Astral Federation

The Astral Federation is an independent human presidential republic that lies to the galactic northwest of the Coalition of Congressional Republics. It is composed of fifteen states, one federal-level planetary state (Astoria), five colonial territories, and a Defense Priority Region (DPR) along its claims with the CCR. It is both the secondmost powerful and largest human polity in the Milky Way, behind that of the Coalition. It shares a tenuous border with the Coalition to its galactic southeast, and has a population of approximately 143 billion. The national capital of the Astral Federation is also its most populous world, named Astoria.
Originally a series of colonial worlds in the Copernicus Rift settled amidst the boom of human colonization during the Second Renaissance, the arrival of the Great Stellar Depression and the death of the "Renaissance Dream", in addition to massive socioeconomic upheaval within the Coalition in the following centuries, prompted these worlds to join together and form a parallel supranational organization that sidestepped Coalition bureaucracy to achieve the best for their citizens. This blatant act of violating their colonial charters, in turn, created a domino effect in the colonial space near to the Copernicus Rift, with colonies erupting in secessionist revolutions in 2560. This sudden wave of insurrection banding together under the banners of a newfound "astral federation" forced the Coalition to prosecute a conflict now known as the War of Astral Secession. Such a war occurring alongside the outbreak of the Nibelungenland Rebellion in 2567 forced the Coalition to revoke their demands for reincorporation of the federation in 2576 through the Treaty of Catechumen, thereby officially yielding the modern Astral Federation state. The Federation remains unrecognized by all Coalition nations (with exception of the Autonomous Kingdom of Nibelungenland), and only has nominal interaction with the wider economy of human space. 
As of the present day, due to no signing of any official peace treaty, there only exists temporary ceasefires that often flare into skirmishes within star systems claimed by both sides between the Coalition Forces Authority and the Armed Services of the Astral Federation. The Coalition still maintains that all worlds of the Astral Federation are still legally bound to Sol, despite the other party's declarations otherwise.
The Astral government is a representative democracy and federal republic, maintaining three branches of government and a bicameral legislature akin to its initial modeling on the government of the United States of America.
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