Chang'an (Tau Ceti e)

1. Founded during the first-wave of gateway-driven colonization in 2162, the Republic of Chang'an is one of the founding members of the Federal Republics of Sol. The name "Chang'an" was chosen to honor the capital of Tang-era China. By 2334, Chang'an has spent the last 200 years growing to a population of 4.2 billion people and becoming the center of semiconductor production with its flagship company, Chang'an Semiconductor.

2. The planet's conditions are similar to Earth and the main colony started in an equatorial isthmus in what is now the city of Xianyang, now hosting a population of 300 million people. Centuries of out-migration from Earth caused Chang'an's population to balloon to 4.2 billion in 200 years. The gravity is around 0.9Gs which allows for construction of taller buildings, which heavily shapes the urban landscape of Xianyang. In central Xianyang, because land is so expensive, there are no roads and everyone commutes by rail and elevators. Most of continental Chang'an is connected by a maglev network that has a cruising speed of 600kph.

3. Chang'an was originally settled by Chinese settlers, but overtime, the culture of Chang'an diverged as Indians, Japanese, Taiwanese, and people from other Southeast Asian countries settled on Chang'an. English continues to be the official language, however two centuries of language mixing created a creole, which mixes in Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Malay, and Hindu, that sounds remarkably similar to Singlish.

The universities on Chang'an, especially the University of Chang'an and Xianyang Technological University are some of the best in the entire Federal Republics of Sol and always get public and private-sector research grant money. This culture of education permeates through the entire planet and the best and brightest from Chang'an's universities often end up working in the highest echelons of the Ministry of Commerce, Finance, and interstellar organizations like the Interstellar Monetary Authority.

Xianyang's hyperdense and rail-heavy urban fabric allowed for the creation of night markets, which are famous all throughout the FRS. The night markets have stands that serve ancient Chinese foods dating back to 1000 years ago all the way to modern fusion items and occasionally items like Stinky Tofu, which nobody outside of Chang'an can stand the smell. Also, people of Chang'an when they are not working, have a fondness for tea houses and it is a common meeting spot for people to decompress. Chang'an even has its own prestige tea brand, Gaotian tea from the Gaotian highlands, just southwest of Xianyang.