The New Territories are a category of worlds terraformed after the Ryccian Empire’s technological capabilities in this field improved tremendously a thousand years ago. Unlike the traditional regions of the Empire, which are astrographically demarcated, the New Territories are spread everywhere across the country. As they were colonized immediately after the Democratic Revolution, the New Territories are some of the most racially diverse and least populated group of worlds in the nation. Around 9,700 systems, previously uninhabitable or only having artificial settlements, comprise this category. Most of these worlds are rural and/or used for mining, albeit a tiny few have become industrial planets. The New Territories are popularly known in Ryccian culture as one of the three great bread baskets of the country, along with the Farlands and The Imperial Rim.

Due to their small populations, only 7,700 worlds have representation in the Senate individually, with the rest joining other worlds in terms of Senatorial representation. Out of the Empire’s mighty 48 trillion population, only 1.5 trillion beings live in the New Territories. Families are usually large in these planets due to the vast availability of land and the need of familial aid and cooperation in the farms.