Space Commonwealth



The Space Commonwealth in the series Space Rover is the largest political entity in the known galaxy, founded after the end of the Solar War between the Union of the Anglosphere (or Anglo-America due to the hegemony of Great Britain and the United States over Canada, Australia and New Zealand; South Africa and others are associate members) and the Eurasian Union (greater Russia and Asian conquests from the earlier Sino-Russian War ending in 2070) in 2108 by the uniting of their forces, in addition to and actually negotiated by the remnants of the European Union, into one collective organization promising to bring joint prosperity to the solar system via terraforming and asteroid mining. Afterwards they began the &quot;Great Unification&quot; and brought the entire Earth under their formal control, as well as taking in many independent terraformed colonies, by 2118. It is ostensibly a liberal democracy and market economy, though the system is constrained with constant corruption, economic monopolies, special interests and an entrenched two-party system (conservative blues and liberal yellows, colour coded for universal applicability, with a minor social democratic pink faction). It has an expansionist and imperialistic foreign policy that dislikes independent colonies or resistance movements on Earth in the former Third World regions such as Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa, and within their own extraterrestrial colonies such as Pluto. Its structure is large and bureaucratic with endless government departments, graft and a military overstretched to the point that it provides cushy employment to simple couriers lucky enough, such as &quot;Captain&quot; James. In the private sector however, due to mass automation and a post-industrial economy, the majority of the population suffers from chronic unemployment.