In ways...this United Earth is similar. Where I am from, the highest authority is a computer system designed with a program called Superior Domination. There is a commanding terminal in every colony and satellite humans occupy, which determines everything from career to offspring to actual birth. Everything is monitored and adjusted to benefit the system's output.

It's been this way for five hundred years. Humans chose to live this way, if history is to be believed. But that is granted from a machine, as well.