The Northup Alliance is the second largest of the human nations and is the one most openly outspoken against the Federation of Xah's crusade to bring The Sevenfold Path to humanity. Nominally founded on notions of democracy and freedom of choice for its citizens, actual governance of the worlds under its remit can vary, even at each location. Cynics argue that the Alliance's claims to freedom and democracy are simply a way of providing opposition to the Federation of Xah.