Archaria III

Archania III was a planet in the Alpha Quadrant and a member of the United Federation of Planets.

History
Archaria III was settled by a group of religious zealots know as the The Brotherhood in 2102. Seven years later they would encounter Peladians settler who colonized the planet at the same time. It would grow to become a joint colony of humans and peladians by the 24th century. It's history is riddled with interspecies conflict ranging from wars and assassination's up to racism.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) would compare it to human civilization from two or three century's ago.

The history of this planet was discussed in several planetary evolution classes at the Academy. A course taken by all of the Enterprise-D's senior staff except for Captain Picard.

Archaria III was hit by a mysterious plague in 2364.

Culture
By the 24th century a religious group known as The Purity League would preach the belief of wrongfulness of interspecies mating and would refer to them as mixers. These individuals would be regarded as second-class citizens.

Tough officially such prejudices would be prohibited by law but in backwater towns discrimination still ran rampant. Only in the major cities would humans and peladians work and live together in something resembling harmony. As in the country side things got so bad that full blooded peladians would live in isolated enclaves surrounded by their kind.

For those whit "mixed" heritage they relocated to the large cities in record numbers, but after the plague of 2364 they fled back to the country were they lived as vagabonds in tent camps. It was estimated at the time that the population of Mixers ranged between 150,000 and 200,000.