It isn't. It's a Representative Republic made up of sovereign planets of sovereign countries.
After they defeated the Eugenicists in WW3 they entered a post-scarcity culture. I'm assuming this was an allusion to looting the Nazi's Gold. Which will be what we're doing to the Eugenicists of today.
There's still evidence of all manner of commerce and business, it's just very different. There's restaurants and clothes shops, etc. but they all appear to be mom and pop shops. Unlike today, uniqueness is what gives it value. And people appear to compete for reputation instead of money. Star Fleet Command Chairs being a rare and highly prized!
The replicators/holodeck only make things everyone else can have, but people can program their own into the network and share them. Which sounds like they're inherently monetizeable. Buying recipies for instance.
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They nuked most vids on it, but the Vector theory questions why all space related agencies, even from competing countries or countries with very little infrastructure, have a vector symbol in their logo. A Vector symbol in this case is a V or inverted V shape. The deeper parts of this rabbit hole look in to V shaped aliens and craft, but the logo question was enough for me to accept that something is at least funky.
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https://qposts.online/post/4255
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1261128601480704001?s=20
Certainly looks like this is the way it's going.
The confirmation hearing for John Ratcliff was rather interesting. It was stated that what was wanted of him was that the intelligence agencies get back to their origins on the technology front, of basically incubating cutting edge ideas and then releasing them to the public.
I hope Q team let this economic shutdown happen, because in the long run it's prepared us all for some extreme economic changes.
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Star Trek stole it from the gubermint