=Mimas= 
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Mimas is a largely unremarkable icy moon, around 400 kilometers in diameter but with a slight ellipsoid shape. A half dozen small [[Beehives|beehive]] and [[Domes|dome]] [[habitats]] pockmark its surface, though the largest settlement is Harmonious Anarchy, along with its orbital manufactories.
==Harmonious Anarchy== 
**Station Type:** Beehive
**Allegiance:** Autonomist Alliance ([[Extropians|Extropian]]/Mutualist)
**Primary Languages:** Cantonese, Mandarin
**Population:** 500,000
The more prohibitions there are, the poorer everyone will be.
The more weapons are used, the greater the chaos will be in society.
The more that people seek “knowledge” for its own sake, the stranger the world will become.
The more laws that are made, the greater the number of criminals.
Therefore the wise person says:
I do nothing, and people become good by themselves.
I seek peace, and people take care of their own problems.
I do not meddle in their personal lives, and the people become prosperous.
I let go of all my desire to control them, and the people return to their natural ways.
—Lao Tzu, //Tao Te Ching//

Taoist collectivist anarchism isn’t a way of life that most people desire or even understand, but it works. Since Harmonious Anarchy split off from [[Fa Jing]] 14 years ago, they have kept Fa Jing’s emphasis on highly efficient industrial design. They are the second largest designer and manufacturer of industrial equipment outside the orbit of [[Jupiter]], a fact that has made the almost half a million inhabitants of Harmonious Anarchy relatively prosperous. However, like most other mutualist, anarcho-communist, and collectivist habs, this prosperity is distributed fairly equally. Everyone here has a morph and other basic property, as well as a modicum of luxuries, but the taoist ethic eschews ostentatious displays of wealth and the inhabitants of Mimas live fairly spartan lives.
For those used to the more traditional Confucian ethic found on many Fa Jing habitats, life on Mimas is a rather jarring contrast. Contrary to the emphasis on masculine aspects of traditional family and hierarchical models espoused by Confucianism, the taoists of Mimas live by the more traditionally feminine and egalitarian ethics described in the Tao Te Ching. This means the highly structured and competitive environment of most Fa Jing habs is replaced by what seems to be a whole lot of people doing nothing. Workers wander in contemplation at all times of day, talking quietly in small groups or pairs, moving in and out of different structures, eating when they feel hunger, and sleeping when they feel weary. On Mimas, you do what you wish, not what others tell you. To the consternation of our former employer, it works gloriously well. 
Each of the ﬁve color-coded cavernous neighborhoods, based on the classic direction of Chinese mythology, is a unique community. Families form the core of life on Mimas, but the term “family” has a slightly different meaning here. Instead of a genetic bond, families are groupings of choice, bound by mutual interests and support. New immigrants to Mimas are encouraged to explore and talk to as many people as they wish, with the expectation that eventually they will ﬁnd a family that ﬁts for them. Not everyone does, but that’s OK; Harmonious Anarchy is not for everyone. Those who do ﬁnd a family, however, gain a social unit that looks after them and cares for them in times of need.
Despite not having any formal requirements for labor or work, most of the residents of Mimas are highly productive, allowed to choose their own projects and work at their own pace. They nonetheless develop innovative software and are on the cutting edge of industrial design. Hard work and success are rewarded, but a portion of all rewards someone gains goes to their family. Personal displays of wealth are nearly unheard of. Instead, most proﬁts are used to further improve life on Mimas, expand the habitat, or sponsor new egos to join one of the established families on the asteroid.

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