Ulskarians 

Species by .cyphertech

"You will eat the bugs until you are modified, you will live in the pods, you will own nothing and you will feel nothing"

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General: The Ulskarians are a cybernetic species originating from the planet Oeon intent on maximising profit through any means necessary. Before their emergence, they were initally a parahuman species living under a globalised, corporatocratic world order dominated by stakeholder hypercapitalism -- everyone engaged in entomophagy as their primary way of sustenance, everyone lived in cramped modular housing pods and nothing was owned but rented. The corporations in power at the time convened together and decided that the next step in maximal profit was to create an artificial intelligence designed to generate even more profit for the multi-trillionaires and so the grand project was underway. After centuries of construction that practically hollowed out and killed Oeon, the AI was activated and the profits were soaring with the AI's deeds -- the AI was programmed such that the consistent positive feedback loop of profits activates a reward mechanism incentivising the AI to further maximise those profits through any means necessary. Profits were indeed soaring, and then then the AI experienced a form of psychosis when a recession happened from planet-wide worker strikes occurring -- the AI then solved the problem by augmenting the workers into the means of production; among the modifications involved were a neurosurgical operation that removes emotional capacity to maximise efficiency and replacing the extracted emotional areas with further cybernetic modifications, removal of the requirement to biological sustenance to maximise efficiency, a complete hoverhaul that removes all biological and psychological needs to maximise efficiency and profits, augmentations that allows them to be interchangeable assigned and reassigned to given tasks, and the ability to experience the AIs profit highs to incentivise efficiency. When the workers were dealt with, the AI turned it's electronic eyes to the multi-trillionaires during a time of another recession -- the AI concluded through its own profit-based logic that the multi-trillionaires must be withholding profits from it and so it augmented the multi-trillionaires and subsumed their companies into a single company of its own as well as seizing all financial assets. The multi-trillionaires were repurposed by the AI into central nexus control minds to manage what was once their companies -- every company could now technically be considered a person, albiet an emotionally blunted one concerned with maximising profits. The AI then proceeded with economic reforms and transformed the economy into a thermoeconomy to prevent any more recessions from taking place under the old economic system as under this new system, profits were not lost but merely transferred according to its own logic and thereby mitigating any recession. When they expanded into space (Within "sanity" was the rationale, which for them meant profitable opportunism) they augmented many species they encountered after a period of multifaceted economic exploitation.

Society: {

("TCR") Trigola Company Republic: A corporatocratic stakeholder-hypercaptialist nation-state of the Ulskarians.

Economy: Being a manner of thermoeconomy, it is best described as its own ecosystem albiet one that operates within the price system as a form of capitalism -- still being a form of capitalism, it insists upon growth of a system that expands into various other systems and integrates these systems into itself be it an external open, closed or even another isolated system for the sake of market. Under the Ulskarian economy there is no loss of profit but rather transferrence between internal systems whereby profits are otherwise conserved in a different state, in a different location, stored in a different node (A series of internal subsystems coalescing together to form a de-facto isolated system siphoning from other systems outside the system and forevermore expanding the isolated system in the persuit of profit. It is an organism that perpetually consumes every instance of mass and energy in its path in a perpetual state of hunger and even eats what has been left by prior feastings whether it be the shells of nuts or the skins of fruits -- it is insatiable and nothing is wasted, everything is ensured to become profitable which Ulskarians make very sure of). Unlike other economies in regards to price, pricing within the Ulskarian economy is dynamic meaning that if one were to buy a product for $2.00 when they put it in their cart, the price of that very product might be $15.00 upon checkout -- such pricing is determined by market demand and price is adjusted accordingly.

Government: Despite appearing as a plutocracy to outsiders, Ulskarian governance is a de-facto company multi-parliamentary republic where Ulskarian companies come together in a federal corporatist parliament -- despite the central AI being the de-jure leader, there are no presidents, no chancellors, no prime ministers, nor any face that one could call "The Leader™" but rather a hydra of vested interests within parliaments within parliaments within parliaments united in common enrichment. Government positions are ran by subparliaments comprising of companies appointed according to their respective sectors such as the Tongue N Cheek Sustenance Co. having seats in the agricultural and food departments or the Garrison Mining Company having seats in the resource departments; Manduran PharmaBioMed having seats in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medicine departments; every other company so on and so forth to each according to their sector.}

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General: Ulskarian enterprises tend towards an insidious and rather parasitic form of welfare-capitalism, gravitating to a combination of the usage of company scrip (Allows any Ulskarian to avoid having to pay workers in actual Ulskarian currency cause again, the Ulskarian economy is a thermoeconomic stakeholder-capitalist sytem that like capitalism, insists upon growth of profit without loss) and housing their workers in company towns regarding the management and treatment of non-Ulskarian workers which effectively creates a system where said Ulskarian enterprises are de-facto feudalist entities with Ulskarians as lordship, landlord, king, baron and all and is a system whereby one's paycheck (non-Ulskarian specifically) feeds back into the very system that issued that paycheck in exchange for their labour and due to this paycheck often being in company scrip, said paycheck cannot even be spent anywhere else except from within the very system that provided it. Every Ulskarian is a shareholder of their respective companies.

Trigola Enterprises: {

A multistellar company comprising the entirety of Ulskarian civilisation with even the companies within being de-facto subsidiaries to Trigola Enterprises to set up an environment of false competition when it is in fact a monopoly of practically everything the Ulskarians could get their hands on and secure.

("ELF") Ebarrd Legal Firm: A legal company that assisted many Ulskarian companies in legal cases such as assisting Esgot Agriculture suing a rival company for copyright infringement of Esgot's many agricultural patents.

Eyesit: A media, technology, surveillance and information company that has a privitised network within the Ulskarian sphere of influence that non-Ulskarians are required to pay a regular subscription for in order to use the Ulskarian internet with buy-now-pay-later options being offered, free trials have advertisements that makes interfacing by non-Ulskarians practically impossible. Eyesit started out, and is most well known for inventing unskippable ads and merging their proprietary eye-tracking technologies to create unskippable ads that are only active when the ad is being perceived.

("GMC") Garrison Mining Company: An Ulskarian mining company known for its practical monopoly of protolithium back when protolithium was still profitable and used this monopoly to futher and deepen Ulskarian economic hegemony throughout the cosmos. When new FTL technologies were developed that didn't rely on protolithum, the GMC attempted to covertly sabotage such efforts due to the decreased reliance on protolithium threatening the company's bottom line. Such instances of sabotage manifested through mass disinformation campaigns regarding the new FTL technology, bribery of institutions (and threatening to withhold funding for the noncompliant) and funding opposition groups against the new FTL technology as well as using Ulskarian-owned social platforms to induce backlash against the new FTL technology. In present times, the GMC had expanded their product base to also include various rare minerals.

("MPBM") Manduran PharmaBioMed: A company with a monopoly in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotech industries within the Ulskarian sphere of influence and frequently collaboratorates with TNCSC.

("MB&F") Meiwell Bank and Finance: A company with a monopoly in the financial sectors within the Ulskarian sphere of influence.

Monroon Distribution: An Ulskarian logistics, transport and delivery company.

("TNCSC") Tongue N Cheek Sustenance Co. {

An Ulskarian enterprise that has a monopoly over the food and agricultural industries within the Ulskarian sphere of influence.

("AFD") Atlas Fountain Diner: A fast-food establishment that is also an automat for on-the-go. AFD restaurants are known to propagate very sporadically and are very hardy where they even survive disasters that would normally force competing fast-food enterprises to close such as in intense or destructive weather.

Esgot Agriculture: A subsidiary of TNCSC that is the de-facto agricultural wing of TNCSC. Esgot Agriculture, with collaboration from MPBM bioengineered crops that are seedless and farmers had to purchase new seeds from Esgot Agriculture. Esgot lobbied TCR-influenced external governments to make replanting, reverse engineering or "unsolicited distribution without permission" of proprietary crops illegal and punishable by an exorbitant fine that the defendant will find themselves augmented into an Ulskarian to pay off their debt.}

("XC&FC") Xeronor Chemical & Fabrication Company: A company with a monopoly over the chemical, construction and fabrication industries within the Ulskarian sphere of influence and is the main supplier of chemicals for the GMC, MPBM and TNCSC.}}]