United Stellar Republic

The United Stellar Republic is a system of government designed (and repeatedly revised) to act as a common thread of law and order throughout the systems that fall under its jurisdiction. It consists of executive, legislative, financial, colonial, and judicial branches that have various checks against one another. Democracy is carried out on a stellar level with each USR citizen (including colonists) casting votes at will.

History [DRAFT]

The USR began as the United Confederacy of Systems (commonly shortened to the United Confederacy) shortly after the human race made its way into space. As the number of systems grew, communication became increasingly strained, requiring fleets of FTL-capable ships to ferry information across dangerous expanses of open space since traditional means of signal propagation were unusably slow.

This culminated in the Alor Prime Incident, in which a series of UCS cruisers laid waste to a mutinied colony resulting in the deaths of 162,000 people. The fleet returned to USC space after a six month long journey and found that the conflict had ended via peaceful settlement four months PRIOR to the desolation of the colony.

The Alor Prime Incident, in tandem with numerous other similar incidents and a general inability to maintain control, caused the fall of the United Confederacy.

It was the refinement of instant, digital (binary states) communication over quantum-entangled atoms which led to the reformation of a stellar government in the form of the United Stellar Confederacy. Further advancements into counterfactual quantum communication vastly optimized the ability for remote locations to be set up as communication hubs. This led to cheap, widespread relaying of information and laid the groundwork for a stellar democracy, The United Stellar Republic.

Tiers of Government

• Executive Council [Presidents - plural, Governors, military ranks]
  • Executive body
  • Oversees military and policing across USR-controlled space
  • Oversees implementation of criminal justice system

• Council of Law
  • Legislative branch
  • Creates and maintains laws and decisions on governmental structure

• Colonial Council [Senior Minister, Ministers]
  • Decision-making and legislative body overseeing colonial expansion
  • Deals exclusively in colonial matters
  • Answers to executive for implementation and legislature for lawmaking
  • Determines which new colonies are a stable, solid place for a communications hub to be established
  • Power was drastically limited in 2238 during the Colonial Reforms of Tom Alamar

• Board of Magistrates [Supreme Magistrate, Magistrates, Colonial Magistrates]
  • Judicial body, check on executive
  • Oversees regulation of criminal justice system
  • Oversees judicial bureaus of each colony/system

• Board of Finance [???]
  • Taxation
  • USR finance management
  • Colonial expansion finance management

• Electorate
  • Voters across all stellar space

Governmental Departments

Departments of the USR are non-decision-making bodies used primarily as sources of investigation and information gathering/archival. New departments come and go, get melded with other departments, split into multiple departments, etc. every few years.

Department of Transportation

Chartering spacelanes, space research, ways to travel, ship tech, etc.

FTL Division

Department of Organization

Jokingly called the "Department of Departments", studies departments and where new ones may be needed

Recruitment Division

Handles recruitment efforts, seeks talent for all departments

Department of Commerce

Galactic economy studies, trackers, predictors

Department of Taxation

Number crunchers, predictions

Department of Communication

Tech and research behind quantum-entanglement communication, where it needs to go, etc.

Department of Expansion

Colonial expansion, research, chartering

Department of Archives

Historical study and record keeping

Department of Science

Keeping up with latest tech/research in both gov and private sectors

Department of Biology

Research into biology, biological history, ethics [cloning], etc.

Department of Records

Storage and maintenence of all other departments' data, often confused with the DoA

Department of Medicine

Research and standardization of human medicine and health

Veterinary Health Division