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Originally Posted by Hans Rancke-Madsen

There's actually very little canonical information about Imperial treaties. As far as I know the term 'membership treaty' is not mentioned at all anywhere (outside fanon).

It's just called an "Imperial Charter":

"The home rule provisions of the Imperial Charter for the world clearly prohibit interference in internal affairs, and as long as the Solomani stay within the law, the hands of the lmperium are tied." Double Adventure 3a, The Argon Gambit, p. 12.

"Due to the nature of the Imperial Charter's home-rule provisions, the lmperium cannot intervene to suppress the Solomani Party on lntanevac unless they actively engage in treason, or in the event of a declared Imperial emergency." Ibid., p. 17.

(There's a fair amount of flavor text on politics, local and Imperial, in the rest of that adventure as well.)

Using the same term for member worlds as for corporations (Supp. 8, p. 40) and institutions (Supp. 11, p. 15) leads one to wonder whether the Imperium considers all three to be the same in some respects.