The government in 9993 CE is...complicated.

Technically, humankind consists of tens of thousands of settlements of various sorts (planetary, space, deep space, etc) within thousands of settlements, as well as a substantial population living on alien worlds and space stations. Each settlement tends to have its own government, sometimes forming larger system-level governments, and occasionally sector-level governments. However, any 50 of the largest of these wouldn't together consistute a majority, so there is hardly unity at that level. Historically, travel times between far-flung star systems has been so great that unifying more than a few star systems was a non-starter.

Instead, the vast majority of these local governments have created a number of treaty organizations to administrate trade, migration, police action, and mutual defense, as well as to delegate certain functions best kept under global governance. The most notable of these organizations are as follows:

• Federated Security
• The Institute of Human Potential (Psi-Corps)
• The Interstellar Trade Consortium

Federated Security

FedSec is an army, of sorts, comprised of soldiers and equipment marshaled from its member states. It is somewhere between a U.N. peacekeeping force and a NATO task force. It is deliberately not large enough to challenge any major governmental authority, but still armed well enough to deal with any major interstellar challenges. As local authorities tend to have their own systems well in hand (or at least prefer to keep extrasolar forces out of their space), FedSec generally deals with Deep Space and the DMZ...and that means pirates. In fact, they are bound by treaty not to enter within a certain limit of local governmental space without express authorization, and even then in minimal detail.

While FedSec tends to operate as a military, they are beholden to civilian authority in the form of the Civilian Oversight Bureau.