(10-15-2017, 07:43 AM)hazard Wrote: That would be because the Earth is a dystopian mess currently going through a slow motion apocalypse.
Really, of all the homeworlds shown in universe Earth kinda gets a constant, crappy deal. After the Fog it's implied it was pretty much under the yoke of GENOM along with much of the rest of known space, and after GENOM fell and it was getting cleaned up (still a work in progress 30 years later due to sheer size among other things) it fell under the yoke of a populist dictatorship despite being the capital of the UFP. And unlike many other planets, could not effectively tell the populist dictatorship to fuck off when said dictatorship took over the galactic government.
I think there was a pretty big gap between the Fog's departure and GENOM's brief era of galactic domination.
The Fog wound up vanishing in 2059 and the War of Corporate Occupations was in the late 2380s IIRC.
From various glimpses, Earth seems to have remained various independent nation states, albeit not the same ones consistently over the intervening 3 centuries. GENOM's rule was likely a fairly brief interval between Starfleet's defeat at Wolf 359 and any clean-up following GENOM's formal surrender at Zeta Cygni. The Earth Alliance may have resulted from this occupation, with nation-states banding together on the theory that a united government and armed forces would have prevented Earth from getting occupied in the first place.
Checking various posts on EPU, the Alliance was founded 2389 after the collapse of the 'Olympus megastate' and by 2406 all but three nations on Earth were member-states. What, exactly, the Olympus megastate was isn't clear but the source material is Appleseed, where Olympus co-existed with Poseidon (a far-east state encompassing Japan, likely corporate dominated) and Imperial Americana (southern and eastern USA), the Republic of Munma (middle east, theocratic) and a US-Soviet Alliance (your guess is as good as mine). Possibly Olympus headquartered something along the lines of the UN.
Point is that the history of Earth in UF is as dynamic for the next few centuries as it was over the last few.