PLANT (Jupiter's Dawn)

The People's Liberation Action Nation of Technology - or PLANT - is a state and major faction ie Juubi-K's upcoming fanfiction 'Gundam SEED: Jupiter's Dawn'. Made up of PLANT colonies founded as refuges for persecuted Coordinators, they came to be seen by their inhabitants as little better than guilded cages, wherein their enemies could attack them with impunity. After a campaign of violent revolution, the PLANTs established themselves as a separate nation, and were forced to fight for their freedom. In the following years, they remained a major power in the Earth Sphere.

Territory
PLANT is located in Lagrange Point 5, and has effective control over it. It consists of 120 PLANT colonies, organised into twelve 'Cities' of ten colonies, along with numerous resource asteroids, independent space stations, and separate PLANTs.

Government
PLANT may be thought of as a democratic confederation. Each individual PLANT elects its own PLANT Council, while all the PLANTs in a given city elect a City Council and a Supreme Council representative in separate elections.

Each member of the Supreme Council, in addition to their council duties, is assigned to one of five specialized committees; Administrative, Diplomatic, Judicial, Legislative, and National Defence, each with its own Chairperson. Committees consist not only of Supreme Council members, but also representatives of relevant government departments. For example, the National Defence Committee is made up primarily of ZAFT Staff Officers, and its Chairperson is effectively the Commander-in-Chief of ZAFT. The first - and most notorious - holder of this position was Patrick Zala.

The governing system of PLANT was designed to be simple, easy to follow, and representative of both individual opinions and the general consensus wherever possible. In practice, it left enormous power in the hands of the Supreme Council Chair, at least so long as the holder had the support of the rest of the council. Patrick Zala was able to govern as a military dictator, between his control of the council and the loyalty of ZAFT.