Mankind (Humankind, Humanity) is a unity of individuals, mostly belonging to the human race, and serving to the wellbeing of themselves as this group. Originating on Earth, the Mankind is specified by having a rather decentralised structure, forming thus more of a confederation. However, the members of such confederation are not equal, with the Core Colonies holding significantly more power than the other members of the Mankind community.
The beginning of the Mankind as a community is often marked by the First all-Mankind Congress, where instead of the fallen pre-Directorial institutes and those created by the Directory the new system of government was created, this time in the global scale, as for the first time in human history the species felt united.