Consolidated Systems

The Consolidated Systems is an interstellar Union of stellar governments joined together to form a coherent whole.
== Government ==
The Consolidated Systems arouse from the Interstellar Union, an interstellar organization that over time centralized. For the Interstellar Union this centralization began with the Federal Reformation Proposal, a piece of legislation that re-organized the Interstellar Union into a Federal state after it's members had become tightly interdependent on an economic level. The Federal Reformation Proposal established a standing star navy for peacekeeping, security, and the protection of Union members. Over time the members of the Interstellar Union began to diminish their own military spending and allocating resources to domestic matters. As the branches of the Union's military where expanded it gradually became the only military force in the Union. Citizens of the various systems comprising the Union joined together in military service helped to refine and forge the common culture that now permeates the Consolidated Systems.
== Governing Ethics ==
The Consolidated Systems in it's whole is Authoritarian, Collectivist, Egalitarian, Environmentalist, Materialist, Militarist, and Xenophile. It has by critics been referred to as the 'moral busy body'. With a common culture forged from combined military service in the Star Navy the Consolidated Systems values force and authority. It's socio-economic ideals are socialistic in nature. While the Interstellar Union was a secular federation the Consolidated Systems official position is that spirits, gods, and other such notions are fictional and thus it operates under a policy of state atheism where regardless of spiritual convictions no politician nor those campaigning for any political position may expound spiritualistic notions in public. This position on spirituality is also expressed in public education as a way of abolishing superstition through passive means of influence.