There are 10 levels of political apparatus between the Voter or Citizen and the President of the United Federation of Planets. This is illustrated below, with a typical citizen of the Scottish city of Dundee as an example:

President of the United Federation of Planets

Representative of the Species (E.g. Human)

Representative for the Sector (E.g. 001)

Representative for the planet (E.g. Earth)

Representative for the continent (E.g. Europe)

Representative for the country (E.g. Scotland)

Representative for the region (E.g. Tayside)

Representative for the city (E.g. Dundee)

Representative for the locality (E.g. Stobswell)

Voter/Citizen







The United Federation of Planets building is based in San Francisco. The large building seats the representatives of the 105 member races. No race has more influence politically than any other, however there is usually more prestige attached to the founder members of the Federation. The building design is a tiered circular arrangement, giving those present a feeling of unity, rather than facing off at one another as in the old Parliamentary layout of Westminster, London in centuries past.

The President of the United Federation of Planets sits in the centre of the parliament, in order that they may face the direction of the individual speaking in the UFP government building.

The Earth Government sits in the government building on the shores of Lake Malawi, in the country of Malawi, Africa. The site for the Earth Government was decided in the old United Nations as a location politically neutral of the former world superpower arrangements of the 20^th Century. The building is designed to look natural, curvilinear in it's external design in order to provide a techno-organic feel. The building is designed to be the bridge between the technological and natural aspects of the civilisations of Earth.

The building arrangement internally is a scaled-down version of the UFP government buildings in San Francisco. Again, the circular seating arrangemtns for the representatives of the peoples of Earth allows for a feeling of unification, rather than division. Each country of Earth has a representative in the Earth Government, and each continent also has a representative, so that the larger issues can be discussed alongside the more local issues.

The Earth President sits in the centre of the senate building, allowing them a chance to face the representative speaking, and also to address the chamber as a whole when they themselves make a speech.

All government chambers, be they the country chambers, the planetary chambers or the UFP chambers are all broadcast live across the region that the represent, all day, every day, in order that the people represented by the government in question can see, uncensored, what the individuals they democratically elected are doing and saying. Accountability and honesty are the keys to 24^th Century politics. Closed sessions of the various governments may be held under unusual circumstances, and are usually held in smaller chambers than the main chambers of government.

Political parties no longer exist in the historical sense. The elected individual represents the wishes of the people, not of any party. The old party system was finally brought down by the pendulum swinging from one extreme to another, and the writing of policies to stay in power, rather than to serve the wishes of the people. Political parties were seen as too inaccessible and too clique-ish.