Mazdaman

Mazdaman is the academic term for the planet in the Varean system commonly known as Earth, the third from the Vares (commonly known as the Sun).

Much of Mazdaman's surface is covered in ; only about 25% of its surface area is land.

Name
The name 'Mazdaman' comes from Tanumanic maz-dāman, meaning 'great creation' or 'great home'. It is a literary name for the world used in and since Ancient Tarsia; in the 2nd century it became a conventional term of Instructionist astronomy, as per the Instructionist academic tradition of using names of esoteric meaning and Tarsian origins.

Human geography
Mazdaman is populated by nearly 5 billion humans, who have settled a considerable portion of its land area.

The human population is politically organized into hundreds of polities, most of which are s that have centralized governments, though a considerable portion take other non-centralized forms such as compacts.

Continents
The world is conventionally divided into 7 continents based on geographic, political, and cultural considerations.