Internal Politics

• Information policy
  • Freedom of the press: improves trust, impedes PR spins, covert vulnerability
  • Scientific information: improves scientific HR, covert vulnerability
• Interest groups
  • Warlike cultures like to increase military spending
  • Science groups like to see certain technologies developed
  • Economic ones promote less taxes and tariffs
  • Religious seek their specific agenda
  • Civic movements to change a certain social policy
• Classes of citizens
  • Certain groops can be elevated or repressed by their characteristics like genetics, economical status, culture.
• Taxation
  • Set levels of different kinds of taxes: income, sales, VAT
  • Non-compliance
• Repressive apparatus
  • Police budget per planet
  • Armies and fleets for suppression, specialized more effective
  • Penal colonies
  • Locally funded law enforcement can refuse to enforce laws locals don't like
• Human rights
  • Desireable restrictions of government power
  • Limited law enforcement
  • Welfare
• Migration
  • Emigration restrictions
  • Internal migration restrictions
  • Classes of planets
• Territorial policy
  • Different economic zones
  • DMZ
  • Special restricted areas (science, military)