Difference between revisions of "Erra"
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* Food and housing free | * Food and housing free | ||
* Poverty eradicated | * Poverty eradicated | ||
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| + | == Living Quarters == | ||
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| + | * Multi-story buildings exist but no sky scrapers | ||
| + | * Extensive park and garden facilities with footpaths are placed between residential buildings | ||
| + | * No streets or roads of any kind. All residential areas have their own pedestrian zones | ||
| + | * No surface vehicles used | ||
| + | * Majority live in the country | ||
| + | * Majority of homes are single-family houses semi-spherical or spherical in shape with minimum diameter of 21 metres (69 ft) | ||
| + | * Building materials largely consist of a resistant metal alloy or synthetic material that is primarily from sand, similar to silicon | ||
| + | * Sufficient room for family of 5 | ||
| + | * Each house is built on its own plot of fertile land of at least 1 hectare (2.5 acres) | ||
| + | * All famililes take pleasure in planting and cultivating their fruit, veg, and flower gardens | ||
| + | * Gardens are used as much as possible for personal cultivation of home grown food | ||
| + | * Each home its own water and energy supply | ||
| + | * Not a single smoke stack pollutes the atmosphere on Erra!<ref>And Still They Fly! 2nd Edition, page 20</ref> | ||
== Relationships == | == Relationships == | ||
Revision as of 02:14, 14 December 2008
Overview
Erra is the home-world of Ptaah, Quetzal, Semjase, Sfath and 550,000,000 others.
Star System
- Plejara or Plejares (alternative names)
- About 500 light years away from Earth on the otherside of the Pleiades star cluster
Galaxy
Universe
Space-time Configuration
- A few seconds difference to our space-time configuration
Physical Characteristics
- Gravity: 3% higher than 1 Earth-g
- Diameter: Almost the same as the Earth
Government
- Leadership chosen according to level of spiritual wisdom
Health
- Average lifespan: ~1000 Earth-years
- Age of puberty: 12 to 16 Earth-years
- Age of maturity/marriage: 70 Earth-years
- Diseases: All STDs eradicated
- Genetic alterations: All pubic hair removed!
Economy
- Non-monetary
- Robot-assisted
- Borrowed-asset scheme (e.g. flying cars etc)
- Food and housing free
- Poverty eradicated
Living Quarters
- Multi-story buildings exist but no sky scrapers
- Extensive park and garden facilities with footpaths are placed between residential buildings
- No streets or roads of any kind. All residential areas have their own pedestrian zones
- No surface vehicles used
- Majority live in the country
- Majority of homes are single-family houses semi-spherical or spherical in shape with minimum diameter of 21 metres (69 ft)
- Building materials largely consist of a resistant metal alloy or synthetic material that is primarily from sand, similar to silicon
- Sufficient room for family of 5
- Each house is built on its own plot of fertile land of at least 1 hectare (2.5 acres)
- All famililes take pleasure in planting and cultivating their fruit, veg, and flower gardens
- Gardens are used as much as possible for personal cultivation of home grown food
- Each home its own water and energy supply
- Not a single smoke stack pollutes the atmosphere on Erra![1]
Relationships
- Monogamistic and polygamistic - one man to many women (sometimes)
- Some women are bisexual
- Divorce rate is zero
Languages
- Main languages: Errin and Sarat
- Federation common: Kosan
- Number of languages: 16,403 (July 2002 quote)
- Average number learned by Errans: 3
- Exceptional number learned by a few Errans: 100
- Technology-assisted learning
- Any language can be learned in 30-31 days[2]
Crime
- Non-existent
- Murder and prostitution eradicated (obviously)
Last War
- 50,000 years ago
Other Interesting Facts
- There are no roads on Erra
- Orchards of fruit trees hundreds of metres high with giant fruit e.g. tomatoes, which are processed on an industrial scale
- Only couples without any genetic disorders are permitted to procreate
- Population of planet is carefully controlled
- Expectant mothers receive their own house and land (100m x 100m)
- They regularly send impulses to Earth-scientists, undetected, to plant useful inventions within their minds
