Stroth

Empty and alone except for the star it orbits, Stroth is mostly dry and frozen steppe.

Climate, Atmosphere and Biosphere
Despite it's frozen appearance, Stroth does have a breathable atmosphere with significant arctic wildlife near the equator. Often hitting a maximum of 0° Celsius in the Summer on the equator. Wild-life is mostly imported creatures such the Siberian bear and animals such as deer that can be hunted for meat and pelt. Despite all this, Stroth boasts a population of nearly a million inhabitants for such a small planet.

Current Government
After a violent uprising and consequential coup, an authoritarian dictatorship rules what they can of Stroth with an iron fist. Laws constrict most personal freedom and any visitors are watched suspiciously after being scanned and testing for psychic influence.

Laws
Alongside the authoritarian nature, strict laws have been put in place regarding open discussion and psychics.

Outright discussion of psychics and negative discussion of the parliament is imprison-able. Vaguely defined laws persecute most civil unrest, including public protests and discussion of social class and position. Protecting psychics and not admitting them to execution is an immediate execution and every related individual.

Pre-Scream
Before the scream, Stroth was an important outpost that provided repair to vessels using gate travel on the way for explores. During the silence, most of the industrial capacity was destroyed in anarchy as they attempted to rebuild.

The Silence
During the Silence post-scream, many war-like tribes formed. The destruction of surviving pre-tech destroyed the left over infrastructure and reduced them to 20th century technology that they could recreate. A monarchy ruling over them eventually came over, providing stability to the region.

Post-silence
A few decades before current times, the planet was embroiled in a war that consumed most of the population. The then monarch at the time had incompetent psychic advisers that were blamed for the devastation the war caused. Continual uprisings forced the destruction of the old ways and came into the new rule.

Culture
Consistently covered in layers upon layers of fur jackets, social rules from the Strothians are mostly non-existent as small talk is rare with the except of personal family time. Most activities, however, are done communally with education, meals and non-wired communication are done in large concrete halls.

Stroth's technology is very reliant on the capital, most of the planet lives in un-industrialized areas and rely on the capital for clothing, weapons and tools. Towns are often just cleared up rubble from previous conflicts with cracked statues of long forgotten rulers standing in town squares.