Shamballa

The planet Shamballa is a secret scientific outpost of the State, technically under it's control, but not forced into communism, retaining it's own culture and order.

Planet
Shamballa is a verdant tropical garden world with lots of water. The land is overgrown by vegetation which is often deadly for humans. The tropical zone, where it rains all the time, is the most safest, that is where the sole city of the scientific outpost is located.

Infrastructure
The outpost is constructed out of colony blocks - universal units that could be used as parts of space stations or buildings - although it has been expanded with buildings made out of wood and plastic. Gravity is used to create energy, water is cleaned and recycled by splitting it into its elements, which can in turn be used to create any substance required in the outpost at the moment. It is more than enough to run the endless labs that are the interior of the outpost - a chaotic labyrinth of laboratories, each belonging to a different scientist or group of scientists.

Government
Though nearing a population of 700 000, there is no law, no state and no organization to keep order, thus making the outpost a society without publicly enforced government - an anarchy.

History
The secret lab on Shamballa was created by an empire on a world where it would stay concealed. After the empire was destroyed, the lab was forgotten. The scientists there have created their own way of life, expanded the colony, created means to produce food and anything else required by scientific advances. They have not, however, recovered the science required to build spacecraft, so they were stuck. The State found Shamballa in its space exploration efforts and took advantage of all their inventions. To preserve the pool of talent, no alterations to the social structure were made, other than supplying them with additional resources and intel, but many Shamballan scientists have worked on State projects since then.