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====Interstellar trade====
Due to the specialization of some planetary and even system-wide economies, the movement of large volumes of crops, minerals, chemicals, liquids, and consumer goods has become a major part of the League's ability to function as a unified entity. Indeed, the management of these trade routes can be viewed as one of the primary factors for the League's existence, as many worlds are reliant on the goods they receive from out of system to survive. As such, because of the nature of the League's existence as an interstellar union of planets, specialized voidships were designed and constructed to fulfill the role of supplier within the League. These massive freighters are classified as "Interstellar Bulk Conveyors", or IBCs or bulk conveyors, and play a major role in the survival of the League. IBCs can move all of the goods necessary for a planet to function on a socioeconomic level, with millions of UCBs and cubic meters of liquid or liquefied products being transferred from one system to the next.
Of note are the regulations maintained within the League to ensure that all systems are tied into the trade network as a means of facilitating control over them by the federal government. Since the majority of systems have access to the resources that would make trade relatively redundant, the League maintains a strict policy of regulation as to what goods and resources can be produced or exported from a system. For example, highly-developed systems within the Inner Ring of the League such as Tau Ceti, Epsilon Eridani, Alpha Centauri, and Gliese 832, are permitted to produce whatever goods they want freely due to their extensive political clout. Less populous systems with weak political influence such as Beta Aquilae, Alpha Mensae, and Gamma Leporis, face a number of economic regulations that prevent them from refining hydrogen for fusion power reactors, refining iron ores or producing certain premium agricultural goods, or building certain classes of voidships to maintain a strict supply chain in different sections of League space.
==Government==
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