Far Stars Union

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• Category: Conventional
• Political Power: 2
• Military Power: 3
• Economic Power: 3
• Size: 3

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Union government can be considered a constitutional oligarchy. Upper (Lords) and lower (Volk) Houses of Parliament with a rotating presidency in place of a monarch make up the central government, . The Union government's philosophy is currently mostly libertarian, though the individual planetary governments vary-Newich is very free market/democratic, Neu Pilzen's is almost socialist, and Harzweld's is between the two.

The Union military is almost exclusively made up of a Navy and Marine force (there is a small Revenue and Rescue paramilitary service). Organization is a based upon mixture of NAC and NSL theories and doctrines, leavened by some purely local approaches to ship design. Larger ground forces, when needed, are provided by the governments of the individual planets.

The FSU is not a homogeneous society-while some elements of each wave of colonists have melded together, others are determined to preserve their "heritage." This results in a rather strange mixture military-wise. The Americans from Newich are much more highly represented in the navy than their population would suggest, while the Germans are a plurality in the Marines. Czech participation is very high in the planetary forces of Neu Pilzen and Harzweld while Newich's military has many Latin Americans (and all of these forces operate some non-FTL warships).

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