# Culture of the Federation ## By: Kaitlyn Foucault-Scruton, Head of the Department of Socioloigcal Cultural Studies @ the University of Barbiland, located in Pink City on Barbyworld, the pretty system of the Barony of the Beautiful, the County of the Creative, in the Sovereignty of Sexiness. ## Overview The overall culture of the Federation is a Liberal/Libertarian live-let-live believe, upheld through strong intra-Sovereignty travel systems, allowing easy passage to anywhere within the whole of the Federation. This gives people a great appreciation for the size and diversity of the Federation, and a stronger sense of self to their home as a unique place with the Federation. This highlights the core most belief in the Federation, a belief in the union of unique cultures which make up the Federation. A belief that all life is equal and worthy of seeking to fulfil their life however they best think that can be achieved, and offering the means to do so, protected through a strong legal and cultural belief in individual rights, freedoms, and responsibilities. The Federation (often) fails to live up to this ideal. Culturally it is seen as the Lords who fail to live up to this and the Heroic Parliament (often referred to as _The_ Federation) doing good against the Evil Lords. however Parliament is often just as responsible for the atrocities of the Federation as the Lords. ## View of Self The Federation view of itself is divided into two major positions: those who support the Federation and those who are against it. However, most people fall somewhere in between, and what form or parts of the Federation they support often vary greatly. The general view within the Federation is that, while at times having done wrong, the Federation is on the whole a good thing. People tend to remain within the subsector where they are born. Though those dislocated by war between Lords tend to develop a negative perception of the aristocracy as well as the Sovereignties between which the war is fought. Those who are against the Federation tend to appeal to the idea that at some time in the past, the Federation was a more just institution and that past must be revived. Alternatively they appeal that the Federation has failed so badly - is so irredeemably evil that it must be destroyed and something new must be built, The evils cited are often the inequality, the class structure, the intense centralization and bureaucratization, the institutional evil, the Federations imperialism, its conservatism, or its militarism. Those who support the Federation tend to highlight its order, security, prosperity, quality of life - especially relative to Polandskia or Deutschland. The fact that by and large it was formed peacefully with civilizations who saw value in joining a Federation greater then themselves, and who were given the freedom to mold the vague terms of Federation Lordship onto their form of Government, allowing the preservation of local political and social culture. AS well there is often praise for the role the military, especially the Navy plays in ensuring said prosperity, security, and overall tranquility. ![[Federation Religion]] ## Political beliefs Political beliefs can be broken down into six main positions. Included with each is their current party in Parliament, and below is a short description, followed by the percentage of the populous following each. ### Stances and parties 1. Traditionalist Pro-Lords - Her Majesties Most Loyal Party 1. Those who idolize the dawn of the Second Federation and believe the Lords should have retained their unlimited power, abolished Parliament, and turned the Federation from a highly centralized state to a loose Confederation of independent Sovereignties. 2. Represents about 5% of the populous 2. Conservative Anti-Federation - The Imperial-Federation Party 1. This group is often associated with the First Order and the Empire, because they often idolize the the First Terran Empire, and want to dissolve the Federation back into an Empire like that, and take control of the newly formed Trans-Galactic Empire. Due to the relatively recent First Order conquest and Imperial Civil War, there is strong support for this position. 2. Represents about 15% of the populous 3. Conservative Pro-Federation - The Democratic-Alliance Party 1. The Pro military, Pro current government structure. Often want mild reforms, but support the Federation on the whole. They tend to idealize the Golden Age of Federation Government, but are the least opposed to [[D.A.M]] Goodwin's reforms. 2. Represents about 33% of the populous 4. Parliamentarian Pro-Federation - The Parliamentary-Alliance Party 1. The Pro military, Pro Parliament & Anti-Lords group. Very against the aristocracy and idolize the First Federation as a period without Lords, 'when the people held all the power.' Very defensive of the Federation Fleet, seeing it as a vital parliamentary tool, keeping democratic power safe from the Tyranny of the Lords. 2. Represents about 32% of the populous 5. Liberal Anti-Federation Beliefs - The Parliamentary-Supremacy Party 1. Those who believe the whole of the Federation is wrong, and that it cannot be reformed. Often an extremists off-shoot of the Parliamentarian Pro-Federation. The two unite in those who are Pro-Parliamentarian anti-Federation wing. 2. Represents about 5% of the populous 6. Colonized/Conquered Anti-Federation Beliefs - The Liberation Party 1. Those who are against the Federation because the Federation forced themselves into controlling said people. Those in the non-Milky Way galaxies who are intelligent and sentient and were forced to join, not choosing to join. Thus there is often a strong militaristic bend, and while often associated with the Liberal Anti-Federation groups, those groups often sent the Conquered Federation groups methods are sometimes outside moral acceptability. 2. Represents about 10% of the populous ### Current Political Issues The current issues are based around the 'recent' fleet cuts in the last 20 years, the economic downturn facing the Federation, the necessity to restart trade, the fear of military despotism from troops being laid off turning to Imperial beliefs - and that there s recently been a military modernization program. Fear of Imperial Invasion. Anti-Religious sentiment focused on Anti-sigmarism. Desires of decolonization and total revolution, and many other topics. ## Cultural Touchstones ### Finding Adventure and Applying oneself A core piece of Federation culture is the idea of finding adventure and applying oneself. Replicators and a healthy social-safety net allow people to live nearly forever without having to ever do *anything* except browse the net, their minds connected to a virtual world which feels more real than reality. In which they can browse the datafeeds - reading the latest gossip and following their interests - find other likeminded people, and even do natural things like fall in love, procreate and experience raising a child in a condensed time with all the worst aspects removed, so that by the end of a week your child has gone from baby to young adult themselves living in the net. Similarly, people who consumes the feeds and follow those spoken about in them often become obsessed. Reading every storying, watching every video, experiencing every mind-clone of their hero. The most common act for this sect of Federation society is that of consumption of other peoples lives. At the extreme people can forget who they are and believe they are the one whom they have consumed so much of, but for many others it creates a paralyzing fear which prevents them from ever taking action. Hence why 20% of Federation society is in the [[Economy Kinder#Lower Lower Class - 20%| Lowest class of society]]. This drives the greatest goal of the Federation, getting the people to just apply themselves instead of living through others. Generous safety-nets exist to catch people who try, and 80% of the Federation does try, but the dream is to reduce that 20% ever further down. To this end, Federation culture looks down upon the lowest classes, the mind-slaves, the watchers, the viewers, the netizens. They are rejected and detested by Federation media, the source of jokes and mockery, with the explicit message that people should try and find adveture to avoid falling into that class, and that adventure comes through applying oneself to what one does best. If you're the best welder in the Federation, then adventure will follow from the demand for your skills. In its most negative form, this cultural belief manifests as a hatred of the lazy, and a love of action. That is not to say rest and relaxation are not to be enjoyed. They are philosophically seen as activities which people should engage in; over engagement, over consumption in general, is seen as a negative and a sin due to its ties to laziness. ### Human Made Things Are Better The Federation has another strong cultural belief. As replicators are now so common as to render the greater issue powering a cities replicator grid than it is to actually feed the people, and technology otherwise so advanced so-as to removed the need for human labor in most every basic need for a persons existence, the result is that those who still use human labor, who are able to employ it, must have something in demand beyond simple goods. The human touch. Sure a replicator can make 'the perfect cake' every time, but only a baker who can fail can truly make an even more perfect cake. The replicator may be able to make a perfect chair, but only the ones made by a human are considered to have real value. It is the value of the persons labor which is considered to give *greater* value to the human-produced good. This allows the Federation replicator, which produces items at the cost of energy credits, thereby driving people to have to acquire credits through some form of work - even if its just selling their space mind-space to a company while they watch tv - to pay their rent, and to use their replicator for food beyond the most basic survival ration. This allows the government a tool to help in allocating resources within the Federation through markets, while also driving people to participate in the economy, giving people a way to tie their ability to exert power roughly to their fame to their wealthy through a complex legal system (which itself gives lawyers jobs, and lawyers need their own aids, all of which helps to provide more service jobs for people to take) which essentially ties mentions of someone in public data-feeds to small scale charges to the feeds owner (who charges small fees to subscribes, etc) and passes some of said charge along to said person. Combined that with a copyright and patent system which allows people to produce assets for replicator use and then to receive licensing fees in perpetuity, often allowing the descendants of famous authors 60,000 years ago to still have access to considerable wealth. This is possible as the transaction costs of licensing these works on a small scale is handled by personal neural-nets and AI which help handle the process, along with a widely established body of legal precedent to drawn upon. While actual lawyers can help in more complex cases, or smaller lawyers with smaller producers and licensers, possibly even selling their service to the AI without the end user even noticing. The end result is a strong cultural belief that things made by humans are better. Be it food, ships, weapons, clothes, furniture, electronics, etc. For this reason many companies thus choose to hire humans for at least some services, or to oversee services. Similarly, this drives demands for actual factories, and farms, and bakers, while replicators allow for those who cannot afford such luxuries - known colloquially as the service economy - to have a good quality of life. ### Traders: Great Houses, Eklords, and Small Traders The UFE with its replicators have a great demand for goods, and with the [[Economy Kinder#Basics of the Federation Economy|various limitations imposed by the replicators]], leads to there being a need for trade due to opportunity cost. As well, the demand for human produced goods add further pressure. Use some systems to draw resources, another system terraform all the worlds in that system which could be used for agriculture to be used for that. Have another set of planets whose purpose is industry and building resources. Finished goods need to be moved around the systems, and even replicator systems need supply and energy cashes. The result is that there is great demand and pressure for trade houses to exist. At the highest levels such as to supply the core resources necessary to feed ecumenopolii or other city-worlds, or worlds lacking resource production like Earth, are supplied by massive contracts with the Great Trade houses, which are headed by their Eklords. At lower levels, middling traders move goods between major trade hubs and smaller hubs, while Small Traders - the lifeblood of the Federation - take goods for last mile delivery. The cultural impact of this is that trading and moving goods between places is a very respectable and popular middle to upper middle class job. Many services and industries exist to support, or as a result of, trade. While every nation in the Known Universe needs some degree of trade, only the Federation make it such a central cultural touchstone. Neither the Xiao-Ming Mega Corp, nor the ultra-capitalist Germushia value trade and traders as much as the Federation. To this end the Federation often has large amounts of cultural productions which emphasis the role and greatness of small traders. Glamorizing their lives as people free to be in charge of their own lives, without obligation, having adventures and experiencing the Universe. This combination of human made goods and traders are culturally used to justify the great size of the Federation, local cultures produce and consume within their own sovereignties, while the Federation unites all these cultures and groups together through trade. ### Data-Feeds, Public Recognition, and the 'Great Gazettes & Popular Papers' Federation culture is permiated through the data-feeds. Akin to a large internet chat room where any particulate message can be spun off into a thread, and any message within that turned into its own thread, interlink able with each other, and with people able to subscribe to feeds if they want, feeds can be set to private and then invites set to people, or people can have limited posting permissions allow for stories and information to spread and be discussed around the Federation with ease. Carried on by void-lines between major space ports, exchanged by [[Data Boats|DB's]], or transmitted by hyperspace relays, these data-feeds allow the various areas of the Federation to stay tapped into the happenings around the rest of the Federation. The Data Feeds carry all sorts of information, videos, movies, articles, lectures, books, games, new replicated patterns, etc. However, the most culturally relevant thing the Feeds carry is the various 'Great Gazettes, Popular Periodicals & Papers, Joyous Journals, and Magnificent Magazines.' These sources carry the great debates between, interviews of, writings by, exploits of, and gossip about the greats of any given field or area of the Federation. They range in size from those whose subjects sit at the peak of the Federation, travelling its appendages with ease, or those which whose focus is no greater than a single mining colony. Every organization has their own internal feed where these sorts of stories are shared. These feeds server as the source of inspiration to new members, their stories being consumed by the mind-less lowest classes of the Federation, while those who crawl out do so with dreams of one day getting their name into these Feeds. To get data for the feeds, there exists a great wealth of reporters, recorders, writers, backroom editors, producers, sound-people, and others. Who each themselves work together to promote their products in their respective feeds, earning themselves praise, acclaim, and fame as individuals, and as a collective. To this end, the feeds serve as archives of action, sources of the past, and many institutions of the Federation and deeply concerned with their own past for this reason. With such a long and rich history, the role of historian is praised within the Federation. It is seen as being of such necessity that every ship in the Federation Navy, both Lordly and Parliamentary, keep under the command of Ship Operations a staff of historians, writers, recorders, editors, and others whose job it is to ensure the exploits of the ship are recorded for history, and the ingenuity, gallantry, and courage of the ships crew from lowliest to highest ensuring each is given their right praise. Whether in the ships public feed, which all members subscribe to, to the ships operational groups feed, or fleet feed, all the way up to the Federal-Naval-Gazette in which a word of praise tied to a name is oft followed by promotion. This facet holds similarly true for both individuals the richer and more 'noble' they get, and companies. Lords and Eklords often keep family Historians and propagandist divisions whose job is to ensure the court and its members are properly elevated in the Sovereigns Periodicals. Similarly, those who are rich (upper middle class and up) enough often hire a Personal Reputation manager, a personal historian or academic who can help then navigate social situations, and other people for the team which builds their 'public persona'. A persona which is primarily developed and driven by the Feeds and their subscribers. Some argue this is the democratization of culture, as the people are ultimately control of what they see in their feeds. However, others argue that the Feeds debase Federation culture by allowing a massive underclass to fester, living a false life off those who appear in the Feed. ## The Lectures A core part of the Federation identity is being educated and knowledgably about things, and disseminating it. A common part of 'hanging out' between friends of the middle and upper classes is to deliver mini-lectures on topics of their passion to one another. These often devolve into debates and discussions, which the Federation prides itself on having, and enjoying a well informed citizenry to participate. To this end, part of the applying oneself, and the data feeds, is to build the idea that one who applies themselves is one who is well informed and educated, and that relying on the data feeds for an education is the lowest form of education. The highest is personal human tutors and attending the Great Universities. (For this reason most Sovereignties compete to have several great Universities as measured by quality of research as rated by peers and the educated public alike). The lecture does not always have to be a lecture, it can be a seminar discussion, a book club, a town council meeting. The core component of the cultural concept of the Lecture is that people are coming together and exchanging knowledge, learning from and offering respect/honor to people who have knowledge, information, wisdom, philosophy, and even criticism to share. The Federation has a widespread cultural value in protecting free speech and free expressing, and listing to honest, fair, criticism. This is considered in many parts of the Federation a more essential right for Federation Citizens to have than democratic rights. Indeed within the Federation it is not uncommon for the most authoritarian sovereignties to also have the strongest Free Speech and Free lecture protections. It is seen as a mark of power to be able to rule over a populous in such an unfree - and thus it is assumed justified - manner while still allowing them equal or greater speech rights, including the right to attack the regime without fear of unjust consequence (one cannot openly call for the overthrow of the government Infront of an armed crowd) makes the regimes a more moral system than the alternatives. The Federal and Soverign governments both offer tax incentives and cash bonuses for people to host, attend, and give lectures. Hosted lectures must have a short quiz or discussion, a way to verify that people might've learned something - once a decade a person needs to take a relatively simple test demonstarting the expansion in their knowledge baesd on the lectures they've attended, books they've read, conversations they've had, etc. The government does not are HOW the views might have changed, deepened, or evolved. It cares to track that the views have a sound and ratiaonal base, demonstrate an understanding of the problems the Federation faces rather than limitless existentialist rhetoric, and that the population is on the whole, informed and educated on a variety of topics. Ship captains are encouraged to hold lectures, and it is mandated for Military and Civil institutions to hold a weekly lecture hour, followed by a discussion hour, and it is mandatory that all personnel of a Federation Government must attend at least one lecture and one discussion a month. Companies are incentivized through tax breaks to host lectures for employees and encourage them to attend development events. The true heart of this initiative is that the Federation wants to demonstrate its commitment to the value of education for the sake of enriching oneself. That learning is simply good. That sharing knowledge and passion and information makes peoples lives better. That the goal should not be simple naval gazing introspection or speculation, but the sharing of lived wisdom, experience, knowledge, or knowledge, information, research, and information gained through study, research, experimentation. An ideal that science and research, that knowledge is not limited to academics, but to the whole of the informed community, and that peer review is peers of the informed, whether in academia or self study. This is perhaps the single most widespread and embraced cultural norm across the Federation. Lectures serve as a melting pot of class, Sovereignty, political outlook, social background and personal status. Most star ports and stations with in the Federation have lecture theatres. Those ports and stations which see a constant coming and going of ships will almost always have at least one lecturer going at any given time. Cities of any considerable size will likewise have a lecture going on in one of their main halls at any given time. Small towns, down to mining colonies and few man trade ships will hold lectures or town halls to discuss issues, share information, pass along tips, and often have at least a mini-lecture or two if not an outright lecture. While out on her personnel tour, D.A.M Goodwin has done like so many D.A.M's before her, attended lectures and discussions in every port and city she's stopped at. She personnel requires that her choice of lecture be withheld from all, even the speaker and station staff, to ensure that whatever Lecture she attends has its usual composition. This in turn allows D.A.M Goodwin to regularly interact with normal people of every social class, especially those outside the top percentages of Federation civilization. This is a habit she began since she first took-over the Goodwin Sovereignty from her uncle following his death in the Great War, which she maintained since her first week as D.A.M - when she attended a lecture about the evils of the D.A.Mdom in a small radical mining colony orbiting Saturn. The result of this policy is that D.A.M Goodwin's policies have gained much popularity as she has been able to regularly defend them, and even admit fault when people make valid points against her policies. D.A.M Goodwin's policy is rare among the upper most class, who tend to be the most exclusive in what lectures they attend, but equally subsidizing lectures across the Federation through massive funding programs which help generate good will towards their names and persons, and which gives them some tax breaks. A lecture can range from watching a movie and having a guided discussion afterwards, to having a lecture on a fictional setting and why someone finds it fascinating. It can be the exploration of the history of a game, or of a warship. It can be a discussion of a mathimatical principal, or teh presentation of a proof. It might be a lecture on a new concept in physics, or an undergraduate simply infomring the general public on the current state of physics. This is, rather then have youtube videos for popular education and interaction, the Federation encourages people to attend lectures and listen or practice sharing information. ### The Navy The Navy is the blood of the Federation, Lords, Federation, merchant, international, all of them come together to create the basis through which everything is moved through the Federation. While every nation has a navy, none have the reverence and pride which the Federation holds for their star-farers. A common family tradition on worlds with space stations in orbit, to go up to the 'highport' and watch the Giants (ships with 6+ decks) come in. A very special treat in Rimward systems is the yearly or biyearly appearance of a 'real' military ship, IE not just a system patrol ship, but a ship with a true broadside and a Void Engine. Service in the Navy is portrayed in popular culture, and is held among most of its citizens, as a noble profession for those who are honourable and duty-bound to follow Federation law, upholding the highest ideals of the Federation even in the face of impossible odds - and often, though not always, come out on top through hard work, wits, determination, well thought out and discussed plans and cooperation. The Federation Navy is seen as the highest embodiment of Citizens Service, it is the most joined branch, it is often the most respected by the Citizens, and prides itself on being mostly meritocratic, though placement to the rank of Captain and command of a 'real' military ship is highly political with captains often cultivating relationships with the nobility in the areas they operate, and by the time one reaches the admiralty one is in the upper echelons of Federation society, mingling with presidents, parliamentarians, and Lords. This informal network of who you know and how you know them often serves to entangle the upper classes of the Federation, and is disliked by the more hardline Federation Navy believers. The Local Navy is the pride and joy of those who love their system before anything else. Local navies often are only equipped with Warp and Jump Drives to allow them to to move between systems in worst case scenarios, but most Local ships remain within the system who purchases and commands them. They are often seen as Akin to the Coast Guard, an invaluable but often forgot about part of the service. The Lords Navy is often scored by those who favor the Federation Navy, and loved by the Upper classes. Formally, it is owned and Operated by a Sovereignties Lord. In reality it serves as a way for the children of nobility to send their kids to 'patrol' their relatives territories for pirates and those who might challenge their families power. The common saying in the Federation Navy is that the Lords Navy is where you go if you have money, the Federation Navy if you have skills. Often Lords' ships are more automated then their Federation counterparts, allowing the Lords to maintain a larger officer class than their counterparts. The Lords also tend to offer a higher pay scale, fancier uniforms, and a focus on more local work. With support for the fleet comes the idea of *Ship Lineages*. IN short, Federation laws for creating new fleets are complex and cumbersome, thus it is often easier to transfer ships between fleets, and within those fleets to 'reissue' (rebuild in a new version of the same overall class/role) or retrofit an existing vessel, rather then construct a whole new vessel. Because of this, many ship lines tend to date back tens of millennia, as represented in names like the: UFEN Deucalion-ZL, UFEN Enterprise-ZR, UFEN Liberation-ZJ, UFEN Colombia-ZC, UFEN Victory-ZO, or the more recent UFEN Sovereignty-E, and are simply reissued when the previous one sent out of commission. [[D.A.M]] Goodwins reform to discontinuation lineages who haven't been reissued in over 2000 years and which are unable to under a retrofit for economic reasons has caused a great deal of conservative backlash due to the Beloved nature of the Federation Navy. ### The Jewel The Jewel is the popular / propaganda name given to Earth. Representing the Jewel of humanity and the Federation, the prized blue ball where all of the Known Universe began, it is highly propagandized in the Federation, and not without some good reasons. Climate change having been completely reversed, the Federal Palace which dominates North America, centered on the Winter Palace where the [[D.A.M]] lives in the Norther Center of North America, the Mega cities and lush green spaces house the wealthiest of all people in the Federation. Popular story goes that there isn't a single Replicator on the Surface of the planet, and 98% of all food consumed is imported or grown on planet. To maintain this a vast trade network brings super-massive stellar lines carrying all sorts of goods to dock with the Ark inside which Earth rests, the lines dropping their cargo off, and the Ark transferring it to Earth as needed. ### Victory in the Great War/Triumph over the Evil Empire/Force for Good Since the Great War, but even before, the Federation has often seen itself as a force for good in the universe. This often plays into a form of Federation exceptionalism, where at times Parliamentarians especially fall into the trap of becoming blind to the negatives of their actions in pursuit of a greater good. This has resulted in some of the worst Parliamentarian atrocities, including the rise of the Terran Empire, the violent Colonization of Takara, or the total governmental restructuring of Utopia. However, there is a degree of truth to the belief, the Federation has time and again thrown off and beaten down forces of evil, and strived to do the least harm it can, including being a major player in the Liberation of the Milky Way from the Witchers, or assisting Germushians in fleeing from the Rhineland. ## Race, Sexuality, Gender, and physical appearance Wide spread human augmentation, biosculpting, and cybernetics allow for one to transform what they like look while walking down the street, down to the DNA level, transforming any physical characteristics they choose, and with access to replicated food and bathrooms physical mass can be changed quickly. As as result, while there are areas which 'fetishize' purity, the _vast, vast, vast_ majority of people don't care what you look like. Gender in the male and female form exist more as a social byproduct and as convenient gender roles for society to choose to ascribe beliefs too. However the easy ability to change oneself down to the biological level, as well as easy ability to move to other places within the Federation with different gender beliefs, or not gender beliefs at all, all are accepted. Sexuality of all forms is equally accepted. Outside of certain, tiny, rare, areas the entirety of the Federation does not care. Those areas are generally looked down on by the rest of the Federation, however the Federation does allow them to live. Basically, 99.99% of the people in the Federation don't care what you look like, who you bang, or if you change what you look like. Live-Let-Live is the general philosophy, if it doesn't get in your way, don't say anything about it, at least in public. ## DAM Goodwin's Moral Restoration A recent project undertaken by DAM goodwin is that of the moral restoration in the Federation by reviving the above cultural values and inbuing them into the population at large. The hope is this cultural relaunch will allow the Federation to begin another great age of reconstruction and expanstion. ## Views of and by other Nations ### Vers Empire #### View Of The Federation have an overall positive view of the Verian Empire. The Corexia's in the Milky Way offer a great deal of cultural exchange and enrichment for both groups, and their shared unity in defeating Deutschland and Xiao-Ming have brought the two closer together. As well, the intermarrying of the former [[D.A.M]] into the Versian royal family has cemented further close relations between the two nations. #### As Viewed By Versians tend to be very suspicious of the Federation, seeing the Federation as a sleeping giant who lashes out during a nightmare. Vers, weak from its recent collapse hopes for a similar collapse to befall the Federation if only to validate a form of Versian exceptionalism. at the same time, the Versian elite are very thankful to the [[D.A.M]] for stepping in and creating an Arms deal between the United Reverse Lords and the Vers Empire, preventing Hellsbeck from taking the Versian throne. ### United Reverse Lords #### View Of The Federation sees the URL is conflicted. The most conservative and progressive wings idolize different parts of the URL, while the center despises the URL. The far wings tend to like the large scale reforms of the URL and the taking of destiny into their own hands. The Conservative wing likes the greater independence of the Lords, while the progressives praise the reforming but growing central state. Meanwhile Federation centrists often dislike the URL due to their close connection with Vers, who themselves hold an overall negative view of the URL as a bunch of traitors and warlords, conquering any Lord who wont peacefully submitted. #### As Viewed By The URL dislike the Federation. They find the Federation to be arrogant, stuck in their ways, egotistical, and generally wasteful. There is little love lost between the two at present. ### Republic of Germushia #### View Of The Republic is seen as a profitable association to have, and an important military ally due to their location on the far side of the Suki Corridor, and bordering of Deutschland. Most Federation citizens are critical of the Cartel government, high drug use, and exploitative atmosphere of Germushia, nevermind its regressive attitudes towards a strong honour and gender bound culture. There is also a strong dislike by the Sigmarian population for Germushias strong embrace of Lawgarian-Atheism. #### As Viewed By The Germushians see the Federation in one of three Lights: The Federation are a bunch of drugged up fools who buy Germushian drugs and guns financing the nation to be a bulwark against the greater Communist threat, and its desire to strip both Republic and Federation of their capital; The Federation as the saviors and liberators, whose society and cultural influence will 'enlighten' Germushian society, and defend them from the Deutschlanders which surround them; or the Federation as a bunch of empty hypocrites who defend the Republican status quo so as to maintain a strong ally in Berlinnic and an ally on the doorstep of their enemy - but damn good for wasting money in the Republic. ### Communist Empire of Deutschland #### View Of The Deutschland is looked down upon as barbarians and religious zealots by the Federation. The recent victory during the great war, and propaganda created during the war, have not helped to reduce this image. The common border raids as well as Skirmishes along the Germushian border further reinforce this militaristic and oppositional view of the communists. #### As Viewed By The Deutschland governments view of the Federation is a fever dream of insanity. Most levels of the government believe an invasion is imminent, and that the only way to prevent it is a first strike. Paranoia runs rampant, and the average Deutschland citizen is raised in an environment to think that the exploitative Federation has a worse quality of life and even less freedom then Deutschland, that Federation citizens are literally eaten by their Lords/nobility, whereas the Deutschland nobility is protecting the citizens from the decadence which destroyed the Federation. ### Polandskia Peoples Union #### View Of The Federation views the PPU with pity, seeing them as a broken people in a broken society. A paternalistic view often dominates the Media, showing the Polandskian citizens as akin to children left in the bombed out ruins of great citizens, as groups of adults debase themselves into deprived barbarity and brutality. #### As Viewed By The people of the PPU hold two views of the Federation: TO most they are saviors, liberators, who are helping to free and protect the 'weak' people of the PPU. To others, they are imperialist fools who wont let the stronger build a society for themselves over the weak, and who need to be removed so the strong may find the strongest, and society may be structured around them. ### Axion Alliance #### View Of The Alliance is seen as an ancient, arcane, and alien creature who interacts with the Fringes of Federation society, was Liberated by the Versians, and otherwise are a collection of alien species governed by an ancient Earth based custom, imposed on them by the 'evil' Xiao-Ming Corporation. #### As Viewed By The Alliance sees the Federation as a far away but powerful entity, who poses little threat to the Alliance, in large part because the Alliance sees itself as so fractured and small as to not be a concern - like a bird to a human. ### Xiao-Ming Mega Corporation #### View Of The Federation has a negative view of the Mega Corporation. Not only for the Federations role in its creation, and allowing it to take control of the Axion Alliance, but mostly because most Federation citizens find its structure and existence disgusting. Nevermind that beating it in a recent war, and the near constant stories of corporate exploitation coming out only serve to further reinforce Anti Xiao-Ming sentiments. #### As Viewed By The mega corporation views the Federation as a goldmine of money extraction - stupid conseumers who love to buy stuff, and liberal enough trade laws to allow a super-national company who they just defeated in a war to export massive amounts of goods into them for lower prices, but whose ability to control labor and not pay people for their labor allows them to have ultra low prices. In short, the MEga Corporate Sharks see the Federation as a free feast. ### Trans-Galactic Empire #### View Of The Federation hates the Empire bar none. When they need a cheap villian the Empire is first in line. North Eastern Milky Way is filled with rumours of First Order ships invading the edge of the Galaxy, and rogue Imperial fleets run rampant around the Milky Way. The recent union of Imperial entities into the TGE has only served in make the Federation more on edge of their Imperial counterpart. #### As Viewed By The Empire sees the Federation as rightfully their land, and which will one day be returned to them. The First Order tried and failed to restore the Empire, but nearly succeded while being a tiny fly compared to the Titan Federation. However current Emperor Ren has refused to entertain any ideas of invading or attacking the Federation, saying that the Empire must move beyond its Federation obsession and accept its place as a titan in its own right, with its own history and culture as if not more valuable as the Federations.