And compared to the UN the EarthAlliance hadn't changed that much. It was a largely federalist government with a large corps of civil servants and more than a hundred different forms just to get another sort of toilette paper for the toilets of EarthDome. And the Senate and Parliament were a debate club, having an committee for everything. Of cause most people blamed the free and legal access to Marihuana and Hashish in the federal state of the Netherlands.
Than there was EarthForce. EarthForce had three parts, the cops of Space Patrol, the 'real' EF Navy, both space and, well, naval, and the Army/Marines. Space Partol had the most vessels, more than 400, most of them smaller than a Hyperion, for their duty as cops and a bit more than half a million cops, on the ships, the colonies and stations. And they were cops.
Than the Navy. They had taken over all surface and subsurface ships of the old country specific Navies and had just a bit over 150 own capital ships, each larger then a Hyperion, but in case of a conflict, they could take over the ships of Space Partol. And the Army/Marines. They were just the combined armies and Marines of the old countries. Not much change there.
Of cause there had been other changes, like the so called Metas, with the Furries being a specific group of Metas. It all began in 2010 when Bayer, one of the largest chemical and medical combine in the world, developed special medical nano machines that could change specific genes, resulting in the possibility to change skin, eye and hair color permanently, as well as smaller cosmetical changes, like growing bone ridges on the forehead, the nose or growing pointed ears. The first Metas were Elves, Drow, Klingons, Bajorans and others very close to the normal human appearance. Over time the nano machines got more complex and able to change larger groups of genes, and in 2012 the first furries appeared. It was simple really, you just injected a dose of the nano machines into your body and after a month of hellish pain you were a Furry of your choosing. Not that it prevented much people to do it to themselves.
Now in 2018 roughly 0.5 percent of the systems population is consisting of Metas, with half of the Meta-population being Furries and two thirds of these Furries being either of the feline or lupine kind.
The appearance of the Metas also resulted in a society change. Most of the human xenophobia disappeared. People were much more tolerant, in every possible way.
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