Singaporean Interstellar Commonwealth



The Singaporean Interstellar Commonwealth is an Intergalactic, One-Party, Commonwealth. It's leader is Prime Minister Gerald Siow of the New Workers' Party(NWP), which has 4500 Elected Parliamentary Representatives. It's territory spans over 76 galaxies and as many as 755 million planets, of which, 150 000 are inhabited or inhabitable, and 85 000 of them are similar to Sol Earth. It has a GDP of 3.5 Sextillion Singapore Dollars, a population of over 950B, an unemployment rate of 0.05%, and a literacy rate of 99.99999999998%. The average citizen earns over $450 000 annually, and there is almost no divide between the richest 10% and the bottom 10%. Everyone is middle class, though there is a group of upper middle class. Nonetheless, all citizens enjoy a standard of living only the richest can imagine of on Sol Earth.

It's capital is New Singapore, in the galaxy LKY-03. However, it's administrative capitol is the SAF-01 Battlestar. The latter is a space station the size of Sol Earth, and has a superlaser capable of destroying a planet the size of Sol Mars with a single shot at 1.2% power. The Commonwealth has a standing army of 5.4B Active personnel, a grand fleet of 500 000 Star Battleships, 310 000 Star Carriers and more than 1M "raider" starfighters. Opponents, rebels and enemies are known to retreat and cower at the sight of just a small detachment of the Singaporean Army, making hit and run tactics against intergalactic shipping the most effective form of dealing damage. This threat was mitigated with the 2347 initiative to install Type X Hyperdrives on every ship.

Every 9th of August, National Day is celebrated. Throughout the 200-year history of the Commonwealth, citizens rally in the streets in support of the government as grand military parades rile up crowds. A cultural festival also happens in July to commemorate and celebrate the diversity of the nation. Over 5M languages are spoken, but English is the common language.

History
In 2066, the Republic of Singapore assisted heavily in designing the first ever starships. In Febuary 2085, the first two starships capable of extraterrestrial combat was commissioned under the United Nations Extraterrestrial Command(UNEC). The "Earth Fleet" had only grown since. These starships were about the size of the USS Missouri, the infamous WW2 battleship, and were called the Andromeda-Class Starcruiser.

As the first Solar War began in 2144, the 30 ship-strong Earth Fleet initially managed to hold off the Capricans. However, after the Battle of Titan, the threat of Earth being directly attacked by Caprica was far too high. The Singapore Government thus used it's remaining force of 3 Starcruisers to evacuate 5.6M out of 6M people from Singapore, heading off into the galaxy. They colonised the Canceron Galaxy in 2195. From there on, Singapore experienced it's greatest economic, technological and population boom. The Andromeda Galaxy was annexed in 2233, marking the start of the Commonwealth.