“In the Church of Scientology, the Marcab Confederacy is said to be one of the most powerful galactic civilizations still active. Church founder L. Ron Hubbard describes it as:
Various planets united into a very vast civilization which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years, formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. In the last 10,000 years they have gone on with a sort of decadent kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships — a civilization which looks almost an exact duplicate but is worse off than the current US civilization. [1] [2]
The capital of the Confederacy is said to be “one of the tail stars of the Big Dipper”, probably Alkaid, a star 108 light years distant from Earth. The Marcabians used to rule Earth at some point in the past but lost control of it due to “losses in war and other things”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcab_Confederacy
The next time you see a veteran, thank them that you aren't speaking Marcabian.
I remember seeing an article in the late 1940’s in which L. Ron Hubbard wrote, “If you want to get rich, create your own religion.” Obviously, he took his own advice.