Intergalactic Summit

The Destiny Foundation is elated to announce its intention to found a corporate republic on a currently undisclosed planet in Federation space. Titled the Serenissima Respublico of Elusenia, this nation will not only serve as a support headquarters for the Foundation, but stand as a model for what we want to achieve in the long-term through our ongoing philanthropic endeavours. We continue to be funded by 99% of all profits brought in by Anette Inhonores and her associated brand.

Elusenia will be founded on three core pillars; education, health, and technology. To us, it is the pursuit of excellence in these three areas that stands as the highest ideal of the Destiny Foundation. We acknowledge that this is an immense goal to see fulfilled across the hundreds of worlds currently inhabited by humans, but this only serves as a boon to our efforts. Humanity has only advanced through perseverance and persistence, and we believe it is in the Gallentean spirit to challenge the status quo.

May the saying 'children are the future' never grow old, for this is the core to the Elusenian belief system.

Education

Education is knowledge, and knowledge is the key to understanding. Only through the pursuit of knowledge may we come to understand each other and, in turn, hope for interstellar peace once more. The Destiny Foundation already seeks to improve access to education across dozens of poor Federation countries, by first and foremost improving access. This may be via the provision of textbooks to underequipped schools or even the development of AI teachers to supplement an absence of qualified individuals. With the founding of the Serenissima Respublico, we hope to take this one step further.

The Elusenian Institute for Advancement in Education (EIAE) will be founded as an accredited university to write, print, and publish textbooks to be made available to planetary societies in need of study material. More importantly, EIAE will offer to train prospective teachers with official teaching qualifications to take back to their communities of origin. The Destiny Foundation will completely subsidize the provision of textbooks and the training of teachers. EIAE will also serve as an academic institution for students across New Eden, offering reasonable tuition fees for those from well-off backgrounds, and bursaries for the less-than-able.

EIAE will use the Caillean education system, though in its research of educational theory will consider the applications of other academic approaches. We are notably looking at Caldari techniques with regards to vocational level education.

Health

Even in the presence of opportunity, it is often the case that physical affliction and ailment hold individuals back from seizing their destiny. With the Elusenian Holistic Health Academy (EHHA), we hope to supplement our ongoing medical aid programs with an accredited university hospital. EHHA will research, develop, and manufacture medical supplies as provisions to communities afflicted by illness or disease. Indigenous populations across New Eden often suffer from illness brought on by off-world colonists, and we hope to develop vaccines for these groups in addition to others.

The Destiny Foundation believes that the complete wellbeing of an individual is more than simply a case of physical health. EHHA will study methods of therapy in sports and music, to be applied by Destiny Foundation volunteers in our healthcare programs. Potential applications of alternative forms of mental health will be another pursuit of the EHHA. We believe the healthy individual is a happy individual, and supporting all needs of a patient is key to this end.

As with the EIAE, the EHHA will also accredit talented individuals from poor Federation countries and other planetary societies to become doctors and nurses, in the spirit of self-reliance and -improvement. Again, the Destiny Foundation will completely subsidize prospective medical students.

Technology

Social technology such as GalNet has proven time and time again to reduce barriers between peoples and encourage understanding between groups and individuals. Assistive technology, too, has been able to supplement areas of societies which, for some reason or another, remain deficient. The Destiny Foundation believes that not only can technology assist individuals in relieving the burdens of everyday life, but can empower them with the means to aim for new heights.

The Elusenian Center of Technology (ECT) will develop and manufacture personal computers with GalNet access for distribution to community centers and schools in poor communities free of charge. A child with access to a cluster's worth of information can only aim higher. Bringing children together regardless of planet of origin is important in the pursuit of a cosmopolitan cluster. ECT will also develop solutions in artificial intelligence, especially AI teachers for communities without access to qualified educators. AI solutions will also be provided to poor governments in need of working and effective bureaucracies.

The Destiny Foundation is aware of heteronormative social orders that exist on many planets in New Eden as a result of poor infrastructure and conservative cultural practices. Specifically, the limitation of females to domestic duties is an unfortunate circumstance that we believe can be challenged. However, we do not condone the upsetting of the socioeconomic balance in the pursuit of equality. Instead, ECT will establish temporary training centers in these poor communities to train housewives and young girls (as well as any other group in need) in manufacturing their own technological solution to aid their domestic duties, such as housekeeper drones.

This is the ideology. Details regarding the infrastructure and political system of Elusenia will follow.

This sounds suspiciously like a self-improvement cult based on immortality, cybernetics, and slavery. Hmm. How deep does the corruption go!?

Oh please, he wants to provide computers, teachers and medicine to impoverished communities. That's praise-worthy, and staggering distances away from sticking chips in peoples' heads to make them do what you say, you jerks.

I am sure one could enumerate a lot of counter examples to such a proposition (all similar experiment leading to Sansha simulacrums) and come to a good reductio ad absurdum.

I don't understand. He is proposing to help so many and give aide to those who, for the most part, have been underprivileged for so long. How can this possibly be a bad thing when it proposes to help so many?

Ninety-nine percent of the colony's funding will come from a sole provider. The sole provider is neither a manufacturer nor a services provider, but a single juvenile whose income stream seems in the main skewed toward retaining positive public attention.

I will now step back and permit the economists among us to discuss the viability and long-term stability of this colony financing model.

As pilot Fauconnier already indicated, one hopes that a significant fraction of the colony funding referred to will be used to bootstrap its economy, as opposed to smothering its society in charity. Also, as a minor quibble, you mentioned "heteronormative social orders" while apparently referring to the subordination of women. It would probably be more correct to refer to this as "patriarchal."

Beyond these concerns, I wish you and the Destiny Foundation success in this grand social engineering venture. May it enrich the lives of many. Ancestors bless and good fortune.

I suspect there might be nothing quite like a grand public announcement of a Charter-less tax haven within Federation space to whet the appetites of government auditors.

^This. What makes you think your daughter is up to the task of running your "Republidisco" when shes just 13 and her father is psycologically unfit to be in the Fed Military let alone Colonel-in-chief of a country. We all know who will be the mouthpiece behind her.

I suspect this is actually a heartwarming yet overindulgent scheme by Seriphyn Inhonores have Anette legally recognized as a princess.

I recommend a toy tiara. It's less work.

In any event, best of luck.