Hello, Charles Stephenson.
On 11/25/20 2:50 PM you wrote:

 CP>> Is it just me, or is it really that common a thought that they 
 CP>> are one and the same?
 CS> Right, Starfleet pretty much is Earth(realm). Like the 'new' NASA. 
 CS> The Federation is like NATO... hundreds of planets (?)

I was thinking more like the UN, but yes. 

On a couple of other places that I posed this question, people replied that
it's possible that people think this because we pretty much only see things
through Starfleet's point of view.  You see very little of normal everyday
life. 

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