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Jointstock>> Thanks! I really enjoyed your post too. Jos>> Thanks for checking it out! There probably is something a bit weird about having the military handle all international disputes. However, I'm not sure that Starfleet members should be seen solely as military personnel. Their primary mission appears to be peaceful exploration, with secondary missions in diplomacy, scientific research, and yes, defense. The President of the Federation is the commander-in-chief of Starfleet, so in that way, the Federation is really no different from the United States, if the United States decided that the Departments of State and Defense would be merged into some sort of "International Relations" Department. That said, there could be something going on here that these two measures just don't pick up, since they focus exclusively on domestic politics.

I honestly thought about including a lot of other regimes in the post, but for the sake of simplicity, I figured I would just focus on these five and leave it to others to add regimes as they saw fit. Scoring the Free Jaffa Nation sounds like a fun idea though. I might have to give that one a second look.

I definitely wish Battlestar was here; I certainly considered it. However, my only real contact with that universe was the first (and only) season of Caprica, as I missed out on the beginning of Battlestar. As such, both the miniseries and the series are sitting in my Netflix queue unwatched. If anyone wants to code the Twelve Colonies' government, feel free to do so, and let me know how it turns out.