United Federation of Planets

The **United Federation of Planets** was founded in 2161 by the planets of Earth, Tellar, Andoria, Vulcan, Denobula, Axanar and Alpha Centauri. It is a confederation, in that each planet sends representatives to the Federation Council who vote based on direction from their home planets. Each planet is sovereign in all internal matters, but trade and relations with species outside the UFP are handled by the UFP.

## Economy

Money is used by the UFP, though not a driving force of most peoples' lives. Money is not fiat in any member world, with a wide number of species having suffered heavily through the use of fiat money. It is based on a combination of cryptographic blockchain-derived technological bank entries for many common intraspecies exchanges, and a gold/silver/platinum/palladium/rhodium hard currency with banknotes containing holographic data regarding their integrity, value, and amount of metal on deposit.

The Federation is not what the 20th or 21st century would call communist, socialist, or fascist. It is a confederated republic of sovereign planets. People work to earn money to buy food and pay for shelter as they always have, however, some things have changed since the 21st century. Power is cheap and abundant with solar collection and safe low-energy nuclear power (called cold fusion by some in the 20th cenutry), and efficient power cells, houses often generate their own power and sell the excess to city and town power stations to be distributed to other houses. Food is abundant.

## Politics

The UFP elects a President once every six years for a single term, and any member world may put up a candidate, though cannot control the presidency more than twice in a row.

The Federation Council has two bodies - the Council of Planets and the Council of Sentients. The Council of Planets selects 3 councilors to represent the government of the planet to the Federation. The Council of Sentients send representatives based on the population of the member world under their sovereign control, with one per 300 million on the planet.

The Federation also has a Security Council to help direct military responses to threats to the Federation. Its function is to advice the President on security issues, and includes the seniormost officers of Starfleet's Stellar Navy, the Starfleet Marine Corps, along with a rotating council of 11 members representing the member worlds, of which 5 are permanent members - Earth, Vulcan, Andoria, Tellar, and Alpha Centauri - and the other seats are assigned every 4 years, with no planet getting consecutive terms in the security council; alternating terms does happen often though.

The Federation has banned slavery and involuntary servitude, along with genetic engineering. There are instances of citizens and even Starfleet members who are involuntarily genetically altered or mind-swapped for various reasons, and in a case-by-case basis this is resolved with the utmost care and concern for the individuals' wellbeing. There are a few instances in the 2260s, 2280s and 2290s, then again in the 2360s, 2370s, and 2380s of individuals being genetically altered by Orions or Romulans, kidnapped to be used for various purposes, most of whom were rescued and rehabilitated and returned to society.

## Earth

The Earth had a lot of growing up to do when it discovered the Vulcans in 2063. By the 22nd century, issues like race and gender had long since been resolved, as there were more important things to worry about. 21st century political parties in most countries no longer exist in the 24th century, as man of their issues have been resolved.

People on Earth still use local currencies within their own countries, though they are all gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and rhodium-based, so they all have a fixed value to the Federation Credit, and as such are stable stores of value. No nation on Earth uses fiat currency, nor has central banks to inflate currencies.

Countries on Earth are still present and sovereign. Interplanetary relations are generally handled by the United Earth Confederation, as a courtesy, but trade with specific nations can be handled directly with a nation and a foreign planet, provided the UEC is involved in the matter to prevent conflicts of interest.