@QuasarNova
But how can a government be made up of governments?
Like how your electoral college works, or heck, the hierarchy of laws (Constitutional, Federal and local)
For smaller settlements in a cluster you name a represenative that speaks for them in major assemblies, but he’s not necessarily the top dog of the area, and viceversa.
While the most central and economically active sections of the Federation have their own set of rules,
(Think a planet where Drugs are illegal and punishable by death in a system due to the health hazards it provokes, you go into another where that same drug is not only legal but everyone and their mom can farm it.) there’s a hierarchy to them. One planet can have their ten commandments and abide to them but when dealing with outsiders of that system or directly with representatives of the Federation they get overruled in favor of others depending on the case at hand.