Federal Republic
The Federal Republic is a great powers by its military capabilities, economic strenght as well as political influence making it a major player in galactic affairs and representing humans within the galaxy. It is now considered to be the greatest power within the quadrant by a very slight margin, but its place is disputed by the Zelvan Council whose growing influence worries the Republic.
Structure
The Federal Republic or more commonly called the Republic, is organized around four levels of government which each have their specific competences, but which generally take over the political structure of the federal government. The first is the federal level headed by the President, the second are the sectoral levels headed by governors and the third are the planetary levels headed by intendants. The last ones are finally the municipal levels headed by mayors. Another level approximately the equivalent of the municipal one called the settlements is also directed by mayors with the difference being that the latter depend on the sectors.
Culture
The Republic is culturally extremely diverse since the population of the Republic represents all ethnicities on Earth. The greater proportion of certain ethnic groups within the population has however favored the predominance of Asian, African and Middle Eastern cultures in the cultural and artistic fields. The western culture has had a great influence on the political model of the Republic on the other hand. This one takes inspiration from Western political regimes before the Solar Confederation while bringing many modifications to it that make it much more democratic than these predecessors.
The mentalities are on their side much more uniform than the cultures within the Republic thanks to the education which about the same on all the territory. However, certain regional divisions are present within its territory, which obviously do not threaten the overall stability of the Republic. The first being the split between the extreme south and the rest of the Republic. The people of this area are generally more independent from the central government. The other major divide is that between the centre and the north of the territory. The inhabitants of the centre being closer to the Earth and those of the North more attached to Aderia acting as the economic capital of the Republic.
Demography and Population
The Republic has a population of approximately 145 Billion inhabitants who are mainly close to the Sol System and in the north part of the Republic's territories unlike the southeast which is very sparsely populated. The most populous planet in the Republic is the ecumenopolis Aderia which alone has 10.4 Billion inhabitants. The Republic also has zelvans, kedeshis and myrrans permanent residents who are mainly diplomatic personnel in orbit of Earth or important economic actors. The morphological difference between different galaxy's species and humans is too great for these to immigrate permanently in the Republic. The government has adopted the six most widely spoken languages in the Republic as its official language. This is namely English, Mandarin, Arabic, French, Spanish and Standard Hindi. It is however English that is most often used in state affairs and in public signage.
Society
The society of the Republic is very egalitarian, the policies of the federal government put a particular emphasis on this aspect with a minimum and maximum salary for example. Taxes are also designed to redistribute wealth from the biggest corporations and the highest paid citizens to redistribute it down in society. The federal government also pays each non-working citizen an amount of money called the Universal Republican Guaranteed Income approximately equivalent to the minimum wage. It is however modified if a citizen decides to practice a parallel activity that brings in money with his income then subtracted from what the government gives him to know how much he will receive. The share of the population that has the right to this kind of income is approximately half of the workforce which makes it a very important measure for the public.All these measures mean that, although gaps are present within society, they are not large enough to create different classes in the population. The society is focused on the collective with education shows from childhood the importance of thinking about the common good and of getting involved in democratic governmental bodies as well as that of the workplace. It is an essential aspect of the society, economy and politics of the Republic since the functioning of these is largely based on collectivism. Mentalities are therefore deeply imbued with this principle, but it should be noted that society still attaches great importance to basic individual freedoms, the rule of law and human rights.
Territories
The Republic has under its control one hundred and forty-two systems which it has during its expansion and has founded a number of colonies on different planets including four which is located on a gigantic ringworld built in the Cybrex system. The south-eastern territories of the Republic are the least populated, this has led to a much more criminality due to the less significant presence of the security forces. Part of the territory was also lost during the onatach's surprise attack during the Western War. The Republic lost a total of eight systems and three colonies during this war which took place from 2520 to 2526.
Military
Navy
The Navy is the space force of the Federal Republic and is the most important branch in terms of equipment as well as personnel of the armed forces. The Navy is responsible of the defense of Republican space as well as its interests in the galaxy and carrying out offensive actions in times of war. It is this one that was most used throughout history by the Republic and its main tool for projecting its influence within the galaxy.
Marine Force
The Marine Force is the amphibious force of the Federal Republic and is the fourth most important branch in terms of equipment and personnel of the armed forces. Unfortunately, in times of peace, this force is only partially used since it is mainly offensive and not defensive. This is why a good part of these soldiers are reservists who must carry out regular training to maintain a certain level and take up arms in the event of war. However, a permanent force is kept to deal with unforeseen events and achieved his defensive goals.
Air Force
The Air Force is the defensive air force of the Federal Republic and is the third branch in terms of equipment as well as personnel within the armed forces and is responsible for the planetary air defense on fully colonized planet or moon. It has therefore equipment to cope with many environments with some of his assets more close to spaceships than aircrafts for lower gravity. The fact being however that almost all celestial bodies under Air Force responsibility are habitable with gravity close to the standard one.
Army
The Army is the land force of the Federal Republic and is the second most important branch in terms of equipment as well as personnel of the armed forces and is responsible for the planetary ground defense on fully colonized planets or moons. His soldiers are therefore equipped and trained to deal with many environments like such as those with extreme temperatures, no atmosphere, severe weather or lower gravity. The fact being however that almost all celestial bodies under Air Force responsibility are habitable with gravity close to the standard one.
Structure
The armed forces is directed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff who have under his command the four main branches with the Special Forces Joint Staff who take care of all special forces within the armed forces under him. The Joint Chiefs of Staff is directed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which transmits the latest military news to the supreme chief of the armed forces who is the President of the Republic. The Department of Defense also has an important role because the Secretary of Defense is the President's adviser in everything related to the military. It also plays an intermediary role between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President when he cannot be there in person.
Technological Level
Modern medicine allows to eradicate genetic diseases because doctors can modify the DNA of the fetus before birth thanks to genetic engineering. The cancer is cured as easily as the common cold with the use of injections of nanorobots which remove cancer cells. They are then rejected by the body naturally so they can also be used to repare damage organs or body parts and little part of the DNA. Life expectancy is greatly expense beyound biological limit due to pills that replace cells that have been poorly copied by the body over time and bionic organs. Citizens also have access to holographic watches which give them their health status live. The communications and the diffusion of informations are done by the Republican Space Network (RSN).
It is a platform where citizens and news channels can deposit content on the events of the galaxy or on anything else. The development of artificial intelligence led to the replacement of human labor by robots in many fields which required little skill such as resource extraction, customer service and industrial production to name a few althought some areas have been blocked with artificial intelligence to avoid destroying all jobs. The use of bionic prosthesis for the replacement of defective or damaged organ is widespread but the use of it is regulated. The scientific research is carried out by the private sector and by the diffenrent levels of government via the various research institutes which are located all over the Republic.
Religion
A small part of the population still practices the heirs of the old great religions althought the structures attached to it have long since disappeared. A larger part practices new religions which are no longer so much focused on the belief in one or more gods, but acting more as philosophies of life for the faithful. For many religion has been replaced by their local community in which citizens must be involved because of the democratic functioning of society even if the majority of the population is officially atheist. Whether that of their apartment buildings, work or city whose citizens are generally very close.
Foreign Relations
The Republic has a good relationship with the Zelvan Concil and the Myrran Trade Union. These relations were cumulated in 2223 with the creation of an economic and military alliance to which the Myrran Trade Union joined in 2268 to created the Alliance of Alpha Quadrant. An economic and military rivalry is however present between the Zelvan Council and the Federal Republic over the status of the predominant power within the Alliance. This is the result of the Zelvan Council gained prestige by carrying out a successful intervention in the Continuation War.
The Holy Kingdom of Katho is a theocratic republic that has a had good relations with the Republic without being exceptional, despite this, trade takes place between the two entities. The Republic maintains good relations with the Free Uriy Commonwealth even if it does not share a common border because of the friendly relation it has with the Myrran Trade Union. The Onatach Empire is an empire that has a terrible relationship with the Republic which escalated into a war decades ago. Only communications channels were established with this empire from the first contact in 2227 and the border completely closed. The systems serving as an entry point into the Republic's territory being transformed into strongholds by the Navy after the start of the Cold War and even more so since the Western War.
The Qravadox Directorate and the Kingdom of the Houses of Youndarim are two empires that are the biggest rival of the Myrran Trade Union and the formation of an alliance between these two nations in 2441 to thwart influence of the Alliance of Alpha Quadrant further strained relations. However, even if the Republic takes this threat seriously and assures its support for the Union in the event of any hostile act, the distance means that there has never been any real contact between the two entities. The Endurga Stellar State is an empire that the Republic know is existence by the Holy Kingdom of Katho, but no formal contact has been established since these are extremely distant and beyond the borders of the Republic.
Economy
Framework
The economy of the Republic is a socialist one, that is to say, it places great emphasis on the redistribution of wealth and the rights of workers to govern themselves. The economy is regulated by three major organizations with the Department of the Economy as well as the Department of Labor and Employment. The two federal departments are mainly responsible for setting up legal standards concerning labor and business law. The Central Bank is mainly in charge of managing the currency of the Republic and many other things related to the republican financial system.
It must create the money to distribute it to the various levels of government, of storing the money of each citizen as well as corporations in a unique single account and put a standard value on the raw materials in credit. It must also invest in the economy by giving loans to start-ups or well-established companies to help them develop and thus develop the economy. The money given is under constraint to achieve what has been announced to have the loan. The republican economy is socialist as said previously so the management of a companies must thus be done in a democratic way with the installation of board of directors which are composed of employees elected by their colleagues.
This measure cannot however be applied to the government in certain cases, but others are planned to ensure management as democratic as in companies with the establishment of labor councils. The law also provides for other specificities concerning these councils to ensure the most democratic management possible. A large part of the sectors considered as key have either been completely nationalized and managed by one of the levels of government like energy. Another case is partial nationalization like the scientific research with some of the research being under public control or have been obliged by law to become NPO's like journalism. There is also a great separation between the economic environment and the political environment. All elected officials and people occupying positions of high public office cannot be on a board of directors ten years before their hiring as well as after they left their jobs.
Wealth
The economy of the Republic has eight sectors of activity that are important enough to be listed in the national account, there are others, but the creation of wealth they generate is too low to be taken into consideration. In order, the first sector is governmental activities, retails and services, commerce and industry, construction, research and innovation, culture, agriculture and tourism. The Republic has within the galaxy one of the largest and most competitive economies thanks to the size of its population which allows companies to have access to a large pool of consumers. The government sector represents the economic activities that are carried out by the government.
This is true in particular through the partial or total nationalization of very important sectors such as energy, transport infrastructure and scientific research. The government is also a major player in economic investment through the Central Bank, these loans being quite advantageous, but the private sector is still the majority investor in the economy. The retail and service sector represents the economic activity carried out by retail businesses and the service industry. The first being businesses such as grocery stores, pharmacies or any other local businesses. The second is represented by any establishment that provides a service to the population such as a restaurant, a hairdressing center or a company providing professional advice.
This sector is very important for the Republic because it is the basis of the economic activity of all the cities of the Republic. The sector of industry and trade represents economic activities related to all industrial activities as well as those related to transactions for the exchange of goods. The industry clearly occupies the largest share between the two with fully automated production methods that can produce all that the Republic needs. The internal trade is the most important for the Republic in terms of share volume even if trade with its allies is not negligible. The construction sector represents economic activities related to the construction of buildings or infrastructures.
It includes construction companies as well as engineering firms and architects who develop the projects. The research and innovation sector represents scientific corporations, university laboratories and all economic activities related to technological development. The more minor sectors are agriculture, culture and tourism, even if they are no less important. They represent all the activities related to the production of food as well as its transformation and the economic activities related to culture. The tourism is mainly domestic tourism since it is difficult for the different species of the galaxy to coexist together with the morphological differences being too great. All of the Republic's economy is powered by nuclear fusion and the Dyson Swarm in the Qazzan system since the year 2365.
Laws
The laws that govern society in the Republic are mainly proposed by the government which then has them approved by the Senate and Parliament of the Republic so the same goes for the Criminal Code. The laws can also be created by citizens via referendums after a process of analysis and approval by the legislature before they are put to a vote. The application of the laws is done systematically since the judicial system is independent and generally impartial. The population therefore generally follows what is dictated and the very communal culture of the Republic helps in the application of economic laws which fight against excessive wealth or possibly inappropriate conduct of corporations. The penalties for different offenses and the possibilities for parole vary greatly depending on the crime committed and by whom. They can range from simple fines to dissolution, a temporary ban on activities or placement under guardianship for legal entities and from short prison or light fines to life imprisonment with or without possibility of release for individuals.
Trade & Transport
Interstellar
The Republic's main trading partners are the Zelvan Council and the Myrran Trade Union, another part of the trade being with the Holy Kingdom of Katho. The goods transported within the Republic include several types of reaaources including raw materials such as minerals, food and elements for nuclear fusion. There are also all processed materials which can be used in many fields such as household goods, planetary or space construction and mining industry. The passenger and goods vessels use the different gates with the help of the Star Drivet to move between the different systems of the Republic and other states.
The gates are artificial constructions acting as a sort of accelerator for the ships which activate their Star Drive creating a bubble with the latter subsequently increasing its speed phenomenally thanks to the gate. The vessels use the Star Drive inside systems which allows them to go to two hundred percent of the speed of light distorting space time to accelerate the vessel. All these gates are assembled together to form a coherent network allowing travel throughout the Republic and even to other entities in the galaxy. The government also set up Space Routes acting as monitored routes and with more services within the Republic that pass through all important systems.
Planetary
The transcontinental trips are done by high-speed maglev trains between population centers with a maximum speed of around 1000 km. The closest urban areas are served by more conventional high-speed trains going at speeds below 350 km/h. Freight is also an important part of rail transport with trains having speeds between 200 and 250 km/h used for transcontinental travel while ships are used for intercontinental ones. These networks were installed on all the planets making it possible to link their most important cities in a comprehensive transport grid.
The intercontinental connections are on the other hands provided by supersonic planes which connects cities on different continents that are generally well served by high-speed train lines. The urban area of cities are generally closed to vehicles with the exception of service ones and trucks on certain arteries only in the case of local deliveries. The public transit is also allowed with buses and trams as well as autonomous mini-buses which act as a sort of taxi for the population. The private vehicles and trucks are allowed in peri-urban areas and small countryside zone around cities althought they are all autonomous as well as electric.
The higher level roads normally are only two lanes bidirectional highways that mostly surround the urban area prohibited to motorized vehicles and not going directly into cities as well as not going further than an urban area's territory with rail taking over with intercity trips. The regional rail lines and some form of metro wether light or heavy serves as structuring networks for most cities along with the trams as well as buses to provide a more local service. The travels on foot and by bicycle also counts for a lot in the cities of the Republic. This is explained by the fact that the cities are reserved for pedestrians in their centres and equipped with quality cycling infrastructure.
Education
The education within the Republic is provided by the different sectors, but federal law requires them to do several things. The education need to be free throughout the academic trajectory, that all citizens have access to it, that the program given there be secular and follow some common core prescribed by the federal government. The first level of education is junior as well as senior high school which is mandatory and given to people between the ages of five and seventeen. It teaches the basics such as writing, reading and arithmetic amongst others. The second level is college or technical school which lasts three years. The first focuses mainly on bringing students to university while the second provides training that leads directly to the job market. The last level is finally university that generally lasts four to six years with the aim of training citizens who want to start a professional career in large companies or different levels of government.
Infrastructure
The most important infrastructure which makes interstellar travel possible and therefore the existence of galactic civilization is the gate network. Numerous space stations are used to complement this so that the vessels can refuel and repair during their journey. Others are set up for planetary contexts with those in orbit which aim to make the link between spaceports in cities and space. The goods or passenger vessels indeed need these two major infrastructures to be able to land and exit the vessel or unload their cargo. Some are also too heavy to be able to tear themselves away from the gravity of the planet so they need the stations to moor which leads shuttles to bring their cargo or their passengers to the surface.
Per voluntatem populi
Founding Date
2200
Type
Geopolitical, Republic
Capital
Predecessor Organization
Leader
Leader Title
Head of State
Head of Government
Government System
Democracy, Representative
Power Structure
Federation
Economic System
Mixed economy
Currency
Credit
Legislative Body
The legislative branch of the Federal Republic's governement is organized around a upper and lower house. The lower house is the Parliament of the Republic and is composed of 4,000 deputies representing approximatly 60 millions citizens. They are elected by universal suffrage for a four-year term with a maximum of six terms in their lifetime. Approves or rejects the proposals of the government, if this one is refused, they can propose amendments throught their parties and some deputies can propose law. It may also vote on motions of symbolic significance proposed by the parties. They are generally used to indicate the opinion of the Parliament on a subject. The upper house is the Senate and is made up of 500 senators who represent approximately 288 million people in a sector. They are appointed by the President on the recommendation of the sector Parliament which elects a candidate from the three choices of a list of volunteers approved by the Office of the Sectoral Civil Service for a eight years term with a maximum of two in their lifetime. The sector which is concerned by the process is determined by the Federal Electoral Commission. The number of senators allocated to each sector is indeed determined by the Federal Electoral Commission. The role of the Senate is to exercise a supervisory role over the activities of Parliament, study draft laws to propose improvements and judge their constitutionality. It has althought more of an advisory role and can use his veto power on a bill solely on the pretext of its unconstitutionality or that it would violate the rights of citizens.
Judicial Body
The head of the Republican justice system is the Supreme Court located in Shanghai on Earth. The cases that are handled by the federal judicial system first arrive in the Federal Court or other specialized courts in a particular area before being sent to the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court if the former accepts the request on appeal. There are also cases that come from the Superior Courts of sectors whose appeal request has been accepted. The Registrar of the Republic appoints from candidates presented by the Office of the Federal Civil Service the justices of the Supreme Court and these of the entire federal judicial system.
Executive Body
The head of the executive body is the President of the Republic who direct the Cabinet, composed of himself, the Vice-President, the secretaries, the Secretary General and the six advisors. The President of the Republic is elected by universal suffrage for a non-renewable eight-year term with a limit of one term in his lifetime. The President act as the head of state, of the armed forces, the representative of the Republic abroad and need to guides overall foreign policy. The President is in charge of constituting his coalition from parties at the Parliament in the case where his party has not obtained a majority which happens relatively often. He also alone has the power to change the constitution with the agreement of the population, Parliament as well as the Senate. The Vice-President direct the State Council composed of himself and the secretaries. The Vice-President need to act as the official head of the government and ensures the link between the various secretaries, the Parliament of the Republic and the President. He is also in charge of forming a government with the approval of the Office of the Federal Civil Service which will implement the agenda of the coalition as well as that of the President and chairs the State Council. The departments are also an important part of the executive apparatus because they manage the bureaucracy and take care of the public companies in many fields like transport, communications, and many others. All the headquarters of the federal departments as well as their agencies are also located in Paris on Earth with the exception of the Department of Defense's ones and the armed forces branches which are in the city of Addis Ababa on Earth.
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