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The Sol System is the capital of the United Systems' Federation and serves as the heart of civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy. As the system's—specifically that of Venus, Earth, and Mars—bureaucracy holds the immense responsibility of managing and overseeing countless Federation member states, associate polities, and overseeing coordination within and between their planetary systems, even with widespread managerial automation the population is overwhelmingly composed of civil servants and coordinators. From the home to the office, the average worker on one of the three mainworlds of the system exercises their mental and physical acuity almost exclusively in relation to the problems of other other inhabited systems and worlds hundreds of light-years removed. Presently the Sol System is ranked under the Federation "Sapient Development Index" among the most highly developed regions known, both in techno-societal complexity and pan-specific physical quality of life, with a steady score of 0.927.

As the centuries have marched on, the socio-economic order has adapted to a radically altered situation. As Venus, Earth, and Mars have transitioned from dynamic-multisector to service and then administrative economies, the centralization of urbanism has neared total completion as lesser cities and smaller settlements have been absorbed as dense urban areas have expanded or were taken apart and abandoned as they lost their function, their residents migrating toward the more-developed coastlines, leaving the interiors of most landmasses as sparsely-populated farming and conservational areas. Much of the population now resides in vast, high-rising, green metropolises along the coasts of the three planets, their surfaces crisscrossed by elevated mega-lev rails—running in straight lines, from point-to-point, crossing over oceans, through rainforests and deserts, and through mountain ranges—constructed, over the ocean, along the circles of latitude, and the skies specked by aerial transports of numerous sizes, both crewed and uncrewed, relaying goods and distributing resources across the surfaces of the three worlds.

At one point almost several millennia ago, the system faced a great societal crisis of ennui, first as the interplanetary economy transitioned from a dynamic, aggressive "grow-or-die" system to a sustainable homeostasis, just as it was faced with the prospect of losing its status as the lively capital-system of a great spacefaring civilization as more and more bureaucratic agencies expanded in operational area. Meanwhile whole worlds were being delegated to the functions that were once delegated to urban and rural regions on Earth such as agriculture, industry, or scientific research, and the three planets gradually became mere hubs of galactic bureaucracy. At first seen as monotonous when compared to the days when explorers could "easily" leave the Sol System behind and go on to explore, settle, and discover the unknown that lay beyond the night-sky, as generations have marched on, the population of the three mainworlds have become resigned to their role in interstellar civilization, most even finding pride in the work they accomplish that permits thousands of other worlds a smooth, daily routine. This has the knock-off effect of outsiders to the system seeing its inhabitants as extremely bipolar, spending as many as thirty hours a week reverently fulfilling their monotonous duties, while the rest of the time focusing on entertainment and pursuit of pleasure in all their own personal ways, be it through intellectual pursuits, artistic refinement, or socialization, all either communally or privately.

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Something I made for a setting I've been building in sta.sh; a Star Trek-inspired universe with only a little harder sci-fi take on the science and ethics and similarly benevolent, albeit more pragmatic Federation.

Based heavily on this - which I think is better, juicier read and that you should look at and favorite:

Description
The Sol System is the capital of the United Systems' Federation and serves as the heart of civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy. As the system's—specifically that of Venus, Earth, and Mars—bureaucracy holds the immense responsibility of managing and overseeing countless Federation member states, associate polities, and overseeing coordination within and between their planetary systems, even with widespread managerial automation the population is overwhelmingly composed of civil servants and coordinators. From the home to the office, the average worker on one of the three mainworlds of the system exercises their mental and physical acuity almost exclusively in relation to the problems of other other inhabited systems and worlds hundreds of light-years removed. Presently the Sol System is ranked under the Federation "Sapient Development Index" among the most highly developed regions known, both in techno-societal complexity and pan-specific physical quality of life, with a steady score of 0.927.

As the centuries have marched on, the socio-economic order has adapted to a radically altered situation. As Venus, Earth, and Mars have transitioned from dynamic-multisector to service and then administrative economies, the centralization of urbanism has neared total completion as lesser cities and smaller settlements have been absorbed as dense urban areas have expanded or were taken apart and abandoned as they lost their function, their residents migrating toward the more-developed coastlines, leaving the interiors of most landmasses as sparsely-populated farming and conservational areas. Much of the population now resides in vast, high-rising, green metropolises along the coasts of the three planets, their surfaces crisscrossed by elevated mega-lev rails—running in straight lines, from point-to-point, crossing over oceans, through rainforests and deserts, and through mountain ranges—constructed, over the ocean, along the circles of latitude, and the skies specked by aerial transports of numerous sizes, both crewed and uncrewed, relaying goods and distributing resources across the surfaces of the three worlds.

At one point almost several millennia ago, the system faced a great societal crisis of ennui, first as the interplanetary economy transitioned from a dynamic, aggressive "grow-or-die" system to a sustainable homeostasis, just as it was faced with the prospect of losing its status as the lively capital-system of a great spacefaring civilization as more and more bureaucratic agencies expanded in operational area. Meanwhile whole worlds were being delegated to the functions that were once delegated to urban and rural regions on Earth such as agriculture, industry, or scientific research, and the three planets gradually became mere hubs of galactic bureaucracy. At first seen as monotonous when compared to the days when explorers could "easily" leave the Sol System behind and go on to explore, settle, and discover the unknown that lay beyond the night-sky, as generations have marched on, the population of the three mainworlds have become resigned to their role in interstellar civilization, most even finding pride in the work they accomplish that permits thousands of other worlds a smooth, daily routine. This has the knock-off effect of outsiders to the system seeing its inhabitants as extremely bipolar, spending as many as thirty hours a week reverently fulfilling their monotonous duties, while the rest of the time focusing on entertainment and pursuit of pleasure in all their own personal ways, be it through intellectual pursuits, artistic refinement, or socialization, all either communally or privately.

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Something I made for a setting I've been building in sta.sh; a Star Trek-inspired universe with only a little harder sci-fi take on the science and ethics and similarly benevolent, albeit more pragmatic Federation.

Based heavily on this - which I think is better, juicier read and that you should look at and favorite: