A glossary of flags from the most powerful and prominent human polities from my yet unnamed far future science fiction project. These polities can count tens of thousands of star systems as members (which isn't as an impressive number when you realize more than 2/5ths of inhabited star systems are red or brown dwarfs, and less than 5% of all planets are terrestrial garden worlds), with populations in the tens of trillions to hundreds of trillions. Unlike contemporary nation-states, these polities are a mixture of historical, cultural, ethnic and geographic supranational associations. Humanity is still divided into smaller nation-states that are geographically contiguous to one planetary body, as interstellar distances make centralized governance difficult at best to impossible at worse. As such, many nations can be members of multiple polities, often belonging to one ethnic association (such as the Jotunn Volksmoot) and one political association (such as the Compact of Free Association). The only significant exception to this are the Empire of Man and the Imperial Parks & Wildlife Commission, both of which rely on local aristocracy to keep subject worlds in line.
