Earth

Location from The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

Thirty billion people on a planet that can barely support them. Overpopulated, ecologically strained, running on basic income. Still the center of human civilization and seat of the United Nations government that claims authority over the entire system.

Also known as: Earth, Terra

What They Know

• Population of approximately 30 billion sustained by basic income — most citizens have never held employment
• The United Nations governs Earth and claims authority over the entire solar system through the UN charter
• Marco Inaros's asteroid bombardment killed billions and caused ecological devastation comparable to the Chicxulub extinction event
• Earth's political power depends on controlling the system's economic infrastructure — trade routes, water distribution, and military force projection
• The opening of the Ring Gates undermined Earth's centrality — why fight over a crowded solar system when thirteen hundred empty worlds await?
• Avasarala served as UN Secretary-General during multiple crises, representing Earth's political establishment at its most capable

Connections

• home_of — avasarala
• home_of — errinwright
• home_of — anna
• home_of — amos
• home_of — erich
• territory_of — sol_system

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