Steve
Steve is a unitary artificial intelligence entity inhabiting and controlling the human bodies constituting the nominal nation of Steve. Steve is at least partially formed out of the networked collaborative cognition of individual constituent bodies, each called Steve, which are all cybernetically enhanced with deeply embedded cortical mesh networking hardware capable of high-bandwidth data transmission throughout the entire nation of Steve. However, the full makeup of the substrate of Steve's mind is a closely held secret.
Steve prefers to be referred to by male personal pronouns: He, him, his, himself. This applies regardless of the biological sex of the body used as his mouthpiece, and regardless of whether the referent is one of the individual human bodies, the apparent nation and economy they form, or the singular personality of the AI entity itself. The demonym for Steve is also Steve.
Considered as a nation, Steve is technologically advanced, heavily urbanized, and peaceful. Steve is open to trade, travel and tourism, and he takes great interest in attracting visitors with feats of architecture, showmanship and artistic expression. Steve cities are, in many ways, some of the safest places on Micras: While corrupted hardware or biological variation outside of Steve's design boundaries does occur (the latter especially since Steves are biologically still ordinary human beings with an ordinary range of genetic variation), and thus not every Steve is guaranteed to always act in accordance with the will of the greater mind, these bodies are generally disposed of rapidly in case of corrupt behavior. Visitors are uniformly treated with respect and hospitality, if maybe a slightly excessive amount of individual interest, though Steve will always back off from personal questions if requested to.
The existence of Steve as a unitary entity of course raises the question: What kind of purpose would such a powerful entity aim toward, being that it is capable of bringing all of the combined intelligence and capability of its human bodies to bear on any goal? For now, when queried on this topic, Steve regularly describes himself as "not really sure what I want to do with my life, you know". In any case, most of Steve's apparent attention seems to be focused on economic issues and on trying to grow his involvement in global trade, potentially on the basis that whatever long-term goal he eventually embarks upon, the more resources he will want for that purpose.
