Union colonial mandate

A Union colonial mandate is a right given to individual countries, federations of countries and certain confessional groups and organizations to cultivate and administer a colonial planet autonomously from the Central Colonial Administration.

The Union distinguishes between four types of Mandate Planets:
 * 1) Type I Mandate: Given to the suborganizations of the Union, such as the United Nations of Hulada and Mithridhia. These colonial planets are mostly inhabited by citizens from the respective home planets that are represented by the suborganization in question.
 * 2) Type II Mandate: Given to individual countries for national economical and demographical cultivation. Currently, only a small number of countries has the privilege to govern their own colonial planet.
 * 3) Type III Mandate: Planets reserved for scientific and military purposes. Most colonial planets start out as Type III Mandate planets, as the Union Armed Forces and the research bodies of the Union are typically involved with the first stages of planetary development.
 * 4) Type IV Mandate: A relatively new mandate, provided to groups of citizens who want to develop a planet for confessional or ideological reasons. Groups of people and organizations who are interested in attaining this mandate have to enter a very strict, bureaucratic process. Planets that are deemed not vital for the Union economy are sometimes reserved for Type IV Mandate requests.

Type IV Mandate
The Type IV Mandate has been provided five times in the past. The first mandate was given to the Bahá'í international community after a request was done by representatives of the Bahá'í faith. This led to the establishment of the House of Bahá'u'lláh. The second and third mandate was given to a union of several organizations representing anti-authoritarianist ideas, anarchist ideas and the Adam and Eve movement (a movement that concerns itself with the establishment of an anarchist, ecological society). This led to the establishment of Alma Mater and Folkvangr.

The fourth mandate was provided to the International Community of Tribal Nations, an organization representing several hundreds of tribes, including hunter-gatherer bands, nomadic societies and so on. This led to the establishment of Nova Tellus. The fifth mandate was provided to the International Council of Science, who intends to develop a planet for scientific and research purposes. (Including the intention to leave the indigenous flora and fauna intact). This led to the establishment of Episteme I.