Power structure of the

Federation

The Citizen

            Though there are various government levels, councils and boards the decisions within the Federation are primarily made by its citizens, it is rather the purpose of the larger councils to present decisions to the citizens, and to deal with the operation of the Federation.

            All Federation citizens have the right to vote, though for the different races differing rules apply (which accommodates for their different ages of maturity). The actual voting consensus itself is a slightly more complicated affair, the vote can either be taken as a total of the population, that is each citizen has one vote in the whole, or sometimes, due to the different population sizes, a vote taken for each of the Federation races, which is then recombined to give an ‘adjusted vote’.

            The voting process is generally electronic, and as such is reliable, this method has been proven suitable as effectively every Federation citizen will have a computer terminal which is able to communicate with the Federation system as a whole. For major decisions a vote will be offered to every Federation citizen, which will also demand a certain minimum amount of the population to participate.

            The Federation practices a kind of democracy where most decisions are made  by the public, but the questions asked by the higher levels of governance, formulated by the elected parties, though these elected bodies are responsible for representing the concerns of the citizens. The hope of this governing system is that there is fair representation of all citizens to participate in decisions to issues that concern them, and the function of the higher levels of government are to present the facts of the situation as well as present a body of people who forward the concerns from the citizens they represent to the greater Federation.