Species rights

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This article is considered accurate for the current version (2.5) of the game.

Species rights interface.

Species rights is a system where the rights of a species in an empire can be determined. The rights can be determined individually for each species and can be changed every 10 years. What rights can be selected depends on if the species is the main species of the empire, what ethics, active policies and government form(s) the empire has. The set rights interface can be found from the species panel.

Citizenship[edit]

Citizenship represents the status of a species in an empire: whether they are free, partially free or subjugated, whether or not they can participate in the political processes of the country, what freedoms and restrictions can be placed on them and even whether they have the right to live in the empire at all. In addition to rights and obligations, citizenship also affects pops' migration attraction: A Pop that is currently enjoying full citizenship is unlikely to move to another empire where their rights could potentially be curtailed, while Pops living under second-class citizen conditions are more likely to move to an empire that would possibly grant them a fairer life. Note that enslaved Pops cannot migrate, but they may revolt in low stability worlds.

Type	Pop Effects	Requirements	Description
Full Citizenship		Automatically applied to primary species and cannot be changed Full Military Service Species Rights if empire has Citizen Service Citizen Rights Artificial Intelligence policy if species is Synthetic Cannot be granted to aliens if the empire is Xenophobe Hive Mind empires can only give it to Hive-Minded species and Hive-Minded species can only get it in Hive Mind empires	Pops are free, are allowed to join factions and the species can produce Leaders. Each and every individual of this species is an esteemed member of this society.
Residence	-10% Happiness -25% Pop Amenities Usage -50% Pop Political Power	Citizen Rights Artificial Intelligence policy if species is Synthetic Not Full Military Service Species Rights if empire has Citizen Service	Pops are free, but are not allowed to join factions and the species cannot produce Leaders. They have yet to prove themselves worthy of all rights afforded to others. Perhaps they never will.
Slaves	Determined by Slavery type	Allowed Slavery Policy	All Pops of this species will be Enslaved. Freedom is an illusion. For some this truth is more tangible than it is for others.
Undesirables	Determined by Purge type	Not Prohibited Purge Policy if species is organic Outlawed Robotic Workers Policy if species is robotic Only option towards aliens if Fanatic Purifiers or Devouring Swarm Only option towards organics if Determined Exterminator	All Pops of this species will be Purged. State records do not recognize the existence of this species.
Servitude		Robotic species Not Citizen Rights Artificial Intelligence Policy	The overriding purpose of any machine must be to serve its masters and perform whatever tasks it was designed for, regardless of how intelligent it may be. A toaster will always be a toaster.
Assimilation	Determined by Assimilation type	Not robot or cybernetic Any of the following: Evolutionary Mastery AP - assimilates to Hive-Minded if Hive Mind, otherwise removes it Transcendence AP - assimilates to Psionic The Flesh is Weak AP - assimilates to Cybernetic Synthetic Evolution AP - assimilates to Synthetic Driven Assimilator - assimilates to Cybernetic	Pops of this species are changed over time to better match the dominant species of the Empire. Pops that are in the process of being assimilated will not produce any resources. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.
Machine Integration		Machine Intelligence if the species is robotic Driven Assimilator civic if the species is Cybernetic	All owned Pops of this species are fully integrated with the Machine Intelligence. Assuming direct control.
Bio-Trophy		Rogue Servitor civic Only option towards organic species not Hive-Minded	Pops of this species are revered and cared for by the Machine Intelligence, freed from the burdens of responsibility and agency. Glory to organics.

Living standards[edit]

Living Standards represents how economically favored a population is, for example whether or not they benefit from social welfare or have restrictions placed on their economic activity or what kinds of occupations they can be employed in. The higher the living standards of a Pop is, the more Consumer Goods it will use, but the happier it will be.

Type	Ruler effects	Specialist effects	Worker effects	Slave effects	Unemployed effects	Requirements
Chemical Bliss	1.0x Upkeep +40% Happiness -60% Resources from Jobs +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	1.0x Upkeep +40% Happiness -60% Resources from Jobs +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	1.0x Upkeep +40% Happiness -60% Resources from Jobs +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	1.0x Upkeep +40% Happiness -60% Resources from Jobs	-20% Happiness	Subdermal Stimulation technology
Academic Privilege	1.0x Upkeep +15% Happiness +10% Output +900% Political Power +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	1.0x Upkeep +15% Happiness +10% Output +400% Political Power +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	0.25x Upkeep +0.15 Trade Value per Pop	0.05x Upkeep	-20% Happiness	Materialist
Utopian Abundance	1.0x Upkeep +20% Happiness +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	1.0x Upkeep +20% Happiness +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	1.0x Upkeep +20% Happiness +0.4 Trade Value per Pop		+1 Unity +2 Research	Egalitarian
Shared Burden	0.4x Upkeep +5% Happiness +0.2 Trade Value per Pop	0.4x Upkeep +5% Happiness +0.2 Trade Value per Pop	0.4x Upkeep +5% Happiness +0.2 Trade Value per Pop		+1 Unity -45% Stratum demotion time	Shared Burdens
Stratified Economy	1.0x Upkeep +15% Happiness +900% Political Power +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	0.5x Upkeep +5% Happiness +100% Political Power +0.25 Trade Value per Pop	0.1x Upkeep -10% Happiness -25% Political Power +0.1 Trade Value per Pop	0x Upkeep -10% Happiness	-20% Happiness	Authoritarian
Social Welfare	1.0x Upkeep +10% Happiness +400% Political Power +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	0.5x Upkeep +10% Happiness +100% Political Power +0.25 Trade Value per Pop	0.5x Upkeep +10% Happiness +50% Political Power +0.25 Trade Value per Pop	0.1x Upkeep +10% Happiness	+1 Unity	Shared Burdens
Decent Conditions	1.0x Upkeep +10% Happiness +700% Political Power +0.4 Trade Value per Pop	0.5x Upkeep +5% Happiness +100% Political Power +0.25 Trade Value per Pop	0.25x Upkeep +0.15 Trade Value per Pop	0.05x Upkeep	-20% Happiness	Shared Burdens
Basic Subsistence	0.5x Upkeep -5% Happiness +400% Political Power +0.25 Trade Value per Pop	0.25x Upkeep -10% Happiness -25% Political Power +0.15 Trade Value per Pop	0.05x Upkeep -20% Happiness -50% Political Power +0.05 Trade Value per Pop	0x Upkeep -10% Happiness	-20% Happiness	Shared Burdens Full Citizenship Rights
Servitude						Robotic species Servitude Artificial Intelligence Policy
Non-Existent						Undesirables Rights Purge is not Neutering or Displacement
Drone						Hive Mind if species is Hive-Minded Machine Intelligence if species is robotic
Mandatory Pampering						Bio-Trophy Citizenship
Hive Dissociation						Hive-Minded trait Assimilation Citizenship
Identity Sublimation	-50% Happiness					Hive Mind or Driven Assimilator Assimilation Citizenship
Transubstantiation Synthesis	-25% Happiness					Cybernetic or Synthetic main species Assimilation Citizenship
Transcendent Awakening	-25% Happiness					Psionic main species Assimilation Citizenship

Military service[edit]

Military Service determines a species' right to join the police or military and whether or not they can become military leaders.

Type	Effects	Notes	Description
Full Military Service	Can produce Armies or take Soldier or Enforcer Jobs Can produce Admirals and Generals	Cannot grant to aliens if Xenophobe. Enables Full Citizenship if Citizen Service. Always on for the primary species	They are doubtlessly among the most competent in our armed forces.
Soldiers Only	Can produce Armies or take Soldier or Enforcer Jobs Cannot produce Admirals and Generals		They make excellent soldiers - but command is better left to others.
Exempt	Cannot produce Armies or take Soldier or Enforcer Jobs Cannot produce Admirals and Generals		They serve better away from the battlefield.

Colonization rights[edit]

Colonization Rights determines whether a species is allowed to board colony ships and settle new worlds.

Type	Description
Colonization Forbidden	In a vast sea of cold emptiness, a habitable world is the greatest treasure of all. Not all are worthy to seize it.
Colonization Allowed	Who are we to deny any species their place among the stars? Together we will drive back the darkness.

Population controls[edit]

Population Controls determines whether a species is allowed to reproduce enough to grow new Pops or only enough to ensure it will not die off.

Type	Notes	Description
Population Controls Enabled	Gives -10% Happiness from the species Not available if Xenophile Requires Allowed Population Controls Policy	Selective reproductive suppression fields are often referred to as the blunt instruments of demography.
No populations controls	Always on for primary species	A species that does not propagate itself is at an evolutionary dead end.

Migration controls[edit]

Migration controls determines whether a species is allowed to migrate. It applies both to migration between planets within the empire and migration to and from empires with a Migration Treaty.

Type	Requirement	Description
Migration Controls Enabled		The free flow of pops can allocate resources efficiently, but sometimes what is necessary is not efficient.
No Migration Controls	Species is not enslaved	Just as our primitive ancestors wandered in search of a home, every being must be free to seek its destiny among the stars.

Slavery type[edit]

The Slavery Type requires a species to have the Slaves Citizenship and determines how the enslaved pops will be used. All Slaves use only 0.75 Amenities, and their Political Power is reduced by -75%.

Type	Pop Effects	Requirements	Description
Chattel Slavery	+10% Resources from Jobs -30% Happiness 0.75 Pop Housing Usage	Not Gestalt Consciousness	Chattel Slaves have increased resource production but cannot be employed in Ruler or Specialist Jobs. Chattel Slavery is the most common form of slavery in the galaxy. Whether for life or a limited time, unrestricted access to the labor of others is in some parts seen as a privilege with numerous counter-duties attached, and elsewhere considered a self-evident prerequisite for a functioning society.
Domestic Servitude	-20% Happiness	Utopia DLC Not Gestalt Consciousness	Domestic Servants that are not holding another job will be employed as Servants, producing +4 Amenities. They cannot perform Ruler or Specialist Jobs, with the sole exception of working as Entertainers. Domestic servants spend much of their time tending to the needs of free Pops - some are assigned to individual domiciles, while others tend to public spaces. They tend to live alongside their masters, and thus require almost no dedicated housing.
Battle Thralls	-20% Happiness +20% Army Damage 0.75 Pop Housing Usage	Utopia DLC Not Gestalt Consciousness	Battle Thralls have no bonuses to resource production, but make excellent soldiers for local Armies. They cannot perform Ruler or Specialist Jobs, with the exception of working as Duelist, Enforcer, and Soldier. Battle thralls are weaponized serfs, often trained from birth in the martial arts and conditioned for absolute obedience. In exchange for unquestioning military service, they are granted much more autonomy than other slaves and can be employed in a greater variety of jobs.
Livestock	-40% Happiness 0.25 Pop Housing Usage	Utopia DLC Xenophobe or Hive Mind	Livestock Pops can not be employed to produce anything, but are instead regularly culled to increase Food supply. Lithoid Livestock produce Minerals instead. Livestock is Pops!
Grid Amalgamation	-40% Happiness	Machine Intelligence	Grid Amalgamated pops cannot be employed to produce anything but are instead used as organic batteries to generate +4 energy. "A long-term alternative to Chemical Processing, where enough of the organic population survives the process to continue to power our energy grid indefinitely." Combined with a form of fusion, we have found all the energy we will ever need.

Purge type[edit]

Purging is where a species receives the Undesirables Citizenship and is then systematically exterminated from within the empire. The Purge Type determines how this is carried out in practice. Any purge type except Neutering and Displacement runs the risk of causing Opinion penalties when interacting with other empires. Each type of purging except Neutering can generate refugees, which can be accepted or turned away by other empires. A pop will be removed every time 100 Pop Decline Points are accumulated.

Type	Pop Monthly Decline Speed	Happiness	Requirements	Description
Displacement	-10	−30%	Not Genocidal Not available to Driven Assimilator if the species has the Cybernetic trait Not available to Machine Intelligence if the species has the Machine or Mechanical traits	Affected Pops are expelled from the empire over time, left to find refuge outside our borders. It's not that we drive them from their homes. Their homes are simply no longer theirs.
Extermination	-35	−1000%	Not Devouring Swarm	Affected Pops are systematically eradicated. This is the fastest form of Purging available. The extermination squads are efficient. The dissolution of entire populations naturally takes time, but they get the job done.
Neutering	-5	−20%	Not Gestalt Consciousness	Affected Pops no longer grow and will die out over time, but gain only a moderate happiness penalty. Think of it as a phasing-out of a people. Our nation goes to meet the future, only some will not be with us.
Forced Labor	-15	−1000%	Not Gestalt Consciousness	Affected pops are worked to death and can be used to produce food or minerals until their eventual demise. With this final sacrifice, they will at least have been of some use.
Processing	-20	−1000%	Not Machine Intelligence	Affected pops are processed into nutrient-rich food sources, boosting food availability until death. It is a sad but inescapable fact that some are destined to simply fuel the ambitions of their betters.
Chemical Processing	-20	−1000%	Machine Intelligence	Affected pops' physiologies are prepared for integration with the energy grid, where the chemical processes that sustain them are redirected to enrich our energy stores. The process is fatal, but death comes slowly. They will soon attain a more efficient form.