Citizen

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Citizen is the term given to NPCs that are of a sentient species. Therefore the term citizen can refer to any of the following.

• Citizen
• Passenger
• Troop
• Crewman
• Officer

The term citizens can however sometimes refer exclusively to the population of a city.

City Citizens

Citizens are the working inhabitants of cities. Their numbers are expressed as population and are for the most part hidden out of sight.

City morale affects whether citizen migrate into a city or away from a city. The morale is affected by living conditions within the city.

Cities start with no population. When empty homes are constructed, citizens migrate to the city. Habitable worlds with plant and animal life may have indigenous populations living in the wilderness. These people migrate into empty cities or cities where the morale is positive. In harsh environments and on frontier worlds, a city must be connected by space for immigration to occur. The population of cities also increases due to normal reproductive growth. The population of a city will not grow to exceed the number of homes.

Citizens work the jobs in a city. Citizens prefer a balance where their population slightly exceeds the number of jobs. This translates into "time off" shared between the citizens. Citizens apply some priority to the jobs they perform.

• In habitable environments, citizens work the food producing jobs first, then the power producing jobs, then the remaining jobs if there is any manpower remaining.
• In harsh environments, citizens work the power producing jobs first, then the refineries, then the food producing jobs, then the remaining jobs, manpower permitting.

Citizens do not work in the absense of light except in harsh environments where their survival depends on working. Citizens must have electric lighting to work at night on habitable planets.