You're so polite...As was pointed out graciously to me by a vet...Patriots usually ARE polite...Because they are gratefull to live in the greatest Nation that has ever existed on this earth despite her imperfections...Let's brainstorm and fix them in our lifetimes so our Children don't HAVE to move to Mars to have Freedom and Prosperity, in Their Time...right here in the Blessed US of A...LONG MAY SHE RRROCK!!!!
With precision, that is how sci-fi works. It transforms the coordinates of our act, our show, to an alien system so as to remove much of what we don't see day-to-day because it is background to our daily lives. What is left is the point, which could be something political or social, a question of "what is this? seen in isolation." Thus an alien, Enemy Mine, with some human characteristics, or an Empire existing in itself and by itself in a galaxy far away, or a legal system trekking at warp 8 to an unknown destination, or the effect of a single discovery, cavorite, on the coursae of history.