Technocrat

Technocrats are the uppermost class of Terran society running much of the Federal bureaucracy at all of its levels. The Senate is constitutionally defined as being entirely made up of technocrats. The status of belonging a technocrat is tied to graduating from a Federal Administrative Center, extremely selective higher education institutions run by the state which combine in-depth economic, law, administrative and technical studies. At any given time there is no more than one true technocrat per hundred million citizens, placing the current limit at 712. Technocrats are forbidden from participating in Terran democracy, which includes the right to vote, to adhere to a party or to go into politics personally. 
The class is further divided into "true technocrats" and dropouts. Over the course of the seven-year long course at FACs, nearly 95% of students dropout or are kicked out. Only students which manage to finish their course become "true technocrats" and automatically get access to some of the highest positions in the Federal or commonwealth governments. Dropouts, though not officially part of the class, are often considered to still belong to it in part. Depending on how well they did in their studies and how far into them they got, they may choose to enter administrative positions at different levels. Only true technocrats can enter the Senate and be part of the Federal Commission.