Government

Democratic governments have regular elections where all citizens can vote on who should represent them.

Oligarchic governments are ruled by a small group of individuals that hold all political power.

Dictatorial governments are ruled by a single individual for life that wields absolute control over the state.

Imperial governments are similar to dictatorial ones, except that the throne is always inherited by a designated successor upon the ruler's death.

• Hive Minds operate as a single organism more than as a state. The population has no free will, and act as an extension of the gestalt consciousness itself, much like the limbs of a body.
• When cut off from the Mind, these drones become comatose and eventually wither and die. Any free individuals on planets owned by the Mind are driven away, killed, or simply treated as prey to feed the collective.

Machine Intelligences are immense artificial group minds that have been networked into a single gestalt consciousness. Most of the actual

Corporate governments are organized as a massive commercial enterprise that has completely supplanted the role of the state.