Editing Federated Suns (section)

== Society ==
The FedSun society is both tremendously helped and hindered by the sheer size of the Federation's territory in space, which is usually the largest of the Inner Sphere at any one time. People from all walks of life tend to make their home in Federation space due to constitutionally entrenched freedoms of expression, worship, personal enterprise, and political participation, with even the nobility having to watch their ass as specific rules in their constitution allows for their removal if they don't do their jobs well. Even the broke-ass hobos of the Suns will thank their lucky stars that they're not getting beaten for daring to say something against House Davion. As a result, most citizens lord this over pretty much any non-federation person who happens to wander into their space, making them exceptionally aggravating to put up with for more than a few minutes at a time due to their insistence that everybody else is just a bunch of backwards hillbillies.

This comes in to sharp focus from the outside perspective if you dig even slightly a bit below the surface; for all their talk about democracy and the hope for a better tomorrow, the Federated Suns went from constitutional republic to constitutional monarchy in a matter of a hundred years of it's foundation. It's citizenry are battered with insanely high stratification; the nobles are often wildly richer than any average dude in the Federation army could ever hope to be and will have an impossibly better standard of living; which is fine for the golden worlds near the capital world of New Avalon, but anyone out in the boondocks is probably more than fucked. And while their protections for individual freedoms are strong and often ironclad, their labor protections have famously been quite terrible; the Davions made it illegal to strike during the Succession Wars, and it has never been reinstated. These obvious disparities also extend to the education of their citizenry, which varies from world to world and is often wildly so. Most of the golden worlds of the Federation, especially ones close to one of the bigger centers of learning, will be able to go get a decent education. Everyone else will probably get a low-end trade school, if they're lucky. All of this is mostly obscured by a massively pro-military, pro-Davion society that continues to fuel the national character of a bunch of giant egotistical hypocrites.