United Earth

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The United Earth Republic (sometimes known as just "United Earth") is a constitutionally based republic that is focused solely on the interests of Earth in the greater galactic arena. Issues between nations on Earth are handled by traditional means of negotiation, tariffs, international courts, national sovereignty, and the like. However, any issues that are of galactic significance are the sole purview of the United Earth Republic, and their allies in the Brayburn Society, as well as Earthfleet. Unlike the Sol Republic that directly interacts with the galaxy, as a whole, the United Earth Republic is Earth's representative within that treaty organization, allowing all three members of its organization to have an equal say in galactic politics, and Earth's interests in the midst of that.

The reason why the Society and Earthfleet each have a separate voice in this organization is because of their differing focuses. The Society's interests are scientific, whereas Earthfleet's are defensive in nature, of which they both align, and differ, with the united interests of Earth. For the most part, the United Earth Republic is okay with this plan as they intend to use this system for a time to help Earth properly "get its feet wet" as far as the reality of living in a much, much larger universe than they'd ever envisioned before, with the end goal of some day merging the three groups together into the Sol Republic, as that has always been the long term goal of the Society, even if Earth was slow about making that happen, and even dragging their feet somewhat, as the changes they'd already faced were so radical that it took them a while to adapt to this new reality.

That's one of the reasons the Society chose to go this route, to allow for Earth, and all its people, to grow at their own pace, until they were fully ready to step out into this brave new world. So the United Earth Republic, and the Sol Republic, were not the Society and Earthfleet's efforts to keep Earth down, but rather to provide them with the best possible support to help them stand up on their own, at their own pace, and in the most positive way possible to ensure that their expansion into galactic space was as smooth as possible. IE, in a way the Society and Earthfleet acted as the parents teaching their children (Earth) how to walk on their own in a world of giants.