What is civilian life like in the Federation?

[Earth001]

So, we always seem to hear about what life is like for the crew aboard starships and such. But what is life like for civilians in the 24th century era Star Trek?

 

[Picard Sisko]

This is something I think needs to be explored in future movies or series. We sort of get a glimpse of a few clubs on Earth in STID and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, but overall it's generally a mystery.

 

[Soapy]

Is it? I seem to remember a number of episodes (of TNG at least) where they stopped at a planet and we saw normal people. And wasn't DS9 mostly populated with civilians?

 

[Know One]

Well, we can make educated guesses.
There's no money, people do a job that they want to do and the object is to be better at what you do. There are no wars (although every movie is about one...), people have attained a higher consciousness (Picard is ok with being bald - which speaking of, they can cure cancer but not baldness...). Earth and Vulcan have basically created the Federation - although there's only one Vulcan per spaceship. People easily live over 100 years. I could extrapolate a lot more but, too lazy to go view all the movies.