Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170705005958

The Universal Federation of Interstellar Dominions, more commonly know as The Dominion, a massive, expansive, and some times described as militaristic or expansionist state. On paper the Dominion is a Meritocratic Citizen Republic with a dash of Egalitarian and Socialist values.

The Dominion itself is a federation of planet groups known as 'Dominions' a Dominion tends to be a world and it's moons while some Dominions can be larger (Normally a Dominion of this size is created when a small interstellar nation joins the Dominion). Most of the 'power' in the Dominion thus goes to the planets and eventually finds it's way down to the citizens.

In most cases the Dominion is rather laid back to what they do and do not allow. Now the Dominion itself has it's own let's say 'Ten Commandments' which should and will be followed by any citizen, world, or institution (They are mainly laws around military service, anti-discrimination, the complete and utter separation of church and state, and the loss of real political power when it comes to social distinctions).

The Dominion tends to take a 'what ever, that's your business' to things like recreational drugs, prostitution, and other rather shady enterprises. Nor does the Dominion frown that much upon slavery .Now the process of getting slaves they do frown upon when it's either their citizens being enslaved or their citizens enslaving now the process of buying and owning a slave the Dominion doesn't frown upon as long as they are given basic rights and treated 'humanly' if that is done the State tends to not care.

Now Slavery itself in the Dominion comes in two forms, 'Colonial Slavery' which is the lower class slavery found on the borders of the Dominion and is rather shady and probably illegal in the universe at large. The other is 'Servitude' which is really the same, but it is the 'common' citizen trying to separate himself from the shady and dark side of it and trying to either paint it in a better light or try to make it more 'classy', if you catch my drift.

Anyways back to the overview of the Dominion. The Government of the Dominion can be described as a Kritarchy in which elected leaders are both administrative and judicial heads (Think sorta in the terms of the Judges in Judge Dread). Now something that makes the Dominion unique in the universal community is that citizen is not granted by being born into the dominion, oh no. Citizenship must be earned, through either military service or 'hazardous' field work. Only then can you vote or run for office. Now not being a citizen isn't the worst of fates you still have all the rights of a citizen save you can't vote or run for office, that's it.

Voting wise it revolves around the Dominions with each Dominion electing two individuals: The Lord of the Dominion who is it's overall legal and judicial head and they elect a Senator to represent their Dominion at large in the wider universe. They do not rule alone who ever under them are the many magistrates and officials that run the provinces of the Dominion while others, known as Legates server as their 'check' and answer to the Chancellor, supreme head of the Dominion, alone. They can be thought of as Commissars of sorts.

Now officially the Dominion isn't a Stratocracy, but in the violent, cruel, and brutal place we known as the Universe the military is rather important especially in a nation seeking to expand across the stars. When it all boils down the military is The most important part of society and state and the leaders of the Dominion tend to come from a long military career (Longer then that required for citizenship is what I mean) 