The Interdimensional Coffee Shop Conglomerate serves as a governing alliance for civilisations located in the local group.
For millemnia, the civilisations in the area were dispersed and chaotic, but when the then-small business, Andromedan Coffee Shop, invented an efficient methof of space travel using dimensional rifts, the many civilisations in the local area were finally properly connected.
The name changed to Interdimensional Coffee shop, shortly after the expansion of the business. The company's role in the development of spacefaring civilisations was so important, that eventually it developed into a type of alliance between the different nations in the local group area.