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Better than the corporatist federation, which even under space Hillary will still be corrupt and corporate. Alliance is literally the US under the articles of confederation before the constitution was drafted. For those of you who don't know what the articles are: after the U.S. Won independence, they were exactly like the alliance, a bunch of loose states with no unity except common defense. A pissed off farmer named shay led a rebellion that basically conquered a state since there was no standing army to stop them. Shays demands for a government that did stuff and cared about its citizens are mainly why the constitution was thought up. So what the alliance needs is its own shay, and in the mean time it's as weak as any nation can be. It only has ONE capital ship, and it's a tharigoid one only mentioned in lore. The empire is basically a Roman Empire, and while it's true that it needs a check and balance system on the leader, aisling is the safest bet for a more democratic empire. I must get my ASP from alioth, then I ride south to aisling