The Federation

The Federation is an interplanetary alliance of Elves, Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Pixies, Sprites, Fairies, Teddy Bears, Cerebron and other sentient races. Advanced autonomous machine intelligences are also given citizen status. The planets are organized into sectors and zones. The Terrestrial zone consists of planets that can be inhabited by humanoids. Travel between planets is possible via hyper-portals, usually contained within castles. Space travel is also possible but extremely slow, as super-luminal speeds are not possible. However many species are long-lived and can endure long space journeys. Starships may also contain their own portals linked to a home planet. A portal needs to constructed as a linked pair, and then the secondary passive node transported through space to its destination.

Most non-violent races belong almost exclusively to the Federation. Fierce beings, such as humans, are sometimes divided between those who join the Federation and those that form their own empires and dominions. Some of the more evil races such as Darklins or Shadows will not be accepted into the Federation.

Most work is done by highly trained volunteers. Unpleasant or dangerous work is mostly automated. The remainder of needed work is organized as a community service rota. Each capable citizen does a number of months of community service during their lifetime. Additional service may be required as payment for minor crimes and misdemeanors. Community service may be deferred for reasons of education, training or volunteering. Political office does not count towards community service, nor does it attract any special rewards.

The local community manages resources and allocates them according to need, for example a popular restaurant will be allocated a higher quota of food ingredients and will attract more volunteers. No cash is exchanged, but consumers are identified by bio-metric scans so that resource use can be tracked and accounted for. Abuse, wastage or hoarding of resources is a crime. Unneeded resources must be returned to the community.

The reward system for good work is based on reputation, recognition, awards, qualifications and promotions. Those individuals who only do minimum community service and never volunteer for anything extra are known as "Rif Raf" or "members of the public community". Most volunteers have special uniforms to indicate their status.

Those who refuse community service are treated as criminals and subversives, but first they are given counseling and psychological assessment.

This economic system is known as *Federal Collectivism.*

### Federation Political System

1. Triumvirate Presidency (Three Co-Presidents)
2. Vice-President and Senate
3. First Deputy Vice-President and Parliament
4. Second Deputy Vice-President and Congress
5. Associate Vice-Presidents
6. Zone Co-ordinator and Council
7. Deputy Zone Co-ordinator
8. Assistant Zone Co-ordinator
9. Sector Leader and Council
10. Deputy Sector Leader
11. System Governor and Council
12. Deputy System Governor
13. Worldmaster
14. Deputy Worldmaster
15. Regional Viceroy and Council
16. Duke
17. Earl
18. Baron
19. Mayor and Council

### Diplomacy

The Federation has friendly relations with the Frenarian Collective, neutral relations with the Imperium of Humanity and with the Alliance of Independent Micro-States, but hostile relations with the Darklin Dominion.

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