Yearly Leadership Referendums choose an Administrator that oversees the government, organizes the Administration, and facilitates the carrying out of Acclamations. If an Administrator falls below 40% in an ongoing Leadership Acclamation Poll, he's ousted and there's a immediate Leadership Referendum. The ousting of a leader is rare since he's not the one actually making decisions, just implementing those of the Citizenry.

The Bjaki Administration consists of a great variety of Councils and Assemblies that are appointed by polls or the Administration. The Councils and Assemblies work together in concert to promote, discover, develop, explore, negotiate, carry out Acclamations, protect and administrate the Federation, run the armed Forces, and so forth.

The Bjaki Federation is aggressively expansionistic through exploration and negotiation, not conquest. They generally welcome new members and citizens and celebrate other cultures.

Social
The Bjaki Federation has an unusual history in that it is fundamentally comprised of several races that developed within close proximity of each other. The early days of the Empire were confused by the mixing of cultures but allowed the members to discover and understand the strengths, weaknesses, and benefits of diversity long before the other empires. The High Bjaki came from a stratified social structure, with rich or politically positioned families holding much of the power. The Iliene, with their odd subconscious hive-mind, just kind of worked together and brought the Balithrim with them in a natural symbiosis of brains and brawn, neither subservient to the other. The Humans were an ambitious, determined lot of explorers and settlers who seemed to be present everywhere and could reorganize their social structure on a whim and adapt to respond to any particular crisis that was occurring at the moment. Through Archaic times, there was a mix of competing theories and movements with a combination of democracy and patronage enjoying the popular opinion of both commoner and intellectual elite. Smaller movements felt that it was too early for mass opinion to rule, that the Federation was weak and gullible in the face of a hostile and unknown universe. One of these movements would be lead off by Cyarkos Rhulson and found the Kharkosanth Empire.

Military
The Aegis
The Bjaki fleet and ground forces are comprised of a number of specialized units developed under the resolutions of special military councils. Each branch of the Aegis trains for specialized tasks and works in concert with the others branches as needed,

High Aegis	Bjaki Federation starship forces.
Proximate Arm	Bjaki Federation ground forces.
Accrual & Evaluation	Bjaki Federation intelligence and covert operations
Expansion and Development Arm	Bjaki Federation exploration, colonization, and development of established worlds.
Aegis Patrol	Local law-enforcement, peace-keeping, and trade enforcement.

Miltary Ranks

Fleet Admiral	Oversees entire fleet
Admiral	Oversees branch of fleet, promoted as necessary to maintain oversight
Commodore	Oversees smaller branch of fleet, a lot of supply, provisioning, paperwork
Group Captain	Commands operations group
Captain	Commands ship
Commander	Replacement captain or captain of minor ship
Specialist	Replacement commander, specialist in systems operations
Aspirant	Junior specialist
Ensign	Shipboard generalist and stuff-doer, starting to focus
Able Hand	High Enlisted
Technician	Low Enlisted

Starship Command Structure
Beyond the formal rank system, the ship's captain will create long-term and short-term plans for the ship's activities. The bridge crew is called the "Watch" and is staffed according to a schedule created by the Captain, who also provides a Day Plan for the ship.

The Watch, depending on the ship, will generally consist of:

Command of the Watch	The functional decision maker for the ship for the duration of the watch. In times of crisis, this position generally reverts back to the Captain.
Mate of the Watch	The second in command, charged with coordinating and ensuring the COW's orders become reality.
Watch Helmsman	Senior Helmsman, in charge of ship handling.
Lee Helmsman	Junior Helmsman, in charge of assisting the Watch Helmsman, carrying out routine Helm chores, and anticipating and performing many of the calculations  required by the WH.
Situation Officer	Senior Situations officer for the watch, in charge of collecting and organizing information for the ship's sensors and scanners and running the ship's defences and communications.
Watch Tactical Action Officer	Junior Situations officer, responsible for the ship's weapons and for assuming routine tasks assigned to the Situation Officer.
Watch Quartermaster	Junior command officer, responsible for assisting and coordinating other stations and for performing various tasks and calculations.
Flight Control Officer	Responsible for coordinating the launching, retrieval, and operations of launched craft.
Watch Proximate	Head of on-board security, troops, and ground forces. A member of the Proximate Arm, or ground force, of the Bjaki Federation rather than the High Aegis starfleet.

The Bjaki Federation has historically maintained excellent relations with the Core Commonwealth, both prospering through the sharing of intelligence, technology, and trade.

War
The High Bjaki tend to develop very complex structures for their forces, with very specific purposes to their equipment which reinforces and overlaps other equipment. Strategies and tactics are complicated and well thought out. The Bjaki Federation tends to employ Humans and Iliene in the starfleet roles, which provides an extraordinary combination of Human audacity and spontaneity and Iliene semi-psionic awareness and co-ordination.  Their starships are very well designed and focused in purpose. Humans and Balithrim both make excellent ground troops, particularly when organized with semi-psionic Iliene. 

Traditionally, the Bjaki were a court-based society and were encumbered by nepotism and the handing out of important government positions based on social position. This occurred, to some degree, even into Archaic times before the Bjaki finally built their True Democracy. In part, this was responsible for Cyarkos Rhulson leading the migration that would form the Kharkosanth Empire.