Federation

Biodata

History

Foundation and the Sky Overseer

The Federation has existed for over four hundred years. Its early stability rested on the Heavenly Origin Law established by the Sage known as the Sky Overseer, whose power became part of the world after death. The law reduces disasters and upheaval within Federation territory. 180 246

The Sky Overseer remains the Federation's true Supreme Authority, but no one has received its recognition for more than a century. Reuniting the Federation is required to regain that recognition, yet the Sky Overseer's support is also required to reunite it, creating a political deadlock. 246

Fragmentation

Despite its prosperity, the Federation has endured recurring factional struggles, changing presidents, and institutional reshuffles. Its formal rejection of nobility has not prevented powerful regional families from functioning as aristocratic forces in practice. 55 246

Central City's influence weakens with distance. Governors sent to remote regions are often portrayed as focused on quotas and political achievements rather than local welfare. 182 470

Governance and Heavenly Origin

Civil administration

• Central City governs through a network of major cities, including the four directly administered cities of East, West, South, and North City. 849
• Governors are far more than ordinary civil servants: they are pillars of the Federation's Celestial Origin system and candidate saints serving as vessels for the Sky Overseer. 953
• The Spiritual Substance tax, originally set at one-twentieth when the Federation was founded, had risen to nearly one-tenth by the present era. 470

Heavenly Origin monopoly

• The Federation and Empire jointly dominate access to advanced Heavenly Origin Blessings. Advancement commonly requires passing civil-service examinations and entering official institutions. 755 869
• The Federation's First Department controls access to orthodox Heavenly Origin Matrices and inherited arts. 140
• Official authority can grant powers otherwise inaccessible to independent practitioners; Tong Shan receives the Federation-backed authority known as Power of Life and Death after gaining official recognition. 869

Military and industry

• The Federation is party to the T5 Protocol, which restricts the power, operations, production, and activity range of five dominant companies spanning medicine, communications, production, finance, and transportation. 36
• Emergency provisions of the T5 Agreement permit extraordinary deployments when authorized by the Federation. 242
• Shoushan Copper deposits are under Central City's strict control; the material is used in reaction chambers and precision components for top-tier Powered Armor. 250
• The Kuafu-type Aerospace Hub is a Federation airborne city capable of carrying over a thousand fighter jets, dozens of giant airships, and more than six rapid-response Powered Armor legions. 297
• The Leviathan Fleet is the Federation's highest-level strategic deterrent. Plans to construct a dedicated port and maintenance base for it become a major point of internal competition. 474 566 849
• Military contractors increasingly shift toward wartime production, competing through armored vehicles, drones, bomb-detection machines, and protective equipment. 567

Foreign relations and intervention

Empire

The Federation and Empire are rival poles of Celestial Origin. Though they have fought proxy wars and limited conflicts for decades, both generally avoid direct confrontation under treaty-based deterrence. 566

Their relationship deteriorates amid troop deployments, missile-base construction, fleet mobilization, and the threat of open war. 474 972

Central Earth

The Federation and Empire maintain garrisons in Central Earth and present their presence as a source of stability, public safety, and secure exports of fuel essence and nonferrous metals. 571

In practice, their influence concentrates around resource-rich regions and Central Earth's outskirts. Their established method is to divide local powers, support competing armed groups and puppets, then control the resulting conflict as indispensable mediators. 621

• Federation and Empire forces jointly suppress major threats in Tower City, including evil demons and suspected terrorist networks. 607 610
• During the Tower City crisis, the Federation's Garrison Base hosts biological and chemical laboratories and a multinational examination of the Wolf Blood Oath specimen. 617
• The Federation's industrial and military presence extracts immense quantities of phlogiston and other resources from Central Earth. 567

Thousand Isles and the Seven Cities

The Federation exerts pressure and influence across the Thousand Isles through trade, military technology, satellite services, and local political connections. 697 702

Its Haizhou Security Bureau exterminates nearby merfolk tribes during the rainy season. The resulting fish population boom attracts outside merfolk migrations toward the Seven Cities, creating a regional crisis later attributed to Federation actions. 740

Major events

• T5 emergency authorization — The Federation authorizes action under the T5 Agreement's emergency provisions during the Quancheng crisis. 242
• Tower City intervention — Federation and Empire garrisons publicly coordinate to secure Central Earth's resource output and impose temporary order during successive crises. 571 607 610
• White Deer typhoon response — Federation and Empire forces deploy against disaster beasts after Tong Shan prevents Typhoon White Deer from devastating Central Earth. 588
• White State conflict — Federation and Empire leaders decide to act against the White Banner Restoration Front after the Wolf Blood Oath reveals the potential mass transformation of White Banner citizens. 618
• Federation-wide cult investigation — Following the Haizhou Tech Expo attack, Security Bureaus across the Federation launch a sweeping investigation and purge targeting the Evil Transformation Cult. 966
• Vast Sea Alliance litigation campaign — Federation cities receive hundreds of lawsuits against Vast Sea Alliance members, covering monopoly practices, patent infringement, trade-secret theft, and related commercial disputes. 964

Relationships

• Sky Overseer — The Federation's Supreme Authority and the source of its Heavenly Origin Law; unrecognized by any Federation figure for over a century. 180 246
• Empire — Rival great power and fellow monopolist of high-level Heavenly Origin advancement; alternates between proxy conflict, deterrence, and joint operations. 566 755
• Central City — The Federation's central governing authority, responsible for strategic-resource control, governors, and major military-industrial decisions. 250 953
• Security Bureau — Federation security apparatus involved in anti-cult purges, Central Earth operations, and the extermination of Haizhou's local merfolk tribes. 740 966
• Cosmos Heavy Industries — A surviving T5 corporate power split between Federation and Empire interests; its combined alliance encompasses nearly ninety percent of the present world's industrial capacity. 573
• Coast Industry — A Haizhou-based military-industrial enterprise whose products, personnel, and retired Federation soldiers increasingly operate across Central Earth and the Seven Cities. 725 842