The rules set forth by the guild also apply here. The Earth is made up of much more people than any of the other factions and it’s bloated bureaucracy and military reflect this. The planet has never fixed the great divide between the rich and the poor. While some countries have all of the comforts this eras technology provides others are full of people scraping in the dust. Each country governs themselves autonomously the Federation government only poking it’s nose into national policy when it affects the whole.