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The Federation is an evolution from current Earth, rolled forward into the distant future. Federal politics has a lot of influence from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution United States Constitution].<ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/elite-dangerous-creator-talks-sci-fi-politics-and-whats-next-w492781</ref> The United States of the Americas is the fictional predecessor of the Federation. The Americas implies that it's the totality of continents of North and South America. The Americas comprises most of the land in the Western Hemisphere on Earth.<ref>Tourist Spot 0165 beacon near Earth</ref>
The Empire is influenced by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Ancient Rome]. The slavery in the Empire is similar to slavery in Ancient Rome. Imperial slaves have rights like in Roman times. People would sign up for slavery to pay a debt. Imperial society is based on honor, like the Romans, or the Japanese Bushido, even elements of the British Empire, pre-WWI. It was shaming to do something that put people in a bad state. The poorhouses still happened, but sensibly, people were supposed to look after each other.<ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/elite-dangerous-creator-talks-sci-fi-politics-and-whats-next-w492781</ref>
Many ships are named after snakes. This came about because of the wireframe models looking a bit like snake heads in the original [[Elite]]. The ships names have remained similar throughout the [[:Category:Elite series|Elite series]]. The classic ship models were updated with much more detail in [[Elite Dangerous]].
Galactic charts of space agencies like NASA and ESA were used to model the Milky Way galaxy.
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