The GALACTIC FEDERATION is NOT ONE SINGLE CENTRALIZED ENTITY. Rather, it is a CONGLOMERATE of BIG and SMALL COOPERATIVE COUNCILS, most of them SPREAD FAR APART. The ENTIRE GALACTIC FEDERATION works with the SAME SO-CALLED STEP COUNCIL SYSTEM, Also called HOLISTIC SOCIETY observed in most ADVANCED CIVILIAZATIONS. This is when there is A COUNCIL made up of VOLUNTARY MEMBERS for a small town and this INDEPENDENT COUNCIL will OVERSEE its INTERESTS and needs until whatever is happening or needed EXCEEDS THEIR CAPACITY.