KomNet

KomNet is a semi-centralized computer network used in and by InterKom members to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of public, academic, industrial, and government networks of local to international scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. TKomNet carries a vast range of information resources and services, and is combined as a single powerful distributed machine used for economic, military, and social planning. Due to the massive scope of the machine and the nature of its information processing capabilities, KomNet is considered a Non-human Intelligent Entity, capable of making independent decisions based on the information that passes through it, and plays a major role in the day-to-day operations of most InterKom member nations. KomNet is designated the highest head of state in the Schwikau Union Republic.

The origins of KomNet date back to the development of packet switching and research commissioned by MINGOSPLAN in the late 1930s to enable time-sharing of early Information Handling Machines and long range intercommunication between the individual machines used in production faclilities, farms, and MINGOSPLAN. The development of the first digital electronic computer in 1942 and the transistor only a couple years later opened up a new avenue for expansion of the KomNet system, over the next decades developing from a primitive information sharing service to a massive distributed economic planning tool. In 1955 MINKOMNET was established as a sub-ministry of MINGOSPLAN to take over the day-to-day tasks like service, development and expansion.