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The United Earth is the astropolitical entity that represents and governs the Human species, its homeworld, Earth, the Sol System and its various colonies across Federation space. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as merely Earth, which only refers to the species' homeworld itself. The United Earth is a parliamentary democracy, though with many of its powers devolved to its 232 provinces.

The entity is one of the founders, as well as being one of the largest and most influential members, of the United Federation of Planets, housing all three of the entity's capitals in Chongqing, Paris and San Francisco. It is also one of the most resource-rich members of the Federation, and houses much of the Federation's manufacturing and starship construction apparatus, as well as boasting the third-largest trade fleet in the Federation. It is one of the most diverse members of the Federation, boasting more alien residents than any other Federation member.

The United Earth is a fully realized postwarp society, with an advanced social, political and resource system, through the balanced utilization of its wealth of resources and its advanced state of technological development. It has a developed hybrid neo-T'Kirian and Kestraienist resource distribution system.

Terminology
The United Earth was formed in 2130 from the majority of the old nation-states of Earth, but quickly expanded from there, incorporating off-world provinces within a few years of its establishment. Early on, the expansion of the U.E. off of the planet led many to question the utility of continuing to use the form "United Earth" for the entity's designation, but a combination of inertia and history kept the historical name. Today, the U.E.'s provinces can be found across the Federation, as well as its colonies. Though the name still carries the implication of the Human homeworld, the United Earth expressly includes all U.E. territory, including interstellar provinces and colonies. However, a majority of the U.E.'s population still resides on Earth itself, with larger off-world entities having in many cases broken off to become independent members of the Federation. Despite these separations, the U.E. is still considered to be the larger voice of Humanity in the Federation.

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