Planet Info

Pele Overview

15% bigger than Earth
Continents: Hestia, Vulcan, Prometheus-Artic, Antartic
Atmosphere: 1.03 of Earth
Density: 5 grams per cubic centimeter (vs. Earth's 5.5)
Gravity: 1.005 of Earth (half a percent stronger)
Day: 10% longer. Divided into 26 hours: 13 anti-meridian and 13 post-meridian.
Week: 7 days.
Year: 422 days. Divided into 12 months of 35 days each except January and July, which are 36.
Moons: 2; closest: Artemis, normally travels within the rings. Farthest: Apollo, beyond last ring, larger than Artemis, but minor pull on tides.
km per degree of Longitude: 128.02
km per degree of latitude: 127.91
Percent surface water: 57%
Land surface in km²: 251,249,258
Rings: 50,000 years old; created when an asteroid impacted an under water super volcano deep within the largest ocean. Killed all life; rearranged all land mass.

All citizens are entitled to 1400 calories a day, two sets of seasonal attire, basic accommodation, standard medical care, comm net access and data, a standard all-in communication device with no add-ons.
Federal and State Service: every city-state maintains large farms and some factories.  Every two-three months, all citizens of every age report to central areas to sow, reap, preserve or process basic necessities.  Since there are different types of climate, and therefore different types of crops, the city-states exchange items and distribute them.
Basic Accomodation: large hexagonal flat (apartment), with 3 hexagonal bedrooms breaking up an open living space of sitting area, dining area and kitchen. 1 bathroom.
Community Service: all living complexes, both flats and collections of independent houses, have requirements for community service.  It counts towards rent for rentals and taxes and community fees for owned dwellings.  Jobs are strictly shared, with age, physical or mental handicaps however being factored for level of support in a job or actual assignment.  Everything required to maintain the community, including vegetable and medicinal plant gardens, physical repairs, recycling processing, etc is done by anyone over the age of 5 that lives there.
85% of Pele population still embraces the community way of life.

All Pele Humans serve in the military upon completing basic education either at 16 or 18.  Six months training and testing followed by 1 year of active service.  Some choice of branch of service allowed, but it can be overridden based on testing results, affinity or discipline issues.
For 5 years after the year of compulsary service, 3 months reservist service owed, as well as 6 2-day training session per year.
15% of the population involved in full-time military.
Space program is largely voluntary, but two of the off-world mining facilities are penal colonies.
No jobs are full time, year around.  Even functions like police have 3 months of leave time.  No pay for leave time.  Many managerial jobs are part time, all year for continuity.  Factories may not run for a full year. 
Most mining is done off-world. No strip mining allowed on Pele itself.  Many mines on Pele itself are part-time efforts by people on their leave time, having a whack at a communal material vein, deep inside tunnels dug with no particular regard for safety.  Off-world mining done within domes on several large planets.  Some asteroid harvesting, but resources are too plentiful to risk the highly expensive, rarely produced space craft on something that radical and debris forming.  Pele's rings are off-limits to mining.

Luxury items, cultural items are revered, especially if they came from earth.
Music is important, as is story telling.