Federation

Federation (Government) Synopsis

Federation: Group of states, worlds, or systems, each internally independent, joined into a union to which has been surrendered certain rights and responsibilities, most generally to do with foreign affairs.

The members of a federation generally have less freedom of action than the members of a confederation.

Other Federation Terms

Federations are sometimes known as:

• Accordments
• Aggregations
• Amalgamations
• Arrays (Association)
• Assemblages (Assembly)
• Assemblies (Assembly)
• Associations (Association)
• Binaries
• Coadunations
• Comitia
• Commonalities
• Communalities
• Concourses
• Congresses
• Connectives
• Consolidations
• Cooperatives (Association)
• Coordinates (Assembly)
• Councils (Assembly)

& Counsels (Assembly)

• Covenants
• Delegations
• Disjunctures (Association)
• Dualities
• Dyabds
• Federacies
• Federal Republics
• Fellowships (Assembly)
• Groups
• Gruppen
• Harmonies
• Junctures
• Networks (Assembly)
• Parities (Association)
• Peoples (Association)
• Societies
• Sojournates (Assembly)
• Trinaries
• Tripartites
• Unifications
• Unanimities
• Unions
• Unities

Like all governments, sometimes the political terms in a polity's name may be misleading. Governments using this term in their name may actually vary greatly from the standard and accepted definition of the term.

Five Most Common Power Structures

An Federation is one of the five most common power structures found in governance:

• Confederation
• Empire
• Federation or Federal State
• Hegemony
• Unitary State

Please see Government for more information.

Federation (Government) Representative Examples

(Federal) Assemblies (Head Administrator):

• Agents of Eloeghoe (Assembly)
• Belgardian Sojourn (Assembly)
• Brzeh Council (Assembly)
• Carrilliam Assembly
• Carrillian Assembly (Former Assembly, now a Hegemony after the coup in 1109)
• Council of the Four-Pair (Assembly)
• Counsel of the Wise (Assembly)
• Delegation of Targhae (Assembly)
• Drr'lana Network (Assembly)
• Dynchia Comitia [(Assembly) of the (Dynchia, a Minor Human Race)]
• Forine Assembly
• Four Worlds (Assembly) of the Sword Worlds
• Gralyn Assemblage (Assembly)
• Hewes Dyad (Assembly)
• Hochiken People's Assembly
• Hub Worlds (Assembly)
• Joyeuse (Assembly)
• Members of Knaeleng (Assembly)
• New Home (Assembly)
• Pionier Fellowship (Assembly)
• The Reach (Assembly)
• Sansterre (Assembly)
• Serendip Belt (Assembly)
• Six Worlds (Assembly)
• Tlyetrai Assembly
• Trailing Assembly
• Ukhanzi Coordinate (Assembly)
• Voekhaeb Society (Assembly)
• Yfagg Congress (Assembly)
• Zuugabish Tripartite (Assembly)

(Federal) Associations (Leader):

• 17th Disjuncture (Association)
• Council of Heads (Association)
• Council of Leh Perash [(Association) (Client state of the Hive Federation)]
• Daprolix Juncture of Suns (Association)
• Darrian Confederation [(Association) of the (Darrians, a Minor Human Race]
• Dienabach Gruppen (Association)
• Four Corners Sovereign Array (Association)
• Galizon Defence District (Association)
• Haladon Cooperative (Association)
• Jannix Cooperative [(Association) of the (Jannix a Minor Race)]
• Kechk Reversion
• Khavle Accordment (Association)
• Lishun Suuguki (Association)
• Luriani Cultural Association
• Marrakesh Trade Association
• Medurma Pact (Association)
• Parity of Brothers (Association)
• People of Wanz (Association)
• Ral Ranta (Association)
• Regency of Muirimi (Association)
• Swanfei Free Worlds (Association)
• Wuan Technology Association of the Wuans [(Member State of Solomani Confederation)]
• Zhodani Concord (Association)

(Standard) Federations (President):

• Abyss Federation
• Boötean Federation [(Member State of Solomani Confederation)]
• Federate Republic (Federation)
• Federated Domain of Rurevayn
• Federation of Alsas
• Federation of Arden
• Federation of Daibei
• Federation of Garrone
• Federation of Heron
• Federation of Ilelish
• Free and Holy Federation of Amil
• Galian Federation or Galian Trade League
• Glimmerdrift Federation
• High Zhdant Federation
• Islands Federation
• Jonson-Bowes Federation
• Matarishan Federation
• Monoceros Federation
• Old Worlds (Federation)
• Peoples' Republic (Federation)
• Pretoria Federation
• Rommie Autonomous Commonality (Federation)
• Sabinar Federation
• Senlis Foederate (Federation)
• Sylean Federation
• Talpaku Communality (Federation)
• Usdiki Trade Federation
• Viyard Concourse (Federation)

(Federal) Unions (Chief Administrator):

• Akigura Union
• Amalgamation Union (Gold Union)
• Arcturan Commonwealth (Federalized Union)
• Carillon Harmonies (Union)
• Cytralin Unity (Federalized Union)
• Far Stars Unanimity (Union)
• Freeworld's Union
• Gazala Cooperative (Union)
• Gralyn Union
• Gvaeknoks Trade Union
• Hezeraek Connective (Union)
• Malorn Union
• Narsil Union
• Old Earth Union (Dossier) or Old Earth Union (Brief) (Member State of Solomani Confederation)
• Renkard Union
• Trae Aggregation (Union)
• Union Crucis
• Union of Chapet
• Union of Garth
• Union of Harmony
• Union of Meizirn
• Union of Seekers
• Union of Sufren
• Union of Summax
• Union of Yoetyqq
• United Followers of Augurgh [(Union) of the Vargr]
• Unity of Promise (Union)

Federation (Government) References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Classic Traveller Supplement 8 Library Data (A-M)
• Classic Traveller The Traveller Book
• MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science