National Earth Federated Systems

2336 C.E.-- 2452 C.E.
*Type: Democratic Representative Parliamentary Federation
*Race: Humanity
*Capital: Earth
*Currency: neCredit (₡), Delta (Δ)
*FasTLiT Capable: Yes
*LOTO Member: Yes
==Overview==
The National Earth Federated Systems, or NEFS, was the supranational governmental organization controlling human affairs in the early Twenty-fifth Century. Composed of a parliament containing representatives from countless semi-autonomous Human nations, it provided a unified voice and political arm for humanity in interstellar affairs. It was headquartered in the city of New York in the Union of North American States (UNAS), on Planet Earth. In 2452, however, the NEFS's founding document the Writ of Rotterdam was amended to reflect the more pluricentric nature of Humanity at the time, and the NEFS was replaced by the functionally-similar National Federated Systems . These reforms were enacted by recently-elected Social Democracy Party Prime minister Céline DuPont , with multipartisan support from both the Federate Republican Party and the International Centrist Party.
==Structure==
The NEFS governmental structure is unique in that the National Earth Planetary Parliament, the NEPP, wields both limited legislative and executive powers, with the Parliament itself conferring on laws and legisltion while the Chairman and Prime Minister serve differing roles as directors of the Legislative and Executive aspects of the government, respectively.
Representation occurs through the Parliament, which is bicameral. The upper house, the Federal Senate, contains three representatives from every populated system, regardless of population or number of inhabited planets. In the lower house, the Representative Assembly, systems are alotted representation based on a combination of the population of the system in question, as well as the number of inhabited worlds in that particular system meeting a particular population threshold. These two values are averaged against each other to determine the number of Assembly representatives a system will have.
==Authority==
The NEFS was the dominant Human authority everywhere that Human colonies and holdings have been established, excluding the Communist-Socialist breakaway government, the Union of Federated Systems Alliance, and the quasi-independent Confederacy of Democratic Republics, a NEFS protectorate. Through checks and balances put in place, the NEFS kept constituent nations in place while constituent nations served to limit the power of the NEFS.
==Military==
The military arm of the NEFS was the National Earth Federated Systems Defense Forces , or NEFSDF , which are comprised of an Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Planetary Guard Corps, and a National Police. Deployed in nearly every Human-controlled area, the NEFSDF obtained manpower through volunteers and in some cases, limited conscription.
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Category:Humanity