Incredible Tales, December, 1952
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"Federation and Empire" was a science fiction story written by Albert Macklin for the December 1952 issue of Incredible Tales magazine. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
As an in-joke, this work's title is suspiciously similar to that of the second book of Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation trilogy, Foundation and Empire.