Viechtyr

Viechtyr (Viechtyren: Vixtue, [viʃtʷwɛ͡e] English: Viechtyr [viʃtuɚ] or [viʃtə], Mandarin: 威需, Wěixū, [weɪ̯⁵⁵ɕy⁵⁵]) is a planet in the Elain system. It is the home planet of the Viechtyren species, and the capital planet of the Viechtyren Union and the United Viechtyr Space Corps.

Geography & Geology
Viechtyr is a predominantly temperate planet, though hotter, more tropical areas do exist near the equator. The planet is predominantly covered in grasslands that resemble the steppes of Eurasia, with some temperate rainforests near the coasts. There are three major continents on Viechtyr: Zakuf, Eadru, and Ñavot'. Zakuf is the largest continent and has the largest population, as well as the largest city and capital, Canavar.

Housing
Housing on Viechtyr, in cities, is very dense. People usually live in small, one or two bedroom apartments/condos in mixed-use, five-to-eight storey buildings. The insides are furnished with modern items like TVs, good kitchens, bathrooms with bidets and showers, etc. Some people who live outside the city have single-family dwellings, in suburban areas. These suburbs are more isolated and quiet, but still have good public transit.

Viechtyren architecture resembles that of central Europe. Long buildings that stretch the entire length of a block, with peaked roofs and dormers. Most blocks consist of only one building, with a courtyard in the centre that is accessible from the street. The bottom floor of most buildings doubles as a store or service area, such as a subway station entrance or small doctor's office. The buildings are usually made of painted stone or brick, never wood. Inside, there are long halls with apartments on either side. The walls are drywall and the floors made of wood or slate. Each building has a basement that doubles as a storage area and as a bomb shelter.

Religion
Before the Viechtyren Revolution, Viechtyr was home to various faiths, most of which were monotheistic. World Spirit Worship was an outlier in that regard, being polytheistic. After the revolution, which was led by a WSW preacher, WSW had a privileged status but the state was nominally secular, and WSW grew organically. When human missionaries came, the government decided the people needed to be united religiously and forced WSW onto the people; by this time there were very few holdouts of the other faiths so it was easy to force it onto Viechtyr.