Power structure of the

Federation

  The Federation Council

            This body of some 2000 people are in fact split into two separate houses forming a sort of parliament. Most of the members of the Federation council only serve the issues of the Federation council, though some, about 200 of the total, make up the highest echelon of power, the High Council, this can be consider similar to a Cabinet of ministers.

            The role of the Council is firstly to reflect the sentiments of Federation citizens to decisions and issues, and so influence the members of the High Council. The other role of the council is to actually run the states and regions within the Federation. Where as High Council members do not represent any state or group of people within the Federation, every non High Council member in the Federation council is a representative for some discrete unit of the population of the Federation. A representative therefore may represent a recent colony world, or just a continent of a highly populated world, though not completely equal in the number of people they represent, they are approximately equal. For this reason the home worlds have many more representatives than newer colony worlds.

            Each representative is also the head of a lower committee, board or council, which handle power at even more local levels, and more towards the citizen, and though them convey the opinions of the people to the council.

            The federation council often deals with more domestic issues than the High council does, it coordinates the various groups and boards that determine the settling of new colony worlds, the production of food and goods, and the transport networks. In short most of the day-to-day issues in any Federation citizen’s life will at some stage be dealt with in this Council.

Additional Notes

The representatives are elected, usually from other government positions by public elections (by those they are to represent).

There is no minimum term of office, though for most non-High Council members there is an annual election for their position (annual from where they represent typically, or otherwise a defined time), there is no maximum term of office, though most retire after a decade in the council.

Any Federation citizen can run for a position in the Council, though most are drawn from lower government positions by popular support.

The Federation Council is continuously on media coverage, (though not necessarily including when the High Council convocates).

The Federation council can run without the members of the High Council on common issues, especially those dealing with issues of Federation member states, this allows a degree of autonomy from the High Council when they are in session, though  most issues brought up in there absence will be ratified by High Council members.

There is no racial legislation in this level of the Council, as the people to which they represent elect the them, even without any rules, the council roughly present all races in equal proportions (though even in colonies with relatively few Galen or Trenoc, there is some favour for these races to represent).

The Federation council has always been held on Athene since it was settled, where before it had been mobile (mostly held on Corten). Athene was chosen as the site for most major government function because this system was to represent the Federation, rather than any of the Race's home worlds as this would be biased.

There are a number of boards and lesser councils made from the representatives of the council, for example, the Board of Transport is made up from 50 members of the council, which coordinate a larger group of people on the issue of transport in the Federation. These lower councils are intimately tied to the greater part of Federation council, and as such the Federation council is the major level at which the Federation orchestrates all its issues.

The boards within the council are not of fixed numbers or fixed representatives, rather they are dynamically determined by voting, and the decisions of the council. If it is determined that the Council need to concentrate more on industry, then the Board Of Industry will be expanded to involve a greater number of Council representatives.