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|+<big><big>'''Micras'''</big></big><br>
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| <small>Disclaimer: all information compiled in the tables below is the result of efforts by scientists representing the [[New Zimian Space Exploration and Settlement Agency]].</small><br>[[Image:Micras216.png|100px]]
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| align=center colspan=2 style="background: #c0c0ff; text-align:center;"| '''Orbital characteristics'''
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|'''Mass (Kg)'''|| 7.74E+24
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|'''Radius (Km)'''|| 6,875
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|'''Solar Day (h)''' || 24
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|'''Orbital Period (days)'''|| 183
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|'''Semi-Major Axis (Km)'''|| 8.76E+07
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|'''Periapsis (AU)'''|| .583
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|'''Apoapsis (AU)'''|| .584
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|'''Surface Temperature (K)''' || 288
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|'''Surface Gravity (m/s^2)''' || 10.9
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|'''Axial Tilt (degrees)''' || 22.5
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|'''Inclination (degrees)''' || 0
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|'''Orbital Speed (Km/s)''' || 34.8
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|'''Land/Sea Ratio''' || 36.51%/63.49%
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|'''Satellites''' || [[Tarsica]]
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| align=center colspan=2 style="background: #c0c0ff; text-align:center;"| '''Atmospheric Characteristics'''
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|'''Albedo''' || .32
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|'''Atmosphere Mass (kg)''' || 5.10E+18
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|'''Mass of Air Column (kg)''' || 8,584
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|'''Surface Density (kg/m3)''' || 1.217
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|'''Mean Molecular Weight Dry Air (g/mol)''' || 28.97
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|'''Degrees of Freedom''' || 5
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|'''Specific Heat Const Pressure (Cv)''' || 718
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|'''Lapse Rate Dry Adiabatic (K/m)''' || 0.0098
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|'''Emissivity IR''' || 1
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|'''Visual Temperature (K)''' || 290
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|'''Effective Temperature (K)''' || 255
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|'''Surface Pressure (lb/in2)''' || 14.7
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|'''Co2PPMV''' || 400
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|'''Co2 Emissions (Metric Ton per Capita)''' || 1.916666667
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|'''Heat Capacity of Land J/(kg K)''' || 1420.2
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|'''Heat Capacity of Sea J/(kg K)''' || 3830.8
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| align=center colspan=2 style="background: #c0c0ff; text-align:center;"| '''Territorial Claims Statistics'''
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|'''Total Land (% Claimed)*''' || 268,937,136 km² (62%)
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|'''Total Land Eastern Hemisphere (% Claimed)*''' || 132,959,088 km² (41%)
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|'''Total Land Western Hemisphere (% Claimed)*''' || 135,798,624 km² (82%)
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|*Information Relevant to Map Version 15.8.9 
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'''Micras''' is the official name of the [[micronational]] map that contains the fictional land holdings of many [[Anglophone Sector]] micronations. However there are a few exceptions with members from the [[Dutch Sector]] among other sectors on the map. The vast majority of micronational literature uses this map as the setting for their micronational fictional stories.
Micras is the planet mapped by the [[MCS]] and is the only habitable planet within the [[Atos]] solar system.

==History of the name==
Micras is derived from Micron, the original name of the planet as named by Bill Dusch. Before Micron, the planet was simply called "The Microworld." Micron was derived from a shortening of "micronation", and was pronounced like (But should not be focused with) as the measurement system of the same name and the fictional species. However, this was an unoffical name. In 2002, there was a poll in the MCS as to what the name of the world should be. Micron was there, but Fnord was also there as a joke choice. However, this joke choice soon became popular. [[Harvey Steffke]] told [[Scott Alexander]], then head of the MCS, that if the world was named Fnord than he would have truely failed, everything he and the [[Flying Islands of Jasonia]] stood for was dead. He planned on writing a story on how the islands were blasting into space forever and trying to get them removed from the map entirely. The next day, the new name was announced: Micras.

Micras, other than directly being derived from Micron, had two parts niftiness. It had the letters MCS in it (for the organization), and backwards has [[ARI]] in it, leading it to be an excellent choice for the name of the planet. Later on, it was made offical MCS policy for the offical name of the planet, and is considered by the majority of those in the MCS to be the name.

It is also a fun fact that it is [[Soloralism|Soloralist]] dogma that the planet's name is Micras, a relic back to the days when it was not the only name for the planet.

==Areas of Micras==

===Continents===
[[File:Continents Micras.png|350px|thumb|left|The seven continents of Micras.]]
There are 7 continents on Micras. These are:

*[[Cibola]]
*[[Benacia]]
*[[Tapfer]]
*[[Apollonia]]
*[[Keltia]]
*[[Eura]]
*[[Corum]]

==Mythology==
{{Main|Micras (Reformed Stripping Path)}}
In the theology of the [[Reformed Stripping Path]], Micras is venerated as both the planet and the divine personification of balance, wisdom, and cosmic mediation. As the Lady Divine of Balance and Wisdom, Micras embodies the tension and reconciliation between chaos and order, and is seen as the fixed center of the Host Spirit’s unfolding drama. Her mythic role contrasts with the celestial motion of divinities like [[Eos]]: where others illuminate from above, Micras endures below—the axis upon which all spiritual cycles turn.

According to canonical tradition, Micras offered herself as the foundation of the mortal world, becoming the living medium through which divine revelation could enter the physical plane. Her silence is viewed not as passivity but as deep contemplation—the calm at the center of spiritual storms. Myths such as the Hymn to Micras recount her interventions during moments of cosmic imbalance, emphasizing her role as a mediator who never erases disorder, but ensures its rightful place in the eternal pattern.

Worship of Micras is deeply integrated into the moral and civic institutions of Bassaridia Vaeringheim, particularly in the city of [[Serena]], where the Harmony Sanctum preserves her teachings. She is honored in periods of transition, reflection, and reconciliation, and remains one of the most philosophically revered deities in the Reformed Stripping Path.

==Links==

*[http://www.micras.org/maps/claimsmap.png MCS Political Map]<br>
*[https://micras.org/maps/physical.png MCS Physical Map]<br>
*[https://micras.org/wiki/images/3/39/Bigworldc-v2.GIF MCS Resource Map]<br>
*[https://micras.org/mwiki/File:2018climatetestmodeltest.png Bijaro's Climate Map]
*[https://micras.org/mwiki/File:Micrastopofinreverse.png Bijaro's Physical Map]

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