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<blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 919978" data-attributes="member: 509">From what I've always understood, the Federation isn't democratic, but many of the memberworlds are. We have the Federation Council (only seen in TUC, different from the Starfleet Council) and the Federation President (who was clearly not part of Starfleet). I've always seen it as the Fed Councillors (or&nbsp;whatever you'd call 'em) are chosen individually by each world, some which might use democratic election to do so, while others would get chosen differently (heredity, fight to the death or you only apply for the job, et cetera).I think it's quite clear that Starfleet seem to take care of the policing on Earth, but Earth is the HQ of both the UFP and Starfleet so maybe it's not surprising, They also seem to be federal cops, ala FBI. But that doesn't mean that the other member worlds don't have police systems of their own. The thing is just that we don't know much about the UFP, just about Earth and Starfleet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Viking Bastard, post: 919978, member: 509"] From what I've always understood, the Federation [i]isn't[/i] democratic, but many of the memberworlds are. We have the Federation Council (only seen in TUC, different from the Starfleet Council) and the Federation President (who was clearly not part of Starfleet). I've always seen it as the Fed Councillors (or whatever you'd call 'em) are chosen individually by each world, some which might use democratic election to do so, while others would get chosen differently (heredity, fight to the death or you only apply for the job, et cetera). I think it's quite clear that Starfleet seem to take care of the policing on Earth, but Earth is the HQ of both the UFP and Starfleet so maybe it's not surprising, They also seem to be federal cops, ala FBI. But that doesn't mean that the other member worlds don't have police systems of their own. The thing is just that we don't know much about the UFP, just about Earth and Starfleet. [/QUOTE]

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