Interstellar Commonwealth

The Interstellar Commonwealth is the government of the Padani, a single-species polity centres around the planet Chara in the Zuma system. They occupy a relatively small but very densely colonised area of space coreward of the Federation Sydraxian Border Zone. Although the ISC itself is single-species, they do have a client nation, the Talarian Empire. This entity consists of the Talarians, who fell under Interstellar Commonwealth control following the Padani-Talarian War. During this war the Talarians launched an ultimately unsuccessful assault upon the ISC, and were eventually ground down.

The ISC is a constitutional federal republic, although most of the power in the system resides with a highly-centralised technocratic bureaucracy. Due to this civil service's safety record, it enjoys broad public support. Rather than directly handling problems via general politicians, subject matter experts are elected to specialist committees responsible for specific topics. Recommendations are handed to successively more general committees that exist at higher-level committees until a decision can be made. Committees are subject to general elections, but Padani citizens prefer delegating topics that are outside of their familiarity so committees are effectively elected by relevant subject matter populations. This has its drawbacks, of course, with a certain degree of insularity and tunnel-vision within committees that can lead to difficulty cooperating with other bodies. Higher level committees, however, are effectively political bodies, which results in a de facto federalised republic.

At the apex of the committee structure is "ISC Public Safety Council", which holds the core goal of upholding the constitution of the commonwealth while guiding the continued survival of civilian population.