Manuese Federation

The Manuese Federation is a federal state located in the Indian Ocean. It is located on a completely artificial archipelago. It was established by Sziu Emanuas and the Founding Ten in 1989.

The origins
Sziu Emanuas and his company BioResearch, LLC started heavy experimentation on GMOs and clonation in the early 1980s. After creating high amounts of scandal and controversy, both the company and its founder were permanently banned from the United States and the European Union. With no place to go and a large amount of offshore capital in his hands, Emanuas gathered other 10 like-minded entrepreneurs and decided to build the Manuese Archipelago in 1984. Each of them built his own island on RobuStruct scaffolding platforms. The islands are independently run but are kept together by a federal system. The eleventh island, the one built by Sziu Emanuas, is run as a directly controlled federal territory.

The establishment of a new nation
To assure the independence of Manuas from external sources, Emanuas pioneered research on offshore nuclear power plants, SMRs and the farming of algae both for food and fuel production. Manuas is also the undiscussed world leader in underwater mining.

Emanuas was also afraid of a nuclear attack. Not being a big fan of the Cold War, he decided not to go for a nuclear deterrent - instead, he conceived an antideterrent - a weapon system capable to detect and deflect any type of nuclear weapon. This idea came to be as the MHI AW-1 "Manuese Hound", a gigantic robot armed with anti-missile weapons and a massive Lorentz coil capable of deflecting stealth warheads.

The first few years
Sziu Emanuas's research focused on the creation of humanoid animals. This was the cause of most of the controversy with BioResearch LLC. The first bioengineered humanoid animal, a dog known as The Boid, was successfully born in 1986. The first big batch of dogs, cats and bovines was released in 1987. Other species were added in the following years. Now, these animals compose about 63% of the population of Manuas and are officially recognised as citizens.

Geography and States
Manuas is composed by 10 States plus the Central Federal Land. Each State occupies an independent island. A central island in the archipelago is kept as a national reserve. Many islands are close to each other and are directly or indirectly accessible through bridges. All the islands are artificial and are built on Marine Dynamics RobuStruct platforms. Some of them are connected to the sea bed, others are simply anchored to it, like an oil rig.

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