Genre: any sci-fi
The Confederation of Sovereign Land Owners
The CSLO is a ruff alliance of orbital colony based kingdoms that have agreed on a general constitution.
The constitution outlines joining the CSLO, which involves owning a colony or ship large enough to be self supporting, the ability to construct spacecraft, and enough military to protect it. A template for the laws of a CSLO state is provided: Low crimes, middle crimes and high crimes. High crimes are named in the constitution and dictate mandatory execution. And a general military alliance is provided for in the constitution. Most of the justifications for the document are by property rights, and all civil rights are considered to be subsets of property rights by the CSLO. The state gets money out of land rental, docking fees, and just about any business that is run by the stat (or runs the state).
The CSLO has a strong taboo against planetary colonies and prefers systems with lots of small rocks. That combined with the mobile nature of many CSLO ship-states means that CSLO occupied territory overlaps with that of many other star nations.
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Genre: scientific magic
I.E: where doing in the wizard is a major plot point or part of the setting
The universe is composed of two things, Energy and Ether.
Matter and just about everything else studied by modern science is energy. Space, souls and thought, these things are composed of ether. Ether forms manifolds, and as mind bending as topology is, you aren't doing in the wizard that much. Ether is not conserved.
Ki or Chi is a pressure wave (including heat, a wave reduced to noise) bound to ether. Ki allows one to essentially control the entropy of the pressure wave, and things like spontaneously reduced entropy are necessary for nerve functions and such.
Magic is a pair of magnetic monopoles bound by ether.
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Genre: SCi-Fi
It is commonly believed, due to certain animated television programs, that cat-girls would be cheerful, happy-go-lucky, genki-girls. When a certain engineer, of arguable morals and a great deal of talent, finally uplifted cats, this turned out not to be the case. In fact it's the opposite. The Mau may be sapient, but they are still cats in nature, that is that they are shameless hedonists and lazy to the extreme. It is rather unwise to even suggest to a Mau that they should work or sleep any less than fourteen hours of the day.
Their creator sold them in great numbers as pets. It is important to remember that the Mau are pets not slaves; slaves are owned workers; the Mau are pets: nothing more is expected from them than companionship. Essentially they are freeloaders.
It took nearly a decade for law makers to respond. It was around the time that legislators were making their first moves in response that the Mau Conspiracy was born. They Mau were quite happy with being pets and did not want their easy life style to be threatened from on high. The Mau used their influence on their owners to create the proper shifts in the governing body. Their owners in power were informed to keep the status quo; the corruptions of opposing factions were not only exposed, but also prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. It was not long after or perhaps before, the Mau Conspiracy took power that they also realized that corrupt politicians were bad for the economy. A bad economy meant fewer suitable owners, and a good economy meant more suitable owners. The Mau Conspiracy since then has since then kept the governing body relatively clean. They lazily, but continuously hunt for corrupt officials like common cats do mice.
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Here are some more of the odd ideas floating around my head. Not really much on their own, but they can make another setting a bit more fun, or at least filled out.
And no, I have no idea as of how to expand About That War, but it would be cool if someone else did.