Napea
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The Napeans have terraformed their homeworld of Napea to a state of conformity that strikes many outsiders as obsessive. Each continental land mass has been re-engineered so that it consists of 70% flat, arable plains and 20% rolling hills, which are also suitable for agriculture and pastoral grazing. The remaining 10% is devoted to the whims of those fortunate enough to own large tracts of it. So Napea does have mountains, canyons, waterfalls and other such spectacular features, but they are all artificially created, just like the planet's overall design. The Napeans have also engineered their weather to flatten out all seasonal variations. Precipitation falls in predetermined amounts in predetermined places according to need and the temperature never strays far from 20 degrees Celsius.
History
Napea was once a hostile place for advanced life forms. Volatile weather and geology made natural catastrophes frequent occurrences. The idea that Nature is an enemy to be fought and tamed has therefore been part of the Napeans' collective consciousness since their prehistory. When their race came of age technologically, mastering their environment became both a possibility and an urgent priority. Within a century, they mastered sophisticated terraforming and weather control techniques that would make their past hardscrabble life a distant memory.
As the prosperity that came with an absolutely stable environment settled in, however, so did widespread boredom. With the struggle for basic survival no longer an outlet for their energies, it seemed that Napeans began to turn on each other out of sheer anomie. In their major cities, rioting and other violent crime became common past times, especially among the young. In the early 23rd Century, scientists created a genetic mutation that turned the following generations into empaths, ending the violence.