The Culture, even more fully automated luxury gay space communism than Star Trek
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and no stigma attached to biomodding yourself, full rights for AI or creative use of internally produced brain drugs
any member of the Culture would be seen as a eugenics-war style abomination by the Federation
Player of Games has a main character who's considered weird because they have zero interest in genderfluidity, because being fluid is just the absolute norm
'I feel you want to… take me,' Yay said, 'like a piece, like an area. To be had; to be… possessed.' Suddenly she looked very puzzled. 'There's something very… I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with a man?' Another shake. 'I thought so,' Yay said. 'You're strange, Gurgeh.' She drained her glass.
Bingo, it's like star trek but without biological hubris. You want to turn yourself into a weird sentient tree thing? Go for it. You want to fuck off and live by yourself just thinking about stuff? Go nuts. You want to murder murder murder? Well you'll have to talk to some minds first but the space CIA can probably find some space fascists for you to let out all that murder on.
My only disappointment there being the remarkable lack of interactions with other species.
Within The Culture there are thousands of species. The label "human" just describes something with roughly the body plan of us humans, which in the setting is an extremely common body plan. Also at least a few of the books are explicitly about interacting with other species.
The very first book Consider Phlebas is all about an alien that is an enemy of Culture.
they're TRIPODS too, i've never fully understood how the idirans properly look and frankly i don't want to (i imagine something kind of like brutes from halo? but obv three legged, bigger, etc) shit rules.
and the Affront! fucking metroid-ass floaty squid things
i've never fully understood how the idirans properly look and frankly i don't want to
Larry Niven had a gift for weird and imaginative aliens. I thought Idirans would look like pumped-up Puppeteers from the Ringworld series. I can totally see a Brute Puppeteers
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Wdym? The Culture is always interacting with other species, it's kinda their thing. Not just Contact either, they love having other species guests around. Plus, the standard Culture 'human' is any of like six different species from six different forgotten homeworlds.
If i was in star trek I would live in a big house with a bunch of lesbians and we'd chill and eat good food and have lots of sex. I'd act in dorky community theater and write poems for everyone in the polycule. Also I'd have bigger tits. And a bigger dick. And a bigger ass.
this is what happens to regular people in the Culture universe, it's pretty much there in the books
imagine being in the Star Trek universe and your "hobby" is recreating and reliving 9-11 as a hijacker pilot.
and that's like all you do with free time. lmao.
somebody would definitely see the logs and be like "this guy has done this like 950 times, wtf"
Trying to optimize doing 9/11 like Boimler in the borg cube sim
jfk reloaded in spaaaaaaace
"we must have more"
"five hundred 9/11s"
matter synthesizer noises
five hundred times 911, my god that's 455500 
tbf tho 2024 in the Star Trek universe isn't much different to our current one, millions of people died in secret eugenics wars 30 years ago, plus there is for sure an atomic horror on the near horizon
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I wonder how many Hexbears would go on vacation to Risa.
Me I would.
This is MY bit damnit, lol.
Additional: whenever this subject comes up the thing I always ask people to pause and consider is that presumably they will still be more or less themselves once they're transported to this new universe. Like ok: maybe you are transported to a galaxy far far away or the wizarding world with magical powers and decades worth of training instantly as part of the whole process but again...certain caveats aside you're basically still gonna be that universes equivalent of yourself....so pause and consider that you should maybe pick a world that plays to your strengths. I don't know about y'all but I have this sinking feeling I'm still an engineer in most alternate universes I exist in....soooooooooooooooo...yeah. Star Trek it is.
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And then the Borg happened
They only made it to Wolf 359, and eventually they join the federation so it's all good.
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The fictional world which conservative actually believe we live in, i.e. where communists control everything
As long as it's not the ST: Picard timeline 
I don't consider Picard to be canon. I think it's taking place in one of those other universes from the TNG episode Parallels. Same with STD.
Not during DS9's timeframe though
random civilians on earth were fine.
idk why people read this question as "what fictional universe would you want to be a protagonist"
Breen still fucked up san fran and a bunch of outer colonies
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I love the whole vibe of Final Fantasy VIII's world even if there's monsters in the countryside and war. Always felt like the most believable FF world.
Final Fantasy worlds are fine despite there being bloodthirsty monsters behind every blade of grass because in that universe you can just pick up your sportsball or your favorite plushie and fuckin beat them to death with it, regular ass dudes are OP lmao
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but they don't have pokemon
Holodeck can cover that. And if you wanna go big, be a terraformer and make a planet where pokemon is real
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