Democracy

Democracy is a form of government in which people vote for government officials.

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"It’s not a promising sign for democracy when a catastrophe touches a majority of the voters and seemingly, every politician in the UEG was trying to leverage the public outrage into talking points."

- Benjamin Giraud discussing the aftermath of the attack on peace talks on Biko.

The Unified Earth Government (UEG) is a representative democracy. However during the Human-Covenant War, the UEG was subsumed by the United Nations Space Command (UNSC).