Fiction:Delpha Coalition of Planets/Society

The society of the Delpha Coalition of Planets is one of the most controlled in the Milky Way, ruled by an iron grip and has a highly totalitarian regime. The DCP was founded on the ashes of war and the paranoia of anarchy, thus in the philosophy of its government, it must never stride from order.

Oppressive utopia
The DCP is a police state, and one of the best ways to spy on any possible deviation if this order, survellience is everywhere and inescapable, yet, also mostly unnoticible. The air on each world, as well as almost any surface is filled with information and nanotechnology at the molecular level. Even clothes and household items are semi-sentient, recording biometric data of every citizen. Every person in the Coalition carries ID, but built into their biochemical structure.

Yet, each citizen save the rebels and the pursecuted are lulled into believing they live Randian, utopian lives where they are free to do what ever they want, however, its easy to see under this thin surface. Every "free" opportunity real or virtual that is given to DCP citizens has been chosen not by them, but the judgements of their superiors. Subtle brainwash in the media and philosophy is implanted in every mind. Most citizens are born into the philosophy of political order, so never question what has been engrained.

But there are those who question but stay quiet, and those who resist. Those who question must be extremely careful, even slight activities such as re-arranging desk space or showing much emotion or preferences to non-DCP packaged things is monitored efficiently. If the authorities think they have found one of those who question, they might be submitted to intense pressures, be removed from society or get sent for "education". For those who resist, they are forcefully put down or dissiapear forever. It is perhaps, better to resist than simply question, those who do live very paranoid lives indeed, while those who resist or attempt escape find it very difficult. The surrounding citizens also put pressure as a system.

Structure of society and non-economy
The structure of power in the DCP is unlike economic societies, like 21st century Earth's West (capitalism). Power is not sent to corporate megablocks, superpowers and the rich, instead the DCP is post-scarcity. There is no rich, is no poor, is no class system for standards of living because the DCP has faster-than-light communications, vast resources and quantum replicators in every home (although different worlds have different life qualities based on the environment as well as allowed cultures and customs). Every citizen has the same rights (and again live in an illusion of freedom).

Instead, there is a communist quality of cooperation between everyone working in their careers, and everyone must teach everyone. Children of the Coalition of reered by the community, not just the parents, so that they taught under judgements of the state.

The state is the hierachial power of the Coalition. It consists of councils, militaries, police castes and the government itself.