You think they would expend resources recreating nobodies like us? Sam gets his digital construct immortality and we squat.

Yeah I mean specifically that Mao killed millions of people through a combination of ineptitude and taking the lessons from the wars he fought in into government. The Federation is built on principles that run counter to Maoism in important respects like allowing differences of opinion and anti-authoritarianism.

Mao is pretty much the opposite of what the federation stands for in almost every respect.