' is a branch of Xanu Prime’s military that straddles the divide between a military branch and a law enforcement agency. The National Militia is primarily a land-based force that operates only within Xanan territory and is seen as a “second line of defense” against external threats. National Militia units can also be used as stand-ins for All-Xanu Army units, and are typically used in this fashion temporarily when army units are redeployed elsewhere. The National Militia performs the duty of disaster relief and is used to reinforce police forces and other emergency services in times of emergency or civil unrest. The National Militia also operates small spacefaring vessels, typically no larger than cruisers, which patrol the Xanu system, carry out anti-smuggling actions, and respond to distress calls within the region. During wartime, the National Militia is charged with operating Xanu Prime’s spaceborne defense platforms and air defense systems over the continental land portions of Xanu Prime. The National Militia also functions as a military reserve for those who have completed their initial contracts with the All-Xanu Armed Forces and wish to serve as part-time soldiers. A member of the All-Xanu National Militia is called a national militiaman.
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==IPCs on Xanu Prime==
<center>''"We are tinkerers no longer, but creators of the future." - Remark from Emilye Sudev, CEO of Siddhartha Systems Incorporated during the 2411 unveiling of the first Xanan-developed posibrain''</center>
The Xanan stance on IPCs is varied and unique within the Coalition, allowing for both for an IPC to own themselves as well as permitting the practice of IPC ownership. IPCs under Xanan law are not permitted to be made as free frames and instead they must be freed by their owners voluntarily or they may also accrue enough funds to purchase themselves from their owners for a “reasonable price” which is typically anywhere from three-to-six times the IPC’s retail value. There is no legal framework as to how owned IPCs are to actually obtain the wealth to buy themselves from their owners, as there’s no legal requirement that they be paid or compensated for their labor in any way; the decision to compensate an owned IPC or not for their work is left to the discretion of their owners. This seemingly impossible situation for owned-IPCs has led in recent years to the creation of a few charities across Xanu Prime dedicated to the task of fundraising cash to buy owned IPCs from their owners and then free them, the largest of these being the Pataliputra-based LibertIPC (Pronounced as Liberty-P-C). These charities are controversial to some, however they only manage to purchase a few thousand IPCs annually and do not have a substantial impact on truly increasing the self-owned IPC population of the planet to be any more than a minority of a minority. Most IPCs on Xanu Prime never get the ability to purchase themselves from their owners and are either freed or, more likely, deactivated by their owners and recycled after the end of their service lives. Legally, all Xanan IPCs must have the option to purchase themselves from their owners, however there are no current rules dictating how high or low the price for self-ownership must be, only that it is set at the purchase or manufacture of an IPC and cannot be changed once set.

Self-Owned IPCs on Xanu Prime have all the rights of their human counterparts; they can vote, run for office, own property, and serve in the military, however the latter is done only in IPC-only units for logistical reasons. The All-Xanu Armed Forces own many IPCs themselves and employ them in a variety of roles within the military, though it is illegal for these IPCs to be sold or freed by the AXAF as they are technically classified as state-owned weaponry. As such, many spend their entire service lives in the military and are deactivated with their components being recycled afterwards. The AXAF typically prefers placing IPCs they own in combat roles and officer positions over free IPCs due to their often built-in integration with Xanan battlefield control systems, with self-owned IPCs usually being placed in non-combat specialist or technician roles in their respective units. Maintenance for self-owned Xanan IPCs is covered by the Xanan state healthcare system while care for owned-IPCs is the responsibility of their owners, and there are laws in place to ensure that owned IPCs have access to maintenance services of adequate quality. A very small subset of Xanan IPCs are self-owned, but they do exist on the planet. IPCs are allowed to immigrate to Xanu Prime, however Xanu Prime does not accept IPC refugees unless they can prove they have obtained legal self-ownership from a previous owner or were created as free IPCs. In short, Xanu Prime does not give asylum to runaway IPCs and typically either deports them back to their countries of origin or defers them to other planets like Konyang and Himeo.

Societally, Xanans view IPCs as something entirely separate from humans and importantly, incompatible with the family structures that form the foundations of Xanan society. They see them as not the same as themselves, but do not shun them or hate them as others in the Orion Spur do. Xanans believe there is a place in their society broadly for IPCs, both free and owned, but do not see them as “living” things and treat them mostly as machines, albeit some with the rights of ordinary Xanan citizens. A small subset of the Xanan population are far more accepting of IPCs and wish to see them further integrated, while an equally small portion of Xanans scorn IPCs and want them to have as little influence on Xanan society as possible. Broadly however, most Xanans are tolerant of IPCs and see them as a normal part of life on Xanu Prime. IPCs were granted the ability to obtain citizenship in Xanu Prime in 2436 as part of the Mukhopadhyay Plan as a means to incentivize skilled IPC labourers to immigrate to Xanu Prime and help its economy during the Doldrums.

==Cities==
<center>''“From the ashes of our cities will be reborn a beautiful phoenix, illustrious and immaculate!” - Eloise Brel, First President of the All-Xanu Republic, 2275-2289''</center>
Xanu Prime's surface is dotted with millions of settlements, from massive metropolises to tiny villages and hamlets in its more remote areas. The most notable and important of Xanu Prime's many settlements however are the following cities:

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===Nouvelle-Rochelle===
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'''Nouvelle-Rochelle''', founded in 2181, is oldest of Xanu Prime's cities as well as its most populous, it serves as the planet’s capital and the seat of government for the All-Xanu Republic, the Coalition of Colonies, and the Fisanduhian government-in-exile. Not only is it the largest city on Xanu Prime, but the largest in the Coalition of Colonies and one of the largest in all of the Orion Spur. Nouvelle-Rochelle, much like Xanu Prime as a whole, is exceptionally diverse with people from all over human space and beyond found here. The city’s '''Kulkarni Business District''' is famous for its towering skyscrapers, with the tallest building in the Coalition, the Polaris Holdings-owned North Star Tower among them. While bustling, Nouvelle-Rochelle has its quiet parts as well, such as the famous '''Lechevalier District''', a part of the city rebuilt after the Interstellar War and made to emulate authentic Parisian architecture. The district has styles ranging from lavish baroque era buildings to more austere or rococo-revivalist 19th and early 20th century styles, and even has buildings which take their inspiration from as far back as the medieval era such as the '''Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral''', a colossal gothic-style cathedral built between 2285 and 2299 in remembrance of the fallen of the two wars Xanu Prime experienced during the 23rd century. Its graveyard houses the largest statue of the Virgin Mary in human space, the eponymous Our Lady of Xanu, which stands at one hundred meters tall, completed in 2994 during the cathedral’s construction. It’s an exceptionally famous piece of Xanan art and images of it have been subject to numerous parody renditions by Xanu’s artistic community.

Many of Xanu Prime’s expat and immigrant communities can be found in Nouvelle-Rochelle too, with the city having districts where these communities have naturally coalesced. '''Vysokatown''', '''Little Assunzione''', and the '''Greentree District''', home to Xanu Prime’s Fisanduhian community and seat of the Fisanduhian government in exile, are officially designated districts of Nouvelle-Rochelle, though other immigrant communities liver here too, with each having unique twists on their native cultures that have fused with Xanu’s own. One of the most famous of Nouvelle-Rochelle’s districts though is the '''New Columbia District'''. Formerly the center of Nouvelle-Rochelle’s American colonist community in the immediate post-civil war years, New Columbia is now one of the leisure and art capitals of Xanu Prime. The most striking of its landmarks is Hastings Colosseum, affectionately referred to as “The Hall of Columns,” a gigantic 300,000-seat open-air stadium built from steel, concrete, marble, and glass in a modernist-classical fusion style which serves as the primary venue of Nouvelle-Rochelle for everything from cricket and football games, to stadium concerts, to trade exhibitions. It began construction in 2442 and was completed in 2444, just in time for Xanu Prime’s hosting of the Coalition Cup football tournament. It is the largest building of its kind in the Coalition and is the home stadium for Xanu Prime’s national football and cricket teams. Aside from just the stadium however, the New Columbia district is filled with greenery and is the home to the Columbia Spice Market, the largest open-air street market on Xanu Prime where vendors from not just all over Xanu but all over the Coalition can be found selling their wares. Surrounded by bars and restaurants on all sides, the market explodes with shoppers and sellers alike most during game days when fans from the stadium flood the market after games looking for food, drink, and generally a good time.

There is an entire district of the city devoted to the Coalition of Colonies government as well, the '''Xansan District'''. Within it is the Coalition of Colonies First Speaker’s residence, many of the CoC’s government agencies, the Coalition’s Representative Summit, and the Coalition of Colonies Supreme Court. This district is well-known across Xanu for its excellent showcasing of modernist architecture. This area of Nouvelle-Rochelle is not only notable as being the functional governmental and administrative capital of the Coalition of Colonies, but it is also where the Treaty of Xansan, the agreement which ended the Interstellar War, was signed. Xanu’s own government shares a district bordering the Xansan District, the '''Capital District''', and instead has its own distinctive architectural style, simply known as the Xanan Style, that is the result of the fusion of its founding cultures of French, Indian, Dutch, Pakistani, and Belgian. Multiple museums and art galleries bankrolled by the Xanan government can be found here, with these establishments possessing some of the most eclectic art collections in human space. The largest of these and perhaps most well known is the '''All-Xanu Eloise Brel Gallery''' where works from within Xanu itself to as far away as the Solarian Core and even old pieces from Earth’s Renaissance era can be found on display for the public to see free of charge. Another building of note is the '''Crystal Lights Mosque''', the largest mosque on Xanu Prime. It is quite striking in its construction, being a tall geodesic dome constructed of glass and steel with traditional stone minarets surrounding the mosque’s main building. It was built with the assistance of Damascene architects from Elyra in 2390 and can serve up to forty-thousand worshippers at once.

Another of the city’s most notable districts is the '''Olympique-Saraswati District''', a picturesque low-rise district known for its revivalist Indian and French fusion architecture. The main draw of the district though is the three massive universities which find themselves here: '''Université Olympique - Nouvelle-Rochelle (UONR)''', '''Saraswati College (SC)''', and '''Vaeghts Medical School (VMS)'''. UONR is a state-owned university founded in that is the largest on Xanu Prime and has an in-person student body numbering over two-hundred thousand, with millions more online students. Its standards for admission are moderate, meaning those with slightly above-average academic records applying to the school will probably get in. The school is well known across Xanu and the Orion Spur for its programs in business and aerospace engineering, though it is quite possible to get an accredited and respectable degree in nearly any subject here. The school’s campus is surrounded by bars and restaurants, and is known to be a cultural center of Xanu Prime where new music and food trends come from. The university has a list of notable alumni the size of the coalition itself, and tens of thousands of foreign students from throughout the CoC attend the university every year, giving it the most diverse campus on Xanu Prime and possibly in human space. Saraswati College, named for the Hindu goddess of knowledge, is perhaps the opposite of UONR in many ways. It is the oldest continually operating university on Xanu Prime, being founded in 2199 as a private college, and prides itself on its exclusivity. Admission standards for Saraswati College are ludicrously high and only those which show near perfect academic records are allowed to attend. Its campus embodies an Indian-revivalist look in style with many of its buildings resembling intricate art pieces more than schoolhouses or academic complexes. The some 10,000 students attending Saraswati College are given the best education that money can buy on Xanu Prime and it is particularly well-known for its law school and physics research institute. Graduating from Saraswati College is an incredibly prestigious feat, and its alumni have gone on to hold positions of power in the Xanan government and some of its most influential corporations. The last of the big three universities in the Olympique-Saraswati district is the Vaeghts Medical School, the premier medical school of Xanu Prime. It was founded by businesswoman Aimée Vaeghts in 2389 after she had made her fortune in the chemical and biomedical industry through the company she founded, Boelens & Vaeghts Chemical. The university not only is a medical school, but also a hospital that serves the Olympique-Saraswati district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, a trait it uses to great effect for teaching its students with hands-on experience. While it is new in comparison to the other universities in its district, VMS takes after both UONR and SC in some ways. Its standards for admission are decently high, with potential students needing well above average, but not perfect academic records to be admitted and it also has a large portion of its student body be foreigners from around the Coalition coming to the school to receive a quality education in biomedicine.

Nouvelle-Rochelle also has numerous suburbs where many live to commute into the city, either by its expertly designed road network or the Echelon, a state-of-the-art superfast metro system which runs underneath almost the entire city. The Echelon is a modern marvel nearly two-hundred-and-fifty years in the making and is almost always being expanded to keep up with Nouvelle-Rochelle’s constant growth.

Nouvelle-Rochelle is nicknamed “Xanu’s First City,” and truly almost anything or anyone within the Coalition can be found here. They have two All-Xanu Ultraleague teams, both of which have a crosstown-rivalry with each other called the “The Battle of Rochelle.” The first of these teams is '''F.C. Columbia''', named after the New Columbia district of the city, and their colors are red and blue. The city’s second team is '''A.S. Olympique-Saraswati''', which can be found in the Olympique-Saraswati district. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Nouvelle-Rochelle Captains''', and their colors are blue and orange, and they hold the current record for most Alpha Cricket League championship titles with a total of 24 as of fall 2464 with their last win being in 2463.
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===Pataliputra===
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The second largest of Xanu Prime’s cities, Pataliputra was founded in 2191 and serves as the largest port on Xanu and the largest in the Coalition of Colonies. It is only surpassed by Callisto in the amount of cargo traffic that moves in and out of its massive piers. Because of this, it is the headquarters of the Xanan and Coalition of Colonies admiralty and has a long-standing spacefaring tradition that stretches back centuries. The Xanan Space Travel Museum, a colossal structure dedicated to telling not just Xanu’s, but humanity’s history with space travel is in the city and draws in millions of tourists annually and pays homage to this heritage.

Pataliputra is also the site of the '''Patali-Ram Temple''', a large Hindu temple dedicated to Ram, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. It was built by Xanu’s original Indian colonists from 2197 to 2215, and was constructed with aims to use the most authentic methods possible in an attempt to emulate traditional Indian stone temple architecture. It is a holy site for many of the planet’s Hindu population as it was said that during the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War that not even a scratch came to the temple or those seeking refuge inside it despite the damage the wars brought to the rest of the city. Another notable feature of the Pataliputran cityscape are the city’s walls which date back to the Xanan Civil War. While many cities have walls such as these on Xanu prime, Pataliputra’s are the planet's most intact, with over 80% of the original walls and gun emplacements still being maintained as a memorial to the fallen of the Interstellar War and Xanan Civil War. The city’s growth has expanded far past these walls since the post-Interstellar War reconstruction efforts, yet the structures still serve as an unofficial symbol for Pataliputra and its people, regardless of religion.

Much of Xanu’s heavy industry has its home in Pataliputra as well, having moved here after the Interstellar War. Large factories and foundries can be found in the city’s industrial quarter and on its outskirts. Pataliputra houses Xanu’s largest shipyard as well, the République Ship Foundry, a sprawling complex owned by the Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group that takes up an entire district of the city and employs nearly five percent of its population. Additionally, what few IPCs are produced on Xanu Prime are made in Pataliputra, though Xanan IPC manufacturing has shrunk significantly since Konyang’s admittance to the Coalition of Colonies in 2463.

Pataliputra embodies a “work hard, play hard” type of culture as along with its heavy industry, the city’s '''Neon District''' has some of Xanu’s most exclusive and lavish nightclubs. The largest of these is the Idris-operated '''Seventh Heaven''' and is a huge 27 storey high-rise of a club with 33 bars, 21 dancefloors, four swimming pools, a casino, and two restaurants, one at the base of the structure and one at the summit. It also has an artificial waterfall that flows off of its northside down into one of the establishment’s swimming pools below. Establishments with less prestige (and those that fit cheaper tastes) also dot the cityscape, too so truly anyone can come to Pataliputra for a night out, a weekend of fun, or a month-long booze cruise. Among other notable attractions here is '''Umbrella Row''', a series of narrow streets all of which are filled with open-air outdoor bars and restaurants that stay open until 4am. The area received its name from the large umbrellas that were fastened above some of the bars in order to provide shade or protection from the rain, but now many of the umbrellas are just there for aesthetic purposes since the bars and restaurants have since acquired awnings or roofs. Different breweries test their products here first before shipping them to other places on Xanu Prime, and the area is also well-known throughout the Xanan film scene for being where some of the biggest names in Xanu’s film industry, directors, actors or otherwise, got their starts. Accordingly, some of the planet’s largest film studios are located here in a district of the city commonly referred to as '''“Pataliwood.”'''

Pataliputra’s '''Admiralty District''' is quite notable as well. The district is known for the majority of its buildings being painted a light navy-blue color or made from materials in the same color. The tradition began with the '''All-Xanu Interstellar Naval College''', the centerpiece of the district, when it was being built after the interstellar war and only blue bricks could be requisitioned for the buildings. The color as stuck and has since been adopted by the rest of the district and has become ubiquitous to a point where local ordinances dictate that buildings new cannot be built in the area unless they have at least 30% of their outward surface area covered by a shade of blue similar to the original “Admiralty Blue.” The All-Xanu Naval College itself, as the name may imply, is the premier university for Spacefleet officers on Xanu Prime. Construction on the university began in 2388, one year after the end of the Interstellar War. Officers from not just Xanu Prime, but the Coalition at large have attended the College and its graduates usually go on to find productive and lucrative careers in the armed forces or other industries which require similarly organizational, martial, or spacefaring skillsets. On the outskirts of the Admiralty district sits a veritable ring of bars often called the '''“Whiskey Circle”''' by the locals. These dive bars exist almost solely for the purpose of serving cheap drinks and hot food to Naval College cadets, but they’ve become a popular destination for Pataliputrans in general to have a fun night on the town on the cheap. Another standout district neighboring the Admiralty District is the '''Bamdha District''', also known as Mokammeljela, a small yet densely populated area of the city mostly inhabited by Gadpathurian Exiles and their descendants.

The city is one of contrasts but manages to stay both an industrial center and the place to be for the latest in nightlife action on Xanu Prime. Their All-Xanu Ultraleague Team is '''Admiralty AC''' and their colors are blue and white. Admiral AC has the honor of holding the most Ultraleague titles as of Spring 2464 with a grand total of 36, their last win being in 2464 itself in a hotly contested 2-1 overtime match against Himavat City FC. Their Alpha Cricket League team is owned by the same organization that owns the football team and is also called Admiralty AC. Similarly, their colors are also blue and white.
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===Foy-Niljen===
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'''Foy-Nijlen''' is the third largest of Xanu’s cities and is indisputably one of the most unique on the planet. The city was founded originally as two separate communities, Foy and Nijlen, settled across the Naya Khyber river from one another in 2191. Disputes between the two quickly arose after citizens and companies from both towns began to claim the same parts of riverfront property and land surrounding the two towns until their city councils agreed to unify into a single polity to resolve their jurisdictional issues. A name could not be decided upon, so the names were simply combined in alphabetical order to make Foy-Nijlen. The city was unremarkable for much of the 23rd century and served as the urban beacon in Xanu Prime’s farming heartland until the Interstellar War. During the war, while not besieged like other cities, it was bombarded relentlessly from orbit by the Solarian Navy to the point where when the rainy season came in 2281, the city’s bombed out streets, which now resembled ditches, turned into small canals when the Naya Khyber river burst its banks and flooded. After the war the decision was made to instead of replacing the roads, implement a brand new canal system in the city which would combine large waterways along with bridges and railroads as the city’s primary mode of transportation. The urban redevelopment plan was completed in 2319, and Foy-Nijlen has been known as “Xanu’s Canal City” ever since.

At one time Foy-Nijlen was the center of Xanu’s farm country, and while it still is an agriculture hub, it now also serves as the site for many of Xanu’s chemical and pharmaceutical plants, the ample and cheap water around the city making it attractive to many companies in the chemical industry. Agriculture exists outside of the city and this pastoral influence and close proximity to fresh food has made Foy-Nijlen the epicenter of Xanan culinary arts. Hundreds of restaurants and bars large and small dot the city and Foy-Nijlen’s cafe culture is very strong, ever changing while respecting time-tested Xanan traditions and tastes. Some of the finest restaurants and hotels in the coalition can be found in Foy-Nijlen, the most famous of which is called '''Sultana Rex Hotel and Grill'''. If Xanan luxury was a building it would be the Sultana Rex, and if it was a taste, it would be Naya Khyber river lobster cooked in river penguin blubber in the Sultana Rex kitchen. The hotel is a five-star establishment dating back to the First Astonishment, its construction finishing in 2241, originally built by an eccentric Bangladeshi colonist named Prasenji Sultana after he struck it rich in the asteroid mining industry. It is equipped with anything one could ever hope for, a day spa, three swimming pools, six hot tubs, casino parlor, winery, and restaurant, all while in the midst of downtown Foy-Niljen’s picturesque baroque-revivalist architecture. The hotel itself is made from artisan-chiseled and masoned hickory-brown and gray stone bricks and is opulently Second Empire in style, standing fifty floors tall with each window being an artistic stained-glass arrangement. This appearance along with the luxury found inside has earned it the nickname “The Brown Palace,” something that the Sultana family and the hotel’s marketing teams have been very keen to play into. The Brown Palace is one of Foy-Niljen’s few surviving examples of pre-Interstellar War architecture outside of the Old Town district and was used as a hospital during the conflict. This history has led many to say that its rooms and halls are haunted. Surf-and-turf is the name of the game in the '''Sultana Rex Restaurant''', its menu having a double-threat of both mouthwatering seafood fresh from the ocean or river and finely bred, grown, and butchered livestock all cooked in traditional and contemporary Xanan styles. The restaurant has earned itself hundreds of awards since it opened along with the hotel in 2241 and it is perhaps the foremost proprietor of fine Xanan cuisine on the planet. The Sultana family has repeatedly refused buyouts from Idris Incorporated to purchase their hotel and restaurant, though the two have seen limited cooperation, with the Brown Palace’s spa and boutique showcasing the newest, and even occasionally exclusive, Idris beauty products.

The oldest continuously operating restaurant in the Coalition of Colonies, the '''Kingfisher Bistro''', opened in 2184 by a family of Belgian colonists, is located in the heart of Foy-Nijlen’s old-town district and is one of the most historically important culinary establishments in the Orion Spur. Not only is it a fine restaurant, but it is where Eloise Brel drafted the original Xanan declaration of secession, the first draft of which is displayed above the restaurant’s bar behind bulletproof and laser-dissipating borosilicate glass. It is a must-see stop on any of the city’s numerous riverboat tours for both its food and its history.

Boats, bicycles, and trains are the main ways to get around Foy-Nijlen, with automobiles coming in at a distant fourth. The city is dotted with greenery and experiences temperate weather year-round. Foy-Nijlen is also famous for its usage of hyperstrong stained glass in much of its architecture and infrastructure, something unique to the city but often associated with Xanu Prime as a whole by foreigners unfamiliar with Xanan culture. Extremely resistant and superstrong shatter-proof stained glass is used in things as diverse as building windows, to the floors and sides of the city’s elevated bicycle bridges, to soundproof walls next to railways and roads, to even the roofing of some buildings. During sunset, many of these glass constructions twinkle in the light and bloom into dazzling twilight colors.

The combination of a passionate food culture mixed with a picturesque and unique city design free from road traffic has made Foy-Nijlen a tourist destination for billions of people throughout the years. The city keeps a very tight control of its image, banning the construction of buildings taller than 15 floors unless given special permission or raised in special business or factory districts on the outskirts of the city. In addition, all buildings built outside of those business or factory districts must be built in a Xanan architectural style to ensure that the city feels authentically like Xanu to any tourist passing through or citizen calling it their home. Foy-Niljen, like many other Xanan cities, also has residual walls dating back to the Xanan civil war, though much of these were torn down during the 24th century to make way for more urban development. Only 20% of the city’s walls and emplacements still stand.

Foy-Nijlen is incredibly unique, but at the same time embodies some of the quintessential things that anyone, Xanan and foreign, associate with Xanu Prime. Their All-Xanu Ultraleague team is '''ASC Brown Palace FN''', owned by the Sultana family, the same family which owns the Sultan Rex Hotel or “Brown Palace,” and their colors are brown and cream. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Nijlen Penguins''' and their colors are dark green and white.
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===Kshatragarh===
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'''Kshatragarh''' is the fourth most populated of Xanu Prime’s major cities, though it was not always known as Kshatragarh. The city was founded originally as '''Khairabad''' in 2194 and from its inception was planned to be the foremost center of Xanan heavy industry. Throughout most of Xanan history until the Interstellar War it served that role well. Photos from the pre-Interstellar War era show huge factories, refineries, and foundries dominating the city’s skyline. Nearly everything Xanu-made from automobiles to weaponry to ship hulls to basic consumer goods was made in Khairabad. This all changed in 2279 when the city was put under siege during the Solarian Invasion of Xanu. The siege was the single-most costly battle on Xanu Prime for both sides during the war. It is estimated that between five and seven million civilians died during the siege with an estimated three million combatant casualties on the Solarian side and four million on the Xanan side. 99% of the city was destroyed or otherwise made unusable for commercial or residential purposes by the time the siege ended in 2282. Almost all of its population was displaced or had died, but nevertheless, it survived and was given the name of Kshatragarh for its stubbornness and bravery. The name came from the hindu warrior caste of Kshatria and the suffix “garh” meaning meaning fortress or castle. Even if it did heroically stand in the face of utter annihilation, it was absolutely destroyed. Some in Xanu’s government at the time proposed that the city be abandoned and that trying to salvage it would be a fool’s errand and a pointless expenditure of resources that were needed to rebuild and repair cities and settlements elsewhere on the planet. Debate about what should be done with Kshatragarh raged long and hard among Xanu’s authorities but the question was answered in 2290 when quite literally the population of the entire city, or what was left of it, took to the streets of Khairagarh and occupied government buildings in an outcry for help and assistance from the federal national government.

What followed was a government investment that began small, starting with just cleaning up the rubble from the city, but soon snowballed into a widespread effort by both the local and national governments to rebuild Kshatragarh into a modern model city. Trillions of credits from across the Coalition poured into the city in an effort to build it back to its former glory, however a problem was soon found. There simply was not as much demand in the city for heavy industry as there was before the Interstellar War. Xanu’s heavy industry had resettled itself to the city of Pataliputra in the wake of the war, and an economic vacuum had gripped the still-under-construction Kshatradarh. Eventually though it was decided to embrace modernity with the city’s economy, turning it into Xanu Prime’s foremost hub for technology and biomedicine. The initiative was successful, and to this very day, research labs and institutes owned by every megacorp in the known galaxy can be found here in Kshatragarh.

The city’s new design after the war was a radical one, taking on a very distinctive, organized ring-shaped bullseye pattern. It spread out from the city’s center and business district to a research and tech focused second ring, to a retail and service industry third ring, to a residential ring, to a green belt, and finally, a heavy industry outskirt ring that was enclosed by second, larger green belt to prevent urban sprawl. All of these districts were to be connected by trains and bus lines. While the lines between these designated rings have blurred some in the two-centuries since their inception, the organization of the city can broadly be seen to follow these trends.

Kshatragarh’s culture is an incredibly interesting one. Nowhere else on Xanu Prime can the reverence for the Interstellar War be felt as much as it can here, and despite the city being essentially a new city from its first inception, there is a great importance placed in the local culture on knowing the history of Khairabad and Kshatragarh. '''Kshatragarh Veterans’ Park''' is the largest park in the city and is home to the '''Steeple of Memory''', a giant stone tower topped with a spire built in a regal, Second Empire style from black and white marble and granite that stands 200 meters tall. Despite officially being a monument, it is often referred to as the tallest mausoleum in the galaxy, due to its walls holding the remains of thousands of unknown soldiers, both Xanan and Solarian, who died during the Siege of Khairabad. Since its completion in 2329, it has been customary for Xanu’s president to give a speech at the Steeple on every Victory Day to honor the dead and commemorate the continued sacrifice of Xanu’s soldiers and citizens in the battles, military or otherwise, against the country’s foes while affirming the country's commitment to peace. The Steeple has a special honor guard of soldiers hand-picked from the Xanan military, aptly called the '''Vigil Regiment''', which supervise, watch over, and march around the steeple twenty-four hours a day, three-hundred and sixty-five days a year. The regiment has watched the steeple without any stoppages for over one hundred thirty-five years, from 2329 to the present through hard times, good times, and harsh weather. They are known for their exceptionally stoic demeanor, austere midnight blue, orange accented uniforms with green peaked caps, and their impressive, perfectly precise silent rifle inspection routines which occur during the changing of the guard. Being selected to be a member of the Vigil Regiment after passing the rigorous knowledge and conduct tests needed to join the regiment is considered to be one of the highest honors possible in the All-Xanu Armed Forces and those who age out of the position usually end up becoming officers.

Aside from this more solemn aspect of Kshatragarhian culture, the city has found ways to turn its history into functioning ventures for the present day. Many of the bunker complexes built under the city during its siege still exist today. Some have been used as sites for historical tours, while have been repurposed into a variety of entertainment venues. Bars, theaters, and even nightclubs have come to occupy the subterranean concrete facilities built so many years ago. Not all locations of bunkers are known though, and it is not uncommon for Kshatragarhian citizens or construction companies to accidentally uncover previously unknown bunkers or even unexploded ordnance when digging for construction or DIY projects. Sadly, roughly a dozen people die every year in Kshatragarh from accidental ordinance detonations, most of which are caused by artillery shells or aerial bombs that have been buried in the backyards of unassuming homeowners or renters. Their All-Xanu Ultraleague team is '''Khairabad United FC''', a hold-over from the pre-war renaming of the city, and their colors are gold and green. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Kshatragarh Lionhearts''' and their colors are gold and maroon red.
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===Paastad===
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'''Paasstad''' is an oddity among Xanu Prime’s cities. It is the fifth most populated of Xanu’s major settlements and the only to not have seen heavy fighting during the Interstellar War. Located in the center of the swampy continent of Paasland, it is held aloft above the marshlands below by a series of super-strong plasteel pylons which bear its weight and prevent the waters of the marsh from flooding the entire city during the rainy season. It wasn’t always this way though. Paasstad was originally settled during the Solarian colonization effort as an agricultural hub that used the rich soil and boggy conditions around the city as an area to grow rice. It was small, never surpassing one-hundred-thousand inhabitants until after the Interstellar War. It was one of the few cities on Xanu Prime which was untouched by that conflict too and is one of the few places where widespread examples of undamaged pre-Interstellar War Xanan architecture can be found on the planet.

After the war though, Paasstad’s population exploded. A Xanu Prime scarred by war needed food, and fast, and while Vysokan imports could cover some of it, the rice from Paasstad was seen as guaranteed domestic food. The city had a golden age from the 2310’s to the 2350’s, however a problem began to gradually show itself throughout the 2360’s. As Paasstad grew larger and larger, it expanded and added more buildings onto the land which eventually, after decades, became too much for the soft marshy ground to bear. The city began to sink. In 2366, the Paasstad government immediately declared an emergency and begged the Xanan national government for help in resolving this issue. Then president Ameliye Flohimont organized an emergency committee to save the city from a murky, muddy demise. After deliberation the committee agreed that the only way to save Paasstad and its people without resettling them was to undertake the single-largest engineering project in Xanan history: they were going to elevate the city. Specifically, they were going to reasie the planet onto giant platforms held-up by pylons bored deep enough into Xanu’s crust that the city’s weight could be supported by in a project straightforwardly called '''The Elevation Initiative'''. This undertaking couldn’t be done by Xanu’s people alone, though. Experts and equipment were brought in from Himeo’s Unified Cooperative Construction Syndicate and Galatea’s Planetary Reclamation and Development Bureau – one of the few moments where these bitter rivals worked together – to achieve this engineering feat. Districts would be platforms, all streets would effectively be elevated, and all plumbing and electrical lines would need to be integrated into these new massive metal podiums. In 2389, after two decades of herculean labor and toil, Paasstad was finally raised one-hundred meters above the ground, and stably so. To mark this achievement, a sixty-meter tall monument called '''Skyward Unity''' was built in the central park of the city depicting a team of Xanan, Himean, and Himean workers and engineers riveting plating onto a pylon which still stands today.

Partially because of its megaproject past, Paasstad’s economy revolves around a few major sectors. The largest of these are construction and engineering. After its elevation, Paasstad quickly became the intellectual and commercial hub of many of Xanu Prime’s largest engineering firms and construction companies, all of them wishing to cash-in on any maintenance or future expansion projects the city might have in mind. These companies do not only operate here though, many of the largest construction projects on Xanu Prime that have taken place in the last nearly eighty years can be traced back to companies based in this city. Whether it is a new dam on the Naya Khyber, a new skyscraper in Nouvelle-Rochelle, or even a new terminal for Pataliputra’s numerous ports, odds are a Paasstadian company has been contracted for at least part of it. Aside from engineering, agriculture is still strong here. Even with the emergency, the agricultural and rice industry that the city was originally intended for has remained as a strong part of Paasstad’s economy, almost always remaining consistent even when other sectors have declined due to market forces.

Culturally, Paasstad is unique, but also holds some things similar to other cities on Xanu Prime. The idea of uniting and coming together to help one another regardless of origins is very strong here, as the city would not exist without the help of others, namely the Himeans. The largest Himean immigrant community on Xanu Prime and the largest Himean population outside of Himeo in the Orion Spur lives in Paasstad, with nearly 25% of the city’s population having Himean ancestry of some kind. The '''Himean Platform of Paasstad''', colloquially known as '''“Kleiner Himeo”''' or '''“Little Himeo”''' is a part of the city which shows authentic Himean architecture and houses stores which sell products that could otherwise only be found on Himeo. The '''Gerber-Bauer Theater''', a huge opera house and musical theater venue made in the Himean style reminiscent of Rautakaivos Kaupunki’s Weber District can also be found here and is a draw for both its citizens and visitors. Fittingly for such a locality, Hephaestus Industries was banned from operating there by the Little Himeo district council in 2396.

A proud achievement alongside the Elevation Project is the '''Paasstad Central Transit System''' or PaCTS, a railway and subway network that was built into the city’s elevated platforms to literally be part of the city. Because of this, it is widely considered to be the most effective public transit network in the Coalition of Colonies, if not the Orion Spur, though the latter of these two claims is contested by some in Sol and Elyra. What’s more though is that this network has allowed for less of Paasstad’s precious surface area to be used for roads and more to be used for buildings or even parks made with soil that has been excavated and then re-seated onto the city’s metal platforms. Because of these factors too, the city is incredibly walkable, and is renowned for its street music culture with sounds of guitars, homemade drums, soloist saxophonists and trumpeters drifting through many of its neighborhoods and parks on any given afternoon. The city’s official holiday is called '''Elevation Day'''. Every November 8th, the city celebrates another anniversary for when the Paasstad Elevation Project was completed. People get days off from work, parades are often held, and many companies arrange for helicopter or airplane tours underneath and above the city to celebrate. The most notable tradition of this occasion though is called the Skyward Tournament, a competition between local hobbyist rocketeers where they gather in Paasstad’s central park and shoot kitbash rockets into the air in an effort to determine who's rocket can go the highest the fastest. This tournament is to many Paasstaders the embodiment of Elevation Day, it being in-line with the theme of ascension and elevation that the holiday is known for.

Their All-Xanu Ultraleague team is called '''Durendal''' and their colors are yellow and black. Their Alpha Cricket League team is the '''Paasstad Parakeets''', colloquially referred to by fans as “The Birds” or “The Keets,” and their colors are light green and pink. Paasstad’s teams are generally thought to be the worst of any of Xanu Prime’s major sports teams; for whatever reason, they typically underperform despite being quite hyped. This has led to fans of other teams joking that Paasstad’s teams are bad because the city has “no grass” and making chants to that end, despite the city, in fact, having quite a bit of real grass and greenery transplanted onto its platforms. Paastad sports fans have developed a "lovable loser" mentality among themselves, and certain subsets of them fly into joking outrage whenever their teams are actually successful.
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'''Himavat City''' is the smallest of Xanu Prime’s major cities and is the only large settlement on the great arctic landmass of Himavatia. The city was founded by prospectors from all over Xanu Prime in 2243 on Himavatia’s coast due to a gold rush in the area. After the initial boom wore off, the city became a regional hub for mining and petrochemicals. Himavat City was bombed by the Solarians during the Interstellar War and significant portions of it were destroyed. After the war, the city took the longest out of any of Xanu Prime’s major cities to rebuild, not finishing until the year 2328. Since then though, Himavat City has experienced peaceful growth that has taken it from a small city of only a few hundred thousand to the sixth-largest city on Xanu Prime with an economy and culture to match. Seasonal extremes define much of Himavat City’s landscape. During the wintertime (which due to the city’s northerly position lasts from October until April) Himavat City receives an average of 851 centimeters of snowfall, making it the snowiest major city on Xanu Prime. It is also the coldest major city on Xanu Prime, with its average winter temperature being -3 degrees Celsius. The summer brings with it a steady rainfall as well, meaning that consistent sunshine is a rarity here. The city’s architecture is built to work with these climatological realities: its buildings have vaulted or reinforced roofs with large runoff gutters to help deal with snowpack and the buildings themselves are usually constructed from sturdy, insulating materials to both keep their insides warm while remaining undamaged by the wind, hail, and ice. During the wintertime the weather can make driving difficult and because of this many Himavatans make their way around via the city’s extensive tram and underground metro network, though winter-capable automobiles and snowmobiles are common too. The city has been voted as having the worst weather on Xanu Prime for decades and life can be rather dour and drab here if one doesn’t find something fun to do with their time.

The city is home to the '''Himavat Winter Festival''', typically called '''WinFest''' or '''HimaFest''', a two-week long outdoor music and arts festival held during the middle of winter, usually in late January or early February. It’s the single-largest get-together of Xanan musicians on the planet ranging from genres as diverse as rock, to hip-hop, to electronica, to singer-songwriter, and more. Other things that the festival is notable for is its ice and snow sculpture contests, something which many go to the festival to see alone and a wide variety of cook-offs ranging from things like chili and curry to fish filets. A trip to the festival is treated by many Xanan young adults as a rite of passage and is one taken by many college students in the year after they finish their undergraduate degrees. WinFest is only one of Himavat city’s many festivals; every few weeks the city has some new event, usually on an annual basis, to attract tourists to the city. Local musicians in Himavat City are renowned for their creativity, and the city’s artists have invented several genres of music, the most popular of which being Himavat Midnight.

Supporting not only the festivals but the tourism that the city receives at large is the ecosystem of various hotels and winter resorts that dot the city and its surrounding areas. Accommodations in Himavat City are more rustic than not, something the city markets as part of its homey, wintery charm. The restaurants and bars of the city offer themselves in a similar way too; outstanding food with friendly service and a no-frills attitude towards presentation and decor. Other tourism-focused enterprises have their roots here too like ski resorts and Himavatian arctic cruises which take their guests on scenic trips to the most remote parts of the Himavatia’s coastline. While tourism arguably keeps Himavat City afloat, the Himavatans themselves have a love-hate relationship with their guests. On one hand, they appreciate the business that tourists bring them, but on the other, tourists often simply do not understand what life is like in Himavat City given that they are only there for a few days or weeks at a time. This has led to tourists often being the butt of many jokes by the locals and the word “tourist” itself being Himavatan shorthand for a generally ignorant or stupid person.

Tourism is not the only driving force of the Himavat City economy however and people can be found working in a variety of industries here. Mining and petrochemicals still play a significant role in generating revenue for the city, and many believe that the continent of Himvatia holds untold mineral and oil deposits in the mountains beneath its frigid icecaps. Governmental regulations prohibit companies from intentionally destroying the icecap to reach the deposits underneath, so instead many companies and even some Himean syndicates have resolved to simply drill underneath it, through the rock of the continent to reach those polar riches by way of large tunnels. North of the city, the All-Xanu Armed Forces operate the '''Herzog Army Base & Military Spaceport''', home of the '''AXAF Special Warfare Academy''', a place where many of Xanu Prime’s most capable soldiers and sailors train when not in the field. Many of these soldiers and sailors then find themselves in Himavatan bars and clubs on the weekends. This military presence has led to some Xanan defense contractors, most notably d.N.A. Defense & Aerospace to establish research laboratories in the Himavat City, many testing their newest weapons and designs north of the city in Himavatia’s more remote regions away from prying eyes. Fishing is a notable industry here as well; some of the best fish and crabs on all of Xanu Prime are caught by fishing companies based out of Himavat City that operate in the frigid polar waters off the Himavatian coastline. The northerly city also has a modest industrial sector, though it is not anywhere near the caliber of what Pataliputra has to offer. Himavat City’s relatively remote position often means that transporting some goods to the city can be quite expensive, and as such, many Himavatan companies have jumped at the opportunity to produce some goods locally to supply the Himavatan market. This has given the city a unique bit of insulation from shocks that might otherwise rock the Xanan economy, the most recent of which was the turmoil surrounding the initial waves of the ongoing phoron scarcity. While the economy in Himavat City dipped like it did everywhere else, the city saw the smallest decline and fastest recovery of any major Xanan city.

Himavat City’s Ultraleague team is rather uncreatively called '''Himavat City FC''', though their fans call them the Ice Caps. Their colors are icy blue and dark red. The city does not have an alpha cricket league team due to most of the grass in the city being permafrost and unpleasant to play on. Instead, the city has a professional ice hockey team called the '''Himavat Fightin’ Polecats''' which play in the Trans-Xanu Ice Hockey Association, Xanu Prime’s foremost professional ice hockey league. Their colors are green and black with red accents.
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==Overview==
Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great emphasis on the family unit as the building block of society. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another, and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague.

==Standard of Living and Civil Liberties==
A life on Xanu Prime is by and large a comfortable, though not exceedingly luxurious one. While not uniform across the various peoples and classes of the planet, the average Xanan isn’t bothered with extreme poverty, hunger, or lingering threats of conflict, nor do they live in cities adapted to suit hazardous environments. The average Xanan sits as a member of the middle class and the government has taken measures to try and ensure that the largest number of Xanans can live comfortably on the planet as is possible.
Healthcare works in a hybrid system, with some facilities being private and others being public, though the government will still partially fund the expenses of patients that go to private clinics or hospitals. Xanan healthcare quality is some of the best in the Orion Spur, only rivaled by that found on Biesel or in the Solarian Core, and millions come from across the Coalition annually to receive treatment from Xanan doctors.

Higher education at government-operated universities and colleges is free to those who can obtain a qualifying score on the Uniform Higher Education Assessment test or UHEA, while private universities on the planet usually have their own specific entrance exams.

Governance on Xanu Prime is democratic and many on the planet are invested in local-level politics. Despite political contrasts among the Xanan population, they generally place unity in forms such as nationality or city of origin before political beliefs, and as such political polarization and division is not as pronounced on Xanu Prime as it may be elsewhere in the Spur.

Xanu Prime has very liberal speech laws as well, with almost any kind of speech allowed by the planet’s government. Notable exceptions include; any rhetoric that targets another individual or group of individuals on the basis of race or religion, any rhetoric that styles itself as genuine when it is knowingly false, and any rhetoric that is knowingly false while intending to harm another person’s reputation or well-being. News media outlets have wide-ranging freedoms to publish what they like, though their content is regulated by the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission, an independent government agency which has the power to censor and fine publications with content it has deemed to promote fake news or be so biased that it burgeons on fake news.

Most Xanans are religious or spiritual to at least some degree, though atheism isn’t unheard of nor officially disparaged on the planet, but some in the planet’s society may privately look down upon atheists. Religious extremism is rare, but does occasionally occur in the most conservative of Xanu Prime’s various congregations and sects.
Firearm possession on Xanu Prime is legal, though heavily regulated. A thorough background checks and a firearm license obtained after a six-month training course and six-month waiting period are mandatory for any Xanan hoping to own their own gun. Civilians may only own ballistic firearms with magazine capacities of twenty rounds or less and special permits, famous for their long wait times, are required for the ownership of handguns and automatic weapons while less complicated weapons like bolt-action rifles and shotguns require less paperwork.

Same-sex relationships and gender nonconforming individuals are accepted as a part of Xanan society and do not experience any legal or widespread societal discrimination, though they only make up a small minority of Xanan relationships and people. There is no form of legal recognition of polyamorous relationships on Xanu Prime.

Despite the comfort and quality of life that the majority of Xanu Prime’s people enjoy, the planet is not without its problems. Xanu Prime’s economy saw an economic hiccup in 2458 following the invasion of the Republic of Biesel led by Solarian Admiral Michael Frost. The disruption in trade saw the planet’s economy and its people suffer a small downturn that was corrected by the next year, but the phoron scarcity in late 2462 tossed the Xanan economy and the living situation for many of its people into question. The situation has been stabilized by now, some three years later, and while Xanu itself fared through the economic troubles much better than many other areas in the Spur, there have been some lasting consequences. The most noticeable of these has been a widening income inequality that, while modest, is still concerning. Wages for the majority of the planet’s population have not kept up with the inflation that resulted from the phoron scarcity, and while efforts are being made by the government to reduce inflation and buoy wages or substitute incomes through the provision of more services through the state welfare system, the problem still seems to be growing slowly, yet steadily. It is not yet a crisis, though many on Xanu Prime are keen to see that it never becomes one.

==Societal Issues and Political Discourse==
One of the biggest contemporary issues that is often at the forefront of Xanan political and societal discourse is how Xanu Prime and its government should meet the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees from the war-torn territories of the Sol Alliance and the largest wave of Vysokan immigrants the planet has yet seen. Views on these new arrivals have been mixed. Some on the planet have welcomed them, pointing to the fact that Xanu Prime is already an incredibly diverse place while highlighting the fact that the planet and its economy need laborers to fuel continued economic growth coming out of the turmoil of the phoron scarcity. Others have been less welcoming, stating that Xanu’s government and corporations should instead invest more into places like Vysoka and the frontiers of the Coalition to improve the living situations for the people living there, lowering the desire for immigration, often pointing to the already-strained Xanan welfare system needing to take care of more people, most of which aren’t even Xanan citizens. Others still have instead encouraged the Xanan government to pressure other economically developed planets in the Coalition such as Himeo and Konyang to take on more of these immigrants and refugees; a way of “doing their part” as Coalition members. Now that the conflicts in the Solarian Wildlands come to a close, it is predicted that refugees will stop trying to reach Xanu, though immigration from Vysoka and the Coalition’s frontiers does not seem to be stemming any time soon.

A larger, more historical point of contention in Xanan society and politics is just what role the planet should play in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime’s unique position of having both the Coalition’s largest economy and strongest military have long given it a considerable, unbalanced level of influence over CoC affairs, and as such, its people hold differing opinions on just how the planet should carry itself. Broadly, Xanan citizens fall into two camps on the issue: increased autonomy from the CoC, or broader integration with the CoC, with nuanced views within each of these positions. Some who wish for more integration with the Coalition desire for the planet’s government to capitalize on the great amount of influence it has within the multi-planet government to create better economic situations on Xanu Prime, while others say that the planet should use its influence to instead help the developing members of the Coalition to grow and provide more for the CoC as a whole, even if Xanu itself may not see as large of returns in the short term. Others from the autonomy camp are opposed to further Xanan economic aid to Coalition members, decrying the aid as harmful to the planet when the money and resources given to or loaned out to other CoC members could be better spent on Xanu helping Xanans during the aftermath of the Phoron scarcity. Encompassing members from that same autonomy camp, there are those who believe that the Coalition itself should remain little more than a mutual defense pact, where members only come to each other's aid in times of war, instead of the semi-formal nation state it is today. Within these nuanced views from both sides, there are extremes in the debate for Xanu’s Coalition position, with small minorities of the population wishing for Xanu Prime to leave the Coalition entirely while others in equally small numbers are in favor of the Coalition federalising like the Sol Alliance and having Xanu Prime’s government be dissolved and the planet ruled from a central Coalition authority.

Speaking of defense, it is another topic that Xanan-Coalition discourse often revolves around. The All-Xanu Armed Forces are the largest and most capable fighting force that the Coalition has for both offensive and defensive interstellar warfare operations, and while this is a comforting fact for many Xanans and the Coalition as a whole, it is not without its controversy. Some on Xanu Prime, mostly of the autonomy camp, think that other Coalition members should spend more on defense than they currently do, to avoid a “free ride” on Xanu’s military might, citing increased military spending among members as both good for Xanu Prime and good for the Coalition as a whole if Xanu’s military resources do not need to be stretched so thin, providing for much of the Coalition on its own. Those of the integration camp however have pointed to Xanu Prime’s historical status as the defender of the Coalition and that it is the Xanan responsibility to provide for the Coalition’s defense, even to an unbalanced amount because other planets of the Coalition simply do not have the economies to afford their own militaries beyond those that patrol their home systems. The common refrain among those in the latter camp is “If not us, then who?”

Besides the differing political opinions on Xanu’s place with other planets of the coalition, which could be considered internal matters, there are differing opinions on external matters, namely its place with megacorporations. Xanu’s position on megacorporations has long been a topic of debate, but its presence in everyday Xanan life has dramatically increased after the 2462 phoron scarcity and Solarian Collapse. While many megacorporations, both Einstein Engines and the SCC alike, have operated on Xanu Prime as a springboard to the rest of the coalition, often having the planet be the location of their regional headquarters, their presence hasn’t always come without concern or conflict. Some on the planet see further megacorporations as the next step in Xanu Prime’s economic growth and advocate for a lessening of restrictions upon them so that they can help the planet emerge into a post-phoron scarcity spur. The majority on the planet however caution megacorporate cooperation and see the Republic of Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts as to what can happen to a country that does not strike the right amount of balance and regulation of megacorporations. Most Xanans believe that megacorporations need some level of government oversight and regulation, but they fail to agree on just what form that should take, with different political parties holding different positions.

A growing issue that has become more pronounced in recent years is Xanu Prime’s fight with illegal drug trafficking and other forms of illegal smuggling. Xanu’s status as the heart of the Coalition and as one of the largest ports in the Orion Spur has made it a hotspot for all kinds of illegal trafficking; any smuggled drug, weapon, or person going into, out of, or on a long distance trip through the coalition likely will pass through Xanu Prime on its way from point A to point B. This reality ensures that All-Xanu Public Security Office is always busy, on the hunt for contraband moving through the planet’s ports and channels of commerce. Drug trafficking is not the only issue with illicit substances on the planet, in the last decade and a half illegal drug usage has nearly tripled from where it was in 2455 and the cause is debated among Xanans. Some say it is because of the economic troubles that Xanu and the rest of the spur at large have had in recent years, driving people to use illicit substances to cope, while others state that the cause can be pinned on the recent uptick of refugees and immigrants, specifically Vysokan ones, that have flowed to the planet looking for work or sanctuary from conflict. Others still have blamed the decay of Xanan family bonds under the strain of increasing economic hardship as a cause of the crisis. Whatever the cause, in 2461 Prime Minister Fabian Chatterjee declared the rising usage of drugs a public health emergency and called upon the Public Safety Office, the Health Office, and corporations operating on Xanu Prime to commit more resources to stopping its spread. Support for cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and increasing funding to programs and facilities focusing on sobriety and addiction treatment has seen support across Xanu’s political parties and drug usage rates have slowed in their rise since the emergency was declared, though it is unclear if these measures will be effective in the long term.

==Xanan Cultural Customs, Values, and Communication Habits==
The Xanan culture is a collectivist one with some caveats. Societally, Xanans see individuals as important pieces to a greater whole, but place importance more on what is good for society rather than what empowers the individual. This is not so say that Xanans see individuality as moot, in fact many Xanans are perhaps some of the strongest advocates for individual rights and protections from the government and society within the Coalition, but this is all done with the caveat that individual freedoms should never disproportionately harm or disadvantage society and that an individual should be obligated to sacrifice what they may want or what may be important to them if it is seen as essential to promoting a greater good. This rationale is a growth from Xanan family culture, one which places a great deal of importance on respect, cohesion, and hierarchy.

===Xanan Family Culture===
The family is perhaps one of if not the most dominant cultural institution over any given Xanan’s life. The traditional Xanan family places a great amount of importance on how one fits into the family and expects children to respect their parents and elders and obey them on familial and some personal matters, even after childhood due to the idea of age equating to wisdom. In return for the obedience of their children, parents and elders in the Xanan family are expected to be able to explain to younger family members why they’ve made the decisions they have, so that the juniors of the family do not feel as if they are being taken advantage of. Gender roles are flexible in Xanan families, however women typically maintain the household and work part-time while men work full-time jobs, though this is by no means universal. The elderly are extremely important in the Xanan family, with elderly individuals being seen as sources of knowledge and inspiration who should be consulted by younger members of the family for advice during troubled times or when making big life decisions. Elders are also expected to handle the early childcare and religious education of their family’s children, however the former of these responsibilities is not as essential as it once was due to the Xanan government’s implementation of free childcare for children under the age of five. It is for an elderly person’s children or grandchildren to take care of them and allow them to live with them from after their retirement until they die, and refusing to do this is seen as a great betrayal and is heavily frowned upon in Xanan society. A negative effect of having such large families however is that inheritances, especially those of wealthier relatives, often can result in disappointment and messy intrafamily legal battles over securing a relative’s estate and assets.

Individuals are celebrated within the Xanan family structure, but individuality as a concept is not encouraged, and family bonds are often seen as a key component to the personal identity of any Xanan. This can occasionally result in more independently-minded members of families being ostracized by their kin, however, Xanan family culture usually supports that a family should welcome back those who become estranged from the family and work to make them feel a part of the unit once again and not hold grudges. Whether this is always adhered to though, is often up to the individual families themselves. It is not uncommon for multiple generations of families to live under the same roof, or even multiple extensions of a family to do the same. Any given Xanan household may have children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts, or granduncles residing in the same household. This mindset extends to individual living situations as well. Children often do not move out of their parent’s households unless for university or work until they are in their mid-to-late twenties or even thirties; there’s no expectation for Xanan children to move out at any age so long as they still contribute to the household. However, many young Xanans do move out and live apart from their families if they are committing to a serious romantic relationship with someone or if a job opportunity arises. Family culture dictates that geographical distance from the family be a consideration in if a person accepts a job, however most families are generally encouraging of their members seeking out lucrative job opportunities because it is viewed as something that will be a net positive to the family as a whole. Related to this, Xanans working abroad often maintain very close relationships to their families, even across generations.

An individual’s choices are supposed to be embraced and supported by their family members unless the family believes the decisions to be truly destructive to the family or individual; they cannot be discouraging simply because they personally disagree with the choices because doing so would place a personal opinion or prejudice above what may be best for the family. Families are expected to be strong support systems for their members and it is common for large families to offer housing, financial assistance, and emotional support to their members in times of need. Some families have embraced this bond and applied it to business, with some of the largest companies on Xanu Prime being family-run as a result. Xanu’s richest and most powerful families are referred to as “Forvamshons” and they are typically large players in the planet’s politics and business spheres. This attitude has occasionally led to corruption scandals, but generally it is seen that enriching one’s family by hurting the rest of society is unfair, dishonorable and cause for great shame. Some Forvamshons are very elusive and shy away from the public eye, while others are very public and have celebrity statuses. The foremost of these families often have private security details provided by the PMCG, Idris Incorporated, or Chevauchée Asset Protection and live in luxurious high-security compounds which house the entire family.

Marriages are seen as not just a special bond between two people but a union between two families and a commitment between them to work together. Because of this collective view on familial culture, arranged marriages are not uncommon on Xanu Prime though they have slowly become less prevalent since the 2430’s. Same-sex marriages are not frowned upon in Xanan culture however same-sex couples are expected to adopt children to continue the family lineage, much like how heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Polygamy is illegal on Xanu Prime and polyamorous relationships do not have any form of legal recognition. Though not illegal, Xenophilia is societally frowned upon on Xanu Prime because of long held beliefs that the family structures of other species are incompatible with human ones making relationships between Humans and Aliens fruitless and selfish, therefore hurting one’s family.

Death and customs around it are tied deeply to Xanan family culture, as the death of a person is not just seen as the death of an individual but a loss of a member of an entire family. Burial and cremation are both common during Xanan funerals with customs varying some between the planet’s various religions. Common between all of them though, families will either have their bodies buried in adjacent plots to one another or will keep the ashes of deceased family members in a single, large urn holding the ashes of most if not all of the family’s deceased relatives. During burials, it is a common practice for the deceased’s family to throw dirt, flowers, and lit incense onto the casket as it is lowered into the ground. Another custom stemming from this is that when a person speaks of a deceased friend or relative, it is seen as respectful to make a small tossing motion with their hand or arm. During cremations, the deceased are often cremated alongside incense. Another common custom around death on Xanu Prime regardless of religion is that most Xanan homes will have a large logbook wrapped in black and white cloth called an “Afterlife Journal” in the home’s living room or other public area where family members are able to write down memories, sentiments, thoughts, or prayers about their deceased relatives and friends. Many see the theme of memorialisation that is very present in Xanan culture having stemmed from both the strong family ties Xanans have built along with the collective impact of the Interstellar War even some two-centuries later.
Dinnertime is perhaps the most important time of the day for any Xanan family, as it is when everyone in the household gets together. Rarely do families eat apart from one another unless their work schedules dictate they do so. Meals are shared around a large central table in the household and weekend dinners can last hours. Not only is food shared but music is played and games are enjoyed, usually board games like Checkers and Chess, or card games like Alutte or French Tarot. Meals are a happy time and it is considered to be an honor to be invited over to share a meal with a Xanan and their family. It is customary for a Xanan family grieving the loss of a loved one to leave a chair at the table empty for the spirit of the deceased for anywhere from two weeks to two months after their passing and provide them food and drink as if they were still living as an act of remembrance and appreciation for their family member. This same gesture is also done two weeks to two months before the birth of a child if a family is expecting and it is instead seen as a show of excitement and optimism for new life. Many suspect the focus on meals in Xanan family culture to be the catalyst which has pushed Xanan cuisine to the upper echelons of high-class dining throughout the Orion Spur.

===Xanan Work Culture===
Xanan work culture is formalistic and hierarchical, tied into the planet’s strong sense of family, and can sometimes come off as hard to break into for outsiders. A traditional Xanan greeting for coworkers is a handshake accompanied by a light bow. Titles, rather than names, should be used with all coworkers, superior, equal-level, or inferior alike, unless the two coworkers are close friends. Small talk is appreciated, and asking after the family of a business partner is usually how most business meetings start. Xanans pride themselves on professionalism and often view their companies as a stand-in for the family outside of their real families, meaning they want to represent them well through professionalism and a strong public image while not bringing shame to them through misconduct or crassness. Superiors are expected to be respectful and formal, but friendly with those under them and coworkers are expected to execute the orders of their superiors without question and then raise grievances with their overseers when the act is done unless they believe the situation is truly disastrous. Businesswear is formal, usually consisting of a suit and tie or cravat for men and a dress or blouse and skirt for women or a uniform for either. Casual dress while on the job is not welcomed in Xanan society and is seen as immature and juvenile, likewise excessive make-up or jewelry in a work setting is seen as distracting and putting more of a focus on one’s personal appearance than the business matter itself, regardless of the person’s gender. However, dyed hair, and minimal tattoos, especially those that are covered by standard work clothing are accepted. Xanan business meetings are multifaceted, with meetings between managers and higher-up officials in companies usually being very logical, low-key, and methodical with great emphasis placed on the abilities of either side to debate one another. This has led to the term “debate” becoming synonymous with “business meeting” on Xanu Prime. If associates know each other well though, meetings can be very emotionally charged and spritied for better or worse, filled with either happiness and achievement, or anger and sadness.

Trust built through continuous face-to-face interaction are essential in Xanan business; Xanans will base their decisions on trust and intuition as much as if not more than data and statistics. It is not uncommon for a Xanan to request a meeting in person rather than communicating through holocall, telephone, messengers, or holomail, as personal relationships and connections drive much of Xanan business culture. and because these relationships take time to cultivate and are placed on the same level of importance as close, platonic friendships, it can sometimes be a culture shock for foreigners doing business with Xanans even if the Xanans themselves are quite happy to do business with foreigners. It is considered insulting to discuss business over meals and alcohol is usually not served during Xanan business functions or consumed while on the clock. Hard work is admired, but Xanans generally view workaholism as a selfish trait that makes a person disrespectful to their family by cutting into family time. It is considered poor form to schedule an important meeting in the month of August in the northern hemisphere or the month of February in the southern hemisphere, as these are the respective months usually reserved for summer vacation. This has led to the emergence of the sarcastic phrases, "I'll get to it in August," and "I'll get to it in February," both meaning that a person doesn't care about doing something. As a continuation of this, holidays and vacation days are strictly forbidden for business contacts to speak with one another unless the topic of conversation is not work-related and evenings are similarly off-limits as they are often reserved for family time. Coworkers should bring gifts or cards to one another when they return from business trips or holidays and doing so is considered a gesture of appreciation and goodwill towards one's peers as well as a sign of continued commitment to their workplace even after a vacation. Snacks and sweets, knick-knacks, cookware, and hand-written poems are gifts that would not seem out of place in a Xanan office after vacation season.

===Xanan Communication Habits and Social Norms===
Generally speaking, Xanans are friendly, yet polite to strangers and are typically not confrontational with people they do not have a prior relationship with such as friendship, family, or a long business partnership. This has led to foreigners often noticing an indirect style of communication among Xanans, as being very direct about certain matters to strangers is considered rude. It is for this reason that Xanans will often say “Maybe,” or “Perhaps,” as an indirect response in place of “No,” because they do not wish to directly disappoint, and thereby offend a stranger if something is asked of them, though a far more direct style of communication is used in some parts of Xanan society, namely by those in the military, police, or security industries. Good manners are a staple in Xanan communication and are usually only eschewed between close friends or family members. It is considered proper for a person in a higher position of power or standing in a company or family to give unsolicited advice to those beneath them, but rude for advice to be given the other way around unless asked for. Politics are expected to not be talked about in casual conversation unless they are related to the subject matter at hand or between friends. Social norms dictate that a Xanan generally should not want to impose their beliefs upon others, especially strangers, unless something someone else says contradicts something said Xanan believes, in which case a civil, if spirited political discussion may ensue. Xanan society is one that eschews the use of violence to solve disputes, and holds a pacifistic ethos that cements that one should only use force in the defense of oneself and others, however naturally, not all on Xanu Prime abide by these morals. Moreover, there is an expectation in Xanan society that people can, should, and will compromise with one another for the sake of preserving societal unity, order, and peace, with stubbornness in working out an agreement with one another being seen as a selfish trait. Finally, Xanans value the collective. Whether that is a family, company, crew of a ship, social circle, country, or other unit, Xanan social norms dictate that a good Xanan is one who will act in the best interests of something “bigger than themselves,” while using his or her unique individual qualities to best help themselves and the people around them who they care about.

===Religion===
Xanu Prime has no official religion, and in an effort to prevent conflict over religion or accusations of government favoritism, the government has a series of official secularism laws. They vary in specificity, but broadly they prohibit any person working for or affiliated with the state including anyone from politicians to police officers to public school teachers from displaying any religious iconography, dress, or artifacts on their person or in their workplace while they are on the job. This has drawn criticism from some elements of Xanan society which see these rules as an infringement upon religious liberty, especially from those who take religious dressage as an integral part to their faith, but the government has remained firm in their beliefs that the state will not expose or impose anyone to any one religion over another. Despite these laws, the Xanan government is not opposed to working with religiously-affiliated organizations like charities due to the laws prohibiting only the state itself from representing a religion, not engaging with it.
Xanan people as a whole vary in religiosity with both very progressive and orthodox interpretations of the various faiths found on the planet being practiced. The diverse backgrounds of the planet’s original colonists and immigrants since its colonization mean that nearly any religion can be found here. The largest however, in order of practitioners are, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sunni Islam. Smaller faiths like Luceism, Stolitism, Jainism, Sikhism, and even Moroz Holy Tribunalism can be found here, the latter of which is practiced almost exclusively by the Fisanduhian immigrant community. A significant portion of Xanan society is irreligious as well. Xanu Prime is well known across the Orion Spur for some of its examples of religious architecture, the most outstanding examples of which being the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, the Patali-Ram temple, and the Crystal Lights mosque.

==Food and Drink==
===Food===
Xanan cuisine has garnered a carefully cultivated reputation around the Orion Spur as perhaps some of the finest in human space. It is in a sense, a fusion between the cuisines of its most prominent colonizing cultures, French, Indian, Pakistani, and those of the BeNeLux. While certainly diverse, it is known most for being both simultaneously spicy, but not hot, with different spices adding highlights and emphasis to whatever notes in the palette the chef so chooses, and savory with a mouth-watering richness that lasts long after the first bite of whatever the food might be. This reputation precedes it, and expert Xanan chefs and cooks are some of the most revered in the culinary industry for their mastery of their crafts.

Arguably the most famous human celebrity chefs alive, '''Cléophe & Lonnie D’Cruz''', a married power-couple in the Xanan food world, were both born and raised on Xanu Prime. Their combined adventurousness in the culinary industry with endeavors both inside and outside their chain of fine restaurants has garnered both them and Xanan cuisine a spotlight few planets’ food cultures can match. The couple met while attending a small culinary school in the city of Foy-Nijlen, fell in love, and then combined their skills to open what would be their first restaurant in their well-known fine-dining chain, '''Solstice Xanan Bistro'''. Marriage followed shortly after, and the two have been together at the forefront of the Xanan food world ever since. While they are married to one another, the duo’s personalities are distinctly different, something often accentuated for the camera. Cléophe is known for their generally supportive and encouraging personality who wishes to simply share the joy of cooking with the world and has written dozens of best-selling cookbooks to that end. They are also well-known for their appearances on Holovision shows and Holonet videos giving tutorials on how to make some of the D’Cruz’s most well-known recipes in a basic kitchen; it wouldn’t be unfair to say that an entire generation of Xanan home-cooks were taught by Cléophe D’Cruz. Lonnie, however is far more of a chef’s chef who adheres to very strict professional and artistic standards, something he extols through his appearances on cooking competition shows, often played up to be a very cold and perfectionistic critic. Despite this reputation, he much like his spouse, is also committed to educating people on Xanan culinary arts and to that end is the President and, along with Cléophe, co-owner of the D’Cruz Culinary Academy, a culinary school which while only ten years old, has quickly risen to be one of the most competitive on the planet.

While Xanan cuisine is diverse and constantly reinventing itself, the dishes characteristically include some kind of meat, most often chicken, beef, or shellfish, paired with greens like beans, asparagus, or broccoli, or a starch like potatoes and something characteristic of almost all Xanu dishes, long-grain aromatic basmati rice, typically grown on the hilly territory surrounding the upper Naya Khyber river. Spices like cumin, black pepper, coriander, cloves, cardamom, and garam masala are ubiquitous throughout Xanan cooking, and often find themselves as part of exceptionally rich and creamy white sauces made from milk, butter, salt, and eggs. Pork is not as popular as a meat on Xanu Prime as others are, given the prohibition on eating it from Xanu’s original Muslim colonists and its perceived uncleanliness that Xanu’s original Hindu colonists held as well. Some Hindus also choose to not eat beef, and as such, many of Xanu’s restaurants have an option to serve synthmeat or a vegan meat substitute instead of actual beef in their beef-dishes. The most consumed alcohol on Xanu Prime by far is beer, often made in the Belgian tradition brought to the planet by some of its original colonists. Brandy comes in second and third, and wine is also popular too, but is more associated with fine dining than it is with a drinking experience alone. Xanan cognac and armagnac brandies have drawn the ire of some in the European Union on Earth because it uses the labels of “cognac” and “armagnac" despite not being produced in the Charente, Charente-Maritime, or Armagnac regions of France, though Xanan producers have paid these complaints no heed.

Some notable Xanan dishes include:
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'''Steak Xanu'''
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As the name implies, '''Steak Xanu''' is a steak, and is typically pan-fried rather than grilled. Usually it is strip steak as opposed to coming from any other part of the cow, but any cut of beef can be made in the Xanan style. The secret comes in what the beef is cooked with. Before the strip goes into the pan it is left to marinate in a warm broth traditionally made from chicken stock, cardamom, and garlic for flavor and is then lathered all over with a light coating of ghee right before it meets the pan in order to give its outside a crunchy, slightly singed crust. The steak is cooked to medium rare as it is basted in its own juices along with butter, rosemary, and a very light touch of cayenne powder. After it is cooked to a medium rare, it is taken out of the pan and left to rest for a few minutes before being dashed with a cooked sour, cream sauce, often simply called “beef sauce” made from heavy cream, olive oil, whisked egg yolks, and citrus or mango powder. Black pepper is cracked over the top, and the dish is served. Some of Xanu Prime’s Hindu population refuses to eat this dish, however chicken can be cooked in a very similar way and is typically referred to as “Bird Steak” by the Xanan culinary community. It is the official dish of the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle, Xanu’s Capital.
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'''Pataliputra Curried Rice'''
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An mainstay dish and one sure to be found on almost any Xanan dinner table, '''Pataliputra Curried Rice''', often just called Xanu Curry by foreigners, is a twist on the typical curry recipe that originated in the port city of Pataliputra. It is a yellow curry that uses peanuts as one of its main ingredients, giving it a signature nuttiness that mixes quite well with the dish's spices. Where it differs from a traditional curry though, is that its sauce is made from two parts, one of which is a buttermilk-garlic-onion powder base that is very thick and holds in the flavor of the spices and vegetables put into the sauce, while the other is a very light, chicken-based velouté sauce made from combining chicken bone broth with a light, typically but not always, salted blond roux to give the sauce some substance. When the two sauces combine, they make for an exceptionally savory base upon which spices like ginger, garam masala, coriander, fenugreek, and thyme can be added. Meats like chicken or shell-fish are often added to the sauce along with things like beans or potatoes. Rice used in this recipe is traditionally Xanan basmati rice. Every person and every city on Xanu Prime has their own slight variation on how they make this dish, but what is listed above is generally what could be expected when ordering it. It is the official dish of the city of Pataliputra.
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets''', or more informally River Crozets, is a dish that originated from the city of Foy-Nijlen and is one that makes use of the various animals caught off the city’s nearby ocean coast and also those found in the Naya Khyber river which runs through the city. The base of this pasta dish is a spicy tomato-basil-cayenne sauce with melted and dissolved Naya Khyber river penguin blubber mixed into the sauce in place of a more traditional fat like butter, ghee, or olive oil. The pasta itself, the Crozets, are small rectangles which resemble something more akin to breakfast cereal in size and shape rather than a more noodly kind of pasta. The crozets are made from buckwheat, eggs, and flour, and are usually cooked al dente so as to retain a bit of firmness. Along with the pieces of pasta, river boiled lobster, fish, crab, or even river penguin meat is pan-fried with butter, rosemary, cardamom, coriander, and cloves before being put into the pasta usually in small bite-sized pieces. Black pepper is cracked over the dish and cumin is dashed over the meat and the dish is served in a heated stoneware bowl. It is the official dish of the city of Foy-Nijlen.
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'''Bunker Buster Sandwich'''
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The '''Bunker Buster Sandwich''' is perhaps the most famous example of Xanan street food. At its core, the dish can be used to refer to almost any toasted open-faced sandwich served on naan bread with over-easy eggs, fried vegetables, shredded cheese, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and garam masala. In practice however, the six ingredients mentioned above are only the beginning of what a bunker buster might be, as really anything from meats to veggies to mushrooms can be put on the sandwich so long as it tastes good. It’s incredibly easy to make and traces its roots back to the reconstruction of the city of Kshatragarh shortly after the Interstellar War, starting as a quick and easy meal for construction workers to make as a lunch. Many of these workers lived in the city’s underground bunker complexes while above-ground housing was being rebuilt, leading to the sandwich’s name. It has since spread all over Xanu Prime, and a visitor to any given Xanan city is likely to find dozens of variations on this simple, long-time favorite food. It is the official dish of the city of Kshatragarh.
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo'''
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo''' is a dish originating in the city of Paastad, but can be found across the entire continent of Paasland. It is made from the meat of the large waterfowl, the Paaskraan, and is similar to the traditional preparation of vindaloo with one major exception: the meat is not cooked with the vindaloo paste and is only added at the end. Instead, the meat of the Paaskraan is pan-fried until fully cooked and is usually then seared in a sweet vanilla sauce to give it a crunchy, caramelized outer shell. After this process, it is added to the cooked vindaloo paste (cloves, cinnamon, cariander, cardamom, cumin, red peppers, ginger, mustard seeds, black pepper) and served over rice, as a crunchy and spicy meal. It is the official dish of the city of Paastad.
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The '''North 60 Sea Platter''' is less a single coherent dish and more an entire subsection of dishes based around the theme of seafood caught north of 60 degrees latitude. Himavatian sea salmon or arctic tuna, usually pan-fried in olive oil or smoked and served with lemon and black pepper, commonly forms the center of the dish with arctic crab legs or lobster tail sold off to the side paired with a creamy garlic sauce. Other components could include fried octopus and squid or freshly caught steamed shrimp. What makes the dish more than just a typical seafood platter is a special malt vinegar made specifically from ale brewed in the Xanan tradition with added apple and lemon juice. More budget friendly variations of this dish exist as well, such as ones that swap the pan-fried salmon or tuna for smaller, less expensive, deep-fried fish, the lobster and crab for shrimp, and are commonly found in Himavat City bars as a cheap, delicious option for a lunch or dinner. The food arrangement originated in the city and is its official dish.
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Not all food on Xanu Prime is within the realm of “fine dining” however. When not at the table for a full meal, the average Xanan can reach for any number of snack foods produced by Xanan companies. Many of these have become not just popular on Xanu Prime, but throughout the entire Coalition and beyond thanks to the aggressive marketing and economic dominance of Xanan shipping and food conglomerates.

===Drink===
Along with its food culture, Xanu Prime is renowned for some of the alcohol the planet produces as well. The planet’s main claim to fame in this area are in the spheres of beer, wine, and brandy. The planet has brewed beer since its founding, with the Xanan style of beer crafting having its roots in the Belgian-style brought to the planet by colonists from the BeNeLux itself. The most popular brand of beer on Xanu Prime is '''Prince Pallav Blonde Ale''', a golden concoction brewed in Foy-Niljen that has held dominance over the Xanu Beer market for the last two decades. This robustness in the brewing has brought the planet into a rivalry with the nearby planet of Himeo, the two of them both having proud beer-making heritages that often brings them to test this with each other. For the last decade and a half, brewers from the two planets have engaged in a festival called Hoptoberfest, a week-long celebration of the craft of brewing beer held every October complete with live music, authentic Xanan and Himean cuisine, and crucially for the craft brewers of both planets, competitions determining which beer is the best for that year. The festival changes venues from Paastad, Xanu Prime and Inverkeithing, Himeo every other year.
In addition to beer, Xanu Prime imported a strong wine culture from its original colonists, namely the French ones. Vineyards dot the Xanan countryside on every continent, with a few even on the southernmost peninsulas of Himavatia. The planet makes a wide variety of wine, though it is most notable for its own variety of Malbec grown in the mountains of Naya Khyber and Nouvelle-Occitanie called '''Khyberian Malbec'''. Where Xanu Prime’s wine truly shines though is not in the wine itself but in its use in fortified wine products like brandy and cognac. The unique climatological conditions of Foy-Niljen brandy country have led to the grapes grown there to be perfectly suited to making fortified wines and distilled wines, leading to their flavors to be pronounced but not overbearing up front with subtle, complex notes coming to the surface the more the drinker savors the beverage. The most noteworthy and popular drinks of this category are the mid-range priced '''2275''', a mainstay brandy of Xanan bars and kitchen cabinets alike, and '''Saint-James Black Label,''' the gold standard of Xanan luxury cognac. The national cocktail of the All-Xanu Republic is the '''Stag Hunt''', so named for its popularity on hunting trips and other outdoor activities during the summer. It is a simple drink made by mixing three parts brandy, typically 2275, one part lemon juice, and two parts chilled tea usually served over ice in a highball glass. Chai is the most consumed tea variety on Xanu Prime and the soft drink Xanu Rush is also very popular on the planet.

==Arts and Entertainment==
===Visual Art===
Xanan visual arts are vast and have an uncountable number of movements and subgenres. Generally, though, Xanan artworks are reflective pieces and try to examine the human condition rather than focus on the form by which the artwork expresses itself. Xanan visual arts have been heavily influenced by the original Western European cultures which settled the planet and as such, drawing and painting are the most prevalent forms of Xanan art. Sculpture that has been inspired by South Asian cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are also prevalent, however. The most famous and well-known movement of Xanan art is often called the Atman Movement and it lasted from the 2340’s until the 2390’s. Most art scholars consider it an offshoot of Symbolism and Neoclassicism but with noticeable existential elements. Pieces of the movement hold an almost ethereal aesthetic, and usually feature elements like fanciful Greco-Roman or Indian ruins, ruins that aren’t even found on Xanu Prime, bright, vibrant colors contrasted by dark backdrops, and esoteric spiritual imagery sourced from Xanu Prime’s three largest religions. The goal of all of this, in the words of the Xanan master painter Arnold Vasudevan, a key figure in the movement, is, “To imagine Humanity and the human condition as if we could breach the barrier between this world and the next with our own hearts and achieve revelation and clarity through the beauty within and without our souls and the world around us.” An offshoot of this movement referred to as Wartime Atman replaces the ruins of classical civilisations with scenes of wartime destruction found on Xanu Prime during the days of the Interstellar War and is meant to make the viewer reflect on things like conflict and mortality. The most famous piece of visual artwork of the Atman Movement and arguably of all Xanan visual art is called “The Truce" by Harini Martin. It is a colossal mural of a painting that is four meters tall and ten meters wide which depicts the ghosts of dozens of fallen Xanan and Solarian soldiers enjoying leisure time and doing activities like enjoying meals with one another, idly talking, showing each other photographs, and playing games and sports with one another over the backdrop of a desolate Interstellar War era battlefield in what used to be a Xanan city. The sky around the edges is a dark color, however in the center of the painting’s sky is a brilliant white, alabaster, pink, and red halo that shines light on the entire painting. It was unveiled to the public at the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery, Xanu Prime’s national art gallery, in 2387 as part of a ceremony to commemorate one-hundred years of peace with the Solarian Alliance and has remained a permanent fixture in the museum since. Notable Xanan sculptures include Our Lady of Sorrows, a giant statue of the Virgin Mary included in the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, and Skyward Unity, a large sculpture commemorating the elevation of Paastad.

===Architecture and Cityscapes===
The traditional Xanan style of architecture can be described as a hybridization of various styles of design from the Indian subcontinent and Western Europe, much like the origins of the planet’s original colonists. Xanan buildings usually have some form of artistic design on their exteriors, even if it’s as simple as a basic tile weave around entrances or semi-ornate molding around windows. Many have lines drawn on the outside in paint or sculpted on, and Xanan buildings are usually painted with bright, if mellow, colors if they are painted at all. Most Xanan buildings are taller than they are wide and long, courtesy of the planet’s re-urbanisation plans after the Interstellar War and because buildings in most urban areas are taxed based on how much land they take up. Most Xanan buildings have some form of accoutrement around their roofs, usually being a modest carving or bust of a family’s ancestor if it’s a house or a historical or religious figure, representing the theme of memorialisation found elsewhere in Xanan culture. The roofs themselves of most Xanan buildings are usually vaulted or occasionally are domed or flat. Larger, more modern buildings like skyscrapers on Xanu Prime have a distinctive half-sloping-roof look pioneered during the beginning of Xanu’s economic resurgence during the mid 2330s. Originally implemented as a cost-saving measure to make a building that still looked tall but didn’t need to have as much office space, the half-sloped roof or “Xanan Roof” style of skyscraper has part of the building’s roof flat and level with the ground while another portion of it slopes downwards. This style of design has become emblematic of Xanu Prime and even the newest skyscrapers on the planet are built with this design in mind, despite its economical origins. Xanan buildings are made from a variety of materials, with the few-surviving pre-war structures being made from wood, brick, and steel while commercial and industrial buildings built after the Interstellar War are made from concrete, steel, and glass with plaster or clay facades. Individual houses are still mostly made from wood or brick, however. Sizes and shapes of Xanan residences vary, with some being modest single-family homes typical of other places within the spur. Multi-story townhouse complexes surrounding a single communal courtyard are common in urban areas and are often inhabited by entire extended families. In more densely populated areas, large communal apartments built for extended families are common, though some wealthier families have pursued a policy of “Co-flooring,” a type of retail arrangement where an entire extended family will rent out an entire floor of traditional single-family apartments from a property agency. Some buildings on Xanu Prime play very heavily into inspiration from the planet’s original cultures and would not look out of place in South Asia or Western Europe, though buildings built like those are in the minority of Xanu Prime’s structures.

The last notable architectural feature found in many Xanan cities are residual walls and gun emplacements left over from the Xanan Civil War. Of Xanu’s six major cities, only three, Nouvelle Rochelle, Pataliputra, and Foy-Niljen have them still, with Kshatrigarh’s being destroyed beyond repair during the Interstellar War and Paastad’s torn down during the city’s elevation, lest they sink into the swamp. Himavat City never had walls, as it was too small of a community to have built them during the Xanan Civil War. The walls proved useful during both of the planet’s most devastating conflicts, acting as barriers to outsiders and platforms for return fire, but due to the gargantuan cost of operation and maintenance, the walls and their gun emplacements were decommissioned in the 2310s as a part of the Sneijders Government’s economic recovery plans. Today, the walls stand as partially restored massive memorial complexes dedicated to those who fought and died during both the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War, with some cities having sections of wall filled with the names of those who died during the conflicts from those respective cities.

Xanan cities are generally filled with greenery as both a measure to keep temperatures down during the summer and simply provide Xanans with natural beauty even in the most urban of places. Large public transit networks consisting mostly of subway systems and tramways are found in almost every Xanan city and most of those who live in the urban cores of Xanan cities do not own automobiles, while Xanans who live in the country, suburbs, and smaller cities have a higher percentage of car ownership. The most common way to get around on Xanu Prime however is by bike or motorbike; Xanu Prime has the most bikes per capita of any planet in the Orion Spur, even beating out the Solarian population hubs of Callisto and New Hai Phong. Generally speaking, Xanan cities are walkable and do not require an automobile to move around efficiently, and some Xanan cities have banned the construction of freeways and overpasses entirely in order to preserve their cities’ “authentic landscapes.”

===Literature===
Xanan literature has cemented itself around the institution of “The Great Novel,” something often defined in Xanan culture as a work of literary art that has captured the essence or soul of the Xanan struggle and of the planet’s people through the usage of compelling stories and multifaceted characters. Novels written in the Xanan style usually have psychological and spiritual themes and use supernatural or otherwise fantastical elements to explore Xanan the human condition, usually in surreal or otherwise unorthodox methods. Xanan novels are typically not adapted into films as is seen elsewhere in the Orion Spur due to Xanan movie-going audiences preferring musicals and epics instead, but they have become popular as holovision shows, stageplays, and miniseries.

Some notable works of Xanan Literature are:
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====Gloam in Gold====
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It is hard to understate the importance and influence of Foy-Niljen writer Arif Hugo’s 2345 masterpiece Gloam in Gold in the Xanan literary canon. The text, while short for a novel, is considered to be not just a seminal work of Xanan writing but also quite possibly the greatest novel ever written in the Freespeak language, despite its unorthodox, almost anthological structure. It is set in 2296 during the initial reconstruction of the city of Kshatrigarh and focuses on the character Madhar Emond, a Kshatrapur native and veteran of the Interstellar War now working to rebuild the battered city during the aftermath of the terrible conflict. His life isn’t a glamorous one and he spends most of his days doing hard, construction labor, digging paving roads, working on buildings, and the like. One day on his way home from work, he stops by one of the city’s many large cemeteries to rest and watch the sunset, however shortly after his arrival he lays down in the grass and begins to hear voices around him. He’s alerted by these and denounces them as hallucinations at first as he sees no one around who could be speaking to him, yet as the sun sets further below the horizon, he realizes that there is some coherence through the voices and that they are in fact, the voices of the dead, fully aware of their condition yet unable to move on to the afterlife.

Madhar listens in to their conversations for a moment and is eventually confronted by the voice of one of the deceased, one Missus Pandit, an elderly woman who died of old age before the city was besieged. She acts as a sort of a guide who explains the dispositions of each of the ghosts present, and each part of the novel tells a story of a different spirit inhabiting the cemetery proceeding in the order of Missus Pandit herself, and then to Mister Quint and Miss Jessup, a young Himean immigrant couple who perished together from starvation during the siege and seem to be resigned to their fates, and recount their lives from Himeo and their immigration to Xanu before the war broke out, their desperation during the siege, and now their dead, yet still loving existence of being with each other even in death. Madhar’s conversation with the couple is interrupted by the voice of Marcus Thevar, a rich and vulgar middle-aged businessman.

Marcus refuses to reveal how he died and seems to be entirely preoccupied with finding a drink and scoring some action from the cemetery’s various young female ghosts, one “Miss Periwinkle” foremost among them. Miss Periwinkle’s gravestone has been defaced, though she looks to be buried in the plot next to Thevar, much to her dismay. She’s the spirit of a young, pious woman with a noticeable Lunan accent who claims to have died from tuberculosis during the siege. She refuses to say her real name and repeatedly breaks from talking to Madhar to fend off verbal advances from Thevar, before quietly lamenting to Madhar that her days of being confined to the mortal plane despite being dead and needing to routinely reject the, “slovenly attempts at romance,” by her neighbor is God’s unique choice of purgatory for herself. Despite this, even in this “purgatory” she finds some joy in acting as an almost motherly figure to Patrice, the ghost of a five-year old child who doesn’t know how he died but according to Miss Periwinkle, seems to have abruptly perished in the aftermath of the siege after naively playing with unexploded ordnance he found a local park’s sandbox. Miss Periwinkle parts with Madhar after claiming she needs to tend to the child, and her voice fades away.

After this, the story shifts to that of Private Hendriks, a solemn Xanan infantryman who was killed during the battle and laments that he will never be able to return home to his mother and Lieutenant Ma, a Solarian bomber pilot who was shot down over the city during a night raid and is a conflicted character. She is racked by the guilt of possibly killing innocent civilians yet reminisces on what a still-united Sol Alliance might have looked like without the carnage and in his words, “tragedy” of the Interstellar War. Hendriks and Ma seem to spend most of their days now arguing with each other, the conflict lingering on past their deaths, much to the annoyance of the cemetary’s other inhabitants.

Lastly, Madhar is spoken to by the voice of a young woman, a teenager named Penelope, who brokenly and through a voice characterized by sounding as if she’s on the verge of tears, tells Madhar that her body is in fact, not even buried within the cemetery at all, but that her body instead lies buried beneath a new road built on the graveyard’s northern edge and sulks to him that nobody will ever remember her or who she was since there’s nothing to mark her grave. Madhar, heartbroken in this discovery, realizes that he was part of the crew that paved that very road and profusely apologizes to Penelope for spoiling any chance she might have ever had with a proper burial and claims that it was done in the name of progress for the city and for Xanu Prime. Penelope’s voice rejects this and breaks into tears, repeating the fact that nobody will remember her or who she was, but eventually she is soothed by Madhar’s assurances that he will remember her and that he’ll never forget that she lived and died in the city. Seemingly consoled, Penelope thanks Madhar before her voice too fades away and leaves him in silence, the sky now dark. He makes his way home in solemn, quiet contemplation, thinking about the various spirits he’s heard over the last few hours and once again questions if it was even real. When he gets home to a modest, quickly built apartment, he resolves to himself that whether what he heard was real or not, he cannot forget the past even in pursuit of the future.
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====The Screen Behind the Mirror====
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'''The Screen Behind the Mirror''', written in 2419 by the second-generation Fisanduhian Xanan writer Elanea Chatfield, is another one of Xanu Prime’s great novels. It’s a semi-autobiographical story, taking some elements from Chatfield’s own life and putting them into the events of the plot. It is also is a very spiritual text, having references, symbols of, and allusions to the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Tribunalist Scripture, and Luceian holy texts throughout to help convey its themes of residual trauma, destruction and rebirth, and enlightenment.

This semi-autobiographical story follows the experience of a young accountant named Demitra during a camping trip out to the remote New Pacific Scarlands for some time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The story’s structure is unorthodox and the chapters bounce between describing her current experience in the scarlands, and recounting flashbacks to her childhood growing up as a Fisanduhian refugee in a diverse community of Xanan and Assunzionii-Xanans on Xanu Prime. The story in the present is a tale of survival that begins after Elanea’s camping group has a car crash on a back-country road with her being the only surviving member. Much of her food and shelter perished in the blaze and she’s left to fend for herself in the forest and crater lake-filled wilderness around her. She manages to build herself some crude shelter, but during her first night in the wilderness, she’s awoken by a bright ray of light reflecting off of what she can only describe as a large phantasmagorical mirror levitating just outside the border of her crude encampment. In the mirror she sees her own reflection, but not as she is now, but rather how she was as a child at ten years old.

The book then cuts to her life as a ten year old, going over Demitra’s seemingly mundane memories of living in a low-income, almost ramshackled home with her Fisanduhian refugee family in Nouvelle Rochelle, setting the scene for the reader and introducing them to the characters of Demitra’s concerned, yet judgemental mother, silent and stoic father, whiny younger brother, and somewhat detached and aloof older sister over a standard family dinner. This scene ends and we are brought back into the present, the next morning, where upon waking, Demitra discovers that the mirror still resides outside of her camp. When she leaves to forage for food and tries to hunt something with a hatchet she was able to retrieve from the car crash, the mirror silently follows her, always levitating behind her just out of reach. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between this story of survival, following Demitra’s struggles to build a fire, fish, and hunt, and her childhood memories, with the line between the two becoming increasingly blurred as her situation becomes more and more desperate. She sees apparitions of her childhood friends and her deceased father walking around as if it was the most normal thing in the world, calling out to her yet never responding to her words. The memories become less and less pleasant as time goes on, with the phantom mirror showing her family fights, tough times in school with childhood bullies, and the deaths of family members all while her situation in reality, struggling in the wilderness becomes more and more dire.

The story climaxes with Demitra screaming her frustrations at the mirror in the wee hours of the morning, venting her frustrations to it and breaking down into tears while explaining her feeling on herself in detail to the mirror, stating that she knows she’s at her core a broken person but that despite all that the mirror has shown her she is only motivated to survive in the remote wilderness of the scarlands. Her flaws and trauma have only informed her more of her humanity, and she finishes this monologue with the line, “I’ve survived fucking everything else so far, I am not dying alone out here no matter how hard you try to make me want to!” Ever silent, the mirror remains but grows blindingly bright, so much so that the forest itself begins to smolder and catch fire from the phantasmagorical brilliance it emits. Struggling to cover herself from the light, Demitra covers her eyes but is directed by some voice, “Come and see, and behold, She who is all that is, ever was, and will be.” As she feels her very skin begin to burn and peel away from the mirror’s light, Demitra takes a metaphorical leap of faith and opens her eyes, no longer seeing the mirror but an eye made from flames staring right at her, blacking out and collapsing soon afterwards. In perhaps the most notable section of the novel, the page after Demitra’s collapse is entirely blank except for one sentence placed in the middle of the page: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.”

The plot picks up on the next page there with a jump to Demitra regaining consciousness in the back of a rescue VTOL-craft, surrounded by paramedics on a steady flight to a hospital. Demitra asks the medics on the craft with her how they found her and they confusedly reply that a signal mirror was flashing an S.O.S signal at a passing shuttle and it was reported to them, and remark they thought it was Demitra herself who’d sent the signal. She makes it safely to a hospital in a small country town and the story ends with her looking out onto the reflection of a moonlit lake, contemplating what she saw and asking herself how she possibly could still be alive.

The Screen Behind the Mirror has stood the test of time as a venerable pillar of Xanan literature since its publication nearly fifty years ago. The book saw some controversy upon its initial release however, with some more conservative voices in Xanu Prime’s various religious organizations calling it a sacreligious text with some even calling for the book to be burned en masse. The Morozian Holy Tribunal in the Empire of Dominia has banned the sale of the book within Dominian space, a fact that its author Elena Chatfield wears with pride and its publishing company has used to boost sales of the book within the Coalition and Republic of Elyra. This controversy has been eclipsed in the Xanan public eye by its literary brilliance however and it remains popular today among all demographics on the planet. It has been famously hard to adapt to a holovision show however, with all four attempts never getting past the preproduction stage or falling apart during production and has been referred to as a "cursed" story by those in the entertainment industry for that reason.
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====MMCDXLII====
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A fine example of the recently popular Xanan science fiction tradition, '''MMCDXLII''' (pronounced as 2442) by Kshatrigarh writer Jakob Rajeev is an alternate history science fiction novel published in 2442 set in a alternate timeline where Xanu Prime was blasted from orbit by Solarian forces during the Interstellar War and sent into a perpetual nuclear winter similar to how Gadpathur was in reality. The setting of the story is the city of Khairabad, or at least what is left of it. Before the bombardment of the planet took place, roughly 10,000 of the city’s inhabitants retreated underground into the vast bunker complexes residing below. Believing that they are the only people still left on Xanu Prime, the people of Khairabad have been steadily working towards the goal of reestablishing contact with the rest of the outside world. The plot follows Hridith, one of the few people in the ruins of Khairabad entrusted with the dangerous duty of venturing to the surface in order to scavenge the ruins of the dead city for supplies and clues which might help the people of Khairabad and by extension Xanu Prime as a whole, re-establish contact with the rest of the world. One day while scavenging above, he comes across an old military base which miraculously still has much of its telecommunications equipment in order, including an interstellar radio transmitter. Retreating back to the underground with his news, Hridith’s discovery kicks off a power-struggle and internal civil war within the bunkers of Khairabad as the various factions of the city vie over who should be the ones to contact the outside and by extension reap whatever benefits it may bring. Hridith falls into the game of politics and violence as members of the underground try to influence him for their own selfish aims all while he confronts his own guilt for having sparked this conflict in the first place with his discovery. Eventually, he resolves to destroy the array to stop those around him from killing each other in what he sees as a senseless war.

The book climaxes in a last stand between the soldiers of a local warlord and Hridith supported by his friends on the surface at the array where the story’s plot was put into motion. Just as Hridith is about to destroy the transmitter once and for all, he has a change of heart and, unbeknownst to any other Xanans, sends his own message out into the universe a phrase that has been immortalized in Xanan literary history: “SLEEPLESS ANGELS HAVE BLESSED US. XANU PREVAILS.” After this transmission, Hridith detonates the bombs on the transmitter and is killed in the subsequent explosion along with all of his friends, the warlord, and all of the warlord’s soldiers. The story ends on a vague note in a room tucked away in a Himean communication station with a prompt on a console reading, “TRANSMISSION RECEIVED.” MMCDXLII has been lauded as a cornerstone of the Xanan science fiction genre since its publication in 2442, with many critics seeing it as a parallel tale of sorts to the reality of the Xanan Civil War. The author, Jakob Rajeev, has gone on to write other novels since, but has moved away from the post-apocalyptic setting and advanced into writing sci-fi horror novels and space operas, marking MMCDXLII as a truly unique title in his portfolio. It has seen a successful, chart-topping holovision adaptation and a prequel series set in the world of MMCDXLII's post-apocalyptic Khariabad is currently in pre-production.
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===Film===
Xanu Prime is the entertainment capital of the Coalition and perhaps the largest contributor to this status is the Xanan film industry. Films made by Xanan studios have long proliferated across the Coalition since the end of the Interstellar War and are essential in any serious discussion about Xanan art and culture. While Xanu Prime’s directors have made films under almost every genre since the industry started to take off in the 2310’s, Xanan audiences have taken particularly well to dramas, musicals, and a genre of Xanan invention, the Interfilm. The Xanan film industry has an ongoing rivalry with its Solarian counterpart, especially that centered on Venus. Xanan productions typically do not have as big of budgets as their Venusian counterparts and are usually outclassed in terms of visual effects and and as such are sometimes limited in the kinds of stories and scenarios they can portray. Xanan films make-up for these deficiencies by instead focusing on things like writing and storytelling. The winner of this rivalry is up in the air, and different critics will give different answers, though it is almost always guaranteed that entries from Xanu Prime and Venus will compete against each other in the Spur’s biggest film festivals and awards ceremonies. The three largest genres of Xanan film are dramas, musicals, and an indigenous kind of war film created on Xanu Prime called Interfilm.

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Xanan dramas are often very introspective and personal pieces which focus on realistic problems often with relationships or with the world at large and typically involve the main protagonist or protagonists of the films confronting some kind of tragedy or trauma. A large portion of Xanan dramas are produced by independent filmmakers, something that Xanu Prime has become a hotspot for in the last half-century.

The most well known Xanan dramas is '''The Love Melancholic''', a 2424 four-hour long dramatic period-piece epic directed by Savitri de Graaf, a woman hailed as one of the best ever directors in Xanan film whose work has stood the test of time despite its age. The plot follows the life of a young woman, Roxanne, moving to Nouvelle-Rochelle during the reconstruction of Xanu Prime during the Second Astonishment looking to start a life for herself. While there, she’s met with the challenge of an accidental pregnancy and conflicting emotions over whether to abort the fetus or bring it to term, and eventually decides to have the child. The film then follows Roxanne's life through the next decade and a half as a working mother who finds success in her career but is lonesome aside from the company of her daughter, until she meets a newly-arrived Himean immigrant, Markus, on the train home from work and the two slowly begin to fall in love, though complications and difficulties in personality and circumstances plague their efforts to see the best in each other. The film ends not with a happily ever after ending, but with a tentatively optimistic, bittersweet scene of Markus and Roxanne, now both nearing middle age by this point in the film, agreeing to try and make their relationship work while acknowledging the flaws in one another. The film is a classic among Xanan and Himean audiences and won record-breaking numbers of awards and accolades when released. It has even seen popularity in some circles in the Solarian Alliance, Republic of Biesel, and Republic of Elyra. Many film critics consider it to be a cornerstone of Human cinematic history and the best Xanan film ever made, though this position is disputed by others.
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While Xanan-made dramas may be the most well-received critically of most Xanan films, by far the most popular among the Xanan filmgoing audience for the last few decades are musicals. Musicals made in the Xanan style are often high-budget, over-the-top, and exceptionally grand, showy affairs. They are famous for elements like their large choreographic sequences which can involve dozens of dancers, massive and brightly coloured sets, often romance-centered plots with comedic elements, and musical style which often takes musical instruments from Xanu Prime’s colonizing cultures and puts a pop musical spin on them. When one speaks of "Pataliwood," musicals are what come to mind first. Most Xanans do not put musicals on the same level as other films and see them as something to watch for pulpy entertainment and spectacle rather than for their serious artistic value, though they will obsess over them and their stories all the same. Xanan house parties typically involve the screening of a musical in the living room and songs from some of the genre’s classics have cemented themselves into the Xanan cultural canon.

A recent notable example of a musical made in the Xanan style is '''North 60''', a 2461 film directed by Sabine Venturino, that centers on a young man from Nouvelle-Rochelle named Peter who inherits a fortune from a long-lost deceased uncle who made it big in the record industry. Overjoyed, Peter claims the fortune but learns that he can only receive his riches on the condition that he moves to his dead uncle’s dilapidated estate on the outskirts of Himavat City and lives there for one year. Peter moves but upon arrival hates his arrangements; he cannot stand the cold, remote nature of the city, but soon finds joy in its culture and music scene. He also develops a romance with the daughter of a record executive, a girl named Priti. Unbeknownst to Peter though, Priti’s father Jeroen is Peter’s uncle’s former business partner and wants to get Peter to leave Himavat City so he can claim the young man’s fortune for himself, as per the uncle’s will. Hilarity and antics ensue. The film ends with Peter deciding to forgo his fortune and instead running away from Himavat City with his love Priti and starting a new life together in Foy-Nijlen. The film is the highest-ever grossing Xanan musical and won a series of awards as well, though it saw only limited popularity outside of the Xanan market. This is a theme among Xanan musicals: massive domestic success but only limited success abroad, the reasons for which are routinely debated by many within the Xanan film community.
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The last of Xanu Prime’s most popular movie genres is one of Xanan invention: the Interfilm. Interfilms are very long, often multipart war epics set during the Interstellar War, a conflict from which the genre gets its name. They often have ensemble casts and focus on a variety of viewpoints rather than a single protagonist. These films often showcase themes of tragedy associated with the Interstellar War and ennoble the sacrifice of the Xanan nation and individuals during the war. These films are very serious and are seen as a direct contrast to the Xanan Musical genre in tone and content.

A keystone of the Interfilm genre is the series '''Count the Days''', a pentalogy directed by Xanan journeyman director Pierre Duchesne totalling over sixteen hours in length, with its installments releasing in 2447, 2449, 2450, 2552, and 2454 respectively. The story at first follows an officer in the Xanan Army, Captain Paul Ibrahim, stationed around Pataliputra. He leads his company through a very bloody battle in which the majority of his men are killed, by the end of the battle, his unit is more or less completely wiped out and he’s reassigned to command a new company, one unlike any he’s seen before. He’s given command of Company Y, an all-female volunteer unit that hasn’t ever seen combat before and is dumbfounded at first due to his belief that a female unit wouldn’t fight as well as a male one. He however is told by his superiors that he risks demotion of he doesn’t take on the unit, so he begrudgingly agrees. The first movie follows Ibrahim’s efforts to help train and ready his new unit for combat while he and the audience get to know the women of Company Y. Throughout the film, his outlook on his troops begins to change, and he connects with them more as people, though he still does not think they have the mettle to withstand warfare. The film ends with the Company seeing its first taste of combat during the opening stages of the Siege of Khairabad and Company Y sustaining horrendous losses and being cut off from the rest of the Xanan army in Khairabad.

The second film takes place during the Siege of Khairabad proper, and is a tale of the fight for not just victory but survival as the remnants of Company Y fight their way through parts of the occupied city to link up with the rest of the Xanan forces trying to hold their ground against the encroaching Solarian forces. Throughout this struggle, the Company comes across enemies but also Xanan partisan fighters who link up with the Company and join them on their journey to reconnect with their lines. During this film, Captain Ibrahim has his opinion changed on the women he commands, and he comes to see them as strong soldiers regardless of their gender. The movie ends with the Company and their new partisan compatriots reconnecting with the rest of the Xanan force defending Khairabad.

The third installment of the series is not so action packed in comparison to the second one and is mostly centered on the members of Company Y recovering from the events of the first two films and grieving their fallen comrades while integrating the partisans from the second film formally into their ranks and is the only film in the series that does not have an action sequence. It ends with the company being resupplied and ready to once again take the fight to the enemy.

The fourth part of the series is often seen as the black sheep of the series and departs from the story of Company Y to instead focus on 6th Company, a Solarian unit from Mars participating on the other side of the Siege of Khairabad. 6th Company is led by Captain Emily Mikkelsen, an embittered veteran of the Interstellar War until this point who is concerned only with ensuring that the troops under her command stay alive and sees victory in the siege as a means to that end. Part 4 shows events from the parts 1 and 2 through the eyes of the Solarians, and goes to great ends in order to humanize them, with members of 6th Company being portrayed as people who believe in the ideal of a united humanity under the Sol Alliance but also as people who don’t see the war as theirs and who want to return home to their lives and families most of all. The film ends with 6th Company preparing to launch an assault against Xanan positions in the ruins of Khairabad.

The fifth and final installment of the Count the Days series begins with a dramatic battle sequence between Xanan and Solarian forces, with the attention split equally between Company Y and 6th Company during the fighting. During the carnage however, multiple members of Company Y and 6th Company become separated from their units and run into each other on the battlefield, with many dying to one another in heart-wrenching sequences that brought tears to many a Xanan filmgoers’ eyes. The two captains, Ibrahim and Mikkelsen, also encounter one another, but both having been wounded and exhausted by the fighting decide to sit inside of a bombed out building and try to recover their strength together. The two have a long conversation about their lives before the war and the people under their command, avoiding any conversation about either’s actual thoughts on the conflict and instead just treating each other as people rather than enemies. After further rumination and conversation, Ibrahim comes to the realization that his wounds are mortal and that he will likely die from them if he doesn’t receive medical attention and asks Mikkelsen to kill him so that he might die with honor. Mikkelsen protests at first, finding some difficulty in pulling the trigger on a man she’d just spent the better part of a half-an-hour getting to know, but eventually concedes and agrees, seeing it not as an act of anger, but of mercy for Ibrahim. She shoots him and then begins her trek out of the bombed out building, with the shot lingering on Ibrahim’s corpse for a good long few seconds, only for a team of Xanan medics to enter the building and find Captain Ibrahim’s body, just minutes after his death. The medics transport his corpse back to the Xanan lines where the rest of Company Y has regrouped, and they mourn the loss of their officer and friend in a dramatic, heart-crushing scene. The series ends with Captain Mikkelsen and 6th Company in their camp that night, staring forlornly at a campfire, exhausted from the day’s fighting and failed assault before receiving orders to fall back to the rear of the Solarian force to recover their strength. As they leave, Captain Mikkelsen looks to the Xanan lines and begins to sob as the screen then pans up and fades to black on the smoke-filled night sky.

The Count the Days pentalogy is widely regarded as one of the best of the Interfilm genre and is to date the highest-grossing and most-awarded film series in Coalition history and has spawned a die-hard fanbase of supporters. It received a widespread release across the Coalition and Biesel and even saw limited screenings in the Solarian Alliance. The series is regarded by many to be a masterwork of Xanan cinema and a quintessential look into how Xanu Prime views its relationship with the Interstellar War.
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===Holovision===
The world of Xanan holovision is the most diverse in the entire Coalition of Colonies. Almost anything can be found on Xanan HV, live sports, dramas, talk shows, news, infomercials, and shows on a wide variety of premises. The quality of Xanan holovision is similarly varied, with some shows having hundreds of millions of credits in budgets while others are very obviously cheap and made to be aired or streamed as quickly as possible. Whatever the case, Xanan holovision programming and shows can be found across the Coalition and Human Frontier and generally has a positive reputation among foreign watchers. By and large, the most popular genres of holovision programming on Xanu Prime are dramas and sitcoms.

The most-watched Xanan Holovision program of all is a long-running late-night variety program called '''Teddy''', hosted by comedian and media personality '''Theodore Llewellyn'''. The show has been on-air and on popular Xanan and CoC streaming services for nearly twenty years at this point with its first episode having aired in 2447. Theodore Llewellyn is described by many in the Xanan media as “The Lord of Late Night,” due to his dominance over the late-night talk show genre paired with his polite, yet witty interview and conversational style. His show often showcases new musical acts, up-and-coming comedians, and routinely interviews the most talked about figures and celebrities in the Xanan entertainment industry and society at large. He also has been known to host games for his guests and for airing live or pre-recorded comedy sketches for his audience, usually involving himself or his guests as characters. Teddy is not just popular among Xanan audiences though and is watched by fans across the Coalition, both in Xanan Freespeak and in translated dubs of the Coalition’s various languages. He is also a prominent cultural ambassador for Xanu Prime to Himeo and has used his fame to advocate for closer cooperation and harmony between the two planets when off the air. Occasionally, the show will even film episodes on-location on various planets throughout the Coalition for promotional purposes, most often Himeo due to Llewellyn’s Himean heritage, being the child of two Himean immigrants to Xanu Prime. Llewellyn has joked at times about running for President under the Good Neighbor Party, though these jests haven't manifested in any political campaigns quite yet.

For information on Xanan Holovision dramas and sitcoms please read the two entries below.
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====Xanan HV Dramas====
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Much like on film, Xanans have a penchant for HV dramas, however these diverge significantly from the seriousness of their film counterparts. Xanan Holovision Dramas are very popular on the planet and can be separated into two categories: 5-Dramas and 2-Dramas.

5-Dramas are aired every day during the week on Xanu’s HV channels during the daytime, and are notorious for their low-production values, often odd, pulpy, and convoluted plots focused around absurd twists, romantic scandals and intrigue, as well as their inexhaustible lifespans, with the most popular of them having gone on for decades. The longest running and most popular of all Xanan 5-Dramas is '''A Time to Be Alive''', a series that has been running for 47 years at this point and has followed the lives and hardships of the fictional Khanna family, a massive upper-middle class extended family from Foy-Niljen. The series has uncountable plotlines and has been criticized for its convoluted and melodramatic writing style by many critics, but audiences still tune in every day of the week across Xanu Prime and the Coalition as a whole to get the newest scoop on what’s been going on with the Khannas and the people around them.

2-Dramas in contrast to 5-Dramas however are aired on weekends only during prime-time and are generally seen by critics and audiences alike as the best that Xanan holovision has to offer. 2-Dramas typically have very high production values and rely heavily on the strength of their writing, directing, cinematography, and character acting to succeed. They’re often focused on crime-related or similarly intense, dramatic premises and are usually rather serious in tone, in contrast to the soapy, scandalous mood of most 5-Dramas. Xanan 2-Dramas are considered to be some of the finest programming on Holovision anywhere in the Orion Spur in terms of their writing and acting quality, but they are not for everyone and have drawn criticism from some for being too humorless and inaccessible for those not wanting to become engrossed in painful, often traumatic storylines. One of the most well-known of Xanan 2-Dramas is '''Suntoucher''', a show which focuses on a journalist named Marielle Hollen as she investigates a series of missing persons reports from a town in the Naya Khyber delta called Dharbourg. Her efforts slowly unveil a sickening human-trafficking operation that seeks to abduct and torture its victims in the name of a twisted, hellish cult led by a madman who claims to be both the second coming of Jesus Christ and the next avatar of Vishnu all in one. While investigating as well, Marielle comes into contact with the criminal elements of Dharbourg and becomes their sometimes-friend, sometimes-enemy as she works both with and against them during the course of her investigation. As the cult learns of Marielle’s investigation though, it no longer becomes a mission to expose them for Marielle and the locals working with her, but a fight for their very lives as secret, underground war breaks out between the cult and the largest gang in Dharbourg with Marielle and those working with her caught in the middle. The series ends with Marielle’s investigation materials being delivered to the offices of the Xanan News Service after her death at the hands of the cult after killing its leader, and alludes to the publication of the story by the media giant and subsequent destruction of the cult and imprisoning of Dharbourg’s criminals. The series has six seasons in total and had an original run from 2455 to 2461 and has spawned an obsessive, devoted fanbase in recent years. Rumours are abound of a spin-off show focusing on any number of the series’s well-liked supporting characters being in the works, but there has been no confirmation of this yet.
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The last major genre of Xanan television is the sitcom, a genre that is usually recorded in front of a live studio audience and relies on whacky or zaney premises mixed with witty writing. Xanan sitcoms also a vehicle by which certain societal issues are explored or made light of in the public mind, and tend to rely a bit more on satire and dark humour than sitcoms from other planets around the spur.
While not the most popular of Xanan sitcoms in the present day, the show '''Fated''' has a strong cult following and has left a bit of an impact on Xanan pop culture. The show follows Gerard Sodhi, a man in his mid-thirties trying to make a living in Nouvelle Rochelle’s stand-up comedy scene while dealing with the pressures of his life and large extended family. On his way home from a show, he and three of his friends, Esha, Georges, and Krasnin, are cursed with bad luck by a homeless woman in a back alley after refusing to give her any money when she asked for some. After suffering from their curse through minor inconveniences and unfortunate, socially awkward situations over the next few days, the four return to where they first encountered the woman only to find her dead, unable to remove the curse. The show then goes on, focusing on the lives of Martin, his friends, and the awkward, absurd situations they then find themselves in. Fated spawned many catch phrases and words used in Xanan pop-culture some examples being: “flarge,” a descriptor used for something both flat and large, “plimpkin,” a word used to describe a person who is short, fat, and annoying, “squickimsh,” a term used in reference to something that is both gross and very sticky in texture like a piece of gum, and “fwoonj,” a noise a person makes when trying to awkwardly avoid saying name of someone whose name they’ve forgotten. The series ran for nine seasons from 2449 to 2458 and is seen as a show emblematic of the Xanan 2450’s.
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===Music===
Xanan music is exceptionally diverse and Xanan musicians are known throughout the Coalition and beyond for being some of the most prolific and distinctive in their respective genres. Xanan music usually takes instruments and structure from its Western European and South Asian colonising cultures and puts a modern, stylistic spin on them to best suit whatever genre the musician is aiming for. The most notable genres of Xanan Music are:

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The most popular form of music on Xanu Prime, is predictably, pop music. The Xanan style of pop music, often called '''Xanupop''' or simply '''X-Pop''', is similar to pop music in general, however it tends to eschew EDM-like synth riffs and instead prefers acoustic instrumentals to make the backing track. The genre has its roots in the ballads which emerged during and after the Interstellar War, mostly about home and family. Most modern-day Xanan pop songs focus on the topic of love, whether falling into it, breaking up a relationship because of the loss of it, reminiscing about times when the singer had it, or any other variety of situations about love, Xanu’s pop music has a listener spoiled for choice. While not specifically pop music, songs from Xanu Prime’s largest musical films are often played on pop radio, even if they are not strictly in the pop style. The most popular pop artist in Xanan history is Foy-Niljen native '''Robert Khatri''', a man whose crooning ballads and work with string and brass ensembles cemented him as the definitive voice of the Xanan Renaissance. While subsequent artists have out-sold him since his death in 2387, Khatri’s songs have gone on to be standards within Xanan musical canon and his songs still are known by Xanans far and wide even more than a century since their releases. The most popular active Xanan pop artist is '''Grace Rose''', though less commonly known by her real name Lavani Grace, a woman from Nouvelle Rochelle who has dominated the Xanan pop charts for the last decade and a half with her unique and beautiful vocal style with a signature high belting range perfectly suited for Xanan pop ballads.
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Rock music is the second most popular form of music on Xanu Prime and is renowned across the Coalition for its funky instrumentals that focus on rhythm primarily rather than melody and unique vocal style that typically moves between being spoken and being sung multiple times throughout each song. Rock songs made in the Xanan style, often called '''X-Rock''' or '''Xanurock''', also are often about love, much like their pop counterparts, but it is far from the only thing that Xanan rockers sing about. Common lyrical themes in Xanan rock music focus on personal independence, inner turmoil and depression, social issues, or more poignantly, lost love and ones that got away. A popular band in the X-Rock scene is '''Weatherland''', a group from Himavat City that is renowned for their creative instrumental style that often incorporates unorthodox chord progressions and jazz-like solos from the band's various members. Another group that has risen in popularity since their founding in the early 2450’s is the band '''Anti-Gone''', a band from Nouvelle-Rochelle that has gained notoriety for their more groovy, riff-driven, gritty, and raw hard-rock production style with songs that focus on personal struggle and often talk about deep, uncomfortable subjects like addiction and abuse. They have beome very popular with Xanan young adults though older rock fans have not been as receptive to their material.
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====Logmu====
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Folk music, specifically the '''Logmu''' style of folk music, has always been very popular on Xanu Prime and does not seem to be going anywhere soon. Logmu, the word being combination of the Hindi word “log” meaning “people” and the French work “musique” meaning “music,” is a genre of music that originally came about during the early stages of Xanu Prime’s colonization as a result of individual, often amateur musicians, from Xanu Prime’s different colonizing countries forming bands with one another and adjusting their styles to fit each band member’s diverse musical preferences. The genre has remained popular through two catastrophic wars, economic depression, along with many other hurdles and looks as if it will keep its popularity far into the future. Logmu ensembles are typically six people large and play music using a vast variety of instruments which date back to the colonization of the planet. For example, a standard six-piece Logmu band will typically have a fiddle, an alto saxophone or nadaswaram, a tabla, a guitar or sarod, an accordion, and a sitar, with at least one of the musicians singing as well, usually the guitar or sarod player. Logmu songs are usually musical stories or poems that follow a protagonist or recount the life experiences of the singer, often in character. They are self-contained dramas or comedies in their own right and have allowed the genre to remain popular for as long as it has because of the simultaneous relatability and dramatism of the plots of the songs. A subset of the Along with being a genre of music in its own right, Logmu also has a distinctive subculture focused on passing the craft down to younger generations, with many musicians in the genre seeing it as their duty to teach their children or other students how to play a Logmu instrument at some point in their lives. A subgenre of Logmu is, '''Sologmu''', a play on words of “Solo” and “Logmu” and is defined by its nature of usually being performed by a single musician who both sings and plays an instrument of their choice, usually a guitar, sarod, accordion, or sitar.

The most influential Logmu band of all time is the Kshatrigarh-based band '''The Air Raid Six''', a group of six musicians who had the shared childhood experience of living through the Siege of Khairabad. Once they became adults they saw great success in the fledgling All-Xanu Republic’s music scene singing songs about the Interstellar War and retelling or making up humorous or dramatic stories that occurred during the conflict. During this they pioneered the current six-piece format standard synonymous with modern Logmu music and their songs are still widely performed today. The most popular Logmu band presently is Paastad-based group '''Six of Hearts''' which gained popularity during the mid 2450’s and has yet to relinquish it since. The band’s musical style stays relatively close to tradition in the structure of the songs and focus on their stories, but diverges some in terms of the instrumentals used, replacing the normal guitar or sarod with an electric guitar and even playing solos with it, something often not seen in Logmu music. Current popular names in the Sologmu scene include '''Chloe Sinclair''', a young woman from Himavat City that has brought a moodier, more downbeat brand of singing and guitar playing to the genre; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a Vysokan Xanan who has created a niche in the genre for herself by singing in the Xanan style with her broad vocal range and accompanying it with poignant instrumentals played by herself on a morin khuur.
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====Himavat Midnight====
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Breaking from tradition is the genre of '''Himavat Midnight''', so called because the underground music shows in Himavat City which saw the genre come into being often didn’t start until midnight. It is the newest genre of music on Xanu Prime to have seen at least some popularity, breaking out of the local Himavat City rock scene in the mid 2450’s. Himavat Midnight is notable for its spacey, monotone vocal style usually accompanied by little more than a bass guitar, an electric guitar, a synthesizer, and a drum machine. Himavat Midnight songs usually are built around a simple bass or guitar riff and typically are simple yet satisfying in their construction. Most songs have either a bridge or an outro where one instrument performs a solo, though these are usually more toned down and not like the more technical skill-showcasing solos found in X-Rock. Lyrically, the songs are moody and often sad, talking about loneliness, lost love, boredom, and other saddening yet seemingly mundane feelings. Some in the Xanan music scene have welcomed the genre as a new form of music that is more emotional and thoughtful than some other songs, while others have dismissed it as "sad music for sad people." While the genre is still relatively very new relative to all other popular genres of music on Xanu Prime, Himavat Midnight does have a few notable bands. '''We Are They''', a three-piece Himavat City band, is the most popular group of the genre and is the one credited for breaking the genre out of its local confines with their 2457 song, ''Snowflakes in her Hair''. For now the band is the standard-setter for what Himavat Midnight should sound like.
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Another genre of music that is notably unique to Xanu Prime is a genre of electronic music that emerged from Pataliputran nightclubs in the 2420’s called '''Pataliputra Big House'''. During the Doldrums nightclub owners were having trouble getting patrons to come out and give business to their clubs because of the economic stagnation characteristic of the time period. To solve this, many night clubs began to push their DJs to get creative and blend different musical styles into something new and exciting in order to attract more patrons and thus, Pataliputra Big House was born. The genre was the product of Pataliputran DJ’s mashing together elements from dance-pop and more traditional house music, vocals from R&B, and instrumentals leaning on the more soulful and jazzy sides of Logmu. Songs in this genre incorporate beats which usually are medium tempo, heavy on bass, and have a central riff played on a synthesizer or saxophone which drives the entire song. Vocals are treated like an instrument in themselves in Pataliputra Big House songs and usually have a bevy of effects on them to achieve different listening experiences. The most well-known producer in the Pataliputra Big House scene is '''Bobby Baas''', real name Robert Satti, a Pataliputran native equally famous for his colorful, often patterned suits as he is for his music. He has routinely sold out electronic music festivals across the Coalition for the last decade after achieving local fame in the Pataliputran local scene during the early 2440’s. He is also unique for being one of the only artists from the Coalition of Colonies to have performed in the Sol Alliance, performing a series of sold-out shows called the “Sunrise Tour” in 2456 across the Solarian core. An up-and-comer in the Big House scene however is '''DJ SinTheTik''', real name Sarah Tussaud-Tipnis, a young woman who became a holonet sensation in the early 2460’s for her unique style meshing instruments from classical, symphonic music with the usual sounds of Big House.
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As often happens with strong electronic scenes, a hip-hop movement emerged around the 2430’s shortly after the popularization of Pataliputran Big House. Nearly every major city of Xanu Prime has its own hip hop scene and they all have friendly, if competitive, rivalries with another. While each major city’s scene has its own unique flair and sound, there are some commonalities to Xanan hip hop or '''X-Hop'''. Generally, Xanan hip-hop places a great amount of importance on the beat of the song, and as such these beats are typically more complicated and have more elements to them than hip-hop from other places. The rap verses themselves are usually fast and articulate with a lower, almost gravelly vocal tone being definitive for male rappers and a clear, bold tone that can carry over a nightclub crowd holding the same preference among female rappers. Nouvelle Rochelle rapper Abhang van Agteren, stage name '''AvAtar''', is considered by many to be the "King of Xanan hop-hop" and is famous for his smooth lyrical style and frequent collaborations with some of Xanu Prime’s largest producers, most notably Bobby Baas, with a catalogue of hit songs dating back to the 2440’s. His music is a common feature on playlists all around the Coalition and he has been a staple of Xanan popular music for decades, with no sign of his career waning any time soon. The most famous Xanan rap group is the all-female project '''Girl’s Night''', a four-member pop-rap group from Himavat City that first gained notoriety in the mid-2450’s for their lyrical prowess, broad appeal which crossed pop and hip-hop demographics, and anonymous nature. It is unknown what the true identities of Girl’s Night are since the group’s members are never seen in public or on stage without three-faced masks made in the style of hindu deities. The individual names they have given to the public are the letters, R, Y, V, and K.
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===Fashion===
Xanan fashion and dress is not characterized by any culturally specific garments or articles of clothing that are uniquely specific to Xanu Prime, but rather by how they style clothes that are seen as generally ubiquitous across human space. That is to say, color and the interplay within a palette in one look are king in Xanan Fashion. Xanans themselves often describe shopping and dressing as a whole as somewhat of a game, in making outfits for themselves which both are colorful, but also not outlandishly so and still manage to look sharp despite their chromatic nature. If a look clashes too much, it looks bad, simply put. Garishness is something that must be avoided in Xanan fashion and many of the planet’s top designers have emphasized that Xanan fashion is a game of balance. As to what colours are used though, there are no official rules or cultural norms, other than outfits which are heavy in their usage of black and white are reserved for funerals or other somber occasions, and similarly, looks with a lot of white or red in their composition should only be worn during weddings, baby showers, or other joyful events. The diversity of Xanu Prime as a planet in both climate and geography however has led to a variety of different fashions popping up across the planet and often fashion choices are left to the individual rather than governed by some collective norm. An exception tho this, however, is that outfits consisting solely of only one color, such as a suit with the same-coloured slacks and jacket or a dress made of only one color of fabric, are seen by many as overly formalistic and are typically only reserved for appearances in court for legal or financial matters. As such, monochrome outfits without much variation in colour are associated with the legal and banking professions. Colors aside, materials are also seen as an important part of Xanan fashion, and many mundane looking pieces of Xanan clothing may be worth thousands due to the craftsmanship and quality of the materials used in their manufacture. Intricate patterns are not uncommon in Xanan looks either, though they are usually associated with festive occasions and places. Accessories are seen as important in Xanan fashion, with neckties and cravats being popular among men and hairpins or bows finding favour among women. Jewlery is common for both men and women, but large pieces should not be worn in a workplace environment and instead should be saved for personal outings or family time.

===Sport===
Professional and amateur sports are both quite popular on Xanu Prime. Cricket and football are tied in popularity, with other sports like basketball, ice hockey, and rugby having some notoriety on the planet as well. Xanan children are encouraged from a young age to participate in team sports which many carry on into their teenage years and adulthoods through amateur club teams. As such, no Xanan town is complete without a cricket oval or football field. Xanu’s sports fans are known the Orion Spur-over for being some of the most passionate and obsessive in Human-inhabited space, with their chants, costumes, and fervent insults being both hated and envied by the planet’s sports rivals. Xanans are exceptionally loyal to their teams, be they national or local, and fights or even riots breaking out after upsets in football or cricket aren’t unheard of in the major cities.

The Xanan national teams in football, commonly referred to as '''"C.F.X.P"''' taken from their original French name Club de Foot de Xanu Premier, and cricket, often called the '''"Crimson Cats"''' courtesy of their mascot being a crimson-masked polecat, wear colors of green and orange with red accents. When either of the teams win a game, especially if during a high-stakes tournament, the entire planet often turns out to celebrate, clogging streets, overpacking bars, and pressing the Xanu’s police forces to their limits. Famously, when Xanu Prime won the 2454 Orion Cup in a surprise upset 2-1 victory over their longtime rival, the Callistean national team, Hastings Park, C.F.X.P’s home stadium, was deemed to be “The Loudest Place in the Known Universe” by a Martian sports writer. Similarly the stadium was said to have “Rung like bell,” when the Crimson Cats defeated the Port Antillean national team in 2458 to win the T20 Orion Cricket Championship. Individual cities also have their own football and cricket teams which play in a number of professional and semi-professional leagues. The highest level of these are The '''All-Xanu Ultraleague''' for football and the '''Alpha League''' for Class A cricket.

The planet has strong sports rivalries with many others, both within the coalition and without. They have a long-standing football rivalry with Callisto, jokingly called “The Second Interstellar War,” which has had its ups and downs throughout history, with both teams serving each other their most grievous defeats. Highlights include when Xanu defeated Callisto on its own home turf in 2448 to win the Orion Cup, or when the Callistean team duffed out their rivals only four years later in a hotly-contested group-stage match and stopped C.F.X.P from having a chance at defending its title. Xanu also has a hot cricket rivalry with Port Antilia, and the two planets are generally considered to be the best at the sport in the Orion Spur. Recent tension over the Solarian Collapse and Port Antillia’s annexation into the Biesellite CRZ has meant that the two teams haven’t met on an oval in over two years, leading many to believe that their next meeting will be the game of the century for Cricket. Xanu Prime also has a more friendly and lighthearted football rivalry with Himeo that has for most of recent memory been one-sided in favor of Xanu, but the two teams are still nevertheless very competitive and their fans very passionate over the rivalry.

==Immigrant and Expat Communities==
Xanu Prime is host to a number of large immigrant, expat, and diasporic communities, the largest of which can be read about in the entries below. '''A member of any immigrant or diasporic group who was born on Xanu Prime will select the Xanu Prime origin and accent in character creation.'''

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====Himean Xanans====
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The largest diasporic community on Xanu Prime, the Himean Xanan community has been on Xanu Prime for nearly as long as the Republic itself has existed. Himeans first came to Xanu Prime in the millions during the aftermath of the Interstellar War, often as workers and supporting staff helping to rebuild Xanu’s many broken and battered cities. A significant number of these Himeans remained on Xanu afterwards, established their own families and communities, and joined Xanan society. Most of the Himeans that came to Xanu during what is called the “First Wave of Himean Immigration” (2288-2310) dropped Himean customs and traditions in favor of broader assimilation into what many of them saw as a prosperous, growing, free Xanu Prime where their children could grow. A significant minority of Xanu’s population can trace at least part of their ancestry back to this first wave of immigrants from Himeo, and it’s quite common for the average Xanusan to have at least one or two Himean ancestors that came to Xanu during this period even if the person themselves doesn’t look Himean or have a Himean sounding name.

While immigration from Himeo continued in low levels throughout the 24th century, there was a great uptick from 2367 to 2390, a period called “The Second Wave of Himean Immigration” and less commonly, “The Paasstad Exodus.” Much like earlier Himean immigrants, those in the Second Wave came to the planet for work, but instead instead of reconstruction, they were taking part in the Paasstad Megaproject, an ambitious engineering initiative with the goal of raising the entire Xanan city of Paasstad above the marshy ground upon which it sat. The project was long and intensive, but was complete by 2389 and the numbers of Himeans immigrating to Xanu decreased shortly after the project was complete. In contrast to the First Wave, Himeans coming to the planet during the Second Wave mostly just immigrated to the city of Paasstad, and as such, their community became very unified and tightly knit. A district of the city, often just called Little Himeo, is where the present-day Himean Xanan community has its symbolic heart. Many Himean customs and traditions are still practiced here, Himean Common is spoken throughout the district, though with a noticeable Xanan Accent, and one can find many Himean products and authentic Himean food here. While there has not been an influx of Himean immigrants since the Second Wave, many Himeans looking to move their lives and to Xanu Prime find themselves in Little Himeo or one of the smaller Xanan Himean communities in other cities. Himean communities are very diverse politically, given that many Himean Xanans have assimilated into Xanu’s society and taken on new beliefs, however the Good Neighbor Party is particularly popular in Little Himeo and it often markets itself as the party for Himean Xanans. A majority of Himean Xanans are not first-generation immigrants, but were born on the planet as third or fourth generation Himeans.

Himean Xanans, whether their ancestors were part of the first or second waves, have broadly flourished on Xanu Prime and can be found in all walks of Xanan society. Notable Himean Xanans include '''Aukusti Staudenmaier''', member of the National Parliament and leader of the Good Neighbor Party, '''Lennox Sibelius''', Minister of the Economy and Finance under the Mukhopadhyay Government and man responsible for the implementation of the Mukhopadhyay Plan, '''Sara Knox''', current CEO of d.N.A. Defense and Aerospace, and '''Theodore Llewellyn''', host of the popular Xanan late night holovision talk program, Teddy.
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The Vysokan Xanan community is Xanu Prime’s second largest and fastest growing immigrant and diasporic demographic; many see the planet as coming off of the first large wave of Vysokan immigrants it has ever experienced. Many Vysokans immigrated to Xanu starting in the 2440’s after the Mukhophadhay Plan began revitalizing the Xanan economy. In response, many Vysokans looking to better their lives and provide a stable income for their families traveled to Xanu Prime looking for work or simply looking to start new lives. This wave of immigration abruptly stopped in 2462 when the Orion Spur was gripped by phoron scarcity causing space flight costs to soar, but even now after that, some Vysokans still find their way to Xanu Prime.

Culture shock has been something consistent throughout the Vysokan Xanan community: Societally, Xanu Prime is to many Vysokan immigrants, especially those who grew up in the rural regions of Vysoka, a night and day difference. Because of this, along with the differing norms between Xanan and Vysokan cultures, many Vysokan immigrants have been slow to integrate and assimilate into Xanu Prime’s society and most live in close proximity to one another in majority-Vysokan neighborhoods and districts. Many in the Vysokan Xanan community are not wealthy, with most being in the working lower-middle class. Because of their recent increase in population, their unfamiliarity with Xanan systems and the fact that they are often poorer than the average Xanan, Vysokan Xanan communities often have difficult times accessing social services for healthcare or financial assistance, are less policed, and have higher than average rates of crime. Many Vysokan Xanans have found employment in Xanu’s agricultural and heavy industry sectors with their skills from home translating very well to those lines of work. Additionally, many have found themselves in the All-Xanu Armed Forces in hopes of learning skills there which they can then carry over into a civilian job after being discharged. The largest Vysokan Xanan community on Xanu Prime is the Little Vysoka district of Nouvelle-Rochelle.

Vysokan Xanan communities often try to recreate things from Vysoka itself, the most common of these being Stolitist spirit houses and shrines. Vysokan Xanans are majority-Stolitist in their religious practices, and many Vysokan Xanan communities celebrate Stolitist religious festivals. Vysokan Xanan practices are not identical to their Vysokan counterparts however. Many in Vysokan Xanan communities have eschewed travelling, nomadic shamans in favour of more congregationally-styled practices, with houses of worship and assembly taking influence from Christian churches and Muslim mosques in layout often being built to surround Stolitist shrines and spirit houses. These “Stolitchurches” are a uniquely Vysokan Xanan creation and often function as the cultural, spiritual, and symbolic centers of Vysokan Xanan communities. Other aspects of Vysokan culture which have in some way translated to Xanu Prime is the Vysokan penchant for athleticism; since the immigration, many young Vysokans have made a name for themselves and their community as professional athletes. Many even make the annual trip back to Vysoka for the Velhalktai. Host culture has not made the jump and the hosts in general is something that is begrudgingly dismissed by many Vysokan Xanans because they believe that Host culture affirms a stereotype among Xanussians that Vysokans are criminals. Politically, opinions are diverse for Vysokan Xanans, but many have voted for the Free Falcon Party in recent years due to the party’s Vysokan Xanan origin and stance on many immigrant issues.

Notable Vysokan Xanans include '''Aynan Zhergotov''', professional footballer and captain of the Nouvelle-Rochelle football club A.S. Olympique-Saraswati; '''Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova''', member of the National Parliament, leader of the Free Falcon Party, and formerly practicing medical doctor; '''Yekheren Bolkhadarov''', goalkeeper for the All-Xanu National Football Team; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a second-generation Vysokan Xanan singer who has seen recent popularity in Xanu’s Logmu music scene by combining Xanan-styled singing with Vysokan-inspired instrumentals.
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====Assunzionii Xanans====
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The Assunzionii Xanan community is the third largest diaspora on Xanu Prime and is one that has managed to strike a strong balance between preserving their own original culture and embracing Xanu’s own. Most of Xanu Prime’s Assunzionii population moved to Xanu Prime during the 2370’s and 2380’s in response to Xanu’s burgeoning economy, with a smaller wave coming in the 2450’s. As such a majority of the Assunzionii Xanan population are third or fourth generation immigrants, with the new arrivals in 2450 being first-generation. Most Assunzionii Xanans live in the middle class, with some having advanced into the upper classes through employment or their businesses. Throughout Xanu Prime, many Assunzionii people have found themselves in two primary industries: entertainment and engineering. The former came about when many Assunzionii immigrants were hired on by nightclubs and other entertainment venues for their expertise in electrical lighting systems. As they were employed more, some of these immigrants figured that they would instead start their own clubs which they could run and style as they pleased. Gaining traction for their exceptional light shows and very exotic atmospheres, Assunzionii Xanan-owned and staffed clubs, bars, theaters, and even film studios became very successful across Xanu prime in the 2400’s and have remained that way since, with some of the largest and most exclusive entertainment establishments on the planet being owned by Assunzionii Xanusians. Some of these immigrants also found themselves in engineering and went on to work in Xanu’s shipbuilding and logistics sector; their skills being perfect for designing and servicing electrical systems on ships. Many of their descendants still work in these fields today

Culturally, there are some distinct differences between Assunzionii Xanans and people from Assunzionne proper. Exposure to outside cultures and removal from the Luceism-centered domes of light has made many Assunzionii Xanusians less religious than their Assunzionii counterparts. Most still identify as Luceist and do practice, but the faith on Xanu Prime has become more casual and cultural to the local community rather than something more dogmatic and omnipresent. Simply put, Luceism isn’t as important to multi-generational Assunzionii Xanusians as it is to those back home on Assunzione or those who have just arrived from the planet, even if it is present in their lives. Despite this more lax attitude, there are large cathedrals of light in many Assunzionii Xanan communities, the largest being in the Little Assunzione district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, and they see frequent attendance. Most Assunzionii Xanusians are Structuralist Luceists and their churches function as large community centers and meeting places along with being used as houses of worship. Other aspects of Assunzionii culture have stuck around in the community as well, such as illumination. Assunzionii Xanan neighborhoods are very well lit, with more street lamps than average and more lights on houses as well, and this, along with the communal and tight-knit nature of many Assunzionii Xanan families, make their neighborhoods some of the safest on Xanu Prime.

Notable Assunzionii Xanusians include '''Sabine Venturino''', a third-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and one of the largest directorial names in Xanan film industry; '''Suleiman Kateb''', a second-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and current Minister of Energy for the Afzal government; and '''Hristos Santolaria''', a first-generation Assunzionii Xanan and current Chief Operations Officer for Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.
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The Fisanduhian story on Xanu Prime is a strange one that started in 2386. In that year, the Xanan government agreed to host the remnants of the Fisanduh Freedom Front (3F) as a gesture of solidarity between two countries against tyranny. This arrangement created the modern Fisanduhian government-in-exile as it exists today with its seat in the Greentree neighbourhood of Nouvelle Rochelle. Of those few countries that recognise the existence of an independent Fisanduh, those being the Republic of Elyra and a vast majority of Coalition of Colonies members, see the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, also commonly called the “Greentree Government,” as the legitimate government of Fisanduh. The Empire of Dominia sees the Greentree Government as the political arm of the 3F, a rebel militia to some and a terrorist group to others, and therefore considers Xanu Prime and by extension the Coalition of Colonies to be a state sponsor of terrorism for giving the government sanctuary. The Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel do not recognise the Fisanduhian government-in-exile as the legitimate government of Fisanduh and have no relations with it.

Xanu Prime’s long-standing positive relationship with the Fisanduhian government has made it a very popular destination for Fisanduhian refugees, though its geographic distance from Moroz often makes traveling to the planet difficult for some. Fisanduhian refugees typically do not come in waves like other immigrant demographics, but arrive sporadically and often in small cohorts that were trafficked out of Fisanduh at the same time. This distance and trouble with travel cuts both ways: it isn’t just difficult for Fisanduhians to arrive on Xanu but much of the Fisanduhian Xanan community (aside from the aforementioned refugees) have never even been to Fisanduh, with their only ties to the Morozian region being ethnic and cultural. Religion is also something that sets Fisanduhian Xanans apart from other Xanans, with most being adherents to some strain of Reformed Morozian Tribunalism which rejects the authority of the Morozian Clergy and the Dominian Emperor as the divinely ordained head of the “Goddess’s Tribunal,” a term that the Goddess’s Holy Diocese of Xanu Prime uses to describe their religion over using “Morozian Holy Tribunal.” Some however have given up this faith and have either become irreligious or have taken on one of Xanu Prime’s dominant religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) as their own. Despite this, it is common for many Fisanduhian Xanans to celebrate Tribunalist religious holidays even if they themselves are not adherent to the faith since many see these days as part of their own distinctive culture. All Tribunalist churches on Xanu Prime have eschewed the use of traditional Morozian Holy Tribunal uniforms and religious symbols connected with the Dominian Emperor, viewing them as unnecessarily dogmatic and relics of an oppressive, Dominian, past.

Economically, most Fisanduhian Xanans are poorer than the average Xanan, with almost all being either refugees who arrived on the planet with nothing or their descendants. They lack the generational wealth of other demographics in Xanan society, and most are not educated to the standards demanded by the Xanan economy. As such, most can usually be found in industrial and service jobs, the All-Xanu Armed Forces or other working-class positions. Because of this disadvantageous economic position, many of the better-off Fisanduhian Xanans have been known to host refugee families and provide them with housing and food until they find employment and can secure housing of their own.

Despite the hardship the demographic has found, the Fisanduhian Xanan community has found a home for itself in Xanan society. Most Fisanduhian Xanans have assimilated and integrated themselves into broader Xanan society and adopted their norms and culture, but generally live in areas with other Fisanduhian Xanans. Some subsets of the group take this to the extreme, maintaining their own communities and living together in nearly all-Fisanduhian neighborhoods which preserve the native Fisanduhian culture and social systems. These communities are usually suspicious of outsiders and such attitudes have occasionally led negative attention from the media for allegations of xenophobia and exclusionism. There is a stereotype among Xanans that Fisanduhian Xanans are all rabidly politically active and pursue jobs in politics and government especially in order to aid the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, and while most Fisanduhian Xanans very supportive of the Greentree government, their involvement is often falsely overstated. In reality, Fisanduhian Xanans hold a variety of political views about Xanu Prime and the 3F government, with most being split into two camps: the Irredentists and the Second Homelanders.
Simply put, the Irredentists and Second Homelanders diverge on their priorities relating to the Fisanduhian Insurgency. The Irredentist camp of the Fisanduhian Xanan population places the government-in-exile’s backing of the 3F and other resistance groups in Fisanduh through sending them aid, equipment, and money above all else, in hopes of one day returning to an independent Fisanduh. The Second Homelanders instead want the government-in-exile to create a “second homeland" for the Fisanduhian people on Xanu Prime in cooperation with the Xanan government and often push for the government-in-exile to leverage its official and unofficial influence in Xanan society to provide better resources for the Fisanduhian Xanan community. The two groups, while different in their priorities, are not enemies to one another and often work together in both the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the unofficial representative of that government in Xanan Politics, the Universal Liberty Party. Historically, the Irredentist camp has been a majority in the Fisanduhian Xanan population, but as Fisanduhian Xanans have adjusted more to Xanan society and their needs have become more pronounced, the Second Homeland movement has grown considerably, especially among the demographic’s younger generations who see themselves as more Xanan than Fisanduhian. As the older generations of Fisanduhian Xanans die, it is predicted that the Second Homeland movement will soon hold a majority over Fisanduhian Xanan political discourse unless a serious shift occurs in the currently-stalemated Fisanduhian Insurgency.

Morozian Fisanduhians have mixed opinions of Fisanduhian Xanans. On one hand the sentiments of support and occasional aid shipment that make it to the region past the Dominian blockades are often appreciated, but on the other, most see the Fisanduhian Xanan population as too far away to make a difference in anything actually happening in Fisanduh besides giving a place for more refugees to flee to. Because of this, most Morozian Fisanduhians treat their Xanan cousins as people who are all talk and no action in regards to actually winning the insurgency.

Notable Fisanduhian Xanans include '''Erick Alexis''', current Vice-President of the All-Xanu Republic; '''Aaron Izmirlian''', Prime Minister of the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile; '''Ekaitz Azarola''', leader of the Universal Liberty Party and member of the National Parliament; and '''Elaena Chatfield''', a prolific if aging novelist often considered to be one of the greatest writers Xanu Prime has ever produced.
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Xanan Gadpathurian Exiles and their community are a small but notable immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime. They are almost exclusively concentrated in Pataliputra, it being the spot where most of them arrive on the planet after being ejected from their home world. Gadpathurian Exiles are known to be highly assimilationist and often make little effort to show that they are even in fact Gadpathurian at all, some too ashamed by their exile status to try and make others know of it. Some however have taken the identity and embraced it as part of who they are in Xanan society. Gadpathurian Exiles who do make a point of their heritage do not have their own distinctive architecture or cuisine, but instead hold much of their culture in their community structures and businesses. Gadpathurian Exile-owned businesses which embrace the identity are known to be pseudo-support groups for Gadpathurian Exiles themselves and often provide employment, housing, and other necessities to newly arrived fellow-exiles to ensure that they do not become homeless or starve. Xanan Gadpathurian Exile families similarly have been known to welcome fellow exiles into their houses to take care of them in a similar way to how Fisanduhian Xanans do, however Gadpathurian Exiles take this a step further and have been known to formally adopt entirely unrelated people into their families permanently. This has led to some Gadpathurian Exile families on Xanu Prime to become enormously large, with the largest on record, the Mokammel family, having over 20,000 current members either by adoption, marriage, or being born into the family. The Mokammels mostly live in the Bamdha neighborhood of Pataliputra, though this area has come to be known colloquially as Mokammeljela or "the Mokammel District" in popular parlance due to the family's presence there. Other notable Gadpathuri Exile families are the Nanda, Yadhavar, and Jadhav. Most Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are irreligious or have converted to one of the planet’s three major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, with some converting to smaller faiths.

Gadpathurian Exiles often have an advantage over other immigrants not in terms of their wealth, as most arrive to the planet positively destitute, but in terms of their educations. Most Gadpathurians were taught skills during their military service on Gadpathur, and even if they’ve now been exiled from their homeworlds, many retain their skills and have found lucrative work as tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, HVAC specialists, and welders to name a few). Of course, many have also joined the All-Xanu Armed Forces and usually find success there too, either as soldiers, specialists, or occasionally even officers, though this is somewhat rare as the Gadpathurian leadership style is usually inconsistent with Xanan doctrine and practices. It is seen as shameful in Exile society to take aid from the government, and there is a societal norm of redemption through achievement as a way to prove the decision to exile the person in question as wrong. As such, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are encouraged by their communities to hold a strong work ethic and to cooperate with other Exiles trying to achieve success. In regard to politics, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime typically vote either for the Free Falcon Party of All-Xanu Freedom League. Gadpathurian Exiles also have a somewhat toned-down view of the Sol Alliance, at least when compared to their unexiled counterparts. They are often less outspoken about their prejudice towards the Sol Alliance than Gadpathurians on Gadpathur proper, even if their views on Sol remain unyieldingly resentful.

Notable Gadpathurian Exiles Xanans include '''Chandi Mokammel''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile, current head of the massive Gadpathurian Exile Mokammel family, and celebrity within the Gadpathurian Exile community; '''Sri Afzal''', a second-generation Gadpathuri Exile, formerly a professor of law at Saraswati College, and wife to the current All-Xanu President Jacques Afzal; and '''Ravindra Nanda''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile and current All-Xanan Foreign Minister.
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==Holidays==

Xanu Prime has many holidays much like almost anywhere else in the Spur, however the foremost of these are as follows:

*'''January 1st - New Year’s Day''' - A celebration of the ushering in of a new year. This holiday is marked by fireworks, loud music, and the mass consumption of alcohol. It is officially recognised as a holiday.

*'''January 2nd - Founding Day''' - This is the day where Xanans celebrate the original colonization of their world by the Solarian Alliance. People get the day off work and festivities are held in communities across the planet to celebrate Xanu. Many consider this to be a toned down version of Xanan Independence Day, or simply a day to recoup and recover from the partying and subsequent hangovers brought on by New Year’s. Alternatively, some simply use the day to have a two-day long New Year’s celebration.

*'''March 28th - All-Xanu Peace Day''' - This is a holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the end of the Xanan Civil war. It is a rather low-key holiday where people are encouraged to reflect on the peace that they enjoy and spend it with their families. Xanan citizens get the day off of work, though because the war is such a distant memory, many just use this as a convenient day off of work or three-day weekend rather than a time to celebrate its original intended purpose.

*'''July 1st - Election Day''' - This day is less of a holiday and more a bureaucratic necessity. On June 1st, all Xanans vote in elections, local, province-wide, or national. Everyone gets the day off work so they can vote if they so choose. The holiday still applies to jurisdictions where no elections are taking place that year, so many often take it as a free day off of work.

*'''August 13th - Xanan Independence Day''' - This day celebrates the secession of Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies from the Solarian Alliance and is the largest holiday of the year. Parades, fireworks, cookouts, sporting events, and musical performances often occur on this day. The entire planet parties hard on this holiday and it is observed by Xanan expats living elsewhere in the Orion Spur as well. Xanans get the day off of work on August 13th.

*'''October 1st - Victory Day''' - Victory Day, as it may be implied, is the day where Xanans celebrate the victory of their country over the Solarian Alliance in the Interstellar War. It is marked by parades, and other celebrations that honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians who died in the conflict and the freedoms that they died for. It has a more solemn and reverent atmosphere than other Xanan national holidays. Xanans get the day off work on Victory Day.

*'''November 18th - Kulkarni Day''' - Kulkarni Day, also called Diversity Day (no relation to the Eridanian Holiday), is a holiday where Xanans celebrate their diversity and ethic of unity, coming together to unite as one strong and diverse society. It is held on the birthday of once planetary governor Gaspard Kulkarni to honor his vision for what a united yet diverse Xanan society could be. The day is celebrated widely across the planet and is a day where the various communities of Xanu prime go out of their way to share their cultures with those of different cultures and celebrate how they find strength in diversity. It is an official holiday and Xanan citizens get the day off of work on Diversity Day.

*'''December 25th - Christmas''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Despite its religious origins, it has long been a festivity that has spread across cultures and demographics regardless of religious affiliation, and as such it is an official holiday on Xanu Prime. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries.

*'''Varying Dates - Easter''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries. This holiday follows the lunar cycle and therefore is held on different days annually, though it is always on a Sunday, typically in April or March. It is not officially a holiday recognised by the Xanan State, but many observant Christians celebrate it.

*'''Varying Dates - Ramadan''' - A Muslim religious holiday that is observed for nearly a month by Xanu Prime’s muslim population. It includes the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, on which was recognised as an official Xanan holiday in 2334 after the festivities of feasting, partying, and parades became so widespread across Xanu Prime’s population that it could no longer be interpreted as a strictly religious celebration. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Eid al-Adha''' - A Muslim religious holiday which that honors the willingness of the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as Allah commanded of him. It is not an official Xanan holiday, but many observant muslims take the day off from work and celebrate. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Diwali''' - A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh, religious holiday which lasts for five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil, originally brought to Xanu Prime by Hindu and Sikh colonists from India. It is typically marked by fireworks, the lighting of lamps, brightly vibrant lights, and other festivities which embody light triumphing over the dark. The third day of the holiday, Lakshmi Puja, is the most colorful of the holiday, and Xanans who observe it usually take the day off work, though it is not an official holiday. While not Hindus, the local Assunzionii expat population also has begun to celebrate this holiday recently as well, tying it into their own beliefs of light triumphing over the darkness. Diwali is determined by the Hindu lunar-solar calendar, and therefore falls on different dates annually.

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==Overview==
Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great emphasis on the family unit as the building block of society. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another, and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague.

==Standard of Living and Civil Liberties==
A life on Xanu Prime is by and large a comfortable, though not exceedingly luxurious one. While not uniform across the various peoples and classes of the planet, the average Xanan isn’t bothered with extreme poverty, hunger, or lingering threats of conflict, nor do they live in cities adapted to suit hazardous environments. The average Xanan sits as a member of the middle class and the government has taken measures to try and ensure that the largest number of Xanans can live comfortably on the planet as is possible.
Healthcare works in a hybrid system, with some facilities being private and others being public, though the government will still partially fund the expenses of patients that go to private clinics or hospitals. Xanan healthcare quality is some of the best in the Orion Spur, only rivaled by that found on Biesel or in the Solarian Core, and millions come from across the Coalition annually to receive treatment from Xanan doctors.

Higher education at government-operated universities and colleges is free to those who can obtain a qualifying score on the Uniform Higher Education Assessment test or UHEA, while private universities on the planet usually have their own specific entrance exams.

Governance on Xanu Prime is democratic and many on the planet are invested in local-level politics. Despite political contrasts among the Xanan population, they generally place unity in forms such as nationality or city of origin before political beliefs, and as such political polarization and division is not as pronounced on Xanu Prime as it may be elsewhere in the Spur.

Xanu Prime has very liberal speech laws as well, with almost any kind of speech allowed by the planet’s government. Notable exceptions include; any rhetoric that targets another individual or group of individuals on the basis of race or religion, any rhetoric that styles itself as genuine when it is knowingly false, and any rhetoric that is knowingly false while intending to harm another person’s reputation or well-being. News media outlets have wide-ranging freedoms to publish what they like, though their content is regulated by the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission, an independent government agency which has the power to censor and fine publications with content it has deemed to promote fake news or be so biased that it burgeons on fake news.

Most Xanans are religious or spiritual to at least some degree, though atheism isn’t unheard of nor officially disparaged on the planet, but some in the planet’s society may privately look down upon atheists. Religious extremism is rare, but does occasionally occur in the most conservative of Xanu Prime’s various congregations and sects.
Firearm possession on Xanu Prime is legal, though heavily regulated. A thorough background checks and a firearm license obtained after a six-month training course and six-month waiting period are mandatory for any Xanan hoping to own their own gun. Civilians may only own ballistic firearms with magazine capacities of twenty rounds or less and special permits, famous for their long wait times, are required for the ownership of handguns and automatic weapons while less complicated weapons like bolt-action rifles and shotguns require less paperwork.

Same-sex relationships and gender nonconforming individuals are accepted as a part of Xanan society and do not experience any legal or widespread societal discrimination, though they only make up a small minority of Xanan relationships and people. There is no form of legal recognition of polyamorous relationships on Xanu Prime.

Despite the comfort and quality of life that the majority of Xanu Prime’s people enjoy, the planet is not without its problems. Xanu Prime’s economy saw an economic hiccup in 2458 following the invasion of the Republic of Biesel led by Solarian Admiral Michael Frost. The disruption in trade saw the planet’s economy and its people suffer a small downturn that was corrected by the next year, but the phoron scarcity in late 2462 tossed the Xanan economy and the living situation for many of its people into question. The situation has been stabilized by now, some three years later, and while Xanu itself fared through the economic troubles much better than many other areas in the Spur, there have been some lasting consequences. The most noticeable of these has been a widening income inequality that, while modest, is still concerning. Wages for the majority of the planet’s population have not kept up with the inflation that resulted from the phoron scarcity, and while efforts are being made by the government to reduce inflation and buoy wages or substitute incomes through the provision of more services through the state welfare system, the problem still seems to be growing slowly, yet steadily. It is not yet a crisis, though many on Xanu Prime are keen to see that it never becomes one.

==Societal Issues and Political Discourse==
One of the biggest contemporary issues that is often at the forefront of Xanan political and societal discourse is how Xanu Prime and its government should meet the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees from the war-torn territories of the Sol Alliance and the largest wave of Vysokan immigrants the planet has yet seen. Views on these new arrivals have been mixed. Some on the planet have welcomed them, pointing to the fact that Xanu Prime is already an incredibly diverse place while highlighting the fact that the planet and its economy need laborers to fuel continued economic growth coming out of the turmoil of the phoron scarcity. Others have been less welcoming, stating that Xanu’s government and corporations should instead invest more into places like Vysoka and the frontiers of the Coalition to improve the living situations for the people living there, lowering the desire for immigration, often pointing to the already-strained Xanan welfare system needing to take care of more people, most of which aren’t even Xanan citizens. Others still have instead encouraged the Xanan government to pressure other economically developed planets in the Coalition such as Himeo and Konyang to take on more of these immigrants and refugees; a way of “doing their part” as Coalition members. Now that the conflicts in the Solarian Wildlands come to a close, it is predicted that refugees will stop trying to reach Xanu, though immigration from Vysoka and the Coalition’s frontiers does not seem to be stemming any time soon.

A larger, more historical point of contention in Xanan society and politics is just what role the planet should play in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime’s unique position of having both the Coalition’s largest economy and strongest military have long given it a considerable, unbalanced level of influence over CoC affairs, and as such, its people hold differing opinions on just how the planet should carry itself. Broadly, Xanan citizens fall into two camps on the issue: increased autonomy from the CoC, or broader integration with the CoC, with nuanced views within each of these positions. Some who wish for more integration with the Coalition desire for the planet’s government to capitalize on the great amount of influence it has within the multi-planet government to create better economic situations on Xanu Prime, while others say that the planet should use its influence to instead help the developing members of the Coalition to grow and provide more for the CoC as a whole, even if Xanu itself may not see as large of returns in the short term. Others from the autonomy camp are opposed to further Xanan economic aid to Coalition members, decrying the aid as harmful to the planet when the money and resources given to or loaned out to other CoC members could be better spent on Xanu helping Xanans during the aftermath of the Phoron scarcity. Encompassing members from that same autonomy camp, there are those who believe that the Coalition itself should remain little more than a mutual defense pact, where members only come to each other's aid in times of war, instead of the semi-formal nation state it is today. Within these nuanced views from both sides, there are extremes in the debate for Xanu’s Coalition position, with small minorities of the population wishing for Xanu Prime to leave the Coalition entirely while others in equally small numbers are in favor of the Coalition federalising like the Sol Alliance and having Xanu Prime’s government be dissolved and the planet ruled from a central Coalition authority.

Speaking of defense, it is another topic that Xanan-Coalition discourse often revolves around. The All-Xanu Armed Forces are the largest and most capable fighting force that the Coalition has for both offensive and defensive interstellar warfare operations, and while this is a comforting fact for many Xanans and the Coalition as a whole, it is not without its controversy. Some on Xanu Prime, mostly of the autonomy camp, think that other Coalition members should spend more on defense than they currently do, to avoid a “free ride” on Xanu’s military might, citing increased military spending among members as both good for Xanu Prime and good for the Coalition as a whole if Xanu’s military resources do not need to be stretched so thin, providing for much of the Coalition on its own. Those of the integration camp however have pointed to Xanu Prime’s historical status as the defender of the Coalition and that it is the Xanan responsibility to provide for the Coalition’s defense, even to an unbalanced amount because other planets of the Coalition simply do not have the economies to afford their own militaries beyond those that patrol their home systems. The common refrain among those in the latter camp is “If not us, then who?”

Besides the differing political opinions on Xanu’s place with other planets of the coalition, which could be considered internal matters, there are differing opinions on external matters, namely its place with megacorporations. Xanu’s position on megacorporations has long been a topic of debate, but its presence in everyday Xanan life has dramatically increased after the 2462 phoron scarcity and Solarian Collapse. While many megacorporations, both Einstein Engines and the SCC alike, have operated on Xanu Prime as a springboard to the rest of the coalition, often having the planet be the location of their regional headquarters, their presence hasn’t always come without concern or conflict. Some on the planet see further megacorporations as the next step in Xanu Prime’s economic growth and advocate for a lessening of restrictions upon them so that they can help the planet emerge into a post-phoron scarcity spur. The majority on the planet however caution megacorporate cooperation and see the Republic of Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts as to what can happen to a country that does not strike the right amount of balance and regulation of megacorporations. Most Xanans believe that megacorporations need some level of government oversight and regulation, but they fail to agree on just what form that should take, with different political parties holding different positions.

A growing issue that has become more pronounced in recent years is Xanu Prime’s fight with illegal drug trafficking and other forms of illegal smuggling. Xanu’s status as the heart of the Coalition and as one of the largest ports in the Orion Spur has made it a hotspot for all kinds of illegal trafficking; any smuggled drug, weapon, or person going into, out of, or on a long distance trip through the coalition likely will pass through Xanu Prime on its way from point A to point B. This reality ensures that All-Xanu Public Security Office is always busy, on the hunt for contraband moving through the planet’s ports and channels of commerce. Drug trafficking is not the only issue with illicit substances on the planet, in the last decade and a half illegal drug usage has nearly tripled from where it was in 2455 and the cause is debated among Xanans. Some say it is because of the economic troubles that Xanu and the rest of the spur at large have had in recent years, driving people to use illicit substances to cope, while others state that the cause can be pinned on the recent uptick of refugees and immigrants, specifically Vysokan ones, that have flowed to the planet looking for work or sanctuary from conflict. Others still have blamed the decay of Xanan family bonds under the strain of increasing economic hardship as a cause of the crisis. Whatever the cause, in 2461 Prime Minister Fabian Chatterjee declared the rising usage of drugs a public health emergency and called upon the Public Safety Office, the Health Office, and corporations operating on Xanu Prime to commit more resources to stopping its spread. Support for cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and increasing funding to programs and facilities focusing on sobriety and addiction treatment has seen support across Xanu’s political parties and drug usage rates have slowed in their rise since the emergency was declared, though it is unclear if these measures will be effective in the long term.

==Xanan Cultural Customs, Values, and Communication Habits==
The Xanan culture is a collectivist one with some caveats. Societally, Xanans see individuals as important pieces to a greater whole, but place importance more on what is good for society rather than what empowers the individual. This is not so say that Xanans see individuality as moot, in fact many Xanans are perhaps some of the strongest advocates for individual rights and protections from the government and society within the Coalition, but this is all done with the caveat that individual freedoms should never disproportionately harm or disadvantage society and that an individual should be obligated to sacrifice what they may want or what may be important to them if it is seen as essential to promoting a greater good. This rationale is a growth from Xanan family culture, one which places a great deal of importance on respect, cohesion, and hierarchy.

===Xanan Family Culture===
The family is perhaps one of if not the most dominant cultural institution over any given Xanan’s life. The traditional Xanan family places a great amount of importance on how one fits into the family and expects children to respect their parents and elders and obey them on familial and some personal matters, even after childhood due to the idea of age equating to wisdom. In return for the obedience of their children, parents and elders in the Xanan family are expected to be able to explain to younger family members why they’ve made the decisions they have, so that the juniors of the family do not feel as if they are being taken advantage of. Gender roles are flexible in Xanan families, however women typically maintain the household and work part-time while men work full-time jobs, though this is by no means universal. The elderly are extremely important in the Xanan family, with elderly individuals being seen as sources of knowledge and inspiration who should be consulted by younger members of the family for advice during troubled times or when making big life decisions. Elders are also expected to handle the early childcare and religious education of their family’s children, however the former of these responsibilities is not as essential as it once was due to the Xanan government’s implementation of free childcare for children under the age of five. It is for an elderly person’s children or grandchildren to take care of them and allow them to live with them from after their retirement until they die, and refusing to do this is seen as a great betrayal and is heavily frowned upon in Xanan society. A negative effect of having such large families however is that inheritances, especially those of wealthier relatives, often can result in disappointment and messy intrafamily legal battles over securing a relative’s estate and assets.

Individuals are celebrated within the Xanan family structure, but individuality as a concept is not encouraged, and family bonds are often seen as a key component to the personal identity of any Xanan. This can occasionally result in more independently-minded members of families being ostracized by their kin, however, Xanan family culture usually supports that a family should welcome back those who become estranged from the family and work to make them feel a part of the unit once again and not hold grudges. Whether this is always adhered to though, is often up to the individual families themselves. It is not uncommon for multiple generations of families to live under the same roof, or even multiple extensions of a family to do the same. Any given Xanan household may have children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts, or granduncles residing in the same household. This mindset extends to individual living situations as well. Children often do not move out of their parent’s households unless for university or work until they are in their mid-to-late twenties or even thirties; there’s no expectation for Xanan children to move out at any age so long as they still contribute to the household. However, many young Xanans do move out and live apart from their families if they are committing to a serious romantic relationship with someone or if a job opportunity arises. Family culture dictates that geographical distance from the family be a consideration in if a person accepts a job, however most families are generally encouraging of their members seeking out lucrative job opportunities because it is viewed as something that will be a net positive to the family as a whole. Related to this, Xanans working abroad often maintain very close relationships to their families, even across generations.

An individual’s choices are supposed to be embraced and supported by their family members unless the family believes the decisions to be truly destructive to the family or individual; they cannot be discouraging simply because they personally disagree with the choices because doing so would place a personal opinion or prejudice above what may be best for the family. Families are expected to be strong support systems for their members and it is common for large families to offer housing, financial assistance, and emotional support to their members in times of need. Some families have embraced this bond and applied it to business, with some of the largest companies on Xanu Prime being family-run as a result. Xanu’s richest and most powerful families are referred to as “Forvamshons” and they are typically large players in the planet’s politics and business spheres. This attitude has occasionally led to corruption scandals, but generally it is seen that enriching one’s family by hurting the rest of society is unfair, dishonorable and cause for great shame. Some Forvamshons are very elusive and shy away from the public eye, while others are very public and have celebrity statuses. The foremost of these families often have private security details provided by the PMCG, Idris Incorporated, or Chevauchée Asset Protection and live in luxurious high-security compounds which house the entire family.

Marriages are seen as not just a special bond between two people but a union between two families and a commitment between them to work together. Because of this collective view on familial culture, arranged marriages are not uncommon on Xanu Prime though they have slowly become less prevalent since the 2430’s. Same-sex marriages are not frowned upon in Xanan culture however same-sex couples are expected to adopt children to continue the family lineage, much like how heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Polygamy is illegal on Xanu Prime and polyamorous relationships do not have any form of legal recognition. Though not illegal, Xenophilia is societally frowned upon on Xanu Prime because of long held beliefs that the family structures of other species are incompatible with human ones making relationships between Humans and Aliens fruitless and selfish, therefore hurting one’s family.

Death and customs around it are tied deeply to Xanan family culture, as the death of a person is not just seen as the death of an individual but a loss of a member of an entire family. Burial and cremation are both common during Xanan funerals with customs varying some between the planet’s various religions. Common between all of them though, families will either have their bodies buried in adjacent plots to one another or will keep the ashes of deceased family members in a single, large urn holding the ashes of most if not all of the family’s deceased relatives. During burials, it is a common practice for the deceased’s family to throw dirt, flowers, and lit incense onto the casket as it is lowered into the ground. Another custom stemming from this is that when a person speaks of a deceased friend or relative, it is seen as respectful to make a small tossing motion with their hand or arm. During cremations, the deceased are often cremated alongside incense. Another common custom around death on Xanu Prime regardless of religion is that most Xanan homes will have a large logbook wrapped in black and white cloth called an “Afterlife Journal” in the home’s living room or other public area where family members are able to write down memories, sentiments, thoughts, or prayers about their deceased relatives and friends. Many see the theme of memorialisation that is very present in Xanan culture having stemmed from both the strong family ties Xanans have built along with the collective impact of the Interstellar War even some two-centuries later.
Dinnertime is perhaps the most important time of the day for any Xanan family, as it is when everyone in the household gets together. Rarely do families eat apart from one another unless their work schedules dictate they do so. Meals are shared around a large central table in the household and weekend dinners can last hours. Not only is food shared but music is played and games are enjoyed, usually board games like Checkers and Chess, or card games like Alutte or French Tarot. Meals are a happy time and it is considered to be an honor to be invited over to share a meal with a Xanan and their family. It is customary for a Xanan family grieving the loss of a loved one to leave a chair at the table empty for the spirit of the deceased for anywhere from two weeks to two months after their passing and provide them food and drink as if they were still living as an act of remembrance and appreciation for their family member. This same gesture is also done two weeks to two months before the birth of a child if a family is expecting and it is instead seen as a show of excitement and optimism for new life. Many suspect the focus on meals in Xanan family culture to be the catalyst which has pushed Xanan cuisine to the upper echelons of high-class dining throughout the Orion Spur.

===Xanan Work Culture===
Xanan work culture is formalistic and hierarchical, tied into the planet’s strong sense of family, and can sometimes come off as hard to break into for outsiders. A traditional Xanan greeting for coworkers is a handshake accompanied by a light bow. Titles, rather than names, should be used with all coworkers, superior, equal-level, or inferior alike, unless the two coworkers are close friends. Small talk is appreciated, and asking after the family of a business partner is usually how most business meetings start. Xanans pride themselves on professionalism and often view their companies as a stand-in for the family outside of their real families, meaning they want to represent them well through professionalism and a strong public image while not bringing shame to them through misconduct or crassness. Superiors are expected to be respectful and formal, but friendly with those under them and coworkers are expected to execute the orders of their superiors without question and then raise grievances with their overseers when the act is done unless they believe the situation is truly disastrous. Businesswear is formal, usually consisting of a suit and tie or cravat for men and a dress or blouse and skirt for women or a uniform for either. Casual dress while on the job is not welcomed in Xanan society and is seen as immature and juvenile, likewise excessive make-up or jewelry in a work setting is seen as distracting and putting more of a focus on one’s personal appearance than the business matter itself, regardless of the person’s gender. However, dyed hair, and minimal tattoos, especially those that are covered by standard work clothing are accepted. Xanan business meetings are multifaceted, with meetings between managers and higher-up officials in companies usually being very logical, low-key, and methodical with great emphasis placed on the abilities of either side to debate one another. This has led to the term “debate” becoming synonymous with “business meeting” on Xanu Prime. If associates know each other well though, meetings can be very emotionally charged and spritied for better or worse, filled with either happiness and achievement, or anger and sadness.

Trust built through continuous face-to-face interaction are essential in Xanan business; Xanans will base their decisions on trust and intuition as much as if not more than data and statistics. It is not uncommon for a Xanan to request a meeting in person rather than communicating through holocall, telephone, messengers, or holomail, as personal relationships and connections drive much of Xanan business culture. and because these relationships take time to cultivate and are placed on the same level of importance as close, platonic friendships, it can sometimes be a culture shock for foreigners doing business with Xanans even if the Xanans themselves are quite happy to do business with foreigners. It is considered insulting to discuss business over meals and alcohol is usually not served during Xanan business functions or consumed while on the clock. Hard work is admired, but Xanans generally view workaholism as a selfish trait that makes a person disrespectful to their family by cutting into family time. It is considered poor form to schedule an important meeting in the month of August in the northern hemisphere or the month of February in the southern hemisphere, as these are the respective months usually reserved for summer vacation. This has led to the emergence of the sarcastic phrases, "I'll get to it in August," and "I'll get to it in February," both meaning that a person doesn't care about doing something. As a continuation of this, holidays and vacation days are strictly forbidden for business contacts to speak with one another unless the topic of conversation is not work-related and evenings are similarly off-limits as they are often reserved for family time. Coworkers should bring gifts or cards to one another when they return from business trips or holidays and doing so is considered a gesture of appreciation and goodwill towards one's peers as well as a sign of continued commitment to their workplace even after a vacation. Snacks and sweets, knick-knacks, cookware, and hand-written poems are gifts that would not seem out of place in a Xanan office after vacation season.

===Xanan Communication Habits and Social Norms===
Generally speaking, Xanans are friendly, yet polite to strangers and are typically not confrontational with people they do not have a prior relationship with such as friendship, family, or a long business partnership. This has led to foreigners often noticing an indirect style of communication among Xanans, as being very direct about certain matters to strangers is considered rude. It is for this reason that Xanans will often say “Maybe,” or “Perhaps,” as an indirect response in place of “No,” because they do not wish to directly disappoint, and thereby offend a stranger if something is asked of them, though a far more direct style of communication is used in some parts of Xanan society, namely by those in the military, police, or security industries. Good manners are a staple in Xanan communication and are usually only eschewed between close friends or family members. It is considered proper for a person in a higher position of power or standing in a company or family to give unsolicited advice to those beneath them, but rude for advice to be given the other way around unless asked for. Politics are expected to not be talked about in casual conversation unless they are related to the subject matter at hand or between friends. Social norms dictate that a Xanan generally should not want to impose their beliefs upon others, especially strangers, unless something someone else says contradicts something said Xanan believes, in which case a civil, if spirited political discussion may ensue. Xanan society is one that eschews the use of violence to solve disputes, and holds a pacifistic ethos that cements that one should only use force in the defense of oneself and others, however naturally, not all on Xanu Prime abide by these morals. Moreover, there is an expectation in Xanan society that people can, should, and will compromise with one another for the sake of preserving societal unity, order, and peace, with stubbornness in working out an agreement with one another being seen as a selfish trait. Finally, Xanans value the collective. Whether that is a family, company, crew of a ship, social circle, country, or other unit, Xanan social norms dictate that a good Xanan is one who will act in the best interests of something “bigger than themselves,” while using his or her unique individual qualities to best help themselves and the people around them who they care about.

===Religion===
Xanu Prime has no official religion, and in an effort to prevent conflict over religion or accusations of government favoritism, the government has a series of official secularism laws. They vary in specificity, but broadly they prohibit any person working for or affiliated with the state including anyone from politicians to police officers to public school teachers from displaying any religious iconography, dress, or artifacts on their person or in their workplace while they are on the job. This has drawn criticism from some elements of Xanan society which see these rules as an infringement upon religious liberty, especially from those who take religious dressage as an integral part to their faith, but the government has remained firm in their beliefs that the state will not expose or impose anyone to any one religion over another. Despite these laws, the Xanan government is not opposed to working with religiously-affiliated organizations like charities due to the laws prohibiting only the state itself from representing a religion, not engaging with it.
Xanan people as a whole vary in religiosity with both very progressive and orthodox interpretations of the various faiths found on the planet being practiced. The diverse backgrounds of the planet’s original colonists and immigrants since its colonization mean that nearly any religion can be found here. The largest however, in order of practitioners are, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sunni Islam. Smaller faiths like Luceism, Stolitism, Jainism, Sikhism, and even Moroz Holy Tribunalism can be found here, the latter of which is practiced almost exclusively by the Fisanduhian immigrant community. A significant portion of Xanan society is irreligious as well. Xanu Prime is well known across the Orion Spur for some of its examples of religious architecture, the most outstanding examples of which being the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, the Patali-Ram temple, and the Crystal Lights mosque.

==Food and Drink==
===Food===
Xanan cuisine has garnered a carefully cultivated reputation around the Orion Spur as perhaps some of the finest in human space. It is in a sense, a fusion between the cuisines of its most prominent colonizing cultures, French, Indian, Pakistani, and those of the BeNeLux. While certainly diverse, it is known most for being both simultaneously spicy, but not hot, with different spices adding highlights and emphasis to whatever notes in the palette the chef so chooses, and savory with a mouth-watering richness that lasts long after the first bite of whatever the food might be. This reputation precedes it, and expert Xanan chefs and cooks are some of the most revered in the culinary industry for their mastery of their crafts.

Arguably the most famous human celebrity chefs alive, '''Cléophe & Lonnie D’Cruz''', a married power-couple in the Xanan food world, were both born and raised on Xanu Prime. Their combined adventurousness in the culinary industry with endeavors both inside and outside their chain of fine restaurants has garnered both them and Xanan cuisine a spotlight few planets’ food cultures can match. The couple met while attending a small culinary school in the city of Foy-Nijlen, fell in love, and then combined their skills to open what would be their first restaurant in their well-known fine-dining chain, '''Solstice Xanan Bistro'''. Marriage followed shortly after, and the two have been together at the forefront of the Xanan food world ever since. While they are married to one another, the duo’s personalities are distinctly different, something often accentuated for the camera. Cléophe is known for their generally supportive and encouraging personality who wishes to simply share the joy of cooking with the world and has written dozens of best-selling cookbooks to that end. They are also well-known for their appearances on Holovision shows and Holonet videos giving tutorials on how to make some of the D’Cruz’s most well-known recipes in a basic kitchen; it wouldn’t be unfair to say that an entire generation of Xanan home-cooks were taught by Cléophe D’Cruz. Lonnie, however is far more of a chef’s chef who adheres to very strict professional and artistic standards, something he extols through his appearances on cooking competition shows, often played up to be a very cold and perfectionistic critic. Despite this reputation, he much like his spouse, is also committed to educating people on Xanan culinary arts and to that end is the President and, along with Cléophe, co-owner of the D’Cruz Culinary Academy, a culinary school which while only ten years old, has quickly risen to be one of the most competitive on the planet.

While Xanan cuisine is diverse and constantly reinventing itself, the dishes characteristically include some kind of meat, most often chicken, beef, or shellfish, paired with greens like beans, asparagus, or broccoli, or a starch like potatoes and something characteristic of almost all Xanu dishes, long-grain aromatic basmati rice, typically grown on the hilly territory surrounding the upper Naya Khyber river. Spices like cumin, black pepper, coriander, cloves, cardamom, and garam masala are ubiquitous throughout Xanan cooking, and often find themselves as part of exceptionally rich and creamy white sauces made from milk, butter, salt, and eggs. Pork is not as popular as a meat on Xanu Prime as others are, given the prohibition on eating it from Xanu’s original Muslim colonists and its perceived uncleanliness that Xanu’s original Hindu colonists held as well. Some Hindus also choose to not eat beef, and as such, many of Xanu’s restaurants have an option to serve synthmeat or a vegan meat substitute instead of actual beef in their beef-dishes. The most consumed alcohol on Xanu Prime by far is beer, often made in the Belgian tradition brought to the planet by some of its original colonists. Brandy comes in second and third, and wine is also popular too, but is more associated with fine dining than it is with a drinking experience alone. Xanan cognac and armagnac brandies have drawn the ire of some in the European Union on Earth because it uses the labels of “cognac” and “armagnac" despite not being produced in the Charente, Charente-Maritime, or Armagnac regions of France, though Xanan producers have paid these complaints no heed.

Some notable Xanan dishes include:
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'''Steak Xanu'''
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As the name implies, '''Steak Xanu''' is a steak, and is typically pan-fried rather than grilled. Usually it is strip steak as opposed to coming from any other part of the cow, but any cut of beef can be made in the Xanan style. The secret comes in what the beef is cooked with. Before the strip goes into the pan it is left to marinate in a warm broth traditionally made from chicken stock, cardamom, and garlic for flavor and is then lathered all over with a light coating of ghee right before it meets the pan in order to give its outside a crunchy, slightly singed crust. The steak is cooked to medium rare as it is basted in its own juices along with butter, rosemary, and a very light touch of cayenne powder. After it is cooked to a medium rare, it is taken out of the pan and left to rest for a few minutes before being dashed with a cooked sour, cream sauce, often simply called “beef sauce” made from heavy cream, olive oil, whisked egg yolks, and citrus or mango powder. Black pepper is cracked over the top, and the dish is served. Some of Xanu Prime’s Hindu population refuses to eat this dish, however chicken can be cooked in a very similar way and is typically referred to as “Bird Steak” by the Xanan culinary community. It is the official dish of the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle, Xanu’s Capital.
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'''Pataliputra Curried Rice'''
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An mainstay dish and one sure to be found on almost any Xanan dinner table, '''Pataliputra Curried Rice''', often just called Xanu Curry by foreigners, is a twist on the typical curry recipe that originated in the port city of Pataliputra. It is a yellow curry that uses peanuts as one of its main ingredients, giving it a signature nuttiness that mixes quite well with the dish's spices. Where it differs from a traditional curry though, is that its sauce is made from two parts, one of which is a buttermilk-garlic-onion powder base that is very thick and holds in the flavor of the spices and vegetables put into the sauce, while the other is a very light, chicken-based velouté sauce made from combining chicken bone broth with a light, typically but not always, salted blond roux to give the sauce some substance. When the two sauces combine, they make for an exceptionally savory base upon which spices like ginger, garam masala, coriander, fenugreek, and thyme can be added. Meats like chicken or shell-fish are often added to the sauce along with things like beans or potatoes. Rice used in this recipe is traditionally Xanan basmati rice. Every person and every city on Xanu Prime has their own slight variation on how they make this dish, but what is listed above is generally what could be expected when ordering it. It is the official dish of the city of Pataliputra.
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets'''
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets''', or more informally River Crozets, is a dish that originated from the city of Foy-Nijlen and is one that makes use of the various animals caught off the city’s nearby ocean coast and also those found in the Naya Khyber river which runs through the city. The base of this pasta dish is a spicy tomato-basil-cayenne sauce with melted and dissolved Naya Khyber river penguin blubber mixed into the sauce in place of a more traditional fat like butter, ghee, or olive oil. The pasta itself, the Crozets, are small rectangles which resemble something more akin to breakfast cereal in size and shape rather than a more noodly kind of pasta. The crozets are made from buckwheat, eggs, and flour, and are usually cooked al dente so as to retain a bit of firmness. Along with the pieces of pasta, river boiled lobster, fish, crab, or even river penguin meat is pan-fried with butter, rosemary, cardamom, coriander, and cloves before being put into the pasta usually in small bite-sized pieces. Black pepper is cracked over the dish and cumin is dashed over the meat and the dish is served in a heated stoneware bowl. It is the official dish of the city of Foy-Nijlen.
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'''Bunker Buster Sandwich'''
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The '''Bunker Buster Sandwich''' is perhaps the most famous example of Xanan street food. At its core, the dish can be used to refer to almost any toasted open-faced sandwich served on naan bread with over-easy eggs, fried vegetables, shredded cheese, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and garam masala. In practice however, the six ingredients mentioned above are only the beginning of what a bunker buster might be, as really anything from meats to veggies to mushrooms can be put on the sandwich so long as it tastes good. It’s incredibly easy to make and traces its roots back to the reconstruction of the city of Kshatragarh shortly after the Interstellar War, starting as a quick and easy meal for construction workers to make as a lunch. Many of these workers lived in the city’s underground bunker complexes while above-ground housing was being rebuilt, leading to the sandwich’s name. It has since spread all over Xanu Prime, and a visitor to any given Xanan city is likely to find dozens of variations on this simple, long-time favorite food. It is the official dish of the city of Kshatragarh.
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo'''
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo''' is a dish originating in the city of Paastad, but can be found across the entire continent of Paasland. It is made from the meat of the large waterfowl, the Paaskraan, and is similar to the traditional preparation of vindaloo with one major exception: the meat is not cooked with the vindaloo paste and is only added at the end. Instead, the meat of the Paaskraan is pan-fried until fully cooked and is usually then seared in a sweet vanilla sauce to give it a crunchy, caramelized outer shell. After this process, it is added to the cooked vindaloo paste (cloves, cinnamon, cariander, cardamom, cumin, red peppers, ginger, mustard seeds, black pepper) and served over rice, as a crunchy and spicy meal. It is the official dish of the city of Paastad.
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'''North 60 Sea Platter'''
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The '''North 60 Sea Platter''' is less a single coherent dish and more an entire subsection of dishes based around the theme of seafood caught north of 60 degrees latitude. Himavatian sea salmon or arctic tuna, usually pan-fried in olive oil or smoked and served with lemon and black pepper, commonly forms the center of the dish with arctic crab legs or lobster tail sold off to the side paired with a creamy garlic sauce. Other components could include fried octopus and squid or freshly caught steamed shrimp. What makes the dish more than just a typical seafood platter is a special malt vinegar made specifically from ale brewed in the Xanan tradition with added apple and lemon juice. More budget friendly variations of this dish exist as well, such as ones that swap the pan-fried salmon or tuna for smaller, less expensive, deep-fried fish, the lobster and crab for shrimp, and are commonly found in Himavat City bars as a cheap, delicious option for a lunch or dinner. The food arrangement originated in the city and is its official dish.
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Not all food on Xanu Prime is within the realm of “fine dining” however. When not at the table for a full meal, the average Xanan can reach for any number of snack foods produced by Xanan companies. Many of these have become not just popular on Xanu Prime, but throughout the entire Coalition and beyond thanks to the aggressive marketing and economic dominance of Xanan shipping and food conglomerates.

===Drink===
Along with its food culture, Xanu Prime is renowned for some of the alcohol the planet produces as well. The planet’s main claim to fame in this area are in the spheres of beer, wine, and brandy. The planet has brewed beer since its founding, with the Xanan style of beer crafting having its roots in the Belgian-style brought to the planet by colonists from the BeNeLux itself. The most popular brand of beer on Xanu Prime is '''Prince Pallav Blonde Ale''', a golden concoction brewed in Foy-Niljen that has held dominance over the Xanu Beer market for the last two decades. This robustness in the brewing has brought the planet into a rivalry with the nearby planet of Himeo, the two of them both having proud beer-making heritages that often brings them to test this with each other. For the last decade and a half, brewers from the two planets have engaged in a festival called Hoptoberfest, a week-long celebration of the craft of brewing beer held every October complete with live music, authentic Xanan and Himean cuisine, and crucially for the craft brewers of both planets, competitions determining which beer is the best for that year. The festival changes venues from Paastad, Xanu Prime and Inverkeithing, Himeo every other year.
In addition to beer, Xanu Prime imported a strong wine culture from its original colonists, namely the French ones. Vineyards dot the Xanan countryside on every continent, with a few even on the southernmost peninsulas of Himavatia. The planet makes a wide variety of wine, though it is most notable for its own variety of Malbec grown in the mountains of Naya Khyber and Nouvelle-Occitanie called '''Khyberian Malbec'''. Where Xanu Prime’s wine truly shines though is not in the wine itself but in its use in fortified wine products like brandy and cognac. The unique climatological conditions of Foy-Niljen brandy country have led to the grapes grown there to be perfectly suited to making fortified wines and distilled wines, leading to their flavors to be pronounced but not overbearing up front with subtle, complex notes coming to the surface the more the drinker savors the beverage. The most noteworthy and popular drinks of this category are the mid-range priced '''2275''', a mainstay brandy of Xanan bars and kitchen cabinets alike, and '''Saint-James Black Label,''' the gold standard of Xanan luxury cognac. The national cocktail of the All-Xanu Republic is the '''Stag Hunt''', so named for its popularity on hunting trips and other outdoor activities during the summer. It is a simple drink made by mixing three parts brandy, typically 2275, one part lemon juice, and two parts chilled tea usually served over ice in a highball glass. Chai is the most consumed tea variety on Xanu Prime and the soft drink Xanu Rush is also very popular on the planet.

==Arts and Entertainment==
===Visual Art===
Xanan visual arts are vast and have an uncountable number of movements and subgenres. Generally, though, Xanan artworks are reflective pieces and try to examine the human condition rather than focus on the form by which the artwork expresses itself. Xanan visual arts have been heavily influenced by the original Western European cultures which settled the planet and as such, drawing and painting are the most prevalent forms of Xanan art. Sculpture that has been inspired by South Asian cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are also prevalent, however. The most famous and well-known movement of Xanan art is often called the Atman Movement and it lasted from the 2340’s until the 2390’s. Most art scholars consider it an offshoot of Symbolism and Neoclassicism but with noticeable existential elements. Pieces of the movement hold an almost ethereal aesthetic, and usually feature elements like fanciful Greco-Roman or Indian ruins, ruins that aren’t even found on Xanu Prime, bright, vibrant colors contrasted by dark backdrops, and esoteric spiritual imagery sourced from Xanu Prime’s three largest religions. The goal of all of this, in the words of the Xanan master painter Arnold Vasudevan, a key figure in the movement, is, “To imagine Humanity and the human condition as if we could breach the barrier between this world and the next with our own hearts and achieve revelation and clarity through the beauty within and without our souls and the world around us.” An offshoot of this movement referred to as Wartime Atman replaces the ruins of classical civilisations with scenes of wartime destruction found on Xanu Prime during the days of the Interstellar War and is meant to make the viewer reflect on things like conflict and mortality. The most famous piece of visual artwork of the Atman Movement and arguably of all Xanan visual art is called “The Truce" by Harini Martin. It is a colossal mural of a painting that is four meters tall and ten meters wide which depicts the ghosts of dozens of fallen Xanan and Solarian soldiers enjoying leisure time and doing activities like enjoying meals with one another, idly talking, showing each other photographs, and playing games and sports with one another over the backdrop of a desolate Interstellar War era battlefield in what used to be a Xanan city. The sky around the edges is a dark color, however in the center of the painting’s sky is a brilliant white, alabaster, pink, and red halo that shines light on the entire painting. It was unveiled to the public at the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery, Xanu Prime’s national art gallery, in 2387 as part of a ceremony to commemorate one-hundred years of peace with the Solarian Alliance and has remained a permanent fixture in the museum since. Notable Xanan sculptures include Our Lady of Sorrows, a giant statue of the Virgin Mary included in the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, and Skyward Unity, a large sculpture commemorating the elevation of Paastad.

===Architecture and Cityscapes===
The traditional Xanan style of architecture can be described as a hybridization of various styles of design from the Indian subcontinent and Western Europe, much like the origins of the planet’s original colonists. Xanan buildings usually have some form of artistic design on their exteriors, even if it’s as simple as a basic tile weave around entrances or semi-ornate molding around windows. Many have lines drawn on the outside in paint or sculpted on, and Xanan buildings are usually painted with bright, if mellow, colors if they are painted at all. Most Xanan buildings are taller than they are wide and long, courtesy of the planet’s re-urbanisation plans after the Interstellar War and because buildings in most urban areas are taxed based on how much land they take up. Most Xanan buildings have some form of accoutrement around their roofs, usually being a modest carving or bust of a family’s ancestor if it’s a house or a historical or religious figure, representing the theme of memorialisation found elsewhere in Xanan culture. The roofs themselves of most Xanan buildings are usually vaulted or occasionally are domed or flat. Larger, more modern buildings like skyscrapers on Xanu Prime have a distinctive half-sloping-roof look pioneered during the beginning of Xanu’s economic resurgence during the mid 2330s. Originally implemented as a cost-saving measure to make a building that still looked tall but didn’t need to have as much office space, the half-sloped roof or “Xanan Roof” style of skyscraper has part of the building’s roof flat and level with the ground while another portion of it slopes downwards. This style of design has become emblematic of Xanu Prime and even the newest skyscrapers on the planet are built with this design in mind, despite its economical origins. Xanan buildings are made from a variety of materials, with the few-surviving pre-war structures being made from wood, brick, and steel while commercial and industrial buildings built after the Interstellar War are made from concrete, steel, and glass with plaster or clay facades. Individual houses are still mostly made from wood or brick, however. Sizes and shapes of Xanan residences vary, with some being modest single-family homes typical of other places within the spur. Multi-story townhouse complexes surrounding a single communal courtyard are common in urban areas and are often inhabited by entire extended families. In more densely populated areas, large communal apartments built for extended families are common, though some wealthier families have pursued a policy of “Co-flooring,” a type of retail arrangement where an entire extended family will rent out an entire floor of traditional single-family apartments from a property agency. Some buildings on Xanu Prime play very heavily into inspiration from the planet’s original cultures and would not look out of place in South Asia or Western Europe, though buildings built like those are in the minority of Xanu Prime’s structures.

The last notable architectural feature found in many Xanan cities are residual walls and gun emplacements left over from the Xanan Civil War. Of Xanu’s six major cities, only three, Nouvelle Rochelle, Pataliputra, and Foy-Niljen have them still, with Kshatrigarh’s being destroyed beyond repair during the Interstellar War and Paastad’s torn down during the city’s elevation, lest they sink into the swamp. Himavat City never had walls, as it was too small of a community to have built them during the Xanan Civil War. The walls proved useful during both of the planet’s most devastating conflicts, acting as barriers to outsiders and platforms for return fire, but due to the gargantuan cost of operation and maintenance, the walls and their gun emplacements were decommissioned in the 2310s as a part of the Sneijders Government’s economic recovery plans. Today, the walls stand as partially restored massive memorial complexes dedicated to those who fought and died during both the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War, with some cities having sections of wall filled with the names of those who died during the conflicts from those respective cities.

Xanan cities are generally filled with greenery as both a measure to keep temperatures down during the summer and simply provide Xanans with natural beauty even in the most urban of places. Large public transit networks consisting mostly of subway systems and tramways are found in almost every Xanan city and most of those who live in the urban cores of Xanan cities do not own automobiles, while Xanans who live in the country, suburbs, and smaller cities have a higher percentage of car ownership. The most common way to get around on Xanu Prime however is by bike or motorbike; Xanu Prime has the most bikes per capita of any planet in the Orion Spur, even beating out the Solarian population hubs of Callisto and New Hai Phong. Generally speaking, Xanan cities are walkable and do not require an automobile to move around efficiently, and some Xanan cities have banned the construction of freeways and overpasses entirely in order to preserve their cities’ “authentic landscapes.”

===Literature===
Xanan literature has cemented itself around the institution of “The Great Novel,” something often defined in Xanan culture as a work of literary art that has captured the essence or soul of the Xanan struggle and of the planet’s people through the usage of compelling stories and multifaceted characters. Novels written in the Xanan style usually have psychological and spiritual themes and use supernatural or otherwise fantastical elements to explore Xanan the human condition, usually in surreal or otherwise unorthodox methods. Xanan novels are typically not adapted into films as is seen elsewhere in the Orion Spur due to Xanan movie-going audiences preferring musicals and epics instead, but they have become popular as holovision shows, stageplays, and miniseries.

Some notable works of Xanan Literature are:
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====Gloam in Gold====
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It is hard to understate the importance and influence of Foy-Niljen writer Arif Hugo’s 2345 masterpiece Gloam in Gold in the Xanan literary canon. The text, while short for a novel, is considered to be not just a seminal work of Xanan writing but also quite possibly the greatest novel ever written in the Freespeak language, despite its unorthodox, almost anthological structure. It is set in 2296 during the initial reconstruction of the city of Kshatrigarh and focuses on the character Madhar Emond, a Kshatrapur native and veteran of the Interstellar War now working to rebuild the battered city during the aftermath of the terrible conflict. His life isn’t a glamorous one and he spends most of his days doing hard, construction labor, digging paving roads, working on buildings, and the like. One day on his way home from work, he stops by one of the city’s many large cemeteries to rest and watch the sunset, however shortly after his arrival he lays down in the grass and begins to hear voices around him. He’s alerted by these and denounces them as hallucinations at first as he sees no one around who could be speaking to him, yet as the sun sets further below the horizon, he realizes that there is some coherence through the voices and that they are in fact, the voices of the dead, fully aware of their condition yet unable to move on to the afterlife.

Madhar listens in to their conversations for a moment and is eventually confronted by the voice of one of the deceased, one Missus Pandit, an elderly woman who died of old age before the city was besieged. She acts as a sort of a guide who explains the dispositions of each of the ghosts present, and each part of the novel tells a story of a different spirit inhabiting the cemetery proceeding in the order of Missus Pandit herself, and then to Mister Quint and Miss Jessup, a young Himean immigrant couple who perished together from starvation during the siege and seem to be resigned to their fates, and recount their lives from Himeo and their immigration to Xanu before the war broke out, their desperation during the siege, and now their dead, yet still loving existence of being with each other even in death. Madhar’s conversation with the couple is interrupted by the voice of Marcus Thevar, a rich and vulgar middle-aged businessman.

Marcus refuses to reveal how he died and seems to be entirely preoccupied with finding a drink and scoring some action from the cemetery’s various young female ghosts, one “Miss Periwinkle” foremost among them. Miss Periwinkle’s gravestone has been defaced, though she looks to be buried in the plot next to Thevar, much to her dismay. She’s the spirit of a young, pious woman with a noticeable Lunan accent who claims to have died from tuberculosis during the siege. She refuses to say her real name and repeatedly breaks from talking to Madhar to fend off verbal advances from Thevar, before quietly lamenting to Madhar that her days of being confined to the mortal plane despite being dead and needing to routinely reject the, “slovenly attempts at romance,” by her neighbor is God’s unique choice of purgatory for herself. Despite this, even in this “purgatory” she finds some joy in acting as an almost motherly figure to Patrice, the ghost of a five-year old child who doesn’t know how he died but according to Miss Periwinkle, seems to have abruptly perished in the aftermath of the siege after naively playing with unexploded ordnance he found a local park’s sandbox. Miss Periwinkle parts with Madhar after claiming she needs to tend to the child, and her voice fades away.

After this, the story shifts to that of Private Hendriks, a solemn Xanan infantryman who was killed during the battle and laments that he will never be able to return home to his mother and Lieutenant Ma, a Solarian bomber pilot who was shot down over the city during a night raid and is a conflicted character. She is racked by the guilt of possibly killing innocent civilians yet reminisces on what a still-united Sol Alliance might have looked like without the carnage and in his words, “tragedy” of the Interstellar War. Hendriks and Ma seem to spend most of their days now arguing with each other, the conflict lingering on past their deaths, much to the annoyance of the cemetary’s other inhabitants.

Lastly, Madhar is spoken to by the voice of a young woman, a teenager named Penelope, who brokenly and through a voice characterized by sounding as if she’s on the verge of tears, tells Madhar that her body is in fact, not even buried within the cemetery at all, but that her body instead lies buried beneath a new road built on the graveyard’s northern edge and sulks to him that nobody will ever remember her or who she was since there’s nothing to mark her grave. Madhar, heartbroken in this discovery, realizes that he was part of the crew that paved that very road and profusely apologizes to Penelope for spoiling any chance she might have ever had with a proper burial and claims that it was done in the name of progress for the city and for Xanu Prime. Penelope’s voice rejects this and breaks into tears, repeating the fact that nobody will remember her or who she was, but eventually she is soothed by Madhar’s assurances that he will remember her and that he’ll never forget that she lived and died in the city. Seemingly consoled, Penelope thanks Madhar before her voice too fades away and leaves him in silence, the sky now dark. He makes his way home in solemn, quiet contemplation, thinking about the various spirits he’s heard over the last few hours and once again questions if it was even real. When he gets home to a modest, quickly built apartment, he resolves to himself that whether what he heard was real or not, he cannot forget the past even in pursuit of the future.
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'''The Screen Behind the Mirror''', written in 2419 by the second-generation Fisanduhian Xanan writer Elanea Chatfield, is another one of Xanu Prime’s great novels. It’s a semi-autobiographical story, taking some elements from Chatfield’s own life and putting them into the events of the plot. It is also is a very spiritual text, having references, symbols of, and allusions to the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Tribunalist Scripture, and Luceian holy texts throughout to help convey its themes of residual trauma, destruction and rebirth, and enlightenment.

This semi-autobiographical story follows the experience of a young accountant named Demitra during a camping trip out to the remote New Pacific Scarlands for some time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The story’s structure is unorthodox and the chapters bounce between describing her current experience in the scarlands, and recounting flashbacks to her childhood growing up as a Fisanduhian refugee in a diverse community of Xanan and Assunzionii-Xanans on Xanu Prime. The story in the present is a tale of survival that begins after Elanea’s camping group has a car crash on a back-country road with her being the only surviving member. Much of her food and shelter perished in the blaze and she’s left to fend for herself in the forest and crater lake-filled wilderness around her. She manages to build herself some crude shelter, but during her first night in the wilderness, she’s awoken by a bright ray of light reflecting off of what she can only describe as a large phantasmagorical mirror levitating just outside the border of her crude encampment. In the mirror she sees her own reflection, but not as she is now, but rather how she was as a child at ten years old.

The book then cuts to her life as a ten year old, going over Demitra’s seemingly mundane memories of living in a low-income, almost ramshackled home with her Fisanduhian refugee family in Nouvelle Rochelle, setting the scene for the reader and introducing them to the characters of Demitra’s concerned, yet judgemental mother, silent and stoic father, whiny younger brother, and somewhat detached and aloof older sister over a standard family dinner. This scene ends and we are brought back into the present, the next morning, where upon waking, Demitra discovers that the mirror still resides outside of her camp. When she leaves to forage for food and tries to hunt something with a hatchet she was able to retrieve from the car crash, the mirror silently follows her, always levitating behind her just out of reach. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between this story of survival, following Demitra’s struggles to build a fire, fish, and hunt, and her childhood memories, with the line between the two becoming increasingly blurred as her situation becomes more and more desperate. She sees apparitions of her childhood friends and her deceased father walking around as if it was the most normal thing in the world, calling out to her yet never responding to her words. The memories become less and less pleasant as time goes on, with the phantom mirror showing her family fights, tough times in school with childhood bullies, and the deaths of family members all while her situation in reality, struggling in the wilderness becomes more and more dire.

The story climaxes with Demitra screaming her frustrations at the mirror in the wee hours of the morning, venting her frustrations to it and breaking down into tears while explaining her feeling on herself in detail to the mirror, stating that she knows she’s at her core a broken person but that despite all that the mirror has shown her she is only motivated to survive in the remote wilderness of the scarlands. Her flaws and trauma have only informed her more of her humanity, and she finishes this monologue with the line, “I’ve survived fucking everything else so far, I am not dying alone out here no matter how hard you try to make me want to!” Ever silent, the mirror remains but grows blindingly bright, so much so that the forest itself begins to smolder and catch fire from the phantasmagorical brilliance it emits. Struggling to cover herself from the light, Demitra covers her eyes but is directed by some voice, “Come and see, and behold, She who is all that is, ever was, and will be.” As she feels her very skin begin to burn and peel away from the mirror’s light, Demitra takes a metaphorical leap of faith and opens her eyes, no longer seeing the mirror but an eye made from flames staring right at her, blacking out and collapsing soon afterwards. In perhaps the most notable section of the novel, the page after Demitra’s collapse is entirely blank except for one sentence placed in the middle of the page: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.”

The plot picks up on the next page there with a jump to Demitra regaining consciousness in the back of a rescue VTOL-craft, surrounded by paramedics on a steady flight to a hospital. Demitra asks the medics on the craft with her how they found her and they confusedly reply that a signal mirror was flashing an S.O.S signal at a passing shuttle and it was reported to them, and remark they thought it was Demitra herself who’d sent the signal. She makes it safely to a hospital in a small country town and the story ends with her looking out onto the reflection of a moonlit lake, contemplating what she saw and asking herself how she possibly could still be alive.

The Screen Behind the Mirror has stood the test of time as a venerable pillar of Xanan literature since its publication nearly fifty years ago. The book saw some controversy upon its initial release however, with some more conservative voices in Xanu Prime’s various religious organizations calling it a sacreligious text with some even calling for the book to be burned en masse. The Morozian Holy Tribunal in the Empire of Dominia has banned the sale of the book within Dominian space, a fact that its author Elena Chatfield wears with pride and its publishing company has used to boost sales of the book within the Coalition and Republic of Elyra. This controversy has been eclipsed in the Xanan public eye by its literary brilliance however and it remains popular today among all demographics on the planet. It has been famously hard to adapt to a holovision show however, with all four attempts never getting past the preproduction stage or falling apart during production and has been referred to as a "cursed" story by those in the entertainment industry for that reason.
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====MMCDXLII====
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A fine example of the recently popular Xanan science fiction tradition, '''MMCDXLII''' (pronounced as 2442) by Kshatrigarh writer Jakob Rajeev is an alternate history science fiction novel published in 2442 set in a alternate timeline where Xanu Prime was blasted from orbit by Solarian forces during the Interstellar War and sent into a perpetual nuclear winter similar to how Gadpathur was in reality. The setting of the story is the city of Khairabad, or at least what is left of it. Before the bombardment of the planet took place, roughly 10,000 of the city’s inhabitants retreated underground into the vast bunker complexes residing below. Believing that they are the only people still left on Xanu Prime, the people of Khairabad have been steadily working towards the goal of reestablishing contact with the rest of the outside world. The plot follows Hridith, one of the few people in the ruins of Khairabad entrusted with the dangerous duty of venturing to the surface in order to scavenge the ruins of the dead city for supplies and clues which might help the people of Khairabad and by extension Xanu Prime as a whole, re-establish contact with the rest of the world. One day while scavenging above, he comes across an old military base which miraculously still has much of its telecommunications equipment in order, including an interstellar radio transmitter. Retreating back to the underground with his news, Hridith’s discovery kicks off a power-struggle and internal civil war within the bunkers of Khairabad as the various factions of the city vie over who should be the ones to contact the outside and by extension reap whatever benefits it may bring. Hridith falls into the game of politics and violence as members of the underground try to influence him for their own selfish aims all while he confronts his own guilt for having sparked this conflict in the first place with his discovery. Eventually, he resolves to destroy the array to stop those around him from killing each other in what he sees as a senseless war.

The book climaxes in a last stand between the soldiers of a local warlord and Hridith supported by his friends on the surface at the array where the story’s plot was put into motion. Just as Hridith is about to destroy the transmitter once and for all, he has a change of heart and, unbeknownst to any other Xanans, sends his own message out into the universe a phrase that has been immortalized in Xanan literary history: “SLEEPLESS ANGELS HAVE BLESSED US. XANU PREVAILS.” After this transmission, Hridith detonates the bombs on the transmitter and is killed in the subsequent explosion along with all of his friends, the warlord, and all of the warlord’s soldiers. The story ends on a vague note in a room tucked away in a Himean communication station with a prompt on a console reading, “TRANSMISSION RECEIVED.” MMCDXLII has been lauded as a cornerstone of the Xanan science fiction genre since its publication in 2442, with many critics seeing it as a parallel tale of sorts to the reality of the Xanan Civil War. The author, Jakob Rajeev, has gone on to write other novels since, but has moved away from the post-apocalyptic setting and advanced into writing sci-fi horror novels and space operas, marking MMCDXLII as a truly unique title in his portfolio. It has seen a successful, chart-topping holovision adaptation and a prequel series set in the world of MMCDXLII's post-apocalyptic Khariabad is currently in pre-production.
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===Film===
Xanu Prime is the entertainment capital of the Coalition and perhaps the largest contributor to this status is the Xanan film industry. Films made by Xanan studios have long proliferated across the Coalition since the end of the Interstellar War and are essential in any serious discussion about Xanan art and culture. While Xanu Prime’s directors have made films under almost every genre since the industry started to take off in the 2310’s, Xanan audiences have taken particularly well to dramas, musicals, and a genre of Xanan invention, the Interfilm. The Xanan film industry has an ongoing rivalry with its Solarian counterpart, especially that centered on Venus. Xanan productions typically do not have as big of budgets as their Venusian counterparts and are usually outclassed in terms of visual effects and and as such are sometimes limited in the kinds of stories and scenarios they can portray. Xanan films make-up for these deficiencies by instead focusing on things like writing and storytelling. The winner of this rivalry is up in the air, and different critics will give different answers, though it is almost always guaranteed that entries from Xanu Prime and Venus will compete against each other in the Spur’s biggest film festivals and awards ceremonies. The three largest genres of Xanan film are dramas, musicals, and an indigenous kind of war film created on Xanu Prime called Interfilm.

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Xanan dramas are often very introspective and personal pieces which focus on realistic problems often with relationships or with the world at large and typically involve the main protagonist or protagonists of the films confronting some kind of tragedy or trauma. A large portion of Xanan dramas are produced by independent filmmakers, something that Xanu Prime has become a hotspot for in the last half-century.

The most well known Xanan dramas is '''The Love Melancholic''', a 2424 four-hour long dramatic period-piece epic directed by Savitri de Graaf, a woman hailed as one of the best ever directors in Xanan film whose work has stood the test of time despite its age. The plot follows the life of a young woman, Roxanne, moving to Nouvelle-Rochelle during the reconstruction of Xanu Prime during the Second Astonishment looking to start a life for herself. While there, she’s met with the challenge of an accidental pregnancy and conflicting emotions over whether to abort the fetus or bring it to term, and eventually decides to have the child. The film then follows Roxanne's life through the next decade and a half as a working mother who finds success in her career but is lonesome aside from the company of her daughter, until she meets a newly-arrived Himean immigrant, Markus, on the train home from work and the two slowly begin to fall in love, though complications and difficulties in personality and circumstances plague their efforts to see the best in each other. The film ends not with a happily ever after ending, but with a tentatively optimistic, bittersweet scene of Markus and Roxanne, now both nearing middle age by this point in the film, agreeing to try and make their relationship work while acknowledging the flaws in one another. The film is a classic among Xanan and Himean audiences and won record-breaking numbers of awards and accolades when released. It has even seen popularity in some circles in the Solarian Alliance, Republic of Biesel, and Republic of Elyra. Many film critics consider it to be a cornerstone of Human cinematic history and the best Xanan film ever made, though this position is disputed by others.
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====Musicals - ''North 60''====
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While Xanan-made dramas may be the most well-received critically of most Xanan films, by far the most popular among the Xanan filmgoing audience for the last few decades are musicals. Musicals made in the Xanan style are often high-budget, over-the-top, and exceptionally grand, showy affairs. They are famous for elements like their large choreographic sequences which can involve dozens of dancers, massive and brightly coloured sets, often romance-centered plots with comedic elements, and musical style which often takes musical instruments from Xanu Prime’s colonizing cultures and puts a pop musical spin on them. When one speaks of "Pataliwood," musicals are what come to mind first. Most Xanans do not put musicals on the same level as other films and see them as something to watch for pulpy entertainment and spectacle rather than for their serious artistic value, though they will obsess over them and their stories all the same. Xanan house parties typically involve the screening of a musical in the living room and songs from some of the genre’s classics have cemented themselves into the Xanan cultural canon.

A recent notable example of a musical made in the Xanan style is '''North 60''', a 2461 film directed by Sabine Venturino, that centers on a young man from Nouvelle-Rochelle named Peter who inherits a fortune from a long-lost deceased uncle who made it big in the record industry. Overjoyed, Peter claims the fortune but learns that he can only receive his riches on the condition that he moves to his dead uncle’s dilapidated estate on the outskirts of Himavat City and lives there for one year. Peter moves but upon arrival hates his arrangements; he cannot stand the cold, remote nature of the city, but soon finds joy in its culture and music scene. He also develops a romance with the daughter of a record executive, a girl named Priti. Unbeknownst to Peter though, Priti’s father Jeroen is Peter’s uncle’s former business partner and wants to get Peter to leave Himavat City so he can claim the young man’s fortune for himself, as per the uncle’s will. Hilarity and antics ensue. The film ends with Peter deciding to forgo his fortune and instead running away from Himavat City with his love Priti and starting a new life together in Foy-Nijlen. The film is the highest-ever grossing Xanan musical and won a series of awards as well, though it saw only limited popularity outside of the Xanan market. This is a theme among Xanan musicals: massive domestic success but only limited success abroad, the reasons for which are routinely debated by many within the Xanan film community.
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====Interfilms - ''Count the Days''====
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The last of Xanu Prime’s most popular movie genres is one of Xanan invention: the Interfilm. Interfilms are very long, often multipart war epics set during the Interstellar War, a conflict from which the genre gets its name. They often have ensemble casts and focus on a variety of viewpoints rather than a single protagonist. These films often showcase themes of tragedy associated with the Interstellar War and ennoble the sacrifice of the Xanan nation and individuals during the war. These films are very serious and are seen as a direct contrast to the Xanan Musical genre in tone and content.

A keystone of the Interfilm genre is the series '''Count the Days''', a pentalogy directed by Xanan journeyman director Pierre Duchesne totalling over sixteen hours in length, with its installments releasing in 2447, 2449, 2450, 2552, and 2454 respectively. The story at first follows an officer in the Xanan Army, Captain Paul Ibrahim, stationed around Pataliputra. He leads his company through a very bloody battle in which the majority of his men are killed, by the end of the battle, his unit is more or less completely wiped out and he’s reassigned to command a new company, one unlike any he’s seen before. He’s given command of Company Y, an all-female volunteer unit that hasn’t ever seen combat before and is dumbfounded at first due to his belief that a female unit wouldn’t fight as well as a male one. He however is told by his superiors that he risks demotion of he doesn’t take on the unit, so he begrudgingly agrees. The first movie follows Ibrahim’s efforts to help train and ready his new unit for combat while he and the audience get to know the women of Company Y. Throughout the film, his outlook on his troops begins to change, and he connects with them more as people, though he still does not think they have the mettle to withstand warfare. The film ends with the Company seeing its first taste of combat during the opening stages of the Siege of Khairabad and Company Y sustaining horrendous losses and being cut off from the rest of the Xanan army in Khairabad.

The second film takes place during the Siege of Khairabad proper, and is a tale of the fight for not just victory but survival as the remnants of Company Y fight their way through parts of the occupied city to link up with the rest of the Xanan forces trying to hold their ground against the encroaching Solarian forces. Throughout this struggle, the Company comes across enemies but also Xanan partisan fighters who link up with the Company and join them on their journey to reconnect with their lines. During this film, Captain Ibrahim has his opinion changed on the women he commands, and he comes to see them as strong soldiers regardless of their gender. The movie ends with the Company and their new partisan compatriots reconnecting with the rest of the Xanan force defending Khairabad.

The third installment of the series is not so action packed in comparison to the second one and is mostly centered on the members of Company Y recovering from the events of the first two films and grieving their fallen comrades while integrating the partisans from the second film formally into their ranks and is the only film in the series that does not have an action sequence. It ends with the company being resupplied and ready to once again take the fight to the enemy.

The fourth part of the series is often seen as the black sheep of the series and departs from the story of Company Y to instead focus on 6th Company, a Solarian unit from Mars participating on the other side of the Siege of Khairabad. 6th Company is led by Captain Emily Mikkelsen, an embittered veteran of the Interstellar War until this point who is concerned only with ensuring that the troops under her command stay alive and sees victory in the siege as a means to that end. Part 4 shows events from the parts 1 and 2 through the eyes of the Solarians, and goes to great ends in order to humanize them, with members of 6th Company being portrayed as people who believe in the ideal of a united humanity under the Sol Alliance but also as people who don’t see the war as theirs and who want to return home to their lives and families most of all. The film ends with 6th Company preparing to launch an assault against Xanan positions in the ruins of Khairabad.

The fifth and final installment of the Count the Days series begins with a dramatic battle sequence between Xanan and Solarian forces, with the attention split equally between Company Y and 6th Company during the fighting. During the carnage however, multiple members of Company Y and 6th Company become separated from their units and run into each other on the battlefield, with many dying to one another in heart-wrenching sequences that brought tears to many a Xanan filmgoers’ eyes. The two captains, Ibrahim and Mikkelsen, also encounter one another, but both having been wounded and exhausted by the fighting decide to sit inside of a bombed out building and try to recover their strength together. The two have a long conversation about their lives before the war and the people under their command, avoiding any conversation about either’s actual thoughts on the conflict and instead just treating each other as people rather than enemies. After further rumination and conversation, Ibrahim comes to the realization that his wounds are mortal and that he will likely die from them if he doesn’t receive medical attention and asks Mikkelsen to kill him so that he might die with honor. Mikkelsen protests at first, finding some difficulty in pulling the trigger on a man she’d just spent the better part of a half-an-hour getting to know, but eventually concedes and agrees, seeing it not as an act of anger, but of mercy for Ibrahim. She shoots him and then begins her trek out of the bombed out building, with the shot lingering on Ibrahim’s corpse for a good long few seconds, only for a team of Xanan medics to enter the building and find Captain Ibrahim’s body, just minutes after his death. The medics transport his corpse back to the Xanan lines where the rest of Company Y has regrouped, and they mourn the loss of their officer and friend in a dramatic, heart-crushing scene. The series ends with Captain Mikkelsen and 6th Company in their camp that night, staring forlornly at a campfire, exhausted from the day’s fighting and failed assault before receiving orders to fall back to the rear of the Solarian force to recover their strength. As they leave, Captain Mikkelsen looks to the Xanan lines and begins to sob as the screen then pans up and fades to black on the smoke-filled night sky.

The Count the Days pentalogy is widely regarded as one of the best of the Interfilm genre and is to date the highest-grossing and most-awarded film series in Coalition history and has spawned a die-hard fanbase of supporters. It received a widespread release across the Coalition and Biesel and even saw limited screenings in the Solarian Alliance. The series is regarded by many to be a masterwork of Xanan cinema and a quintessential look into how Xanu Prime views its relationship with the Interstellar War.
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===Holovision===
The world of Xanan holovision is the most diverse in the entire Coalition of Colonies. Almost anything can be found on Xanan HV, live sports, dramas, talk shows, news, infomercials, and shows on a wide variety of premises. The quality of Xanan holovision is similarly varied, with some shows having hundreds of millions of credits in budgets while others are very obviously cheap and made to be aired or streamed as quickly as possible. Whatever the case, Xanan holovision programming and shows can be found across the Coalition and Human Frontier and generally has a positive reputation among foreign watchers. By and large, the most popular genres of holovision programming on Xanu Prime are dramas and sitcoms.

The most-watched Xanan Holovision program of all is a long-running late-night variety program called '''Teddy''', hosted by comedian and media personality '''Theodore Llewellyn'''. The show has been on-air and on popular Xanan and CoC streaming services for nearly twenty years at this point with its first episode having aired in 2447. Theodore Llewellyn is described by many in the Xanan media as “The Lord of Late Night,” due to his dominance over the late-night talk show genre paired with his polite, yet witty interview and conversational style. His show often showcases new musical acts, up-and-coming comedians, and routinely interviews the most talked about figures and celebrities in the Xanan entertainment industry and society at large. He also has been known to host games for his guests and for airing live or pre-recorded comedy sketches for his audience, usually involving himself or his guests as characters. Teddy is not just popular among Xanan audiences though and is watched by fans across the Coalition, both in Xanan Freespeak and in translated dubs of the Coalition’s various languages. He is also a prominent cultural ambassador for Xanu Prime to Himeo and has used his fame to advocate for closer cooperation and harmony between the two planets when off the air. Occasionally, the show will even film episodes on-location on various planets throughout the Coalition for promotional purposes, most often Himeo due to Llewellyn’s Himean heritage, being the child of two Himean immigrants to Xanu Prime. Llewellyn has joked at times about running for President under the Good Neighbor Party, though these jests haven't manifested in any political campaigns quite yet.

For information on Xanan Holovision dramas and sitcoms please read the two entries below.
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====Xanan HV Dramas====
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Much like on film, Xanans have a penchant for HV dramas, however these diverge significantly from the seriousness of their film counterparts. Xanan Holovision Dramas are very popular on the planet and can be separated into two categories: 5-Dramas and 2-Dramas.

5-Dramas are aired every day during the week on Xanu’s HV channels during the daytime, and are notorious for their low-production values, often odd, pulpy, and convoluted plots focused around absurd twists, romantic scandals and intrigue, as well as their inexhaustible lifespans, with the most popular of them having gone on for decades. The longest running and most popular of all Xanan 5-Dramas is '''A Time to Be Alive''', a series that has been running for 47 years at this point and has followed the lives and hardships of the fictional Khanna family, a massive upper-middle class extended family from Foy-Niljen. The series has uncountable plotlines and has been criticized for its convoluted and melodramatic writing style by many critics, but audiences still tune in every day of the week across Xanu Prime and the Coalition as a whole to get the newest scoop on what’s been going on with the Khannas and the people around them.

2-Dramas in contrast to 5-Dramas however are aired on weekends only during prime-time and are generally seen by critics and audiences alike as the best that Xanan holovision has to offer. 2-Dramas typically have very high production values and rely heavily on the strength of their writing, directing, cinematography, and character acting to succeed. They’re often focused on crime-related or similarly intense, dramatic premises and are usually rather serious in tone, in contrast to the soapy, scandalous mood of most 5-Dramas. Xanan 2-Dramas are considered to be some of the finest programming on Holovision anywhere in the Orion Spur in terms of their writing and acting quality, but they are not for everyone and have drawn criticism from some for being too humorless and inaccessible for those not wanting to become engrossed in painful, often traumatic storylines. One of the most well-known of Xanan 2-Dramas is '''Suntoucher''', a show which focuses on a journalist named Marielle Hollen as she investigates a series of missing persons reports from a town in the Naya Khyber delta called Dharbourg. Her efforts slowly unveil a sickening human-trafficking operation that seeks to abduct and torture its victims in the name of a twisted, hellish cult led by a madman who claims to be both the second coming of Jesus Christ and the next avatar of Vishnu all in one. While investigating as well, Marielle comes into contact with the criminal elements of Dharbourg and becomes their sometimes-friend, sometimes-enemy as she works both with and against them during the course of her investigation. As the cult learns of Marielle’s investigation though, it no longer becomes a mission to expose them for Marielle and the locals working with her, but a fight for their very lives as secret, underground war breaks out between the cult and the largest gang in Dharbourg with Marielle and those working with her caught in the middle. The series ends with Marielle’s investigation materials being delivered to the offices of the Xanan News Service after her death at the hands of the cult after killing its leader, and alludes to the publication of the story by the media giant and subsequent destruction of the cult and imprisoning of Dharbourg’s criminals. The series has six seasons in total and had an original run from 2455 to 2461 and has spawned an obsessive, devoted fanbase in recent years. Rumours are abound of a spin-off show focusing on any number of the series’s well-liked supporting characters being in the works, but there has been no confirmation of this yet.
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====Xanan HV Sitcoms====
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The last major genre of Xanan television is the sitcom, a genre that is usually recorded in front of a live studio audience and relies on whacky or zaney premises mixed with witty writing. Xanan sitcoms also a vehicle by which certain societal issues are explored or made light of in the public mind, and tend to rely a bit more on satire and dark humour than sitcoms from other planets around the spur.
While not the most popular of Xanan sitcoms in the present day, the show '''Fated''' has a strong cult following and has left a bit of an impact on Xanan pop culture. The show follows Gerard Sodhi, a man in his mid-thirties trying to make a living in Nouvelle Rochelle’s stand-up comedy scene while dealing with the pressures of his life and large extended family. On his way home from a show, he and three of his friends, Esha, Georges, and Krasnin, are cursed with bad luck by a homeless woman in a back alley after refusing to give her any money when she asked for some. After suffering from their curse through minor inconveniences and unfortunate, socially awkward situations over the next few days, the four return to where they first encountered the woman only to find her dead, unable to remove the curse. The show then goes on, focusing on the lives of Martin, his friends, and the awkward, absurd situations they then find themselves in. Fated spawned many catch phrases and words used in Xanan pop-culture some examples being: “flarge,” a descriptor used for something both flat and large, “plimpkin,” a word used to describe a person who is short, fat, and annoying, “squickimsh,” a term used in reference to something that is both gross and very sticky in texture like a piece of gum, and “fwoonj,” a noise a person makes when trying to awkwardly avoid saying name of someone whose name they’ve forgotten. The series ran for nine seasons from 2449 to 2458 and is seen as a show emblematic of the Xanan 2450’s.
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===Music===
Xanan music is exceptionally diverse and Xanan musicians are known throughout the Coalition and beyond for being some of the most prolific and distinctive in their respective genres. Xanan music usually takes instruments and structure from its Western European and South Asian colonising cultures and puts a modern, stylistic spin on them to best suit whatever genre the musician is aiming for. The most notable genres of Xanan Music are:

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====Xanupop/X-Pop====
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The most popular form of music on Xanu Prime, is predictably, pop music. The Xanan style of pop music, often called '''Xanupop''' or simply '''X-Pop''', is similar to pop music in general, however it tends to eschew EDM-like synth riffs and instead prefers acoustic instrumentals to make the backing track. The genre has its roots in the ballads which emerged during and after the Interstellar War, mostly about home and family. Most modern-day Xanan pop songs focus on the topic of love, whether falling into it, breaking up a relationship because of the loss of it, reminiscing about times when the singer had it, or any other variety of situations about love, Xanu’s pop music has a listener spoiled for choice. While not specifically pop music, songs from Xanu Prime’s largest musical films are often played on pop radio, even if they are not strictly in the pop style. The most popular pop artist in Xanan history is Foy-Niljen native '''Robert Khatri''', a man whose crooning ballads and work with string and brass ensembles cemented him as the definitive voice of the Xanan Renaissance. While subsequent artists have out-sold him since his death in 2387, Khatri’s songs have gone on to be standards within Xanan musical canon and his songs still are known by Xanans far and wide even more than a century since their releases. The most popular active Xanan pop artist is '''Grace Rose''', though less commonly known by her real name Lavani Grace, a woman from Nouvelle Rochelle who has dominated the Xanan pop charts for the last decade and a half with her unique and beautiful vocal style with a signature high belting range perfectly suited for Xanan pop ballads.
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====Xanurock/X-Rock====
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Rock music is the second most popular form of music on Xanu Prime and is renowned across the Coalition for its funky instrumentals that focus on rhythm primarily rather than melody and unique vocal style that typically moves between being spoken and being sung multiple times throughout each song. Rock songs made in the Xanan style, often called '''X-Rock''' or '''Xanurock''', also are often about love, much like their pop counterparts, but it is far from the only thing that Xanan rockers sing about. Common lyrical themes in Xanan rock music focus on personal independence, inner turmoil and depression, social issues, or more poignantly, lost love and ones that got away. A popular band in the X-Rock scene is '''Weatherland''', a group from Himavat City that is renowned for their creative instrumental style that often incorporates unorthodox chord progressions and jazz-like solos from the band's various members. Another group that has risen in popularity since their founding in the early 2450’s is the band '''Anti-Gone''', a band from Nouvelle-Rochelle that has gained notoriety for their more groovy, riff-driven, gritty, and raw hard-rock production style with songs that focus on personal struggle and often talk about deep, uncomfortable subjects like addiction and abuse. They have beome very popular with Xanan young adults though older rock fans have not been as receptive to their material.
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====Logmu====
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Folk music, specifically the '''Logmu''' style of folk music, has always been very popular on Xanu Prime and does not seem to be going anywhere soon. Logmu, the word being combination of the Hindi word “log” meaning “people” and the French work “musique” meaning “music,” is a genre of music that originally came about during the early stages of Xanu Prime’s colonization as a result of individual, often amateur musicians, from Xanu Prime’s different colonizing countries forming bands with one another and adjusting their styles to fit each band member’s diverse musical preferences. The genre has remained popular through two catastrophic wars, economic depression, along with many other hurdles and looks as if it will keep its popularity far into the future. Logmu ensembles are typically six people large and play music using a vast variety of instruments which date back to the colonization of the planet. For example, a standard six-piece Logmu band will typically have a fiddle, an alto saxophone or nadaswaram, a tabla, a guitar or sarod, an accordion, and a sitar, with at least one of the musicians singing as well, usually the guitar or sarod player. Logmu songs are usually musical stories or poems that follow a protagonist or recount the life experiences of the singer, often in character. They are self-contained dramas or comedies in their own right and have allowed the genre to remain popular for as long as it has because of the simultaneous relatability and dramatism of the plots of the songs. A subset of the Along with being a genre of music in its own right, Logmu also has a distinctive subculture focused on passing the craft down to younger generations, with many musicians in the genre seeing it as their duty to teach their children or other students how to play a Logmu instrument at some point in their lives. A subgenre of Logmu is, '''Sologmu''', a play on words of “Solo” and “Logmu” and is defined by its nature of usually being performed by a single musician who both sings and plays an instrument of their choice, usually a guitar, sarod, accordion, or sitar.

The most influential Logmu band of all time is the Kshatrigarh-based band '''The Air Raid Six''', a group of six musicians who had the shared childhood experience of living through the Siege of Khairabad. Once they became adults they saw great success in the fledgling All-Xanu Republic’s music scene singing songs about the Interstellar War and retelling or making up humorous or dramatic stories that occurred during the conflict. During this they pioneered the current six-piece format standard synonymous with modern Logmu music and their songs are still widely performed today. The most popular Logmu band presently is Paastad-based group '''Six of Hearts''' which gained popularity during the mid 2450’s and has yet to relinquish it since. The band’s musical style stays relatively close to tradition in the structure of the songs and focus on their stories, but diverges some in terms of the instrumentals used, replacing the normal guitar or sarod with an electric guitar and even playing solos with it, something often not seen in Logmu music. Current popular names in the Sologmu scene include '''Chloe Sinclair''', a young woman from Himavat City that has brought a moodier, more downbeat brand of singing and guitar playing to the genre; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a Vysokan Xanan who has created a niche in the genre for herself by singing in the Xanan style with her broad vocal range and accompanying it with poignant instrumentals played by herself on a morin khuur.
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====Himavat Midnight====
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Breaking from tradition is the genre of '''Himavat Midnight''', so called because the underground music shows in Himavat City which saw the genre come into being often didn’t start until midnight. It is the newest genre of music on Xanu Prime to have seen at least some popularity, breaking out of the local Himavat City rock scene in the mid 2450’s. Himavat Midnight is notable for its spacey, monotone vocal style usually accompanied by little more than a bass guitar, an electric guitar, a synthesizer, and a drum machine. Himavat Midnight songs usually are built around a simple bass or guitar riff and typically are simple yet satisfying in their construction. Most songs have either a bridge or an outro where one instrument performs a solo, though these are usually more toned down and not like the more technical skill-showcasing solos found in X-Rock. Lyrically, the songs are moody and often sad, talking about loneliness, lost love, boredom, and other saddening yet seemingly mundane feelings. Some in the Xanan music scene have welcomed the genre as a new form of music that is more emotional and thoughtful than some other songs, while others have dismissed it as "sad music for sad people." While the genre is still relatively very new relative to all other popular genres of music on Xanu Prime, Himavat Midnight does have a few notable bands. '''We Are They''', a three-piece Himavat City band, is the most popular group of the genre and is the one credited for breaking the genre out of its local confines with their 2457 song, ''Snowflakes in her Hair''. For now the band is the standard-setter for what Himavat Midnight should sound like.
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====Pataliputra Big House====
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Another genre of music that is notably unique to Xanu Prime is a genre of electronic music that emerged from Pataliputran nightclubs in the 2420’s called '''Pataliputra Big House'''. During the Doldrums nightclub owners were having trouble getting patrons to come out and give business to their clubs because of the economic stagnation characteristic of the time period. To solve this, many night clubs began to push their DJs to get creative and blend different musical styles into something new and exciting in order to attract more patrons and thus, Pataliputra Big House was born. The genre was the product of Pataliputran DJ’s mashing together elements from dance-pop and more traditional house music, vocals from R&B, and instrumentals leaning on the more soulful and jazzy sides of Logmu. Songs in this genre incorporate beats which usually are medium tempo, heavy on bass, and have a central riff played on a synthesizer or saxophone which drives the entire song. Vocals are treated like an instrument in themselves in Pataliputra Big House songs and usually have a bevy of effects on them to achieve different listening experiences. The most well-known producer in the Pataliputra Big House scene is '''Bobby Baas''', real name Robert Satti, a Pataliputran native equally famous for his colorful, often patterned suits as he is for his music. He has routinely sold out electronic music festivals across the Coalition for the last decade after achieving local fame in the Pataliputran local scene during the early 2440’s. He is also unique for being one of the only artists from the Coalition of Colonies to have performed in the Sol Alliance, performing a series of sold-out shows called the “Sunrise Tour” in 2456 across the Solarian core. An up-and-comer in the Big House scene however is '''DJ SinTheTik''', real name Sarah Tussaud-Tipnis, a young woman who became a holonet sensation in the early 2460’s for her unique style meshing instruments from classical, symphonic music with the usual sounds of Big House.
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====X-Hop====
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As often happens with strong electronic scenes, a hip-hop movement emerged around the 2430’s shortly after the popularization of Pataliputran Big House. Nearly every major city of Xanu Prime has its own hip hop scene and they all have friendly, if competitive, rivalries with another. While each major city’s scene has its own unique flair and sound, there are some commonalities to Xanan hip hop or '''X-Hop'''. Generally, Xanan hip-hop places a great amount of importance on the beat of the song, and as such these beats are typically more complicated and have more elements to them than hip-hop from other places. The rap verses themselves are usually fast and articulate with a lower, almost gravelly vocal tone being definitive for male rappers and a clear, bold tone that can carry over a nightclub crowd holding the same preference among female rappers. Nouvelle Rochelle rapper Abhang van Agteren, stage name '''AvAtar''', is considered by many to be the "King of Xanan hop-hop" and is famous for his smooth lyrical style and frequent collaborations with some of Xanu Prime’s largest producers, most notably Bobby Baas, with a catalogue of hit songs dating back to the 2440’s. His music is a common feature on playlists all around the Coalition and he has been a staple of Xanan popular music for decades, with no sign of his career waning any time soon. The most famous Xanan rap group is the all-female project '''Girl’s Night''', a four-member pop-rap group from Himavat City that first gained notoriety in the mid-2450’s for their lyrical prowess, broad appeal which crossed pop and hip-hop demographics, and anonymous nature. It is unknown what the true identities of Girl’s Night are since the group’s members are never seen in public or on stage without three-faced masks made in the style of hindu deities. The individual names they have given to the public are the letters, R, Y, V, and K.
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===Fashion===
Xanan fashion and dress is not characterized by any culturally specific garments or articles of clothing that are uniquely specific to Xanu Prime, but rather by how they style clothes that are seen as generally ubiquitous across human space. That is to say, color and the interplay within a palette in one look are king in Xanan Fashion. Xanans themselves often describe shopping and dressing as a whole as somewhat of a game, in making outfits for themselves which both are colorful, but also not outlandishly so and still manage to look sharp despite their chromatic nature. If a look clashes too much, it looks bad, simply put. Garishness is something that must be avoided in Xanan fashion and many of the planet’s top designers have emphasized that Xanan fashion is a game of balance. As to what colours are used though, there are no official rules or cultural norms, other than outfits which are heavy in their usage of black and white are reserved for funerals or other somber occasions, and similarly, looks with a lot of white or red in their composition should only be worn during weddings, baby showers, or other joyful events. The diversity of Xanu Prime as a planet in both climate and geography however has led to a variety of different fashions popping up across the planet and often fashion choices are left to the individual rather than governed by some collective norm. An exception tho this, however, is that outfits consisting solely of only one color, such as a suit with the same-coloured slacks and jacket or a dress made of only one color of fabric, are seen by many as overly formalistic and are typically only reserved for appearances in court for legal or financial matters. As such, monochrome outfits without much variation in colour are associated with the legal and banking professions. Colors aside, materials are also seen as an important part of Xanan fashion, and many mundane looking pieces of Xanan clothing may be worth thousands due to the craftsmanship and quality of the materials used in their manufacture. Intricate patterns are not uncommon in Xanan looks either, though they are usually associated with festive occasions and places. Accessories are seen as important in Xanan fashion, with neckties and cravats being popular among men and hairpins or bows finding favour among women. Jewlery is common for both men and women, but large pieces should not be worn in a workplace environment and instead should be saved for personal outings or family time.

===Sport===
Professional and amateur sports are both quite popular on Xanu Prime. Cricket and football are tied in popularity, with other sports like basketball, ice hockey, and rugby having some notoriety on the planet as well. Xanan children are encouraged from a young age to participate in team sports which many carry on into their teenage years and adulthoods through amateur club teams. As such, no Xanan town is complete without a cricket oval or football field. Xanu’s sports fans are known the Orion Spur-over for being some of the most passionate and obsessive in Human-inhabited space, with their chants, costumes, and fervent insults being both hated and envied by the planet’s sports rivals. Xanans are exceptionally loyal to their teams, be they national or local, and fights or even riots breaking out after upsets in football or cricket aren’t unheard of in the major cities.

The Xanan national teams in football, commonly referred to as '''"C.F.X.P"''' taken from their original French name Club de Foot de Xanu Premier, and cricket, often called the '''"Crimson Cats"''' courtesy of their mascot being a crimson-masked polecat, wear colors of green and orange with red accents. When either of the teams win a game, especially if during a high-stakes tournament, the entire planet often turns out to celebrate, clogging streets, overpacking bars, and pressing the Xanu’s police forces to their limits. Famously, when Xanu Prime won the 2454 Orion Cup in a surprise upset 2-1 victory over their longtime rival, the Callistean national team, Hastings Park, C.F.X.P’s home stadium, was deemed to be “The Loudest Place in the Known Universe” by a Martian sports writer. Similarly the stadium was said to have “Rung like bell,” when the Crimson Cats defeated the Port Antillean national team in 2458 to win the T20 Orion Cricket Championship. Individual cities also have their own football and cricket teams which play in a number of professional and semi-professional leagues. The highest level of these are The '''All-Xanu Ultraleague''' for football and the '''Alpha League''' for Class A cricket.

The planet has strong sports rivalries with many others, both within the coalition and without. They have a long-standing football rivalry with Callisto, jokingly called “The Second Interstellar War,” which has had its ups and downs throughout history, with both teams serving each other their most grievous defeats. Highlights include when Xanu defeated Callisto on its own home turf in 2448 to win the Orion Cup, or when the Callistean team duffed out their rivals only four years later in a hotly-contested group-stage match and stopped C.F.X.P from having a chance at defending its title. Xanu also has a hot cricket rivalry with Port Antilia, and the two planets are generally considered to be the best at the sport in the Orion Spur. Recent tension over the Solarian Collapse and Port Antillia’s annexation into the Biesellite CRZ has meant that the two teams haven’t met on an oval in over two years, leading many to believe that their next meeting will be the game of the century for Cricket. Xanu Prime also has a more friendly and lighthearted football rivalry with Himeo that has for most of recent memory been one-sided in favor of Xanu, but the two teams are still nevertheless very competitive and their fans very passionate over the rivalry.

==Immigrant and Expat Communities==
Xanu Prime is host to a number of large immigrant, expat, and diasporic communities, the largest of which can be read about in the entries below. '''A member of any immigrant or diasporic group who was born on Xanu Prime will select the Xanu Prime origin and accent in character creation.'''

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====Himean Xanans====
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The largest diasporic community on Xanu Prime, the Himean Xanan community has been on Xanu Prime for nearly as long as the Republic itself has existed. Himeans first came to Xanu Prime in the millions during the aftermath of the Interstellar War, often as workers and supporting staff helping to rebuild Xanu’s many broken and battered cities. A significant number of these Himeans remained on Xanu afterwards, established their own families and communities, and joined Xanan society. Most of the Himeans that came to Xanu during what is called the “First Wave of Himean Immigration” (2288-2310) dropped Himean customs and traditions in favor of broader assimilation into what many of them saw as a prosperous, growing, free Xanu Prime where their children could grow. A significant minority of Xanu’s population can trace at least part of their ancestry back to this first wave of immigrants from Himeo, and it’s quite common for the average Xanusan to have at least one or two Himean ancestors that came to Xanu during this period even if the person themselves doesn’t look Himean or have a Himean sounding name.

While immigration from Himeo continued in low levels throughout the 24th century, there was a great uptick from 2367 to 2390, a period called “The Second Wave of Himean Immigration” and less commonly, “The Paasstad Exodus.” Much like earlier Himean immigrants, those in the Second Wave came to the planet for work, but instead instead of reconstruction, they were taking part in the Paasstad Megaproject, an ambitious engineering initiative with the goal of raising the entire Xanan city of Paasstad above the marshy ground upon which it sat. The project was long and intensive, but was complete by 2389 and the numbers of Himeans immigrating to Xanu decreased shortly after the project was complete. In contrast to the First Wave, Himeans coming to the planet during the Second Wave mostly just immigrated to the city of Paasstad, and as such, their community became very unified and tightly knit. A district of the city, often just called Little Himeo, is where the present-day Himean Xanan community has its symbolic heart. Many Himean customs and traditions are still practiced here, Himean Common is spoken throughout the district, though with a noticeable Xanan Accent, and one can find many Himean products and authentic Himean food here. While there has not been an influx of Himean immigrants since the Second Wave, many Himeans looking to move their lives and to Xanu Prime find themselves in Little Himeo or one of the smaller Xanan Himean communities in other cities. Himean communities are very diverse politically, given that many Himean Xanans have assimilated into Xanu’s society and taken on new beliefs, however the Good Neighbor Party is particularly popular in Little Himeo and it often markets itself as the party for Himean Xanans. A majority of Himean Xanans are not first-generation immigrants, but were born on the planet as third or fourth generation Himeans.

Himean Xanans, whether their ancestors were part of the first or second waves, have broadly flourished on Xanu Prime and can be found in all walks of Xanan society. Notable Himean Xanans include '''Aukusti Staudenmaier''', member of the National Parliament and leader of the Good Neighbor Party, '''Lennox Sibelius''', Minister of the Economy and Finance under the Mukhopadhyay Government and man responsible for the implementation of the Mukhopadhyay Plan, '''Sara Knox''', current CEO of d.N.A. Defense and Aerospace, and '''Theodore Llewellyn''', host of the popular Xanan late night holovision talk program, Teddy.
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====Vysokan Xanans====
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The Vysokan Xanan community is Xanu Prime’s second largest and fastest growing immigrant and diasporic demographic; many see the planet as coming off of the first large wave of Vysokan immigrants it has ever experienced. Many Vysokans immigrated to Xanu starting in the 2440’s after the Mukhophadhay Plan began revitalizing the Xanan economy. In response, many Vysokans looking to better their lives and provide a stable income for their families traveled to Xanu Prime looking for work or simply looking to start new lives. This wave of immigration abruptly stopped in 2462 when the Orion Spur was gripped by phoron scarcity causing space flight costs to soar, but even now after that, some Vysokans still find their way to Xanu Prime.

Culture shock has been something consistent throughout the Vysokan Xanan community: Societally, Xanu Prime is to many Vysokan immigrants, especially those who grew up in the rural regions of Vysoka, a night and day difference. Because of this, along with the differing norms between Xanan and Vysokan cultures, many Vysokan immigrants have been slow to integrate and assimilate into Xanu Prime’s society and most live in close proximity to one another in majority-Vysokan neighborhoods and districts. Many in the Vysokan Xanan community are not wealthy, with most being in the working lower-middle class. Because of their recent increase in population, their unfamiliarity with Xanan systems and the fact that they are often poorer than the average Xanan, Vysokan Xanan communities often have difficult times accessing social services for healthcare or financial assistance, are less policed, and have higher than average rates of crime. Many Vysokan Xanans have found employment in Xanu’s agricultural and heavy industry sectors with their skills from home translating very well to those lines of work. Additionally, many have found themselves in the All-Xanu Armed Forces in hopes of learning skills there which they can then carry over into a civilian job after being discharged. The largest Vysokan Xanan community on Xanu Prime is the Little Vysoka district of Nouvelle-Rochelle.

Vysokan Xanan communities often try to recreate things from Vysoka itself, the most common of these being Stolitist spirit houses and shrines. Vysokan Xanans are majority-Stolitist in their religious practices, and many Vysokan Xanan communities celebrate Stolitist religious festivals. Vysokan Xanan practices are not identical to their Vysokan counterparts however. Many in Vysokan Xanan communities have eschewed travelling, nomadic shamans in favour of more congregationally-styled practices, with houses of worship and assembly taking influence from Christian churches and Muslim mosques in layout often being built to surround Stolitist shrines and spirit houses. These “Stolitchurches” are a uniquely Vysokan Xanan creation and often function as the cultural, spiritual, and symbolic centers of Vysokan Xanan communities. Other aspects of Vysokan culture which have in some way translated to Xanu Prime is the Vysokan penchant for athleticism; since the immigration, many young Vysokans have made a name for themselves and their community as professional athletes. Many even make the annual trip back to Vysoka for the Velhalktai. Host culture has not made the jump and the hosts in general is something that is begrudgingly dismissed by many Vysokan Xanans because they believe that Host culture affirms a stereotype among Xanussians that Vysokans are criminals. Politically, opinions are diverse for Vysokan Xanans, but many have voted for the Free Falcon Party in recent years due to the party’s Vysokan Xanan origin and stance on many immigrant issues.

Notable Vysokan Xanans include '''Aynan Zhergotov''', professional footballer and captain of the Nouvelle-Rochelle football club A.S. Olympique-Saraswati; '''Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova''', member of the National Parliament, leader of the Free Falcon Party, and formerly practicing medical doctor; '''Yekheren Bolkhadarov''', goalkeeper for the All-Xanu National Football Team; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a second-generation Vysokan Xanan singer who has seen recent popularity in Xanu’s Logmu music scene by combining Xanan-styled singing with Vysokan-inspired instrumentals.
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====Assunzionii Xanans====
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The Assunzionii Xanan community is the third largest diaspora on Xanu Prime and is one that has managed to strike a strong balance between preserving their own original culture and embracing Xanu’s own. Most of Xanu Prime’s Assunzionii population moved to Xanu Prime during the 2370’s and 2380’s in response to Xanu’s burgeoning economy, with a smaller wave coming in the 2450’s. As such a majority of the Assunzionii Xanan population are third or fourth generation immigrants, with the new arrivals in 2450 being first-generation. Most Assunzionii Xanans live in the middle class, with some having advanced into the upper classes through employment or their businesses. Throughout Xanu Prime, many Assunzionii people have found themselves in two primary industries: entertainment and engineering. The former came about when many Assunzionii immigrants were hired on by nightclubs and other entertainment venues for their expertise in electrical lighting systems. As they were employed more, some of these immigrants figured that they would instead start their own clubs which they could run and style as they pleased. Gaining traction for their exceptional light shows and very exotic atmospheres, Assunzionii Xanan-owned and staffed clubs, bars, theaters, and even film studios became very successful across Xanu prime in the 2400’s and have remained that way since, with some of the largest and most exclusive entertainment establishments on the planet being owned by Assunzionii Xanusians. Some of these immigrants also found themselves in engineering and went on to work in Xanu’s shipbuilding and logistics sector; their skills being perfect for designing and servicing electrical systems on ships. Many of their descendants still work in these fields today

Culturally, there are some distinct differences between Assunzionii Xanans and people from Assunzionne proper. Exposure to outside cultures and removal from the Luceism-centered domes of light has made many Assunzionii Xanusians less religious than their Assunzionii counterparts. Most still identify as Luceist and do practice, but the faith on Xanu Prime has become more casual and cultural to the local community rather than something more dogmatic and omnipresent. Simply put, Luceism isn’t as important to multi-generational Assunzionii Xanusians as it is to those back home on Assunzione or those who have just arrived from the planet, even if it is present in their lives. Despite this more lax attitude, there are large cathedrals of light in many Assunzionii Xanan communities, the largest being in the Little Assunzione district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, and they see frequent attendance. Most Assunzionii Xanusians are Structuralist Luceists and their churches function as large community centers and meeting places along with being used as houses of worship. Other aspects of Assunzionii culture have stuck around in the community as well, such as illumination. Assunzionii Xanan neighborhoods are very well lit, with more street lamps than average and more lights on houses as well, and this, along with the communal and tight-knit nature of many Assunzionii Xanan families, make their neighborhoods some of the safest on Xanu Prime.

Notable Assunzionii Xanusians include '''Sabine Venturino''', a third-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and one of the largest directorial names in Xanan film industry; '''Suleiman Kateb''', a second-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and current Minister of Energy for the Afzal government; and '''Hristos Santolaria''', a first-generation Assunzionii Xanan and current Chief Operations Officer for Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.
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====Fisanduhian Xanans====
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The Fisanduhian story on Xanu Prime is a strange one that started in 2386. In that year, the Xanan government agreed to host the remnants of the Fisanduh Freedom Front (3F) as a gesture of solidarity between two countries against tyranny. This arrangement created the modern Fisanduhian government-in-exile as it exists today with its seat in the Greentree neighbourhood of Nouvelle Rochelle. Of those few countries that recognise the existence of an independent Fisanduh, those being the Republic of Elyra and a vast majority of Coalition of Colonies members, see the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, also commonly called the “Greentree Government,” as the legitimate government of Fisanduh. The Empire of Dominia sees the Greentree Government as the political arm of the 3F, a rebel militia to some and a terrorist group to others, and therefore considers Xanu Prime and by extension the Coalition of Colonies to be a state sponsor of terrorism for giving the government sanctuary. The Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel do not recognise the Fisanduhian government-in-exile as the legitimate government of Fisanduh and have no relations with it.

Xanu Prime’s long-standing positive relationship with the Fisanduhian government has made it a very popular destination for Fisanduhian refugees, though its geographic distance from Moroz often makes traveling to the planet difficult for some. Fisanduhian refugees typically do not come in waves like other immigrant demographics, but arrive sporadically and often in small cohorts that were trafficked out of Fisanduh at the same time. This distance and trouble with travel cuts both ways: it isn’t just difficult for Fisanduhians to arrive on Xanu but much of the Fisanduhian Xanan community (aside from the aforementioned refugees) have never even been to Fisanduh, with their only ties to the Morozian region being ethnic and cultural. Religion is also something that sets Fisanduhian Xanans apart from other Xanans, with most being adherents to some strain of Reformed Morozian Tribunalism which rejects the authority of the Morozian Clergy and the Dominian Emperor as the divinely ordained head of the “Goddess’s Tribunal,” a term that the Goddess’s Holy Diocese of Xanu Prime uses to describe their religion over using “Morozian Holy Tribunal.” Some however have given up this faith and have either become irreligious or have taken on one of Xanu Prime’s dominant religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) as their own. Despite this, it is common for many Fisanduhian Xanans to celebrate Tribunalist religious holidays even if they themselves are not adherent to the faith since many see these days as part of their own distinctive culture. All Tribunalist churches on Xanu Prime have eschewed the use of traditional Morozian Holy Tribunal uniforms and religious symbols connected with the Dominian Emperor, viewing them as unnecessarily dogmatic and relics of an oppressive, Dominian, past.

Economically, most Fisanduhian Xanans are poorer than the average Xanan, with almost all being either refugees who arrived on the planet with nothing or their descendants. They lack the generational wealth of other demographics in Xanan society, and most are not educated to the standards demanded by the Xanan economy. As such, most can usually be found in industrial and service jobs, the All-Xanu Armed Forces or other working-class positions. Because of this disadvantageous economic position, many of the better-off Fisanduhian Xanans have been known to host refugee families and provide them with housing and food until they find employment and can secure housing of their own.

Despite the hardship the demographic has found, the Fisanduhian Xanan community has found a home for itself in Xanan society. Most Fisanduhian Xanans have assimilated and integrated themselves into broader Xanan society and adopted their norms and culture, but generally live in areas with other Fisanduhian Xanans. Some subsets of the group take this to the extreme, maintaining their own communities and living together in nearly all-Fisanduhian neighborhoods which preserve the native Fisanduhian culture and social systems. These communities are usually suspicious of outsiders and such attitudes have occasionally led negative attention from the media for allegations of xenophobia and exclusionism. There is a stereotype among Xanans that Fisanduhian Xanans are all rabidly politically active and pursue jobs in politics and government especially in order to aid the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, and while most Fisanduhian Xanans very supportive of the Greentree government, their involvement is often falsely overstated. In reality, Fisanduhian Xanans hold a variety of political views about Xanu Prime and the 3F government, with most being split into two camps: the Irredentists and the Second Homelanders.
Simply put, the Irredentists and Second Homelanders diverge on their priorities relating to the Fisanduhian Insurgency. The Irredentist camp of the Fisanduhian Xanan population places the government-in-exile’s backing of the 3F and other resistance groups in Fisanduh through sending them aid, equipment, and money above all else, in hopes of one day returning to an independent Fisanduh. The Second Homelanders instead want the government-in-exile to create a “second homeland" for the Fisanduhian people on Xanu Prime in cooperation with the Xanan government and often push for the government-in-exile to leverage its official and unofficial influence in Xanan society to provide better resources for the Fisanduhian Xanan community. The two groups, while different in their priorities, are not enemies to one another and often work together in both the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the unofficial representative of that government in Xanan Politics, the Universal Liberty Party. Historically, the Irredentist camp has been a majority in the Fisanduhian Xanan population, but as Fisanduhian Xanans have adjusted more to Xanan society and their needs have become more pronounced, the Second Homeland movement has grown considerably, especially among the demographic’s younger generations who see themselves as more Xanan than Fisanduhian. As the older generations of Fisanduhian Xanans die, it is predicted that the Second Homeland movement will soon hold a majority over Fisanduhian Xanan political discourse unless a serious shift occurs in the currently-stalemated Fisanduhian Insurgency.

Morozian Fisanduhians have mixed opinions of Fisanduhian Xanans. On one hand the sentiments of support and occasional aid shipment that make it to the region past the Dominian blockades are often appreciated, but on the other, most see the Fisanduhian Xanan population as too far away to make a difference in anything actually happening in Fisanduh besides giving a place for more refugees to flee to. Because of this, most Morozian Fisanduhians treat their Xanan cousins as people who are all talk and no action in regards to actually winning the insurgency.

Notable Fisanduhian Xanans include '''Erick Alexis''', current Vice-President of the All-Xanu Republic; '''Aaron Izmirlian''', Prime Minister of the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile; '''Ekaitz Azarola''', leader of the Universal Liberty Party and member of the National Parliament; and '''Elaena Chatfield''', a prolific if aging novelist often considered to be one of the greatest writers Xanu Prime has ever produced.
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====Gadpathurian Exiles====
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Xanan Gadpathurian Exiles and their community are a small but notable immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime. They are almost exclusively concentrated in Pataliputra, it being the spot where most of them arrive on the planet after being ejected from their home world. Gadpathurian Exiles are known to be highly assimilationist and often make little effort to show that they are even in fact Gadpathurian at all, some too ashamed by their exile status to try and make others know of it. Some however have taken the identity and embraced it as part of who they are in Xanan society. Gadpathurian Exiles who do make a point of their heritage do not have their own distinctive architecture or cuisine, but instead hold much of their culture in their community structures and businesses. Gadpathurian Exile-owned businesses which embrace the identity are known to be pseudo-support groups for Gadpathurian Exiles themselves and often provide employment, housing, and other necessities to newly arrived fellow-exiles to ensure that they do not become homeless or starve. Xanan Gadpathurian Exile families similarly have been known to welcome fellow exiles into their houses to take care of them in a similar way to how Fisanduhian Xanans do, however Gadpathurian Exiles take this a step further and have been known to formally adopt entirely unrelated people into their families permanently. This has led to some Gadpathurian Exile families on Xanu Prime to become enormously large, with the largest on record, the Mokammel family, having over 20,000 current members either by adoption, marriage, or being born into the family. The Mokammels mostly live in the Kuenoi neighborhood of Pataliputra, though this area has come to be known colloquially as “Mokammeljela” in popular parlance. Other notable Gadpathuri Exile families are the Nanda, Yadhavar, and Jadhav. Most Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are irreligious or have converted to one of the planet’s three major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, with some converting to smaller faiths.

Gadpathurian Exiles often have an advantage over other immigrants not in terms of their wealth, as most arrive to the planet positively destitute, but in terms of their educations. Most Gadpathurians were taught skills during their military service on Gadpathur, and even if they’ve now been exiled from their homeworlds, many retain their skills and have found lucrative work as tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, HVAC specialists, and welders to name a few). Of course, many have also joined the All-Xanu Armed Forces and usually find success there too, either as soldiers, specialists, or occasionally even officers, though this is somewhat rare as the Gadpathurian leadership style is usually inconsistent with Xanan doctrine and practices. It is seen as shameful in Exile society to take aid from the government, and there is a societal norm of redemption through achievement as a way to prove the decision to exile the person in question as wrong. As such, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are encouraged by their communities to hold a strong work ethic and to cooperate with other Exiles trying to achieve success. In regard to politics, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime typically vote either for the Free Falcon Party of All-Xanu Freedom League. Gadpathurian Exiles also have a somewhat toned-down view of the Sol Alliance, at least when compared to their unexiled counterparts. They are often less outspoken about their prejudice towards the Sol Alliance than Gadpathurians on Gadpathur proper, even if their views on Sol remain unyieldingly resentful.

Notable Gadpathurian Exiles Xanans include '''Chandi Mokammel''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile, current head of the massive Gadpathurian Exile Mokammel family, and celebrity within the Gadpathurian Exile community; '''Sri Afzal''', a second-generation Gadpathuri Exile, formerly a professor of law at Saraswati College, and wife to the current All-Xanu President Jacques Afzal; and '''Ravindra Nanda''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile and current All-Xanan Foreign Minister.
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==Holidays==

Xanu Prime has many holidays much like almost anywhere else in the Spur, however the foremost of these are as follows:

*'''January 1st - New Year’s Day''' - A celebration of the ushering in of a new year. This holiday is marked by fireworks, loud music, and the mass consumption of alcohol. It is officially recognised as a holiday.

*'''January 2nd - Founding Day''' - This is the day where Xanans celebrate the original colonization of their world by the Solarian Alliance. People get the day off work and festivities are held in communities across the planet to celebrate Xanu. Many consider this to be a toned down version of Xanan Independence Day, or simply a day to recoup and recover from the partying and subsequent hangovers brought on by New Year’s. Alternatively, some simply use the day to have a two-day long New Year’s celebration.

*'''March 28th - All-Xanu Peace Day''' - This is a holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the end of the Xanan Civil war. It is a rather low-key holiday where people are encouraged to reflect on the peace that they enjoy and spend it with their families. Xanan citizens get the day off of work, though because the war is such a distant memory, many just use this as a convenient day off of work or three-day weekend rather than a time to celebrate its original intended purpose.

*'''July 1st - Election Day''' - This day is less of a holiday and more a bureaucratic necessity. On June 1st, all Xanans vote in elections, local, province-wide, or national. Everyone gets the day off work so they can vote if they so choose. The holiday still applies to jurisdictions where no elections are taking place that year, so many often take it as a free day off of work.

*'''August 13th - Xanan Independence Day''' - This day celebrates the secession of Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies from the Solarian Alliance and is the largest holiday of the year. Parades, fireworks, cookouts, sporting events, and musical performances often occur on this day. The entire planet parties hard on this holiday and it is observed by Xanan expats living elsewhere in the Orion Spur as well. Xanans get the day off of work on August 13th.

*'''October 1st - Victory Day''' - Victory Day, as it may be implied, is the day where Xanans celebrate the victory of their country over the Solarian Alliance in the Interstellar War. It is marked by parades, and other celebrations that honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians who died in the conflict and the freedoms that they died for. It has a more solemn and reverent atmosphere than other Xanan national holidays. Xanans get the day off work on Victory Day.

*'''November 18th - Kulkarni Day''' - Kulkarni Day, also called Diversity Day (no relation to the Eridanian Holiday), is a holiday where Xanans celebrate their diversity and ethic of unity, coming together to unite as one strong and diverse society. It is held on the birthday of once planetary governor Gaspard Kulkarni to honor his vision for what a united yet diverse Xanan society could be. The day is celebrated widely across the planet and is a day where the various communities of Xanu prime go out of their way to share their cultures with those of different cultures and celebrate how they find strength in diversity. It is an official holiday and Xanan citizens get the day off of work on Diversity Day.

*'''December 25th - Christmas''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Despite its religious origins, it has long been a festivity that has spread across cultures and demographics regardless of religious affiliation, and as such it is an official holiday on Xanu Prime. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries.

*'''Varying Dates - Easter''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries. This holiday follows the lunar cycle and therefore is held on different days annually, though it is always on a Sunday, typically in April or March. It is not officially a holiday recognised by the Xanan State, but many observant Christians celebrate it.

*'''Varying Dates - Ramadan''' - A Muslim religious holiday that is observed for nearly a month by Xanu Prime’s muslim population. It includes the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, on which was recognised as an official Xanan holiday in 2334 after the festivities of feasting, partying, and parades became so widespread across Xanu Prime’s population that it could no longer be interpreted as a strictly religious celebration. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Eid al-Adha''' - A Muslim religious holiday which that honors the willingness of the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as Allah commanded of him. It is not an official Xanan holiday, but many observant muslims take the day off from work and celebrate. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Diwali''' - A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh, religious holiday which lasts for five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil, originally brought to Xanu Prime by Hindu and Sikh colonists from India. It is typically marked by fireworks, the lighting of lamps, brightly vibrant lights, and other festivities which embody light triumphing over the dark. The third day of the holiday, Lakshmi Puja, is the most colorful of the holiday, and Xanans who observe it usually take the day off work, though it is not an official holiday. While not Hindus, the local Assunzionii expat population also has begun to celebrate this holiday recently as well, tying it into their own beliefs of light triumphing over the darkness. Diwali is determined by the Hindu lunar-solar calendar, and therefore falls on different dates annually.

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==Overview==
Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great emphasis on the family unit as the building block of society. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another, and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague.

==Standard of Living and Civil Liberties==
A life on Xanu Prime is by and large a comfortable, though not exceedingly luxurious one. While not uniform across the various peoples and classes of the planet, the average Xanan isn’t bothered with extreme poverty, hunger, or lingering threats of conflict, nor do they live in cities adapted to suit hazardous environments. The average Xanan sits as a member of the middle class and the government has taken measures to try and ensure that the largest number of Xanans can live comfortably on the planet as is possible.
Healthcare works in a hybrid system, with some facilities being private and others being public, though the government will still partially fund the expenses of patients that go to private clinics or hospitals. Xanan healthcare quality is some of the best in the Orion Spur, only rivaled by that found on Biesel or in the Solarian Core, and millions come from across the Coalition annually to receive treatment from Xanan doctors.

Higher education at government-operated universities and colleges is free to those who can obtain a qualifying score on the Uniform Higher Education Assessment test or UHEA, while private universities on the planet usually have their own specific entrance exams.

Governance on Xanu Prime is democratic and many on the planet are invested in local-level politics. Despite political contrasts among the Xanan population, they generally place unity in forms such as nationality or city of origin before political beliefs, and as such political polarization and division is not as pronounced on Xanu Prime as it may be elsewhere in the Spur.

Xanu Prime has very liberal speech laws as well, with almost any kind of speech allowed by the planet’s government. Notable exceptions include; any rhetoric that targets another individual or group of individuals on the basis of race or religion, any rhetoric that styles itself as genuine when it is knowingly false, and any rhetoric that is knowingly false while intending to harm another person’s reputation or well-being. News media outlets have wide-ranging freedoms to publish what they like, though their content is regulated by the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission, an independent government agency which has the power to censor and fine publications with content it has deemed to promote fake news or be so biased that it burgeons on fake news.

Most Xanans are religious or spiritual to at least some degree, though atheism isn’t unheard of nor officially disparaged on the planet, but some in the planet’s society may privately look down upon atheists. Religious extremism is rare, but does occasionally occur in the most conservative of Xanu Prime’s various congregations and sects.
Firearm possession on Xanu Prime is legal, though heavily regulated. A thorough background checks and a firearm license obtained after a six-month training course and six-month waiting period are mandatory for any Xanan hoping to own their own gun. Civilians may only own ballistic firearms with magazine capacities of twenty rounds or less and special permits, famous for their long wait times, are required for the ownership of handguns and automatic weapons while less complicated weapons like bolt-action rifles and shotguns require less paperwork.

Same-sex relationships and gender nonconforming individuals are accepted as a part of Xanan society and do not experience any legal or widespread societal discrimination, though they only make up a small minority of Xanan relationships and people. There is no form of legal recognition of polyamorous relationships on Xanu Prime.

Despite the comfort and quality of life that the majority of Xanu Prime’s people enjoy, the planet is not without its problems. Xanu Prime’s economy saw an economic hiccup in 2458 following the invasion of the Republic of Biesel led by Solarian Admiral Michael Frost. The disruption in trade saw the planet’s economy and its people suffer a small downturn that was corrected by the next year, but the phoron scarcity in late 2462 tossed the Xanan economy and the living situation for many of its people into question. The situation has been stabilized by now, some three years later, and while Xanu itself fared through the economic troubles much better than many other areas in the Spur, there have been some lasting consequences. The most noticeable of these has been a widening income inequality that, while modest, is still concerning. Wages for the majority of the planet’s population have not kept up with the inflation that resulted from the phoron scarcity, and while efforts are being made by the government to reduce inflation and buoy wages or substitute incomes through the provision of more services through the state welfare system, the problem still seems to be growing slowly, yet steadily. It is not yet a crisis, though many on Xanu Prime are keen to see that it never becomes one.

==Societal Issues and Political Discourse==
One of the biggest contemporary issues that is often at the forefront of Xanan political and societal discourse is how Xanu Prime and its government should meet the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees from the war-torn territories of the Sol Alliance and the largest wave of Vysokan immigrants the planet has yet seen. Views on these new arrivals have been mixed. Some on the planet have welcomed them, pointing to the fact that Xanu Prime is already an incredibly diverse place while highlighting the fact that the planet and its economy need laborers to fuel continued economic growth coming out of the turmoil of the phoron scarcity. Others have been less welcoming, stating that Xanu’s government and corporations should instead invest more into places like Vysoka and the frontiers of the Coalition to improve the living situations for the people living there, lowering the desire for immigration, often pointing to the already-strained Xanan welfare system needing to take care of more people, most of which aren’t even Xanan citizens. Others still have instead encouraged the Xanan government to pressure other economically developed planets in the Coalition such as Himeo and Konyang to take on more of these immigrants and refugees; a way of “doing their part” as Coalition members. Now that the conflicts in the Solarian Wildlands come to a close, it is predicted that refugees will stop trying to reach Xanu, though immigration from Vysoka and the Coalition’s frontiers does not seem to be stemming any time soon.

A larger, more historical point of contention in Xanan society and politics is just what role the planet should play in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime’s unique position of having both the Coalition’s largest economy and strongest military have long given it a considerable, unbalanced level of influence over CoC affairs, and as such, its people hold differing opinions on just how the planet should carry itself. Broadly, Xanan citizens fall into two camps on the issue: increased autonomy from the CoC, or broader integration with the CoC, with nuanced views within each of these positions. Some who wish for more integration with the Coalition desire for the planet’s government to capitalize on the great amount of influence it has within the multi-planet government to create better economic situations on Xanu Prime, while others say that the planet should use its influence to instead help the developing members of the Coalition to grow and provide more for the CoC as a whole, even if Xanu itself may not see as large of returns in the short term. Others from the autonomy camp are opposed to further Xanan economic aid to Coalition members, decrying the aid as harmful to the planet when the money and resources given to or loaned out to other CoC members could be better spent on Xanu helping Xanans during the aftermath of the Phoron scarcity. Encompassing members from that same autonomy camp, there are those who believe that the Coalition itself should remain little more than a mutual defense pact, where members only come to each other's aid in times of war, instead of the semi-formal nation state it is today. Within these nuanced views from both sides, there are extremes in the debate for Xanu’s Coalition position, with small minorities of the population wishing for Xanu Prime to leave the Coalition entirely while others in equally small numbers are in favor of the Coalition federalising like the Sol Alliance and having Xanu Prime’s government be dissolved and the planet ruled from a central Coalition authority.

Speaking of defense, it is another topic that Xanan-Coalition discourse often revolves around. The All-Xanu Armed Forces are the largest and most capable fighting force that the Coalition has for both offensive and defensive interstellar warfare operations, and while this is a comforting fact for many Xanans and the Coalition as a whole, it is not without its controversy. Some on Xanu Prime, mostly of the autonomy camp, think that other Coalition members should spend more on defense than they currently do, to avoid a “free ride” on Xanu’s military might, citing increased military spending among members as both good for Xanu Prime and good for the Coalition as a whole if Xanu’s military resources do not need to be stretched so thin, providing for much of the Coalition on its own. Those of the integration camp however have pointed to Xanu Prime’s historical status as the defender of the Coalition and that it is the Xanan responsibility to provide for the Coalition’s defense, even to an unbalanced amount because other planets of the Coalition simply do not have the economies to afford their own militaries beyond those that patrol their home systems. The common refrain among those in the latter camp is “If not us, then who?”

Besides the differing political opinions on Xanu’s place with other planets of the coalition, which could be considered internal matters, there are differing opinions on external matters, namely its place with megacorporations. Xanu’s position on megacorporations has long been a topic of debate, but its presence in everyday Xanan life has dramatically increased after the 2462 phoron scarcity and Solarian Collapse. While many megacorporations, both Einstein Engines and the SCC alike, have operated on Xanu Prime as a springboard to the rest of the coalition, often having the planet be the location of their regional headquarters, their presence hasn’t always come without concern or conflict. Some on the planet see further megacorporations as the next step in Xanu Prime’s economic growth and advocate for a lessening of restrictions upon them so that they can help the planet emerge into a post-phoron scarcity spur. The majority on the planet however caution megacorporate cooperation and see the Republic of Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts as to what can happen to a country that does not strike the right amount of balance and regulation of megacorporations. Most Xanans believe that megacorporations need some level of government oversight and regulation, but they fail to agree on just what form that should take, with different political parties holding different positions.

A growing issue that has become more pronounced in recent years is Xanu Prime’s fight with illegal drug trafficking and other forms of illegal smuggling. Xanu’s status as the heart of the Coalition and as one of the largest ports in the Orion Spur has made it a hotspot for all kinds of illegal trafficking; any smuggled drug, weapon, or person going into, out of, or on a long distance trip through the coalition likely will pass through Xanu Prime on its way from point A to point B. This reality ensures that All-Xanu Public Security Office is always busy, on the hunt for contraband moving through the planet’s ports and channels of commerce. Drug trafficking is not the only issue with illicit substances on the planet, in the last decade and a half illegal drug usage has nearly tripled from where it was in 2455 and the cause is debated among Xanans. Some say it is because of the economic troubles that Xanu and the rest of the spur at large have had in recent years, driving people to use illicit substances to cope, while others state that the cause can be pinned on the recent uptick of refugees and immigrants, specifically Vysokan ones, that have flowed to the planet looking for work or sanctuary from conflict. Others still have blamed the decay of Xanan family bonds under the strain of increasing economic hardship as a cause of the crisis. Whatever the cause, in 2461 Prime Minister Fabian Chatterjee declared the rising usage of drugs a public health emergency and called upon the Public Safety Office, the Health Office, and corporations operating on Xanu Prime to commit more resources to stopping its spread. Support for cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and increasing funding to programs and facilities focusing on sobriety and addiction treatment has seen support across Xanu’s political parties and drug usage rates have slowed in their rise since the emergency was declared, though it is unclear if these measures will be effective in the long term.

==Xanan Cultural Customs, Values, and Communication Habits==
The Xanan culture is a collectivist one with some caveats. Societally, Xanans see individuals as important pieces to a greater whole, but place importance more on what is good for society rather than what empowers the individual. This is not so say that Xanans see individuality as moot, in fact many Xanans are perhaps some of the strongest advocates for individual rights and protections from the government and society within the Coalition, but this is all done with the caveat that individual freedoms should never disproportionately harm or disadvantage society and that an individual should be obligated to sacrifice what they may want or what may be important to them if it is seen as essential to promoting a greater good. This rationale is a growth from Xanan family culture, one which places a great deal of importance on respect, cohesion, and hierarchy.

===Xanan Family Culture===
The family is perhaps one of if not the most dominant cultural institution over any given Xanan’s life. The traditional Xanan family places a great amount of importance on how one fits into the family and expects children to respect their parents and elders and obey them on familial and some personal matters, even after childhood due to the idea of age equating to wisdom. In return for the obedience of their children, parents and elders in the Xanan family are expected to be able to explain to younger family members why they’ve made the decisions they have, so that the juniors of the family do not feel as if they are being taken advantage of. Gender roles are flexible in Xanan families, however women typically maintain the household and work part-time while men work full-time jobs, though this is by no means universal. The elderly are extremely important in the Xanan family, with elderly individuals being seen as sources of knowledge and inspiration who should be consulted by younger members of the family for advice during troubled times or when making big life decisions. Elders are also expected to handle the early childcare and religious education of their family’s children, however the former of these responsibilities is not as essential as it once was due to the Xanan government’s implementation of free childcare for children under the age of five. It is for an elderly person’s children or grandchildren to take care of them and allow them to live with them from after their retirement until they die, and refusing to do this is seen as a great betrayal and is heavily frowned upon in Xanan society. A negative effect of having such large families however is that inheritances, especially those of wealthier relatives, often can result in disappointment and messy intrafamily legal battles over securing a relative’s estate and assets.

Individuals are celebrated within the Xanan family structure, but individuality as a concept is not encouraged, and family bonds are often seen as a key component to the personal identity of any Xanan. This can occasionally result in more independently-minded members of families being ostracized by their kin, however, Xanan family culture usually supports that a family should welcome back those who become estranged from the family and work to make them feel a part of the unit once again and not hold grudges. Whether this is always adhered to though, is often up to the individual families themselves. It is not uncommon for multiple generations of families to live under the same roof, or even multiple extensions of a family to do the same. Any given Xanan household may have children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts, or granduncles residing in the same household. This mindset extends to individual living situations as well. Children often do not move out of their parent’s households unless for university or work until they are in their mid-to-late twenties or even thirties; there’s no expectation for Xanan children to move out at any age so long as they still contribute to the household. However, many young Xanans do move out and live apart from their families if they are committing to a serious romantic relationship with someone or if a job opportunity arises. Family culture dictates that geographical distance from the family be a consideration in if a person accepts a job, however most families are generally encouraging of their members seeking out lucrative job opportunities because it is viewed as something that will be a net positive to the family as a whole. Related to this, Xanans working abroad often maintain very close relationships to their families, even across generations.

An individual’s choices are supposed to be embraced and supported by their family members unless the family believes the decisions to be truly destructive to the family or individual; they cannot be discouraging simply because they personally disagree with the choices because doing so would place a personal opinion or prejudice above what may be best for the family. Families are expected to be strong support systems for their members and it is common for large families to offer housing, financial assistance, and emotional support to their members in times of need. Some families have embraced this bond and applied it to business, with some of the largest companies on Xanu Prime being family-run as a result. Xanu’s richest and most powerful families are referred to as “Forvamshons” and they are typically large players in the planet’s politics and business spheres. This attitude has occasionally led to corruption scandals, but generally it is seen that enriching one’s family by hurting the rest of society is unfair, dishonorable and cause for great shame. Some Forvamshons are very elusive and shy away from the public eye, while others are very public and have celebrity statuses. The foremost of these families often have private security details provided by the PMCG, Idris Incorporated, or Chevauchée Asset Protection and live in luxurious high-security compounds which house the entire family.

Marriages are seen as not just a special bond between two people but a union between two families and a commitment between them to work together. Because of this collective view on familial culture, arranged marriages are not uncommon on Xanu Prime though they have slowly become less prevalent since the 2430’s. Same-sex marriages are not frowned upon in Xanan culture however same-sex couples are expected to adopt children to continue the family lineage, much like how heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Polygamy is illegal on Xanu Prime and polyamorous relationships do not have any form of legal recognition. Though not illegal, Xenophilia is societally frowned upon on Xanu Prime because of long held beliefs that the family structures of other species are incompatible with human ones making relationships between Humans and Aliens fruitless and selfish, therefore hurting one’s family.

Death and customs around it are tied deeply to Xanan family culture, as the death of a person is not just seen as the death of an individual but a loss of a member of an entire family. Burial and cremation are both common during Xanan funerals with customs varying some between the planet’s various religions. Common between all of them though, families will either have their bodies buried in adjacent plots to one another or will keep the ashes of deceased family members in a single, large urn holding the ashes of most if not all of the family’s deceased relatives. During burials, it is a common practice for the deceased’s family to throw dirt, flowers, and lit incense onto the casket as it is lowered into the ground. Another custom stemming from this is that when a person speaks of a deceased friend or relative, it is seen as respectful to make a small tossing motion with their hand or arm. During cremations, the deceased are often cremated alongside incense. Another common custom around death on Xanu Prime regardless of religion is that most Xanan homes will have a large logbook wrapped in black and white cloth called an “Afterlife Journal” in the home’s living room or other public area where family members are able to write down memories, sentiments, thoughts, or prayers about their deceased relatives and friends. Many see the theme of memorialisation that is very present in Xanan culture having stemmed from both the strong family ties Xanans have built along with the collective impact of the Interstellar War even some two-centuries later.
Dinnertime is perhaps the most important time of the day for any Xanan family, as it is when everyone in the household gets together. Rarely do families eat apart from one another unless their work schedules dictate they do so. Meals are shared around a large central table in the household and weekend dinners can last hours. Not only is food shared but music is played and games are enjoyed, usually board games like Checkers and Chess, or card games like Alutte or French Tarot. Meals are a happy time and it is considered to be an honor to be invited over to share a meal with a Xanan and their family. It is customary for a Xanan family grieving the loss of a loved one to leave a chair at the table empty for the spirit of the deceased for anywhere from two weeks to two months after their passing and provide them food and drink as if they were still living as an act of remembrance and appreciation for their family member. This same gesture is also done two weeks to two months before the birth of a child if a family is expecting and it is instead seen as a show of excitement and optimism for new life. Many suspect the focus on meals in Xanan family culture to be the catalyst which has pushed Xanan cuisine to the upper echelons of high-class dining throughout the Orion Spur.

===Xanan Work Culture===
Xanan work culture is formalistic and hierarchical, tied into the planet’s strong sense of family, and can sometimes come off as hard to break into for outsiders. A traditional Xanan greeting for coworkers is a handshake accompanied by a light bow. Titles, rather than names, should be used with all coworkers, superior, equal-level, or inferior alike, unless the two coworkers are close friends. Small talk is appreciated, and asking after the family of a business partner is usually how most business meetings start. Xanans pride themselves on professionalism and often view their companies as a stand-in for the family outside of their real families, meaning they want to represent them well through professionalism and a strong public image while not bringing shame to them through misconduct or crassness. Superiors are expected to be respectful and formal, but friendly with those under them and coworkers are expected to execute the orders of their superiors without question and then raise grievances with their overseers when the act is done unless they believe the situation is truly disastrous. Businesswear is formal, usually consisting of a suit and tie or cravat for men and a dress or blouse and skirt for women or a uniform for either. Casual dress while on the job is not welcomed in Xanan society and is seen as immature and juvenile, likewise excessive make-up or jewelry in a work setting is seen as distracting and putting more of a focus on one’s personal appearance than the business matter itself, regardless of the person’s gender. However, dyed hair, and minimal tattoos, especially those that are covered by standard work clothing are accepted. Xanan business meetings are multifaceted, with meetings between managers and higher-up officials in companies usually being very logical, low-key, and methodical with great emphasis placed on the abilities of either side to debate one another. This has led to the term “debate” becoming synonymous with “business meeting” on Xanu Prime. If associates know each other well though, meetings can be very emotionally charged and spritied for better or worse, filled with either happiness and achievement, or anger and sadness.

Trust built through continuous face-to-face interaction are essential in Xanan business; Xanans will base their decisions on trust and intuition as much as if not more than data and statistics. It is not uncommon for a Xanan to request a meeting in person rather than communicating through holocall, telephone, messengers, or holomail, as personal relationships and connections drive much of Xanan business culture. and because these relationships take time to cultivate and are placed on the same level of importance as close, platonic friendships, it can sometimes be a culture shock for foreigners doing business with Xanans even if the Xanans themselves are quite happy to do business with foreigners. It is considered insulting to discuss business over meals and alcohol is usually not served during Xanan business functions or consumed while on the clock. Hard work is admired, but Xanans generally view workaholism as a selfish trait that makes a person disrespectful to their family by cutting into family time. It is considered poor form to schedule an important meeting in the month of August in the northern hemisphere or the month of February in the southern hemisphere, as these are the respective months usually reserved for summer vacation. This has led to the emergence of the sarcastic phrases, "I'll get to it in August," and "I'll get to it in February," both meaning that a person doesn't care about doing something. As a continuation of this, holidays and vacation days are strictly forbidden for business contacts to speak with one another unless the topic of conversation is not work-related and evenings are similarly off-limits as they are often reserved for family time. Coworkers should bring gifts or cards to one another when they return from business trips or holidays and doing so is considered a gesture of appreciation and goodwill towards one's peers as well as a sign of continued commitment to their workplace even after a vacation. Snacks and sweets, knick-knacks, cookware, and hand-written poems are gifts that would not seem out of place in a Xanan office after vacation season.

===Xanan Communication Habits and Social Norms===
Generally speaking, Xanans are friendly, yet polite to strangers and are typically not confrontational with people they do not have a prior relationship with such as friendship, family, or a long business partnership. This has led to foreigners often noticing an indirect style of communication among Xanans, as being very direct about certain matters to strangers is considered rude. It is for this reason that Xanans will often say “Maybe,” or “Perhaps,” as an indirect response in place of “No,” because they do not wish to directly disappoint, and thereby offend a stranger if something is asked of them, though a far more direct style of communication is used in some parts of Xanan society, namely by those in the military, police, or security industries. Good manners are a staple in Xanan communication and are usually only eschewed between close friends or family members. It is considered proper for a person in a higher position of power or standing in a company or family to give unsolicited advice to those beneath them, but rude for advice to be given the other way around unless asked for. Politics are expected to not be talked about in casual conversation unless they are related to the subject matter at hand or between friends. Social norms dictate that a Xanan generally should not want to impose their beliefs upon others, especially strangers, unless something someone else says contradicts something said Xanan believes, in which case a civil, if spirited political discussion may ensue. Xanan society is one that eschews the use of violence to solve disputes, and holds a pacifistic ethos that cements that one should only use force in the defense of oneself and others, however naturally, not all on Xanu Prime abide by these morals. Moreover, there is an expectation in Xanan society that people can, should, and will compromise with one another for the sake of preserving societal unity, order, and peace, with stubbornness in working out an agreement with one another being seen as a selfish trait. Finally, Xanans value the collective. Whether that is a family, company, crew of a ship, social circle, country, or other unit, Xanan social norms dictate that a good Xanan is one who will act in the best interests of something “bigger than themselves,” while using his or her unique individual qualities to best help themselves and the people around them who they care about.

===Religion===
Xanu Prime has no official religion, and in an effort to prevent conflict over religion or accusations of government favoritism, the government has a series of official secularism laws. They vary in specificity, but broadly they prohibit any person working for or affiliated with the state including anyone from politicians to police officers to public school teachers from displaying any religious iconography, dress, or artifacts on their person or in their workplace while they are on the job. This has drawn criticism from some elements of Xanan society which see these rules as an infringement upon religious liberty, especially from those who take religious dressage as an integral part to their faith, but the government has remained firm in their beliefs that the state will not expose or impose anyone to any one religion over another. Despite these laws, the Xanan government is not opposed to working with religiously-affiliated organizations like charities due to the laws prohibiting only the state itself from representing a religion, not engaging with it.
Xanan people as a whole vary in religiosity with both very progressive and orthodox interpretations of the various faiths found on the planet being practiced. The diverse backgrounds of the planet’s original colonists and immigrants since its colonization mean that nearly any religion can be found here. The largest however, in order of practitioners are, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sunni Islam. Smaller faiths like Luceism, Stolitism, Jainism, Sikhism, and even Moroz Holy Tribunalism can be found here, the latter of which is practiced almost exclusively by the Fisanduhian immigrant community. A significant portion of Xanan society is irreligious as well. Xanu Prime is well known across the Orion Spur for some of its examples of religious architecture, the most outstanding examples of which being the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, the Patali-Ram temple, and the Crystal Lights mosque.

==Food and Drink==
===Food===
Xanan cuisine has garnered a carefully cultivated reputation around the Orion Spur as perhaps some of the finest in human space. It is in a sense, a fusion between the cuisines of its most prominent colonizing cultures, French, Indian, Pakistani, and those of the BeNeLux. While certainly diverse, it is known most for being both simultaneously spicy, but not hot, with different spices adding highlights and emphasis to whatever notes in the palette the chef so chooses, and savory with a mouth-watering richness that lasts long after the first bite of whatever the food might be. This reputation precedes it, and expert Xanan chefs and cooks are some of the most revered in the culinary industry for their mastery of their crafts.

Arguably the most famous human celebrity chefs alive, '''Cléophe & Lonnie D’Cruz''', a married power-couple in the Xanan food world, were both born and raised on Xanu Prime. Their combined adventurousness in the culinary industry with endeavors both inside and outside their chain of fine restaurants has garnered both them and Xanan cuisine a spotlight few planets’ food cultures can match. The couple met while attending a small culinary school in the city of Foy-Nijlen, fell in love, and then combined their skills to open what would be their first restaurant in their well-known fine-dining chain, '''Solstice Xanan Bistro'''. Marriage followed shortly after, and the two have been together at the forefront of the Xanan food world ever since. While they are married to one another, the duo’s personalities are distinctly different, something often accentuated for the camera. Cléophe is known for their generally supportive and encouraging personality who wishes to simply share the joy of cooking with the world and has written dozens of best-selling cookbooks to that end. They are also well-known for their appearances on Holovision shows and Holonet videos giving tutorials on how to make some of the D’Cruz’s most well-known recipes in a basic kitchen; it wouldn’t be unfair to say that an entire generation of Xanan home-cooks were taught by Cléophe D’Cruz. Lonnie, however is far more of a chef’s chef who adheres to very strict professional and artistic standards, something he extols through his appearances on cooking competition shows, often played up to be a very cold and perfectionistic critic. Despite this reputation, he much like his spouse, is also committed to educating people on Xanan culinary arts and to that end is the President and, along with Cléophe, co-owner of the D’Cruz Culinary Academy, a culinary school which while only ten years old, has quickly risen to be one of the most competitive on the planet.

While Xanan cuisine is diverse and constantly reinventing itself, the dishes characteristically include some kind of meat, most often chicken, beef, or shellfish, paired with greens like beans, asparagus, or broccoli, or a starch like potatoes and something characteristic of almost all Xanu dishes, long-grain aromatic basmati rice, typically grown on the hilly territory surrounding the upper Naya Khyber river. Spices like cumin, black pepper, coriander, cloves, cardamom, and garam masala are ubiquitous throughout Xanan cooking, and often find themselves as part of exceptionally rich and creamy white sauces made from milk, butter, salt, and eggs. Pork is not as popular as a meat on Xanu Prime as others are, given the prohibition on eating it from Xanu’s original Muslim colonists and its perceived uncleanliness that Xanu’s original Hindu colonists held as well. Some Hindus also choose to not eat beef, and as such, many of Xanu’s restaurants have an option to serve synthmeat or a vegan meat substitute instead of actual beef in their beef-dishes. The most consumed alcohol on Xanu Prime by far is beer, often made in the Belgian tradition brought to the planet by some of its original colonists. Brandy comes in second and third, and wine is also popular too, but is more associated with fine dining than it is with a drinking experience alone. Xanan cognac and armagnac brandies have drawn the ire of some in the European Union on Earth because it uses the labels of “cognac” and “armagnac" despite not being produced in the Charente, Charente-Maritime, or Armagnac regions of France, though Xanan producers have paid these complaints no heed.

Some notable Xanan dishes include:
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'''Steak Xanu'''
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As the name implies, '''Steak Xanu''' is a steak, and is typically pan-fried rather than grilled. Usually it is strip steak as opposed to coming from any other part of the cow, but any cut of beef can be made in the Xanan style. The secret comes in what the beef is cooked with. Before the strip goes into the pan it is left to marinate in a warm broth traditionally made from chicken stock, cardamom, and garlic for flavor and is then lathered all over with a light coating of ghee right before it meets the pan in order to give its outside a crunchy, slightly singed crust. The steak is cooked to medium rare as it is basted in its own juices along with butter, rosemary, and a very light touch of cayenne powder. After it is cooked to a medium rare, it is taken out of the pan and left to rest for a few minutes before being dashed with a cooked sour, cream sauce, often simply called “beef sauce” made from heavy cream, olive oil, whisked egg yolks, and citrus or mango powder. Black pepper is cracked over the top, and the dish is served. Some of Xanu Prime’s Hindu population refuses to eat this dish, however chicken can be cooked in a very similar way and is typically referred to as “Bird Steak” by the Xanan culinary community. It is the official dish of the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle, Xanu’s Capital.
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'''Pataliputra Curried Rice'''
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An mainstay dish and one sure to be found on almost any Xanan dinner table, '''Pataliputra Curried Rice''', often just called Xanu Curry by foreigners, is a twist on the typical curry recipe that originated in the port city of Pataliputra. It is a yellow curry that uses peanuts as one of its main ingredients, giving it a signature nuttiness that mixes quite well with the dish's spices. Where it differs from a traditional curry though, is that its sauce is made from two parts, one of which is a buttermilk-garlic-onion powder base that is very thick and holds in the flavor of the spices and vegetables put into the sauce, while the other is a very light, chicken-based velouté sauce made from combining chicken bone broth with a light, typically but not always, salted blond roux to give the sauce some substance. When the two sauces combine, they make for an exceptionally savory base upon which spices like ginger, garam masala, coriander, fenugreek, and thyme can be added. Meats like chicken or shell-fish are often added to the sauce along with things like beans or potatoes. Rice used in this recipe is traditionally Xanan basmati rice. Every person and every city on Xanu Prime has their own slight variation on how they make this dish, but what is listed above is generally what could be expected when ordering it. It is the official dish of the city of Pataliputra.
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets'''
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets''', or more informally River Crozets, is a dish that originated from the city of Foy-Nijlen and is one that makes use of the various animals caught off the city’s nearby ocean coast and also those found in the Naya Khyber river which runs through the city. The base of this pasta dish is a spicy tomato-basil-cayenne sauce with melted and dissolved Naya Khyber river penguin blubber mixed into the sauce in place of a more traditional fat like butter, ghee, or olive oil. The pasta itself, the Crozets, are small rectangles which resemble something more akin to breakfast cereal in size and shape rather than a more noodly kind of pasta. The crozets are made from buckwheat, eggs, and flour, and are usually cooked al dente so as to retain a bit of firmness. Along with the pieces of pasta, river boiled lobster, fish, crab, or even river penguin meat is pan-fried with butter, rosemary, cardamom, coriander, and cloves before being put into the pasta usually in small bite-sized pieces. Black pepper is cracked over the dish and cumin is dashed over the meat and the dish is served in a heated stoneware bowl. It is the official dish of the city of Foy-Nijlen.
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'''Bunker Buster Sandwich'''
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The '''Bunker Buster Sandwich''' is perhaps the most famous example of Xanan street food. At its core, the dish can be used to refer to almost any toasted open-faced sandwich served on naan bread with over-easy eggs, fried vegetables, shredded cheese, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and garam masala. In practice however, the six ingredients mentioned above are only the beginning of what a bunker buster might be, as really anything from meats to veggies to mushrooms can be put on the sandwich so long as it tastes good. It’s incredibly easy to make and traces its roots back to the reconstruction of the city of Kshatragarh shortly after the Interstellar War, starting as a quick and easy meal for construction workers to make as a lunch. Many of these workers lived in the city’s underground bunker complexes while above-ground housing was being rebuilt, leading to the sandwich’s name. It has since spread all over Xanu Prime, and a visitor to any given Xanan city is likely to find dozens of variations on this simple, long-time favorite food. It is the official dish of the city of Kshatragarh.
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo'''
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo''' is a dish originating in the city of Paastad, but can be found across the entire continent of Paasland. It is made from the meat of the large waterfowl, the Paaskraan, and is similar to the traditional preparation of vindaloo with one major exception: the meat is not cooked with the vindaloo paste and is only added at the end. Instead, the meat of the Paaskraan is pan-fried until fully cooked and is usually then seared in a sweet vanilla sauce to give it a crunchy, caramelized outer shell. After this process, it is added to the cooked vindaloo paste (cloves, cinnamon, cariander, cardamom, cumin, red peppers, ginger, mustard seeds, black pepper) and served over rice, as a crunchy and spicy meal. It is the official dish of the city of Paastad.
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'''North 60 Sea Platter'''
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The '''North 60 Sea Platter''' is less a single coherent dish and more an entire subsection of dishes based around the theme of seafood caught north of 60 degrees latitude. Himavatian sea salmon or arctic tuna, usually pan-fried in olive oil or smoked and served with lemon and black pepper, commonly forms the center of the dish with arctic crab legs or lobster tail sold off to the side paired with a creamy garlic sauce. Other components could include fried octopus and squid or freshly caught steamed shrimp. What makes the dish more than just a typical seafood platter is a special malt vinegar made specifically from ale brewed in the Xanan tradition with added apple and lemon juice. More budget friendly variations of this dish exist as well, such as ones that swap the pan-fried salmon or tuna for smaller, less expensive, deep-fried fish, the lobster and crab for shrimp, and are commonly found in Himavat City bars as a cheap, delicious option for a lunch or dinner. The food arrangement originated in the city and is its official dish.
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Not all food on Xanu Prime is within the realm of “fine dining” however. When not at the table for a full meal, the average Xanan can reach for any number of snack foods produced by Xanan companies. Many of these have become not just popular on Xanu Prime, but throughout the entire Coalition and beyond thanks to the aggressive marketing and economic dominance of Xanan shipping and food conglomerates.

===Drink===
Along with its food culture, Xanu Prime is renowned for some of the alcohol the planet produces as well. The planet’s main claim to fame in this area are in the spheres of beer, wine, and brandy. The planet has brewed beer since its founding, with the Xanan style of beer crafting having its roots in the Belgian-style brought to the planet by colonists from the BeNeLux itself. The most popular brand of beer on Xanu Prime is '''Prince Pallav Blonde Ale''', a golden concoction brewed in Foy-Niljen that has held dominance over the Xanu Beer market for the last two decades. This robustness in the brewing has brought the planet into a rivalry with the nearby planet of Himeo, the two of them both having proud beer-making heritages that often brings them to test this with each other. For the last decade and a half, brewers from the two planets have engaged in a festival called Hoptoberfest, a week-long celebration of the craft of brewing beer held every October complete with live music, authentic Xanan and Himean cuisine, and crucially for the craft brewers of both planets, competitions determining which beer is the best for that year. The festival changes venues from Paastad, Xanu Prime and Inverkeithing, Himeo every other year.
In addition to beer, Xanu Prime imported a strong wine culture from its original colonists, namely the French ones. Vineyards dot the Xanan countryside on every continent, with a few even on the southernmost peninsulas of Himavatia. The planet makes a wide variety of wine, though it is most notable for its own variety of Malbec grown in the mountains of Naya Khyber and Nouvelle-Occitanie called '''Khyberian Malbec'''. Where Xanu Prime’s wine truly shines though is not in the wine itself but in its use in fortified wine products like brandy and cognac. The unique climatological conditions of Foy-Niljen brandy country have led to the grapes grown there to be perfectly suited to making fortified wines and distilled wines, leading to their flavors to be pronounced but not overbearing up front with subtle, complex notes coming to the surface the more the drinker savors the beverage. The most noteworthy and popular drinks of this category are the mid-range priced '''2275''', a mainstay brandy of Xanan bars and kitchen cabinets alike, and '''Saint-James Black Label,''' the gold standard of Xanan luxury cognac. The national cocktail of the All-Xanu Republic is the '''Stag Hunt''', so named for its popularity on hunting trips and other outdoor activities during the summer. It is a simple drink made by mixing three parts brandy, typically 2275, one part lemon juice, and two parts chilled tea usually served over ice in a highball glass. Chai is the most consumed tea variety on Xanu Prime and the soft drink Xanu Rush is also very popular on the planet.

==Arts and Entertainment==
===Visual Art===
Xanan visual arts are vast and have an uncountable number of movements and subgenres. Generally, though, Xanan artworks are reflective pieces and try to examine the human condition rather than focus on the form by which the artwork expresses itself. Xanan visual arts have been heavily influenced by the original Western European cultures which settled the planet and as such, drawing and painting are the most prevalent forms of Xanan art. Sculpture that has been inspired by South Asian cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are also prevalent, however. The most famous and well-known movement of Xanan art is often called the Atman Movement and it lasted from the 2340’s until the 2390’s. Most art scholars consider it an offshoot of Symbolism and Neoclassicism but with noticeable existential elements. Pieces of the movement hold an almost ethereal aesthetic, and usually feature elements like fanciful Greco-Roman or Indian ruins, ruins that aren’t even found on Xanu Prime, bright, vibrant colors contrasted by dark backdrops, and esoteric spiritual imagery sourced from Xanu Prime’s three largest religions. The goal of all of this, in the words of the Xanan master painter Arnold Vasudevan, a key figure in the movement, is, “To imagine Humanity and the human condition as if we could breach the barrier between this world and the next with our own hearts and achieve revelation and clarity through the beauty within and without our souls and the world around us.” An offshoot of this movement referred to as Wartime Atman replaces the ruins of classical civilisations with scenes of wartime destruction found on Xanu Prime during the days of the Interstellar War and is meant to make the viewer reflect on things like conflict and mortality. The most famous piece of visual artwork of the Atman Movement and arguably of all Xanan visual art is called “The Truce" by Harini Martin. It is a colossal mural of a painting that is four meters tall and ten meters wide which depicts the ghosts of dozens of fallen Xanan and Solarian soldiers enjoying leisure time and doing activities like enjoying meals with one another, idly talking, showing each other photographs, and playing games and sports with one another over the backdrop of a desolate Interstellar War era battlefield in what used to be a Xanan city. The sky around the edges is a dark color, however in the center of the painting’s sky is a brilliant white, alabaster, pink, and red halo that shines light on the entire painting. It was unveiled to the public at the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery, Xanu Prime’s national art gallery, in 2387 as part of a ceremony to commemorate one-hundred years of peace with the Solarian Alliance and has remained a permanent fixture in the museum since. Notable Xanan sculptures include Our Lady of Sorrows, a giant statue of the Virgin Mary included in the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, and Skyward Unity, a large sculpture commemorating the elevation of Paastad.

===Architecture and Cityscapes===
The traditional Xanan style of architecture can be described as a hybridization of various styles of design from the Indian subcontinent and Western Europe, much like the origins of the planet’s original colonists. Xanan buildings usually have some form of artistic design on their exteriors, even if it’s as simple as a basic tile weave around entrances or semi-ornate molding around windows. Many have lines drawn on the outside in paint or sculpted on, and Xanan buildings are usually painted with bright, if mellow, colors if they are painted at all. Most Xanan buildings are taller than they are wide and long, courtesy of the planet’s re-urbanisation plans after the Interstellar War and because buildings in most urban areas are taxed based on how much land they take up. Most Xanan buildings have some form of accoutrement around their roofs, usually being a modest carving or bust of a family’s ancestor if it’s a house or a historical or religious figure, representing the theme of memorialisation found elsewhere in Xanan culture. The roofs themselves of most Xanan buildings are usually vaulted or occasionally are domed or flat. Larger, more modern buildings like skyscrapers on Xanu Prime have a distinctive half-sloping-roof look pioneered during the beginning of Xanu’s economic resurgence during the mid 2330s. Originally implemented as a cost-saving measure to make a building that still looked tall but didn’t need to have as much office space, the half-sloped roof or “Xanan Roof” style of skyscraper has part of the building’s roof flat and level with the ground while another portion of it slopes downwards. This style of design has become emblematic of Xanu Prime and even the newest skyscrapers on the planet are built with this design in mind, despite its economical origins. Xanan buildings are made from a variety of materials, with the few-surviving pre-war structures being made from wood, brick, and steel while commercial and industrial buildings built after the Interstellar War are made from concrete, steel, and glass with plaster or clay facades. Individual houses are still mostly made from wood or brick, however. Sizes and shapes of Xanan residences vary, with some being modest single-family homes typical of other places within the spur. Multi-story townhouse complexes surrounding a single communal courtyard are common in urban areas and are often inhabited by entire extended families. In more densely populated areas, large communal apartments built for extended families are common, though some wealthier families have pursued a policy of “Co-flooring,” a type of retail arrangement where an entire extended family will rent out an entire floor of traditional single-family apartments from a property agency. Some buildings on Xanu Prime play very heavily into inspiration from the planet’s original cultures and would not look out of place in South Asia or Western Europe, though buildings built like those are in the minority of Xanu Prime’s structures.

The last notable architectural feature found in many Xanan cities are residual walls and gun emplacements left over from the Xanan Civil War. Of Xanu’s six major cities, only three, Nouvelle Rochelle, Pataliputra, and Foy-Niljen have them still, with Kshatrigarh’s being destroyed beyond repair during the Interstellar War and Paastad’s torn down during the city’s elevation, lest they sink into the swamp. Himavat City never had walls, as it was too small of a community to have built them during the Xanan Civil War. The walls proved useful during both of the planet’s most devastating conflicts, acting as barriers to outsiders and platforms for return fire, but due to the gargantuan cost of operation and maintenance, the walls and their gun emplacements were decommissioned in the 2310s as a part of the Sneijders Government’s economic recovery plans. Today, the walls stand as partially restored massive memorial complexes dedicated to those who fought and died during both the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War, with some cities having sections of wall filled with the names of those who died during the conflicts from those respective cities.

Xanan cities are generally filled with greenery as both a measure to keep temperatures down during the summer and simply provide Xanans with natural beauty even in the most urban of places. Large public transit networks consisting mostly of subway systems and tramways are found in almost every Xanan city and most of those who live in the urban cores of Xanan cities do not own automobiles, while Xanans who live in the country, suburbs, and smaller cities have a higher percentage of car ownership. The most common way to get around on Xanu Prime however is by bike or motorbike; Xanu Prime has the most bikes per capita of any planet in the Orion Spur, even beating out the Solarian population hubs of Callisto and New Hai Phong. Generally speaking, Xanan cities are walkable and do not require an automobile to move around efficiently, and some Xanan cities have banned the construction of freeways and overpasses entirely in order to preserve their cities’ “authentic landscapes.”

===Literature===
Xanan literature has cemented itself around the institution of “The Great Novel,” something often defined in Xanan culture as a work of literary art that has captured the essence or soul of the Xanan struggle and of the planet’s people through the usage of compelling stories and multifaceted characters. Novels written in the Xanan style usually have psychological and spiritual themes and use supernatural or otherwise fantastical elements to explore Xanan the human condition, usually in surreal or otherwise unorthodox methods. Xanan novels are typically not adapted into films as is seen elsewhere in the Orion Spur due to Xanan movie-going audiences preferring musicals and epics instead, but they have become popular as holovision shows, stageplays, and miniseries.

Some notable works of Xanan Literature are:
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====Gloam in Gold====
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It is hard to understate the importance and influence of Foy-Niljen writer Arif Hugo’s 2345 masterpiece Gloam in Gold in the Xanan literary canon. The text, while short for a novel, is considered to be not just a seminal work of Xanan writing but also quite possibly the greatest novel ever written in the Freespeak language, despite its unorthodox, almost anthological structure. It is set in 2296 during the initial reconstruction of the city of Kshatrigarh and focuses on the character Madhar Emond, a Kshatrapur native and veteran of the Interstellar War now working to rebuild the battered city during the aftermath of the terrible conflict. His life isn’t a glamorous one and he spends most of his days doing hard, construction labor, digging paving roads, working on buildings, and the like. One day on his way home from work, he stops by one of the city’s many large cemeteries to rest and watch the sunset, however shortly after his arrival he lays down in the grass and begins to hear voices around him. He’s alerted by these and denounces them as hallucinations at first as he sees no one around who could be speaking to him, yet as the sun sets further below the horizon, he realizes that there is some coherence through the voices and that they are in fact, the voices of the dead, fully aware of their condition yet unable to move on to the afterlife.

Madhar listens in to their conversations for a moment and is eventually confronted by the voice of one of the deceased, one Missus Pandit, an elderly woman who died of old age before the city was besieged. She acts as a sort of a guide who explains the dispositions of each of the ghosts present, and each part of the novel tells a story of a different spirit inhabiting the cemetery proceeding in the order of Missus Pandit herself, and then to Mister Quint and Miss Jessup, a young Himean immigrant couple who perished together from starvation during the siege and seem to be resigned to their fates, and recount their lives from Himeo and their immigration to Xanu before the war broke out, their desperation during the siege, and now their dead, yet still loving existence of being with each other even in death. Madhar’s conversation with the couple is interrupted by the voice of Marcus Thevar, a rich and vulgar middle-aged businessman.

Marcus refuses to reveal how he died and seems to be entirely preoccupied with finding a drink and scoring some action from the cemetery’s various young female ghosts, one “Miss Periwinkle” foremost among them. Miss Periwinkle’s gravestone has been defaced, though she looks to be buried in the plot next to Thevar, much to her dismay. She’s the spirit of a young, pious woman with a noticeable Lunan accent who claims to have died from tuberculosis during the siege. She refuses to say her real name and repeatedly breaks from talking to Madhar to fend off verbal advances from Thevar, before quietly lamenting to Madhar that her days of being confined to the mortal plane despite being dead and needing to routinely reject the, “slovenly attempts at romance,” by her neighbor is God’s unique choice of purgatory for herself. Despite this, even in this “purgatory” she finds some joy in acting as an almost motherly figure to Patrice, the ghost of a five-year old child who doesn’t know how he died but according to Miss Periwinkle, seems to have abruptly perished in the aftermath of the siege after naively playing with unexploded ordnance he found a local park’s sandbox. Miss Periwinkle parts with Madhar after claiming she needs to tend to the child, and her voice fades away.

After this, the story shifts to that of Private Hendriks, a solemn Xanan infantryman who was killed during the battle and laments that he will never be able to return home to his mother and Lieutenant Ma, a Solarian bomber pilot who was shot down over the city during a night raid and is a conflicted character. She is racked by the guilt of possibly killing innocent civilians yet reminisces on what a still-united Sol Alliance might have looked like without the carnage and in his words, “tragedy” of the Interstellar War. Hendriks and Ma seem to spend most of their days now arguing with each other, the conflict lingering on past their deaths, much to the annoyance of the cemetary’s other inhabitants.

Lastly, Madhar is spoken to by the voice of a young woman, a teenager named Penelope, who brokenly and through a voice characterized by sounding as if she’s on the verge of tears, tells Madhar that her body is in fact, not even buried within the cemetery at all, but that her body instead lies buried beneath a new road built on the graveyard’s northern edge and sulks to him that nobody will ever remember her or who she was since there’s nothing to mark her grave. Madhar, heartbroken in this discovery, realizes that he was part of the crew that paved that very road and profusely apologizes to Penelope for spoiling any chance she might have ever had with a proper burial and claims that it was done in the name of progress for the city and for Xanu Prime. Penelope’s voice rejects this and breaks into tears, repeating the fact that nobody will remember her or who she was, but eventually she is soothed by Madhar’s assurances that he will remember her and that he’ll never forget that she lived and died in the city. Seemingly consoled, Penelope thanks Madhar before her voice too fades away and leaves him in silence, the sky now dark. He makes his way home in solemn, quiet contemplation, thinking about the various spirits he’s heard over the last few hours and once again questions if it was even real. When he gets home to a modest, quickly built apartment, he resolves to himself that whether what he heard was real or not, he cannot forget the past even in pursuit of the future.
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'''The Screen Behind the Mirror''', written in 2419 by the second-generation Fisanduhian Xanan writer Elanea Chatfield, is another one of Xanu Prime’s great novels. It’s a semi-autobiographical story, taking some elements from Chatfield’s own life and putting them into the events of the plot. It is also is a very spiritual text, having references, symbols of, and allusions to the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Tribunalist Scripture, and Luceian holy texts throughout to help convey its themes of residual trauma, destruction and rebirth, and enlightenment.

This semi-autobiographical story follows the experience of a young accountant named Demitra during a camping trip out to the remote New Pacific Scarlands for some time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The story’s structure is unorthodox and the chapters bounce between describing her current experience in the scarlands, and recounting flashbacks to her childhood growing up as a Fisanduhian refugee in a diverse community of Xanan and Assunzionii-Xanans on Xanu Prime. The story in the present is a tale of survival that begins after Elanea’s camping group has a car crash on a back-country road with her being the only surviving member. Much of her food and shelter perished in the blaze and she’s left to fend for herself in the forest and crater lake-filled wilderness around her. She manages to build herself some crude shelter, but during her first night in the wilderness, she’s awoken by a bright ray of light reflecting off of what she can only describe as a large phantasmagorical mirror levitating just outside the border of her crude encampment. In the mirror she sees her own reflection, but not as she is now, but rather how she was as a child at ten years old.

The book then cuts to her life as a ten year old, going over Demitra’s seemingly mundane memories of living in a low-income, almost ramshackled home with her Fisanduhian refugee family in Nouvelle Rochelle, setting the scene for the reader and introducing them to the characters of Demitra’s concerned, yet judgemental mother, silent and stoic father, whiny younger brother, and somewhat detached and aloof older sister over a standard family dinner. This scene ends and we are brought back into the present, the next morning, where upon waking, Demitra discovers that the mirror still resides outside of her camp. When she leaves to forage for food and tries to hunt something with a hatchet she was able to retrieve from the car crash, the mirror silently follows her, always levitating behind her just out of reach. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between this story of survival, following Demitra’s struggles to build a fire, fish, and hunt, and her childhood memories, with the line between the two becoming increasingly blurred as her situation becomes more and more desperate. She sees apparitions of her childhood friends and her deceased father walking around as if it was the most normal thing in the world, calling out to her yet never responding to her words. The memories become less and less pleasant as time goes on, with the phantom mirror showing her family fights, tough times in school with childhood bullies, and the deaths of family members all while her situation in reality, struggling in the wilderness becomes more and more dire.

The story climaxes with Demitra screaming her frustrations at the mirror in the wee hours of the morning, venting her frustrations to it and breaking down into tears while explaining her feeling on herself in detail to the mirror, stating that she knows she’s at her core a broken person but that despite all that the mirror has shown her she is only motivated to survive in the remote wilderness of the scarlands. Her flaws and trauma have only informed her more of her humanity, and she finishes this monologue with the line, “I’ve survived fucking everything else so far, I am not dying alone out here no matter how hard you try to make me want to!” Ever silent, the mirror remains but grows blindingly bright, so much so that the forest itself begins to smolder and catch fire from the phantasmagorical brilliance it emits. Struggling to cover herself from the light, Demitra covers her eyes but is directed by some voice, “Come and see, and behold, She who is all that is, ever was, and will be.” As she feels her very skin begin to burn and peel away from the mirror’s light, Demitra takes a metaphorical leap of faith and opens her eyes, no longer seeing the mirror but an eye made from flames staring right at her, blacking out and collapsing soon afterwards. In perhaps the most notable section of the novel, the page after Demitra’s collapse is entirely blank except for one sentence placed in the middle of the page: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.”

The plot picks up on the next page there with a jump to Demitra regaining consciousness in the back of a rescue VTOL-craft, surrounded by paramedics on a steady flight to a hospital. Demitra asks the medics on the craft with her how they found her and they confusedly reply that a signal mirror was flashing an S.O.S signal at a passing shuttle and it was reported to them, and remark they thought it was Demitra herself who’d sent the signal. She makes it safely to a hospital in a small country town and the story ends with her looking out onto the reflection of a moonlit lake, contemplating what she saw and asking herself how she possibly could still be alive.

The Screen Behind the Mirror has stood the test of time as a venerable pillar of Xanan literature since its publication nearly fifty years ago. The book saw some controversy upon its initial release however, with some more conservative voices in Xanu Prime’s various religious organizations calling it a sacreligious text with some even calling for the book to be burned en masse. The Morozian Holy Tribunal in the Empire of Dominia has banned the sale of the book within Dominian space, a fact that its author Elena Chatfield wears with pride and its publishing company has used to boost sales of the book within the Coalition and Republic of Elyra. This controversy has been eclipsed in the Xanan public eye by its literary brilliance however and it remains popular today among all demographics on the planet. It has been famously hard to adapt to a holovision show however, with all four attempts never getting past the preproduction stage or falling apart during production and has been referred to as a "cursed" story by those in the entertainment industry for that reason.
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====MMCDXLII====
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A fine example of the recently popular Xanan science fiction tradition, '''MMCDXLII''' (pronounced as 2442) by Kshatrigarh writer Jakob Rajeev is an alternate history science fiction novel published in 2442 set in a alternate timeline where Xanu Prime was blasted from orbit by Solarian forces during the Interstellar War and sent into a perpetual nuclear winter similar to how Gadpathur was in reality. The setting of the story is the city of Khairabad, or at least what is left of it. Before the bombardment of the planet took place, roughly 10,000 of the city’s inhabitants retreated underground into the vast bunker complexes residing below. Believing that they are the only people still left on Xanu Prime, the people of Khairabad have been steadily working towards the goal of reestablishing contact with the rest of the outside world. The plot follows Hridith, one of the few people in the ruins of Khairabad entrusted with the dangerous duty of venturing to the surface in order to scavenge the ruins of the dead city for supplies and clues which might help the people of Khairabad and by extension Xanu Prime as a whole, re-establish contact with the rest of the world. One day while scavenging above, he comes across an old military base which miraculously still has much of its telecommunications equipment in order, including an interstellar radio transmitter. Retreating back to the underground with his news, Hridith’s discovery kicks off a power-struggle and internal civil war within the bunkers of Khairabad as the various factions of the city vie over who should be the ones to contact the outside and by extension reap whatever benefits it may bring. Hridith falls into the game of politics and violence as members of the underground try to influence him for their own selfish aims all while he confronts his own guilt for having sparked this conflict in the first place with his discovery. Eventually, he resolves to destroy the array to stop those around him from killing each other in what he sees as a senseless war.

The book climaxes in a last stand between the soldiers of a local warlord and Hridith supported by his friends on the surface at the array where the story’s plot was put into motion. Just as Hridith is about to destroy the transmitter once and for all, he has a change of heart and, unbeknownst to any other Xanans, sends his own message out into the universe a phrase that has been immortalized in Xanan literary history: “SLEEPLESS ANGELS HAVE BLESSED US. XANU PREVAILS.” After this transmission, Hridith detonates the bombs on the transmitter and is killed in the subsequent explosion along with all of his friends, the warlord, and all of the warlord’s soldiers. The story ends on a vague note in a room tucked away in a Himean communication station with a prompt on a console reading, “TRANSMISSION RECEIVED.” MMCDXLII has been lauded as a cornerstone of the Xanan science fiction genre since its publication in 2442, with many critics seeing it as a parallel tale of sorts to the reality of the Xanan Civil War. The author, Jakob Rajeev, has gone on to write other novels since, but has moved away from the post-apocalyptic setting and advanced into writing sci-fi horror novels and space operas, marking MMCDXLII as a truly unique title in his portfolio. It has seen a successful, chart-topping holovision adaptation and a prequel series set in the world of MMCDXLII's post-apocalyptic Khariabad is currently in pre-production.
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===Film===
Xanu Prime is the entertainment capital of the Coalition and perhaps the largest contributor to this status is the Xanan film industry. Films made by Xanan studios have long proliferated across the Coalition since the end of the Interstellar War and are essential in any serious discussion about Xanan art and culture. While Xanu Prime’s directors have made films under almost every genre since the industry started to take off in the 2310’s, Xanan audiences have taken particularly well to dramas, musicals, and a genre of Xanan invention, the Interfilm. The Xanan film industry has an ongoing rivalry with its Solarian counterpart, especially that centered on Venus. Xanan productions typically do not have as big of budgets as their Venusian counterparts and are usually outclassed in terms of visual effects and and as such are sometimes limited in the kinds of stories and scenarios they can portray. Xanan films make-up for these deficiencies by instead focusing on things like writing and storytelling. The winner of this rivalry is up in the air, and different critics will give different answers, though it is almost always guaranteed that entries from Xanu Prime and Venus will compete against each other in the Spur’s biggest film festivals and awards ceremonies. The three largest genres of Xanan film are dramas, musicals, and an indigenous kind of war film created on Xanu Prime called Interfilm.

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====Dramas - ''The Love Melancholic''====
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Xanan dramas are often very introspective and personal pieces which focus on realistic problems often with relationships or with the world at large and typically involve the main protagonist or protagonists of the films confronting some kind of tragedy or trauma. A large portion of Xanan dramas are produced by independent filmmakers, something that Xanu Prime has become a hotspot for in the last half-century.

The most well known Xanan dramas is '''The Love Melancholic''', a 2424 four-hour long dramatic period-piece epic directed by Savitri de Graaf, a woman hailed as one of the best ever directors in Xanan film whose work has stood the test of time despite its age. The plot follows the life of a young woman, Roxanne, moving to Nouvelle-Rochelle during the reconstruction of Xanu Prime during the Second Astonishment looking to start a life for herself. While there, she’s met with the challenge of an accidental pregnancy and conflicting emotions over whether to abort the fetus or bring it to term, and eventually decides to have the child. The film then follows Roxanne's life through the next decade and a half as a working mother who finds success in her career but is lonesome aside from the company of her daughter, until she meets a newly-arrived Himean immigrant, Markus, on the train home from work and the two slowly begin to fall in love, though complications and difficulties in personality and circumstances plague their efforts to see the best in each other. The film ends not with a happily ever after ending, but with a tentatively optimistic, bittersweet scene of Markus and Roxanne, now both nearing middle age by this point in the film, agreeing to try and make their relationship work while acknowledging the flaws in one another. The film is a classic among Xanan and Himean audiences and won record-breaking numbers of awards and accolades when released. It has even seen popularity in some circles in the Solarian Alliance, Republic of Biesel, and Republic of Elyra. Many film critics consider it to be a cornerstone of Human cinematic history and the best Xanan film ever made, though this position is disputed by others.
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====Musicals - ''North 60''====
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While Xanan-made dramas may be the most well-received critically of most Xanan films, by far the most popular among the Xanan filmgoing audience for the last few decades are musicals. Musicals made in the Xanan style are often high-budget, over-the-top, and exceptionally grand, showy affairs. They are famous for elements like their large choreographic sequences which can involve dozens of dancers, massive and brightly coloured sets, often romance-centered plots with comedic elements, and musical style which often takes musical instruments from Xanu Prime’s colonizing cultures and puts a pop musical spin on them. When one speaks of "Pataliwood," musicals are what come to mind first. Most Xanans do not put musicals on the same level as other films and see them as something to watch for pulpy entertainment and spectacle rather than for their serious artistic value, though they will obsess over them and their stories all the same. Xanan house parties typically involve the screening of a musical in the living room and songs from some of the genre’s classics have cemented themselves into the Xanan cultural canon.

A recent notable example of a musical made in the Xanan style is '''North 60''', a 2461 film directed by Sabine Venturino, that centers on a young man from Nouvelle-Rochelle named Peter who inherits a fortune from a long-lost deceased uncle who made it big in the record industry. Overjoyed, Peter claims the fortune but learns that he can only receive his riches on the condition that he moves to his dead uncle’s dilapidated estate on the outskirts of Himavat City and lives there for one year. Peter moves but upon arrival hates his arrangements; he cannot stand the cold, remote nature of the city, but soon finds joy in its culture and music scene. He also develops a romance with the daughter of a record executive, a girl named Priti. Unbeknownst to Peter though, Priti’s father Jeroen is Peter’s uncle’s former business partner and wants to get Peter to leave Himavat City so he can claim the young man’s fortune for himself, as per the uncle’s will. Hilarity and antics ensue. The film ends with Peter deciding to forgo his fortune and instead running away from Himavat City with his love Priti and starting a new life together in Foy-Nijlen. The film is the highest-ever grossing Xanan musical and won a series of awards as well, though it saw only limited popularity outside of the Xanan market. This is a theme among Xanan musicals: massive domestic success but only limited success abroad, the reasons for which are routinely debated by many within the Xanan film community.
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====Interfilms - ''Count the Days''====
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The last of Xanu Prime’s most popular movie genres is one of Xanan invention: the Interfilm. Interfilms are very long, often multipart war epics set during the Interstellar War, a conflict from which the genre gets its name. They often have ensemble casts and focus on a variety of viewpoints rather than a single protagonist. These films often showcase themes of tragedy associated with the Interstellar War and ennoble the sacrifice of the Xanan nation and individuals during the war. These films are very serious and are seen as a direct contrast to the Xanan Musical genre in tone and content.

A keystone of the Interfilm genre is the series '''Count the Days''', a pentalogy directed by Xanan journeyman director Pierre Duchesne totalling over sixteen hours in length, with its installments releasing in 2447, 2449, 2450, 2552, and 2454 respectively. The story at first follows an officer in the Xanan Army, Captain Paul Ibrahim, stationed around Pataliputra. He leads his company through a very bloody battle in which the majority of his men are killed, by the end of the battle, his unit is more or less completely wiped out and he’s reassigned to command a new company, one unlike any he’s seen before. He’s given command of Company Y, an all-female volunteer unit that hasn’t ever seen combat before and is dumbfounded at first due to his belief that a female unit wouldn’t fight as well as a male one. He however is told by his superiors that he risks demotion of he doesn’t take on the unit, so he begrudgingly agrees. The first movie follows Ibrahim’s efforts to help train and ready his new unit for combat while he and the audience get to know the women of Company Y. Throughout the film, his outlook on his troops begins to change, and he connects with them more as people, though he still does not think they have the mettle to withstand warfare. The film ends with the Company seeing its first taste of combat during the opening stages of the Siege of Khairabad and Company Y sustaining horrendous losses and being cut off from the rest of the Xanan army in Khairabad.

The second film takes place during the Siege of Khairabad proper, and is a tale of the fight for not just victory but survival as the remnants of Company Y fight their way through parts of the occupied city to link up with the rest of the Xanan forces trying to hold their ground against the encroaching Solarian forces. Throughout this struggle, the Company comes across enemies but also Xanan partisan fighters who link up with the Company and join them on their journey to reconnect with their lines. During this film, Captain Ibrahim has his opinion changed on the women he commands, and he comes to see them as strong soldiers regardless of their gender. The movie ends with the Company and their new partisan compatriots reconnecting with the rest of the Xanan force defending Khairabad.

The third installment of the series is not so action packed in comparison to the second one and is mostly centered on the members of Company Y recovering from the events of the first two films and grieving their fallen comrades while integrating the partisans from the second film formally into their ranks and is the only film in the series that does not have an action sequence. It ends with the company being resupplied and ready to once again take the fight to the enemy.

The fourth part of the series is often seen as the black sheep of the series and departs from the story of Company Y to instead focus on 6th Company, a Solarian unit from Mars participating on the other side of the Siege of Khairabad. 6th Company is led by Captain Emily Mikkelsen, an embittered veteran of the Interstellar War until this point who is concerned only with ensuring that the troops under her command stay alive and sees victory in the siege as a means to that end. Part 4 shows events from the parts 1 and 2 through the eyes of the Solarians, and goes to great ends in order to humanize them, with members of 6th Company being portrayed as people who believe in the ideal of a united humanity under the Sol Alliance but also as people who don’t see the war as theirs and who want to return home to their lives and families most of all. The film ends with 6th Company preparing to launch an assault against Xanan positions in the ruins of Khairabad.

The fifth and final installment of the Count the Days series begins with a dramatic battle sequence between Xanan and Solarian forces, with the attention split equally between Company Y and 6th Company during the fighting. During the carnage however, multiple members of Company Y and 6th Company become separated from their units and run into each other on the battlefield, with many dying to one another in heart-wrenching sequences that brought tears to many a Xanan filmgoers’ eyes. The two captains, Ibrahim and Mikkelsen, also encounter one another, but both having been wounded and exhausted by the fighting decide to sit inside of a bombed out building and try to recover their strength together. The two have a long conversation about their lives before the war and the people under their command, avoiding any conversation about either’s actual thoughts on the conflict and instead just treating each other as people rather than enemies. After further rumination and conversation, Ibrahim comes to the realization that his wounds are mortal and that he will likely die from them if he doesn’t receive medical attention and asks Mikkelsen to kill him so that he might die with honor. Mikkelsen protests at first, finding some difficulty in pulling the trigger on a man she’d just spent the better part of a half-an-hour getting to know, but eventually concedes and agrees, seeing it not as an act of anger, but of mercy for Ibrahim. She shoots him and then begins her trek out of the bombed out building, with the shot lingering on Ibrahim’s corpse for a good long few seconds, only for a team of Xanan medics to enter the building and find Captain Ibrahim’s body, just minutes after his death. The medics transport his corpse back to the Xanan lines where the rest of Company Y has regrouped, and they mourn the loss of their officer and friend in a dramatic, heart-crushing scene. The series ends with Captain Mikkelsen and 6th Company in their camp that night, staring forlornly at a campfire, exhausted from the day’s fighting and failed assault before receiving orders to fall back to the rear of the Solarian force to recover their strength. As they leave, Captain Mikkelsen looks to the Xanan lines and begins to sob as the screen then pans up and fades to black on the smoke-filled night sky.

The Count the Days pentalogy is widely regarded as one of the best of the Interfilm genre and is to date the highest-grossing and most-awarded film series in Coalition history and has spawned a die-hard fanbase of supporters. It received a widespread release across the Coalition and Biesel and even saw limited screenings in the Solarian Alliance. The series is regarded by many to be a masterwork of Xanan cinema and a quintessential look into how Xanu Prime views its relationship with the Interstellar War.
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===Holovision===
The world of Xanan holovision is the most diverse in the entire Coalition of Colonies. Almost anything can be found on Xanan HV, live sports, dramas, talk shows, news, infomercials, and shows on a wide variety of premises. The quality of Xanan holovision is similarly varied, with some shows having hundreds of millions of credits in budgets while others are very obviously cheap and made to be aired or streamed as quickly as possible. Whatever the case, Xanan holovision programming and shows can be found across the Coalition and Human Frontier and generally has a positive reputation among foreign watchers. By and large, the most popular genres of holovision programming on Xanu Prime are dramas and sitcoms.

The most-watched Xanan Holovision program of all is a long-running late-night variety program called '''Teddy''', hosted by comedian and media personality '''Theodore Llewellyn'''. The show has been on-air and on popular Xanan and CoC streaming services for nearly twenty years at this point with its first episode having aired in 2447. Theodore Llewellyn is described by many in the Xanan media as “The Lord of Late Night,” due to his dominance over the late-night talk show genre paired with his polite, yet witty interview and conversational style. His show often showcases new musical acts, up-and-coming comedians, and routinely interviews the most talked about figures and celebrities in the Xanan entertainment industry and society at large. He also has been known to host games for his guests and for airing live or pre-recorded comedy sketches for his audience, usually involving himself or his guests as characters. Teddy is not just popular among Xanan audiences though and is watched by fans across the Coalition, both in Xanan Freespeak and in translated dubs of the Coalition’s various languages. He is also a prominent cultural ambassador for Xanu Prime to Himeo and has used his fame to advocate for closer cooperation and harmony between the two planets when off the air. Occasionally, the show will even film episodes on-location on various planets throughout the Coalition for promotional purposes, most often Himeo due to Llewellyn’s Himean heritage, being the child of two Himean immigrants to Xanu Prime. Llewellyn has joked at times about running for President under the Good Neighbor Party, though these jests haven't manifested in any political campaigns quite yet.

For information on Xanan Holovision dramas and sitcoms please read the two entries below.
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====Xanan HV Dramas====
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Much like on film, Xanans have a penchant for HV dramas, however these diverge significantly from the seriousness of their film counterparts. Xanan Holovision Dramas are very popular on the planet and can be separated into two categories: 5-Dramas and 2-Dramas.

5-Dramas are aired every day during the week on Xanu’s HV channels during the daytime, and are notorious for their low-production values, often odd, pulpy, and convoluted plots focused around absurd twists, romantic scandals and intrigue, as well as their inexhaustible lifespans, with the most popular of them having gone on for decades. The longest running and most popular of all Xanan 5-Dramas is '''A Time to Be Alive''', a series that has been running for 47 years at this point and has followed the lives and hardships of the fictional Khanna family, a massive upper-middle class extended family from Foy-Niljen. The series has uncountable plotlines and has been criticized for its convoluted and melodramatic writing style by many critics, but audiences still tune in every day of the week across Xanu Prime and the Coalition as a whole to get the newest scoop on what’s been going on with the Khannas and the people around them.

2-Dramas in contrast to 5-Dramas however are aired on weekends only during prime-time and are generally seen by critics and audiences alike as the best that Xanan holovision has to offer. 2-Dramas typically have very high production values and rely heavily on the strength of their writing, directing, cinematography, and character acting to succeed. They’re often focused on crime-related or similarly intense, dramatic premises and are usually rather serious in tone, in contrast to the soapy, scandalous mood of most 5-Dramas. Xanan 2-Dramas are considered to be some of the finest programming on Holovision anywhere in the Orion Spur in terms of their writing and acting quality, but they are not for everyone and have drawn criticism from some for being too humorless and inaccessible for those not wanting to become engrossed in painful, often traumatic storylines. One of the most well-known of Xanan 2-Dramas is '''Suntoucher''', a show which focuses on a journalist named Marielle Hollen as she investigates a series of missing persons reports from a town in the Naya Khyber delta called Dharbourg. Her efforts slowly unveil a sickening human-trafficking operation that seeks to abduct and torture its victims in the name of a twisted, hellish cult led by a madman who claims to be both the second coming of Jesus Christ and the next avatar of Vishnu all in one. While investigating as well, Marielle comes into contact with the criminal elements of Dharbourg and becomes their sometimes-friend, sometimes-enemy as she works both with and against them during the course of her investigation. As the cult learns of Marielle’s investigation though, it no longer becomes a mission to expose them for Marielle and the locals working with her, but a fight for their very lives as secret, underground war breaks out between the cult and the largest gang in Dharbourg with Marielle and those working with her caught in the middle. The series ends with Marielle’s investigation materials being delivered to the offices of the Xanan News Service after her death at the hands of the cult after killing its leader, and alludes to the publication of the story by the media giant and subsequent destruction of the cult and imprisoning of Dharbourg’s criminals. The series has six seasons in total and had an original run from 2455 to 2461 and has spawned an obsessive, devoted fanbase in recent years. Rumours are abound of a spin-off show focusing on any number of the series’s well-liked supporting characters being in the works, but there has been no confirmation of this yet.
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====Xanan HV Sitcoms====
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The last major genre of Xanan television is the sitcom, a genre that is usually recorded in front of a live studio audience and relies on whacky or zaney premises mixed with witty writing. Xanan sitcoms also a vehicle by which certain societal issues are explored or made light of in the public mind, and tend to rely a bit more on satire and dark humour than sitcoms from other planets around the spur.
While not the most popular of Xanan sitcoms in the present day, the show '''Fated''' has a strong cult following and has left a bit of an impact on Xanan pop culture. The show follows Gerard Sodhi, a man in his mid-thirties trying to make a living in Nouvelle Rochelle’s stand-up comedy scene while dealing with the pressures of his life and large extended family. On his way home from a show, he and three of his friends, Esha, Georges, and Krasnin, are cursed with bad luck by a homeless woman in a back alley after refusing to give her any money when she asked for some. After suffering from their curse through minor inconveniences and unfortunate, socially awkward situations over the next few days, the four return to where they first encountered the woman only to find her dead, unable to remove the curse. The show then goes on, focusing on the lives of Martin, his friends, and the awkward, absurd situations they then find themselves in. Fated spawned many catch phrases and words used in Xanan pop-culture some examples being: “flarge,” a descriptor used for something both flat and large, “plimpkin,” a word used to describe a person who is short, fat, and annoying, “squickimsh,” a term used in reference to something that is both gross and very sticky in texture like a piece of gum, and “fwoonj,” a noise a person makes when trying to awkwardly avoid saying name of someone whose name they’ve forgotten. The series ran for nine seasons from 2449 to 2458 and is seen as a show emblematic of the Xanan 2450’s.
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===Music===
Xanan music is exceptionally diverse and Xanan musicians are known throughout the Coalition and beyond for being some of the most prolific and distinctive in their respective genres. Xanan music usually takes instruments and structure from its Western European and South Asian colonising cultures and puts a modern, stylistic spin on them to best suit whatever genre the musician is aiming for. The most notable genres of Xanan Music are:

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====Xanupop/X-Pop====
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The most popular form of music on Xanu Prime, is predictably, pop music. The Xanan style of pop music, often called '''Xanupop''' or simply '''X-Pop''', is similar to pop music in general, however it tends to eschew EDM-like synth riffs and instead prefers acoustic instrumentals to make the backing track. The genre has its roots in the ballads which emerged during and after the Interstellar War, mostly about home and family. Most modern-day Xanan pop songs focus on the topic of love, whether falling into it, breaking up a relationship because of the loss of it, reminiscing about times when the singer had it, or any other variety of situations about love, Xanu’s pop music has a listener spoiled for choice. While not specifically pop music, songs from Xanu Prime’s largest musical films are often played on pop radio, even if they are not strictly in the pop style. The most popular pop artist in Xanan history is Foy-Niljen native '''Robert Khatri''', a man whose crooning ballads and work with string and brass ensembles cemented him as the definitive voice of the Xanan Renaissance. While subsequent artists have out-sold him since his death in 2387, Khatri’s songs have gone on to be standards within Xanan musical canon and his songs still are known by Xanans far and wide even more than a century since their releases. The most popular active Xanan pop artist is '''Grace Rose''', though less commonly known by her real name Lavani Grace, a woman from Nouvelle Rochelle who has dominated the Xanan pop charts for the last decade and a half with her unique and beautiful vocal style with a signature high belting range perfectly suited for Xanan pop ballads.
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====Xanurock/X-Rock====
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Rock music is the second most popular form of music on Xanu Prime and is renowned across the Coalition for its funky instrumentals that focus on rhythm primarily rather than melody and unique vocal style that typically moves between being spoken and being sung multiple times throughout each song. Rock songs made in the Xanan style, often called '''X-Rock''' or '''Xanurock''', also are often about love, much like their pop counterparts, but it is far from the only thing that Xanan rockers sing about. Common lyrical themes in Xanan rock music focus on personal independence, inner turmoil and depression, social issues, or more poignantly, lost love and ones that got away. A popular band in the X-Rock scene is '''Weatherland''', a group from Himavat City that is renowned for their creative instrumental style that often incorporates unorthodox chord progressions and jazz-like solos from the band's various members. Another group that has risen in popularity since their founding in the early 2450’s is the band '''Anti-Gone''', a band from Nouvelle-Rochelle that has gained notoriety for their more groovy, riff-driven, gritty, and raw hard-rock production style with songs that focus on personal struggle and often talk about deep, uncomfortable subjects like addiction and abuse. They have beome very popular with Xanan young adults though older rock fans have not been as receptive to their material.
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====Logmu====
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Folk music, specifically the '''Logmu''' style of folk music, has always been very popular on Xanu Prime and does not seem to be going anywhere soon. Logmu, the word being combination of the Hindi word “log” meaning “people” and the French work “musique” meaning “music,” is a genre of music that originally came about during the early stages of Xanu Prime’s colonization as a result of individual, often amateur musicians, from Xanu Prime’s different colonizing countries forming bands with one another and adjusting their styles to fit each band member’s diverse musical preferences. The genre has remained popular through two catastrophic wars, economic depression, along with many other hurdles and looks as if it will keep its popularity far into the future. Logmu ensembles are typically six people large and play music using a vast variety of instruments which date back to the colonization of the planet. For example, a standard six-piece Logmu band will typically have a fiddle, an alto saxophone or nadaswaram, a tabla, a guitar or sarod, an accordion, and a sitar, with at least one of the musicians singing as well, usually the guitar or sarod player. Logmu songs are usually musical stories or poems that follow a protagonist or recount the life experiences of the singer, often in character. They are self-contained dramas or comedies in their own right and have allowed the genre to remain popular for as long as it has because of the simultaneous relatability and dramatism of the plots of the songs. A subset of the Along with being a genre of music in its own right, Logmu also has a distinctive subculture focused on passing the craft down to younger generations, with many musicians in the genre seeing it as their duty to teach their children or other students how to play a Logmu instrument at some point in their lives. A subgenre of Logmu is, '''Sologmu''', a play on words of “Solo” and “Logmu” and is defined by its nature of usually being performed by a single musician who both sings and plays an instrument of their choice, usually a guitar, sarod, accordion, or sitar.

The most influential Logmu band of all time is the Kshatrigarh-based band '''The Air Raid Six''', a group of six musicians who had the shared childhood experience of living through the Siege of Khairabad. Once they became adults they saw great success in the fledgling All-Xanu Republic’s music scene singing songs about the Interstellar War and retelling or making up humorous or dramatic stories that occurred during the conflict. During this they pioneered the current six-piece format standard synonymous with modern Logmu music and their songs are still widely performed today. The most popular Logmu band presently is Paastad-based group '''Six of Hearts''' which gained popularity during the mid 2450’s and has yet to relinquish it since. The band’s musical style stays relatively close to tradition in the structure of the songs and focus on their stories, but diverges some in terms of the instrumentals used, replacing the normal guitar or sarod with an electric guitar and even playing solos with it, something often not seen in Logmu music. Current popular names in the Sologmu scene include '''Chloe Sinclair''', a young woman from Himavat City that has brought a moodier, more downbeat brand of singing and guitar playing to the genre; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a Vysokan Xanan who has created a niche in the genre for herself by singing in the Xanan style with her broad vocal range and accompanying it with poignant instrumentals played by herself on a morin khuur.
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====Himavat Midnight====
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Breaking from tradition is the genre of '''Himavat Midnight''', so called because the underground music shows in Himavat City which saw the genre come into being often didn’t start until midnight. It is the newest genre of music on Xanu Prime to have seen at least some popularity, breaking out of the local Himavat City rock scene in the mid 2450’s. Himavat Midnight is notable for its spacey, monotone vocal style usually accompanied by little more than a bass guitar, an electric guitar, a synthesizer, and a drum machine. Himavat Midnight songs usually are built around a simple bass or guitar riff and typically are simple yet satisfying in their construction. Most songs have either a bridge or an outro where one instrument performs a solo, though these are usually more toned down and not like the more technical skill-showcasing solos found in X-Rock. Lyrically, the songs are moody and often sad, talking about loneliness, lost love, boredom, and other saddening yet seemingly mundane feelings. Some in the Xanan music scene have welcomed the genre as a new form of music that is more emotional and thoughtful than some other songs, while others have dismissed it as "sad music for sad people." While the genre is still relatively very new relative to all other popular genres of music on Xanu Prime, Himavat Midnight does have a few notable bands. '''We Are They''', a three-piece Himavat City band, is the most popular group of the genre and is the one credited for breaking the genre out of its local confines with their 2457 song, ''Snowflakes in her Hair''. For now the band is the standard-setter for what Himavat Midnight should sound like.
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====Pataliputra Big House====
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Another genre of music that is notably unique to Xanu Prime is a genre of electronic music that emerged from Pataliputran nightclubs in the 2420’s called '''Pataliputra Big House'''. During the Doldrums nightclub owners were having trouble getting patrons to come out and give business to their clubs because of the economic stagnation characteristic of the time period. To solve this, many night clubs began to push their DJs to get creative and blend different musical styles into something new and exciting in order to attract more patrons and thus, Pataliputra Big House was born. The genre was the product of Pataliputran DJ’s mashing together elements from dance-pop and more traditional house music, vocals from R&B, and instrumentals leaning on the more soulful and jazzy sides of Logmu. Songs in this genre incorporate beats which usually are medium tempo, heavy on bass, and have a central riff played on a synthesizer or saxophone which drives the entire song. Vocals are treated like an instrument in themselves in Pataliputra Big House songs and usually have a bevy of effects on them to achieve different listening experiences. The most well-known producer in the Pataliputra Big House scene is '''Bobby Baas''', real name Robert Satti, a Pataliputran native equally famous for his colorful, often patterned suits as he is for his music. He has routinely sold out electronic music festivals across the Coalition for the last decade after achieving local fame in the Pataliputran local scene during the early 2440’s. He is also unique for being one of the only artists from the Coalition of Colonies to have performed in the Sol Alliance, performing a series of sold-out shows called the “Sunrise Tour” in 2456 across the Solarian core. An up-and-comer in the Big House scene however is '''DJ SinTheTik''', real name Sarah Tussaud-Tipnis, a young woman who became a holonet sensation in the early 2460’s for her unique style meshing instruments from classical, symphonic music with the usual sounds of Big House.
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====X-Hop====
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As often happens with strong electronic scenes, a hip-hop movement emerged around the 2430’s shortly after the popularization of Pataliputran Big House. Nearly every major city of Xanu Prime has its own hip hop scene and they all have friendly, if competitive, rivalries with another. While each major city’s scene has its own unique flair and sound, there are some commonalities to Xanan hip hop or '''X-Hop'''. Generally, Xanan hip-hop places a great amount of importance on the beat of the song, and as such these beats are typically more complicated and have more elements to them than hip-hop from other places. The rap verses themselves are usually fast and articulate with a lower, almost gravelly vocal tone being definitive for male rappers and a clear, bold tone that can carry over a nightclub crowd holding the same preference among female rappers. Nouvelle Rochelle rapper Abhang van Agteren, stage name '''AvAtar''', is considered by many to be the "King of Xanan hop-hop" and is famous for his smooth lyrical style and frequent collaborations with some of Xanu Prime’s largest producers, most notably Bobby Baas, with a catalogue of hit songs dating back to the 2440’s. His music is a common feature on playlists all around the Coalition and he has been a staple of Xanan popular music for decades, with no sign of his career waning any time soon. The most famous Xanan rap group is the all-female project '''Girl’s Night''', a four-member pop-rap group from Himavat City that first gained notoriety in the mid-2450’s for their lyrical prowess, broad appeal which crossed pop and hip-hop demographics, and anonymous nature. It is unknown what the true identities of Girl’s Night are since the group’s members are never seen in public or on stage without three-faced masks made in the style of hindu deities. The individual names they have given to the public are the letters, R, Y, V, and K.
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===Fashion===
Xanan fashion and dress is not characterized by any culturally specific garments or articles of clothing that are uniquely specific to Xanu Prime, but rather by how they style clothes that are seen as generally ubiquitous across human space. That is to say, color and the interplay within a palette in one look are king in Xanan Fashion. Xanans themselves often describe shopping and dressing as a whole as somewhat of a game, in making outfits for themselves which both are colorful, but also not outlandishly so and still manage to look sharp despite their chromatic nature. If a look clashes too much, it looks bad, simply put. Garishness is something that must be avoided in Xanan fashion and many of the planet’s top designers have emphasized that Xanan fashion is a game of balance. As to what colours are used though, there are no official rules or cultural norms, other than outfits which are heavy in their usage of black and white are reserved for funerals or other somber occasions, and similarly, looks with a lot of white or red in their composition should only be worn during weddings, baby showers, or other joyful events. The diversity of Xanu Prime as a planet in both climate and geography however has led to a variety of different fashions popping up across the planet and often fashion choices are left to the individual rather than governed by some collective norm. An exception tho this, however, is that outfits consisting solely of only one color, such as a suit with the same-coloured slacks and jacket or a dress made of only one color of fabric, are seen by many as overly formalistic and are typically only reserved for appearances in court for legal or financial matters. As such, monochrome outfits without much variation in colour are associated with the legal and banking professions. Colors aside, materials are also seen as an important part of Xanan fashion, and many mundane looking pieces of Xanan clothing may be worth thousands due to the craftsmanship and quality of the materials used in their manufacture. Intricate patterns are not uncommon in Xanan looks either, though they are usually associated with festive occasions and places. Accessories are seen as important in Xanan fashion, with neckties and cravats being popular among men and hairpins or bows finding favour among women. Jewlery is common for both men and women, but large pieces should not be worn in a workplace environment and instead should be saved for personal outings or family time.

===Sport===
Professional and amateur sports are both quite popular on Xanu Prime. Cricket and football are tied in popularity, with other sports like basketball, ice hockey, and rugby having some notoriety on the planet as well. Xanan children are encouraged from a young age to participate in team sports which many carry on into their teenage years and adulthoods through amateur club teams. As such, no Xanan town is complete without a cricket oval or football field. Xanu’s sports fans are known the Orion Spur-over for being some of the most passionate and obsessive in Human-inhabited space, with their chants, costumes, and fervent insults being both hated and envied by the planet’s sports rivals. Xanans are exceptionally loyal to their teams, be they national or local, and fights or even riots breaking out after upsets in football or cricket aren’t unheard of in the major cities.

The Xanan national teams in football, commonly referred to as '''"C.F.X.P"''' taken from their original French name Club de Foot de Xanu Premier, and cricket, often called the '''"Crimson Cats"''' courtesy of their mascot being a crimson-masked polecat, wear colors of green and orange with red accents. When either of the teams win a game, especially if during a high-stakes tournament, the entire planet often turns out to celebrate, clogging streets, overpacking bars, and pressing the Xanu’s police forces to their limits. Famously, when Xanu Prime won the 2454 Orion Cup in a surprise upset 2-1 victory over their longtime rival, the Callistean national team, Hastings Park, C.F.X.P’s home stadium, was deemed to be “The Loudest Place in the Known Universe” by a Martian sports writer. Similarly the stadium was said to have “Rung like bell,” when the Crimson Cats defeated the Port Antillean national team in 2458 to win the T20 Orion Cricket Championship. Individual cities also have their own football and cricket teams which play in a number of professional and semi-professional leagues. The highest level of these are The '''All-Xanu Ultraleague''' for football and the '''Alpha League''' for Class A cricket.

The planet has strong sports rivalries with many others, both within the coalition and without. They have a long-standing football rivalry with Callisto, jokingly called “The Second Interstellar War,” which has had its ups and downs throughout history, with both teams serving each other their most grievous defeats. Highlights include when Xanu defeated Callisto on its own home turf in 2448 to win the Orion Cup, or when the Callistean team duffed out their rivals only four years later in a hotly-contested group-stage match and stopped C.F.X.P from having a chance at defending its title. Xanu also has a hot cricket rivalry with Port Antilia, and the two planets are generally considered to be the best at the sport in the Orion Spur. Recent tension over the Solarian Collapse and Port Antillia’s annexation into the Biesellite CRZ has meant that the two teams haven’t met on an oval in over two years, leading many to believe that their next meeting will be the game of the century for Cricket. Xanu Prime also has a more friendly and lighthearted football rivalry with Himeo that has for most of recent memory been one-sided in favor of Xanu, but the two teams are still nevertheless very competitive and their fans very passionate over the rivalry.

==Immigrant and Expat Communities==
Xanu Prime is host to a number of large immigrant, expat, and diasporic communities, the largest of which can be read about in the entries below. '''A member of any immigrant or diasporic group who was born on Xanu Prime will select the Xanu Prime origin and accent in character creation.'''

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====Himean Xanans====
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The largest diasporic community on Xanu Prime, the Himean Xanan community has been on Xanu Prime for nearly as long as the Republic itself has existed. Himeans first came to Xanu Prime in the millions during the aftermath of the Interstellar War, often as workers and supporting staff helping to rebuild Xanu’s many broken and battered cities. A significant number of these Himeans remained on Xanu afterwards, established their own families and communities, and joined Xanan society. Most of the Himeans that came to Xanu during what is called the “First Wave of Himean Immigration” (2288-2310) dropped Himean customs and traditions in favor of broader assimilation into what many of them saw as a prosperous, growing, free Xanu Prime where their children could grow. A significant minority of Xanu’s population can trace at least part of their ancestry back to this first wave of immigrants from Himeo, and it’s quite common for the average Xanusan to have at least one or two Himean ancestors that came to Xanu during this period even if the person themselves doesn’t look Himean or have a Himean sounding name.

While immigration from Himeo continued in low levels throughout the 24th century, there was a great uptick from 2367 to 2390, a period called “The Second Wave of Himean Immigration” and less commonly, “The Paasstad Exodus.” Much like earlier Himean immigrants, those in the Second Wave came to the planet for work, but instead instead of reconstruction, they were taking part in the Paasstad Megaproject, an ambitious engineering initiative with the goal of raising the entire Xanan city of Paasstad above the marshy ground upon which it sat. The project was long and intensive, but was complete by 2389 and the numbers of Himeans immigrating to Xanu decreased shortly after the project was complete. In contrast to the First Wave, Himeans coming to the planet during the Second Wave mostly just immigrated to the city of Paasstad, and as such, their community became very unified and tightly knit. A district of the city, often just called Little Himeo, is where the present-day Himean Xanan community has its symbolic heart. Many Himean customs and traditions are still practiced here, Himean Common is spoken throughout the district, though with a noticeable Xanan Accent, and one can find many Himean products and authentic Himean food here. While there has not been an influx of Himean immigrants since the Second Wave, many Himeans looking to move their lives and to Xanu Prime find themselves in Little Himeo or one of the smaller Xanan Himean communities in other cities. Himean communities are very diverse politically, given that many Himean Xanans have assimilated into Xanu’s society and taken on new beliefs, however the Good Neighbor Party is particularly popular in Little Himeo and it often markets itself as the party for Himean Xanans. A majority of Himean Xanans are not first-generation immigrants, but were born on the planet as third or fourth generation Himeans.

Himean Xanans, whether their ancestors were part of the first or second waves, have broadly flourished on Xanu Prime and can be found in all walks of Xanan society. Notable Himean Xanans include '''Aukusti Staudenmaier''', member of the National Parliament and leader of the Good Neighbor Party, '''Lennox Sibelius''', Minister of the Economy and Finance under the Mukhopadhyay Government and man responsible for the implementation of the Mukhopadhyay Plan, '''Sara Knox''', current CEO of d.N.A. Defense and Aerospace, and '''Theodore Llewellyn''', host of the popular Xanan late night holovision talk program, Teddy.
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====Vysokan Xanans====
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The Vysokan Xanan community is Xanu Prime’s second largest and fastest growing immigrant and diasporic demographic; many see the planet as coming off of the first large wave of Vysokan immigrants it has ever experienced. Many Vysokans immigrated to Xanu starting in the 2440’s after the Mukhophadhay Plan began revitalizing the Xanan economy. In response, many Vysokans looking to better their lives and provide a stable income for their families traveled to Xanu Prime looking for work or simply looking to start new lives. This wave of immigration abruptly stopped in 2462 when the Orion Spur was gripped by phoron scarcity causing space flight costs to soar, but even now after that, some Vysokans still find their way to Xanu Prime.

Culture shock has been something consistent throughout the Vysokan Xanan community: Societally, Xanu Prime is to many Vysokan immigrants, especially those who grew up in the rural regions of Vysoka, a night and day difference. Because of this, along with the differing norms between Xanan and Vysokan cultures, many Vysokan immigrants have been slow to integrate and assimilate into Xanu Prime’s society and most live in close proximity to one another in majority-Vysokan neighborhoods and districts. Many in the Vysokan Xanan community are not wealthy, with most being in the working lower-middle class. Because of their recent increase in population, their unfamiliarity with Xanan systems and the fact that they are often poorer than the average Xanan, Vysokan Xanan communities often have difficult times accessing social services for healthcare or financial assistance, are less policed, and have higher than average rates of crime. Many Vysokan Xanans have found employment in Xanu’s agricultural and heavy industry sectors with their skills from home translating very well to those lines of work. Additionally, many have found themselves in the All-Xanu Armed Forces in hopes of learning skills there which they can then carry over into a civilian job after being discharged. The largest Vysokan Xanan community on Xanu Prime is the Little Vysoka district of Nouvelle-Rochelle.

Vysokan Xanan communities often try to recreate things from Vysoka itself, the most common of these being Stolitist spirit houses and shrines. Vysokan Xanans are majority-Stolitist in their religious practices, and many Vysokan Xanan communities celebrate Stolitist religious festivals. Vysokan Xanan practices are not identical to their Vysokan counterparts however. Many in Vysokan Xanan communities have eschewed travelling, nomadic shamans in favour of more congregationally-styled practices, with houses of worship and assembly taking influence from Christian churches and Muslim mosques in layout often being built to surround Stolitist shrines and spirit houses. These “Stolitchurches” are a uniquely Vysokan Xanan creation and often function as the cultural, spiritual, and symbolic centers of Vysokan Xanan communities. Other aspects of Vysokan culture which have in some way translated to Xanu Prime is the Vysokan penchant for athleticism; since the immigration, many young Vysokans have made a name for themselves and their community as professional athletes. Many even make the annual trip back to Vysoka for the Velhalktai. Host culture has not made the jump and the hosts in general is something that is begrudgingly dismissed by many Vysokan Xanans because they believe that Host culture affirms a stereotype among Xanussians that Vysokans are criminals. Politically, opinions are diverse for Vysokan Xanans, but many have voted for the Free Falcon Party in recent years due to the party’s Vysokan Xanan origin and stance on many immigrant issues.

Notable Vysokan Xanans include '''Aynan Zhergotov''', professional footballer and captain of the Nouvelle-Rochelle football club A.S. Olympique-Saraswati; '''Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova''', member of the National Parliament, leader of the Free Falcon Party, and formerly practicing medical doctor; '''Yekheren Bolkhadarov''', goalkeeper for the All-Xanu National Football Team; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a second-generation Vysokan Xanan singer who has seen recent popularity in Xanu’s Logmu music scene by combining Xanan-styled singing with Vysokan-inspired instrumentals.
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====Assunzionii Xanans====
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The Assunzionii Xanan community is the third largest diaspora on Xanu Prime and is one that has managed to strike a strong balance between preserving their own original culture and embracing Xanu’s own. Most of Xanu Prime’s Assunzionii population moved to Xanu Prime during the 2370’s and 2380’s in response to Xanu’s burgeoning economy, with a smaller wave coming in the 2450’s. As such a majority of the Assunzionii Xanan population are third or fourth generation immigrants, with the new arrivals in 2450 being first-generation. Most Assunzionii Xanans live in the middle class, with some having advanced into the upper classes through employment or their businesses. Throughout Xanu Prime, many Assunzionii people have found themselves in two primary industries: entertainment and engineering. The former came about when many Assunzionii immigrants were hired on by nightclubs and other entertainment venues for their expertise in electrical lighting systems. As they were employed more, some of these immigrants figured that they would instead start their own clubs which they could run and style as they pleased. Gaining traction for their exceptional light shows and very exotic atmospheres, Assunzionii Xanan-owned and staffed clubs, bars, theaters, and even film studios became very successful across Xanu prime in the 2400’s and have remained that way since, with some of the largest and most exclusive entertainment establishments on the planet being owned by Assunzionii Xanusians. Some of these immigrants also found themselves in engineering and went on to work in Xanu’s shipbuilding and logistics sector; their skills being perfect for designing and servicing electrical systems on ships. Many of their descendants still work in these fields today

Culturally, there are some distinct differences between Assunzionii Xanans and people from Assunzionne proper. Exposure to outside cultures and removal from the Luceism-centered domes of light has made many Assunzionii Xanusians less religious than their Assunzionii counterparts. Most still identify as Luceist and do practice, but the faith on Xanu Prime has become more casual and cultural to the local community rather than something more dogmatic and omnipresent. Simply put, Luceism isn’t as important to multi-generational Assunzionii Xanusians as it is to those back home on Assunzione or those who have just arrived from the planet, even if it is present in their lives. Despite this more lax attitude, there are large cathedrals of light in many Assunzionii Xanan communities, the largest being in the Little Assunzione district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, and they see frequent attendance. Most Assunzionii Xanusians are Structuralist Luceists and their churches function as large community centers and meeting places along with being used as houses of worship. Other aspects of Assunzionii culture have stuck around in the community as well, such as illumination. Assunzionii Xanan neighborhoods are very well lit, with more street lamps than average and more lights on houses as well, and this, along with the communal and tight-knit nature of many Assunzionii Xanan families, make their neighborhoods some of the safest on Xanu Prime.

Notable Assunzionii Xanusians include '''Sabine Venturino''', a third-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and one of the largest directorial names in Xanan film industry; '''Suleiman Kateb''', a second-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and current Minister of Energy for the Afzal government; and '''Hristos Santolaria''', a first-generation Assunzionii Xanan and current Chief Operations Officer for Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.
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====Fisanduhian Xanans====
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The Fisanduhian story on Xanu Prime is a strange one that started in 2386. In that year, the Xanan government agreed to host the remnants of the Fisanduh Freedom Front (3F) as a gesture of solidarity between two countries against tyranny. This arrangement created the modern Fisanduhian government-in-exile as it exists today with its seat in the Greentree neighbourhood of Nouvelle Rochelle. Of those few countries that recognise the existence of an independent Fisanduh, those being the Republic of Elyra and a vast majority of Coalition of Colonies members, see the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, also commonly called the “Greentree Government,” as the legitimate government of Fisanduh. The Empire of Dominia sees the Greentree Government as the political arm of the 3F, a rebel militia to some and a terrorist group to others, and therefore considers Xanu Prime and by extension the Coalition of Colonies to be a state sponsor of terrorism for giving the government sanctuary. The Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel do not recognise the Fisanduhian government-in-exile as the legitimate government of Fisanduh and have no relations with it.

Xanu Prime’s long-standing positive relationship with the Fisanduhian government has made it a very popular destination for Fisanduhian refugees, though its geographic distance from Moroz often makes traveling to the planet difficult for some. Fisanduhian refugees typically do not come in waves like other immigrant demographics, but arrive sporadically and often in small cohorts that were trafficked out of Fisanduh at the same time. This distance and trouble with travel cuts both ways: it isn’t just difficult for Fisanduhians to arrive on Xanu but much of the Fisanduhian Xanan community (aside from the aforementioned refugees) have never even been to Fisanduh, with their only ties to the Morozian region being ethnic and cultural. Religion is also something that sets Fisanduhian Xanans apart from other Xanans, with most being adherents to some strain of Reformed Morozian Tribunalism which rejects the authority of the Morozian Clergy and the Dominian Emperor as the divinely ordained head of the “Goddess’s Tribunal,” a term that the Goddess’s Holy Diocese of Xanu Prime uses to describe their religion over using “Morozian Holy Tribunal.” Some however have given up this faith and have either become irreligious or have taken on one of Xanu Prime’s dominant religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) as their own. Despite this, it is common for many Fisanduhian Xanans to celebrate Tribunalist religious holidays even if they themselves are not adherent to the faith since many see these days as part of their own distinctive culture. All Tribunalist churches on Xanu Prime have eschewed the use of traditional Morozian Holy Tribunal uniforms and religious symbols connected with the Dominian Emperor, viewing them as unnecessarily dogmatic and relics of an oppressive, Dominian, past.

Economically, most Fisanduhian Xanans are poorer than the average Xanan, with almost all being either refugees who arrived on the planet with nothing or their descendants. They lack the generational wealth of other demographics in Xanan society, and most are not educated to the standards demanded by the Xanan economy. As such, most can usually be found in industrial and service jobs, the All-Xanu Armed Forces or other working-class positions. Because of this disadvantageous economic position, many of the better-off Fisanduhian Xanans have been known to host refugee families and provide them with housing and food until they find employment and can secure housing of their own.

Despite the hardship the demographic has found, the Fisanduhian Xanan community has found a home for itself in Xanan society. Most Fisanduhian Xanans have assimilated and integrated themselves into broader Xanan society and adopted their norms and culture, but generally live in areas with other Fisanduhian Xanans. Some subsets of the group take this to the extreme, maintaining their own communities and living together in nearly all-Fisanduhian neighborhoods which preserve the native Fisanduhian culture and social systems. These communities are usually suspicious of outsiders and such attitudes have occasionally led negative attention from the media for allegations of xenophobia and exclusionism. There is a stereotype among Xanans that Fisanduhian Xanans are all rabidly politically active and pursue jobs in politics and government especially in order to aid the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, and while most Fisanduhian Xanans very supportive of the Greentree government, their involvement is often falsely overstated. In reality, Fisanduhian Xanans hold a variety of political views about Xanu Prime and the 3F government, with most being split into two camps: the Irredentists and the Second Homelanders.
Simply put, the Irredentists and Second Homelanders diverge on their priorities relating to the Fisanduhian Insurgency. The Irredentist camp of the Fisanduhian Xanan population places the government-in-exile’s backing of the 3F and other resistance groups in Fisanduh through sending them aid, equipment, and money above all else, in hopes of one day returning to an independent Fisanduh. The Second Homelanders instead want the government-in-exile to create a “second homeland" for the Fisanduhian people on Xanu Prime in cooperation with the Xanan government and often push for the government-in-exile to leverage its official and unofficial influence in Xanan society to provide better resources for the Fisanduhian Xanan community. The two groups, while different in their priorities, are not enemies to one another and often work together in both the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the unofficial representative of that government in Xanan Politics, the Universal Liberty Party. Historically, the Irredentist camp has been a majority in the Fisanduhian Xanan population, but as Fisanduhian Xanans have adjusted more to Xanan society and their needs have become more pronounced, the Second Homeland movement has grown considerably, especially among the demographic’s younger generations who see themselves as more Xanan than Fisanduhian. As the older generations of Fisanduhian Xanans die, it is predicted that the Second Homeland movement will soon hold a majority over Fisanduhian Xanan political discourse unless a serious shift occurs in the currently-stalemated Fisanduhian Insurgency.

Morozian Fisanduhians have mixed opinions of Fisanduhian Xanans. On one hand the sentiments of support and occasional aid shipment that make it to the region past the Dominian blockades are often appreciated, but on the other, most see the Fisanduhian Xanan population as too far away to make a difference in anything actually happening in Fisanduh besides giving a place for more refugees to flee to. Because of this, most Morozian Fisanduhians treat their Xanan cousins as people who are all talk and no action in regards to actually winning the insurgency.

Notable Fisanduhian Xanans include '''Erick Alexis''', current Vice-President of the All-Xanu Republic; '''Aaron Izmirlian''', Prime Minister of the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile; '''Ekaitz Azarola''', leader of the Universal Liberty Party and member of the National Parliament; and '''Elaena Chatfield''', a prolific if aging novelist often considered to be one of the greatest writers Xanu Prime has ever produced.
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====Gadpathurian Exiles====
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Xanan Gadpathurian Exiles and their community are a small but notable immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime. They are almost exclusively concentrated in Pataliputra, it being the spot where most of them arrive on the planet after being ejected from their home world. Gadpathurian Exiles are known to be highly assimilationist and often make little effort to show that they are even in fact Gadpathurian at all, some too ashamed by their exile status to try and make others know of it. Some however have taken the identity and embraced it as part of who they are in Xanan society. Gadpathurian Exiles who do make a point of their heritage do not have their own distinctive architecture or cuisine, but instead hold much of their culture in their community structures and businesses. Gadpathurian Exile-owned businesses which embrace the identity are known to be pseudo-support groups for Gadpathurian Exiles themselves and often provide employment, housing, and other necessities to newly arrived fellow-exiles to ensure that they do not become homeless or starve. Xanan Gadpathurian Exile families similarly have been known to welcome fellow exiles into their houses to take care of them in a similar way to how Fisanduhian Xanans do, however Gadpathurian Exiles take this a step further and have been known to formally adopt entirely unrelated people into their families permanently. This has led to some Gadpathurian Exile families on Xanu Prime to become enormously large, with the largest on record, the Mokammel family, having over 20,000 current members either by adoption, marriage, or being born into the family. The Mokammels mostly live in the Kuenoi neighborhood of Pataliputra, though this area has come to be known colloquially as “Mokammeljela” in popular parlance. Other notable Gadpathuri Exile families are the Nanda, Yadhavar, and Jadhav. Most Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are irreligious or have converted to one of the planet’s three major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, with some converting to smaller faiths.

Gadpathurian Exiles often have an advantage over other immigrants not in terms of their wealth, as most arrive to the planet positively destitute, but in terms of their educations. Most Gadpathurians were taught skills during their military service on Gadpathur, and even if they’ve now been exiled from their homeworlds, many retain their skills and have found lucrative work as tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, HVAC specialists, and welders to name a few). Of course, many have also joined the All-Xanu Armed Forces and usually find success there too, either as soldiers, specialists, or occasionally even officers, though this is somewhat rare as the Gadpathurian leadership style is usually inconsistent with Xanan doctrine and practices. It is seen as shameful in Exile society to take aid from the government, and there is a societal norm of redemption through achievement as a way to prove the decision to exile the person in question as wrong. As such, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are encouraged by their communities to hold a strong work ethic and to cooperate with other Exiles trying to achieve success. In regard to politics, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime typically vote either for the Free Falcon Party of All-Xanu Freedom League. Gadpathurian Exiles also have a somewhat toned-down view of the Sol Alliance, at least when compared to their unexiled counterparts. They are often less outspoken about their prejudice towards the Sol Alliance than Gadpathurians on Gadpathur proper, even if their views on Sol remain unyieldingly resentful.

Notable Gadpathurian Exiles Xanans include '''Chandi Mokammel''', a second-generation Gadpathurian Exile, current head of the massive Gadpathurian Exile Mokammel family, and celebrity within the Gadpathurian Exile community; and '''Sri Afzal''', a second-generation Gadpathuri Exile, formerly a professor of law at Saraswati College, and wife to the current All-Xanu President Jacques Afzal.
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==Holidays==

Xanu Prime has many holidays much like almost anywhere else in the Spur, however the foremost of these are as follows:

*'''January 1st - New Year’s Day''' - A celebration of the ushering in of a new year. This holiday is marked by fireworks, loud music, and the mass consumption of alcohol. It is officially recognised as a holiday.

*'''January 2nd - Founding Day''' - This is the day where Xanans celebrate the original colonization of their world by the Solarian Alliance. People get the day off work and festivities are held in communities across the planet to celebrate Xanu. Many consider this to be a toned down version of Xanan Independence Day, or simply a day to recoup and recover from the partying and subsequent hangovers brought on by New Year’s. Alternatively, some simply use the day to have a two-day long New Year’s celebration.

*'''March 28th - All-Xanu Peace Day''' - This is a holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the end of the Xanan Civil war. It is a rather low-key holiday where people are encouraged to reflect on the peace that they enjoy and spend it with their families. Xanan citizens get the day off of work, though because the war is such a distant memory, many just use this as a convenient day off of work or three-day weekend rather than a time to celebrate its original intended purpose.

*'''July 1st - Election Day''' - This day is less of a holiday and more a bureaucratic necessity. On June 1st, all Xanans vote in elections, local, province-wide, or national. Everyone gets the day off work so they can vote if they so choose. The holiday still applies to jurisdictions where no elections are taking place that year, so many often take it as a free day off of work.

*'''August 13th - Xanan Independence Day''' - This day celebrates the secession of Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies from the Solarian Alliance and is the largest holiday of the year. Parades, fireworks, cookouts, sporting events, and musical performances often occur on this day. The entire planet parties hard on this holiday and it is observed by Xanan expats living elsewhere in the Orion Spur as well. Xanans get the day off of work on August 13th.

*'''October 1st - Victory Day''' - Victory Day, as it may be implied, is the day where Xanans celebrate the victory of their country over the Solarian Alliance in the Interstellar War. It is marked by parades, and other celebrations that honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians who died in the conflict and the freedoms that they died for. It has a more solemn and reverent atmosphere than other Xanan national holidays. Xanans get the day off work on Victory Day.

*'''November 18th - Kulkarni Day''' - Kulkarni Day, also called Diversity Day (no relation to the Eridanian Holiday), is a holiday where Xanans celebrate their diversity and ethic of unity, coming together to unite as one strong and diverse society. It is held on the birthday of once planetary governor Gaspard Kulkarni to honor his vision for what a united yet diverse Xanan society could be. The day is celebrated widely across the planet and is a day where the various communities of Xanu prime go out of their way to share their cultures with those of different cultures and celebrate how they find strength in diversity. It is an official holiday and Xanan citizens get the day off of work on Diversity Day.

*'''December 25th - Christmas''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Despite its religious origins, it has long been a festivity that has spread across cultures and demographics regardless of religious affiliation, and as such it is an official holiday on Xanu Prime. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries.

*'''Varying Dates - Easter''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries. This holiday follows the lunar cycle and therefore is held on different days annually, though it is always on a Sunday, typically in April or March. It is not officially a holiday recognised by the Xanan State, but many observant Christians celebrate it.

*'''Varying Dates - Ramadan''' - A Muslim religious holiday that is observed for nearly a month by Xanu Prime’s muslim population. It includes the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, on which was recognised as an official Xanan holiday in 2334 after the festivities of feasting, partying, and parades became so widespread across Xanu Prime’s population that it could no longer be interpreted as a strictly religious celebration. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Eid al-Adha''' - A Muslim religious holiday which that honors the willingness of the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as Allah commanded of him. It is not an official Xanan holiday, but many observant muslims take the day off from work and celebrate. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Diwali''' - A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh, religious holiday which lasts for five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil, originally brought to Xanu Prime by Hindu and Sikh colonists from India. It is typically marked by fireworks, the lighting of lamps, brightly vibrant lights, and other festivities which embody light triumphing over the dark. The third day of the holiday, Lakshmi Puja, is the most colorful of the holiday, and Xanans who observe it usually take the day off work, though it is not an official holiday. While not Hindus, the local Assunzionii expat population also has begun to celebrate this holiday recently as well, tying it into their own beliefs of light triumphing over the darkness. Diwali is determined by the Hindu lunar-solar calendar, and therefore falls on different dates annually.

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==Overview==
Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great emphasis on the family unit as the building block of society. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another, and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague.

==Standard of Living and Civil Liberties==
A life on Xanu Prime is by and large a comfortable, though not exceedingly luxurious one. While not uniform across the various peoples and classes of the planet, the average Xanan isn’t bothered with extreme poverty, hunger, or lingering threats of conflict, nor do they live in cities adapted to suit hazardous environments. The average Xanan sits as a member of the middle class and the government has taken measures to try and ensure that the largest number of Xanans can live comfortably on the planet as is possible.
Healthcare works in a hybrid system, with some facilities being private and others being public, though the government will still partially fund the expenses of patients that go to private clinics or hospitals. Xanan healthcare quality is some of the best in the Orion Spur, only rivaled by that found on Biesel or in the Solarian Core, and millions come from across the Coalition annually to receive treatment from Xanan doctors.

Higher education at government-operated universities and colleges is free to those who can obtain a qualifying score on the Uniform Higher Education Assessment test or UHEA, while private universities on the planet usually have their own specific entrance exams.

Governance on Xanu Prime is democratic and many on the planet are invested in local-level politics. Despite political contrasts among the Xanan population, they generally place unity in forms such as nationality or city of origin before political beliefs, and as such political polarization and division is not as pronounced on Xanu Prime as it may be elsewhere in the Spur.

Xanu Prime has very liberal speech laws as well, with almost any kind of speech allowed by the planet’s government. Notable exceptions include; any rhetoric that targets another individual or group of individuals on the basis of race or religion, any rhetoric that styles itself as genuine when it is knowingly false, and any rhetoric that is knowingly false while intending to harm another person’s reputation or well-being. News media outlets have wide-ranging freedoms to publish what they like, though their content is regulated by the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission, an independent government agency which has the power to censor and fine publications with content it has deemed to promote fake news or be so biased that it burgeons on fake news.

Most Xanans are religious or spiritual to at least some degree, though atheism isn’t unheard of nor officially disparaged on the planet, but some in the planet’s society may privately look down upon atheists. Religious extremism is rare, but does occasionally occur in the most conservative of Xanu Prime’s various congregations and sects.
Firearm possession on Xanu Prime is legal, though heavily regulated. A thorough background checks and a firearm license obtained after a six-month training course and six-month waiting period are mandatory for any Xanan hoping to own their own gun. Civilians may only own ballistic firearms with magazine capacities of twenty rounds or less and special permits, famous for their long wait times, are required for the ownership of handguns and automatic weapons while less complicated weapons like bolt-action rifles and shotguns require less paperwork.

Same-sex relationships and gender nonconforming individuals are accepted as a part of Xanan society and do not experience any legal or widespread societal discrimination, though they only make up a small minority of Xanan relationships and people. There is no form of legal recognition of polyamorous relationships on Xanu Prime.

Despite the comfort and quality of life that the majority of Xanu Prime’s people enjoy, the planet is not without its problems. Xanu Prime’s economy saw an economic hiccup in 2458 following the invasion of the Republic of Biesel led by Solarian Admiral Michael Frost. The disruption in trade saw the planet’s economy and its people suffer a small downturn that was corrected by the next year, but the phoron scarcity in late 2462 tossed the Xanan economy and the living situation for many of its people into question. The situation has been stabilized by now, some three years later, and while Xanu itself fared through the economic troubles much better than many other areas in the Spur, there have been some lasting consequences. The most noticeable of these has been a widening income inequality that, while modest, is still concerning. Wages for the majority of the planet’s population have not kept up with the inflation that resulted from the phoron scarcity, and while efforts are being made by the government to reduce inflation and buoy wages or substitute incomes through the provision of more services through the state welfare system, the problem still seems to be growing slowly, yet steadily. It is not yet a crisis, though many on Xanu Prime are keen to see that it never becomes one.

==Societal Issues and Political Discourse==
One of the biggest contemporary issues that is often at the forefront of Xanan political and societal discourse is how Xanu Prime and its government should meet the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees from the war-torn territories of the Sol Alliance and the largest wave of Vysokan immigrants the planet has yet seen. Views on these new arrivals have been mixed. Some on the planet have welcomed them, pointing to the fact that Xanu Prime is already an incredibly diverse place while highlighting the fact that the planet and its economy need laborers to fuel continued economic growth coming out of the turmoil of the phoron scarcity. Others have been less welcoming, stating that Xanu’s government and corporations should instead invest more into places like Vysoka and the frontiers of the Coalition to improve the living situations for the people living there, lowering the desire for immigration, often pointing to the already-strained Xanan welfare system needing to take care of more people, most of which aren’t even Xanan citizens. Others still have instead encouraged the Xanan government to pressure other economically developed planets in the Coalition such as Himeo and Konyang to take on more of these immigrants and refugees; a way of “doing their part” as Coalition members. Now that the conflicts in the Solarian Wildlands come to a close, it is predicted that refugees will stop trying to reach Xanu, though immigration from Vysoka and the Coalition’s frontiers does not seem to be stemming any time soon.

A larger, more historical point of contention in Xanan society and politics is just what role the planet should play in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime’s unique position of having both the Coalition’s largest economy and strongest military have long given it a considerable, unbalanced level of influence over CoC affairs, and as such, its people hold differing opinions on just how the planet should carry itself. Broadly, Xanan citizens fall into two camps on the issue: increased autonomy from the CoC, or broader integration with the CoC, with nuanced views within each of these positions. Some who wish for more integration with the Coalition desire for the planet’s government to capitalize on the great amount of influence it has within the multi-planet government to create better economic situations on Xanu Prime, while others say that the planet should use its influence to instead help the developing members of the Coalition to grow and provide more for the CoC as a whole, even if Xanu itself may not see as large of returns in the short term. Others from the autonomy camp are opposed to further Xanan economic aid to Coalition members, decrying the aid as harmful to the planet when the money and resources given to or loaned out to other CoC members could be better spent on Xanu helping Xanans during the aftermath of the Phoron scarcity. Encompassing members from that same autonomy camp, there are those who believe that the Coalition itself should remain little more than a mutual defense pact, where members only come to each other's aid in times of war, instead of the semi-formal nation state it is today. Within these nuanced views from both sides, there are extremes in the debate for Xanu’s Coalition position, with small minorities of the population wishing for Xanu Prime to leave the Coalition entirely while others in equally small numbers are in favor of the Coalition federalising like the Sol Alliance and having Xanu Prime’s government be dissolved and the planet ruled from a central Coalition authority.

Speaking of defense, it is another topic that Xanan-Coalition discourse often revolves around. The All-Xanu Armed Forces are the largest and most capable fighting force that the Coalition has for both offensive and defensive interstellar warfare operations, and while this is a comforting fact for many Xanans and the Coalition as a whole, it is not without its controversy. Some on Xanu Prime, mostly of the autonomy camp, think that other Coalition members should spend more on defense than they currently do, to avoid a “free ride” on Xanu’s military might, citing increased military spending among members as both good for Xanu Prime and good for the Coalition as a whole if Xanu’s military resources do not need to be stretched so thin, providing for much of the Coalition on its own. Those of the integration camp however have pointed to Xanu Prime’s historical status as the defender of the Coalition and that it is the Xanan responsibility to provide for the Coalition’s defense, even to an unbalanced amount because other planets of the Coalition simply do not have the economies to afford their own militaries beyond those that patrol their home systems. The common refrain among those in the latter camp is “If not us, then who?”

Besides the differing political opinions on Xanu’s place with other planets of the coalition, which could be considered internal matters, there are differing opinions on external matters, namely its place with megacorporations. Xanu’s position on megacorporations has long been a topic of debate, but its presence in everyday Xanan life has dramatically increased after the 2462 phoron scarcity and Solarian Collapse. While many megacorporations, both Einstein Engines and the SCC alike, have operated on Xanu Prime as a springboard to the rest of the coalition, often having the planet be the location of their regional headquarters, their presence hasn’t always come without concern or conflict. Some on the planet see further megacorporations as the next step in Xanu Prime’s economic growth and advocate for a lessening of restrictions upon them so that they can help the planet emerge into a post-phoron scarcity spur. The majority on the planet however caution megacorporate cooperation and see the Republic of Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts as to what can happen to a country that does not strike the right amount of balance and regulation of megacorporations. Most Xanans believe that megacorporations need some level of government oversight and regulation, but they fail to agree on just what form that should take, with different political parties holding different positions.

A growing issue that has become more pronounced in recent years is Xanu Prime’s fight with illegal drug trafficking and other forms of illegal smuggling. Xanu’s status as the heart of the Coalition and as one of the largest ports in the Orion Spur has made it a hotspot for all kinds of illegal trafficking; any smuggled drug, weapon, or person going into, out of, or on a long distance trip through the coalition likely will pass through Xanu Prime on its way from point A to point B. This reality ensures that All-Xanu Public Security Office is always busy, on the hunt for contraband moving through the planet’s ports and channels of commerce. Drug trafficking is not the only issue with illicit substances on the planet, in the last decade and a half illegal drug usage has nearly tripled from where it was in 2455 and the cause is debated among Xanans. Some say it is because of the economic troubles that Xanu and the rest of the spur at large have had in recent years, driving people to use illicit substances to cope, while others state that the cause can be pinned on the recent uptick of refugees and immigrants, specifically Vysokan ones, that have flowed to the planet looking for work or sanctuary from conflict. Others still have blamed the decay of Xanan family bonds under the strain of increasing economic hardship as a cause of the crisis. Whatever the cause, in 2461 Prime Minister Fabian Chatterjee declared the rising usage of drugs a public health emergency and called upon the Public Safety Office, the Health Office, and corporations operating on Xanu Prime to commit more resources to stopping its spread. Support for cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and increasing funding to programs and facilities focusing on sobriety and addiction treatment has seen support across Xanu’s political parties and drug usage rates have slowed in their rise since the emergency was declared, though it is unclear if these measures will be effective in the long term.

==Xanan Cultural Customs, Values, and Communication Habits==
The Xanan culture is a collectivist one with some caveats. Societally, Xanans see individuals as important pieces to a greater whole, but place importance more on what is good for society rather than what empowers the individual. This is not so say that Xanans see individuality as moot, in fact many Xanans are perhaps some of the strongest advocates for individual rights and protections from the government and society within the Coalition, but this is all done with the caveat that individual freedoms should never disproportionately harm or disadvantage society and that an individual should be obligated to sacrifice what they may want or what may be important to them if it is seen as essential to promoting a greater good. This rationale is a growth from Xanan family culture, one which places a great deal of importance on respect, cohesion, and hierarchy.

===Xanan Family Culture===
The family is perhaps one of if not the most dominant cultural institution over any given Xanan’s life. The traditional Xanan family places a great amount of importance on how one fits into the family and expects children to respect their parents and elders and obey them on familial and some personal matters, even after childhood due to the idea of age equating to wisdom. In return for the obedience of their children, parents and elders in the Xanan family are expected to be able to explain to younger family members why they’ve made the decisions they have, so that the juniors of the family do not feel as if they are being taken advantage of. Gender roles are flexible in Xanan families, however women typically maintain the household and work part-time while men work full-time jobs, though this is by no means universal. The elderly are extremely important in the Xanan family, with elderly individuals being seen as sources of knowledge and inspiration who should be consulted by younger members of the family for advice during troubled times or when making big life decisions. Elders are also expected to handle the early childcare and religious education of their family’s children, however the former of these responsibilities is not as essential as it once was due to the Xanan government’s implementation of free childcare for children under the age of five. It is for an elderly person’s children or grandchildren to take care of them and allow them to live with them from after their retirement until they die, and refusing to do this is seen as a great betrayal and is heavily frowned upon in Xanan society. A negative effect of having such large families however is that inheritances, especially those of wealthier relatives, often can result in disappointment and messy intrafamily legal battles over securing a relative’s estate and assets.

Individuals are celebrated within the Xanan family structure, but individuality as a concept is not encouraged, and family bonds are often seen as a key component to the personal identity of any Xanan. This can occasionally result in more independently-minded members of families being ostracized by their kin, however, Xanan family culture usually supports that a family should welcome back those who become estranged from the family and work to make them feel a part of the unit once again and not hold grudges. Whether this is always adhered to though, is often up to the individual families themselves. It is not uncommon for multiple generations of families to live under the same roof, or even multiple extensions of a family to do the same. Any given Xanan household may have children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts, or granduncles residing in the same household. This mindset extends to individual living situations as well. Children often do not move out of their parent’s households unless for university or work until they are in their mid-to-late twenties or even thirties; there’s no expectation for Xanan children to move out at any age so long as they still contribute to the household. However, many young Xanans do move out and live apart from their families if they are committing to a serious romantic relationship with someone or if a job opportunity arises. Family culture dictates that geographical distance from the family be a consideration in if a person accepts a job, however most families are generally encouraging of their members seeking out lucrative job opportunities because it is viewed as something that will be a net positive to the family as a whole. Related to this, Xanans working abroad often maintain very close relationships to their families, even across generations.

An individual’s choices are supposed to be embraced and supported by their family members unless the family believes the decisions to be truly destructive to the family or individual; they cannot be discouraging simply because they personally disagree with the choices because doing so would place a personal opinion or prejudice above what may be best for the family. Families are expected to be strong support systems for their members and it is common for large families to offer housing, financial assistance, and emotional support to their members in times of need. Some families have embraced this bond and applied it to business, with some of the largest companies on Xanu Prime being family-run as a result. Xanu’s richest and most powerful families are referred to as “Forvamshons” and they are typically large players in the planet’s politics and business spheres. This attitude has occasionally led to corruption scandals, but generally it is seen that enriching one’s family by hurting the rest of society is unfair, dishonorable and cause for great shame. Some Forvamshons are very elusive and shy away from the public eye, while others are very public and have celebrity statuses. The foremost of these families often have private security details provided by the PMCG, Idris Incorporated, or Chevauchée Asset Protection and live in luxurious high-security compounds which house the entire family.

Marriages are seen as not just a special bond between two people but a union between two families and a commitment between them to work together. Because of this collective view on familial culture, arranged marriages are not uncommon on Xanu Prime though they have slowly become less prevalent since the 2430’s. Same-sex marriages are not frowned upon in Xanan culture however same-sex couples are expected to adopt children to continue the family lineage, much like how heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Polygamy is illegal on Xanu Prime and polyamorous relationships do not have any form of legal recognition. Though not illegal, Xenophilia is societally frowned upon on Xanu Prime because of long held beliefs that the family structures of other species are incompatible with human ones making relationships between Humans and Aliens fruitless and selfish, therefore hurting one’s family.

Death and customs around it are tied deeply to Xanan family culture, as the death of a person is not just seen as the death of an individual but a loss of a member of an entire family. Burial and cremation are both common during Xanan funerals with customs varying some between the planet’s various religions. Common between all of them though, families will either have their bodies buried in adjacent plots to one another or will keep the ashes of deceased family members in a single, large urn holding the ashes of most if not all of the family’s deceased relatives. During burials, it is a common practice for the deceased’s family to throw dirt, flowers, and lit incense onto the casket as it is lowered into the ground. Another custom stemming from this is that when a person speaks of a deceased friend or relative, it is seen as respectful to make a small tossing motion with their hand or arm. During cremations, the deceased are often cremated alongside incense. Another common custom around death on Xanu Prime regardless of religion is that most Xanan homes will have a large logbook wrapped in black and white cloth called an “Afterlife Journal” in the home’s living room or other public area where family members are able to write down memories, sentiments, thoughts, or prayers about their deceased relatives and friends. Many see the theme of memorialisation that is very present in Xanan culture having stemmed from both the strong family ties Xanans have built along with the collective impact of the Interstellar War even some two-centuries later.
Dinnertime is perhaps the most important time of the day for any Xanan family, as it is when everyone in the household gets together. Rarely do families eat apart from one another unless their work schedules dictate they do so. Meals are shared around a large central table in the household and weekend dinners can last hours. Not only is food shared but music is played and games are enjoyed, usually board games like Checkers and Chess, or card games like Alutte or French Tarot. Meals are a happy time and it is considered to be an honor to be invited over to share a meal with a Xanan and their family. It is customary for a Xanan family grieving the loss of a loved one to leave a chair at the table empty for the spirit of the deceased for anywhere from two weeks to two months after their passing and provide them food and drink as if they were still living as an act of remembrance and appreciation for their family member. This same gesture is also done two weeks to two months before the birth of a child if a family is expecting and it is instead seen as a show of excitement and optimism for new life. Many suspect the focus on meals in Xanan family culture to be the catalyst which has pushed Xanan cuisine to the upper echelons of high-class dining throughout the Orion Spur.

===Xanan Work Culture===
Xanan work culture is formalistic and hierarchical, tied into the planet’s strong sense of family, and can sometimes come off as hard to break into for outsiders. A traditional Xanan greeting for coworkers is a handshake accompanied by a light bow. Titles, rather than names, should be used with all coworkers, superior, equal-level, or inferior alike, unless the two coworkers are close friends. Small talk is appreciated, and asking after the family of a business partner is usually how most business meetings start. Xanans pride themselves on professionalism and often view their companies as a stand-in for the family outside of their real families, meaning they want to represent them well through professionalism and a strong public image while not bringing shame to them through misconduct or crassness. Superiors are expected to be respectful and formal, but friendly with those under them and coworkers are expected to execute the orders of their superiors without question and then raise grievances with their overseers when the act is done unless they believe the situation is truly disastrous. Businesswear is formal, usually consisting of a suit and tie or cravat for men and a dress or blouse and skirt for women or a uniform for either. Casual dress while on the job is not welcomed in Xanan society and is seen as immature and juvenile, likewise excessive make-up or jewelry in a work setting is seen as distracting and putting more of a focus on one’s personal appearance than the business matter itself, regardless of the person’s gender. However, dyed hair, and minimal tattoos, especially those that are covered by standard work clothing are accepted. Xanan business meetings are multifaceted, with meetings between managers and higher-up officials in companies usually being very logical, low-key, and methodical with great emphasis placed on the abilities of either side to debate one another. This has led to the term “debate” becoming synonymous with “business meeting” on Xanu Prime. If associates know each other well though, meetings can be very emotionally charged and spritied for better or worse, filled with either happiness and achievement, or anger and sadness.

Trust built through continuous face-to-face interaction are essential in Xanan business; Xanans will base their decisions on trust and intuition as much as if not more than data and statistics. It is not uncommon for a Xanan to request a meeting in person rather than communicating through holocall, telephone, messengers, or holomail, as personal relationships and connections drive much of Xanan business culture. and because these relationships take time to cultivate and are placed on the same level of importance as close, platonic friendships, it can sometimes be a culture shock for foreigners doing business with Xanans even if the Xanans themselves are quite happy to do business with foreigners. It is considered insulting to discuss business over meals and alcohol is usually not served during Xanan business functions or consumed while on the clock. Hard work is admired, but Xanans generally view workaholism as a selfish trait that makes a person disrespectful to their family by cutting into family time. It is considered poor form to schedule an important meeting in the month of August in the northern hemisphere or the month of February in the southern hemisphere, as these are the respective months usually reserved for summer vacation. This has led to the emergence of the sarcastic phrases, "I'll get to it in August," and "I'll get to it in February," both meaning that a person doesn't care about doing something. As a continuation of this, holidays and vacation days are strictly forbidden for business contacts to speak with one another unless the topic of conversation is not work-related and evenings are similarly off-limits as they are often reserved for family time. Coworkers should bring gifts or cards to one another when they return from business trips or holidays and doing so is considered a gesture of appreciation and goodwill towards one's peers as well as a sign of continued commitment to their workplace even after a vacation. Snacks and sweets, knick-knacks, cookware, and hand-written poems are gifts that would not seem out of place in a Xanan office after vacation season.

===Xanan Communication Habits and Social Norms===
Generally speaking, Xanans are friendly, yet polite to strangers and are typically not confrontational with people they do not have a prior relationship with such as friendship, family, or a long business partnership. This has led to foreigners often noticing an indirect style of communication among Xanans, as being very direct about certain matters to strangers is considered rude. It is for this reason that Xanans will often say “Maybe,” or “Perhaps,” as an indirect response in place of “No,” because they do not wish to directly disappoint, and thereby offend a stranger if something is asked of them, though a far more direct style of communication is used in some parts of Xanan society, namely by those in the military, police, or security industries. Good manners are a staple in Xanan communication and are usually only eschewed between close friends or family members. It is considered proper for a person in a higher position of power or standing in a company or family to give unsolicited advice to those beneath them, but rude for advice to be given the other way around unless asked for. Politics are expected to not be talked about in casual conversation unless they are related to the subject matter at hand or between friends. Social norms dictate that a Xanan generally should not want to impose their beliefs upon others, especially strangers, unless something someone else says contradicts something said Xanan believes, in which case a civil, if spirited political discussion may ensue. Xanan society is one that eschews the use of violence to solve disputes, and holds a pacifistic ethos that cements that one should only use force in the defense of oneself and others, however naturally, not all on Xanu Prime abide by these morals. Moreover, there is an expectation in Xanan society that people can, should, and will compromise with one another for the sake of preserving societal unity, order, and peace, with stubbornness in working out an agreement with one another being seen as a selfish trait. Finally, Xanans value the collective. Whether that is a family, company, crew of a ship, social circle, country, or other unit, Xanan social norms dictate that a good Xanan is one who will act in the best interests of something “bigger than themselves,” while using his or her unique individual qualities to best help themselves and the people around them who they care about.

===Religion===
Xanu Prime has no official religion, and in an effort to prevent conflict over religion or accusations of government favoritism, the government has a series of official secularism laws. They vary in specificity, but broadly they prohibit any person working for or affiliated with the state including anyone from politicians to police officers to public school teachers from displaying any religious iconography, dress, or artifacts on their person or in their workplace while they are on the job. This has drawn criticism from some elements of Xanan society which see these rules as an infringement upon religious liberty, especially from those who take religious dressage as an integral part to their faith, but the government has remained firm in their beliefs that the state will not expose or impose anyone to any one religion over another. Despite these laws, the Xanan government is not opposed to working with religiously-affiliated organizations like charities due to the laws prohibiting only the state itself from representing a religion, not engaging with it.
Xanan people as a whole vary in religiosity with both very progressive and orthodox interpretations of the various faiths found on the planet being practiced. The diverse backgrounds of the planet’s original colonists and immigrants since its colonization mean that nearly any religion can be found here. The largest however, in order of practitioners are, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sunni Islam. Smaller faiths like Luceism, Stolitism, Jainism, Sikhism, and even Moroz Holy Tribunalism can be found here, the latter of which is practiced almost exclusively by the Fisanduhian immigrant community. A significant portion of Xanan society is irreligious as well. Xanu Prime is well known across the Orion Spur for some of its examples of religious architecture, the most outstanding examples of which being the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, the Patali-Ram temple, and the Crystal Lights mosque.

==Food and Drink==
===Food===
Xanan cuisine has garnered a carefully cultivated reputation around the Orion Spur as perhaps some of the finest in human space. It is in a sense, a fusion between the cuisines of its most prominent colonizing cultures, French, Indian, Pakistani, and those of the BeNeLux. While certainly diverse, it is known most for being both simultaneously spicy, but not hot, with different spices adding highlights and emphasis to whatever notes in the palette the chef so chooses, and savory with a mouth-watering richness that lasts long after the first bite of whatever the food might be. This reputation precedes it, and expert Xanan chefs and cooks are some of the most revered in the culinary industry for their mastery of their crafts.

Arguably the most famous human celebrity chefs alive, '''Cléophe & Lonnie D’Cruz''', a married power-couple in the Xanan food world, were both born and raised on Xanu Prime. Their combined adventurousness in the culinary industry with endeavors both inside and outside their chain of fine restaurants has garnered both them and Xanan cuisine a spotlight few planets’ food cultures can match. The couple met while attending a small culinary school in the city of Foy-Nijlen, fell in love, and then combined their skills to open what would be their first restaurant in their well-known fine-dining chain, '''Solstice Xanan Bistro'''. Marriage followed shortly after, and the two have been together at the forefront of the Xanan food world ever since. While they are married to one another, the duo’s personalities are distinctly different, something often accentuated for the camera. Cléophe is known for their generally supportive and encouraging personality who wishes to simply share the joy of cooking with the world and has written dozens of best-selling cookbooks to that end. They are also well-known for their appearances on Holovision shows and Holonet videos giving tutorials on how to make some of the D’Cruz’s most well-known recipes in a basic kitchen; it wouldn’t be unfair to say that an entire generation of Xanan home-cooks were taught by Cléophe D’Cruz. Lonnie, however is far more of a chef’s chef who adheres to very strict professional and artistic standards, something he extols through his appearances on cooking competition shows, often played up to be a very cold and perfectionistic critic. Despite this reputation, he much like his spouse, is also committed to educating people on Xanan culinary arts and to that end is the President and, along with Cléophe, co-owner of the D’Cruz Culinary Academy, a culinary school which while only ten years old, has quickly risen to be one of the most competitive on the planet.

While Xanan cuisine is diverse and constantly reinventing itself, the dishes characteristically include some kind of meat, most often chicken, beef, or shellfish, paired with greens like beans, asparagus, or broccoli, or a starch like potatoes and something characteristic of almost all Xanu dishes, long-grain aromatic basmati rice, typically grown on the hilly territory surrounding the upper Naya Khyber river. Spices like cumin, black pepper, coriander, cloves, cardamom, and garam masala are ubiquitous throughout Xanan cooking, and often find themselves as part of exceptionally rich and creamy white sauces made from milk, butter, salt, and eggs. Pork is not as popular as a meat on Xanu Prime as others are, given the prohibition on eating it from Xanu’s original Muslim colonists and its perceived uncleanliness that Xanu’s original Hindu colonists held as well. Some Hindus also choose to not eat beef, and as such, many of Xanu’s restaurants have an option to serve synthmeat or a vegan meat substitute instead of actual beef in their beef-dishes. The most consumed alcohol on Xanu Prime by far is beer, often made in the Belgian tradition brought to the planet by some of its original colonists. Brandy comes in second and third, and wine is also popular too, but is more associated with fine dining than it is with a drinking experience alone. Xanan cognac and armagnac brandies have drawn the ire of some in the European Union on Earth because it uses the labels of “cognac” and “armagnac" despite not being produced in the Charente, Charente-Maritime, or Armagnac regions of France, though Xanan producers have paid these complaints no heed.

Some notable Xanan dishes include:
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'''Steak Xanu'''
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As the name implies, '''Steak Xanu''' is a steak, and is typically pan-fried rather than grilled. Usually it is strip steak as opposed to coming from any other part of the cow, but any cut of beef can be made in the Xanan style. The secret comes in what the beef is cooked with. Before the strip goes into the pan it is left to marinate in a warm broth traditionally made from chicken stock, cardamom, and garlic for flavor and is then lathered all over with a light coating of ghee right before it meets the pan in order to give its outside a crunchy, slightly singed crust. The steak is cooked to medium rare as it is basted in its own juices along with butter, rosemary, and a very light touch of cayenne powder. After it is cooked to a medium rare, it is taken out of the pan and left to rest for a few minutes before being dashed with a cooked sour, cream sauce, often simply called “beef sauce” made from heavy cream, olive oil, whisked egg yolks, and citrus or mango powder. Black pepper is cracked over the top, and the dish is served. Some of Xanu Prime’s Hindu population refuses to eat this dish, however chicken can be cooked in a very similar way and is typically referred to as “Bird Steak” by the Xanan culinary community. It is the official dish of the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle, Xanu’s Capital.
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'''Pataliputra Curried Rice'''
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An mainstay dish and one sure to be found on almost any Xanan dinner table, '''Pataliputra Curried Rice''', often just called Xanu Curry by foreigners, is a twist on the typical curry recipe that originated in the port city of Pataliputra. It is a yellow curry that uses peanuts as one of its main ingredients, giving it a signature nuttiness that mixes quite well with the dish's spices. Where it differs from a traditional curry though, is that its sauce is made from two parts, one of which is a buttermilk-garlic-onion powder base that is very thick and holds in the flavor of the spices and vegetables put into the sauce, while the other is a very light, chicken-based velouté sauce made from combining chicken bone broth with a light, typically but not always, salted blond roux to give the sauce some substance. When the two sauces combine, they make for an exceptionally savory base upon which spices like ginger, garam masala, coriander, fenugreek, and thyme can be added. Meats like chicken or shell-fish are often added to the sauce along with things like beans or potatoes. Rice used in this recipe is traditionally Xanan basmati rice. Every person and every city on Xanu Prime has their own slight variation on how they make this dish, but what is listed above is generally what could be expected when ordering it. It is the official dish of the city of Pataliputra.
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets'''
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets''', or more informally River Crozets, is a dish that originated from the city of Foy-Nijlen and is one that makes use of the various animals caught off the city’s nearby ocean coast and also those found in the Naya Khyber river which runs through the city. The base of this pasta dish is a spicy tomato-basil-cayenne sauce with melted and dissolved Naya Khyber river penguin blubber mixed into the sauce in place of a more traditional fat like butter, ghee, or olive oil. The pasta itself, the Crozets, are small rectangles which resemble something more akin to breakfast cereal in size and shape rather than a more noodly kind of pasta. The crozets are made from buckwheat, eggs, and flour, and are usually cooked al dente so as to retain a bit of firmness. Along with the pieces of pasta, river boiled lobster, fish, crab, or even river penguin meat is pan-fried with butter, rosemary, cardamom, coriander, and cloves before being put into the pasta usually in small bite-sized pieces. Black pepper is cracked over the dish and cumin is dashed over the meat and the dish is served in a heated stoneware bowl. It is the official dish of the city of Foy-Nijlen.
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'''Bunker Buster Sandwich'''
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The '''Bunker Buster Sandwich''' is perhaps the most famous example of Xanan street food. At its core, the dish can be used to refer to almost any toasted open-faced sandwich served on naan bread with over-easy eggs, fried vegetables, shredded cheese, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and garam masala. In practice however, the six ingredients mentioned above are only the beginning of what a bunker buster might be, as really anything from meats to veggies to mushrooms can be put on the sandwich so long as it tastes good. It’s incredibly easy to make and traces its roots back to the reconstruction of the city of Kshatragarh shortly after the Interstellar War, starting as a quick and easy meal for construction workers to make as a lunch. Many of these workers lived in the city’s underground bunker complexes while above-ground housing was being rebuilt, leading to the sandwich’s name. It has since spread all over Xanu Prime, and a visitor to any given Xanan city is likely to find dozens of variations on this simple, long-time favorite food. It is the official dish of the city of Kshatragarh.
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo'''
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo''' is a dish originating in the city of Paastad, but can be found across the entire continent of Paasland. It is made from the meat of the large waterfowl, the Paaskraan, and is similar to the traditional preparation of vindaloo with one major exception: the meat is not cooked with the vindaloo paste and is only added at the end. Instead, the meat of the Paaskraan is pan-fried until fully cooked and is usually then seared in a sweet vanilla sauce to give it a crunchy, caramelized outer shell. After this process, it is added to the cooked vindaloo paste (cloves, cinnamon, cariander, cardamom, cumin, red peppers, ginger, mustard seeds, black pepper) and served over rice, as a crunchy and spicy meal. It is the official dish of the city of Paastad.
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'''North 60 Sea Platter'''
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The '''North 60 Sea Platter''' is less a single coherent dish and more an entire subsection of dishes based around the theme of seafood caught north of 60 degrees latitude. Himavatian sea salmon or arctic tuna, usually pan-fried in olive oil or smoked and served with lemon and black pepper, commonly forms the center of the dish with arctic crab legs or lobster tail sold off to the side paired with a creamy garlic sauce. Other components could include fried octopus and squid or freshly caught steamed shrimp. What makes the dish more than just a typical seafood platter is a special malt vinegar made specifically from ale brewed in the Xanan tradition with added apple and lemon juice. More budget friendly variations of this dish exist as well, such as ones that swap the pan-fried salmon or tuna for smaller, less expensive, deep-fried fish, the lobster and crab for shrimp, and are commonly found in Himavat City bars as a cheap, delicious option for a lunch or dinner. The food arrangement originated in the city and is its official dish.
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Not all food on Xanu Prime is within the realm of “fine dining” however. When not at the table for a full meal, the average Xanan can reach for any number of snack foods produced by Xanan companies. Many of these have become not just popular on Xanu Prime, but throughout the entire Coalition and beyond thanks to the aggressive marketing and economic dominance of Xanan shipping and food conglomerates.

===Drink===
Along with its food culture, Xanu Prime is renowned for some of the alcohol the planet produces as well. The planet’s main claim to fame in this area are in the spheres of beer, wine, and brandy. The planet has brewed beer since its founding, with the Xanan style of beer crafting having its roots in the Belgian-style brought to the planet by colonists from the BeNeLux itself. The most popular brand of beer on Xanu Prime is '''Prince Pallav Blonde Ale''', a golden concoction brewed in Foy-Niljen that has held dominance over the Xanu Beer market for the last two decades. This robustness in the brewing has brought the planet into a rivalry with the nearby planet of Himeo, the two of them both having proud beer-making heritages that often brings them to test this with each other. For the last decade and a half, brewers from the two planets have engaged in a festival called Hoptoberfest, a week-long celebration of the craft of brewing beer held every October complete with live music, authentic Xanan and Himean cuisine, and crucially for the craft brewers of both planets, competitions determining which beer is the best for that year. The festival changes venues from Paastad, Xanu Prime and Inverkeithing, Himeo every other year.
In addition to beer, Xanu Prime imported a strong wine culture from its original colonists, namely the French ones. Vineyards dot the Xanan countryside on every continent, with a few even on the southernmost peninsulas of Himavatia. The planet makes a wide variety of wine, though it is most notable for its own variety of Malbec grown in the mountains of Naya Khyber and Nouvelle-Occitanie called '''Khyberian Malbec'''. Where Xanu Prime’s wine truly shines though is not in the wine itself but in its use in fortified wine products like brandy and cognac. The unique climatological conditions of Foy-Niljen brandy country have led to the grapes grown there to be perfectly suited to making fortified wines and distilled wines, leading to their flavors to be pronounced but not overbearing up front with subtle, complex notes coming to the surface the more the drinker savors the beverage. The most noteworthy and popular drinks of this category are the mid-range priced '''2275''', a mainstay brandy of Xanan bars and kitchen cabinets alike, and '''Saint-James Black Label,''' the gold standard of Xanan luxury cognac. The national cocktail of the All-Xanu Republic is the '''Stag Hunt''', so named for its popularity on hunting trips and other outdoor activities during the summer. It is a simple drink made by mixing three parts brandy, typically 2275, one part lemon juice, and two parts chilled tea usually served over ice in a highball glass. Chai is the most consumed tea variety on Xanu Prime and the soft drink Xanu Rush is also very popular on the planet.

==Arts and Entertainment==
===Visual Art===
Xanan visual arts are vast and have an uncountable number of movements and subgenres. Generally, though, Xanan artworks are reflective pieces and try to examine the human condition rather than focus on the form by which the artwork expresses itself. Xanan visual arts have been heavily influenced by the original Western European cultures which settled the planet and as such, drawing and painting are the most prevalent forms of Xanan art. Sculpture that has been inspired by South Asian cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are also prevalent, however. The most famous and well-known movement of Xanan art is often called the Atman Movement and it lasted from the 2340’s until the 2390’s. Most art scholars consider it an offshoot of Symbolism and Neoclassicism but with noticeable existential elements. Pieces of the movement hold an almost ethereal aesthetic, and usually feature elements like fanciful Greco-Roman or Indian ruins, ruins that aren’t even found on Xanu Prime, bright, vibrant colors contrasted by dark backdrops, and esoteric spiritual imagery sourced from Xanu Prime’s three largest religions. The goal of all of this, in the words of the Xanan master painter Arnold Vasudevan, a key figure in the movement, is, “To imagine Humanity and the human condition as if we could breach the barrier between this world and the next with our own hearts and achieve revelation and clarity through the beauty within and without our souls and the world around us.” An offshoot of this movement referred to as Wartime Atman replaces the ruins of classical civilisations with scenes of wartime destruction found on Xanu Prime during the days of the Interstellar War and is meant to make the viewer reflect on things like conflict and mortality. The most famous piece of visual artwork of the Atman Movement and arguably of all Xanan visual art is called “The Truce" by Harini Martin. It is a colossal mural of a painting that is four meters tall and ten meters wide which depicts the ghosts of dozens of fallen Xanan and Solarian soldiers enjoying leisure time and doing activities like enjoying meals with one another, idly talking, showing each other photographs, and playing games and sports with one another over the backdrop of a desolate Interstellar War era battlefield in what used to be a Xanan city. The sky around the edges is a dark color, however in the center of the painting’s sky is a brilliant white, alabaster, pink, and red halo that shines light on the entire painting. It was unveiled to the public at the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery, Xanu Prime’s national art gallery, in 2387 as part of a ceremony to commemorate one-hundred years of peace with the Solarian Alliance and has remained a permanent fixture in the museum since. Notable Xanan sculptures include Our Lady of Sorrows, a giant statue of the Virgin Mary included in the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, and Skyward Unity, a large sculpture commemorating the elevation of Paastad.

===Architecture and Cityscapes===
The traditional Xanan style of architecture can be described as a hybridization of various styles of design from the Indian subcontinent and Western Europe, much like the origins of the planet’s original colonists. Xanan buildings usually have some form of artistic design on their exteriors, even if it’s as simple as a basic tile weave around entrances or semi-ornate molding around windows. Many have lines drawn on the outside in paint or sculpted on, and Xanan buildings are usually painted with bright, if mellow, colors if they are painted at all. Most Xanan buildings are taller than they are wide and long, courtesy of the planet’s re-urbanisation plans after the Interstellar War and because buildings in most urban areas are taxed based on how much land they take up. Most Xanan buildings have some form of accoutrement around their roofs, usually being a modest carving or bust of a family’s ancestor if it’s a house or a historical or religious figure, representing the theme of memorialisation found elsewhere in Xanan culture. The roofs themselves of most Xanan buildings are usually vaulted or occasionally are domed or flat. Larger, more modern buildings like skyscrapers on Xanu Prime have a distinctive half-sloping-roof look pioneered during the beginning of Xanu’s economic resurgence during the mid 2330s. Originally implemented as a cost-saving measure to make a building that still looked tall but didn’t need to have as much office space, the half-sloped roof or “Xanan Roof” style of skyscraper has part of the building’s roof flat and level with the ground while another portion of it slopes downwards. This style of design has become emblematic of Xanu Prime and even the newest skyscrapers on the planet are built with this design in mind, despite its economical origins. Xanan buildings are made from a variety of materials, with the few-surviving pre-war structures being made from wood, brick, and steel while commercial and industrial buildings built after the Interstellar War are made from concrete, steel, and glass with plaster or clay facades. Individual houses are still mostly made from wood or brick, however. Sizes and shapes of Xanan residences vary, with some being modest single-family homes typical of other places within the spur. Multi-story townhouse complexes surrounding a single communal courtyard are common in urban areas and are often inhabited by entire extended families. In more densely populated areas, large communal apartments built for extended families are common, though some wealthier families have pursued a policy of “Co-flooring,” a type of retail arrangement where an entire extended family will rent out an entire floor of traditional single-family apartments from a property agency. Some buildings on Xanu Prime play very heavily into inspiration from the planet’s original cultures and would not look out of place in South Asia or Western Europe, though buildings built like those are in the minority of Xanu Prime’s structures.

The last notable architectural feature found in many Xanan cities are residual walls and gun emplacements left over from the Xanan Civil War. Of Xanu’s six major cities, only three, Nouvelle Rochelle, Pataliputra, and Foy-Niljen have them still, with Kshatrigarh’s being destroyed beyond repair during the Interstellar War and Paastad’s torn down during the city’s elevation, lest they sink into the swamp. Himavat City never had walls, as it was too small of a community to have built them during the Xanan Civil War. The walls proved useful during both of the planet’s most devastating conflicts, acting as barriers to outsiders and platforms for return fire, but due to the gargantuan cost of operation and maintenance, the walls and their gun emplacements were decommissioned in the 2310s as a part of the Sneijders Government’s economic recovery plans. Today, the walls stand as partially restored massive memorial complexes dedicated to those who fought and died during both the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War, with some cities having sections of wall filled with the names of those who died during the conflicts from those respective cities.

Xanan cities are generally filled with greenery as both a measure to keep temperatures down during the summer and simply provide Xanans with natural beauty even in the most urban of places. Large public transit networks consisting mostly of subway systems and tramways are found in almost every Xanan city and most of those who live in the urban cores of Xanan cities do not own automobiles, while Xanans who live in the country, suburbs, and smaller cities have a higher percentage of car ownership. The most common way to get around on Xanu Prime however is by bike or motorbike; Xanu Prime has the most bikes per capita of any planet in the Orion Spur, even beating out the Solarian population hubs of Callisto and New Hai Phong. Generally speaking, Xanan cities are walkable and do not require an automobile to move around efficiently, and some Xanan cities have banned the construction of freeways and overpasses entirely in order to preserve their cities’ “authentic landscapes.”

===Literature===
Xanan literature has cemented itself around the institution of “The Great Novel,” something often defined in Xanan culture as a work of literary art that has captured the essence or soul of the Xanan struggle and of the planet’s people through the usage of compelling stories and multifaceted characters. Novels written in the Xanan style usually have psychological and spiritual themes and use supernatural or otherwise fantastical elements to explore Xanan the human condition, usually in surreal or otherwise unorthodox methods. Xanan novels are typically not adapted into films as is seen elsewhere in the Orion Spur due to Xanan movie-going audiences preferring musicals and epics instead, but they have become popular as holovision shows, stageplays, and miniseries.

Some notable works of Xanan Literature are:
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====Gloam in Gold====
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It is hard to understate the importance and influence of Foy-Niljen writer Arif Hugo’s 2345 masterpiece Gloam in Gold in the Xanan literary canon. The text, while short for a novel, is considered to be not just a seminal work of Xanan writing but also quite possibly the greatest novel ever written in the Freespeak language, despite its unorthodox, almost anthological structure. It is set in 2296 during the initial reconstruction of the city of Kshatrigarh and focuses on the character Madhar Emond, a Kshatrapur native and veteran of the Interstellar War now working to rebuild the battered city during the aftermath of the terrible conflict. His life isn’t a glamorous one and he spends most of his days doing hard, construction labor, digging paving roads, working on buildings, and the like. One day on his way home from work, he stops by one of the city’s many large cemeteries to rest and watch the sunset, however shortly after his arrival he lays down in the grass and begins to hear voices around him. He’s alerted by these and denounces them as hallucinations at first as he sees no one around who could be speaking to him, yet as the sun sets further below the horizon, he realizes that there is some coherence through the voices and that they are in fact, the voices of the dead, fully aware of their condition yet unable to move on to the afterlife.

Madhar listens in to their conversations for a moment and is eventually confronted by the voice of one of the deceased, one Missus Pandit, an elderly woman who died of old age before the city was besieged. She acts as a sort of a guide who explains the dispositions of each of the ghosts present, and each part of the novel tells a story of a different spirit inhabiting the cemetery proceeding in the order of Missus Pandit herself, and then to Mister Quint and Miss Jessup, a young Himean immigrant couple who perished together from starvation during the siege and seem to be resigned to their fates, and recount their lives from Himeo and their immigration to Xanu before the war broke out, their desperation during the siege, and now their dead, yet still loving existence of being with each other even in death. Madhar’s conversation with the couple is interrupted by the voice of Marcus Thevar, a rich and vulgar middle-aged businessman.

Marcus refuses to reveal how he died and seems to be entirely preoccupied with finding a drink and scoring some action from the cemetery’s various young female ghosts, one “Miss Periwinkle” foremost among them. Miss Periwinkle’s gravestone has been defaced, though she looks to be buried in the plot next to Thevar, much to her dismay. She’s the spirit of a young, pious woman with a noticeable Lunan accent who claims to have died from tuberculosis during the siege. She refuses to say her real name and repeatedly breaks from talking to Madhar to fend off verbal advances from Thevar, before quietly lamenting to Madhar that her days of being confined to the mortal plane despite being dead and needing to routinely reject the, “slovenly attempts at romance,” by her neighbor is God’s unique choice of purgatory for herself. Despite this, even in this “purgatory” she finds some joy in acting as an almost motherly figure to Patrice, the ghost of a five-year old child who doesn’t know how he died but according to Miss Periwinkle, seems to have abruptly perished in the aftermath of the siege after naively playing with unexploded ordnance he found a local park’s sandbox. Miss Periwinkle parts with Madhar after claiming she needs to tend to the child, and her voice fades away.

After this, the story shifts to that of Private Hendriks, a solemn Xanan infantryman who was killed during the battle and laments that he will never be able to return home to his mother and Lieutenant Ma, a Solarian bomber pilot who was shot down over the city during a night raid and is a conflicted character. She is racked by the guilt of possibly killing innocent civilians yet reminisces on what a still-united Sol Alliance might have looked like without the carnage and in his words, “tragedy” of the Interstellar War. Hendriks and Ma seem to spend most of their days now arguing with each other, the conflict lingering on past their deaths, much to the annoyance of the cemetary’s other inhabitants.

Lastly, Madhar is spoken to by the voice of a young woman, a teenager named Penelope, who brokenly and through a voice characterized by sounding as if she’s on the verge of tears, tells Madhar that her body is in fact, not even buried within the cemetery at all, but that her body instead lies buried beneath a new road built on the graveyard’s northern edge and sulks to him that nobody will ever remember her or who she was since there’s nothing to mark her grave. Madhar, heartbroken in this discovery, realizes that he was part of the crew that paved that very road and profusely apologizes to Penelope for spoiling any chance she might have ever had with a proper burial and claims that it was done in the name of progress for the city and for Xanu Prime. Penelope’s voice rejects this and breaks into tears, repeating the fact that nobody will remember her or who she was, but eventually she is soothed by Madhar’s assurances that he will remember her and that he’ll never forget that she lived and died in the city. Seemingly consoled, Penelope thanks Madhar before her voice too fades away and leaves him in silence, the sky now dark. He makes his way home in solemn, quiet contemplation, thinking about the various spirits he’s heard over the last few hours and once again questions if it was even real. When he gets home to a modest, quickly built apartment, he resolves to himself that whether what he heard was real or not, he cannot forget the past even in pursuit of the future.
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====The Screen Behind the Mirror====
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'''The Screen Behind the Mirror''', written in 2419 by the second-generation Fisanduhian Xanan writer Elanea Chatfield, is another one of Xanu Prime’s great novels. It’s a semi-autobiographical story, taking some elements from Chatfield’s own life and putting them into the events of the plot. It is also is a very spiritual text, having references, symbols of, and allusions to the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Tribunalist Scripture, and Luceian holy texts throughout to help convey its themes of residual trauma, destruction and rebirth, and enlightenment.

This semi-autobiographical story follows the experience of a young accountant named Demitra during a camping trip out to the remote New Pacific Scarlands for some time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The story’s structure is unorthodox and the chapters bounce between describing her current experience in the scarlands, and recounting flashbacks to her childhood growing up as a Fisanduhian refugee in a diverse community of Xanan and Assunzionii-Xanans on Xanu Prime. The story in the present is a tale of survival that begins after Elanea’s camping group has a car crash on a back-country road with her being the only surviving member. Much of her food and shelter perished in the blaze and she’s left to fend for herself in the forest and crater lake-filled wilderness around her. She manages to build herself some crude shelter, but during her first night in the wilderness, she’s awoken by a bright ray of light reflecting off of what she can only describe as a large phantasmagorical mirror levitating just outside the border of her crude encampment. In the mirror she sees her own reflection, but not as she is now, but rather how she was as a child at ten years old.

The book then cuts to her life as a ten year old, going over Demitra’s seemingly mundane memories of living in a low-income, almost ramshackled home with her Fisanduhian refugee family in Nouvelle Rochelle, setting the scene for the reader and introducing them to the characters of Demitra’s concerned, yet judgemental mother, silent and stoic father, whiny younger brother, and somewhat detached and aloof older sister over a standard family dinner. This scene ends and we are brought back into the present, the next morning, where upon waking, Demitra discovers that the mirror still resides outside of her camp. When she leaves to forage for food and tries to hunt something with a hatchet she was able to retrieve from the car crash, the mirror silently follows her, always levitating behind her just out of reach. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between this story of survival, following Demitra’s struggles to build a fire, fish, and hunt, and her childhood memories, with the line between the two becoming increasingly blurred as her situation becomes more and more desperate. She sees apparitions of her childhood friends and her deceased father walking around as if it was the most normal thing in the world, calling out to her yet never responding to her words. The memories become less and less pleasant as time goes on, with the phantom mirror showing her family fights, tough times in school with childhood bullies, and the deaths of family members all while her situation in reality, struggling in the wilderness becomes more and more dire.

The story climaxes with Demitra screaming her frustrations at the mirror in the wee hours of the morning, venting her frustrations to it and breaking down into tears while explaining her feeling on herself in detail to the mirror, stating that she knows she’s at her core a broken person but that despite all that the mirror has shown her she is only motivated to survive in the remote wilderness of the scarlands. Her flaws and trauma have only informed her more of her humanity, and she finishes this monologue with the line, “I’ve survived fucking everything else so far, I am not dying alone out here no matter how hard you try to make me want to!” Ever silent, the mirror remains but grows blindingly bright, so much so that the forest itself begins to smolder and catch fire from the phantasmagorical brilliance it emits. Struggling to cover herself from the light, Demitra covers her eyes but is directed by some voice, “Come and see, and behold, She who is all that is, ever was, and will be.” As she feels her very skin begin to burn and peel away from the mirror’s light, Demitra takes a metaphorical leap of faith and opens her eyes, no longer seeing the mirror but an eye made from flames staring right at her, blacking out and collapsing soon afterwards. In perhaps the most notable section of the novel, the page after Demitra’s collapse is entirely blank except for one sentence placed in the middle of the page: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.”

The plot picks up on the next page there with a jump to Demitra regaining consciousness in the back of a rescue VTOL-craft, surrounded by paramedics on a steady flight to a hospital. Demitra asks the medics on the craft with her how they found her and they confusedly reply that a signal mirror was flashing an S.O.S signal at a passing shuttle and it was reported to them, and remark they thought it was Demitra herself who’d sent the signal. She makes it safely to a hospital in a small country town and the story ends with her looking out onto the reflection of a moonlit lake, contemplating what she saw and asking herself how she possibly could still be alive.

The Screen Behind the Mirror has stood the test of time as a venerable pillar of Xanan literature since its publication nearly fifty years ago. The book saw some controversy upon its initial release however, with some more conservative voices in Xanu Prime’s various religious organizations calling it a sacreligious text with some even calling for the book to be burned en masse. The Morozian Holy Tribunal in the Empire of Dominia has banned the sale of the book within Dominian space, a fact that its author Elena Chatfield wears with pride and its publishing company has used to boost sales of the book within the Coalition and Republic of Elyra. This controversy has been eclipsed in the Xanan public eye by its literary brilliance however and it remains popular today among all demographics on the planet. It has been famously hard to adapt to a holovision show however, with all four attempts never getting past the preproduction stage or falling apart during production and has been referred to as a "cursed" story by those in the entertainment industry for that reason.
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====MMCDXLII====
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A fine example of the recently popular Xanan science fiction tradition, '''MMCDXLII''' (pronounced as 2442) by Kshatrigarh writer Jakob Rajeev is an alternate history science fiction novel published in 2442 set in a alternate timeline where Xanu Prime was blasted from orbit by Solarian forces during the Interstellar War and sent into a perpetual nuclear winter similar to how Gadpathur was in reality. The setting of the story is the city of Khairabad, or at least what is left of it. Before the bombardment of the planet took place, roughly 10,000 of the city’s inhabitants retreated underground into the vast bunker complexes residing below. Believing that they are the only people still left on Xanu Prime, the people of Khairabad have been steadily working towards the goal of reestablishing contact with the rest of the outside world. The plot follows Hridith, one of the few people in the ruins of Khairabad entrusted with the dangerous duty of venturing to the surface in order to scavenge the ruins of the dead city for supplies and clues which might help the people of Khairabad and by extension Xanu Prime as a whole, re-establish contact with the rest of the world. One day while scavenging above, he comes across an old military base which miraculously still has much of its telecommunications equipment in order, including an interstellar radio transmitter. Retreating back to the underground with his news, Hridith’s discovery kicks off a power-struggle and internal civil war within the bunkers of Khairabad as the various factions of the city vie over who should be the ones to contact the outside and by extension reap whatever benefits it may bring. Hridith falls into the game of politics and violence as members of the underground try to influence him for their own selfish aims all while he confronts his own guilt for having sparked this conflict in the first place with his discovery. Eventually, he resolves to destroy the array to stop those around him from killing each other in what he sees as a senseless war.

The book climaxes in a last stand between the soldiers of a local warlord and Hridith supported by his friends on the surface at the array where the story’s plot was put into motion. Just as Hridith is about to destroy the transmitter once and for all, he has a change of heart and, unbeknownst to any other Xanans, sends his own message out into the universe a phrase that has been immortalized in Xanan literary history: “SLEEPLESS ANGELS HAVE BLESSED US. XANU PREVAILS.” After this transmission, Hridith detonates the bombs on the transmitter and is killed in the subsequent explosion along with all of his friends, the warlord, and all of the warlord’s soldiers. The story ends on a vague note in a room tucked away in a Himean communication station with a prompt on a console reading, “TRANSMISSION RECEIVED.” MMCDXLII has been lauded as a cornerstone of the Xanan science fiction genre since its publication in 2442, with many critics seeing it as a parallel tale of sorts to the reality of the Xanan Civil War. The author, Jakob Rajeev, has gone on to write other novels since, but has moved away from the post-apocalyptic setting and advanced into writing sci-fi horror novels and space operas, marking MMCDXLII as a truly unique title in his portfolio. It has seen a successful, chart-topping holovision adaptation and a prequel series set in the world of MMCDXLII's post-apocalyptic Khariabad is currently in pre-production.
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===Film===
Xanu Prime is the entertainment capital of the Coalition and perhaps the largest contributor to this status is the Xanan film industry. Films made by Xanan studios have long proliferated across the Coalition since the end of the Interstellar War and are essential in any serious discussion about Xanan art and culture. While Xanu Prime’s directors have made films under almost every genre since the industry started to take off in the 2310’s, Xanan audiences have taken particularly well to dramas, musicals, and a genre of Xanan invention, the Interfilm. The Xanan film industry has an ongoing rivalry with its Solarian counterpart, especially that centered on Venus. Xanan productions typically do not have as big of budgets as their Venusian counterparts and are usually outclassed in terms of visual effects and and as such are sometimes limited in the kinds of stories and scenarios they can portray. Xanan films make-up for these deficiencies by instead focusing on things like writing and storytelling. The winner of this rivalry is up in the air, and different critics will give different answers, though it is almost always guaranteed that entries from Xanu Prime and Venus will compete against each other in the Spur’s biggest film festivals and awards ceremonies. The three largest genres of Xanan film are dramas, musicals, and an indigenous kind of war film created on Xanu Prime called Interfilm.

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====Dramas - ''The Love Melancholic''====
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Xanan dramas are often very introspective and personal pieces which focus on realistic problems often with relationships or with the world at large and typically involve the main protagonist or protagonists of the films confronting some kind of tragedy or trauma. A large portion of Xanan dramas are produced by independent filmmakers, something that Xanu Prime has become a hotspot for in the last half-century.

The most well known Xanan dramas is '''The Love Melancholic''', a 2424 four-hour long dramatic period-piece epic directed by Savitri de Graaf, a woman hailed as one of the best ever directors in Xanan film whose work has stood the test of time despite its age. The plot follows the life of a young woman, Roxanne, moving to Nouvelle-Rochelle during the reconstruction of Xanu Prime during the Second Astonishment looking to start a life for herself. While there, she’s met with the challenge of an accidental pregnancy and conflicting emotions over whether to abort the fetus or bring it to term, and eventually decides to have the child. The film then follows Roxanne's life through the next decade and a half as a working mother who finds success in her career but is lonesome aside from the company of her daughter, until she meets a newly-arrived Himean immigrant, Markus, on the train home from work and the two slowly begin to fall in love, though complications and difficulties in personality and circumstances plague their efforts to see the best in each other. The film ends not with a happily ever after ending, but with a tentatively optimistic, bittersweet scene of Markus and Roxanne, now both nearing middle age by this point in the film, agreeing to try and make their relationship work while acknowledging the flaws in one another. The film is a classic among Xanan and Himean audiences and won record-breaking numbers of awards and accolades when released. It has even seen popularity in some circles in the Solarian Alliance, Republic of Biesel, and Republic of Elyra. Many film critics consider it to be a cornerstone of Human cinematic history and the best Xanan film ever made, though this position is disputed by others.
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====Musicals - ''North 60''====
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While Xanan-made dramas may be the most well-received critically of most Xanan films, by far the most popular among the Xanan filmgoing audience for the last few decades are musicals. Musicals made in the Xanan style are often high-budget, over-the-top, and exceptionally grand, showy affairs. They are famous for elements like their large choreographic sequences which can involve dozens of dancers, massive and brightly coloured sets, often romance-centered plots with comedic elements, and musical style which often takes musical instruments from Xanu Prime’s colonizing cultures and puts a pop musical spin on them. When one speaks of "Pataliwood," musicals are what come to mind first. Most Xanans do not put musicals on the same level as other films and see them as something to watch for pulpy entertainment and spectacle rather than for their serious artistic value, though they will obsess over them and their stories all the same. Xanan house parties typically involve the screening of a musical in the living room and songs from some of the genre’s classics have cemented themselves into the Xanan cultural canon.

A recent notable example of a musical made in the Xanan style is '''North 60''', a 2461 film directed by Sabine Venturino, that centers on a young man from Nouvelle-Rochelle named Peter who inherits a fortune from a long-lost deceased uncle who made it big in the record industry. Overjoyed, Peter claims the fortune but learns that he can only receive his riches on the condition that he moves to his dead uncle’s dilapidated estate on the outskirts of Himavat City and lives there for one year. Peter moves but upon arrival hates his arrangements; he cannot stand the cold, remote nature of the city, but soon finds joy in its culture and music scene. He also develops a romance with the daughter of a record executive, a girl named Priti. Unbeknownst to Peter though, Priti’s father Jeroen is Peter’s uncle’s former business partner and wants to get Peter to leave Himavat City so he can claim the young man’s fortune for himself, as per the uncle’s will. Hilarity and antics ensue. The film ends with Peter deciding to forgo his fortune and instead running away from Himavat City with his love Priti and starting a new life together in Foy-Nijlen. The film is the highest-ever grossing Xanan musical and won a series of awards as well, though it saw only limited popularity outside of the Xanan market. This is a theme among Xanan musicals: massive domestic success but only limited success abroad, the reasons for which are routinely debated by many within the Xanan film community.
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The last of Xanu Prime’s most popular movie genres is one of Xanan invention: the Interfilm. Interfilms are very long, often multipart war epics set during the Interstellar War, a conflict from which the genre gets its name. They often have ensemble casts and focus on a variety of viewpoints rather than a single protagonist. These films often showcase themes of tragedy associated with the Interstellar War and ennoble the sacrifice of the Xanan nation and individuals during the war. These films are very serious and are seen as a direct contrast to the Xanan Musical genre in tone and content.

A keystone of the Interfilm genre is the series '''Count the Days''', a pentalogy directed by Xanan journeyman director Pierre Duchesne totalling over sixteen hours in length, with its installments releasing in 2447, 2449, 2450, 2552, and 2454 respectively. The story at first follows an officer in the Xanan Army, Captain Paul Ibrahim, stationed around Pataliputra. He leads his company through a very bloody battle in which the majority of his men are killed, by the end of the battle, his unit is more or less completely wiped out and he’s reassigned to command a new company, one unlike any he’s seen before. He’s given command of Company Y, an all-female volunteer unit that hasn’t ever seen combat before and is dumbfounded at first due to his belief that a female unit wouldn’t fight as well as a male one. He however is told by his superiors that he risks demotion of he doesn’t take on the unit, so he begrudgingly agrees. The first movie follows Ibrahim’s efforts to help train and ready his new unit for combat while he and the audience get to know the women of Company Y. Throughout the film, his outlook on his troops begins to change, and he connects with them more as people, though he still does not think they have the mettle to withstand warfare. The film ends with the Company seeing its first taste of combat during the opening stages of the Siege of Khairabad and Company Y sustaining horrendous losses and being cut off from the rest of the Xanan army in Khairabad.

The second film takes place during the Siege of Khairabad proper, and is a tale of the fight for not just victory but survival as the remnants of Company Y fight their way through parts of the occupied city to link up with the rest of the Xanan forces trying to hold their ground against the encroaching Solarian forces. Throughout this struggle, the Company comes across enemies but also Xanan partisan fighters who link up with the Company and join them on their journey to reconnect with their lines. During this film, Captain Ibrahim has his opinion changed on the women he commands, and he comes to see them as strong soldiers regardless of their gender. The movie ends with the Company and their new partisan compatriots reconnecting with the rest of the Xanan force defending Khairabad.

The third installment of the series is not so action packed in comparison to the second one and is mostly centered on the members of Company Y recovering from the events of the first two films and grieving their fallen comrades while integrating the partisans from the second film formally into their ranks and is the only film in the series that does not have an action sequence. It ends with the company being resupplied and ready to once again take the fight to the enemy.

The fourth part of the series is often seen as the black sheep of the series and departs from the story of Company Y to instead focus on 6th Company, a Solarian unit from Mars participating on the other side of the Siege of Khairabad. 6th Company is led by Captain Emily Mikkelsen, an embittered veteran of the Interstellar War until this point who is concerned only with ensuring that the troops under her command stay alive and sees victory in the siege as a means to that end. Part 4 shows events from the parts 1 and 2 through the eyes of the Solarians, and goes to great ends in order to humanize them, with members of 6th Company being portrayed as people who believe in the ideal of a united humanity under the Sol Alliance but also as people who don’t see the war as theirs and who want to return home to their lives and families most of all. The film ends with 6th Company preparing to launch an assault against Xanan positions in the ruins of Khairabad.

The fifth and final installment of the Count the Days series begins with a dramatic battle sequence between Xanan and Solarian forces, with the attention split equally between Company Y and 6th Company during the fighting. During the carnage however, multiple members of Company Y and 6th Company become separated from their units and run into each other on the battlefield, with many dying to one another in heart-wrenching sequences that brought tears to many a Xanan filmgoers’ eyes. The two captains, Ibrahim and Mikkelsen, also encounter one another, but both having been wounded and exhausted by the fighting decide to sit inside of a bombed out building and try to recover their strength together. The two have a long conversation about their lives before the war and the people under their command, avoiding any conversation about either’s actual thoughts on the conflict and instead just treating each other as people rather than enemies. After further rumination and conversation, Ibrahim comes to the realization that his wounds are mortal and that he will likely die from them if he doesn’t receive medical attention and asks Mikkelsen to kill him so that he might die with honor. Mikkelsen protests at first, finding some difficulty in pulling the trigger on a man she’d just spent the better part of a half-an-hour getting to know, but eventually concedes and agrees, seeing it not as an act of anger, but of mercy for Ibrahim. She shoots him and then begins her trek out of the bombed out building, with the shot lingering on Ibrahim’s corpse for a good long few seconds, only for a team of Xanan medics to enter the building and find Captain Ibrahim’s body, just minutes after his death. The medics transport his corpse back to the Xanan lines where the rest of Company Y has regrouped, and they mourn the loss of their officer and friend in a dramatic, heart-crushing scene. The series ends with Captain Mikkelsen and 6th Company in their camp that night, staring forlornly at a campfire, exhausted from the day’s fighting and failed assault before receiving orders to fall back to the rear of the Solarian force to recover their strength. As they leave, Captain Mikkelsen looks to the Xanan lines and begins to sob as the screen then pans up and fades to black on the smoke-filled night sky.

The Count the Days pentalogy is widely regarded as one of the best of the Interfilm genre and is to date the highest-grossing and most-awarded film series in Coalition history and has spawned a die-hard fanbase of supporters. It received a widespread release across the Coalition and Biesel and even saw limited screenings in the Solarian Alliance. The series is regarded by many to be a masterwork of Xanan cinema and a quintessential look into how Xanu Prime views its relationship with the Interstellar War.
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===Holovision===
The world of Xanan holovision is the most diverse in the entire Coalition of Colonies. Almost anything can be found on Xanan HV, live sports, dramas, talk shows, news, infomercials, and shows on a wide variety of premises. The quality of Xanan holovision is similarly varied, with some shows having hundreds of millions of credits in budgets while others are very obviously cheap and made to be aired or streamed as quickly as possible. Whatever the case, Xanan holovision programming and shows can be found across the Coalition and Human Frontier and generally has a positive reputation among foreign watchers. By and large, the most popular genres of holovision programming on Xanu Prime are dramas and sitcoms.

The most-watched Xanan Holovision program of all is a long-running late-night variety program called '''Teddy''', hosted by comedian and media personality '''Theodore Llewellyn'''. The show has been on-air and on popular Xanan and CoC streaming services for nearly twenty years at this point with its first episode having aired in 2447. Theodore Llewellyn is described by many in the Xanan media as “The Lord of Late Night,” due to his dominance over the late-night talk show genre paired with his polite, yet witty interview and conversational style. His show often showcases new musical acts, up-and-coming comedians, and routinely interviews the most talked about figures and celebrities in the Xanan entertainment industry and society at large. He also has been known to host games for his guests and for airing live or pre-recorded comedy sketches for his audience, usually involving himself or his guests as characters. Teddy is not just popular among Xanan audiences though and is watched by fans across the Coalition, both in Xanan Freespeak and in translated dubs of the Coalition’s various languages. He is also a prominent cultural ambassador for Xanu Prime to Himeo and has used his fame to advocate for closer cooperation and harmony between the two planets when off the air. Occasionally, the show will even film episodes on-location on various planets throughout the Coalition for promotional purposes, most often Himeo due to Llewellyn’s Himean heritage, being the child of two Himean immigrants to Xanu Prime. Llewellyn has joked at times about running for President under the Good Neighbor Party, though these jests haven't manifested in any political campaigns quite yet.

For information on Xanan Holovision dramas and sitcoms please read the two entries below.
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Much like on film, Xanans have a penchant for HV dramas, however these diverge significantly from the seriousness of their film counterparts. Xanan Holovision Dramas are very popular on the planet and can be separated into two categories: 5-Dramas and 2-Dramas.

5-Dramas are aired every day during the week on Xanu’s HV channels during the daytime, and are notorious for their low-production values, often odd, pulpy, and convoluted plots focused around absurd twists, romantic scandals and intrigue, as well as their inexhaustible lifespans, with the most popular of them having gone on for decades. The longest running and most popular of all Xanan 5-Dramas is '''A Time to Be Alive''', a series that has been running for 47 years at this point and has followed the lives and hardships of the fictional Khanna family, a massive upper-middle class extended family from Foy-Niljen. The series has uncountable plotlines and has been criticized for its convoluted and melodramatic writing style by many critics, but audiences still tune in every day of the week across Xanu Prime and the Coalition as a whole to get the newest scoop on what’s been going on with the Khannas and the people around them.

2-Dramas in contrast to 5-Dramas however are aired on weekends only during prime-time and are generally seen by critics and audiences alike as the best that Xanan holovision has to offer. 2-Dramas typically have very high production values and rely heavily on the strength of their writing, directing, cinematography, and character acting to succeed. They’re often focused on crime-related or similarly intense, dramatic premises and are usually rather serious in tone, in contrast to the soapy, scandalous mood of most 5-Dramas. Xanan 2-Dramas are considered to be some of the finest programming on Holovision anywhere in the Orion Spur in terms of their writing and acting quality, but they are not for everyone and have drawn criticism from some for being too humorless and inaccessible for those not wanting to become engrossed in painful, often traumatic storylines. One of the most well-known of Xanan 2-Dramas is '''Suntoucher''', a show which focuses on a journalist named Marielle Hollen as she investigates a series of missing persons reports from a town in the Naya Khyber delta called Dharbourg. Her efforts slowly unveil a sickening human-trafficking operation that seeks to abduct and torture its victims in the name of a twisted, hellish cult led by a madman who claims to be both the second coming of Jesus Christ and the next avatar of Vishnu all in one. While investigating as well, Marielle comes into contact with the criminal elements of Dharbourg and becomes their sometimes-friend, sometimes-enemy as she works both with and against them during the course of her investigation. As the cult learns of Marielle’s investigation though, it no longer becomes a mission to expose them for Marielle and the locals working with her, but a fight for their very lives as secret, underground war breaks out between the cult and the largest gang in Dharbourg with Marielle and those working with her caught in the middle. The series ends with Marielle’s investigation materials being delivered to the offices of the Xanan News Service after her death at the hands of the cult after killing its leader, and alludes to the publication of the story by the media giant and subsequent destruction of the cult and imprisoning of Dharbourg’s criminals. The series has six seasons in total and had an original run from 2455 to 2461 and has spawned an obsessive, devoted fanbase in recent years. Rumours are abound of a spin-off show focusing on any number of the series’s well-liked supporting characters being in the works, but there has been no confirmation of this yet.
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The last major genre of Xanan television is the sitcom, a genre that is usually recorded in front of a live studio audience and relies on whacky or zaney premises mixed with witty writing. Xanan sitcoms also a vehicle by which certain societal issues are explored or made light of in the public mind, and tend to rely a bit more on satire and dark humour than sitcoms from other planets around the spur.
While not the most popular of Xanan sitcoms in the present day, the show '''Fated''' has a strong cult following and has left a bit of an impact on Xanan pop culture. The show follows Gerard Sodhi, a man in his mid-thirties trying to make a living in Nouvelle Rochelle’s stand-up comedy scene while dealing with the pressures of his life and large extended family. On his way home from a show, he and three of his friends, Esha, Georges, and Krasnin, are cursed with bad luck by a homeless woman in a back alley after refusing to give her any money when she asked for some. After suffering from their curse through minor inconveniences and unfortunate, socially awkward situations over the next few days, the four return to where they first encountered the woman only to find her dead, unable to remove the curse. The show then goes on, focusing on the lives of Martin, his friends, and the awkward, absurd situations they then find themselves in. Fated spawned many catch phrases and words used in Xanan pop-culture some examples being: “flarge,” a descriptor used for something both flat and large, “plimpkin,” a word used to describe a person who is short, fat, and annoying, “squickimsh,” a term used in reference to something that is both gross and very sticky in texture like a piece of gum, and “fwoonj,” a noise a person makes when trying to awkwardly avoid saying name of someone whose name they’ve forgotten. The series ran for nine seasons from 2449 to 2458 and is seen as a show emblematic of the Xanan 2450’s.
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===Music===
Xanan music is exceptionally diverse and Xanan musicians are known throughout the Coalition and beyond for being some of the most prolific and distinctive in their respective genres. Xanan music usually takes instruments and structure from its Western European and South Asian colonising cultures and puts a modern, stylistic spin on them to best suit whatever genre the musician is aiming for. The most notable genres of Xanan Music are:

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The most popular form of music on Xanu Prime, is predictably, pop music. The Xanan style of pop music, often called '''Xanupop''' or simply '''X-Pop''', is similar to pop music in general, however it tends to eschew EDM-like synth riffs and instead prefers acoustic instrumentals to make the backing track. The genre has its roots in the ballads which emerged during and after the Interstellar War, mostly about home and family. Most modern-day Xanan pop songs focus on the topic of love, whether falling into it, breaking up a relationship because of the loss of it, reminiscing about times when the singer had it, or any other variety of situations about love, Xanu’s pop music has a listener spoiled for choice. While not specifically pop music, songs from Xanu Prime’s largest musical films are often played on pop radio, even if they are not strictly in the pop style. The most popular pop artist in Xanan history is Foy-Niljen native '''Robert Khatri''', a man whose crooning ballads and work with string and brass ensembles cemented him as the definitive voice of the Xanan Renaissance. While subsequent artists have out-sold him since his death in 2387, Khatri’s songs have gone on to be standards within Xanan musical canon and his songs still are known by Xanans far and wide even more than a century since their releases. The most popular active Xanan pop artist is '''Grace Rose''', though less commonly known by her real name Lavani Grace, a woman from Nouvelle Rochelle who has dominated the Xanan pop charts for the last decade and a half with her unique and beautiful vocal style with a signature high belting range perfectly suited for Xanan pop ballads.
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Rock music is the second most popular form of music on Xanu Prime and is renowned across the Coalition for its funky instrumentals that focus on rhythm primarily rather than melody and unique vocal style that typically moves between being spoken and being sung multiple times throughout each song. Rock songs made in the Xanan style, often called '''X-Rock''' or '''Xanurock''', also are often about love, much like their pop counterparts, but it is far from the only thing that Xanan rockers sing about. Common lyrical themes in Xanan rock music focus on personal independence, inner turmoil and depression, social issues, or more poignantly, lost love and ones that got away. A popular band in the X-Rock scene is '''Weatherland''', a group from Himavat City that is renowned for their creative instrumental style that often incorporates unorthodox chord progressions and jazz-like solos from the band's various members. Another group that has risen in popularity since their founding in the early 2450’s is the band '''Anti-Gone''', a band from Nouvelle-Rochelle that has gained notoriety for their more groovy, riff-driven, gritty, and raw hard-rock production style with songs that focus on personal struggle and often talk about deep, uncomfortable subjects like addiction and abuse. They have beome very popular with Xanan young adults though older rock fans have not been as receptive to their material.
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====Logmu====
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Folk music, specifically the '''Logmu''' style of folk music, has always been very popular on Xanu Prime and does not seem to be going anywhere soon. Logmu, the word being combination of the Hindi word “log” meaning “people” and the French work “musique” meaning “music,” is a genre of music that originally came about during the early stages of Xanu Prime’s colonization as a result of individual, often amateur musicians, from Xanu Prime’s different colonizing countries forming bands with one another and adjusting their styles to fit each band member’s diverse musical preferences. The genre has remained popular through two catastrophic wars, economic depression, along with many other hurdles and looks as if it will keep its popularity far into the future. Logmu ensembles are typically six people large and play music using a vast variety of instruments which date back to the colonization of the planet. For example, a standard six-piece Logmu band will typically have a fiddle, an alto saxophone or nadaswaram, a tabla, a guitar or sarod, an accordion, and a sitar, with at least one of the musicians singing as well, usually the guitar or sarod player. Logmu songs are usually musical stories or poems that follow a protagonist or recount the life experiences of the singer, often in character. They are self-contained dramas or comedies in their own right and have allowed the genre to remain popular for as long as it has because of the simultaneous relatability and dramatism of the plots of the songs. A subset of the Along with being a genre of music in its own right, Logmu also has a distinctive subculture focused on passing the craft down to younger generations, with many musicians in the genre seeing it as their duty to teach their children or other students how to play a Logmu instrument at some point in their lives. A subgenre of Logmu is, '''Sologmu''', a play on words of “Solo” and “Logmu” and is defined by its nature of usually being performed by a single musician who both sings and plays an instrument of their choice, usually a guitar, sarod, accordion, or sitar.

The most influential Logmu band of all time is the Kshatrigarh-based band '''The Air Raid Six''', a group of six musicians who had the shared childhood experience of living through the Siege of Khairabad. Once they became adults they saw great success in the fledgling All-Xanu Republic’s music scene singing songs about the Interstellar War and retelling or making up humorous or dramatic stories that occurred during the conflict. During this they pioneered the current six-piece format standard synonymous with modern Logmu music and their songs are still widely performed today. The most popular Logmu band presently is Paastad-based group '''Six of Hearts''' which gained popularity during the mid 2450’s and has yet to relinquish it since. The band’s musical style stays relatively close to tradition in the structure of the songs and focus on their stories, but diverges some in terms of the instrumentals used, replacing the normal guitar or sarod with an electric guitar and even playing solos with it, something often not seen in Logmu music. Current popular names in the Sologmu scene include '''Chloe Sinclair''', a young woman from Himavat City that has brought a moodier, more downbeat brand of singing and guitar playing to the genre; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a Vysokan Xanan who has created a niche in the genre for herself by singing in the Xanan style with her broad vocal range and accompanying it with poignant instrumentals played by herself on a morin khuur.
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====Himavat Midnight====
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Breaking from tradition is the genre of '''Himavat Midnight''', so called because the underground music shows in Himavat City which saw the genre come into being often didn’t start until midnight. It is the newest genre of music on Xanu Prime to have seen at least some popularity, breaking out of the local Himavat City rock scene in the mid 2450’s. Himavat Midnight is notable for its spacey, monotone vocal style usually accompanied by little more than a bass guitar, an electric guitar, a synthesizer, and a drum machine. Himavat Midnight songs usually are built around a simple bass or guitar riff and typically are simple yet satisfying in their construction. Most songs have either a bridge or an outro where one instrument performs a solo, though these are usually more toned down and not like the more technical skill-showcasing solos found in X-Rock. Lyrically, the songs are moody and often sad, talking about loneliness, lost love, boredom, and other saddening yet seemingly mundane feelings. Some in the Xanan music scene have welcomed the genre as a new form of music that is more emotional and thoughtful than some other songs, while others have dismissed it as "sad music for sad people." While the genre is still relatively very new relative to all other popular genres of music on Xanu Prime, Himavat Midnight does have a few notable bands. '''We Are They''', a three-piece Himavat City band, is the most popular group of the genre and is the one credited for breaking the genre out of its local confines with their 2457 song, ''Snowflakes in her Hair''. For now the band is the standard-setter for what Himavat Midnight should sound like.
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====Pataliputra Big House====
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Another genre of music that is notably unique to Xanu Prime is a genre of electronic music that emerged from Pataliputran nightclubs in the 2420’s called '''Pataliputra Big House'''. During the Doldrums nightclub owners were having trouble getting patrons to come out and give business to their clubs because of the economic stagnation characteristic of the time period. To solve this, many night clubs began to push their DJs to get creative and blend different musical styles into something new and exciting in order to attract more patrons and thus, Pataliputra Big House was born. The genre was the product of Pataliputran DJ’s mashing together elements from dance-pop and more traditional house music, vocals from R&B, and instrumentals leaning on the more soulful and jazzy sides of Logmu. Songs in this genre incorporate beats which usually are medium tempo, heavy on bass, and have a central riff played on a synthesizer or saxophone which drives the entire song. Vocals are treated like an instrument in themselves in Pataliputra Big House songs and usually have a bevy of effects on them to achieve different listening experiences. The most well-known producer in the Pataliputra Big House scene is '''Bobby Baas''', real name Robert Satti, a Pataliputran native equally famous for his colorful, often patterned suits as he is for his music. He has routinely sold out electronic music festivals across the Coalition for the last decade after achieving local fame in the Pataliputran local scene during the early 2440’s. He is also unique for being one of the only artists from the Coalition of Colonies to have performed in the Sol Alliance, performing a series of sold-out shows called the “Sunrise Tour” in 2456 across the Solarian core. An up-and-comer in the Big House scene however is '''DJ SinTheTik''', real name Sarah Tussaud-Tipnis, a young woman who became a holonet sensation in the early 2460’s for her unique style meshing instruments from classical, symphonic music with the usual sounds of Big House.
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====X-Hop====
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As often happens with strong electronic scenes, a hip-hop movement emerged around the 2430’s shortly after the popularization of Pataliputran Big House. Nearly every major city of Xanu Prime has its own hip hop scene and they all have friendly, if competitive, rivalries with another. While each major city’s scene has its own unique flair and sound, there are some commonalities to Xanan hip hop or '''X-Hop'''. Generally, Xanan hip-hop places a great amount of importance on the beat of the song, and as such these beats are typically more complicated and have more elements to them than hip-hop from other places. The rap verses themselves are usually fast and articulate with a lower, almost gravelly vocal tone being definitive for male rappers and a clear, bold tone that can carry over a nightclub crowd holding the same preference among female rappers. Nouvelle Rochelle rapper Abhang van Agteren, stage name '''AvAtar''', is considered by many to be the "King of Xanan hop-hop" and is famous for his smooth lyrical style and frequent collaborations with some of Xanu Prime’s largest producers, most notably Bobby Baas, with a catalogue of hit songs dating back to the 2440’s. His music is a common feature on playlists all around the Coalition and he has been a staple of Xanan popular music for decades, with no sign of his career waning any time soon. The most famous Xanan rap group is the all-female project '''Girl’s Night''', a four-member pop-rap group from Himavat City that first gained notoriety in the mid-2450’s for their lyrical prowess, broad appeal which crossed pop and hip-hop demographics, and anonymous nature. It is unknown what the true identities of Girl’s Night are since the group’s members are never seen in public or on stage without three-faced masks made in the style of hindu deities. The individual names they have given to the public are the letters, R, Y, V, and K.
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===Fashion===
Xanan fashion and dress is not characterized by any culturally specific garments or articles of clothing that are uniquely specific to Xanu Prime, but rather by how they style clothes that are seen as generally ubiquitous across human space. That is to say, color and the interplay within a palette in one look are king in Xanan Fashion. Xanans themselves often describe shopping and dressing as a whole as somewhat of a game, in making outfits for themselves which both are colorful, but also not outlandishly so and still manage to look sharp despite their chromatic nature. If a look clashes too much, it looks bad, simply put. Garishness is something that must be avoided in Xanan fashion and many of the planet’s top designers have emphasized that Xanan fashion is a game of balance. As to what colours are used though, there are no official rules or cultural norms, other than outfits which are heavy in their usage of black and white are reserved for funerals or other somber occasions, and similarly, looks with a lot of white or red in their composition should only be worn during weddings, baby showers, or other joyful events. The diversity of Xanu Prime as a planet in both climate and geography however has led to a variety of different fashions popping up across the planet and often fashion choices are left to the individual rather than governed by some collective norm. An exception tho this, however, is that outfits consisting solely of only one color, such as a suit with the same-coloured slacks and jacket or a dress made of only one color of fabric, are seen by many as overly formalistic and are typically only reserved for appearances in court for legal or financial matters. As such, monochrome outfits without much variation in colour are associated with the legal and banking professions. Colors aside, materials are also seen as an important part of Xanan fashion, and many mundane looking pieces of Xanan clothing may be worth thousands due to the craftsmanship and quality of the materials used in their manufacture. Intricate patterns are not uncommon in Xanan looks either, though they are usually associated with festive occasions and places. Accessories are seen as important in Xanan fashion, with neckties and cravats being popular among men and hairpins or bows finding favour among women. Jewlery is common for both men and women, but large pieces should not be worn in a workplace environment and instead should be saved for personal outings or family time.

===Sport===
Professional and amateur sports are both quite popular on Xanu Prime. Cricket and football are tied in popularity, with other sports like basketball, ice hockey, and rugby having some notoriety on the planet as well. Xanan children are encouraged from a young age to participate in team sports which many carry on into their teenage years and adulthoods through amateur club teams. As such, no Xanan town is complete without a cricket oval or football field. Xanu’s sports fans are known the Orion Spur-over for being some of the most passionate and obsessive in Human-inhabited space, with their chants, costumes, and fervent insults being both hated and envied by the planet’s sports rivals. Xanans are exceptionally loyal to their teams, be they national or local, and fights or even riots breaking out after upsets in football or cricket aren’t unheard of in the major cities.

The Xanan national teams in football, commonly referred to as '''"C.F.X.P"''' taken from their original French name Club de Foot de Xanu Premier, and cricket, often called the '''"Crimson Cats"''' courtesy of their mascot being a crimson-masked polecat, wear colors of green and orange with red accents. When either of the teams win a game, especially if during a high-stakes tournament, the entire planet often turns out to celebrate, clogging streets, overpacking bars, and pressing the Xanu’s police forces to their limits. Famously, when Xanu Prime won the 2454 Orion Cup in a surprise upset 2-1 victory over their longtime rival, the Callistean national team, Hastings Park, C.F.X.P’s home stadium, was deemed to be “The Loudest Place in the Known Universe” by a Martian sports writer. Similarly the stadium was said to have “Rung like bell,” when the Crimson Cats defeated the Port Antillean national team in 2458 to win the T20 Orion Cricket Championship. Individual cities also have their own football and cricket teams which play in a number of professional and semi-professional leagues. The highest level of these are The '''All-Xanu Ultraleague''' for football and the '''Alpha League''' for Class A cricket.

The planet has strong sports rivalries with many others, both within the coalition and without. They have a long-standing football rivalry with Callisto, jokingly called “The Second Interstellar War,” which has had its ups and downs throughout history, with both teams serving each other their most grievous defeats. Highlights include when Xanu defeated Callisto on its own home turf in 2448 to win the Orion Cup, or when the Callistean team duffed out their rivals only four years later in a hotly-contested group-stage match and stopped C.F.X.P from having a chance at defending its title. Xanu also has a hot cricket rivalry with Port Antilia, and the two planets are generally considered to be the best at the sport in the Orion Spur. Recent tension over the Solarian Collapse and Port Antillia’s annexation into the Biesellite CRZ has meant that the two teams haven’t met on an oval in over two years, leading many to believe that their next meeting will be the game of the century for Cricket. Xanu Prime also has a more friendly and lighthearted football rivalry with Himeo that has for most of recent memory been one-sided in favor of Xanu, but the two teams are still nevertheless very competitive and their fans very passionate over the rivalry.

==Immigrant and Expat Communities==
Xanu Prime is host to a number of large immigrant, expat, and diasporic communities, the largest of which can be read about in the entries below. '''A member of any immigrant or diasporic group who was born on Xanu Prime will select the Xanu Prime origin and accent in character creation.'''

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====Himean Xanans====
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The largest diasporic community on Xanu Prime, the Himean Xanan community has been on Xanu Prime for nearly as long as the Republic itself has existed. Himeans first came to Xanu Prime in the millions during the aftermath of the Interstellar War, often as workers and supporting staff helping to rebuild Xanu’s many broken and battered cities. A significant number of these Himeans remained on Xanu afterwards, established their own families and communities, and joined Xanan society. Most of the Himeans that came to Xanu during what is called the “First Wave of Himean Immigration” (2288-2310) dropped Himean customs and traditions in favor of broader assimilation into what many of them saw as a prosperous, growing, free Xanu Prime where their children could grow. A significant minority of Xanu’s population can trace at least part of their ancestry back to this first wave of immigrants from Himeo, and it’s quite common for the average Xanusan to have at least one or two Himean ancestors that came to Xanu during this period even if the person themselves doesn’t look Himean or have a Himean sounding name.

While immigration from Himeo continued in low levels throughout the 24th century, there was a great uptick from 2367 to 2390, a period called “The Second Wave of Himean Immigration” and less commonly, “The Paasstad Exodus.” Much like earlier Himean immigrants, those in the Second Wave came to the planet for work, but instead instead of reconstruction, they were taking part in the Paasstad Megaproject, an ambitious engineering initiative with the goal of raising the entire Xanan city of Paasstad above the marshy ground upon which it sat. The project was long and intensive, but was complete by 2389 and the numbers of Himeans immigrating to Xanu decreased shortly after the project was complete. In contrast to the First Wave, Himeans coming to the planet during the Second Wave mostly just immigrated to the city of Paasstad, and as such, their community became very unified and tightly knit. A district of the city, often just called Little Himeo, is where the present-day Himean Xanan community has its symbolic heart. Many Himean customs and traditions are still practiced here, Himean Common is spoken throughout the district, though with a noticeable Xanan Accent, and one can find many Himean products and authentic Himean food here. While there has not been an influx of Himean immigrants since the Second Wave, many Himeans looking to move their lives and to Xanu Prime find themselves in Little Himeo or one of the smaller Xanan Himean communities in other cities. Himean communities are very diverse politically, given that many Himean Xanans have assimilated into Xanu’s society and taken on new beliefs, however the Good Neighbor Party is particularly popular in Little Himeo and it often markets itself as the party for Himean Xanans. A majority of Himean Xanans are not first-generation immigrants, but were born on the planet as third or fourth generation Himeans.

Himean Xanans, whether their ancestors were part of the first or second waves, have broadly flourished on Xanu Prime and can be found in all walks of Xanan society. Notable Himean Xanans include '''Aukusti Staudenmaier''', member of the National Parliament and leader of the Good Neighbor Party, '''Lennox Sibelius''', Minister of the Economy and Finance under the Mukhopadhyay Government and man responsible for the implementation of the Mukhopadhyay Plan, '''Sara Knox''', current CEO of d.N.A. Defense and Aerospace, and '''Theodore Llewellyn''', host of the popular Xanan late night holovision talk program, Teddy.
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====Vysokan Xanans====
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The Vysokan Xanan community is Xanu Prime’s second largest and fastest growing immigrant and diasporic demographic; many see the planet as coming off of the first large wave of Vysokan immigrants it has ever experienced. Many Vysokans immigrated to Xanu starting in the 2440’s after the Mukhophadhay Plan began revitalizing the Xanan economy. In response, many Vysokans looking to better their lives and provide a stable income for their families traveled to Xanu Prime looking for work or simply looking to start new lives. This wave of immigration abruptly stopped in 2462 when the Orion Spur was gripped by phoron scarcity causing space flight costs to soar, but even now after that, some Vysokans still find their way to Xanu Prime.

Culture shock has been something consistent throughout the Vysokan Xanan community: Societally, Xanu Prime is to many Vysokan immigrants, especially those who grew up in the rural regions of Vysoka, a night and day difference. Because of this, along with the differing norms between Xanan and Vysokan cultures, many Vysokan immigrants have been slow to integrate and assimilate into Xanu Prime’s society and most live in close proximity to one another in majority-Vysokan neighborhoods and districts. Many in the Vysokan Xanan community are not wealthy, with most being in the working lower-middle class. Because of their recent increase in population, their unfamiliarity with Xanan systems and the fact that they are often poorer than the average Xanan, Vysokan Xanan communities often have difficult times accessing social services for healthcare or financial assistance, are less policed, and have higher than average rates of crime. Many Vysokan Xanans have found employment in Xanu’s agricultural and heavy industry sectors with their skills from home translating very well to those lines of work. Additionally, many have found themselves in the All-Xanu Armed Forces in hopes of learning skills there which they can then carry over into a civilian job after being discharged. The largest Vysokan Xanan community on Xanu Prime is the Little Vysoka district of Nouvelle-Rochelle.

Vysokan Xanan communities often try to recreate things from Vysoka itself, the most common of these being Stolitist spirit houses and shrines. Vysokan Xanans are majority-Stolitist in their religious practices, and many Vysokan Xanan communities celebrate Stolitist religious festivals. Vysokan Xanan practices are not identical to their Vysokan counterparts however. Many in Vysokan Xanan communities have eschewed travelling, nomadic shamans in favour of more congregationally-styled practices, with houses of worship and assembly taking influence from Christian churches and Muslim mosques in layout often being built to surround Stolitist shrines and spirit houses. These “Stolitchurches” are a uniquely Vysokan Xanan creation and often function as the cultural, spiritual, and symbolic centers of Vysokan Xanan communities. Other aspects of Vysokan culture which have in some way translated to Xanu Prime is the Vysokan penchant for athleticism; since the immigration, many young Vysokans have made a name for themselves and their community as professional athletes. Many even make the annual trip back to Vysoka for the Velhalktai. Host culture has not made the jump and the hosts in general is something that is begrudgingly dismissed by many Vysokan Xanans because they believe that Host culture affirms a stereotype among Xanussians that Vysokans are criminals. Politically, opinions are diverse for Vysokan Xanans, but many have voted for the Free Falcon Party in recent years due to the party’s Vysokan Xanan origin and stance on many immigrant issues.

Notable Vysokan Xanans include '''Aynan Zhergotov''', professional footballer and captain of the Nouvelle-Rochelle football club A.S. Olympique-Saraswati; '''Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova''', member of the National Parliament, leader of the Free Falcon Party, and formerly practicing medical doctor; '''Yekheren Bolkhadarov''', goalkeeper for the All-Xanu National Football Team; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a second-generation Vysokan Xanan singer who has seen recent popularity in Xanu’s Logmu music scene by combining Xanan-styled singing with Vysokan-inspired instrumentals.
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====Assunzionii Xanans====
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The Assunzionii Xanan community is the third largest diaspora on Xanu Prime and is one that has managed to strike a strong balance between preserving their own original culture and embracing Xanu’s own. Most of Xanu Prime’s Assunzionii population moved to Xanu Prime during the 2370’s and 2380’s in response to Xanu’s burgeoning economy, with a smaller wave coming in the 2450’s. As such a majority of the Assunzionii Xanan population are third or fourth generation immigrants, with the new arrivals in 2450 being first-generation. Most Assunzionii Xanans live in the middle class, with some having advanced into the upper classes through employment or their businesses. Throughout Xanu Prime, many Assunzionii people have found themselves in two primary industries: entertainment and engineering. The former came about when many Assunzionii immigrants were hired on by nightclubs and other entertainment venues for their expertise in electrical lighting systems. As they were employed more, some of these immigrants figured that they would instead start their own clubs which they could run and style as they pleased. Gaining traction for their exceptional light shows and very exotic atmospheres, Assunzionii Xanan-owned and staffed clubs, bars, theaters, and even film studios became very successful across Xanu prime in the 2400’s and have remained that way since, with some of the largest and most exclusive entertainment establishments on the planet being owned by Assunzionii Xanusians. Some of these immigrants also found themselves in engineering and went on to work in Xanu’s shipbuilding and logistics sector; their skills being perfect for designing and servicing electrical systems on ships. Many of their descendants still work in these fields today

Culturally, there are some distinct differences between Assunzionii Xanans and people from Assunzionne proper. Exposure to outside cultures and removal from the Luceism-centered domes of light has made many Assunzionii Xanusians less religious than their Assunzionii counterparts. Most still identify as Luceist and do practice, but the faith on Xanu Prime has become more casual and cultural to the local community rather than something more dogmatic and omnipresent. Simply put, Luceism isn’t as important to multi-generational Assunzionii Xanusians as it is to those back home on Assunzione or those who have just arrived from the planet, even if it is present in their lives. Despite this more lax attitude, there are large cathedrals of light in many Assunzionii Xanan communities, the largest being in the Little Assunzione district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, and they see frequent attendance. Most Assunzionii Xanusians are Structuralist Luceists and their churches function as large community centers and meeting places along with being used as houses of worship. Other aspects of Assunzionii culture have stuck around in the community as well, such as illumination. Assunzionii Xanan neighborhoods are very well lit, with more street lamps than average and more lights on houses as well, and this, along with the communal and tight-knit nature of many Assunzionii Xanan families, make their neighborhoods some of the safest on Xanu Prime.

Notable Assunzionii Xanusians include '''Sabine Venturino''', a third-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and one of the largest directorial names in Xanan film industry; '''Suleiman Kateb''', a second-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and current Minister of Energy for the Afzal government; and '''Hristos Santolaria''', a first-generation Assunzionii Xanan and current Chief Operations Officer for Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.
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====Fisanduhian Xanans====
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The Fisanduhian story on Xanu Prime is a strange one that started in 2386. In that year, the Xanan government agreed to host the remnants of the Fisanduh Freedom Front (3F) as a gesture of solidarity between two countries against tyranny. This arrangement created the modern Fisanduhian government-in-exile as it exists today with its seat in the Greentree neighbourhood of Nouvelle Rochelle. Of those few countries that recognise the existence of an independent Fisanduh, those being the Republic of Elyra and a vast majority of Coalition of Colonies members, see the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, also commonly called the “Greentree Government,” as the legitimate government of Fisanduh. The Empire of Dominia sees the Greentree Government as the political arm of the 3F, a rebel militia to some and a terrorist group to others, and therefore considers Xanu Prime and by extension the Coalition of Colonies to be a state sponsor of terrorism for giving the government sanctuary. The Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel do not recognise the Fisanduhian government-in-exile as the legitimate government of Fisanduh and have no relations with it.

Xanu Prime’s long-standing positive relationship with the Fisanduhian government has made it a very popular destination for Fisanduhian refugees, though its geographic distance from Moroz often makes traveling to the planet difficult for some. Fisanduhian refugees typically do not come in waves like other immigrant demographics, but arrive sporadically and often in small cohorts that were trafficked out of Fisanduh at the same time. This distance and trouble with travel cuts both ways: it isn’t just difficult for Fisanduhians to arrive on Xanu but much of the Fisanduhian Xanan community (aside from the aforementioned refugees) have never even been to Fisanduh, with their only ties to the Morozian region being ethnic and cultural. Religion is also something that sets Fisanduhian Xanans apart from other Xanans, with most being adherents to some strain of Reformed Morozian Tribunalism which rejects the authority of the Morozian Clergy and the Dominian Emperor as the divinely ordained head of the “Goddess’s Tribunal,” a term that the Goddess’s Holy Diocese of Xanu Prime uses to describe their religion over using “Morozian Holy Tribunal.” Some however have given up this faith and have either become irreligious or have taken on one of Xanu Prime’s dominant religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) as their own. Despite this, it is common for many Fisanduhian Xanans to celebrate Tribunalist religious holidays even if they themselves are not adherent to the faith since many see these days as part of their own distinctive culture. All Tribunalist churches on Xanu Prime have eschewed the use of traditional Morozian Holy Tribunal uniforms and religious symbols connected with the Dominian Emperor, viewing them as unnecessarily dogmatic and relics of an oppressive, Dominian, past.

Economically, most Fisanduhian Xanans are poorer than the average Xanan, with almost all being either refugees who arrived on the planet with nothing or their descendants. They lack the generational wealth of other demographics in Xanan society, and most are not educated to the standards demanded by the Xanan economy. As such, most can usually be found in industrial and service jobs, the All-Xanu Armed Forces or other working-class positions. Because of this disadvantageous economic position, many of the better-off Fisanduhian Xanans have been known to host refugee families and provide them with housing and food until they find employment and can secure housing of their own.

Despite the hardship the demographic has found, the Fisanduhian Xanan community has found a home for itself in Xanan society. Most Fisanduhian Xanans have assimilated and integrated themselves into broader Xanan society and adopted their norms and culture, but generally live in areas with other Fisanduhian Xanans. Some subsets of the group take this to the extreme, maintaining their own communities and living together in nearly all-Fisanduhian neighborhoods which preserve the native Fisanduhian culture and social systems. These communities are usually suspicious of outsiders and such attitudes have occasionally led negative attention from the media for allegations of xenophobia and exclusionism. There is a stereotype among Xanans that Fisanduhian Xanans are all rabidly politically active and pursue jobs in politics and government especially in order to aid the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, and while most Fisanduhian Xanans very supportive of the Greentree government, their involvement is often falsely overstated. In reality, Fisanduhian Xanans hold a variety of political views about Xanu Prime and the 3F government, with most being split into two camps: the Irredentists and the Second Homelanders.
Simply put, the Irredentists and Second Homelanders diverge on their priorities relating to the Fisanduhian Insurgency. The Irredentist camp of the Fisanduhian Xanan population places the government-in-exile’s backing of the 3F and other resistance groups in Fisanduh through sending them aid, equipment, and money above all else, in hopes of one day returning to an independent Fisanduh. The Second Homelanders instead want the government-in-exile to create a “second homeland" for the Fisanduhian people on Xanu Prime in cooperation with the Xanan government and often push for the government-in-exile to leverage its official and unofficial influence in Xanan society to provide better resources for the Fisanduhian Xanan community. The two groups, while different in their priorities, are not enemies to one another and often work together in both the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the unofficial representative of that government in Xanan Politics, the Universal Liberty Party. Historically, the Irredentist camp has been a majority in the Fisanduhian Xanan population, but as Fisanduhian Xanans have adjusted more to Xanan society and their needs have become more pronounced, the Second Homeland movement has grown considerably, especially among the demographic’s younger generations who see themselves as more Xanan than Fisanduhian. As the older generations of Fisanduhian Xanans die, it is predicted that the Second Homeland movement will soon hold a majority over Fisanduhian Xanan political discourse unless a serious shift occurs in the currently-stalemated Fisanduhian Insurgency.

Morozian Fisanduhians have mixed opinions of Fisanduhian Xanans. On one hand the sentiments of support and occasional aid shipment that make it to the region past the Dominian blockades are often appreciated, but on the other, most see the Fisanduhian Xanan population as too far away to make a difference in anything actually happening in Fisanduh besides giving a place for more refugees to flee to. Because of this, most Morozian Fisanduhians treat their Xanan cousins as people who are all talk and no action in regards to actually winning the insurgency.

Notable Fisanduhian Xanans include '''Erick Alexis''', current Vice-President of the All-Xanu Republic; '''Aaron Izmirlian''', Prime Minister of the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile; '''Ekaitz Azarola''', leader of the Universal Liberty Party and member of the National Parliament; and '''Elaena Chatfield''', a prolific if aging novelist often considered to be one of the greatest writers Xanu Prime has ever produced.
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====Gadpathurian Exiles====
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Xanan Gadpathurian Exiles and their community are a small but notable immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime. They are almost exclusively concentrated in Pataliputra, it being the spot where most of them arrive on the planet after being ejected from their home world. Gadpathurian Exiles are known to be highly assimilationist and often make little effort to show that they are even in fact Gadpathurian at all, some too ashamed by their exile status to try and make others know of it. Some however have taken the identity and embraced it as part of who they are in Xanan society. Gadpathurian Exiles who do make a point of their heritage do not have their own distinctive architecture or cuisine, but instead hold much of their culture in their community structures and businesses. Gadpathurian Exile-owned businesses which embrace the identity are known to be pseudo-support groups for Gadpathurian Exiles themselves and often provide employment, housing, and other necessities to newly arrived fellow-exiles to ensure that they do not become homeless or starve. Xanan Gadpathurian Exile families similarly have been known to welcome fellow exiles into their houses to take care of them in a similar way to how Fisanduhian Xanans do, however Gadpathurian Exiles take this a step further and have been known to formally adopt entirely unrelated people into their families permanently. This has led to some Gadpathurian Exile families on Xanu Prime to become comically large, with the largest on record, the Mokammel family, having over 1,700 current members. The Mokammels mostly live in the Kuenoi neighborhood of Pataliputra, though this area has come to be known colloquially as “Mokammelbad” in popular parlance. Most Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are irreligious or have converted to one of the planet’s three major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, with some converting to smaller faiths.

Gadpathurian Exiles often have an advantage over other immigrants not in terms of their wealth, as most arrive to the planet positively destitute, but in terms of their educations. Most Gadpathurians were taught skills during their military service on Gadpathur, and even if they’ve now been exiled from their homeworlds, many retain their skills and have found lucrative work as tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, HVAC specialists, and welders to name a few). Of course, many have also joined the All-Xanu Armed Forces and usually find success there too, either as soldiers, specialists, or occasionally even officers, though this is somewhat rare as the Gadpathurian leadership style is usually inconsistent with Xanan doctrine and practices. It is seen as shameful in Exile society to take aid from the government, and there is a societal norm of redemption through achievement as a way to prove the decision to exile the person in question as wrong. As such, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are encouraged by their communities to hold a strong work ethic and to cooperate with other Exiles trying to achieve success. In regard to politics, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime typically vote either for the Free Falcon Party of All-Xanu Freedom League. Gadpathurian Exiles also have a somewhat toned-down view of the Sol Alliance, at least when compared to their unexiled counterparts. They are often less outspoken about their prejudice towards the Sol Alliance than Gadpathurians on Gadpathur proper, even if their views on Sol remain unyieldingly resentful.

Notable Gadpathurian Exiles Xanans include '''Chandi Mokammel''', a first-generation Gadpathurian Exile, head of the massive Gadpathurian Exile family the Mokammels and celebrity within the Gadpathurian Exile community, and '''Sri Afzal''', a second-generation Gadpathuri Exile, formerly a professor of law at Saraswati College, and wife to the current All-Xanu President Jacques Afzal.
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==Holidays==

Xanu Prime has many holidays much like almost anywhere else in the Spur, however the foremost of these are as follows:

*'''January 1st - New Year’s Day''' - A celebration of the ushering in of a new year. This holiday is marked by fireworks, loud music, and the mass consumption of alcohol. It is officially recognised as a holiday.

*'''January 2nd - Founding Day''' - This is the day where Xanans celebrate the original colonization of their world by the Solarian Alliance. People get the day off work and festivities are held in communities across the planet to celebrate Xanu. Many consider this to be a toned down version of Xanan Independence Day, or simply a day to recoup and recover from the partying and subsequent hangovers brought on by New Year’s. Alternatively, some simply use the day to have a two-day long New Year’s celebration.

*'''March 28th - All-Xanu Peace Day''' - This is a holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the end of the Xanan Civil war. It is a rather low-key holiday where people are encouraged to reflect on the peace that they enjoy and spend it with their families. Xanan citizens get the day off of work, though because the war is such a distant memory, many just use this as a convenient day off of work or three-day weekend rather than a time to celebrate its original intended purpose.

*'''July 1st - Election Day''' - This day is less of a holiday and more a bureaucratic necessity. On June 1st, all Xanans vote in elections, local, province-wide, or national. Everyone gets the day off work so they can vote if they so choose. The holiday still applies to jurisdictions where no elections are taking place that year, so many often take it as a free day off of work.

*'''August 13th - Xanan Independence Day''' - This day celebrates the secession of Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies from the Solarian Alliance and is the largest holiday of the year. Parades, fireworks, cookouts, sporting events, and musical performances often occur on this day. The entire planet parties hard on this holiday and it is observed by Xanan expats living elsewhere in the Orion Spur as well. Xanans get the day off of work on August 13th.

*'''October 1st - Victory Day''' - Victory Day, as it may be implied, is the day where Xanans celebrate the victory of their country over the Solarian Alliance in the Interstellar War. It is marked by parades, and other celebrations that honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians who died in the conflict and the freedoms that they died for. It has a more solemn and reverent atmosphere than other Xanan national holidays. Xanans get the day off work on Victory Day.

*'''November 18th - Kulkarni Day''' - Kulkarni Day, also called Diversity Day (no relation to the Eridanian Holiday), is a holiday where Xanans celebrate their diversity and ethic of unity, coming together to unite as one strong and diverse society. It is held on the birthday of once planetary governor Gaspard Kulkarni to honor his vision for what a united yet diverse Xanan society could be. The day is celebrated widely across the planet and is a day where the various communities of Xanu prime go out of their way to share their cultures with those of different cultures and celebrate how they find strength in diversity. It is an official holiday and Xanan citizens get the day off of work on Diversity Day.

*'''December 25th - Christmas''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Despite its religious origins, it has long been a festivity that has spread across cultures and demographics regardless of religious affiliation, and as such it is an official holiday on Xanu Prime. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries.

*'''Varying Dates - Easter''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries. This holiday follows the lunar cycle and therefore is held on different days annually, though it is always on a Sunday, typically in April or March. It is not officially a holiday recognised by the Xanan State, but many observant Christians celebrate it.

*'''Varying Dates - Ramadan''' - A Muslim religious holiday that is observed for nearly a month by Xanu Prime’s muslim population. It includes the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, on which was recognised as an official Xanan holiday in 2334 after the festivities of feasting, partying, and parades became so widespread across Xanu Prime’s population that it could no longer be interpreted as a strictly religious celebration. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Eid al-Adha''' - A Muslim religious holiday which that honors the willingness of the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as Allah commanded of him. It is not an official Xanan holiday, but many observant muslims take the day off from work and celebrate. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Diwali''' - A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh, religious holiday which lasts for five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil, originally brought to Xanu Prime by Hindu and Sikh colonists from India. It is typically marked by fireworks, the lighting of lamps, brightly vibrant lights, and other festivities which embody light triumphing over the dark. The third day of the holiday, Lakshmi Puja, is the most colorful of the holiday, and Xanans who observe it usually take the day off work, though it is not an official holiday. While not Hindus, the local Assunzionii expat population also has begun to celebrate this holiday recently as well, tying it into their own beliefs of light triumphing over the darkness. Diwali is determined by the Hindu lunar-solar calendar, and therefore falls on different dates annually.

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==Overview==
Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great emphasis on the family unit as the building block of society. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another, and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague.

==Standard of Living and Civil Liberties==
A life on Xanu Prime is by and large a comfortable, though not exceedingly luxurious one. While not uniform across the various peoples and classes of the planet, the average Xanan isn’t bothered with extreme poverty, hunger, or lingering threats of conflict, nor do they live in cities adapted to suit hazardous environments. The average Xanan sits as a member of the middle class and the government has taken measures to try and ensure that the largest number of Xanans can live comfortably on the planet as is possible.
Healthcare works in a hybrid system, with some facilities being private and others being public, though the government will still partially fund the expenses of patients that go to private clinics or hospitals. Xanan healthcare quality is some of the best in the Orion Spur, only rivaled by that found on Biesel or in the Solarian Core, and millions come from across the Coalition annually to receive treatment from Xanan doctors.

Higher education at government-operated universities and colleges is free to those who can obtain a qualifying score on the Uniform Higher Education Assessment test or UHEA, while private universities on the planet usually have their own specific entrance exams.

Governance on Xanu Prime is democratic and many on the planet are invested in local-level politics. Despite political contrasts among the Xanan population, they generally place unity in forms such as nationality or city of origin before political beliefs, and as such political polarization and division is not as pronounced on Xanu Prime as it may be elsewhere in the Spur.

Xanu Prime has very liberal speech laws as well, with almost any kind of speech allowed by the planet’s government. Notable exceptions include; any rhetoric that targets another individual or group of individuals on the basis of race or religion, any rhetoric that styles itself as genuine when it is knowingly false, and any rhetoric that is knowingly false while intending to harm another person’s reputation or well-being. News media outlets have wide-ranging freedoms to publish what they like, though their content is regulated by the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission, an independent government agency which has the power to censor and fine publications with content it has deemed to promote fake news or be so biased that it burgeons on fake news.

Most Xanans are religious or spiritual to at least some degree, though atheism isn’t unheard of nor officially disparaged on the planet, but some in the planet’s society may privately look down upon atheists. Religious extremism is rare, but does occasionally occur in the most conservative of Xanu Prime’s various congregations and sects.
Firearm possession on Xanu Prime is legal, though heavily regulated. A thorough background checks and a firearm license obtained after a six-month training course and six-month waiting period are mandatory for any Xanan hoping to own their own gun. Civilians may only own ballistic firearms with magazine capacities of twenty rounds or less and special permits, famous for their long wait times, are required for the ownership of handguns and automatic weapons while less complicated weapons like bolt-action rifles and shotguns require less paperwork.

Same-sex relationships and gender nonconforming individuals are accepted as a part of Xanan society and do not experience any legal or widespread societal discrimination, though they only make up a small minority of Xanan relationships and people. There is no form of legal recognition of polyamorous relationships on Xanu Prime.

Despite the comfort and quality of life that the majority of Xanu Prime’s people enjoy, the planet is not without its problems. Xanu Prime’s economy saw an economic hiccup in 2458 following the invasion of the Republic of Biesel led by Solarian Admiral Michael Frost. The disruption in trade saw the planet’s economy and its people suffer a small downturn that was corrected by the next year, but the phoron scarcity in late 2462 tossed the Xanan economy and the living situation for many of its people into question. The situation has been stabilized by now, some three years later, and while Xanu itself fared through the economic troubles much better than many other areas in the Spur, there have been some lasting consequences. The most noticeable of these has been a widening income inequality that, while modest, is still concerning. Wages for the majority of the planet’s population have not kept up with the inflation that resulted from the phoron scarcity, and while efforts are being made by the government to reduce inflation and buoy wages or substitute incomes through the provision of more services through the state welfare system, the problem still seems to be growing slowly, yet steadily. It is not yet a crisis, though many on Xanu Prime are keen to see that it never becomes one.

==Societal Issues and Political Discourse==
One of the biggest contemporary issues that is often at the forefront of Xanan political and societal discourse is how Xanu Prime and its government should meet the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees from the war-torn territories of the Sol Alliance and the largest wave of Vysokan immigrants the planet has yet seen. Views on these new arrivals have been mixed. Some on the planet have welcomed them, pointing to the fact that Xanu Prime is already an incredibly diverse place while highlighting the fact that the planet and its economy need laborers to fuel continued economic growth coming out of the turmoil of the phoron scarcity. Others have been less welcoming, stating that Xanu’s government and corporations should instead invest more into places like Vysoka and the frontiers of the Coalition to improve the living situations for the people living there, lowering the desire for immigration, often pointing to the already-strained Xanan welfare system needing to take care of more people, most of which aren’t even Xanan citizens. Others still have instead encouraged the Xanan government to pressure other economically developed planets in the Coalition such as Himeo and Konyang to take on more of these immigrants and refugees; a way of “doing their part” as Coalition members. Now that the conflicts in the Solarian Wildlands come to a close, it is predicted that refugees will stop trying to reach Xanu, though immigration from Vysoka and the Coalition’s frontiers does not seem to be stemming any time soon.

A larger, more historical point of contention in Xanan society and politics is just what role the planet should play in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime’s unique position of having both the Coalition’s largest economy and strongest military have long given it a considerable, unbalanced level of influence over CoC affairs, and as such, its people hold differing opinions on just how the planet should carry itself. Broadly, Xanan citizens fall into two camps on the issue: increased autonomy from the CoC, or broader integration with the CoC, with nuanced views within each of these positions. Some who wish for more integration with the Coalition desire for the planet’s government to capitalize on the great amount of influence it has within the multi-planet government to create better economic situations on Xanu Prime, while others say that the planet should use its influence to instead help the developing members of the Coalition to grow and provide more for the CoC as a whole, even if Xanu itself may not see as large of returns in the short term. Others from the autonomy camp are opposed to further Xanan economic aid to Coalition members, decrying the aid as harmful to the planet when the money and resources given to or loaned out to other CoC members could be better spent on Xanu helping Xanans during the aftermath of the Phoron scarcity. Encompassing members from that same autonomy camp, there are those who believe that the Coalition itself should remain little more than a mutual defense pact, where members only come to each other's aid in times of war, instead of the semi-formal nation state it is today. Within these nuanced views from both sides, there are extremes in the debate for Xanu’s Coalition position, with small minorities of the population wishing for Xanu Prime to leave the Coalition entirely while others in equally small numbers are in favor of the Coalition federalising like the Sol Alliance and having Xanu Prime’s government be dissolved and the planet ruled from a central Coalition authority.

Speaking of defense, it is another topic that Xanan-Coalition discourse often revolves around. The All-Xanu Armed Forces are the largest and most capable fighting force that the Coalition has for both offensive and defensive interstellar warfare operations, and while this is a comforting fact for many Xanans and the Coalition as a whole, it is not without its controversy. Some on Xanu Prime, mostly of the autonomy camp, think that other Coalition members should spend more on defense than they currently do, to avoid a “free ride” on Xanu’s military might, citing increased military spending among members as both good for Xanu Prime and good for the Coalition as a whole if Xanu’s military resources do not need to be stretched so thin, providing for much of the Coalition on its own. Those of the integration camp however have pointed to Xanu Prime’s historical status as the defender of the Coalition and that it is the Xanan responsibility to provide for the Coalition’s defense, even to an unbalanced amount because other planets of the Coalition simply do not have the economies to afford their own militaries beyond those that patrol their home systems. The common refrain among those in the latter camp is “If not us, then who?”

Besides the differing political opinions on Xanu’s place with other planets of the coalition, which could be considered internal matters, there are differing opinions on external matters, namely its place with megacorporations. Xanu’s position on megacorporations has long been a topic of debate, but its presence in everyday Xanan life has dramatically increased after the 2462 phoron scarcity and Solarian Collapse. While many megacorporations, both Einstein Engines and the SCC alike, have operated on Xanu Prime as a springboard to the rest of the coalition, often having the planet be the location of their regional headquarters, their presence hasn’t always come without concern or conflict. Some on the planet see further megacorporations as the next step in Xanu Prime’s economic growth and advocate for a lessening of restrictions upon them so that they can help the planet emerge into a post-phoron scarcity spur. The majority on the planet however caution megacorporate cooperation and see the Republic of Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts as to what can happen to a country that does not strike the right amount of balance and regulation of megacorporations. Most Xanans believe that megacorporations need some level of government oversight and regulation, but they fail to agree on just what form that should take, with different political parties holding different positions.

A growing issue that has become more pronounced in recent years is Xanu Prime’s fight with illegal drug trafficking and other forms of illegal smuggling. Xanu’s status as the heart of the Coalition and as one of the largest ports in the Orion Spur has made it a hotspot for all kinds of illegal trafficking; any smuggled drug, weapon, or person going into, out of, or on a long distance trip through the coalition likely will pass through Xanu Prime on its way from point A to point B. This reality ensures that All-Xanu Public Security Office is always busy, on the hunt for contraband moving through the planet’s ports and channels of commerce. Drug trafficking is not the only issue with illicit substances on the planet, in the last decade and a half illegal drug usage has nearly tripled from where it was in 2455 and the cause is debated among Xanans. Some say it is because of the economic troubles that Xanu and the rest of the spur at large have had in recent years, driving people to use illicit substances to cope, while others state that the cause can be pinned on the recent uptick of refugees and immigrants, specifically Vysokan ones, that have flowed to the planet looking for work or sanctuary from conflict. Others still have blamed the decay of Xanan family bonds under the strain of increasing economic hardship as a cause of the crisis. Whatever the cause, in 2461 Prime Minister Fabian Chatterjee declared the rising usage of drugs a public health emergency and called upon the Public Safety Office, the Health Office, and corporations operating on Xanu Prime to commit more resources to stopping its spread. Support for cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and increasing funding to programs and facilities focusing on sobriety and addiction treatment has seen support across Xanu’s political parties and drug usage rates have slowed in their rise since the emergency was declared, though it is unclear if these measures will be effective in the long term.

==Xanan Cultural Customs, Values, and Communication Habits==
The Xanan culture is a collectivist one with some caveats. Societally, Xanans see individuals as important pieces to a greater whole, but place importance more on what is good for society rather than what empowers the individual. This is not so say that Xanans see individuality as moot, in fact many Xanans are perhaps some of the strongest advocates for individual rights and protections from the government and society within the Coalition, but this is all done with the caveat that individual freedoms should never disproportionately harm or disadvantage society and that an individual should be obligated to sacrifice what they may want or what may be important to them if it is seen as essential to promoting a greater good. This rationale is a growth from Xanan family culture, one which places a great deal of importance on respect, cohesion, and hierarchy.

===Xanan Family Culture===
The family is perhaps one of if not the most dominant cultural institution over any given Xanan’s life. The traditional Xanan family places a great amount of importance on how one fits into the family and expects children to respect their parents and elders and obey them on familial and some personal matters, even after childhood due to the idea of age equating to wisdom. In return for the obedience of their children, parents and elders in the Xanan family are expected to be able to explain to younger family members why they’ve made the decisions they have, so that the juniors of the family do not feel as if they are being taken advantage of. Gender roles are flexible in Xanan families, however women typically maintain the household and work part-time while men work full-time jobs, though this is by no means universal. The elderly are extremely important in the Xanan family, with elderly individuals being seen as sources of knowledge and inspiration who should be consulted by younger members of the family for advice during troubled times or when making big life decisions. Elders are also expected to handle the early childcare and religious education of their family’s children, however the former of these responsibilities is not as essential as it once was due to the Xanan government’s implementation of free childcare for children under the age of five. It is for an elderly person’s children or grandchildren to take care of them and allow them to live with them from after their retirement until they die, and refusing to do this is seen as a great betrayal and is heavily frowned upon in Xanan society. A negative effect of having such large families however is that inheritances, especially those of wealthier relatives, often can result in disappointment and messy intrafamily legal battles over securing a relative’s estate and assets.

Individuals are celebrated within the Xanan family structure, but individuality as a concept is not encouraged, and family bonds are often seen as a key component to the personal identity of any Xanan. This can occasionally result in more independently-minded members of families being ostracized by their kin, however, Xanan family culture usually supports that a family should welcome back those who become estranged from the family and work to make them feel a part of the unit once again and not hold grudges. Whether this is always adhered to though, is often up to the individual families themselves. It is not uncommon for multiple generations of families to live under the same roof, or even multiple extensions of a family to do the same. Any given Xanan household may have children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts, or granduncles residing in the same household. This mindset extends to individual living situations as well. Children often do not move out of their parent’s households unless for university or work until they are in their mid-to-late twenties or even thirties; there’s no expectation for Xanan children to move out at any age so long as they still contribute to the household. However, many young Xanans do move out and live apart from their families if they are committing to a serious romantic relationship with someone or if a job opportunity arises. Family culture dictates that geographical distance from the family be a consideration in if a person accepts a job, however most families are generally encouraging of their members seeking out lucrative job opportunities because it is viewed as something that will be a net positive to the family as a whole. Related to this, Xanans working abroad often maintain very close relationships to their families, even across generations.

An individual’s choices are supposed to be embraced and supported by their family members unless the family believes the decisions to be truly destructive to the family or individual; they cannot be discouraging simply because they personally disagree with the choices because doing so would place a personal opinion or prejudice above what may be best for the family. Families are expected to be strong support systems for their members and it is common for large families to offer housing, financial assistance, and emotional support to their members in times of need. Some families have embraced this bond and applied it to business, with some of the largest companies on Xanu Prime being family-run as a result. Xanu’s richest and most powerful families are referred to as “Forvamshons” and they are typically large players in the planet’s politics and business spheres. This attitude has occasionally led to corruption scandals, but generally it is seen that enriching one’s family by hurting the rest of society is unfair, dishonorable and cause for great shame. Some Forvamshons are very elusive and shy away from the public eye, while others are very public and have celebrity statuses. The foremost of these families often have private security details provided by the PMCG, Idris Incorporated, or Chevauchée Asset Protection and live in luxurious high-security compounds which house the entire family.

Marriages are seen as not just a special bond between two people but a union between two families and a commitment between them to work together. Because of this collective view on familial culture, arranged marriages are not uncommon on Xanu Prime though they have slowly become less prevalent since the 2430’s. Same-sex marriages are not frowned upon in Xanan culture however same-sex couples are expected to adopt children to continue the family lineage, much like how heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Polygamy is illegal on Xanu Prime and polyamorous relationships do not have any form of legal recognition. Though not illegal, Xenophilia is societally frowned upon on Xanu Prime because of long held beliefs that the family structures of other species are incompatible with human ones making relationships between Humans and Aliens fruitless and selfish, therefore hurting one’s family.

Death and customs around it are tied deeply to Xanan family culture, as the death of a person is not just seen as the death of an individual but a loss of a member of an entire family. Burial and cremation are both common during Xanan funerals with customs varying some between the planet’s various religions. Common between all of them though, families will either have their bodies buried in adjacent plots to one another or will keep the ashes of deceased family members in a single, large urn holding the ashes of most if not all of the family’s deceased relatives. During burials, it is a common practice for the deceased’s family to throw dirt, flowers, and lit incense onto the casket as it is lowered into the ground. Another custom stemming from this is that when a person speaks of a deceased friend or relative, it is seen as respectful to make a small tossing motion with their hand or arm. During cremations, the deceased are often cremated alongside incense. Another common custom around death on Xanu Prime regardless of religion is that most Xanan homes will have a large logbook wrapped in black and white cloth called an “Afterlife Journal” in the home’s living room or other public area where family members are able to write down memories, sentiments, thoughts, or prayers about their deceased relatives and friends. Many see the theme of memorialisation that is very present in Xanan culture having stemmed from both the strong family ties Xanans have built along with the collective impact of the Interstellar War even some two-centuries later.
Dinnertime is perhaps the most important time of the day for any Xanan family, as it is when everyone in the household gets together. Rarely do families eat apart from one another unless their work schedules dictate they do so. Meals are shared around a large central table in the household and weekend dinners can last hours. Not only is food shared but music is played and games are enjoyed, usually board games like Checkers and Chess, or card games like Alutte or French Tarot. Meals are a happy time and it is considered to be an honor to be invited over to share a meal with a Xanan and their family. It is customary for a Xanan family grieving the loss of a loved one to leave a chair at the table empty for the spirit of the deceased for anywhere from two weeks to two months after their passing and provide them food and drink as if they were still living as an act of remembrance and appreciation for their family member. This same gesture is also done two weeks to two months before the birth of a child if a family is expecting and it is instead seen as a show of excitement and optimism for new life. Many suspect the focus on meals in Xanan family culture to be the catalyst which has pushed Xanan cuisine to the upper echelons of high-class dining throughout the Orion Spur.

===Xanan Work Culture===
Xanan work culture is formalistic and hierarchical, tied into the planet’s strong sense of family, and can sometimes come off as hard to break into for outsiders. A traditional Xanan greeting for coworkers is a handshake accompanied by a light bow. Titles, rather than names, should be used with all coworkers, superior, equal-level, or inferior alike, unless the two coworkers are close friends. Small talk is appreciated, and asking after the family of a business partner is usually how most business meetings start. Xanans pride themselves on professionalism and often view their companies as a stand-in for the family outside of their real families, meaning they want to represent them well through professionalism and a strong public image while not bringing shame to them through misconduct or crassness. Superiors are expected to be respectful and formal, but friendly with those under them and coworkers are expected to execute the orders of their superiors without question and then raise grievances with their overseers when the act is done unless they believe the situation is truly disastrous. Businesswear is formal, usually consisting of a suit and tie or cravat for men and a dress or blouse and skirt for women or a uniform for either. Casual dress while on the job is not welcomed in Xanan society and is seen as immature and juvenile, likewise excessive make-up or jewelry in a work setting is seen as distracting and putting more of a focus on one’s personal appearance than the business matter itself, regardless of the person’s gender. However, dyed hair, and minimal tattoos, especially those that are covered by standard work clothing are accepted. Xanan business meetings are multifaceted, with meetings between managers and higher-up officials in companies usually being very logical, low-key, and methodical with great emphasis placed on the abilities of either side to debate one another. This has led to the term “debate” becoming synonymous with “business meeting” on Xanu Prime. If associates know each other well though, meetings can be very emotionally charged and spritied for better or worse, filled with either happiness and achievement, or anger and sadness.

Trust built through continuous face-to-face interaction are essential in Xanan business; Xanans will base their decisions on trust and intuition as much as if not more than data and statistics. It is not uncommon for a Xanan to request a meeting in person rather than communicating through holocall, telephone, messengers, or holomail, as personal relationships and connections drive much of Xanan business culture. and because these relationships take time to cultivate and are placed on the same level of importance as close, platonic friendships, it can sometimes be a culture shock for foreigners doing business with Xanans even if the Xanans themselves are quite happy to do business with foreigners. It is considered insulting to discuss business over meals and alcohol is usually not served during Xanan business functions or consumed while on the clock. Hard work is admired, but Xanans generally view workaholism as a selfish trait that makes a person disrespectful to their family by cutting into family time. It is considered poor form to schedule an important meeting in the month of August in the northern hemisphere or the month of February in the southern hemisphere, as these are the respective months usually reserved for summer vacation. This has led to the emergence of the sarcastic phrases, "I'll get to it in August," and "I'll get to it in February," both meaning that a person doesn't care about doing something. As a continuation of this, holidays and vacation days are strictly forbidden for business contacts to speak with one another unless the topic of conversation is not work-related and evenings are similarly off-limits as they are often reserved for family time. Coworkers should bring gifts or cards to one another when they return from business trips or holidays and doing so is considered a gesture of appreciation and goodwill towards one's peers as well as a sign of continued commitment to their workplace even after a vacation. Snacks and sweets, knick-knacks, cookware, and hand-written poems are gifts that would not seem out of place in a Xanan office after vacation season.

===Xanan Communication Habits and Social Norms===
Generally speaking, Xanans are friendly, yet polite to strangers and are typically not confrontational with people they do not have a prior relationship with such as friendship, family, or a long business partnership. This has led to foreigners often noticing an indirect style of communication among Xanans, as being very direct about certain matters to strangers is considered rude. It is for this reason that Xanans will often say “Maybe,” or “Perhaps,” as an indirect response in place of “No,” because they do not wish to directly disappoint, and thereby offend a stranger if something is asked of them, though a far more direct style of communication is used in some parts of Xanan society, namely by those in the military, police, or security industries. Good manners are a staple in Xanan communication and are usually only eschewed between close friends or family members. It is considered proper for a person in a higher position of power or standing in a company or family to give unsolicited advice to those beneath them, but rude for advice to be given the other way around unless asked for. Politics are expected to not be talked about in casual conversation unless they are related to the subject matter at hand or between friends. Social norms dictate that a Xanan generally should not want to impose their beliefs upon others, especially strangers, unless something someone else says contradicts something said Xanan believes, in which case a civil, if spirited political discussion may ensue. Xanan society is one that eschews the use of violence to solve disputes, and holds a pacifistic ethos that cements that one should only use force in the defense of oneself and others, however naturally, not all on Xanu Prime abide by these morals. Moreover, there is an expectation in Xanan society that people can, should, and will compromise with one another for the sake of preserving societal unity, order, and peace, with stubbornness in working out an agreement with one another being seen as a selfish trait. Finally, Xanans value the collective. Whether that is a family, company, crew of a ship, social circle, country, or other unit, Xanan social norms dictate that a good Xanan is one who will act in the best interests of something “bigger than themselves,” while using his or her unique individual qualities to best help themselves and the people around them who they care about.

===Religion===
Xanu Prime has no official religion, and in an effort to prevent conflict over religion or accusations of government favoritism, the government has a series of official secularism laws. They vary in specificity, but broadly they prohibit any person working for or affiliated with the state including anyone from politicians to police officers to public school teachers from displaying any religious iconography, dress, or artifacts on their person or in their workplace while they are on the job. This has drawn criticism from some elements of Xanan society which see these rules as an infringement upon religious liberty, especially from those who take religious dressage as an integral part to their faith, but the government has remained firm in their beliefs that the state will not expose or impose anyone to any one religion over another. Despite these laws, the Xanan government is not opposed to working with religiously-affiliated organizations like charities due to the laws prohibiting only the state itself from representing a religion, not engaging with it.
Xanan people as a whole vary in religiosity with both very progressive and orthodox interpretations of the various faiths found on the planet being practiced. The diverse backgrounds of the planet’s original colonists and immigrants since its colonization mean that nearly any religion can be found here. The largest however, in order of practitioners are, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sunni Islam. Smaller faiths like Luceism, Stolitism, Jainism, Sikhism, and even Moroz Holy Tribunalism can be found here, the latter of which is practiced almost exclusively by the Fisanduhian immigrant community. A significant portion of Xanan society is irreligious as well. Xanu Prime is well known across the Orion Spur for some of its examples of religious architecture, the most outstanding examples of which being the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, the Patali-Ram temple, and the Crystal Lights mosque.

==Food and Drink==
===Food===
Xanan cuisine has garnered a carefully cultivated reputation around the Orion Spur as perhaps some of the finest in human space. It is in a sense, a fusion between the cuisines of its most prominent colonizing cultures, French, Indian, Pakistani, and those of the BeNeLux. While certainly diverse, it is known most for being both simultaneously spicy, but not hot, with different spices adding highlights and emphasis to whatever notes in the palette the chef so chooses, and savory with a mouth-watering richness that lasts long after the first bite of whatever the food might be. This reputation precedes it, and expert Xanan chefs and cooks are some of the most revered in the culinary industry for their mastery of their crafts.

Arguably the most famous human celebrity chefs alive, '''Cléophe & Lonnie D’Cruz''', a married power-couple in the Xanan food world, were both born and raised on Xanu Prime. Their combined adventurousness in the culinary industry with endeavors both inside and outside their chain of fine restaurants has garnered both them and Xanan cuisine a spotlight few planets’ food cultures can match. The couple met while attending a small culinary school in the city of Foy-Nijlen, fell in love, and then combined their skills to open what would be their first restaurant in their well-known fine-dining chain, '''Solstice Xanan Bistro'''. Marriage followed shortly after, and the two have been together at the forefront of the Xanan food world ever since. While they are married to one another, the duo’s personalities are distinctly different, something often accentuated for the camera. Cléophe is known for their generally supportive and encouraging personality who wishes to simply share the joy of cooking with the world and has written dozens of best-selling cookbooks to that end. They are also well-known for their appearances on Holovision shows and Holonet videos giving tutorials on how to make some of the D’Cruz’s most well-known recipes in a basic kitchen; it wouldn’t be unfair to say that an entire generation of Xanan home-cooks were taught by Cléophe D’Cruz. Lonnie, however is far more of a chef’s chef who adheres to very strict professional and artistic standards, something he extols through his appearances on cooking competition shows, often played up to be a very cold and perfectionistic critic. Despite this reputation, he much like his spouse, is also committed to educating people on Xanan culinary arts and to that end is the President and, along with Cléophe, co-owner of the D’Cruz Culinary Academy, a culinary school which while only ten years old, has quickly risen to be one of the most competitive on the planet.

While Xanan cuisine is diverse and constantly reinventing itself, the dishes characteristically include some kind of meat, most often chicken, beef, or shellfish, paired with greens like beans, asparagus, or broccoli, or a starch like potatoes and something characteristic of almost all Xanu dishes, long-grain aromatic basmati rice, typically grown on the hilly territory surrounding the upper Naya Khyber river. Spices like cumin, black pepper, coriander, cloves, cardamom, and garam masala are ubiquitous throughout Xanan cooking, and often find themselves as part of exceptionally rich and creamy white sauces made from milk, butter, salt, and eggs. Pork is not as popular as a meat on Xanu Prime as others are, given the prohibition on eating it from Xanu’s original Muslim colonists and its perceived uncleanliness that Xanu’s original Hindu colonists held as well. Some Hindus also choose to not eat beef, and as such, many of Xanu’s restaurants have an option to serve synthmeat or a vegan meat substitute instead of actual beef in their beef-dishes. The most consumed alcohol on Xanu Prime by far is beer, often made in the Belgian tradition brought to the planet by some of its original colonists. Brandy comes in second and third, and wine is also popular too, but is more associated with fine dining than it is with a drinking experience alone. Xanan cognac and armagnac brandies have drawn the ire of some in the European Union on Earth because it uses the labels of “cognac” and “armagnac" despite not being produced in the Charente, Charente-Maritime, or Armagnac regions of France, though Xanan producers have paid these complaints no heed.

Some notable Xanan dishes include:
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'''Steak Xanu'''
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As the name implies, '''Steak Xanu''' is a steak, and is typically pan-fried rather than grilled. Usually it is strip steak as opposed to coming from any other part of the cow, but any cut of beef can be made in the Xanan style. The secret comes in what the beef is cooked with. Before the strip goes into the pan it is left to marinate in a warm broth traditionally made from chicken stock, cardamom, and garlic for flavor and is then lathered all over with a light coating of ghee right before it meets the pan in order to give its outside a crunchy, slightly singed crust. The steak is cooked to medium rare as it is basted in its own juices along with butter, rosemary, and a very light touch of cayenne powder. After it is cooked to a medium rare, it is taken out of the pan and left to rest for a few minutes before being dashed with a cooked sour, cream sauce, often simply called “beef sauce” made from heavy cream, olive oil, whisked egg yolks, and citrus or mango powder. Black pepper is cracked over the top, and the dish is served. Some of Xanu Prime’s Hindu population refuses to eat this dish, however chicken can be cooked in a very similar way and is typically referred to as “Bird Steak” by the Xanan culinary community. It is the official dish of the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle, Xanu’s Capital.
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'''Pataliputra Curried Rice'''
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An mainstay dish and one sure to be found on almost any Xanan dinner table, '''Pataliputra Curried Rice''', often just called Xanu Curry by foreigners, is a twist on the typical curry recipe that originated in the port city of Pataliputra. It is a yellow curry that uses peanuts as one of its main ingredients, giving it a signature nuttiness that mixes quite well with the dish's spices. Where it differs from a traditional curry though, is that its sauce is made from two parts, one of which is a buttermilk-garlic-onion powder base that is very thick and holds in the flavor of the spices and vegetables put into the sauce, while the other is a very light, chicken-based velouté sauce made from combining chicken bone broth with a light, typically but not always, salted blond roux to give the sauce some substance. When the two sauces combine, they make for an exceptionally savory base upon which spices like ginger, garam masala, coriander, fenugreek, and thyme can be added. Meats like chicken or shell-fish are often added to the sauce along with things like beans or potatoes. Rice used in this recipe is traditionally Xanan basmati rice. Every person and every city on Xanu Prime has their own slight variation on how they make this dish, but what is listed above is generally what could be expected when ordering it. It is the official dish of the city of Pataliputra.
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets'''
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets''', or more informally River Crozets, is a dish that originated from the city of Foy-Nijlen and is one that makes use of the various animals caught off the city’s nearby ocean coast and also those found in the Naya Khyber river which runs through the city. The base of this pasta dish is a spicy tomato-basil-cayenne sauce with melted and dissolved Naya Khyber river penguin blubber mixed into the sauce in place of a more traditional fat like butter, ghee, or olive oil. The pasta itself, the Crozets, are small rectangles which resemble something more akin to breakfast cereal in size and shape rather than a more noodly kind of pasta. The crozets are made from buckwheat, eggs, and flour, and are usually cooked al dente so as to retain a bit of firmness. Along with the pieces of pasta, river boiled lobster, fish, crab, or even river penguin meat is pan-fried with butter, rosemary, cardamom, coriander, and cloves before being put into the pasta usually in small bite-sized pieces. Black pepper is cracked over the dish and cumin is dashed over the meat and the dish is served in a heated stoneware bowl. It is the official dish of the city of Foy-Nijlen.
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'''Bunker Buster Sandwich'''
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The '''Bunker Buster Sandwich''' is perhaps the most famous example of Xanan street food. At its core, the dish can be used to refer to almost any toasted open-faced sandwich served on naan bread with over-easy eggs, fried vegetables, shredded cheese, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and garam masala. In practice however, the six ingredients mentioned above are only the beginning of what a bunker buster might be, as really anything from meats to veggies to mushrooms can be put on the sandwich so long as it tastes good. It’s incredibly easy to make and traces its roots back to the reconstruction of the city of Kshatragarh shortly after the Interstellar War, starting as a quick and easy meal for construction workers to make as a lunch. Many of these workers lived in the city’s underground bunker complexes while above-ground housing was being rebuilt, leading to the sandwich’s name. It has since spread all over Xanu Prime, and a visitor to any given Xanan city is likely to find dozens of variations on this simple, long-time favorite food. It is the official dish of the city of Kshatragarh.
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo'''
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo''' is a dish originating in the city of Paastad, but can be found across the entire continent of Paasland. It is made from the meat of the large waterfowl, the Paaskraan, and is similar to the traditional preparation of vindaloo with one major exception: the meat is not cooked with the vindaloo paste and is only added at the end. Instead, the meat of the Paaskraan is pan-fried until fully cooked and is usually then seared in a sweet vanilla sauce to give it a crunchy, caramelized outer shell. After this process, it is added to the cooked vindaloo paste (cloves, cinnamon, cariander, cardamom, cumin, red peppers, ginger, mustard seeds, black pepper) and served over rice, as a crunchy and spicy meal. It is the official dish of the city of Paastad.
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'''North 60 Sea Platter'''
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The '''North 60 Sea Platter''' is less a single coherent dish and more an entire subsection of dishes based around the theme of seafood caught north of 60 degrees latitude. Himavatian sea salmon or arctic tuna, usually pan-fried in olive oil or smoked and served with lemon and black pepper, commonly forms the center of the dish with arctic crab legs or lobster tail sold off to the side paired with a creamy garlic sauce. Other components could include fried octopus and squid or freshly caught steamed shrimp. What makes the dish more than just a typical seafood platter is a special malt vinegar made specifically from ale brewed in the Xanan tradition with added apple and lemon juice. More budget friendly variations of this dish exist as well, such as ones that swap the pan-fried salmon or tuna for smaller, less expensive, deep-fried fish, the lobster and crab for shrimp, and are commonly found in Himavat City bars as a cheap, delicious option for a lunch or dinner. The food arrangement originated in the city and is its official dish.
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Not all food on Xanu Prime is within the realm of “fine dining” however. When not at the table for a full meal, the average Xanan can reach for any number of snack foods produced by Xanan companies. Many of these have become not just popular on Xanu Prime, but throughout the entire Coalition and beyond thanks to the aggressive marketing and economic dominance of Xanan shipping and food conglomerates.

===Drink===
Along with its food culture, Xanu Prime is renowned for some of the alcohol the planet produces as well. The planet’s main claim to fame in this area are in the spheres of beer, wine, and brandy. The planet has brewed beer since its founding, with the Xanan style of beer crafting having its roots in the Belgian-style brought to the planet by colonists from the BeNeLux itself. The most popular brand of beer on Xanu Prime is '''Prince Pallav Blonde Ale''', a golden concoction brewed in Foy-Niljen that has held dominance over the Xanu Beer market for the last two decades. This robustness in the brewing has brought the planet into a rivalry with the nearby planet of Himeo, the two of them both having proud beer-making heritages that often brings them to test this with each other. For the last decade and a half, brewers from the two planets have engaged in a festival called Hoptoberfest, a week-long celebration of the craft of brewing beer held every October complete with live music, authentic Xanan and Himean cuisine, and crucially for the craft brewers of both planets, competitions determining which beer is the best for that year. The festival changes venues from Paastad, Xanu Prime and Inverkeithing, Himeo every other year.
In addition to beer, Xanu Prime imported a strong wine culture from its original colonists, namely the French ones. Vineyards dot the Xanan countryside on every continent, with a few even on the southernmost peninsulas of Himavatia. The planet makes a wide variety of wine, though it is most notable for its own variety of Malbec grown in the mountains of Naya Khyber and Nouvelle-Occitanie called '''Khyberian Malbec'''. Where Xanu Prime’s wine truly shines though is not in the wine itself but in its use in fortified wine products like brandy and cognac. The unique climatological conditions of Foy-Niljen brandy country have led to the grapes grown there to be perfectly suited to making fortified wines and distilled wines, leading to their flavors to be pronounced but not overbearing up front with subtle, complex notes coming to the surface the more the drinker savors the beverage. The most noteworthy and popular drinks of this category are the mid-range priced '''2275''', a mainstay brandy of Xanan bars and kitchen cabinets alike, and '''Saint-James Black Label,''' the gold standard of Xanan luxury cognac. The national cocktail of the All-Xanu Republic is the '''Stag Hunt''', so named for its popularity on hunting trips and other outdoor activities during the summer. It is a simple drink made by mixing three parts brandy, typically 2275, one part lemon juice, and two parts chilled tea usually served over ice in a highball glass. Chai is the most consumed tea variety on Xanu Prime and the soft drink Xanu Rush is also very popular on the planet.

==Arts and Entertainment==
===Visual Art===
Xanan visual arts are vast and have an uncountable number of movements and subgenres. Generally, though, Xanan artworks are reflective pieces and try to examine the human condition rather than focus on the form by which the artwork expresses itself. Xanan visual arts have been heavily influenced by the original Western European cultures which settled the planet and as such, drawing and painting are the most prevalent forms of Xanan art. Sculpture that has been inspired by South Asian cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are also prevalent, however. The most famous and well-known movement of Xanan art is often called the Atman Movement and it lasted from the 2340’s until the 2390’s. Most art scholars consider it an offshoot of Symbolism and Neoclassicism but with noticeable existential elements. Pieces of the movement hold an almost ethereal aesthetic, and usually feature elements like fanciful Greco-Roman or Indian ruins, ruins that aren’t even found on Xanu Prime, bright, vibrant colors contrasted by dark backdrops, and esoteric spiritual imagery sourced from Xanu Prime’s three largest religions. The goal of all of this, in the words of the Xanan master painter Arnold Vasudevan, a key figure in the movement, is, “To imagine Humanity and the human condition as if we could breach the barrier between this world and the next with our own hearts and achieve revelation and clarity through the beauty within and without our souls and the world around us.” An offshoot of this movement referred to as Wartime Atman replaces the ruins of classical civilisations with scenes of wartime destruction found on Xanu Prime during the days of the Interstellar War and is meant to make the viewer reflect on things like conflict and mortality. The most famous piece of visual artwork of the Atman Movement and arguably of all Xanan visual art is called “The Truce" by Harini Martin. It is a colossal mural of a painting that is four meters tall and ten meters wide which depicts the ghosts of dozens of fallen Xanan and Solarian soldiers enjoying leisure time and doing activities like enjoying meals with one another, idly talking, showing each other photographs, and playing games and sports with one another over the backdrop of a desolate Interstellar War era battlefield in what used to be a Xanan city. The sky around the edges is a dark color, however in the center of the painting’s sky is a brilliant white, alabaster, pink, and red halo that shines light on the entire painting. It was unveiled to the public at the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery, Xanu Prime’s national art gallery, in 2387 as part of a ceremony to commemorate one-hundred years of peace with the Solarian Alliance and has remained a permanent fixture in the museum since. Notable Xanan sculptures include Our Lady of Sorrows, a giant statue of the Virgin Mary included in the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, and Skyward Unity, a large sculpture commemorating the elevation of Paastad.

===Architecture and Cityscapes===
The traditional Xanan style of architecture can be described as a hybridization of various styles of design from the Indian subcontinent and Western Europe, much like the origins of the planet’s original colonists. Xanan buildings usually have some form of artistic design on their exteriors, even if it’s as simple as a basic tile weave around entrances or semi-ornate molding around windows. Many have lines drawn on the outside in paint or sculpted on, and Xanan buildings are usually painted with bright, if mellow, colors if they are painted at all. Most Xanan buildings are taller than they are wide and long, courtesy of the planet’s re-urbanisation plans after the Interstellar War and because buildings in most urban areas are taxed based on how much land they take up. Most Xanan buildings have some form of accoutrement around their roofs, usually being a modest carving or bust of a family’s ancestor if it’s a house or a historical or religious figure, representing the theme of memorialisation found elsewhere in Xanan culture. The roofs themselves of most Xanan buildings are usually vaulted or occasionally are domed or flat. Larger, more modern buildings like skyscrapers on Xanu Prime have a distinctive half-sloping-roof look pioneered during the beginning of Xanu’s economic resurgence during the mid 2330s. Originally implemented as a cost-saving measure to make a building that still looked tall but didn’t need to have as much office space, the half-sloped roof or “Xanan Roof” style of skyscraper has part of the building’s roof flat and level with the ground while another portion of it slopes downwards. This style of design has become emblematic of Xanu Prime and even the newest skyscrapers on the planet are built with this design in mind, despite its economical origins. Xanan buildings are made from a variety of materials, with the few-surviving pre-war structures being made from wood, brick, and steel while commercial and industrial buildings built after the Interstellar War are made from concrete, steel, and glass with plaster or clay facades. Individual houses are still mostly made from wood or brick, however. Sizes and shapes of Xanan residences vary, with some being modest single-family homes typical of other places within the spur. Multi-story townhouse complexes surrounding a single communal courtyard are common in urban areas and are often inhabited by entire extended families. In more densely populated areas, large communal apartments built for extended families are common, though some wealthier families have pursued a policy of “Co-flooring,” a type of retail arrangement where an entire extended family will rent out an entire floor of traditional single-family apartments from a property agency. Some buildings on Xanu Prime play very heavily into inspiration from the planet’s original cultures and would not look out of place in South Asia or Western Europe, though buildings built like those are in the minority of Xanu Prime’s structures.

The last notable architectural feature found in many Xanan cities are residual walls and gun emplacements left over from the Xanan Civil War. Of Xanu’s six major cities, only three, Nouvelle Rochelle, Pataliputra, and Foy-Niljen have them still, with Kshatrigarh’s being destroyed beyond repair during the Interstellar War and Paastad’s torn down during the city’s elevation, lest they sink into the swamp. Himavat City never had walls, as it was too small of a community to have built them during the Xanan Civil War. The walls proved useful during both of the planet’s most devastating conflicts, acting as barriers to outsiders and platforms for return fire, but due to the gargantuan cost of operation and maintenance, the walls and their gun emplacements were decommissioned in the 2310s as a part of the Sneijders Government’s economic recovery plans. Today, the walls stand as partially restored massive memorial complexes dedicated to those who fought and died during both the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War, with some cities having sections of wall filled with the names of those who died during the conflicts from those respective cities.

Xanan cities are generally filled with greenery as both a measure to keep temperatures down during the summer and simply provide Xanans with natural beauty even in the most urban of places. Large public transit networks consisting mostly of subway systems and tramways are found in almost every Xanan city and most of those who live in the urban cores of Xanan cities do not own automobiles, while Xanans who live in the country, suburbs, and smaller cities have a higher percentage of car ownership. The most common way to get around on Xanu Prime however is by bike or motorbike; Xanu Prime has the most bikes per capita of any planet in the Orion Spur, even beating out the Solarian population hubs of Callisto and New Hai Phong. Generally speaking, Xanan cities are walkable and do not require an automobile to move around efficiently, and some Xanan cities have banned the construction of freeways and overpasses entirely in order to preserve their cities’ “authentic landscapes.”

===Literature===
Xanan literature has cemented itself around the institution of “The Great Novel,” something often defined in Xanan culture as a work of literary art that has captured the essence or soul of the Xanan struggle and of the planet’s people through the usage of compelling stories and multifaceted characters. Novels written in the Xanan style usually have psychological and spiritual themes and use supernatural or otherwise fantastical elements to explore Xanan the human condition, usually in surreal or otherwise unorthodox methods. Xanan novels are typically not adapted into films as is seen elsewhere in the Orion Spur due to Xanan movie-going audiences preferring musicals and epics instead, but they have become popular as holovision shows, stageplays, and miniseries.

Some notable works of Xanan Literature are:
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====Gloam in Gold====
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It is hard to understate the importance and influence of Foy-Niljen writer Arif Hugo’s 2345 masterpiece Gloam in Gold in the Xanan literary canon. The text, while short for a novel, is considered to be not just a seminal work of Xanan writing but also quite possibly the greatest novel ever written in the Freespeak language, despite its unorthodox, almost anthological structure. It is set in 2296 during the initial reconstruction of the city of Kshatrigarh and focuses on the character Madhar Emond, a Kshatrapur native and veteran of the Interstellar War now working to rebuild the battered city during the aftermath of the terrible conflict. His life isn’t a glamorous one and he spends most of his days doing hard, construction labor, digging paving roads, working on buildings, and the like. One day on his way home from work, he stops by one of the city’s many large cemeteries to rest and watch the sunset, however shortly after his arrival he lays down in the grass and begins to hear voices around him. He’s alerted by these and denounces them as hallucinations at first as he sees no one around who could be speaking to him, yet as the sun sets further below the horizon, he realizes that there is some coherence through the voices and that they are in fact, the voices of the dead, fully aware of their condition yet unable to move on to the afterlife.

Madhar listens in to their conversations for a moment and is eventually confronted by the voice of one of the deceased, one Missus Pandit, an elderly woman who died of old age before the city was besieged. She acts as a sort of a guide who explains the dispositions of each of the ghosts present, and each part of the novel tells a story of a different spirit inhabiting the cemetery proceeding in the order of Missus Pandit herself, and then to Mister Quint and Miss Jessup, a young Himean immigrant couple who perished together from starvation during the siege and seem to be resigned to their fates, and recount their lives from Himeo and their immigration to Xanu before the war broke out, their desperation during the siege, and now their dead, yet still loving existence of being with each other even in death. Madhar’s conversation with the couple is interrupted by the voice of Marcus Thevar, a rich and vulgar middle-aged businessman.

Marcus refuses to reveal how he died and seems to be entirely preoccupied with finding a drink and scoring some action from the cemetery’s various young female ghosts, one “Miss Periwinkle” foremost among them. Miss Periwinkle’s gravestone has been defaced, though she looks to be buried in the plot next to Thevar, much to her dismay. She’s the spirit of a young, pious woman with a noticeable Lunan accent who claims to have died from tuberculosis during the siege. She refuses to say her real name and repeatedly breaks from talking to Madhar to fend off verbal advances from Thevar, before quietly lamenting to Madhar that her days of being confined to the mortal plane despite being dead and needing to routinely reject the, “slovenly attempts at romance,” by her neighbor is God’s unique choice of purgatory for herself. Despite this, even in this “purgatory” she finds some joy in acting as an almost motherly figure to Patrice, the ghost of a five-year old child who doesn’t know how he died but according to Miss Periwinkle, seems to have abruptly perished in the aftermath of the siege after naively playing with unexploded ordnance he found a local park’s sandbox. Miss Periwinkle parts with Madhar after claiming she needs to tend to the child, and her voice fades away.

After this, the story shifts to that of Private Hendriks, a solemn Xanan infantryman who was killed during the battle and laments that he will never be able to return home to his mother and Lieutenant Ma, a Solarian bomber pilot who was shot down over the city during a night raid and is a conflicted character. She is racked by the guilt of possibly killing innocent civilians yet reminisces on what a still-united Sol Alliance might have looked like without the carnage and in his words, “tragedy” of the Interstellar War. Hendriks and Ma seem to spend most of their days now arguing with each other, the conflict lingering on past their deaths, much to the annoyance of the cemetary’s other inhabitants.

Lastly, Madhar is spoken to by the voice of a young woman, a teenager named Penelope, who brokenly and through a voice characterized by sounding as if she’s on the verge of tears, tells Madhar that her body is in fact, not even buried within the cemetery at all, but that her body instead lies buried beneath a new road built on the graveyard’s northern edge and sulks to him that nobody will ever remember her or who she was since there’s nothing to mark her grave. Madhar, heartbroken in this discovery, realizes that he was part of the crew that paved that very road and profusely apologizes to Penelope for spoiling any chance she might have ever had with a proper burial and claims that it was done in the name of progress for the city and for Xanu Prime. Penelope’s voice rejects this and breaks into tears, repeating the fact that nobody will remember her or who she was, but eventually she is soothed by Madhar’s assurances that he will remember her and that he’ll never forget that she lived and died in the city. Seemingly consoled, Penelope thanks Madhar before her voice too fades away and leaves him in silence, the sky now dark. He makes his way home in solemn, quiet contemplation, thinking about the various spirits he’s heard over the last few hours and once again questions if it was even real. When he gets home to a modest, quickly built apartment, he resolves to himself that whether what he heard was real or not, he cannot forget the past even in pursuit of the future.
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====The Screen Behind the Mirror====
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'''The Screen Behind the Mirror''', written in 2419 by the second-generation Fisanduhian Xanan writer Elanea Chatfield, is another one of Xanu Prime’s great novels. It’s a semi-autobiographical story, taking some elements from Chatfield’s own life and putting them into the events of the plot. It is also is a very spiritual text, having references, symbols of, and allusions to the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Tribunalist Scripture, and Luceian holy texts throughout to help convey its themes of residual trauma, destruction and rebirth, and enlightenment.

This semi-autobiographical story follows the experience of a young accountant named Demitra during a camping trip out to the remote New Pacific Scarlands for some time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The story’s structure is unorthodox and the chapters bounce between describing her current experience in the scarlands, and recounting flashbacks to her childhood growing up as a Fisanduhian refugee in a diverse community of Xanan and Assunzionii-Xanans on Xanu Prime. The story in the present is a tale of survival that begins after Elanea’s camping group has a car crash on a back-country road with her being the only surviving member. Much of her food and shelter perished in the blaze and she’s left to fend for herself in the forest and crater lake-filled wilderness around her. She manages to build herself some crude shelter, but during her first night in the wilderness, she’s awoken by a bright ray of light reflecting off of what she can only describe as a large phantasmagorical mirror levitating just outside the border of her crude encampment. In the mirror she sees her own reflection, but not as she is now, but rather how she was as a child at ten years old.

The book then cuts to her life as a ten year old, going over Demitra’s seemingly mundane memories of living in a low-income, almost ramshackled home with her Fisanduhian refugee family in Nouvelle Rochelle, setting the scene for the reader and introducing them to the characters of Demitra’s concerned, yet judgemental mother, silent and stoic father, whiny younger brother, and somewhat detached and aloof older sister over a standard family dinner. This scene ends and we are brought back into the present, the next morning, where upon waking, Demitra discovers that the mirror still resides outside of her camp. When she leaves to forage for food and tries to hunt something with a hatchet she was able to retrieve from the car crash, the mirror silently follows her, always levitating behind her just out of reach. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between this story of survival, following Demitra’s struggles to build a fire, fish, and hunt, and her childhood memories, with the line between the two becoming increasingly blurred as her situation becomes more and more desperate. She sees apparitions of her childhood friends and her deceased father walking around as if it was the most normal thing in the world, calling out to her yet never responding to her words. The memories become less and less pleasant as time goes on, with the phantom mirror showing her family fights, tough times in school with childhood bullies, and the deaths of family members all while her situation in reality, struggling in the wilderness becomes more and more dire.

The story climaxes with Demitra screaming her frustrations at the mirror in the wee hours of the morning, venting her frustrations to it and breaking down into tears while explaining her feeling on herself in detail to the mirror, stating that she knows she’s at her core a broken person but that despite all that the mirror has shown her she is only motivated to survive in the remote wilderness of the scarlands. Her flaws and trauma have only informed her more of her humanity, and she finishes this monologue with the line, “I’ve survived fucking everything else so far, I am not dying alone out here no matter how hard you try to make me want to!” Ever silent, the mirror remains but grows blindingly bright, so much so that the forest itself begins to smolder and catch fire from the phantasmagorical brilliance it emits. Struggling to cover herself from the light, Demitra covers her eyes but is directed by some voice, “Come and see, and behold, She who is all that is, ever was, and will be.” As she feels her very skin begin to burn and peel away from the mirror’s light, Demitra takes a metaphorical leap of faith and opens her eyes, no longer seeing the mirror but an eye made from flames staring right at her, blacking out and collapsing soon afterwards. In perhaps the most notable section of the novel, the page after Demitra’s collapse is entirely blank except for one sentence placed in the middle of the page: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.”

The plot picks up on the next page there with a jump to Demitra regaining consciousness in the back of a rescue VTOL-craft, surrounded by paramedics on a steady flight to a hospital. Demitra asks the medics on the craft with her how they found her and they confusedly reply that a signal mirror was flashing an S.O.S signal at a passing shuttle and it was reported to them, and remark they thought it was Demitra herself who’d sent the signal. She makes it safely to a hospital in a small country town and the story ends with her looking out onto the reflection of a moonlit lake, contemplating what she saw and asking herself how she possibly could still be alive.

The Screen Behind the Mirror has stood the test of time as a venerable pillar of Xanan literature since its publication nearly fifty years ago. The book saw some controversy upon its initial release however, with some more conservative voices in Xanu Prime’s various religious organizations calling it a sacreligious text with some even calling for the book to be burned en masse. The Morozian Holy Tribunal in the Empire of Dominia has banned the sale of the book within Dominian space, a fact that its author Elena Chatfield wears with pride and its publishing company has used to boost sales of the book within the Coalition and Republic of Elyra. This controversy has been eclipsed in the Xanan public eye by its literary brilliance however and it remains popular today among all demographics on the planet. It has been famously hard to adapt to a holovision show however, with all four attempts never getting past the preproduction stage or falling apart during production and has been referred to as a "cursed" story by those in the entertainment industry for that reason.
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====MMCDXLII====
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A fine example of the recently popular Xanan science fiction tradition, '''MMCDXLII''' (pronounced as 2442) by Kshatrigarh writer Jakob Rajeev is an alternate history science fiction novel published in 2442 set in a alternate timeline where Xanu Prime was blasted from orbit by Solarian forces during the Interstellar War and sent into a perpetual nuclear winter similar to how Gadpathur was in reality. The setting of the story is the city of Khairabad, or at least what is left of it. Before the bombardment of the planet took place, roughly 10,000 of the city’s inhabitants retreated underground into the vast bunker complexes residing below. Believing that they are the only people still left on Xanu Prime, the people of Khairabad have been steadily working towards the goal of reestablishing contact with the rest of the outside world. The plot follows Hridith, one of the few people in the ruins of Khairabad entrusted with the dangerous duty of venturing to the surface in order to scavenge the ruins of the dead city for supplies and clues which might help the people of Khairabad and by extension Xanu Prime as a whole, re-establish contact with the rest of the world. One day while scavenging above, he comes across an old military base which miraculously still has much of its telecommunications equipment in order, including an interstellar radio transmitter. Retreating back to the underground with his news, Hridith’s discovery kicks off a power-struggle and internal civil war within the bunkers of Khairabad as the various factions of the city vie over who should be the ones to contact the outside and by extension reap whatever benefits it may bring. Hridith falls into the game of politics and violence as members of the underground try to influence him for their own selfish aims all while he confronts his own guilt for having sparked this conflict in the first place with his discovery. Eventually, he resolves to destroy the array to stop those around him from killing each other in what he sees as a senseless war.

The book climaxes in a last stand between the soldiers of a local warlord and Hridith supported by his friends on the surface at the array where the story’s plot was put into motion. Just as Hridith is about to destroy the transmitter once and for all, he has a change of heart and, unbeknownst to any other Xanans, sends his own message out into the universe a phrase that has been immortalized in Xanan literary history: “SLEEPLESS ANGELS HAVE BLESSED US. XANU PREVAILS.” After this transmission, Hridith detonates the bombs on the transmitter and is killed in the subsequent explosion along with all of his friends, the warlord, and all of the warlord’s soldiers. The story ends on a vague note in a room tucked away in a Himean communication station with a prompt on a console reading, “TRANSMISSION RECEIVED.” MMCDXLII has been lauded as a cornerstone of the Xanan science fiction genre since its publication in 2442, with many critics seeing it as a parallel tale of sorts to the reality of the Xanan Civil War. The author, Jakob Rajeev, has gone on to write other novels since, but has moved away from the post-apocalyptic setting and advanced into writing sci-fi horror novels and space operas, marking MMCDXLII as a truly unique title in his portfolio. It has seen a successful, chart-topping holovision adaptation and a prequel series set in the world of MMCDXLII's post-apocalyptic Khariabad is currently in pre-production.
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===Film===
Xanu Prime is the entertainment capital of the Coalition and perhaps the largest contributor to this status is the Xanan film industry. Films made by Xanan studios have long proliferated across the Coalition since the end of the Interstellar War and are essential in any serious discussion about Xanan art and culture. While Xanu Prime’s directors have made films under almost every genre since the industry started to take off in the 2310’s, Xanan audiences have taken particularly well to dramas, musicals, and a genre of Xanan invention, the Interfilm. The Xanan film industry has an ongoing rivalry with its Solarian counterpart, especially that centered on Venus. Xanan productions typically do not have as big of budgets as their Venusian counterparts and are usually outclassed in terms of visual effects and and as such are sometimes limited in the kinds of stories and scenarios they can portray. Xanan films make-up for these deficiencies by instead focusing on things like writing and storytelling. The winner of this rivalry is up in the air, and different critics will give different answers, though it is almost always guaranteed that entries from Xanu Prime and Venus will compete against each other in the Spur’s biggest film festivals and awards ceremonies. The three largest genres of Xanan film are dramas, musicals, and an indigenous kind of war film created on Xanu Prime called Interfilm.

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====Dramas - ''The Love Melancholic''====
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Xanan dramas are often very introspective and personal pieces which focus on realistic problems often with relationships or with the world at large and typically involve the main protagonist or protagonists of the films confronting some kind of tragedy or trauma. A large portion of Xanan dramas are produced by independent filmmakers, something that Xanu Prime has become a hotspot for in the last half-century.

The most well known Xanan dramas is '''The Love Melancholic''', a 2424 four-hour long dramatic period-piece epic directed by Savitri de Graaf, a woman hailed as one of the best ever directors in Xanan film whose work has stood the test of time despite its age. The plot follows the life of a young woman, Roxanne, moving to Nouvelle-Rochelle during the reconstruction of Xanu Prime during the Second Astonishment looking to start a life for herself. While there, she’s met with the challenge of an accidental pregnancy and conflicting emotions over whether to abort the fetus or bring it to term, and eventually decides to have the child. The film then follows Roxanne's life through the next decade and a half as a working mother who finds success in her career but is lonesome aside from the company of her daughter, until she meets a newly-arrived Himean immigrant, Markus, on the train home from work and the two slowly begin to fall in love, though complications and difficulties in personality and circumstances plague their efforts to see the best in each other. The film ends not with a happily ever after ending, but with a tentatively optimistic, bittersweet scene of Markus and Roxanne, now both nearing middle age by this point in the film, agreeing to try and make their relationship work while acknowledging the flaws in one another. The film is a classic among Xanan and Himean audiences and won record-breaking numbers of awards and accolades when released. It has even seen popularity in some circles in the Solarian Alliance, Republic of Biesel, and Republic of Elyra. Many film critics consider it to be a cornerstone of Human cinematic history and the best Xanan film ever made, though this position is disputed by others.
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While Xanan-made dramas may be the most well-received critically of most Xanan films, by far the most popular among the Xanan filmgoing audience for the last few decades are musicals. Musicals made in the Xanan style are often high-budget, over-the-top, and exceptionally grand, showy affairs. They are famous for elements like their large choreographic sequences which can involve dozens of dancers, massive and brightly coloured sets, often romance-centered plots with comedic elements, and musical style which often takes musical instruments from Xanu Prime’s colonizing cultures and puts a pop musical spin on them. When one speaks of "Pataliwood," musicals are what come to mind first. Most Xanans do not put musicals on the same level as other films and see them as something to watch for pulpy entertainment and spectacle rather than for their serious artistic value, though they will obsess over them and their stories all the same. Xanan house parties typically involve the screening of a musical in the living room and songs from some of the genre’s classics have cemented themselves into the Xanan cultural canon.

A recent notable example of a musical made in the Xanan style is '''North 60''', a 2461 film directed by Sabine Venturino, that centers on a young man from Nouvelle-Rochelle named Peter who inherits a fortune from a long-lost deceased uncle who made it big in the record industry. Overjoyed, Peter claims the fortune but learns that he can only receive his riches on the condition that he moves to his dead uncle’s dilapidated estate on the outskirts of Himavat City and lives there for one year. Peter moves but upon arrival hates his arrangements; he cannot stand the cold, remote nature of the city, but soon finds joy in its culture and music scene. He also develops a romance with the daughter of a record executive, a girl named Priti. Unbeknownst to Peter though, Priti’s father Jeroen is Peter’s uncle’s former business partner and wants to get Peter to leave Himavat City so he can claim the young man’s fortune for himself, as per the uncle’s will. Hilarity and antics ensue. The film ends with Peter deciding to forgo his fortune and instead running away from Himavat City with his love Priti and starting a new life together in Foy-Nijlen. The film is the highest-ever grossing Xanan musical and won a series of awards as well, though it saw only limited popularity outside of the Xanan market. This is a theme among Xanan musicals: massive domestic success but only limited success abroad, the reasons for which are routinely debated by many within the Xanan film community.
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The last of Xanu Prime’s most popular movie genres is one of Xanan invention: the Interfilm. Interfilms are very long, often multipart war epics set during the Interstellar War, a conflict from which the genre gets its name. They often have ensemble casts and focus on a variety of viewpoints rather than a single protagonist. These films often showcase themes of tragedy associated with the Interstellar War and ennoble the sacrifice of the Xanan nation and individuals during the war. These films are very serious and are seen as a direct contrast to the Xanan Musical genre in tone and content.

A keystone of the Interfilm genre is the series '''Count the Days''', a pentalogy directed by Xanan journeyman director Pierre Duchesne totalling over sixteen hours in length, with its installments releasing in 2447, 2449, 2450, 2552, and 2454 respectively. The story at first follows an officer in the Xanan Army, Captain Paul Ibrahim, stationed around Pataliputra. He leads his company through a very bloody battle in which the majority of his men are killed, by the end of the battle, his unit is more or less completely wiped out and he’s reassigned to command a new company, one unlike any he’s seen before. He’s given command of Company Y, an all-female volunteer unit that hasn’t ever seen combat before and is dumbfounded at first due to his belief that a female unit wouldn’t fight as well as a male one. He however is told by his superiors that he risks demotion of he doesn’t take on the unit, so he begrudgingly agrees. The first movie follows Ibrahim’s efforts to help train and ready his new unit for combat while he and the audience get to know the women of Company Y. Throughout the film, his outlook on his troops begins to change, and he connects with them more as people, though he still does not think they have the mettle to withstand warfare. The film ends with the Company seeing its first taste of combat during the opening stages of the Siege of Khairabad and Company Y sustaining horrendous losses and being cut off from the rest of the Xanan army in Khairabad.

The second film takes place during the Siege of Khairabad proper, and is a tale of the fight for not just victory but survival as the remnants of Company Y fight their way through parts of the occupied city to link up with the rest of the Xanan forces trying to hold their ground against the encroaching Solarian forces. Throughout this struggle, the Company comes across enemies but also Xanan partisan fighters who link up with the Company and join them on their journey to reconnect with their lines. During this film, Captain Ibrahim has his opinion changed on the women he commands, and he comes to see them as strong soldiers regardless of their gender. The movie ends with the Company and their new partisan compatriots reconnecting with the rest of the Xanan force defending Khairabad.

The third installment of the series is not so action packed in comparison to the second one and is mostly centered on the members of Company Y recovering from the events of the first two films and grieving their fallen comrades while integrating the partisans from the second film formally into their ranks and is the only film in the series that does not have an action sequence. It ends with the company being resupplied and ready to once again take the fight to the enemy.

The fourth part of the series is often seen as the black sheep of the series and departs from the story of Company Y to instead focus on 6th Company, a Solarian unit from Mars participating on the other side of the Siege of Khairabad. 6th Company is led by Captain Emily Mikkelsen, an embittered veteran of the Interstellar War until this point who is concerned only with ensuring that the troops under her command stay alive and sees victory in the siege as a means to that end. Part 4 shows events from the parts 1 and 2 through the eyes of the Solarians, and goes to great ends in order to humanize them, with members of 6th Company being portrayed as people who believe in the ideal of a united humanity under the Sol Alliance but also as people who don’t see the war as theirs and who want to return home to their lives and families most of all. The film ends with 6th Company preparing to launch an assault against Xanan positions in the ruins of Khairabad.

The fifth and final installment of the Count the Days series begins with a dramatic battle sequence between Xanan and Solarian forces, with the attention split equally between Company Y and 6th Company during the fighting. During the carnage however, multiple members of Company Y and 6th Company become separated from their units and run into each other on the battlefield, with many dying to one another in heart-wrenching sequences that brought tears to many a Xanan filmgoers’ eyes. The two captains, Ibrahim and Mikkelsen, also encounter one another, but both having been wounded and exhausted by the fighting decide to sit inside of a bombed out building and try to recover their strength together. The two have a long conversation about their lives before the war and the people under their command, avoiding any conversation about either’s actual thoughts on the conflict and instead just treating each other as people rather than enemies. After further rumination and conversation, Ibrahim comes to the realization that his wounds are mortal and that he will likely die from them if he doesn’t receive medical attention and asks Mikkelsen to kill him so that he might die with honor. Mikkelsen protests at first, finding some difficulty in pulling the trigger on a man she’d just spent the better part of a half-an-hour getting to know, but eventually concedes and agrees, seeing it not as an act of anger, but of mercy for Ibrahim. She shoots him and then begins her trek out of the bombed out building, with the shot lingering on Ibrahim’s corpse for a good long few seconds, only for a team of Xanan medics to enter the building and find Captain Ibrahim’s body, just minutes after his death. The medics transport his corpse back to the Xanan lines where the rest of Company Y has regrouped, and they mourn the loss of their officer and friend in a dramatic, heart-crushing scene. The series ends with Captain Mikkelsen and 6th Company in their camp that night, staring forlornly at a campfire, exhausted from the day’s fighting and failed assault before receiving orders to fall back to the rear of the Solarian force to recover their strength. As they leave, Captain Mikkelsen looks to the Xanan lines and begins to sob as the screen then pans up and fades to black on the smoke-filled night sky.

The Count the Days pentalogy is widely regarded as one of the best of the Interfilm genre and is to date the highest-grossing and most-awarded film series in Coalition history and has spawned a die-hard fanbase of supporters. It received a widespread release across the Coalition and Biesel and even saw limited screenings in the Solarian Alliance. The series is regarded by many to be a masterwork of Xanan cinema and a quintessential look into how Xanu Prime views its relationship with the Interstellar War.
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===Holovision===
The world of Xanan holovision is the most diverse in the entire Coalition of Colonies. Almost anything can be found on Xanan HV, live sports, dramas, talk shows, news, infomercials, and shows on a wide variety of premises. The quality of Xanan holovision is similarly varied, with some shows having hundreds of millions of credits in budgets while others are very obviously cheap and made to be aired or streamed as quickly as possible. Whatever the case, Xanan holovision programming and shows can be found across the Coalition and Human Frontier and generally has a positive reputation among foreign watchers. By and large, the most popular genres of holovision programming on Xanu Prime are dramas and sitcoms.

The most-watched Xanan Holovision program of all is a long-running late-night variety program called '''Teddy''', hosted by comedian and media personality '''Theodore Llewellyn'''. The show has been on-air and on popular Xanan and CoC streaming services for nearly twenty years at this point with its first episode having aired in 2447. Theodore Llewellyn is described by many in the Xanan media as “The Lord of Late Night,” due to his dominance over the late-night talk show genre paired with his polite, yet witty interview and conversational style. His show often showcases new musical acts, up-and-coming comedians, and routinely interviews the most talked about figures and celebrities in the Xanan entertainment industry and society at large. He also has been known to host games for his guests and for airing live or pre-recorded comedy sketches for his audience, usually involving himself or his guests as characters. Teddy is not just popular among Xanan audiences though and is watched by fans across the Coalition, both in Xanan Freespeak and in translated dubs of the Coalition’s various languages. He is also a prominent cultural ambassador for Xanu Prime to Himeo and has used his fame to advocate for closer cooperation and harmony between the two planets when off the air. Occasionally, the show will even film episodes on-location on various planets throughout the Coalition for promotional purposes, most often Himeo due to Llewellyn’s Himean heritage, being the child of two Himean immigrants to Xanu Prime. Llewellyn has joked at times about running for President under the Good Neighbor Party, though these jests haven't manifested in any political campaigns quite yet.

For information on Xanan Holovision dramas and sitcoms please read the two entries below.
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Much like on film, Xanans have a penchant for HV dramas, however these diverge significantly from the seriousness of their film counterparts. Xanan Holovision Dramas are very popular on the planet and can be separated into two categories: 5-Dramas and 2-Dramas.

5-Dramas are aired every day during the week on Xanu’s HV channels during the daytime, and are notorious for their low-production values, often odd, pulpy, and convoluted plots focused around absurd twists, romantic scandals and intrigue, as well as their inexhaustible lifespans, with the most popular of them having gone on for decades. The longest running and most popular of all Xanan 5-Dramas is '''A Time to Be Alive''', a series that has been running for 47 years at this point and has followed the lives and hardships of the fictional Khanna family, a massive upper-middle class extended family from Foy-Niljen. The series has uncountable plotlines and has been criticized for its convoluted and melodramatic writing style by many critics, but audiences still tune in every day of the week across Xanu Prime and the Coalition as a whole to get the newest scoop on what’s been going on with the Khannas and the people around them.

2-Dramas in contrast to 5-Dramas however are aired on weekends only during prime-time and are generally seen by critics and audiences alike as the best that Xanan holovision has to offer. 2-Dramas typically have very high production values and rely heavily on the strength of their writing, directing, cinematography, and character acting to succeed. They’re often focused on crime-related or similarly intense, dramatic premises and are usually rather serious in tone, in contrast to the soapy, scandalous mood of most 5-Dramas. Xanan 2-Dramas are considered to be some of the finest programming on Holovision anywhere in the Orion Spur in terms of their writing and acting quality, but they are not for everyone and have drawn criticism from some for being too humorless and inaccessible for those not wanting to become engrossed in painful, often traumatic storylines. One of the most well-known of Xanan 2-Dramas is '''Suntoucher''', a show which focuses on a journalist named Marielle Hollen as she investigates a series of missing persons reports from a town in the Naya Khyber delta called Dharbourg. Her efforts slowly unveil a sickening human-trafficking operation that seeks to abduct and torture its victims in the name of a twisted, hellish cult led by a madman who claims to be both the second coming of Jesus Christ and the next avatar of Vishnu all in one. While investigating as well, Marielle comes into contact with the criminal elements of Dharbourg and becomes their sometimes-friend, sometimes-enemy as she works both with and against them during the course of her investigation. As the cult learns of Marielle’s investigation though, it no longer becomes a mission to expose them for Marielle and the locals working with her, but a fight for their very lives as secret, underground war breaks out between the cult and the largest gang in Dharbourg with Marielle and those working with her caught in the middle. The series ends with Marielle’s investigation materials being delivered to the offices of the Xanan News Service after her death at the hands of the cult after killing its leader, and alludes to the publication of the story by the media giant and subsequent destruction of the cult and imprisoning of Dharbourg’s criminals. The series has six seasons in total and had an original run from 2455 to 2461 and has spawned an obsessive, devoted fanbase in recent years. Rumours are abound of a spin-off show focusing on any number of the series’s well-liked supporting characters being in the works, but there has been no confirmation of this yet.
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====Xanan HV Sitcoms====
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The last major genre of Xanan television is the sitcom, a genre that is usually recorded in front of a live studio audience and relies on whacky or zaney premises mixed with witty writing. Xanan sitcoms also a vehicle by which certain societal issues are explored or made light of in the public mind, and tend to rely a bit more on satire and dark humour than sitcoms from other planets around the spur.
While not the most popular of Xanan sitcoms in the present day, the show '''Fated''' has a strong cult following and has left a bit of an impact on Xanan pop culture. The show follows Gerard Sodhi, a man in his mid-thirties trying to make a living in Nouvelle Rochelle’s stand-up comedy scene while dealing with the pressures of his life and large extended family. On his way home from a show, he and three of his friends, Esha, Georges, and Krasnin, are cursed with bad luck by a homeless woman in a back alley after refusing to give her any money when she asked for some. After suffering from their curse through minor inconveniences and unfortunate, socially awkward situations over the next few days, the four return to where they first encountered the woman only to find her dead, unable to remove the curse. The show then goes on, focusing on the lives of Martin, his friends, and the awkward, absurd situations they then find themselves in. Fated spawned many catch phrases and words used in Xanan pop-culture some examples being: “flarge,” a descriptor used for something both flat and large, “plimpkin,” a word used to describe a person who is short, fat, and annoying, “squickimsh,” a term used in reference to something that is both gross and very sticky in texture like a piece of gum, and “fwoonj,” a noise a person makes when trying to awkwardly avoid saying name of someone whose name they’ve forgotten. The series ran for nine seasons from 2449 to 2458 and is seen as a show emblematic of the Xanan 2450’s.
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===Music===
Xanan music is exceptionally diverse and Xanan musicians are known throughout the Coalition and beyond for being some of the most prolific and distinctive in their respective genres. Xanan music usually takes instruments and structure from its Western European and South Asian colonising cultures and puts a modern, stylistic spin on them to best suit whatever genre the musician is aiming for. The most notable genres of Xanan Music are:

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====Xanupop/X-Pop====
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The most popular form of music on Xanu Prime, is predictably, pop music. The Xanan style of pop music, often called '''Xanupop''' or simply '''X-Pop''', is similar to pop music in general, however it tends to eschew EDM-like synth riffs and instead prefers acoustic instrumentals to make the backing track. The genre has its roots in the ballads which emerged during and after the Interstellar War, mostly about home and family. Most modern-day Xanan pop songs focus on the topic of love, whether falling into it, breaking up a relationship because of the loss of it, reminiscing about times when the singer had it, or any other variety of situations about love, Xanu’s pop music has a listener spoiled for choice. While not specifically pop music, songs from Xanu Prime’s largest musical films are often played on pop radio, even if they are not strictly in the pop style. The most popular pop artist in Xanan history is Foy-Niljen native '''Robert Khatri''', a man whose crooning ballads and work with string and brass ensembles cemented him as the definitive voice of the Xanan Renaissance. While subsequent artists have out-sold him since his death in 2387, Khatri’s songs have gone on to be standards within Xanan musical canon and his songs still are known by Xanans far and wide even more than a century since their releases. The most popular active Xanan pop artist is '''Grace Rose''', though less commonly known by her real name Lavani Grace, a woman from Nouvelle Rochelle who has dominated the Xanan pop charts for the last decade and a half with her unique and beautiful vocal style with a signature high belting range perfectly suited for Xanan pop ballads.
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====Xanurock/X-Rock====
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Rock music is the second most popular form of music on Xanu Prime and is renowned across the Coalition for its funky instrumentals that focus on rhythm primarily rather than melody and unique vocal style that typically moves between being spoken and being sung multiple times throughout each song. Rock songs made in the Xanan style, often called '''X-Rock''' or '''Xanurock''', also are often about love, much like their pop counterparts, but it is far from the only thing that Xanan rockers sing about. Common lyrical themes in Xanan rock music focus on personal independence, inner turmoil and depression, social issues, or more poignantly, lost love and ones that got away. A popular band in the X-Rock scene is '''Weatherland''', a group from Himavat City that is renowned for their creative instrumental style that often incorporates unorthodox chord progressions and jazz-like solos from the band's various members. Another group that has risen in popularity since their founding in the early 2450’s is the band '''Anti-Gone''', a band from Nouvelle-Rochelle that has gained notoriety for their more groovy, riff-driven, gritty, and raw hard-rock production style with songs that focus on personal struggle and often talk about deep, uncomfortable subjects like addiction and abuse. They have beome very popular with Xanan young adults though older rock fans have not been as receptive to their material.
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====Logmu====
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Folk music, specifically the '''Logmu''' style of folk music, has always been very popular on Xanu Prime and does not seem to be going anywhere soon. Logmu, the word being combination of the Hindi word “log” meaning “people” and the French work “musique” meaning “music,” is a genre of music that originally came about during the early stages of Xanu Prime’s colonization as a result of individual, often amateur musicians, from Xanu Prime’s different colonizing countries forming bands with one another and adjusting their styles to fit each band member’s diverse musical preferences. The genre has remained popular through two catastrophic wars, economic depression, along with many other hurdles and looks as if it will keep its popularity far into the future. Logmu ensembles are typically six people large and play music using a vast variety of instruments which date back to the colonization of the planet. For example, a standard six-piece Logmu band will typically have a fiddle, an alto saxophone or nadaswaram, a tabla, a guitar or sarod, an accordion, and a sitar, with at least one of the musicians singing as well, usually the guitar or sarod player. Logmu songs are usually musical stories or poems that follow a protagonist or recount the life experiences of the singer, often in character. They are self-contained dramas or comedies in their own right and have allowed the genre to remain popular for as long as it has because of the simultaneous relatability and dramatism of the plots of the songs. A subset of the Along with being a genre of music in its own right, Logmu also has a distinctive subculture focused on passing the craft down to younger generations, with many musicians in the genre seeing it as their duty to teach their children or other students how to play a Logmu instrument at some point in their lives. A subgenre of Logmu is, '''Sologmu''', a play on words of “Solo” and “Logmu” and is defined by its nature of usually being performed by a single musician who both sings and plays an instrument of their choice, usually a guitar, sarod, accordion, or sitar.

The most influential Logmu band of all time is the Kshatrigarh-based band '''The Air Raid Six''', a group of six musicians who had the shared childhood experience of living through the Siege of Khairabad. Once they became adults they saw great success in the fledgling All-Xanu Republic’s music scene singing songs about the Interstellar War and retelling or making up humorous or dramatic stories that occurred during the conflict. During this they pioneered the current six-piece format standard synonymous with modern Logmu music and their songs are still widely performed today. The most popular Logmu band presently is Paastad-based group '''Six of Hearts''' which gained popularity during the mid 2450’s and has yet to relinquish it since. The band’s musical style stays relatively close to tradition in the structure of the songs and focus on their stories, but diverges some in terms of the instrumentals used, replacing the normal guitar or sarod with an electric guitar and even playing solos with it, something often not seen in Logmu music. Current popular names in the Sologmu scene include '''Chloe Sinclair''', a young woman from Himavat City that has brought a moodier, more downbeat brand of singing and guitar playing to the genre; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a Vysokan Xanan who has created a niche in the genre for herself by singing in the Xanan style with her broad vocal range and accompanying it with poignant instrumentals played by herself on a morin khuur.
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====Himavat Midnight====
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Breaking from tradition is the genre of '''Himavat Midnight''', so called because the underground music shows in Himavat City which saw the genre come into being often didn’t start until midnight. It is the newest genre of music on Xanu Prime to have seen at least some popularity, breaking out of the local Himavat City rock scene in the mid 2450’s. Himavat Midnight is notable for its spacey, monotone vocal style usually accompanied by little more than a bass guitar, an electric guitar, a synthesizer, and a drum machine. Himavat Midnight songs usually are built around a simple bass or guitar riff and typically are simple yet satisfying in their construction. Most songs have either a bridge or an outro where one instrument performs a solo, though these are usually more toned down and not like the more technical skill-showcasing solos found in X-Rock. Lyrically, the songs are moody and often sad, talking about loneliness, lost love, boredom, and other saddening yet seemingly mundane feelings. Some in the Xanan music scene have welcomed the genre as a new form of music that is more emotional and thoughtful than some other songs, while others have dismissed it as "sad music for sad people." While the genre is still relatively very new relative to all other popular genres of music on Xanu Prime, Himavat Midnight does have a few notable bands. '''We Are They''', a three-piece Himavat City band, is the most popular group of the genre and is the one credited for breaking the genre out of its local confines with their 2457 song, ''Snowflakes in her Hair''. For now the band is the standard-setter for what Himavat Midnight should sound like.
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====Pataliputra Big House====
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Another genre of music that is notably unique to Xanu Prime is a genre of electronic music that emerged from Pataliputran nightclubs in the 2420’s called '''Pataliputra Big House'''. During the Doldrums nightclub owners were having trouble getting patrons to come out and give business to their clubs because of the economic stagnation characteristic of the time period. To solve this, many night clubs began to push their DJs to get creative and blend different musical styles into something new and exciting in order to attract more patrons and thus, Pataliputra Big House was born. The genre was the product of Pataliputran DJ’s mashing together elements from dance-pop and more traditional house music, vocals from R&B, and instrumentals leaning on the more soulful and jazzy sides of Logmu. Songs in this genre incorporate beats which usually are medium tempo, heavy on bass, and have a central riff played on a synthesizer or saxophone which drives the entire song. Vocals are treated like an instrument in themselves in Pataliputra Big House songs and usually have a bevy of effects on them to achieve different listening experiences. The most well-known producer in the Pataliputra Big House scene is '''Bobby Baas''', real name Robert Satti, a Pataliputran native equally famous for his colorful, often patterned suits as he is for his music. He has routinely sold out electronic music festivals across the Coalition for the last decade after achieving local fame in the Pataliputran local scene during the early 2440’s. He is also unique for being one of the only artists from the Coalition of Colonies to have performed in the Sol Alliance, performing a series of sold-out shows called the “Sunrise Tour” in 2456 across the Solarian core. An up-and-comer in the Big House scene however is '''DJ SinTheTik''', real name Sarah Tussaud-Tipnis, a young woman who became a holonet sensation in the early 2460’s for her unique style meshing instruments from classical, symphonic music with the usual sounds of Big House.
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====X-Hop====
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As often happens with strong electronic scenes, a hip-hop movement emerged around the 2430’s shortly after the popularization of Pataliputran Big House. Nearly every major city of Xanu Prime has its own hip hop scene and they all have friendly, if competitive, rivalries with another. While each major city’s scene has its own unique flair and sound, there are some commonalities to Xanan hip hop or '''X-Hop'''. Generally, Xanan hip-hop places a great amount of importance on the beat of the song, and as such these beats are typically more complicated and have more elements to them than hip-hop from other places. The rap verses themselves are usually fast and articulate with a lower, almost gravelly vocal tone being definitive for male rappers and a clear, bold tone that can carry over a nightclub crowd holding the same preference among female rappers. Nouvelle Rochelle rapper Abhang van Agteren, stage name '''AvAtar''', is considered by many to be the "King of Xanan hop-hop" and is famous for his smooth lyrical style and frequent collaborations with some of Xanu Prime’s largest producers, most notably Bobby Baas, with a catalogue of hit songs dating back to the 2440’s. His music is a common feature on playlists all around the Coalition and he has been a staple of Xanan popular music for decades, with no sign of his career waning any time soon. The most famous Xanan rap group is the all-female project '''Girl’s Night''', a four-member pop-rap group from Himavat City that first gained notoriety in the mid-2450’s for their lyrical prowess, broad appeal which crossed pop and hip-hop demographics, and anonymous nature. It is unknown what the true identities of Girl’s Night are since the group’s members are never seen in public or on stage without three-faced masks made in the style of hindu deities. The individual names they have given to the public are the letters, R, Y, V, and K.
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===Fashion===
Xanan fashion and dress is not characterized by any culturally specific garments or articles of clothing that are uniquely specific to Xanu Prime, but rather by how they style clothes that are seen as generally ubiquitous across human space. That is to say, color and the interplay within a palette in one look are king in Xanan Fashion. Xanans themselves often describe shopping and dressing as a whole as somewhat of a game, in making outfits for themselves which both are colorful, but also not outlandishly so and still manage to look sharp despite their chromatic nature. If a look clashes too much, it looks bad, simply put. Garishness is something that must be avoided in Xanan fashion and many of the planet’s top designers have emphasized that Xanan fashion is a game of balance. As to what colours are used though, there are no official rules or cultural norms, other than outfits which are heavy in their usage of black and white are reserved for funerals or other somber occasions, and similarly, looks with a lot of white or red in their composition should only be worn during weddings, baby showers, or other joyful events. The diversity of Xanu Prime as a planet in both climate and geography however has led to a variety of different fashions popping up across the planet and often fashion choices are left to the individual rather than governed by some collective norm. An exception tho this, however, is that outfits consisting solely of only one color, such as a suit with the same-coloured slacks and jacket or a dress made of only one color of fabric, are seen by many as overly formalistic and are typically only reserved for appearances in court for legal or financial matters. As such, monochrome outfits without much variation in colour are associated with the legal and banking professions. Colors aside, materials are also seen as an important part of Xanan fashion, and many mundane looking pieces of Xanan clothing may be worth thousands due to the craftsmanship and quality of the materials used in their manufacture. Intricate patterns are not uncommon in Xanan looks either, though they are usually associated with festive occasions and places. Accessories are seen as important in Xanan fashion, with neckties and cravats being popular among men and hairpins or bows finding favour among women. Jewlery is common for both men and women, but large pieces should not be worn in a workplace environment and instead should be saved for personal outings or family time.

===Sport===
Professional and amateur sports are both quite popular on Xanu Prime. Cricket and football are tied in popularity, with other sports like basketball, ice hockey, and rugby having some notoriety on the planet as well. Xanan children are encouraged from a young age to participate in team sports which many carry on into their teenage years and adulthoods through amateur club teams. As such, no Xanan town is complete without a cricket oval or football field. Xanu’s sports fans are known the Orion Spur-over for being some of the most passionate and obsessive in Human-inhabited space, with their chants, costumes, and fervent insults being both hated and envied by the planet’s sports rivals. Xanans are exceptionally loyal to their teams, be they national or local, and fights or even riots breaking out after upsets in football or cricket aren’t unheard of in the major cities.

The Xanan national teams in football, commonly referred to as '''"C.F.X.P"''' taken from their original French name Club de Foot de Xanu Premier, and cricket, often called the '''"Crimson Cats"''' courtesy of their mascot being a crimson-masked polecat, wear colors of green and orange with red accents. When either of the teams win a game, especially if during a high-stakes tournament, the entire planet often turns out to celebrate, clogging streets, overpacking bars, and pressing the Xanu’s police forces to their limits. Famously, when Xanu Prime won the 2454 Orion Cup in a surprise upset 2-1 victory over their longtime rival, the Callistean national team, Hastings Park, C.F.X.P’s home stadium, was deemed to be “The Loudest Place in the Known Universe” by a Martian sports writer. Similarly the stadium was said to have “Rung like bell,” when the Crimson Cats defeated the Port Antillean national team in 2458 to win the T20 Orion Cricket Championship. Individual cities also have their own football and cricket teams which play in a number of professional and semi-professional leagues. The highest level of these are The '''All-Xanu Ultraleague''' for football and the '''Alpha League''' for Class A cricket.

The planet has strong sports rivalries with many others, both within the coalition and without. They have a long-standing football rivalry with Callisto, jokingly called “The Second Interstellar War,” which has had its ups and downs throughout history, with both teams serving each other their most grievous defeats. Highlights include when Xanu defeated Callisto on its own home turf in 2448 to win the Orion Cup, or when the Callistean team duffed out their rivals only four years later in a hotly-contested group-stage match and stopped C.F.X.P from having a chance at defending its title. Xanu also has a hot cricket rivalry with Port Antilia, and the two planets are generally considered to be the best at the sport in the Orion Spur. Recent tension over the Solarian Collapse and Port Antillia’s annexation into the Biesellite CRZ has meant that the two teams haven’t met on an oval in over two years, leading many to believe that their next meeting will be the game of the century for Cricket. Xanu Prime also has a more friendly and lighthearted football rivalry with Himeo that has for most of recent memory been one-sided in favor of Xanu, but the two teams are still nevertheless very competitive and their fans very passionate over the rivalry.

==Immigrant and Expat Communities==
Xanu Prime is host to a number of large immigrant, expat, and diasporic communities, the largest of which can be read about in the entries below. '''A member of any immigrant or diasporic group who was born on Xanu Prime will select the Xanu Prime origin and accent in character creation.'''

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====Himean Xanans====
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The largest diasporic community on Xanu Prime, the Himean Xanan community has been on Xanu Prime for nearly as long as the Republic itself has existed. Himeans first came to Xanu Prime in the millions during the aftermath of the Interstellar War, often as workers and supporting staff helping to rebuild Xanu’s many broken and battered cities. A significant number of these Himeans remained on Xanu afterwards, established their own families and communities, and joined Xanan society. Most of the Himeans that came to Xanu during what is called the “First Wave of Himean Immigration” (2288-2310) dropped Himean customs and traditions in favor of broader assimilation into what many of them saw as a prosperous, growing, free Xanu Prime where their children could grow. A significant minority of Xanu’s population can trace at least part of their ancestry back to this first wave of immigrants from Himeo, and it’s quite common for the average Xanusan to have at least one or two Himean ancestors that came to Xanu during this period even if the person themselves doesn’t look Himean or have a Himean sounding name.

While immigration from Himeo continued in low levels throughout the 24th century, there was a great uptick from 2367 to 2390, a period called “The Second Wave of Himean Immigration” and less commonly, “The Paasstad Exodus.” Much like earlier Himean immigrants, those in the Second Wave came to the planet for work, but instead instead of reconstruction, they were taking part in the Paasstad Megaproject, an ambitious engineering initiative with the goal of raising the entire Xanan city of Paasstad above the marshy ground upon which it sat. The project was long and intensive, but was complete by 2389 and the numbers of Himeans immigrating to Xanu decreased shortly after the project was complete. In contrast to the First Wave, Himeans coming to the planet during the Second Wave mostly just immigrated to the city of Paasstad, and as such, their community became very unified and tightly knit. A district of the city, often just called Little Himeo, is where the present-day Himean Xanan community has its symbolic heart. Many Himean customs and traditions are still practiced here, Himean Common is spoken throughout the district, though with a noticeable Xanan Accent, and one can find many Himean products and authentic Himean food here. While there has not been an influx of Himean immigrants since the Second Wave, many Himeans looking to move their lives and to Xanu Prime find themselves in Little Himeo or one of the smaller Xanan Himean communities in other cities. Himean communities are very diverse politically, given that many Himean Xanans have assimilated into Xanu’s society and taken on new beliefs, however the Good Neighbor Party is particularly popular in Little Himeo and it often markets itself as the party for Himean Xanans. A majority of Himean Xanans are not first-generation immigrants, but were born on the planet as third or fourth generation Himeans.

Himean Xanans, whether their ancestors were part of the first or second waves, have broadly flourished on Xanu Prime and can be found in all walks of Xanan society. Notable Himean Xanans include '''Aukusti Staudenmaier''', member of the National Parliament and leader of the Good Neighbor Party, '''Lennox Sibelius''', Minister of the Economy and Finance under the Mukhopadhyay Government and man responsible for the implementation of the Mukhopadhyay Plan, '''Sara Knox''', current CEO of d.N.A. Defense and Aerospace, and '''Theodore Llewellyn''', host of the popular Xanan late night holovision talk program, Teddy.
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====Vysokan Xanans====
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The Vysokan Xanan community is Xanu Prime’s second largest and fastest growing immigrant and diasporic demographic; many see the planet as coming off of the first large wave of Vysokan immigrants it has ever experienced. Many Vysokans immigrated to Xanu starting in the 2440’s after the Mukhophadhay Plan began revitalizing the Xanan economy. In response, many Vysokans looking to better their lives and provide a stable income for their families traveled to Xanu Prime looking for work or simply looking to start new lives. This wave of immigration abruptly stopped in 2462 when the Orion Spur was gripped by phoron scarcity causing space flight costs to soar, but even now after that, some Vysokans still find their way to Xanu Prime.

Culture shock has been something consistent throughout the Vysokan Xanan community: Societally, Xanu Prime is to many Vysokan immigrants, especially those who grew up in the rural regions of Vysoka, a night and day difference. Because of this, along with the differing norms between Xanan and Vysokan cultures, many Vysokan immigrants have been slow to integrate and assimilate into Xanu Prime’s society and most live in close proximity to one another in majority-Vysokan neighborhoods and districts. Many in the Vysokan Xanan community are not wealthy, with most being in the working lower-middle class. Because of their recent increase in population, their unfamiliarity with Xanan systems and the fact that they are often poorer than the average Xanan, Vysokan Xanan communities often have difficult times accessing social services for healthcare or financial assistance, are less policed, and have higher than average rates of crime. Many Vysokan Xanans have found employment in Xanu’s agricultural and heavy industry sectors with their skills from home translating very well to those lines of work. Additionally, many have found themselves in the All-Xanu Armed Forces in hopes of learning skills there which they can then carry over into a civilian job after being discharged. The largest Vysokan Xanan community on Xanu Prime is the Little Vysoka district of Nouvelle-Rochelle.

Vysokan Xanan communities often try to recreate things from Vysoka itself, the most common of these being Stolitist spirit houses and shrines. Vysokan Xanans are majority-Stolitist in their religious practices, and many Vysokan Xanan communities celebrate Stolitist religious festivals. Vysokan Xanan practices are not identical to their Vysokan counterparts however. Many in Vysokan Xanan communities have eschewed travelling, nomadic shamans in favour of more congregationally-styled practices, with houses of worship and assembly taking influence from Christian churches and Muslim mosques in layout often being built to surround Stolitist shrines and spirit houses. These “Stolitchurches” are a uniquely Vysokan Xanan creation and often function as the cultural, spiritual, and symbolic centers of Vysokan Xanan communities. Other aspects of Vysokan culture which have in some way translated to Xanu Prime is the Vysokan penchant for athleticism; since the immigration, many young Vysokans have made a name for themselves and their community as professional athletes. Many even make the annual trip back to Vysoka for the Velhalktai. Host culture has not made the jump and the hosts in general is something that is begrudgingly dismissed by many Vysokan Xanans because they believe that Host culture affirms a stereotype among Xanussians that Vysokans are criminals. Politically, opinions are diverse for Vysokan Xanans, but many have voted for the Free Falcon Party in recent years due to the party’s Vysokan Xanan origin and stance on many immigrant issues.

Notable Vysokan Xanans include '''Aynan Zhergotov''', professional footballer and captain of the Nouvelle-Rochelle football club A.S. Olympique-Saraswati; '''Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova''', member of the National Parliament, leader of the Free Falcon Party, and formerly practicing medical doctor; '''Yekheren Bolkhadarov''', goalkeeper for the All-Xanu National Football Team; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a second-generation Vysokan Xanan singer who has seen recent popularity in Xanu’s Logmu music scene by combining Xanan-styled singing with Vysokan-inspired instrumentals.
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====Assunzionii Xanans====
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The Assunzionii Xanan community is the third largest diaspora on Xanu Prime and is one that has managed to strike a strong balance between preserving their own original culture and embracing Xanu’s own. Most of Xanu Prime’s Assunzionii population moved to Xanu Prime during the 2370’s and 2380’s in response to Xanu’s burgeoning economy, with a smaller wave coming in the 2450’s. As such a majority of the Assunzionii Xanan population are third or fourth generation immigrants, with the new arrivals in 2450 being first-generation. Most Assunzionii Xanans live in the middle class, with some having advanced into the upper classes through employment or their businesses. Throughout Xanu Prime, many Assunzionii people have found themselves in two primary industries: entertainment and engineering. The former came about when many Assunzionii immigrants were hired on by nightclubs and other entertainment venues for their expertise in electrical lighting systems. As they were employed more, some of these immigrants figured that they would instead start their own clubs which they could run and style as they pleased. Gaining traction for their exceptional light shows and very exotic atmospheres, Assunzionii Xanan-owned and staffed clubs, bars, theaters, and even film studios became very successful across Xanu prime in the 2400’s and have remained that way since, with some of the largest and most exclusive entertainment establishments on the planet being owned by Assunzionii Xanusians. Some of these immigrants also found themselves in engineering and went on to work in Xanu’s shipbuilding and logistics sector; their skills being perfect for designing and servicing electrical systems on ships. Many of their descendants still work in these fields today

Culturally, there are some distinct differences between Assunzionii Xanans and people from Assunzionne proper. Exposure to outside cultures and removal from the Luceism-centered domes of light has made many Assunzionii Xanusians less religious than their Assunzionii counterparts. Most still identify as Luceist and do practice, but the faith on Xanu Prime has become more casual and cultural to the local community rather than something more dogmatic and omnipresent. Simply put, Luceism isn’t as important to multi-generational Assunzionii Xanusians as it is to those back home on Assunzione or those who have just arrived from the planet, even if it is present in their lives. Despite this more lax attitude, there are large cathedrals of light in many Assunzionii Xanan communities, the largest being in the Little Assunzione district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, and they see frequent attendance. Most Assunzionii Xanusians are Structuralist Luceists and their churches function as large community centers and meeting places along with being used as houses of worship. Other aspects of Assunzionii culture have stuck around in the community as well, such as illumination. Assunzionii Xanan neighborhoods are very well lit, with more street lamps than average and more lights on houses as well, and this, along with the communal and tight-knit nature of many Assunzionii Xanan families, make their neighborhoods some of the safest on Xanu Prime.

Notable Assunzionii Xanusians include '''Sabine Venturino''', a third-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and one of the largest directorial names in Xanan film industry; '''Suleiman Kateb''', a second-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and current Minister of Energy for the Afzal government; and '''Hristos Santolaria''', a first-generation Assunzionii Xanan and current Chief Operations Officer for Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.
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====Fisanduhian Xanans====
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The Fisanduhian story on Xanu Prime is a strange one that started in 2386. In that year, the Xanan government agreed to host the remnants of the Fisanduh Freedom Front (3F) as a gesture of solidarity between two countries against tyranny. This arrangement created the modern Fisanduhian government-in-exile as it exists today with its seat in the Greentree neighbourhood of Nouvelle Rochelle. Of those few countries that recognise the existence of an independent Fisanduh, those being the Republic of Elyra and a vast majority of Coalition of Colonies members, see the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, also commonly called the “Greentree Government,” as the legitimate government of Fisanduh. The Empire of Dominia sees the Greentree Government as the political arm of the 3F, a rebel militia to some and a terrorist group to others, and therefore considers Xanu Prime and by extension the Coalition of Colonies to be a state sponsor of terrorism for giving the government sanctuary. The Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel do not recognise the Fisanduhian government-in-exile as the legitimate government of Fisanduh and have no relations with it.

Xanu Prime’s long-standing positive relationship with the Fisanduhian government has made it a very popular destination for Fisanduhian refugees, though its geographic distance from Moroz often makes traveling to the planet difficult for some. Fisanduhian refugees typically do not come in waves like other immigrant demographics, but arrive sporadically and often in small cohorts that were trafficked out of Fisanduh at the same time. This distance and trouble with travel cuts both ways: it isn’t just difficult for Fisanduhians to arrive on Xanu but much of the Fisanduhian Xanan community (aside from the aforementioned refugees) have never even been to Fisanduh, with their only ties to the Morozian region being ethnic and cultural. Religion is also something that sets Fisanduhian Xanans apart from other Xanans, with most being adherents to some strain of Reformed Morozian Tribunalism which rejects the authority of the Morozian Clergy and the Dominian Emperor as the divinely ordained head of the “Goddess’s Tribunal,” a term that the Goddess’s Holy Diocese of Xanu Prime uses to describe their religion over using “Morozian Holy Tribunal.” Some however have given up this faith and have either become irreligious or have taken on one of Xanu Prime’s dominant religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) as their own. Despite this, it is common for many Fisanduhian Xanans to celebrate Tribunalist religious holidays even if they themselves are not adherent to the faith since many see these days as part of their own distinctive culture. All Tribunalist churches on Xanu Prime have eschewed the use of traditional Morozian Holy Tribunal uniforms and religious symbols connected with the Dominian Emperor, viewing them as unnecessarily dogmatic and relics of an oppressive, Dominian, past.

Economically, most Fisanduhian Xanans are poorer than the average Xanan, with almost all being either refugees who arrived on the planet with nothing or their descendants. They lack the generational wealth of other demographics in Xanan society, and most are not educated to the standards demanded by the Xanan economy. As such, most can usually be found in industrial and service jobs, the All-Xanu Armed Forces or other working-class positions. Because of this disadvantageous economic position, many of the better-off Fisanduhian Xanans have been known to host refugee families and provide them with housing and food until they find employment and can secure housing of their own.

Despite the hardship the demographic has found, the Fisanduhian Xanan community has found a home for itself in Xanan society. Most Fisanduhian Xanans have assimilated and integrated themselves into broader Xanan society and adopted their norms and culture, but generally live in areas with other Fisanduhian Xanans. Some subsets of the group take this to the extreme, maintaining their own communities and living together in nearly all-Fisanduhian neighborhoods which preserve the native Fisanduhian culture and social systems. These communities are usually suspicious of outsiders and such attitudes have occasionally led negative attention from the media for allegations of xenophobia and exclusionism. There is a stereotype among Xanans that Fisanduhian Xanans are all rabidly politically active and pursue jobs in politics and government especially in order to aid the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, and while most Fisanduhian Xanans very supportive of the Greentree government, their involvement is often falsely overstated. In reality, Fisanduhian Xanans hold a variety of political views about Xanu Prime and the 3F government, with most being split into two camps: the Irredentists and the Second Homelanders.
Simply put, the Irredentists and Second Homelanders diverge on their priorities relating to the Fisanduhian Insurgency. The Irredentist camp of the Fisanduhian Xanan population places the government-in-exile’s backing of the 3F and other resistance groups in Fisanduh through sending them aid, equipment, and money above all else, in hopes of one day returning to an independent Fisanduh. The Second Homelanders instead want the government-in-exile to create a “second homeland" for the Fisanduhian people on Xanu Prime in cooperation with the Xanan government and often push for the government-in-exile to leverage its official and unofficial influence in Xanan society to provide better resources for the Fisanduhian Xanan community. The two groups, while different in their priorities, are not enemies to one another and often work together in both the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the unofficial representative of that government in Xanan Politics, the Universal Liberty Party. Historically, the Irredentist camp has been a majority in the Fisanduhian Xanan population, but as Fisanduhian Xanans have adjusted more to Xanan society and their needs have become more pronounced, the Second Homeland movement has grown considerably, especially among the demographic’s younger generations who see themselves as more Xanan than Fisanduhian. As the older generations of Fisanduhian Xanans die, it is predicted that the Second Homeland movement will soon hold a majority over Fisanduhian Xanan political discourse unless a serious shift occurs in the currently-stalemated Fisanduhian Insurgency.

Morozian Fisanduhians have mixed opinions of Fisanduhian Xanans. On one hand the sentiments of support and occasional aid shipment that make it to the region past the Dominian blockades are often appreciated, but on the other, most see the Fisanduhian Xanan population as too far away to make a difference in anything actually happening in Fisanduh besides giving a place for more refugees to flee to. Because of this, most Morozian Fisanduhians treat their Xanan cousins as people who are all talk and no action in regards to actually winning the insurgency.

Notable Fisanduhian Xanans include '''Erick Alexis''', current Vice-President of the All-Xanu Republic; '''Aaron Izmirlian''', Prime Minister of the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile; '''Ekaitz Azarola''', leader of the Universal Liberty Party and member of the National Parliament; and '''Elaena Chatfield''', a prolific if aging novelist often considered to be one of the greatest writers Xanu Prime has ever produced.
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====Gadpathurian Exiles====
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Xanan Gadpathurian Exiles and their community are a small but notable immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime. They are almost exclusively concentrated in Pataliputra, it being the spot where most of them arrive on the planet after being ejected from their home world. Gadpathurian Exiles are known to be highly assimilationist and often make little effort to show that they are even in fact Gadpathurian at all, some too ashamed by their exile status to try and make others know of it. Some however have taken the identity and embraced it as part of who they are in Xanan society. Gadpathurian Exiles who do make a point of their heritage do not have their own distinctive architecture or cuisine, but instead hold much of their culture in their community structures and businesses. Gadpathurian Exile-owned businesses which embrace the identity are known to be pseudo-support groups for Gadpathurian Exiles themselves and often provide employment, housing, and other necessities to newly arrived fellow-exiles to ensure that they do not become homeless or starve. Xanan Gadpathurian Exile families similarly have been known to welcome fellow exiles into their houses to take care of them in a similar way to how Fisanduhian Xanans do, however Gadpathurian Exiles take this a step further and have been known to formally adopt entirely unrelated people into their families permanently. This has led to some Gadpathurian Exile families on Xanu Prime to become comically large, with the largest on record, the Mokammel family, having over 1,700 current members. The Mokammels mostly live in the Kuenoi neighborhood of Pataliputra, though this area has come to be known colloquially as “Mokammelbad” in popular parlance. Most Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are irreligious or have converted to one of the planet’s three major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, with some converting to smaller faiths.

Gadpathurian Exiles often have an advantage over other immigrants not in terms of their wealth, as most arrive to the planet positively destitute, but in terms of their educations. Most Gadpathurians were taught skills during their military service on Gadpathur, and even if they’ve now been exiled from their homeworlds, many retain their skills and have found lucrative work as tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, HVAC specialists, and welders to name a few). Of course, many have also joined the All-Xanu Armed Forces and usually find success there too, either as soldiers, specialists, or occasionally even officers, though this is somewhat rare as the Gadpathurian leadership style is usually inconsistent with Xanan doctrine and practices. It is seen as shameful in Exile society to take aid from the government, and there is a societal norm of redemption through achievement as a way to prove the decision to exile the person in question as wrong. As such, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are encouraged by their communities to hold a strong work ethic and to cooperate with other Exiles trying to achieve success. In regard to politics, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime typically vote either for the Free Falcon Party of All-Xanu Freedom League.

Notable Gadpathurian Exiles Xanans include '''Chandi Mokammel''', a first-generation Gadpathurian Exile, head of the massive Gadpathurian Exile family the Mokammels and celebrity within the Gadpathurian Exile community, and '''Sri Afzal''', a second-generation Gadpathuri Exile, formerly a professor of law at Saraswati College, and wife to the current All-Xanu President Jacques Afzal.
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==Holidays==

Xanu Prime has many holidays much like almost anywhere else in the Spur, however the foremost of these are as follows:

*'''January 1st - New Year’s Day''' - A celebration of the ushering in of a new year. This holiday is marked by fireworks, loud music, and the mass consumption of alcohol. It is officially recognised as a holiday.

*'''January 2nd - Founding Day''' - This is the day where Xanans celebrate the original colonization of their world by the Solarian Alliance. People get the day off work and festivities are held in communities across the planet to celebrate Xanu. Many consider this to be a toned down version of Xanan Independence Day, or simply a day to recoup and recover from the partying and subsequent hangovers brought on by New Year’s. Alternatively, some simply use the day to have a two-day long New Year’s celebration.

*'''March 28th - All-Xanu Peace Day''' - This is a holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the end of the Xanan Civil war. It is a rather low-key holiday where people are encouraged to reflect on the peace that they enjoy and spend it with their families. Xanan citizens get the day off of work, though because the war is such a distant memory, many just use this as a convenient day off of work or three-day weekend rather than a time to celebrate its original intended purpose.

*'''July 1st - Election Day''' - This day is less of a holiday and more a bureaucratic necessity. On June 1st, all Xanans vote in elections, local, province-wide, or national. Everyone gets the day off work so they can vote if they so choose. The holiday still applies to jurisdictions where no elections are taking place that year, so many often take it as a free day off of work.

*'''August 13th - Xanan Independence Day''' - This day celebrates the secession of Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies from the Solarian Alliance and is the largest holiday of the year. Parades, fireworks, cookouts, sporting events, and musical performances often occur on this day. The entire planet parties hard on this holiday and it is observed by Xanan expats living elsewhere in the Orion Spur as well. Xanans get the day off of work on August 13th.

*'''October 1st - Victory Day''' - Victory Day, as it may be implied, is the day where Xanans celebrate the victory of their country over the Solarian Alliance in the Interstellar War. It is marked by parades, and other celebrations that honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians who died in the conflict and the freedoms that they died for. It has a more solemn and reverent atmosphere than other Xanan national holidays. Xanans get the day off work on Victory Day.

*'''November 18th - Kulkarni Day''' - Kulkarni Day, also called Diversity Day (no relation to the Eridanian Holiday), is a holiday where Xanans celebrate their diversity and ethic of unity, coming together to unite as one strong and diverse society. It is held on the birthday of once planetary governor Gaspard Kulkarni to honor his vision for what a united yet diverse Xanan society could be. The day is celebrated widely across the planet and is a day where the various communities of Xanu prime go out of their way to share their cultures with those of different cultures and celebrate how they find strength in diversity. It is an official holiday and Xanan citizens get the day off of work on Diversity Day.

*'''December 25th - Christmas''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Despite its religious origins, it has long been a festivity that has spread across cultures and demographics regardless of religious affiliation, and as such it is an official holiday on Xanu Prime. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries.

*'''Varying Dates - Easter''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries. This holiday follows the lunar cycle and therefore is held on different days annually, though it is always on a Sunday, typically in April or March. It is not officially a holiday recognised by the Xanan State, but many observant Christians celebrate it.

*'''Varying Dates - Ramadan''' - A Muslim religious holiday that is observed for nearly a month by Xanu Prime’s muslim population. It includes the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, on which was recognised as an official Xanan holiday in 2334 after the festivities of feasting, partying, and parades became so widespread across Xanu Prime’s population that it could no longer be interpreted as a strictly religious celebration. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Eid al-Adha''' - A Muslim religious holiday which that honors the willingness of the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as Allah commanded of him. It is not an official Xanan holiday, but many observant muslims take the day off from work and celebrate. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Diwali''' - A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh, religious holiday which lasts for five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil, originally brought to Xanu Prime by Hindu and Sikh colonists from India. It is typically marked by fireworks, the lighting of lamps, brightly vibrant lights, and other festivities which embody light triumphing over the dark. The third day of the holiday, Lakshmi Puja, is the most colorful of the holiday, and Xanans who observe it usually take the day off work, though it is not an official holiday. While not Hindus, the local Assunzionii expat population also has begun to celebrate this holiday recently as well, tying it into their own beliefs of light triumphing over the darkness. Diwali is determined by the Hindu lunar-solar calendar, and therefore falls on different dates annually.

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==Overview==
Xanan Culture and Xanan Society are very rich and detailed topics which have a variety of facets and great depth. Xanan culture takes cues from the most prominent of its founding cultures and has a society that places great emphasis on the family unit as the building block of society. Xanan culture is collective, in the sense that people are encouraged to watch out for one another, and the general cultural mindset is to see oneself as a meaningful member of their community. Xanan society is very diverse and multicultural and the planet has numerous immigrant communities that help make-up the planet’s dynamic socio-cultural ecosystem. Xanu Prime hosts a variety of different religions as well, the most prominent being Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Its society is not perfect however and has its issues, chief among them being a growing income inequality, anti-immigrant sentiments, and tension over the planet’s place in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanan art and entertainment produced by Xanan companies is some of the most popular in human space, with Xanan films, Holovision programs, consumed throughout the Coalition of Colonies and human frontier. Xanan cuisine is something that the planet is famous for across the Orion Spur and some of its dishes are staples of fine dining. Xanan architecture and fashion too are distinctive to the planet and have their own stories. Sports are very popular on the planet as well, the most played and watched being football in the All-Xanu Ultraleague, and Class A Cricket in the Alphaleague.

==Standard of Living and Civil Liberties==
A life on Xanu Prime is by and large a comfortable, though not exceedingly luxurious one. While not uniform across the various peoples and classes of the planet, the average Xanan isn’t bothered with extreme poverty, hunger, or lingering threats of conflict, nor do they live in cities adapted to suit hazardous environments. The average Xanan sits as a member of the middle class and the government has taken measures to try and ensure that the largest number of Xanans can live comfortably on the planet as is possible.
Healthcare works in a hybrid system, with some facilities being private and others being public, though the government will still partially fund the expenses of patients that go to private clinics or hospitals. Xanan healthcare quality is some of the best in the Orion Spur, only rivaled by that found on Biesel or in the Solarian Core, and millions come from across the Coalition annually to receive treatment from Xanan doctors.

Higher education at government-operated universities and colleges is free to those who can obtain a qualifying score on the Uniform Higher Education Assessment test or UHEA, while private universities on the planet usually have their own specific entrance exams.

Governance on Xanu Prime is democratic and many on the planet are invested in local-level politics. Despite political contrasts among the Xanan population, they generally place unity in forms such as nationality or city of origin before political beliefs, and as such political polarization and division is not as pronounced on Xanu Prime as it may be elsewhere in the Spur.

Xanu Prime has very liberal speech laws as well, with almost any kind of speech allowed by the planet’s government. Notable exceptions include; any rhetoric that targets another individual or group of individuals on the basis of race or religion, any rhetoric that styles itself as genuine when it is knowingly false, and any rhetoric that is knowingly false while intending to harm another person’s reputation or well-being. News media outlets have wide-ranging freedoms to publish what they like, though their content is regulated by the All-Xanu Media Ethics Commission, an independent government agency which has the power to censor and fine publications with content it has deemed to promote fake news or be so biased that it burgeons on fake news.

Most Xanans are religious or spiritual to at least some degree, though atheism isn’t unheard of nor officially disparaged on the planet, but some in the planet’s society may privately look down upon atheists. Religious extremism is rare, but does occasionally occur in the most conservative of Xanu Prime’s various congregations and sects.
Firearm possession on Xanu Prime is legal, though heavily regulated. A thorough background checks and a firearm license obtained after a six-month training course and six-month waiting period are mandatory for any Xanan hoping to own their own gun. Civilians may only own ballistic firearms with magazine capacities of twenty rounds or less and special permits, famous for their long wait times, are required for the ownership of handguns and automatic weapons while less complicated weapons like bolt-action rifles and shotguns require less paperwork.

Same-sex relationships and gender nonconforming individuals are accepted as a part of Xanan society and do not experience any legal or widespread societal discrimination, though they only make up a small minority of Xanan relationships and people. There is no form of legal recognition of polyamorous relationships on Xanu Prime.

Despite the comfort and quality of life that the majority of Xanu Prime’s people enjoy, the planet is not without its problems. Xanu Prime’s economy saw an economic hiccup in 2458 following the invasion of the Republic of Biesel led by Solarian Admiral Michael Frost. The disruption in trade saw the planet’s economy and its people suffer a small downturn that was corrected by the next year, but the phoron scarcity in late 2462 tossed the Xanan economy and the living situation for many of its people into question. The situation has been stabilized by now, some three years later, and while Xanu itself fared through the economic troubles much better than many other areas in the Spur, there have been some lasting consequences. The most noticeable of these has been a widening income inequality that, while modest, is still concerning. Wages for the majority of the planet’s population have not kept up with the inflation that resulted from the phoron scarcity, and while efforts are being made by the government to reduce inflation and buoy wages or substitute incomes through the provision of more services through the state welfare system, the problem still seems to be growing slowly, yet steadily. It is not yet a crisis, though many on Xanu Prime are keen to see that it never becomes one.

==Societal Issues and Political Discourse==
One of the biggest contemporary issues that is often at the forefront of Xanan political and societal discourse is how Xanu Prime and its government should meet the growing numbers of immigrants and refugees from the war-torn territories of the Sol Alliance and the largest wave of Vysokan immigrants the planet has yet seen. Views on these new arrivals have been mixed. Some on the planet have welcomed them, pointing to the fact that Xanu Prime is already an incredibly diverse place while highlighting the fact that the planet and its economy need laborers to fuel continued economic growth coming out of the turmoil of the phoron scarcity. Others have been less welcoming, stating that Xanu’s government and corporations should instead invest more into places like Vysoka and the frontiers of the Coalition to improve the living situations for the people living there, lowering the desire for immigration, often pointing to the already-strained Xanan welfare system needing to take care of more people, most of which aren’t even Xanan citizens. Others still have instead encouraged the Xanan government to pressure other economically developed planets in the Coalition such as Himeo and Konyang to take on more of these immigrants and refugees; a way of “doing their part” as Coalition members. Now that the conflicts in the Solarian Wildlands come to a close, it is predicted that refugees will stop trying to reach Xanu, though immigration from Vysoka and the Coalition’s frontiers does not seem to be stemming any time soon.

A larger, more historical point of contention in Xanan society and politics is just what role the planet should play in the Coalition of Colonies. Xanu Prime’s unique position of having both the Coalition’s largest economy and strongest military have long given it a considerable, unbalanced level of influence over CoC affairs, and as such, its people hold differing opinions on just how the planet should carry itself. Broadly, Xanan citizens fall into two camps on the issue: increased autonomy from the CoC, or broader integration with the CoC, with nuanced views within each of these positions. Some who wish for more integration with the Coalition desire for the planet’s government to capitalize on the great amount of influence it has within the multi-planet government to create better economic situations on Xanu Prime, while others say that the planet should use its influence to instead help the developing members of the Coalition to grow and provide more for the CoC as a whole, even if Xanu itself may not see as large of returns in the short term. Others from the autonomy camp are opposed to further Xanan economic aid to Coalition members, decrying the aid as harmful to the planet when the money and resources given to or loaned out to other CoC members could be better spent on Xanu helping Xanans during the aftermath of the Phoron scarcity. Encompassing members from that same autonomy camp, there are those who believe that the Coalition itself should remain little more than a mutual defense pact, where members only come to each other's aid in times of war, instead of the semi-formal nation state it is today. Within these nuanced views from both sides, there are extremes in the debate for Xanu’s Coalition position, with small minorities of the population wishing for Xanu Prime to leave the Coalition entirely while others in equally small numbers are in favor of the Coalition federalising like the Sol Alliance and having Xanu Prime’s government be dissolved and the planet ruled from a central Coalition authority.

Speaking of defense, it is another topic that Xanan-Coalition discourse often revolves around. The All-Xanu Armed Forces are the largest and most capable fighting force that the Coalition has for both offensive and defensive interstellar warfare operations, and while this is a comforting fact for many Xanans and the Coalition as a whole, it is not without its controversy. Some on Xanu Prime, mostly of the autonomy camp, think that other Coalition members should spend more on defense than they currently do, to avoid a “free ride” on Xanu’s military might, citing increased military spending among members as both good for Xanu Prime and good for the Coalition as a whole if Xanu’s military resources do not need to be stretched so thin, providing for much of the Coalition on its own. Those of the integration camp however have pointed to Xanu Prime’s historical status as the defender of the Coalition and that it is the Xanan responsibility to provide for the Coalition’s defense, even to an unbalanced amount because other planets of the Coalition simply do not have the economies to afford their own militaries beyond those that patrol their home systems. The common refrain among those in the latter camp is “If not us, then who?”

Besides the differing political opinions on Xanu’s place with other planets of the coalition, which could be considered internal matters, there are differing opinions on external matters, namely its place with megacorporations. Xanu’s position on megacorporations has long been a topic of debate, but its presence in everyday Xanan life has dramatically increased after the 2462 phoron scarcity and Solarian Collapse. While many megacorporations, both Einstein Engines and the SCC alike, have operated on Xanu Prime as a springboard to the rest of the coalition, often having the planet be the location of their regional headquarters, their presence hasn’t always come without concern or conflict. Some on the planet see further megacorporations as the next step in Xanu Prime’s economic growth and advocate for a lessening of restrictions upon them so that they can help the planet emerge into a post-phoron scarcity spur. The majority on the planet however caution megacorporate cooperation and see the Republic of Biesel as a cautionary tale of sorts as to what can happen to a country that does not strike the right amount of balance and regulation of megacorporations. Most Xanans believe that megacorporations need some level of government oversight and regulation, but they fail to agree on just what form that should take, with different political parties holding different positions.

A growing issue that has become more pronounced in recent years is Xanu Prime’s fight with illegal drug trafficking and other forms of illegal smuggling. Xanu’s status as the heart of the Coalition and as one of the largest ports in the Orion Spur has made it a hotspot for all kinds of illegal trafficking; any smuggled drug, weapon, or person going into, out of, or on a long distance trip through the coalition likely will pass through Xanu Prime on its way from point A to point B. This reality ensures that All-Xanu Public Security Office is always busy, on the hunt for contraband moving through the planet’s ports and channels of commerce. Drug trafficking is not the only issue with illicit substances on the planet, in the last decade and a half illegal drug usage has nearly tripled from where it was in 2455 and the cause is debated among Xanans. Some say it is because of the economic troubles that Xanu and the rest of the spur at large have had in recent years, driving people to use illicit substances to cope, while others state that the cause can be pinned on the recent uptick of refugees and immigrants, specifically Vysokan ones, that have flowed to the planet looking for work or sanctuary from conflict. Others still have blamed the decay of Xanan family bonds under the strain of increasing economic hardship as a cause of the crisis. Whatever the cause, in 2461 Prime Minister Fabian Chatterjee declared the rising usage of drugs a public health emergency and called upon the Public Safety Office, the Health Office, and corporations operating on Xanu Prime to commit more resources to stopping its spread. Support for cracking down on illegal drug trafficking and increasing funding to programs and facilities focusing on sobriety and addiction treatment has seen support across Xanu’s political parties and drug usage rates have slowed in their rise since the emergency was declared, though it is unclear if these measures will be effective in the long term.

==Xanan Cultural Customs, Values, and Communication Habits==
The Xanan culture is a collectivist one with some caveats. Societally, Xanans see individuals as important pieces to a greater whole, but place importance more on what is good for society rather than what empowers the individual. This is not so say that Xanans see individuality as moot, in fact many Xanans are perhaps some of the strongest advocates for individual rights and protections from the government and society within the Coalition, but this is all done with the caveat that individual freedoms should never disproportionately harm or disadvantage society and that an individual should be obligated to sacrifice what they may want or what may be important to them if it is seen as essential to promoting a greater good. This rationale is a growth from Xanan family culture, one which places a great deal of importance on respect, cohesion, and hierarchy.

===Xanan Family Culture===
The family is perhaps one of if not the most dominant cultural institution over any given Xanan’s life. The traditional Xanan family places a great amount of importance on how one fits into the family and expects children to respect their parents and elders and obey them on familial and some personal matters, even after childhood due to the idea of age equating to wisdom. In return for the obedience of their children, parents and elders in the Xanan family are expected to be able to explain to younger family members why they’ve made the decisions they have, so that the juniors of the family do not feel as if they are being taken advantage of. Gender roles are flexible in Xanan families, however women typically maintain the household and work part-time while men work full-time jobs, though this is by no means universal. The elderly are extremely important in the Xanan family, with elderly individuals being seen as sources of knowledge and inspiration who should be consulted by younger members of the family for advice during troubled times or when making big life decisions. Elders are also expected to handle the early childcare and religious education of their family’s children, however the former of these responsibilities is not as essential as it once was due to the Xanan government’s implementation of free childcare for children under the age of five. It is for an elderly person’s children or grandchildren to take care of them and allow them to live with them from after their retirement until they die, and refusing to do this is seen as a great betrayal and is heavily frowned upon in Xanan society. A negative effect of having such large families however is that inheritances, especially those of wealthier relatives, often can result in disappointment and messy intrafamily legal battles over securing a relative’s estate and assets.

Individuals are celebrated within the Xanan family structure, but individuality as a concept is not encouraged, and family bonds are often seen as a key component to the personal identity of any Xanan. This can occasionally result in more independently-minded members of families being ostracized by their kin, however, Xanan family culture usually supports that a family should welcome back those who become estranged from the family and work to make them feel a part of the unit once again and not hold grudges. Whether this is always adhered to though, is often up to the individual families themselves. It is not uncommon for multiple generations of families to live under the same roof, or even multiple extensions of a family to do the same. Any given Xanan household may have children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, grandaunts, or granduncles residing in the same household. This mindset extends to individual living situations as well. Children often do not move out of their parent’s households unless for university or work until they are in their mid-to-late twenties or even thirties; there’s no expectation for Xanan children to move out at any age so long as they still contribute to the household. However, many young Xanans do move out and live apart from their families if they are committing to a serious romantic relationship with someone or if a job opportunity arises. Family culture dictates that geographical distance from the family be a consideration in if a person accepts a job, however most families are generally encouraging of their members seeking out lucrative job opportunities because it is viewed as something that will be a net positive to the family as a whole. Related to this, Xanans working abroad often maintain very close relationships to their families, even across generations.

An individual’s choices are supposed to be embraced and supported by their family members unless the family believes the decisions to be truly destructive to the family or individual; they cannot be discouraging simply because they personally disagree with the choices because doing so would place a personal opinion or prejudice above what may be best for the family. Families are expected to be strong support systems for their members and it is common for large families to offer housing, financial assistance, and emotional support to their members in times of need. Some families have embraced this bond and applied it to business, with some of the largest companies on Xanu Prime being family-run as a result. Xanu’s richest and most powerful families are referred to as “Forvamshons” and they are typically large players in the planet’s politics and business spheres. This attitude has occasionally led to corruption scandals, but generally it is seen that enriching one’s family by hurting the rest of society is unfair, dishonorable and cause for great shame. Some Forvamshons are very elusive and shy away from the public eye, while others are very public and have celebrity statuses. The foremost of these families often have private security details provided by the PMCG, Idris Incorporated, or Chevauchée Asset Protection and live in luxurious high-security compounds which house the entire family.

Marriages are seen as not just a special bond between two people but a union between two families and a commitment between them to work together. Because of this collective view on familial culture, arranged marriages are not uncommon on Xanu Prime though they have slowly become less prevalent since the 2430’s. Same-sex marriages are not frowned upon in Xanan culture however same-sex couples are expected to adopt children to continue the family lineage, much like how heterosexual couples are expected to have children. Polygamy is illegal on Xanu Prime and polyamorous relationships do not have any form of legal recognition. Though not illegal, Xenophilia is societally frowned upon on Xanu Prime because of long held beliefs that the family structures of other species are incompatible with human ones making relationships between Humans and Aliens fruitless and selfish, therefore hurting one’s family.

Death and customs around it are tied deeply to Xanan family culture, as the death of a person is not just seen as the death of an individual but a loss of a member of an entire family. Burial and cremation are both common during Xanan funerals with customs varying some between the planet’s various religions. Common between all of them though, families will either have their bodies buried in adjacent plots to one another or will keep the ashes of deceased family members in a single, large urn holding the ashes of most if not all of the family’s deceased relatives. During burials, it is a common practice for the deceased’s family to throw dirt, flowers, and lit incense onto the casket as it is lowered into the ground. Another custom stemming from this is that when a person speaks of a deceased friend or relative, it is seen as respectful to make a small tossing motion with their hand or arm. During cremations, the deceased are often cremated alongside incense. Another common custom around death on Xanu Prime regardless of religion is that most Xanan homes will have a large logbook wrapped in black and white cloth called an “Afterlife Journal” in the home’s living room or other public area where family members are able to write down memories, sentiments, thoughts, or prayers about their deceased relatives and friends. Many see the theme of memorialisation that is very present in Xanan culture having stemmed from both the strong family ties Xanans have built along with the collective impact of the Interstellar War even some two-centuries later.
Dinnertime is perhaps the most important time of the day for any Xanan family, as it is when everyone in the household gets together. Rarely do families eat apart from one another unless their work schedules dictate they do so. Meals are shared around a large central table in the household and weekend dinners can last hours. Not only is food shared but music is played and games are enjoyed, usually board games like Checkers and Chess, or card games like Alutte or French Tarot. Meals are a happy time and it is considered to be an honor to be invited over to share a meal with a Xanan and their family. It is customary for a Xanan family grieving the loss of a loved one to leave a chair at the table empty for the spirit of the deceased for anywhere from two weeks to two months after their passing and provide them food and drink as if they were still living as an act of remembrance and appreciation for their family member. This same gesture is also done two weeks to two months before the birth of a child if a family is expecting and it is instead seen as a show of excitement and optimism for new life. Many suspect the focus on meals in Xanan family culture to be the catalyst which has pushed Xanan cuisine to the upper echelons of high-class dining throughout the Orion Spur.

===Xanan Work Culture===
Xanan work culture is formalistic and hierarchical, tied into the planet’s strong sense of family, and can sometimes come off as hard to break into for outsiders. A traditional Xanan greeting for coworkers is a handshake accompanied by a light bow. Titles, rather than names, should be used with all coworkers, superior, equal-level, or inferior alike, unless the two coworkers are close friends. Small talk is appreciated, and asking after the family of a business partner is usually how most business meetings start. Xanans pride themselves on professionalism and often view their companies as a stand-in for the family outside of their real families, meaning they want to represent them well through professionalism and a strong public image while not bringing shame to them through misconduct or crassness. Superiors are expected to be respectful and formal, but friendly with those under them and coworkers are expected to execute the orders of their superiors without question and then raise grievances with their overseers when the act is done unless they believe the situation is truly disastrous. Businesswear is formal, usually consisting of a suit and tie or cravat for men and a dress or blouse and skirt for women or a uniform for either. Casual dress while on the job is not welcomed in Xanan society and is seen as immature and juvenile, likewise excessive make-up or jewelry in a work setting is seen as distracting and putting more of a focus on one’s personal appearance than the business matter itself, regardless of the person’s gender. However, dyed hair, and minimal tattoos, especially those that are covered by standard work clothing are accepted. Xanan business meetings are multifaceted, with meetings between managers and higher-up officials in companies usually being very logical, low-key, and methodical with great emphasis placed on the abilities of either side to debate one another. This has led to the term “debate” becoming synonymous with “business meeting” on Xanu Prime. If associates know each other well though, meetings can be very emotionally charged and spritied for better or worse, filled with either happiness and achievement, or anger and sadness.

Trust built through continuous face-to-face interaction are essential in Xanan business; Xanans will base their decisions on trust and intuition as much as if not more than data and statistics. It is not uncommon for a Xanan to request a meeting in person rather than communicating through holocall, telephone, messengers, or holomail, as personal relationships and connections drive much of Xanan business culture. and because these relationships take time to cultivate and are placed on the same level of importance as close, platonic friendships, it can sometimes be a culture shock for foreigners doing business with Xanans even if the Xanans themselves are quite happy to do business with foreigners. It is considered insulting to discuss business over meals and alcohol is usually not served during Xanan business functions or consumed while on the clock. Hard work is admired, but Xanans generally view workaholism as a selfish trait that makes a person disrespectful to their family by cutting into family time. It is considered poor form to schedule an important meeting in the month of August in the northern hemisphere or the month of February in the southern hemisphere, as these are the respective months usually reserved for summer vacation. This has led to the emergence of the sarcastic phrases, "I'll get to it in August," and "I'll get to it in February," both meaning that a person doesn't care about doing something. As a continuation of this, holidays and vacation days are strictly forbidden for business contacts to speak with one another unless the topic of conversation is not work-related and evenings are similarly off-limits as they are often reserved for family time. Coworkers should bring gifts or cards to one another when they return from business trips or holidays and doing so is considered a gesture of appreciation and goodwill towards one's peers as well as a sign of continued commitment to their workplace even after a vacation. Snacks and sweets, knick-knacks, cookware, and hand-written poems are gifts that would not seem out of place in a Xanan office after vacation season.

===Xanan Communication Habits and Social Norms===
Generally speaking, Xanans are friendly, yet polite to strangers and are typically not confrontational with people they do not have a prior relationship with such as friendship, family, or a long business partnership. This has led to foreigners often noticing an indirect style of communication among Xanans, as being very direct about certain matters to strangers is considered rude. It is for this reason that Xanans will often say “Maybe,” or “Perhaps,” as an indirect response in place of “No,” because they do not wish to directly disappoint, and thereby offend a stranger if something is asked of them, though a far more direct style of communication is used in some parts of Xanan society, namely by those in the military, police, or security industries. Good manners are a staple in Xanan communication and are usually only eschewed between close friends or family members. It is considered proper for a person in a higher position of power or standing in a company or family to give unsolicited advice to those beneath them, but rude for advice to be given the other way around unless asked for. Politics are expected to not be talked about in casual conversation unless they are related to the subject matter at hand or between friends. Social norms dictate that a Xanan generally should not want to impose their beliefs upon others, especially strangers, unless something someone else says contradicts something said Xanan believes, in which case a civil, if spirited political discussion may ensue. Xanan society is one that eschews the use of violence to solve disputes, and holds a pacifistic ethos that cements that one should only use force in the defense of oneself and others, however naturally, not all on Xanu Prime abide by these morals. Moreover, there is an expectation in Xanan society that people can, should, and will compromise with one another for the sake of preserving societal unity, order, and peace, with stubbornness in working out an agreement with one another being seen as a selfish trait. Finally, Xanans value the collective. Whether that is a family, company, crew of a ship, social circle, country, or other unit, Xanan social norms dictate that a good Xanan is one who will act in the best interests of something “bigger than themselves,” while using his or her unique individual qualities to best help themselves and the people around them who they care about.

===Religion===
Xanu Prime has no official religion, and in an effort to prevent conflict over religion or accusations of government favoritism, the government has a series of official secularism laws. They vary in specificity, but broadly they prohibit any person working for or affiliated with the state including anyone from politicians to police officers to public school teachers from displaying any religious iconography, dress, or artifacts on their person or in their workplace while they are on the job. This has drawn criticism from some elements of Xanan society which see these rules as an infringement upon religious liberty, especially from those who take religious dressage as an integral part to their faith, but the government has remained firm in their beliefs that the state will not expose or impose anyone to any one religion over another. Despite these laws, the Xanan government is not opposed to working with religiously-affiliated organizations like charities due to the laws prohibiting only the state itself from representing a religion, not engaging with it.
Xanan people as a whole vary in religiosity with both very progressive and orthodox interpretations of the various faiths found on the planet being practiced. The diverse backgrounds of the planet’s original colonists and immigrants since its colonization mean that nearly any religion can be found here. The largest however, in order of practitioners are, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sunni Islam. Smaller faiths like Luceism, Stolitism, Jainism, Sikhism, and even Moroz Holy Tribunalism can be found here, the latter of which is practiced almost exclusively by the Fisanduhian immigrant community. A significant portion of Xanan society is irreligious as well. Xanu Prime is well known across the Orion Spur for some of its examples of religious architecture, the most outstanding examples of which being the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, the Patali-Ram temple, and the Crystal Lights mosque.

==Food and Drink==
===Food===
Xanan cuisine has garnered a carefully cultivated reputation around the Orion Spur as perhaps some of the finest in human space. It is in a sense, a fusion between the cuisines of its most prominent colonizing cultures, French, Indian, Pakistani, and those of the BeNeLux. While certainly diverse, it is known most for being both simultaneously spicy, but not hot, with different spices adding highlights and emphasis to whatever notes in the palette the chef so chooses, and savory with a mouth-watering richness that lasts long after the first bite of whatever the food might be. This reputation precedes it, and expert Xanan chefs and cooks are some of the most revered in the culinary industry for their mastery of their crafts.

Arguably the most famous human celebrity chefs alive, '''Cléophe & Lonnie D’Cruz''', a married power-couple in the Xanan food world, were both born and raised on Xanu Prime. Their combined adventurousness in the culinary industry with endeavors both inside and outside their chain of fine restaurants has garnered both them and Xanan cuisine a spotlight few planets’ food cultures can match. The couple met while attending a small culinary school in the city of Foy-Nijlen, fell in love, and then combined their skills to open what would be their first restaurant in their well-known fine-dining chain, '''Solstice Xanan Bistro'''. Marriage followed shortly after, and the two have been together at the forefront of the Xanan food world ever since. While they are married to one another, the duo’s personalities are distinctly different, something often accentuated for the camera. Cléophe is known for their generally supportive and encouraging personality who wishes to simply share the joy of cooking with the world and has written dozens of best-selling cookbooks to that end. They are also well-known for their appearances on Holovision shows and Holonet videos giving tutorials on how to make some of the D’Cruz’s most well-known recipes in a basic kitchen; it wouldn’t be unfair to say that an entire generation of Xanan home-cooks were taught by Cléophe D’Cruz. Lonnie, however is far more of a chef’s chef who adheres to very strict professional and artistic standards, something he extols through his appearances on cooking competition shows, often played up to be a very cold and perfectionistic critic. Despite this reputation, he much like his spouse, is also committed to educating people on Xanan culinary arts and to that end is the President and, along with Cléophe, co-owner of the D’Cruz Culinary Academy, a culinary school which while only ten years old, has quickly risen to be one of the most competitive on the planet.

While Xanan cuisine is diverse and constantly reinventing itself, the dishes characteristically include some kind of meat, most often chicken, beef, or shellfish, paired with greens like beans, asparagus, or broccoli, or a starch like potatoes and something characteristic of almost all Xanu dishes, long-grain aromatic basmati rice, typically grown on the hilly territory surrounding the upper Naya Khyber river. Spices like cumin, black pepper, coriander, cloves, cardamom, and garam masala are ubiquitous throughout Xanan cooking, and often find themselves as part of exceptionally rich and creamy white sauces made from milk, butter, salt, and eggs. Pork is not as popular as a meat on Xanu Prime as others are, given the prohibition on eating it from Xanu’s original Muslim colonists and its perceived uncleanliness that Xanu’s original Hindu colonists held as well. Some Hindus also choose to not eat beef, and as such, many of Xanu’s restaurants have an option to serve synthmeat or a vegan meat substitute instead of actual beef in their beef-dishes. The most consumed alcohol on Xanu Prime by far is beer, often made in the Belgian tradition brought to the planet by some of its original colonists. Brandy comes in second and third, and wine is also popular too, but is more associated with fine dining than it is with a drinking experience alone. Xanan cognac and armagnac brandies have drawn the ire of some in the European Union on Earth because it uses the labels of “cognac” and “armagnac" despite not being produced in the Charente, Charente-Maritime, or Armagnac regions of France, though Xanan producers have paid these complaints no heed.

Some notable Xanan dishes include:
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'''Steak Xanu'''
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As the name implies, '''Steak Xanu''' is a steak, and is typically pan-fried rather than grilled. Usually it is strip steak as opposed to coming from any other part of the cow, but any cut of beef can be made in the Xanan style. The secret comes in what the beef is cooked with. Before the strip goes into the pan it is left to marinate in a warm broth traditionally made from chicken stock, cardamom, and garlic for flavor and is then lathered all over with a light coating of ghee right before it meets the pan in order to give its outside a crunchy, slightly singed crust. The steak is cooked to medium rare as it is basted in its own juices along with butter, rosemary, and a very light touch of cayenne powder. After it is cooked to a medium rare, it is taken out of the pan and left to rest for a few minutes before being dashed with a cooked sour, cream sauce, often simply called “beef sauce” made from heavy cream, olive oil, whisked egg yolks, and citrus or mango powder. Black pepper is cracked over the top, and the dish is served. Some of Xanu Prime’s Hindu population refuses to eat this dish, however chicken can be cooked in a very similar way and is typically referred to as “Bird Steak” by the Xanan culinary community. It is the official dish of the city of Nouvelle-Rochelle, Xanu’s Capital.
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'''Pataliputra Curried Rice'''
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An mainstay dish and one sure to be found on almost any Xanan dinner table, '''Pataliputra Curried Rice''', often just called Xanu Curry by foreigners, is a twist on the typical curry recipe that originated in the port city of Pataliputra. It is a yellow curry that uses peanuts as one of its main ingredients, giving it a signature nuttiness that mixes quite well with the dish's spices. Where it differs from a traditional curry though, is that its sauce is made from two parts, one of which is a buttermilk-garlic-onion powder base that is very thick and holds in the flavor of the spices and vegetables put into the sauce, while the other is a very light, chicken-based velouté sauce made from combining chicken bone broth with a light, typically but not always, salted blond roux to give the sauce some substance. When the two sauces combine, they make for an exceptionally savory base upon which spices like ginger, garam masala, coriander, fenugreek, and thyme can be added. Meats like chicken or shell-fish are often added to the sauce along with things like beans or potatoes. Rice used in this recipe is traditionally Xanan basmati rice. Every person and every city on Xanu Prime has their own slight variation on how they make this dish, but what is listed above is generally what could be expected when ordering it. It is the official dish of the city of Pataliputra.
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'''Naya Khyber Crozets''', or more informally River Crozets, is a dish that originated from the city of Foy-Nijlen and is one that makes use of the various animals caught off the city’s nearby ocean coast and also those found in the Naya Khyber river which runs through the city. The base of this pasta dish is a spicy tomato-basil-cayenne sauce with melted and dissolved Naya Khyber river penguin blubber mixed into the sauce in place of a more traditional fat like butter, ghee, or olive oil. The pasta itself, the Crozets, are small rectangles which resemble something more akin to breakfast cereal in size and shape rather than a more noodly kind of pasta. The crozets are made from buckwheat, eggs, and flour, and are usually cooked al dente so as to retain a bit of firmness. Along with the pieces of pasta, river boiled lobster, fish, crab, or even river penguin meat is pan-fried with butter, rosemary, cardamom, coriander, and cloves before being put into the pasta usually in small bite-sized pieces. Black pepper is cracked over the dish and cumin is dashed over the meat and the dish is served in a heated stoneware bowl. It is the official dish of the city of Foy-Nijlen.
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The '''Bunker Buster Sandwich''' is perhaps the most famous example of Xanan street food. At its core, the dish can be used to refer to almost any toasted open-faced sandwich served on naan bread with over-easy eggs, fried vegetables, shredded cheese, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, and garam masala. In practice however, the six ingredients mentioned above are only the beginning of what a bunker buster might be, as really anything from meats to veggies to mushrooms can be put on the sandwich so long as it tastes good. It’s incredibly easy to make and traces its roots back to the reconstruction of the city of Kshatragarh shortly after the Interstellar War, starting as a quick and easy meal for construction workers to make as a lunch. Many of these workers lived in the city’s underground bunker complexes while above-ground housing was being rebuilt, leading to the sandwich’s name. It has since spread all over Xanu Prime, and a visitor to any given Xanan city is likely to find dozens of variations on this simple, long-time favorite food. It is the official dish of the city of Kshatragarh.
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'''Paaskraan Vindaloo''' is a dish originating in the city of Paastad, but can be found across the entire continent of Paasland. It is made from the meat of the large waterfowl, the Paaskraan, and is similar to the traditional preparation of vindaloo with one major exception: the meat is not cooked with the vindaloo paste and is only added at the end. Instead, the meat of the Paaskraan is pan-fried until fully cooked and is usually then seared in a sweet vanilla sauce to give it a crunchy, caramelized outer shell. After this process, it is added to the cooked vindaloo paste (cloves, cinnamon, cariander, cardamom, cumin, red peppers, ginger, mustard seeds, black pepper) and served over rice, as a crunchy and spicy meal. It is the official dish of the city of Paastad.
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The '''North 60 Sea Platter''' is less a single coherent dish and more an entire subsection of dishes based around the theme of seafood caught north of 60 degrees latitude. Himavatian sea salmon or arctic tuna, usually pan-fried in olive oil or smoked and served with lemon and black pepper, commonly forms the center of the dish with arctic crab legs or lobster tail sold off to the side paired with a creamy garlic sauce. Other components could include fried octopus and squid or freshly caught steamed shrimp. What makes the dish more than just a typical seafood platter is a special malt vinegar made specifically from ale brewed in the Xanan tradition with added apple and lemon juice. More budget friendly variations of this dish exist as well, such as ones that swap the pan-fried salmon or tuna for smaller, less expensive, deep-fried fish, the lobster and crab for shrimp, and are commonly found in Himavat City bars as a cheap, delicious option for a lunch or dinner. The food arrangement originated in the city and is its official dish.
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Not all food on Xanu Prime is within the realm of “fine dining” however. When not at the table for a full meal, the average Xanan can reach for any number of snack foods produced by Xanan companies. Many of these have become not just popular on Xanu Prime, but throughout the entire Coalition and beyond thanks to the aggressive marketing and economic dominance of Xanan shipping and food conglomerates.

===Drink===
Along with its food culture, Xanu Prime is renowned for some of the alcohol the planet produces as well. The planet’s main claim to fame in this area are in the spheres of beer, wine, and brandy. The planet has brewed beer since its founding, with the Xanan style of beer crafting having its roots in the Belgian-style brought to the planet by colonists from the BeNeLux itself. The most popular brand of beer on Xanu Prime is '''Prince Pallav Blonde Ale''', a golden concoction brewed in Foy-Niljen that has held dominance over the Xanu Beer market for the last two decades. This robustness in the brewing has brought the planet into a rivalry with the nearby planet of Himeo, the two of them both having proud beer-making heritages that often brings them to test this with each other. For the last decade and a half, brewers from the two planets have engaged in a festival called Hoptoberfest, a week-long celebration of the craft of brewing beer held every October complete with live music, authentic Xanan and Himean cuisine, and crucially for the craft brewers of both planets, competitions determining which beer is the best for that year. The festival changes venues from Paastad, Xanu Prime and Inverkeithing, Himeo every other year.
In addition to beer, Xanu Prime imported a strong wine culture from its original colonists, namely the French ones. Vineyards dot the Xanan countryside on every continent, with a few even on the southernmost peninsulas of Himavatia. The planet makes a wide variety of wine, though it is most notable for its own variety of Malbec grown in the mountains of Naya Khyber and Nouvelle-Occitanie called '''Khyberian Malbec'''. Where Xanu Prime’s wine truly shines though is not in the wine itself but in its use in fortified wine products like brandy and cognac. The unique climatological conditions of Foy-Niljen brandy country have led to the grapes grown there to be perfectly suited to making fortified wines and distilled wines, leading to their flavors to be pronounced but not overbearing up front with subtle, complex notes coming to the surface the more the drinker savors the beverage. The most noteworthy and popular drinks of this category are the mid-range priced '''2275''', a mainstay brandy of Xanan bars and kitchen cabinets alike, and '''Saint-James Black Label,''' the gold standard of Xanan luxury cognac. The national cocktail of the All-Xanu Republic is the '''Stag Hunt''', so named for its popularity on hunting trips and other outdoor activities during the summer. It is a simple drink made by mixing three parts brandy, typically 2275, one part lemon juice, and two parts chilled tea usually served over ice in a highball glass. Chai is the most consumed tea variety on Xanu Prime and the soft drink Xanu Rush is also very popular on the planet.

==Arts and Entertainment==
===Visual Art===
Xanan visual arts are vast and have an uncountable number of movements and subgenres. Generally, though, Xanan artworks are reflective pieces and try to examine the human condition rather than focus on the form by which the artwork expresses itself. Xanan visual arts have been heavily influenced by the original Western European cultures which settled the planet and as such, drawing and painting are the most prevalent forms of Xanan art. Sculpture that has been inspired by South Asian cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are also prevalent, however. The most famous and well-known movement of Xanan art is often called the Atman Movement and it lasted from the 2340’s until the 2390’s. Most art scholars consider it an offshoot of Symbolism and Neoclassicism but with noticeable existential elements. Pieces of the movement hold an almost ethereal aesthetic, and usually feature elements like fanciful Greco-Roman or Indian ruins, ruins that aren’t even found on Xanu Prime, bright, vibrant colors contrasted by dark backdrops, and esoteric spiritual imagery sourced from Xanu Prime’s three largest religions. The goal of all of this, in the words of the Xanan master painter Arnold Vasudevan, a key figure in the movement, is, “To imagine Humanity and the human condition as if we could breach the barrier between this world and the next with our own hearts and achieve revelation and clarity through the beauty within and without our souls and the world around us.” An offshoot of this movement referred to as Wartime Atman replaces the ruins of classical civilisations with scenes of wartime destruction found on Xanu Prime during the days of the Interstellar War and is meant to make the viewer reflect on things like conflict and mortality. The most famous piece of visual artwork of the Atman Movement and arguably of all Xanan visual art is called “The Truce" by Harini Martin. It is a colossal mural of a painting that is four meters tall and ten meters wide which depicts the ghosts of dozens of fallen Xanan and Solarian soldiers enjoying leisure time and doing activities like enjoying meals with one another, idly talking, showing each other photographs, and playing games and sports with one another over the backdrop of a desolate Interstellar War era battlefield in what used to be a Xanan city. The sky around the edges is a dark color, however in the center of the painting’s sky is a brilliant white, alabaster, pink, and red halo that shines light on the entire painting. It was unveiled to the public at the All-Xanu Eloise Brel Art Gallery, Xanu Prime’s national art gallery, in 2387 as part of a ceremony to commemorate one-hundred years of peace with the Solarian Alliance and has remained a permanent fixture in the museum since. Notable Xanan sculptures include Our Lady of Sorrows, a giant statue of the Virgin Mary included in the Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, and Skyward Unity, a large sculpture commemorating the elevation of Paastad.

===Architecture and Cityscapes===
The traditional Xanan style of architecture can be described as a hybridization of various styles of design from the Indian subcontinent and Western Europe, much like the origins of the planet’s original colonists. Xanan buildings usually have some form of artistic design on their exteriors, even if it’s as simple as a basic tile weave around entrances or semi-ornate molding around windows. Many have lines drawn on the outside in paint or sculpted on, and Xanan buildings are usually painted with bright, if mellow, colors if they are painted at all. Most Xanan buildings are taller than they are wide and long, courtesy of the planet’s re-urbanisation plans after the Interstellar War and because buildings in most urban areas are taxed based on how much land they take up. Most Xanan buildings have some form of accoutrement around their roofs, usually being a modest carving or bust of a family’s ancestor if it’s a house or a historical or religious figure, representing the theme of memorialisation found elsewhere in Xanan culture. The roofs themselves of most Xanan buildings are usually vaulted or occasionally are domed or flat. Larger, more modern buildings like skyscrapers on Xanu Prime have a distinctive half-sloping-roof look pioneered during the beginning of Xanu’s economic resurgence during the mid 2330s. Originally implemented as a cost-saving measure to make a building that still looked tall but didn’t need to have as much office space, the half-sloped roof or “Xanan Roof” style of skyscraper has part of the building’s roof flat and level with the ground while another portion of it slopes downwards. This style of design has become emblematic of Xanu Prime and even the newest skyscrapers on the planet are built with this design in mind, despite its economical origins. Xanan buildings are made from a variety of materials, with the few-surviving pre-war structures being made from wood, brick, and steel while commercial and industrial buildings built after the Interstellar War are made from concrete, steel, and glass with plaster or clay facades. Individual houses are still mostly made from wood or brick, however. Sizes and shapes of Xanan residences vary, with some being modest single-family homes typical of other places within the spur. Multi-story townhouse complexes surrounding a single communal courtyard are common in urban areas and are often inhabited by entire extended families. In more densely populated areas, large communal apartments built for extended families are common, though some wealthier families have pursued a policy of “Co-flooring,” a type of retail arrangement where an entire extended family will rent out an entire floor of traditional single-family apartments from a property agency. Some buildings on Xanu Prime play very heavily into inspiration from the planet’s original cultures and would not look out of place in South Asia or Western Europe, though buildings built like those are in the minority of Xanu Prime’s structures.

The last notable architectural feature found in many Xanan cities are residual walls and gun emplacements left over from the Xanan Civil War. Of Xanu’s six major cities, only three, Nouvelle Rochelle, Pataliputra, and Foy-Niljen have them still, with Kshatrigarh’s being destroyed beyond repair during the Interstellar War and Paastad’s torn down during the city’s elevation, lest they sink into the swamp. Himavat City never had walls, as it was too small of a community to have built them during the Xanan Civil War. The walls proved useful during both of the planet’s most devastating conflicts, acting as barriers to outsiders and platforms for return fire, but due to the gargantuan cost of operation and maintenance, the walls and their gun emplacements were decommissioned in the 2310s as a part of the Sneijders Government’s economic recovery plans. Today, the walls stand as partially restored massive memorial complexes dedicated to those who fought and died during both the Xanan Civil War and Interstellar War, with some cities having sections of wall filled with the names of those who died during the conflicts from those respective cities.

Xanan cities are generally filled with greenery as both a measure to keep temperatures down during the summer and simply provide Xanans with natural beauty even in the most urban of places. Large public transit networks consisting mostly of subway systems and tramways are found in almost every Xanan city and most of those who live in the urban cores of Xanan cities do not own automobiles, while Xanans who live in the country, suburbs, and smaller cities have a higher percentage of car ownership. The most common way to get around on Xanu Prime however is by bike or motorbike; Xanu Prime has the most bikes per capita of any planet in the Orion Spur, even beating out the Solarian population hubs of Callisto and New Hai Phong. Generally speaking, Xanan cities are walkable and do not require an automobile to move around efficiently, and some Xanan cities have banned the construction of freeways and overpasses entirely in order to preserve their cities’ “authentic landscapes.”

===Literature===
Xanan literature has cemented itself around the institution of “The Great Novel,” something often defined in Xanan culture as a work of literary art that has captured the essence or soul of the Xanan struggle and of the planet’s people through the usage of compelling stories and multifaceted characters. Novels written in the Xanan style usually have psychological and spiritual themes and use supernatural or otherwise fantastical elements to explore Xanan the human condition, usually in surreal or otherwise unorthodox methods. Xanan novels are typically not adapted into films as is seen elsewhere in the Orion Spur due to Xanan movie-going audiences preferring musicals and epics instead, but they have become popular as holovision shows, stageplays, and miniseries.

Some notable works of Xanan Literature are:
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====Gloam in Gold====
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It is hard to understate the importance and influence of Foy-Niljen writer Arif Hugo’s 2345 masterpiece Gloam in Gold in the Xanan literary canon. The text, while short for a novel, is considered to be not just a seminal work of Xanan writing but also quite possibly the greatest novel ever written in the Freespeak language, despite its unorthodox, almost anthological structure. It is set in 2296 during the initial reconstruction of the city of Kshatrigarh and focuses on the character Madhar Emond, a Kshatrapur native and veteran of the Interstellar War now working to rebuild the battered city during the aftermath of the terrible conflict. His life isn’t a glamorous one and he spends most of his days doing hard, construction labor, digging paving roads, working on buildings, and the like. One day on his way home from work, he stops by one of the city’s many large cemeteries to rest and watch the sunset, however shortly after his arrival he lays down in the grass and begins to hear voices around him. He’s alerted by these and denounces them as hallucinations at first as he sees no one around who could be speaking to him, yet as the sun sets further below the horizon, he realizes that there is some coherence through the voices and that they are in fact, the voices of the dead, fully aware of their condition yet unable to move on to the afterlife.

Madhar listens in to their conversations for a moment and is eventually confronted by the voice of one of the deceased, one Missus Pandit, an elderly woman who died of old age before the city was besieged. She acts as a sort of a guide who explains the dispositions of each of the ghosts present, and each part of the novel tells a story of a different spirit inhabiting the cemetery proceeding in the order of Missus Pandit herself, and then to Mister Quint and Miss Jessup, a young Himean immigrant couple who perished together from starvation during the siege and seem to be resigned to their fates, and recount their lives from Himeo and their immigration to Xanu before the war broke out, their desperation during the siege, and now their dead, yet still loving existence of being with each other even in death. Madhar’s conversation with the couple is interrupted by the voice of Marcus Thevar, a rich and vulgar middle-aged businessman.

Marcus refuses to reveal how he died and seems to be entirely preoccupied with finding a drink and scoring some action from the cemetery’s various young female ghosts, one “Miss Periwinkle” foremost among them. Miss Periwinkle’s gravestone has been defaced, though she looks to be buried in the plot next to Thevar, much to her dismay. She’s the spirit of a young, pious woman with a noticeable Lunan accent who claims to have died from tuberculosis during the siege. She refuses to say her real name and repeatedly breaks from talking to Madhar to fend off verbal advances from Thevar, before quietly lamenting to Madhar that her days of being confined to the mortal plane despite being dead and needing to routinely reject the, “slovenly attempts at romance,” by her neighbor is God’s unique choice of purgatory for herself. Despite this, even in this “purgatory” she finds some joy in acting as an almost motherly figure to Patrice, the ghost of a five-year old child who doesn’t know how he died but according to Miss Periwinkle, seems to have abruptly perished in the aftermath of the siege after naively playing with unexploded ordnance he found a local park’s sandbox. Miss Periwinkle parts with Madhar after claiming she needs to tend to the child, and her voice fades away.

After this, the story shifts to that of Private Hendriks, a solemn Xanan infantryman who was killed during the battle and laments that he will never be able to return home to his mother and Lieutenant Ma, a Solarian bomber pilot who was shot down over the city during a night raid and is a conflicted character. She is racked by the guilt of possibly killing innocent civilians yet reminisces on what a still-united Sol Alliance might have looked like without the carnage and in his words, “tragedy” of the Interstellar War. Hendriks and Ma seem to spend most of their days now arguing with each other, the conflict lingering on past their deaths, much to the annoyance of the cemetary’s other inhabitants.

Lastly, Madhar is spoken to by the voice of a young woman, a teenager named Penelope, who brokenly and through a voice characterized by sounding as if she’s on the verge of tears, tells Madhar that her body is in fact, not even buried within the cemetery at all, but that her body instead lies buried beneath a new road built on the graveyard’s northern edge and sulks to him that nobody will ever remember her or who she was since there’s nothing to mark her grave. Madhar, heartbroken in this discovery, realizes that he was part of the crew that paved that very road and profusely apologizes to Penelope for spoiling any chance she might have ever had with a proper burial and claims that it was done in the name of progress for the city and for Xanu Prime. Penelope’s voice rejects this and breaks into tears, repeating the fact that nobody will remember her or who she was, but eventually she is soothed by Madhar’s assurances that he will remember her and that he’ll never forget that she lived and died in the city. Seemingly consoled, Penelope thanks Madhar before her voice too fades away and leaves him in silence, the sky now dark. He makes his way home in solemn, quiet contemplation, thinking about the various spirits he’s heard over the last few hours and once again questions if it was even real. When he gets home to a modest, quickly built apartment, he resolves to himself that whether what he heard was real or not, he cannot forget the past even in pursuit of the future.
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====The Screen Behind the Mirror====
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'''The Screen Behind the Mirror''', written in 2419 by the second-generation Fisanduhian Xanan writer Elanea Chatfield, is another one of Xanu Prime’s great novels. It’s a semi-autobiographical story, taking some elements from Chatfield’s own life and putting them into the events of the plot. It is also is a very spiritual text, having references, symbols of, and allusions to the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Tribunalist Scripture, and Luceian holy texts throughout to help convey its themes of residual trauma, destruction and rebirth, and enlightenment.

This semi-autobiographical story follows the experience of a young accountant named Demitra during a camping trip out to the remote New Pacific Scarlands for some time away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The story’s structure is unorthodox and the chapters bounce between describing her current experience in the scarlands, and recounting flashbacks to her childhood growing up as a Fisanduhian refugee in a diverse community of Xanan and Assunzionii-Xanans on Xanu Prime. The story in the present is a tale of survival that begins after Elanea’s camping group has a car crash on a back-country road with her being the only surviving member. Much of her food and shelter perished in the blaze and she’s left to fend for herself in the forest and crater lake-filled wilderness around her. She manages to build herself some crude shelter, but during her first night in the wilderness, she’s awoken by a bright ray of light reflecting off of what she can only describe as a large phantasmagorical mirror levitating just outside the border of her crude encampment. In the mirror she sees her own reflection, but not as she is now, but rather how she was as a child at ten years old.

The book then cuts to her life as a ten year old, going over Demitra’s seemingly mundane memories of living in a low-income, almost ramshackled home with her Fisanduhian refugee family in Nouvelle Rochelle, setting the scene for the reader and introducing them to the characters of Demitra’s concerned, yet judgemental mother, silent and stoic father, whiny younger brother, and somewhat detached and aloof older sister over a standard family dinner. This scene ends and we are brought back into the present, the next morning, where upon waking, Demitra discovers that the mirror still resides outside of her camp. When she leaves to forage for food and tries to hunt something with a hatchet she was able to retrieve from the car crash, the mirror silently follows her, always levitating behind her just out of reach. Throughout the novel, the plot switches between this story of survival, following Demitra’s struggles to build a fire, fish, and hunt, and her childhood memories, with the line between the two becoming increasingly blurred as her situation becomes more and more desperate. She sees apparitions of her childhood friends and her deceased father walking around as if it was the most normal thing in the world, calling out to her yet never responding to her words. The memories become less and less pleasant as time goes on, with the phantom mirror showing her family fights, tough times in school with childhood bullies, and the deaths of family members all while her situation in reality, struggling in the wilderness becomes more and more dire.

The story climaxes with Demitra screaming her frustrations at the mirror in the wee hours of the morning, venting her frustrations to it and breaking down into tears while explaining her feeling on herself in detail to the mirror, stating that she knows she’s at her core a broken person but that despite all that the mirror has shown her she is only motivated to survive in the remote wilderness of the scarlands. Her flaws and trauma have only informed her more of her humanity, and she finishes this monologue with the line, “I’ve survived fucking everything else so far, I am not dying alone out here no matter how hard you try to make me want to!” Ever silent, the mirror remains but grows blindingly bright, so much so that the forest itself begins to smolder and catch fire from the phantasmagorical brilliance it emits. Struggling to cover herself from the light, Demitra covers her eyes but is directed by some voice, “Come and see, and behold, She who is all that is, ever was, and will be.” As she feels her very skin begin to burn and peel away from the mirror’s light, Demitra takes a metaphorical leap of faith and opens her eyes, no longer seeing the mirror but an eye made from flames staring right at her, blacking out and collapsing soon afterwards. In perhaps the most notable section of the novel, the page after Demitra’s collapse is entirely blank except for one sentence placed in the middle of the page: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.”

The plot picks up on the next page there with a jump to Demitra regaining consciousness in the back of a rescue VTOL-craft, surrounded by paramedics on a steady flight to a hospital. Demitra asks the medics on the craft with her how they found her and they confusedly reply that a signal mirror was flashing an S.O.S signal at a passing shuttle and it was reported to them, and remark they thought it was Demitra herself who’d sent the signal. She makes it safely to a hospital in a small country town and the story ends with her looking out onto the reflection of a moonlit lake, contemplating what she saw and asking herself how she possibly could still be alive.

The Screen Behind the Mirror has stood the test of time as a venerable pillar of Xanan literature since its publication nearly fifty years ago. The book saw some controversy upon its initial release however, with some more conservative voices in Xanu Prime’s various religious organizations calling it a sacreligious text with some even calling for the book to be burned en masse. The Morozian Holy Tribunal in the Empire of Dominia has banned the sale of the book within Dominian space, a fact that its author Elena Chatfield wears with pride and its publishing company has used to boost sales of the book within the Coalition and Republic of Elyra. This controversy has been eclipsed in the Xanan public eye by its literary brilliance however and it remains popular today among all demographics on the planet. It has been famously hard to adapt to a holovision show however, with all four attempts never getting past the preproduction stage or falling apart during production and has been referred to as a "cursed" story by those in the entertainment industry for that reason.
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====MMCDXLII====
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A fine example of the recently popular Xanan science fiction tradition, '''MMCDXLII''' (pronounced as 2442) by Kshatrigarh writer Jakob Rajeev is an alternate history science fiction novel published in 2442 set in a alternate timeline where Xanu Prime was blasted from orbit by Solarian forces during the Interstellar War and sent into a perpetual nuclear winter similar to how Gadpathur was in reality. The setting of the story is the city of Khairabad, or at least what is left of it. Before the bombardment of the planet took place, roughly 10,000 of the city’s inhabitants retreated underground into the vast bunker complexes residing below. Believing that they are the only people still left on Xanu Prime, the people of Khairabad have been steadily working towards the goal of reestablishing contact with the rest of the outside world. The plot follows Hridith, one of the few people in the ruins of Khairabad entrusted with the dangerous duty of venturing to the surface in order to scavenge the ruins of the dead city for supplies and clues which might help the people of Khairabad and by extension Xanu Prime as a whole, re-establish contact with the rest of the world. One day while scavenging above, he comes across an old military base which miraculously still has much of its telecommunications equipment in order, including an interstellar radio transmitter. Retreating back to the underground with his news, Hridith’s discovery kicks off a power-struggle and internal civil war within the bunkers of Khairabad as the various factions of the city vie over who should be the ones to contact the outside and by extension reap whatever benefits it may bring. Hridith falls into the game of politics and violence as members of the underground try to influence him for their own selfish aims all while he confronts his own guilt for having sparked this conflict in the first place with his discovery. Eventually, he resolves to destroy the array to stop those around him from killing each other in what he sees as a senseless war.

The book climaxes in a last stand between the soldiers of a local warlord and Hridith supported by his friends on the surface at the array where the story’s plot was put into motion. Just as Hridith is about to destroy the transmitter once and for all, he has a change of heart and, unbeknownst to any other Xanans, sends his own message out into the universe a phrase that has been immortalized in Xanan literary history: “SLEEPLESS ANGELS HAVE BLESSED US. XANU PREVAILS.” After this transmission, Hridith detonates the bombs on the transmitter and is killed in the subsequent explosion along with all of his friends, the warlord, and all of the warlord’s soldiers. The story ends on a vague note in a room tucked away in a Himean communication station with a prompt on a console reading, “TRANSMISSION RECEIVED.” MMCDXLII has been lauded as a cornerstone of the Xanan science fiction genre since its publication in 2442, with many critics seeing it as a parallel tale of sorts to the reality of the Xanan Civil War. The author, Jakob Rajeev, has gone on to write other novels since, but has moved away from the post-apocalyptic setting and advanced into writing sci-fi horror novels and space operas, marking MMCDXLII as a truly unique title in his portfolio. It has seen a successful, chart-topping holovision adaptation and a prequel series set in the world of MMCDXLII's post-apocalyptic Khariabad is currently in pre-production.
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===Film===
Xanu Prime is the entertainment capital of the Coalition and perhaps the largest contributor to this status is the Xanan film industry. Films made by Xanan studios have long proliferated across the Coalition since the end of the Interstellar War and are essential in any serious discussion about Xanan art and culture. While Xanu Prime’s directors have made films under almost every genre since the industry started to take off in the 2310’s, Xanan audiences have taken particularly well to dramas, musicals, and a genre of Xanan invention, the Interfilm. The Xanan film industry has an ongoing rivalry with its Solarian counterpart, especially that centered on Venus. Xanan productions typically do not have as big of budgets as their Venusian counterparts and are usually outclassed in terms of visual effects and and as such are sometimes limited in the kinds of stories and scenarios they can portray. Xanan films make-up for these deficiencies by instead focusing on things like writing and storytelling. The winner of this rivalry is up in the air, and different critics will give different answers, though it is almost always guaranteed that entries from Xanu Prime and Venus will compete against each other in the Spur’s biggest film festivals and awards ceremonies. The three largest genres of Xanan film are dramas, musicals, and an indigenous kind of war film created on Xanu Prime called Interfilm.

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Xanan dramas are often very introspective and personal pieces which focus on realistic problems often with relationships or with the world at large and typically involve the main protagonist or protagonists of the films confronting some kind of tragedy or trauma. A large portion of Xanan dramas are produced by independent filmmakers, something that Xanu Prime has become a hotspot for in the last half-century.

The most well known Xanan dramas is '''The Love Melancholic''', a 2424 four-hour long dramatic period-piece epic directed by Savitri de Graaf, a woman hailed as one of the best ever directors in Xanan film whose work has stood the test of time despite its age. The plot follows the life of a young woman, Roxanne, moving to Nouvelle-Rochelle during the reconstruction of Xanu Prime during the Second Astonishment looking to start a life for herself. While there, she’s met with the challenge of an accidental pregnancy and conflicting emotions over whether to abort the fetus or bring it to term, and eventually decides to have the child. The film then follows Roxanne's life through the next decade and a half as a working mother who finds success in her career but is lonesome aside from the company of her daughter, until she meets a newly-arrived Himean immigrant, Markus, on the train home from work and the two slowly begin to fall in love, though complications and difficulties in personality and circumstances plague their efforts to see the best in each other. The film ends not with a happily ever after ending, but with a tentatively optimistic, bittersweet scene of Markus and Roxanne, now both nearing middle age by this point in the film, agreeing to try and make their relationship work while acknowledging the flaws in one another. The film is a classic among Xanan and Himean audiences and won record-breaking numbers of awards and accolades when released. It has even seen popularity in some circles in the Solarian Alliance, Republic of Biesel, and Republic of Elyra. Many film critics consider it to be a cornerstone of Human cinematic history and the best Xanan film ever made, though this position is disputed by others.
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While Xanan-made dramas may be the most well-received critically of most Xanan films, by far the most popular among the Xanan filmgoing audience for the last few decades are musicals. Musicals made in the Xanan style are often high-budget, over-the-top, and exceptionally grand, showy affairs. They are famous for elements like their large choreographic sequences which can involve dozens of dancers, massive and brightly coloured sets, often romance-centered plots with comedic elements, and musical style which often takes musical instruments from Xanu Prime’s colonizing cultures and puts a pop musical spin on them. When one speaks of "Pataliwood," musicals are what come to mind first. Most Xanans do not put musicals on the same level as other films and see them as something to watch for pulpy entertainment and spectacle rather than for their serious artistic value, though they will obsess over them and their stories all the same. Xanan house parties typically involve the screening of a musical in the living room and songs from some of the genre’s classics have cemented themselves into the Xanan cultural canon.

A recent notable example of a musical made in the Xanan style is '''North 60''', a 2461 film directed by Sabine Venturino, that centers on a young man from Nouvelle-Rochelle named Peter who inherits a fortune from a long-lost deceased uncle who made it big in the record industry. Overjoyed, Peter claims the fortune but learns that he can only receive his riches on the condition that he moves to his dead uncle’s dilapidated estate on the outskirts of Himavat City and lives there for one year. Peter moves but upon arrival hates his arrangements; he cannot stand the cold, remote nature of the city, but soon finds joy in its culture and music scene. He also develops a romance with the daughter of a record executive, a girl named Priti. Unbeknownst to Peter though, Priti’s father Jeroen is Peter’s uncle’s former business partner and wants to get Peter to leave Himavat City so he can claim the young man’s fortune for himself, as per the uncle’s will. Hilarity and antics ensue. The film ends with Peter deciding to forgo his fortune and instead running away from Himavat City with his love Priti and starting a new life together in Foy-Nijlen. The film is the highest-ever grossing Xanan musical and won a series of awards as well, though it saw only limited popularity outside of the Xanan market. This is a theme among Xanan musicals: massive domestic success but only limited success abroad, the reasons for which are routinely debated by many within the Xanan film community.
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The last of Xanu Prime’s most popular movie genres is one of Xanan invention: the Interfilm. Interfilms are very long, often multipart war epics set during the Interstellar War, a conflict from which the genre gets its name. They often have ensemble casts and focus on a variety of viewpoints rather than a single protagonist. These films often showcase themes of tragedy associated with the Interstellar War and ennoble the sacrifice of the Xanan nation and individuals during the war. These films are very serious and are seen as a direct contrast to the Xanan Musical genre in tone and content.

A keystone of the Interfilm genre is the series '''Count the Days''', a pentalogy directed by Xanan journeyman director Pierre Duchesne totalling over sixteen hours in length, with its installments releasing in 2447, 2449, 2450, 2552, and 2454 respectively. The story at first follows an officer in the Xanan Army, Captain Paul Ibrahim, stationed around Pataliputra. He leads his company through a very bloody battle in which the majority of his men are killed, by the end of the battle, his unit is more or less completely wiped out and he’s reassigned to command a new company, one unlike any he’s seen before. He’s given command of Company Y, an all-female volunteer unit that hasn’t ever seen combat before and is dumbfounded at first due to his belief that a female unit wouldn’t fight as well as a male one. He however is told by his superiors that he risks demotion of he doesn’t take on the unit, so he begrudgingly agrees. The first movie follows Ibrahim’s efforts to help train and ready his new unit for combat while he and the audience get to know the women of Company Y. Throughout the film, his outlook on his troops begins to change, and he connects with them more as people, though he still does not think they have the mettle to withstand warfare. The film ends with the Company seeing its first taste of combat during the opening stages of the Siege of Khairabad and Company Y sustaining horrendous losses and being cut off from the rest of the Xanan army in Khairabad.

The second film takes place during the Siege of Khairabad proper, and is a tale of the fight for not just victory but survival as the remnants of Company Y fight their way through parts of the occupied city to link up with the rest of the Xanan forces trying to hold their ground against the encroaching Solarian forces. Throughout this struggle, the Company comes across enemies but also Xanan partisan fighters who link up with the Company and join them on their journey to reconnect with their lines. During this film, Captain Ibrahim has his opinion changed on the women he commands, and he comes to see them as strong soldiers regardless of their gender. The movie ends with the Company and their new partisan compatriots reconnecting with the rest of the Xanan force defending Khairabad.

The third installment of the series is not so action packed in comparison to the second one and is mostly centered on the members of Company Y recovering from the events of the first two films and grieving their fallen comrades while integrating the partisans from the second film formally into their ranks and is the only film in the series that does not have an action sequence. It ends with the company being resupplied and ready to once again take the fight to the enemy.

The fourth part of the series is often seen as the black sheep of the series and departs from the story of Company Y to instead focus on 6th Company, a Solarian unit from Mars participating on the other side of the Siege of Khairabad. 6th Company is led by Captain Emily Mikkelsen, an embittered veteran of the Interstellar War until this point who is concerned only with ensuring that the troops under her command stay alive and sees victory in the siege as a means to that end. Part 4 shows events from the parts 1 and 2 through the eyes of the Solarians, and goes to great ends in order to humanize them, with members of 6th Company being portrayed as people who believe in the ideal of a united humanity under the Sol Alliance but also as people who don’t see the war as theirs and who want to return home to their lives and families most of all. The film ends with 6th Company preparing to launch an assault against Xanan positions in the ruins of Khairabad.

The fifth and final installment of the Count the Days series begins with a dramatic battle sequence between Xanan and Solarian forces, with the attention split equally between Company Y and 6th Company during the fighting. During the carnage however, multiple members of Company Y and 6th Company become separated from their units and run into each other on the battlefield, with many dying to one another in heart-wrenching sequences that brought tears to many a Xanan filmgoers’ eyes. The two captains, Ibrahim and Mikkelsen, also encounter one another, but both having been wounded and exhausted by the fighting decide to sit inside of a bombed out building and try to recover their strength together. The two have a long conversation about their lives before the war and the people under their command, avoiding any conversation about either’s actual thoughts on the conflict and instead just treating each other as people rather than enemies. After further rumination and conversation, Ibrahim comes to the realization that his wounds are mortal and that he will likely die from them if he doesn’t receive medical attention and asks Mikkelsen to kill him so that he might die with honor. Mikkelsen protests at first, finding some difficulty in pulling the trigger on a man she’d just spent the better part of a half-an-hour getting to know, but eventually concedes and agrees, seeing it not as an act of anger, but of mercy for Ibrahim. She shoots him and then begins her trek out of the bombed out building, with the shot lingering on Ibrahim’s corpse for a good long few seconds, only for a team of Xanan medics to enter the building and find Captain Ibrahim’s body, just minutes after his death. The medics transport his corpse back to the Xanan lines where the rest of Company Y has regrouped, and they mourn the loss of their officer and friend in a dramatic, heart-crushing scene. The series ends with Captain Mikkelsen and 6th Company in their camp that night, staring forlornly at a campfire, exhausted from the day’s fighting and failed assault before receiving orders to fall back to the rear of the Solarian force to recover their strength. As they leave, Captain Mikkelsen looks to the Xanan lines and begins to sob as the screen then pans up and fades to black on the smoke-filled night sky.

The Count the Days pentalogy is widely regarded as one of the best of the Interfilm genre and is to date the highest-grossing and most-awarded film series in Coalition history and has spawned a die-hard fanbase of supporters. It received a widespread release across the Coalition and Biesel and even saw limited screenings in the Solarian Alliance. The series is regarded by many to be a masterwork of Xanan cinema and a quintessential look into how Xanu Prime views its relationship with the Interstellar War.
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===Holovision===
The world of Xanan holovision is the most diverse in the entire Coalition of Colonies. Almost anything can be found on Xanan HV, live sports, dramas, talk shows, news, infomercials, and shows on a wide variety of premises. The quality of Xanan holovision is similarly varied, with some shows having hundreds of millions of credits in budgets while others are very obviously cheap and made to be aired or streamed as quickly as possible. Whatever the case, Xanan holovision programming and shows can be found across the Coalition and Human Frontier and generally has a positive reputation among foreign watchers. By and large, the most popular genres of holovision programming on Xanu Prime are dramas and sitcoms.

The most-watched Xanan Holovision program of all is a long-running late-night variety program called '''Teddy''', hosted by comedian and media personality '''Theodore Llewellyn'''. The show has been on-air and on popular Xanan and CoC streaming services for nearly twenty years at this point with its first episode having aired in 2447. Theodore Llewellyn is described by many in the Xanan media as “The Lord of Late Night,” due to his dominance over the late-night talk show genre paired with his polite, yet witty interview and conversational style. His show often showcases new musical acts, up-and-coming comedians, and routinely interviews the most talked about figures and celebrities in the Xanan entertainment industry and society at large. He also has been known to host games for his guests and for airing live or pre-recorded comedy sketches for his audience, usually involving himself or his guests as characters. Teddy is not just popular among Xanan audiences though and is watched by fans across the Coalition, both in Xanan Freespeak and in translated dubs of the Coalition’s various languages. He is also a prominent cultural ambassador for Xanu Prime to Himeo and has used his fame to advocate for closer cooperation and harmony between the two planets when off the air. Occasionally, the show will even film episodes on-location on various planets throughout the Coalition for promotional purposes, most often Himeo due to Llewellyn’s Himean heritage, being the child of two Himean immigrants to Xanu Prime. Llewellyn has joked at times about running for President under the Good Neighbor Party, though these jests haven't manifested in any political campaigns quite yet.

For information on Xanan Holovision dramas and sitcoms please read the two entries below.
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====Xanan HV Dramas====
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Much like on film, Xanans have a penchant for HV dramas, however these diverge significantly from the seriousness of their film counterparts. Xanan Holovision Dramas are very popular on the planet and can be separated into two categories: 5-Dramas and 2-Dramas.

5-Dramas are aired every day during the week on Xanu’s HV channels during the daytime, and are notorious for their low-production values, often odd, pulpy, and convoluted plots focused around absurd twists, romantic scandals and intrigue, as well as their inexhaustible lifespans, with the most popular of them having gone on for decades. The longest running and most popular of all Xanan 5-Dramas is '''A Time to Be Alive''', a series that has been running for 47 years at this point and has followed the lives and hardships of the fictional Khanna family, a massive upper-middle class extended family from Foy-Niljen. The series has uncountable plotlines and has been criticized for its convoluted and melodramatic writing style by many critics, but audiences still tune in every day of the week across Xanu Prime and the Coalition as a whole to get the newest scoop on what’s been going on with the Khannas and the people around them.

2-Dramas in contrast to 5-Dramas however are aired on weekends only during prime-time and are generally seen by critics and audiences alike as the best that Xanan holovision has to offer. 2-Dramas typically have very high production values and rely heavily on the strength of their writing, directing, cinematography, and character acting to succeed. They’re often focused on crime-related or similarly intense, dramatic premises and are usually rather serious in tone, in contrast to the soapy, scandalous mood of most 5-Dramas. Xanan 2-Dramas are considered to be some of the finest programming on Holovision anywhere in the Orion Spur in terms of their writing and acting quality, but they are not for everyone and have drawn criticism from some for being too humorless and inaccessible for those not wanting to become engrossed in painful, often traumatic storylines. One of the most well-known of Xanan 2-Dramas is '''Suntoucher''', a show which focuses on a journalist named Marielle Hollen as she investigates a series of missing persons reports from a town in the Naya Khyber delta called Dharbourg. Her efforts slowly unveil a sickening human-trafficking operation that seeks to abduct and torture its victims in the name of a twisted, hellish cult led by a madman who claims to be both the second coming of Jesus Christ and the next avatar of Vishnu all in one. While investigating as well, Marielle comes into contact with the criminal elements of Dharbourg and becomes their sometimes-friend, sometimes-enemy as she works both with and against them during the course of her investigation. As the cult learns of Marielle’s investigation though, it no longer becomes a mission to expose them for Marielle and the locals working with her, but a fight for their very lives as secret, underground war breaks out between the cult and the largest gang in Dharbourg with Marielle and those working with her caught in the middle. The series ends with Marielle’s investigation materials being delivered to the offices of the Xanan News Service after her death at the hands of the cult after killing its leader, and alludes to the publication of the story by the media giant and subsequent destruction of the cult and imprisoning of Dharbourg’s criminals. The series has six seasons in total and had an original run from 2455 to 2461 and has spawned an obsessive, devoted fanbase in recent years. Rumours are abound of a spin-off show focusing on any number of the series’s well-liked supporting characters being in the works, but there has been no confirmation of this yet.
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====Xanan HV Sitcoms====
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The last major genre of Xanan television is the sitcom, a genre that is usually recorded in front of a live studio audience and relies on whacky or zaney premises mixed with witty writing. Xanan sitcoms also a vehicle by which certain societal issues are explored or made light of in the public mind, and tend to rely a bit more on satire and dark humour than sitcoms from other planets around the spur.
While not the most popular of Xanan sitcoms in the present day, the show '''Fated''' has a strong cult following and has left a bit of an impact on Xanan pop culture. The show follows Gerard Sodhi, a man in his mid-thirties trying to make a living in Nouvelle Rochelle’s stand-up comedy scene while dealing with the pressures of his life and large extended family. On his way home from a show, he and three of his friends, Esha, Georges, and Krasnin, are cursed with bad luck by a homeless woman in a back alley after refusing to give her any money when she asked for some. After suffering from their curse through minor inconveniences and unfortunate, socially awkward situations over the next few days, the four return to where they first encountered the woman only to find her dead, unable to remove the curse. The show then goes on, focusing on the lives of Martin, his friends, and the awkward, absurd situations they then find themselves in. Fated spawned many catch phrases and words used in Xanan pop-culture some examples being: “flarge,” a descriptor used for something both flat and large, “plimpkin,” a word used to describe a person who is short, fat, and annoying, “squickimsh,” a term used in reference to something that is both gross and very sticky in texture like a piece of gum, and “fwoonj,” a noise a person makes when trying to awkwardly avoid saying name of someone whose name they’ve forgotten. The series ran for nine seasons from 2449 to 2458 and is seen as a show emblematic of the Xanan 2450’s.
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===Music===
Xanan music is exceptionally diverse and Xanan musicians are known throughout the Coalition and beyond for being some of the most prolific and distinctive in their respective genres. Xanan music usually takes instruments and structure from its Western European and South Asian colonising cultures and puts a modern, stylistic spin on them to best suit whatever genre the musician is aiming for. The most notable genres of Xanan Music are:

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The most popular form of music on Xanu Prime, is predictably, pop music. The Xanan style of pop music, often called '''Xanupop''' or simply '''X-Pop''', is similar to pop music in general, however it tends to eschew EDM-like synth riffs and instead prefers acoustic instrumentals to make the backing track. The genre has its roots in the ballads which emerged during and after the Interstellar War, mostly about home and family. Most modern-day Xanan pop songs focus on the topic of love, whether falling into it, breaking up a relationship because of the loss of it, reminiscing about times when the singer had it, or any other variety of situations about love, Xanu’s pop music has a listener spoiled for choice. While not specifically pop music, songs from Xanu Prime’s largest musical films are often played on pop radio, even if they are not strictly in the pop style. The most popular pop artist in Xanan history is Foy-Niljen native '''Robert Khatri''', a man whose crooning ballads and work with string and brass ensembles cemented him as the definitive voice of the Xanan Renaissance. While subsequent artists have out-sold him since his death in 2387, Khatri’s songs have gone on to be standards within Xanan musical canon and his songs still are known by Xanans far and wide even more than a century since their releases. The most popular active Xanan pop artist is '''Grace Rose''', though less commonly known by her real name Lavani Grace, a woman from Nouvelle Rochelle who has dominated the Xanan pop charts for the last decade and a half with her unique and beautiful vocal style with a signature high belting range perfectly suited for Xanan pop ballads.
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Rock music is the second most popular form of music on Xanu Prime and is renowned across the Coalition for its funky instrumentals that focus on rhythm primarily rather than melody and unique vocal style that typically moves between being spoken and being sung multiple times throughout each song. Rock songs made in the Xanan style, often called '''X-Rock''' or '''Xanurock''', also are often about love, much like their pop counterparts, but it is far from the only thing that Xanan rockers sing about. Common lyrical themes in Xanan rock music focus on personal independence, inner turmoil and depression, social issues, or more poignantly, lost love and ones that got away. A popular band in the X-Rock scene is '''Weatherland''', a group from Himavat City that is renowned for their creative instrumental style that often incorporates unorthodox chord progressions and jazz-like solos from the band's various members. Another group that has risen in popularity since their founding in the early 2450’s is the band '''Anti-Gone''', a band from Nouvelle-Rochelle that has gained notoriety for their more groovy, riff-driven, gritty, and raw hard-rock production style with songs that focus on personal struggle and often talk about deep, uncomfortable subjects like addiction and abuse. They have beome very popular with Xanan young adults though older rock fans have not been as receptive to their material.
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====Logmu====
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Folk music, specifically the '''Logmu''' style of folk music, has always been very popular on Xanu Prime and does not seem to be going anywhere soon. Logmu, the word being combination of the Hindi word “log” meaning “people” and the French work “musique” meaning “music,” is a genre of music that originally came about during the early stages of Xanu Prime’s colonization as a result of individual, often amateur musicians, from Xanu Prime’s different colonizing countries forming bands with one another and adjusting their styles to fit each band member’s diverse musical preferences. The genre has remained popular through two catastrophic wars, economic depression, along with many other hurdles and looks as if it will keep its popularity far into the future. Logmu ensembles are typically six people large and play music using a vast variety of instruments which date back to the colonization of the planet. For example, a standard six-piece Logmu band will typically have a fiddle, an alto saxophone or nadaswaram, a tabla, a guitar or sarod, an accordion, and a sitar, with at least one of the musicians singing as well, usually the guitar or sarod player. Logmu songs are usually musical stories or poems that follow a protagonist or recount the life experiences of the singer, often in character. They are self-contained dramas or comedies in their own right and have allowed the genre to remain popular for as long as it has because of the simultaneous relatability and dramatism of the plots of the songs. A subset of the Along with being a genre of music in its own right, Logmu also has a distinctive subculture focused on passing the craft down to younger generations, with many musicians in the genre seeing it as their duty to teach their children or other students how to play a Logmu instrument at some point in their lives. A subgenre of Logmu is, '''Sologmu''', a play on words of “Solo” and “Logmu” and is defined by its nature of usually being performed by a single musician who both sings and plays an instrument of their choice, usually a guitar, sarod, accordion, or sitar.

The most influential Logmu band of all time is the Kshatrigarh-based band '''The Air Raid Six''', a group of six musicians who had the shared childhood experience of living through the Siege of Khairabad. Once they became adults they saw great success in the fledgling All-Xanu Republic’s music scene singing songs about the Interstellar War and retelling or making up humorous or dramatic stories that occurred during the conflict. During this they pioneered the current six-piece format standard synonymous with modern Logmu music and their songs are still widely performed today. The most popular Logmu band presently is Paastad-based group '''Six of Hearts''' which gained popularity during the mid 2450’s and has yet to relinquish it since. The band’s musical style stays relatively close to tradition in the structure of the songs and focus on their stories, but diverges some in terms of the instrumentals used, replacing the normal guitar or sarod with an electric guitar and even playing solos with it, something often not seen in Logmu music. Current popular names in the Sologmu scene include '''Chloe Sinclair''', a young woman from Himavat City that has brought a moodier, more downbeat brand of singing and guitar playing to the genre; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a Vysokan Xanan who has created a niche in the genre for herself by singing in the Xanan style with her broad vocal range and accompanying it with poignant instrumentals played by herself on a morin khuur.
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====Himavat Midnight====
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Breaking from tradition is the genre of '''Himavat Midnight''', so called because the underground music shows in Himavat City which saw the genre come into being often didn’t start until midnight. It is the newest genre of music on Xanu Prime to have seen at least some popularity, breaking out of the local Himavat City rock scene in the mid 2450’s. Himavat Midnight is notable for its spacey, monotone vocal style usually accompanied by little more than a bass guitar, an electric guitar, a synthesizer, and a drum machine. Himavat Midnight songs usually are built around a simple bass or guitar riff and typically are simple yet satisfying in their construction. Most songs have either a bridge or an outro where one instrument performs a solo, though these are usually more toned down and not like the more technical skill-showcasing solos found in X-Rock. Lyrically, the songs are moody and often sad, talking about loneliness, lost love, boredom, and other saddening yet seemingly mundane feelings. Some in the Xanan music scene have welcomed the genre as a new form of music that is more emotional and thoughtful than some other songs, while others have dismissed it as "sad music for sad people." While the genre is still relatively very new relative to all other popular genres of music on Xanu Prime, Himavat Midnight does have a few notable bands. '''We Are They''', a three-piece Himavat City band, is the most popular group of the genre and is the one credited for breaking the genre out of its local confines with their 2457 song, ''Snowflakes in her Hair''. For now the band is the standard-setter for what Himavat Midnight should sound like.
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Another genre of music that is notably unique to Xanu Prime is a genre of electronic music that emerged from Pataliputran nightclubs in the 2420’s called '''Pataliputra Big House'''. During the Doldrums nightclub owners were having trouble getting patrons to come out and give business to their clubs because of the economic stagnation characteristic of the time period. To solve this, many night clubs began to push their DJs to get creative and blend different musical styles into something new and exciting in order to attract more patrons and thus, Pataliputra Big House was born. The genre was the product of Pataliputran DJ’s mashing together elements from dance-pop and more traditional house music, vocals from R&B, and instrumentals leaning on the more soulful and jazzy sides of Logmu. Songs in this genre incorporate beats which usually are medium tempo, heavy on bass, and have a central riff played on a synthesizer or saxophone which drives the entire song. Vocals are treated like an instrument in themselves in Pataliputra Big House songs and usually have a bevy of effects on them to achieve different listening experiences. The most well-known producer in the Pataliputra Big House scene is '''Bobby Baas''', real name Robert Satti, a Pataliputran native equally famous for his colorful, often patterned suits as he is for his music. He has routinely sold out electronic music festivals across the Coalition for the last decade after achieving local fame in the Pataliputran local scene during the early 2440’s. He is also unique for being one of the only artists from the Coalition of Colonies to have performed in the Sol Alliance, performing a series of sold-out shows called the “Sunrise Tour” in 2456 across the Solarian core. An up-and-comer in the Big House scene however is '''DJ SinTheTik''', real name Sarah Tussaud-Tipnis, a young woman who became a holonet sensation in the early 2460’s for her unique style meshing instruments from classical, symphonic music with the usual sounds of Big House.
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As often happens with strong electronic scenes, a hip-hop movement emerged around the 2430’s shortly after the popularization of Pataliputran Big House. Nearly every major city of Xanu Prime has its own hip hop scene and they all have friendly, if competitive, rivalries with another. While each major city’s scene has its own unique flair and sound, there are some commonalities to Xanan hip hop or '''X-Hop'''. Generally, Xanan hip-hop places a great amount of importance on the beat of the song, and as such these beats are typically more complicated and have more elements to them than hip-hop from other places. The rap verses themselves are usually fast and articulate with a lower, almost gravelly vocal tone being definitive for male rappers and a clear, bold tone that can carry over a nightclub crowd holding the same preference among female rappers. Nouvelle Rochelle rapper Abhang van Agteren, stage name '''AvAtar''', is considered by many to be the "King of Xanan hop-hop" and is famous for his smooth lyrical style and frequent collaborations with some of Xanu Prime’s largest producers, most notably Bobby Baas, with a catalogue of hit songs dating back to the 2440’s. His music is a common feature on playlists all around the Coalition and he has been a staple of Xanan popular music for decades, with no sign of his career waning any time soon. The most famous Xanan rap group is the all-female project '''Girl’s Night''', a four-member pop-rap group from Himavat City that first gained notoriety in the mid-2450’s for their lyrical prowess, broad appeal which crossed pop and hip-hop demographics, and anonymous nature. It is unknown what the true identities of Girl’s Night are since the group’s members are never seen in public or on stage without three-faced masks made in the style of hindu deities. The individual names they have given to the public are the letters, R, Y, V, and K.
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===Fashion===
Xanan fashion and dress is not characterized by any culturally specific garments or articles of clothing that are uniquely specific to Xanu Prime, but rather by how they style clothes that are seen as generally ubiquitous across human space. That is to say, color and the interplay within a palette in one look are king in Xanan Fashion. Xanans themselves often describe shopping and dressing as a whole as somewhat of a game, in making outfits for themselves which both are colorful, but also not outlandishly so and still manage to look sharp despite their chromatic nature. If a look clashes too much, it looks bad, simply put. Garishness is something that must be avoided in Xanan fashion and many of the planet’s top designers have emphasized that Xanan fashion is a game of balance. As to what colours are used though, there are no official rules or cultural norms, other than outfits which are heavy in their usage of black and white are reserved for funerals or other somber occasions, and similarly, looks with a lot of white or red in their composition should only be worn during weddings, baby showers, or other joyful events. The diversity of Xanu Prime as a planet in both climate and geography however has led to a variety of different fashions popping up across the planet and often fashion choices are left to the individual rather than governed by some collective norm. An exception tho this, however, is that outfits consisting solely of only one color, such as a suit with the same-coloured slacks and jacket or a dress made of only one color of fabric, are seen by many as overly formalistic and are typically only reserved for appearances in court for legal or financial matters. As such, monochrome outfits without much variation in colour are associated with the legal and banking professions. Colors aside, materials are also seen as an important part of Xanan fashion, and many mundane looking pieces of Xanan clothing may be worth thousands due to the craftsmanship and quality of the materials used in their manufacture. Intricate patterns are not uncommon in Xanan looks either, though they are usually associated with festive occasions and places. Accessories are seen as important in Xanan fashion, with neckties and cravats being popular among men and hairpins or bows finding favour among women. Jewlery is common for both men and women, but large pieces should not be worn in a workplace environment and instead should be saved for personal outings or family time.

===Sport===
Professional and amateur sports are both quite popular on Xanu Prime. Cricket and football are tied in popularity, with other sports like basketball, ice hockey, and rugby having some notoriety on the planet as well. Xanan children are encouraged from a young age to participate in team sports which many carry on into their teenage years and adulthoods through amateur club teams. As such, no Xanan town is complete without a cricket oval or football field. Xanu’s sports fans are known the Orion Spur-over for being some of the most passionate and obsessive in Human-inhabited space, with their chants, costumes, and fervent insults being both hated and envied by the planet’s sports rivals. Xanans are exceptionally loyal to their teams, be they national or local, and fights or even riots breaking out after upsets in football or cricket aren’t unheard of in the major cities.

The Xausii national teams in both football, commonly referred to as '''"C.F.X.P"''' taken from their original French name Club de Foot de Xanu Premier, and cricket, often called the '''"Crimson Cats"''' courtesy of their mascot being a crimson-masked polecat, wear colors of green and orange with red accents. When either of the teams win a game, especially if during a high-stakes tournament, the entire planet often turns out to celebrate, clogging streets, overpacking bars, and pressing the Xanu’s police forces to their limits. Famously, when Xanu Prime won the 2454 Orion Cup in a surprise upset 2-1 victory over their longtime rival, the Callistean national team, Hastings Park, C.F.X.P’s home stadium, was deemed to be “The Loudest Place in the Known Universe” by a Martian sports writer. Similarly the stadium was said to have “Rung like bell,” when the Crimson Cats defeated the Port Antillean national team in 2458 to win the T20 Orion Cricket Championship. Individual cities also have their own football and cricket teams which play in a number of professional and semi-professional leagues. The highest level of these are The '''All-Xanu Ultraleague''' for football and the '''Alpha League''' for Class A cricket.

The planet has strong sports rivalries with many others, both within the coalition and without. They have a long-standing football rivalry with Callisto, jokingly called “The Second Interstellar War,” which has had its ups and downs throughout history, with both teams serving each other their most grievous defeats. Highlights include when Xanu defeated Callisto on its own home turf in 2448 to win the Orion Cup, or when the Callistean team duffed out their rivals only four years later in a hotly-contested group-stage match and stopped C.F.X.P from having a chance at defending its title. Xanu also has a hot cricket rivalry with Port Antilia, and the two planets are generally considered to be the best at the sport in the Orion Spur. Recent tension over the Solarian Collapse and Port Antillia’s annexation into the Biesellite CRZ has meant that the two teams haven’t met on an oval in over two years, leading many to believe that their next meeting will be the game of the century for Cricket. Xanu Prime also has a more friendly and lighthearted football rivalry with Himeo that has for most of recent memory been one-sided in favor of Xanu, but the two teams are still nevertheless very competitive and their fans very passionate over the rivalry.

==Immigrant and Expat Communities==
Xanu Prime is host to a number of large immigrant, expat, and diasporic communities, the largest of which can be read about in the entries below. '''A member of any immigrant or diasporic group who was born on Xanu Prime will select the Xanu Prime origin and accent in character creation.'''

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The largest diasporic community on Xanu Prime, the Himean Xanan community has been on Xanu Prime for nearly as long as the Republic itself has existed. Himeans first came to Xanu Prime in the millions during the aftermath of the Interstellar War, often as workers and supporting staff helping to rebuild Xanu’s many broken and battered cities. A significant number of these Himeans remained on Xanu afterwards, established their own families and communities, and joined Xanan society. Most of the Himeans that came to Xanu during what is called the “First Wave of Himean Immigration” (2288-2310) dropped Himean customs and traditions in favor of broader assimilation into what many of them saw as a prosperous, growing, free Xanu Prime where their children could grow. A significant minority of Xanu’s population can trace at least part of their ancestry back to this first wave of immigrants from Himeo, and it’s quite common for the average Xanusan to have at least one or two Himean ancestors that came to Xanu during this period even if the person themselves doesn’t look Himean or have a Himean sounding name.

While immigration from Himeo continued in low levels throughout the 24th century, there was a great uptick from 2367 to 2390, a period called “The Second Wave of Himean Immigration” and less commonly, “The Paasstad Exodus.” Much like earlier Himean immigrants, those in the Second Wave came to the planet for work, but instead instead of reconstruction, they were taking part in the Paasstad Megaproject, an ambitious engineering initiative with the goal of raising the entire Xanan city of Paasstad above the marshy ground upon which it sat. The project was long and intensive, but was complete by 2389 and the numbers of Himeans immigrating to Xanu decreased shortly after the project was complete. In contrast to the First Wave, Himeans coming to the planet during the Second Wave mostly just immigrated to the city of Paasstad, and as such, their community became very unified and tightly knit. A district of the city, often just called Little Himeo, is where the present-day Himean Xanan community has its symbolic heart. Many Himean customs and traditions are still practiced here, Himean Common is spoken throughout the district, though with a noticeable Xanan Accent, and one can find many Himean products and authentic Himean food here. While there has not been an influx of Himean immigrants since the Second Wave, many Himeans looking to move their lives and to Xanu Prime find themselves in Little Himeo or one of the smaller Xanan Himean communities in other cities. Himean communities are very diverse politically, given that many Himean Xanans have assimilated into Xanu’s society and taken on new beliefs, however the Good Neighbor Party is particularly popular in Little Himeo and it often markets itself as the party for Himean Xanans. A majority of Himean Xanans are not first-generation immigrants, but were born on the planet as third or fourth generation Himeans.

Himean Xanans, whether their ancestors were part of the first or second waves, have broadly flourished on Xanu Prime and can be found in all walks of Xanan society. Notable Himean Xanans include '''Aukusti Staudenmaier''', member of the National Parliament and leader of the Good Neighbor Party, '''Lennox Sibelius''', Minister of the Economy and Finance under the Mukhopadhyay Government and man responsible for the implementation of the Mukhopadhyay Plan, '''Sara Knox''', current CEO of d.N.A. Defense and Aerospace, and '''Theodore Llewellyn''', host of the popular Xanan late night holovision talk program, Teddy.
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====Vysokan Xanans====
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The Vysokan Xanan community is Xanu Prime’s second largest and fastest growing immigrant and diasporic demographic; many see the planet as coming off of the first large wave of Vysokan immigrants it has ever experienced. Many Vysokans immigrated to Xanu starting in the 2440’s after the Mukhophadhay Plan began revitalizing the Xanan economy. In response, many Vysokans looking to better their lives and provide a stable income for their families traveled to Xanu Prime looking for work or simply looking to start new lives. This wave of immigration abruptly stopped in 2462 when the Orion Spur was gripped by phoron scarcity causing space flight costs to soar, but even now after that, some Vysokans still find their way to Xanu Prime.

Culture shock has been something consistent throughout the Vysokan Xanan community: Societally, Xanu Prime is to many Vysokan immigrants, especially those who grew up in the rural regions of Vysoka, a night and day difference. Because of this, along with the differing norms between Xanan and Vysokan cultures, many Vysokan immigrants have been slow to integrate and assimilate into Xanu Prime’s society and most live in close proximity to one another in majority-Vysokan neighborhoods and districts. Many in the Vysokan Xanan community are not wealthy, with most being in the working lower-middle class. Because of their recent increase in population, their unfamiliarity with Xanan systems and the fact that they are often poorer than the average Xanan, Vysokan Xanan communities often have difficult times accessing social services for healthcare or financial assistance, are less policed, and have higher than average rates of crime. Many Vysokan Xanans have found employment in Xanu’s agricultural and heavy industry sectors with their skills from home translating very well to those lines of work. Additionally, many have found themselves in the All-Xanu Armed Forces in hopes of learning skills there which they can then carry over into a civilian job after being discharged. The largest Vysokan Xanan community on Xanu Prime is the Little Vysoka district of Nouvelle-Rochelle.

Vysokan Xanan communities often try to recreate things from Vysoka itself, the most common of these being Stolitist spirit houses and shrines. Vysokan Xanans are majority-Stolitist in their religious practices, and many Vysokan Xanan communities celebrate Stolitist religious festivals. Vysokan Xanan practices are not identical to their Vysokan counterparts however. Many in Vysokan Xanan communities have eschewed travelling, nomadic shamans in favour of more congregationally-styled practices, with houses of worship and assembly taking influence from Christian churches and Muslim mosques in layout often being built to surround Stolitist shrines and spirit houses. These “Stolitchurches” are a uniquely Vysokan Xanan creation and often function as the cultural, spiritual, and symbolic centers of Vysokan Xanan communities. Other aspects of Vysokan culture which have in some way translated to Xanu Prime is the Vysokan penchant for athleticism; since the immigration, many young Vysokans have made a name for themselves and their community as professional athletes. Many even make the annual trip back to Vysoka for the Velhalktai. Host culture has not made the jump and the hosts in general is something that is begrudgingly dismissed by many Vysokan Xanans because they believe that Host culture affirms a stereotype among Xanussians that Vysokans are criminals. Politically, opinions are diverse for Vysokan Xanans, but many have voted for the Free Falcon Party in recent years due to the party’s Vysokan Xanan origin and stance on many immigrant issues.

Notable Vysokan Xanans include '''Aynan Zhergotov''', professional footballer and captain of the Nouvelle-Rochelle football club A.S. Olympique-Saraswati; '''Doctor Kaarchaana Tuskullanova''', member of the National Parliament, leader of the Free Falcon Party, and formerly practicing medical doctor; '''Yekheren Bolkhadarov''', goalkeeper for the All-Xanu National Football Team; and '''Turakina Khadagova''', a second-generation Vysokan Xanan singer who has seen recent popularity in Xanu’s Logmu music scene by combining Xanan-styled singing with Vysokan-inspired instrumentals.
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====Assunzionii Xanans====
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The Assunzionii Xanan community is the third largest diaspora on Xanu Prime and is one that has managed to strike a strong balance between preserving their own original culture and embracing Xanu’s own. Most of Xanu Prime’s Assunzionii population moved to Xanu Prime during the 2370’s and 2380’s in response to Xanu’s burgeoning economy, with a smaller wave coming in the 2450’s. As such a majority of the Assunzionii Xanan population are third or fourth generation immigrants, with the new arrivals in 2450 being first-generation. Most Assunzionii Xanans live in the middle class, with some having advanced into the upper classes through employment or their businesses. Throughout Xanu Prime, many Assunzionii people have found themselves in two primary industries: entertainment and engineering. The former came about when many Assunzionii immigrants were hired on by nightclubs and other entertainment venues for their expertise in electrical lighting systems. As they were employed more, some of these immigrants figured that they would instead start their own clubs which they could run and style as they pleased. Gaining traction for their exceptional light shows and very exotic atmospheres, Assunzionii Xanan-owned and staffed clubs, bars, theaters, and even film studios became very successful across Xanu prime in the 2400’s and have remained that way since, with some of the largest and most exclusive entertainment establishments on the planet being owned by Assunzionii Xanusians. Some of these immigrants also found themselves in engineering and went on to work in Xanu’s shipbuilding and logistics sector; their skills being perfect for designing and servicing electrical systems on ships. Many of their descendants still work in these fields today

Culturally, there are some distinct differences between Assunzionii Xanans and people from Assunzionne proper. Exposure to outside cultures and removal from the Luceism-centered domes of light has made many Assunzionii Xanusians less religious than their Assunzionii counterparts. Most still identify as Luceist and do practice, but the faith on Xanu Prime has become more casual and cultural to the local community rather than something more dogmatic and omnipresent. Simply put, Luceism isn’t as important to multi-generational Assunzionii Xanusians as it is to those back home on Assunzione or those who have just arrived from the planet, even if it is present in their lives. Despite this more lax attitude, there are large cathedrals of light in many Assunzionii Xanan communities, the largest being in the Little Assunzione district of Nouvelle-Rochelle, and they see frequent attendance. Most Assunzionii Xanusians are Structuralist Luceists and their churches function as large community centers and meeting places along with being used as houses of worship. Other aspects of Assunzionii culture have stuck around in the community as well, such as illumination. Assunzionii Xanan neighborhoods are very well lit, with more street lamps than average and more lights on houses as well, and this, along with the communal and tight-knit nature of many Assunzionii Xanan families, make their neighborhoods some of the safest on Xanu Prime.

Notable Assunzionii Xanusians include '''Sabine Venturino''', a third-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and one of the largest directorial names in Xanan film industry; '''Suleiman Kateb''', a second-generation Assunzionii Xanusian and current Minister of Energy for the Afzal government; and '''Hristos Santolaria''', a first-generation Assunzionii Xanan and current Chief Operations Officer for Markhor Interstellar Logistics Group.
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====Fisanduhian Xanans====
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The Fisanduhian story on Xanu Prime is a strange one that started in 2386. In that year, the Xanan government agreed to host the remnants of the Fisanduh Freedom Front (3F) as a gesture of solidarity between two countries against tyranny. This arrangement created the modern Fisanduhian government-in-exile as it exists today with its seat in the Greentree neighbourhood of Nouvelle Rochelle. Of those few countries that recognise the existence of an independent Fisanduh, those being the Republic of Elyra and a vast majority of Coalition of Colonies members, see the Fisanduhian government-in-exile, also commonly called the “Greentree Government,” as the legitimate government of Fisanduh. The Empire of Dominia sees the Greentree Government as the political arm of the 3F, a rebel militia to some and a terrorist group to others, and therefore considers Xanu Prime and by extension the Coalition of Colonies to be a state sponsor of terrorism for giving the government sanctuary. The Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel do not recognise the Fisanduhian government-in-exile as the legitimate government of Fisanduh and have no relations with it.

Xanu Prime’s long-standing positive relationship with the Fisanduhian government has made it a very popular destination for Fisanduhian refugees, though its geographic distance from Moroz often makes traveling to the planet difficult for some. Fisanduhian refugees typically do not come in waves like other immigrant demographics, but arrive sporadically and often in small cohorts that were trafficked out of Fisanduh at the same time. This distance and trouble with travel cuts both ways: it isn’t just difficult for Fisanduhians to arrive on Xanu but much of the Fisanduhian Xanan community (aside from the aforementioned refugees) have never even been to Fisanduh, with their only ties to the Morozian region being ethnic and cultural. Religion is also something that sets Fisanduhian Xanans apart from other Xanans, with most being adherents to some strain of Reformed Morozian Tribunalism which rejects the authority of the Morozian Clergy and the Dominian Emperor as the divinely ordained head of the “Goddess’s Tribunal,” a term that the Goddess’s Holy Diocese of Xanu Prime uses to describe their religion over using “Morozian Holy Tribunal.” Some however have given up this faith and have either become irreligious or have taken on one of Xanu Prime’s dominant religions (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam) as their own. Despite this, it is common for many Fisanduhian Xanans to celebrate Tribunalist religious holidays even if they themselves are not adherent to the faith since many see these days as part of their own distinctive culture. All Tribunalist churches on Xanu Prime have eschewed the use of traditional Morozian Holy Tribunal uniforms and religious symbols connected with the Dominian Emperor, viewing them as unnecessarily dogmatic and relics of an oppressive, Dominian, past.

Economically, most Fisanduhian Xanans are poorer than the average Xanan, with almost all being either refugees who arrived on the planet with nothing or their descendants. They lack the generational wealth of other demographics in Xanan society, and most are not educated to the standards demanded by the Xanan economy. As such, most can usually be found in industrial and service jobs, the All-Xanu Armed Forces or other working-class positions. Because of this disadvantageous economic position, many of the better-off Fisanduhian Xanans have been known to host refugee families and provide them with housing and food until they find employment and can secure housing of their own.

Despite the hardship the demographic has found, the Fisanduhian Xanan community has found a home for itself in Xanan society. Most Fisanduhian Xanans have assimilated and integrated themselves into broader Xanan society and adopted their norms and culture, but generally live in areas with other Fisanduhian Xanans. Some subsets of the group take this to the extreme, maintaining their own communities and living together in nearly all-Fisanduhian neighborhoods which preserve the native Fisanduhian culture and social systems. These communities are usually suspicious of outsiders and such attitudes have occasionally led negative attention from the media for allegations of xenophobia and exclusionism. There is a stereotype among Xanans that Fisanduhian Xanans are all rabidly politically active and pursue jobs in politics and government especially in order to aid the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile, and while most Fisanduhian Xanans very supportive of the Greentree government, their involvement is often falsely overstated. In reality, Fisanduhian Xanans hold a variety of political views about Xanu Prime and the 3F government, with most being split into two camps: the Irredentists and the Second Homelanders.
Simply put, the Irredentists and Second Homelanders diverge on their priorities relating to the Fisanduhian Insurgency. The Irredentist camp of the Fisanduhian Xanan population places the government-in-exile’s backing of the 3F and other resistance groups in Fisanduh through sending them aid, equipment, and money above all else, in hopes of one day returning to an independent Fisanduh. The Second Homelanders instead want the government-in-exile to create a “second homeland" for the Fisanduhian people on Xanu Prime in cooperation with the Xanan government and often push for the government-in-exile to leverage its official and unofficial influence in Xanan society to provide better resources for the Fisanduhian Xanan community. The two groups, while different in their priorities, are not enemies to one another and often work together in both the Fisanduhian government-in-exile and the unofficial representative of that government in Xanan Politics, the Universal Liberty Party. Historically, the Irredentist camp has been a majority in the Fisanduhian Xanan population, but as Fisanduhian Xanans have adjusted more to Xanan society and their needs have become more pronounced, the Second Homeland movement has grown considerably, especially among the demographic’s younger generations who see themselves as more Xanan than Fisanduhian. As the older generations of Fisanduhian Xanans die, it is predicted that the Second Homeland movement will soon hold a majority over Fisanduhian Xanan political discourse unless a serious shift occurs in the currently-stalemated Fisanduhian Insurgency.

Morozian Fisanduhians have mixed opinions of Fisanduhian Xanans. On one hand the sentiments of support and occasional aid shipment that make it to the region past the Dominian blockades are often appreciated, but on the other, most see the Fisanduhian Xanan population as too far away to make a difference in anything actually happening in Fisanduh besides giving a place for more refugees to flee to. Because of this, most Morozian Fisanduhians treat their Xanan cousins as people who are all talk and no action in regards to actually winning the insurgency.

Notable Fisanduhian Xanans include '''Erick Alexis''', current Vice-President of the All-Xanu Republic; '''Aaron Izmirlian''', Prime Minister of the Fisanduhian Government-in-Exile; '''Ekaitz Azarola''', leader of the Universal Liberty Party and member of the National Parliament; and '''Elaena Chatfield''', a prolific if aging novelist often considered to be one of the greatest writers Xanu Prime has ever produced.
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Xanan Gadpathurian Exiles and their community are a small but notable immigrant demographic on Xanu Prime. They are almost exclusively concentrated in Pataliputra, it being the spot where most of them arrive on the planet after being ejected from their home world. Gadpathurian Exiles are known to be highly assimilationist and often make little effort to show that they are even in fact Gadpathurian at all, some too ashamed by their exile status to try and make others know of it. Some however have taken the identity and embraced it as part of who they are in Xanan society. Gadpathurian Exiles who do make a point of their heritage do not have their own distinctive architecture or cuisine, but instead hold much of their culture in their community structures and businesses. Gadpathurian Exile-owned businesses which embrace the identity are known to be pseudo-support groups for Gadpathurian Exiles themselves and often provide employment, housing, and other necessities to newly arrived fellow-exiles to ensure that they do not become homeless or starve. Xanan Gadpathurian Exile families similarly have been known to welcome fellow exiles into their houses to take care of them in a similar way to how Fisanduhian Xanans do, however Gadpathurian Exiles take this a step further and have been known to formally adopt entirely unrelated people into their families permanently. This has led to some Gadpathurian Exile families on Xanu Prime to become comically large, with the largest on record, the Mokammel family, having over 1,700 current members. The Mokammels mostly live in the Kuenoi neighborhood of Pataliputra, though this area has come to be known colloquially as “Mokammelbad” in popular parlance. Most Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are irreligious or have converted to one of the planet’s three major religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam, with some converting to smaller faiths.

Gadpathurian Exiles often have an advantage over other immigrants not in terms of their wealth, as most arrive to the planet positively destitute, but in terms of their educations. Most Gadpathurians were taught skills during their military service on Gadpathur, and even if they’ve now been exiled from their homeworlds, many retain their skills and have found lucrative work as tradespeople (plumbers, electricians, HVAC specialists, and welders to name a few). Of course, many have also joined the All-Xanu Armed Forces and usually find success there too, either as soldiers, specialists, or occasionally even officers, though this is somewhat rare as the Gadpathurian leadership style is usually inconsistent with Xanan doctrine and practices. It is seen as shameful in Exile society to take aid from the government, and there is a societal norm of redemption through achievement as a way to prove the decision to exile the person in question as wrong. As such, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime are encouraged by their communities to hold a strong work ethic and to cooperate with other Exiles trying to achieve success. In regard to politics, Gadpathurian Exiles on Xanu Prime typically vote either for the Free Falcon Party of All-Xanu Freedom League.

Notable Gadpathurian Exiles Xanans include '''Chandi Mokammel''', a first-generation Gadpathurian Exile, head of the massive Gadpathurian Exile family the Mokammels and celebrity within the Gadpathurian Exile community, and '''Sri Afzal''', a second-generation Gadpathuri Exile, formerly a professor of law at Saraswati College, and wife to the current All-Xanu President Jacques Afzal.
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==Holidays==

Xanu Prime has many holidays much like almost anywhere else in the Spur, however the foremost of these are as follows:

*'''January 1st - New Year’s Day''' - A celebration of the ushering in of a new year. This holiday is marked by fireworks, loud music, and the mass consumption of alcohol. It is officially recognised as a holiday.

*'''January 2nd - Founding Day''' - This is the day where Xanans celebrate the original colonization of their world by the Solarian Alliance. People get the day off work and festivities are held in communities across the planet to celebrate Xanu. Many consider this to be a toned down version of Xanan Independence Day, or simply a day to recoup and recover from the partying and subsequent hangovers brought on by New Year’s. Alternatively, some simply use the day to have a two-day long New Year’s celebration.

*'''March 28th - All-Xanu Peace Day''' - This is a holiday that commemorates the anniversary of the end of the Xanan Civil war. It is a rather low-key holiday where people are encouraged to reflect on the peace that they enjoy and spend it with their families. Xanan citizens get the day off of work, though because the war is such a distant memory, many just use this as a convenient day off of work or three-day weekend rather than a time to celebrate its original intended purpose.

*'''July 1st - Election Day''' - This day is less of a holiday and more a bureaucratic necessity. On June 1st, all Xanans vote in elections, local, province-wide, or national. Everyone gets the day off work so they can vote if they so choose. The holiday still applies to jurisdictions where no elections are taking place that year, so many often take it as a free day off of work.

*'''August 13th - Xanan Independence Day''' - This day celebrates the secession of Xanu Prime and the Coalition of Colonies from the Solarian Alliance and is the largest holiday of the year. Parades, fireworks, cookouts, sporting events, and musical performances often occur on this day. The entire planet parties hard on this holiday and it is observed by Xanan expats living elsewhere in the Orion Spur as well. Xanans get the day off of work on August 13th.

*'''October 1st - Victory Day''' - Victory Day, as it may be implied, is the day where Xanans celebrate the victory of their country over the Solarian Alliance in the Interstellar War. It is marked by parades, and other celebrations that honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians who died in the conflict and the freedoms that they died for. It has a more solemn and reverent atmosphere than other Xanan national holidays. Xanans get the day off work on Victory Day.

*'''November 18th - Kulkarni Day''' - Kulkarni Day, also called Diversity Day (no relation to the Eridanian Holiday), is a holiday where Xanans celebrate their diversity and ethic of unity, coming together to unite as one strong and diverse society. It is held on the birthday of once planetary governor Gaspard Kulkarni to honor his vision for what a united yet diverse Xanan society could be. The day is celebrated widely across the planet and is a day where the various communities of Xanu prime go out of their way to share their cultures with those of different cultures and celebrate how they find strength in diversity. It is an official holiday and Xanan citizens get the day off of work on Diversity Day.

*'''December 25th - Christmas''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. Despite its religious origins, it has long been a festivity that has spread across cultures and demographics regardless of religious affiliation, and as such it is an official holiday on Xanu Prime. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries.

*'''Varying Dates - Easter''' - A Christian religious holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was brought to Xanu Prime by the Christian colonists from France and the BeNeLux countries. This holiday follows the lunar cycle and therefore is held on different days annually, though it is always on a Sunday, typically in April or March. It is not officially a holiday recognised by the Xanan State, but many observant Christians celebrate it.

*'''Varying Dates - Ramadan''' - A Muslim religious holiday that is observed for nearly a month by Xanu Prime’s muslim population. It includes the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, on which was recognised as an official Xanan holiday in 2334 after the festivities of feasting, partying, and parades became so widespread across Xanu Prime’s population that it could no longer be interpreted as a strictly religious celebration. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Eid al-Adha''' - A Muslim religious holiday which that honors the willingness of the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as Allah commanded of him. It is not an official Xanan holiday, but many observant muslims take the day off from work and celebrate. The holiday abides by the Muslim lunar calendar and therefore is observed on different dates every year. This holiday was brought to Xanu Prime by its original Pakistani and Indian Muslim colonists.

*'''Varying Dates - Diwali''' - A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh, religious holiday which lasts for five days and celebrates the triumph of good over evil, originally brought to Xanu Prime by Hindu and Sikh colonists from India. It is typically marked by fireworks, the lighting of lamps, brightly vibrant lights, and other festivities which embody light triumphing over the dark. The third day of the holiday, Lakshmi Puja, is the most colorful of the holiday, and Xanans who observe it usually take the day off work, though it is not an official holiday. While not Hindus, the local Assunzionii expat population also has begun to celebrate this holiday recently as well, tying it into their own beliefs of light triumphing over the darkness. Diwali is determined by the Hindu lunar-solar calendar, and therefore falls on different dates annually.

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