The United Federation is a corporate military organization, formed by the various governments on Earth to represent humanity as a whole. Human history has had its ups and downs, as humans have equal capacity for cruelty and kindness. While humans are intelligent, the United Federation encourages a sense of human exceptionalism which can border on naivety. Human workers are industrious, although human tendencies towards corruption hamper productivity. Above all humans value prosperity, and so they are primarily traders rather than warmongers. However, they have had a long history of war and so are quite prepared should it come to that.