Homeland Federation

The Homeland Federation is a governmental remnant of the Terran Mandate, with its constitutional basis on that of an embedded democracy. With the focus of a system based on checks and balances, the planetary state is governed by the president and his associated ministers. It's legislative organ is the State Council while the Planetary Court establishes the legal framework. With a liberal form of organization, the planet is significantly affected by outside trade, and has become one of the more trafficed systems within the sector. Many budding new organizations have their headquarters and starting points within the cities of Iphicus, and the Federation is therefore heavily affected by the large presence of spacers. This gives them a unique cultural focus, identifying both as the last remnant of Mandate governing, and as the first cultural capital of the sector.

History
Formerly known as the Homeland Initiative, the Federation achieved planetary government status as early as 3054, and has remained as such during the reconstruction of their military fleets and the large-scale privatization of the resources in their star system. Many organizations sine then have gathered under the collective corporative security of the Federation, which have created a large amount of jobs, and have skyrocketed the planetary development into space earlier than it would have under different political circumstances.

Recently, however, the planetary government has seen itself lose more and more control over the corporations within their spheres of influence, as they now are being able to act as political organizations themselves. Many elements of the political climate within the Homeland Federation have therefore adopted a more socialist approach, more in line with the ancient Terran Mandate that was before, while other, religiously motivated groups want to spend more and more funds on the reconstruction of jump gate technology to regain contact with the homeworld.