For most of their history the ship-states have been divided into three major camps: the wonderers, the warriors, and the wanderers. Because the Codoj home zone is small and relatively devoid of the resources needed to sustain so much life (such as an atmosphere), these groups are organized around their philosophy for dealing with this lack, rather than religion or politics. The wonderers prefer to focus on developing better and better methods of recycling and reusing existing resources, aiming to eventually attain complete self-sufficiency through research. The warriors prefer to survive by conquering their neighbors to obtain needed resources. These two factions are the most organized and influential, and dominate the area around Neomis and the binary star (the Inner System). The wanderers prefer to survive by expanding to find new resources. There are far more wanderer ships than there are wonderer or warrior ships, but the wanderers are a much more disorganized and diverse group, and have never had as much political power as the other two factions.
Now that the ship-states have finally escaped their home zone, the resource crisis has been eased by the influx of asteroids and comets being brought in from neighboring zones. As a result, the wonderer and warrior philosophies have become largely irrelevant, although the factional lines still remain. The wanderers have been experiencing something of a renaissance, since most of the wonderers and wanderers are concentrated in the inner system, while the wanderers are much nearer to the quantum wall, and are very heavily involved in exploring the neighboring zones.
There are also a number of smaller factions and sub-factions. There is a sub-faction within the wonderer camp, which includes Ersoaieusre, Bewrbe, and Amitshe, that is more inclined towards basic research than Shehhen, the largest and oldest of the wonderers. A mixed group of wanderers and wonderers, most prominently Lafoti, Peurhhe, and Laiurtsa, have initiated a project to restore the rings of Neomis to their original "natural state of glory". To accomplish this, they have begun importing comets and laboriously hauling them to Neomis, and then putting them in orbit and preventing anyone from doing anything to them. To the recently resource starved ship-states, this seems like a form of insanity.
A few individual ship-states are organized so strangely, and are so difficult to communicate with, that nobody is quite sure who they are allied with or what their agenda is. Most of these 'eccentrics' are wanderers, but one ship-state in particular deserves special mention. Pagdaha, sometimes known as "The Exception", is old, of comparable age to Shehhen and Wanoe, but completely inscrutable. Holding the point between the binary stars, a location too hot for most ship-states, Pagdaha is protected by the crust of the original asteroid which it colonized back before the first resource wars. This is but one example of the well known theorem "If you can come up with a general rule that always holds, there will be exceptions to the rule, and one of those exceptions will be Pagdaha." In general, ship-states contain no remnant of the raw comet or asteroid which they colonized.
After the end of the resource crisis, the three factions realized that they had much more in common with each other than with the rest of the galaxy. After lengthy negotiations coordinated by Amshlitingsa, they formed the Coalition of Dominions of Jath (aka the Codoj Empire), partly so that they could jointly apply for membership in the Galactic Union.
The government of the Coalition of Dominions of Jath is basically a confederacy. Each ship-state is an independant entity, allowed to run its internal affairs itself, with only a few very basic laws laid down by the coalition as a whole. Most of the coalition level laws deal with interaction between the greater galaxy and ship-states. Due to the very young age of the government, its laws are still quite brief, and can be read in their entirety in less than an hour. For now each ship-state is, in practice and in law, independant, but as the laws of the coalition are still being added to and modified constantly, the coalition may become more of a cohesive group over time.
This section will eventually hold information about the governments of individual ship states, both the large and prominent ones in the Codoj (such as Shehhen and Wanoe), and the wanderers that get involved in events in the greater galaxy.