The Council of Nimonea

The Council of Nimonea is a vast Authoritarian Federation of most of the civilisations in the known universe, such members include: The Malgaric, Vint, Human, Veatorian, Hass, Dŵrian, Tra'ha'dowl, Dulteqo, and Meduction civilisations among others, it is joint run by the Rhetores, a collection of highly advanced AI, and the civilisations themselves. The origins of the Council are lost to time, but it is known that it predates human civilisation by a great many years, even the species that founded the council is unknown and it is assumed they have long been extinct, the only remnant being an ancient recording, long since corrupted and worn beyond recovery, all that can be heard are two faint voices, but beyond that no new information can be gleaned.

The Council's Objective
The Council ultimately works towards a single unified culture, based on the concept of 'Nimonea'. A fictional setting that is one of the oldest surviving texts in the universe, the author describes a utopian society where the barriers of race, culture and species are non-existent and there is instead one, single culture under the banner of 'Nimonea'. They do this by pairing up each member species together merging the more recent colonies and encouraging the formation of a joint culture, the process is long, and often results in many objections from either side as differences come to a head, but the power that the council holds and benefits membership provides means that such objections are just put up with and very rarely get to become a real obstacle.

Organisation
The power that the council holds is widespread, from medical, to military, to governmental, almost everything that can be done is done so under a council branch. Militarily civilisations are more or less left to their own devices in terms of organisational structure, with the technology, funding, supplies being the main influence it has. In certain circumstances orders can be given directly to military forces from the council and the Rhetores, but this is quite rare. Elections are held under the council, with a long and complicated series of elections for species representatives, quadrant representatives, planetary consuls, and mayors. The system is varied and ultimately rather complicated, with such wildly different cultures all attempting to work in a uniform way there have to be variations in how each system works and the official Nimonean Governmental structure from the Species Representative down is more or less a guideline than a rule.