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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.