Pillar of Hope

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Pillar of Hope
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Logo, featuring a stylised laurel wreath surrounding a symbolic orbiting Earth, and a star representing the three tenants of Unity, Justice and Freedom
Arcology
Government: Federal Parliamentary Republic
President: Kersten Staadén
Demonym: Pillar of Hope, Pillarian (colloquial)
Colours: Commonwealth standard:
        
Geography
Located: Central Europe
Planet: Earth
System: Solar system
Demographics
Population: ~427,880,000
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The Pillar of Hope is one of the arcologies of the Commonwealth of Earth, and is regarded as the modern political successor of the former nation of Germany.

History[edit | edit source]

European Climate Collapse[edit | edit source]

Long before the pollution and sea level managed to destroy human habitation in central Europe, the concurrent and devastating floods crippled vast tracts of infrastructure and valuable zoning. The majority of the northern provinces of the post-European Union United European Commons suffered greatly from the aggressive rising of sea-level in mid to late 21st century.

As the sea level continued to rise with an increasingly rapid pace, the northern coastline of the European Commons suffered the most. The opportunistic administration bureaus of the northern states failed to meet the sea level rise with comprehensible and thorough plans. Vast dyke and canal systems were constructed in order to save most of the lowland areas, ultimately failing and letting the sea consume the whole coast north from Ardennes.

With the expansions of racial and cultural diversity within the European Commons, any concept of "European Consensus" was lost. Resentment towards the Bureau and the European Council continued to rise all the way from the early 21st century. The mass migrations in early 22nd century proved the social and healthcare of the European Commons to be greatly lacking in efficiency and flexibility. While they were originally reconstructed – after the signing of the European Constitution and ratification of the Treaty of Bern – into a comprehensive, socialistic healthcare system, the lack of funding and the incapacity of distributing regional power had seen the healthcare system to degrade into insurance politics and homecare.

Even if in the northern Commons failed to counter the sea level rising, in many other places it was met with success. In the long run they did little good and many areas that had been saved with poldering, dams, canals and rerouting of existing riverbeds, succumbed to the same tragic fate in the following centuries.

Early Concepts[edit | edit source]

The failure to develop means to counter the climate change resulted in the industrialised eastern Commons to become constantly veiled in heavy smog and even outright toxic air quality. In the early 22nd century, the very first wholly contained town was engineered in the Hunsrück range for demonstrative purposes. Its concepts were refined in the following decades by numerous corporations and United European Commons departments with the regional administration forced into cooperation.

It became soon clear that the western provinces of France were to be the most hospitable after the melting of northern pole. Even if Lyon was seen as thriving and lively city, the annual rains caused by the Cevennes range caused heavy damage to private property and the flooding Rhône river tore its way through the city a bit wider every year. Led by the privatised city development unit Futur Nuvae, a massive domed city was designed near the cities of Moulins and Vichy, L'Avenir. Its construction began in 2137 and was the first domed city that received official aid from the European Commons and is widely considered as the first dome-city ever built. Smaller ones were commissioned and constructed in the mid-22nd century. After the Third Space Race began its climax after the colonising of Luna (or its global acknowledgement) in 2180 and the aggressive evolution and development of multiple long-range mass-destruction weapon technologies, the building of dome-cities received less attention and less money. Political power from the Bureau acknowledged city-states ran into the hands of European Commons Bureau’s privatised department-corporations. The northern states held tighter of their holdings and state properties and managed to pool resources towards dome-city projects which ultimately led to the establishment of the Pillar of Hope.