Every population center will have an associated government, which will be initially set to Ad Hoc (Anarchy). As a population centre becomes larger the effects of the government will increase and the cost in time and structure will increase to change it.

Government Types
Each government has a type that broadly describes how it acts. There can be many types of Democracy with slightly differing effect but the broad scope are roughly the same.

Theocracy : BHD
Democracy: DTR/FCN
Anarchy: Ad Hoc
Empire: CNF/IMP/FLZ/HLQ/HVB
Tribal: DEN/FEL/NAP
Agrarian: MOH/WMB
Collective: HVE
Feudal: RIP Despot
Penal: -

Government Establishment
Governments require both time and structure to become established. The graph represents the quantity of both. The 'high order' types of government require larger amounts of both time and structure to become established.

Government costs to set up and maintain a government will based on the infrastructure necessary to create the government and the time required for it to become effective. This graph shows the various government types and where they lie in terms of time/structure needed. This also describes the transition times/structure that you need to change governments.

Ad hoc (effectively anarchy in some circumstances) in which policy is made on the fly is the simplest form of government and is normally the government of a founding colony. The ruling government of a population centre can be changed by setting the target government type and where the new government requires more structure, supplying it.

Structure represents physical material needed for the implementation of the dictates of the establishment. This may represent things such as policing units, training facilities, breeding chambers or feasting halls and even castles or at least impressive structures for the ruling elite funded by the state rather than the individual.

Further, a government requires access to ideas and implementation of ideas. In many cases this can refer to skilled people or simply people of a specific species. Hive eggs for example all have a HVE Collective material value. As such simply establishing a stage 1 colony using hive eggs along with structural modules and Collective tech will normally be sufficient to also create a HVE collective.



Generally speaking, items tied to a specific government type will have a higher value/mu. Example: True One Bibles (BHD Theocracy), Dewiek Fighting Pits (DEN Tribal), Falconian Aerial Roosts (FCN Democracy). In these cases the items are likely to be produced only in a few locations or be limited to the number that can contribute to the total material at any stage. Items generally associated with a government style will have lower values.

Government Factors
In order for a government to remain in control, there needs to be support from the population. Without this support the government will revert to anarachy (ad hoc) unless it is is already moving towards another form of government for which there is support.

Normally there will be a component of the population that supports the government represented by an 'indoctrinated' mass of the population. There can also be specific items that contribute government factors. These represent a concentrated source of government support.

Specific civilian items contribute to particular government types such as Lawyers (democracy), farmers (agrarian) and are likely produced through recruitment (resource complexes) on appropriately populated worlds. Again, civilians specific to a government also exist, Monks (BHD Theocracy), Detinus Ambassadors (DTR Republic) are obvious examples while Hive Eggs (HVE Collective) are produced through brood chambers.
Certain items can contribute negative government factors. Examples such as Anti-slave campaigners (FLZ Empire) are self explanatory.
There will be methods of 'indoctrinate' civilians improving support for a specific government or removing negative items.

Example
% pop is the required amount of people contributing to the government type at the current stage. So for a stage 1 collective having a population of 150k civilians consisting of 110k HVE + 40k civilians from other species is possible. If the hive population does not increase and the population centre increases to stage 2, the hive government will collapse as there is insufficient structure to maintain the government.

Even if the population reaches 1M and has not upgraded to stage 2, it can keep its HVE collective government.
If however it was subjected to a contagion that killed 15k hive, while still having a population of 135k, it would only have a hive population of 95k and as such its HVE Collective government would collapse.

Government Requirements

Governments require a certain amount of additional infrastructure to function however governments are different. At each stage of development there government infrastructure required is:

Stage	Government infrastructure
Stage 1: Initial Colonisation	10k
Stage 2: Colony	75k
Stage 3: Developing	200k
Stage 4: Emerging Economy	450k
Stage 5: Established World	1200k

The following table explains how the government infrastructure requirements are divided in each government type and what percentage of the population are required to support the government philosophy. Most governments do not require the full 100% of the government infrastructure for a stage but they do require a certain types of infrastructure as stated. The supporting population is only a percentage of the population required to reach a infrastructure stage not the current population.
Example
Establishing a hive collective government on a newly founded colony (100k hive and 60k infrastructure and Basic Col Tech) requires a further 10k structural infrastructure and Collective Tech.

Government	Material*	% Population at stage
Collective	Collective Tech (subtype) 100% Structural	100
Penal	Penal tech 20% Advanced 20% Structural 20% Military	0
Agrarian	Agrarian tech 3% Structural 14% Agricultural 3% Transport	20
Tribal	Tribal tech 25% Military 5% Structural 5% Basic 5% Transport	30
Feudal	Feudal tech 20% Structural 20% Military 10% Basic	20
Democracy	Democracy tech 35% Advanced 5% Basic 20% Military 15% Structural	50
Empire Tech	Empire tech 20% Advanced 10% Basic 25% Military 20% Structural	40
Theocracy	Theocracy tech 25% Structural 10% Basic	20

*subject to change


Changing Governments
It is possible to change from one government to another providing that there is sufficient support and structure present for the new government.

[1] Transitions to governments with lower structures are free in structure, not time, i.e. net difference is time cost
[2] Transitions always have fixed change time in addition to net difference in time
[3] Materials that contribute towards structure is not same for each government type e.g. feudal to democracy = 1/2 cost in time/material to democracy but uses democracy materials.
[4] Time can be reduced by input of stellars (and special action events where appropriate e.g. liberation etc) to make things move faster. Stellars cannot be substituted for materials.

Example
Changing an Empire to a Democracy requires (along with government factors and time):

Empire	Democracy	Net Change
Empire tech 20% Advanced 10% Basic 25% Military 20% Structural	Democracy tech 35% Advanced 5% Basic 20% Military 15% Structural	Democracy tech 15% Advanced

The above case presumes that all the material present is generic infrastructure items, e.g. modules.
Note that because certain infrastructure items may represent a specialised government type, the actual costs may be higher. If in the above example some of the military infrastructure is formed from Slave Conditioning Camps (Flagritz Empire), it will not contribute to Democracy (Detinus Republic) military infrastructure and if contributing more than 5% of the military, there will be a shortfall that needs to be accounted for before the new government can be established.

Government Effects
As well as setting restrictions on the use of slaves and indentured workers by bases on the world, governments will be expanded to cover other aspects that are currently covered through special actions if they are covered at all.

• Support of claim (covering everything from standard bonus to tax against support for system claims as per Corewards)
  
• Militia / naval support (indication of how many and how long they will be active for along with ramifications for calling them - also include secondment for reduced personnel wages)
  
• Resist change
  
• Functions called (trained troop recruitment; harvests and tithes; annual events)
  
• Security (notification if positions detected by civilians landing on world; civilian port bans)
  
• Crime level (getting your hands on contraband; stuff nicked from starbase - yeah, not all beneficial)
  
• Relations - either from aff or - influenced by aff (relationship to governments determines limits of action as per affiliation relations mechanics)
  

• Current stage
  
• Areas covered in the report will be 'manifests' of population and infrastructure.
  
• Events (corresponding notifications also sent where appropriate).
  
• Ongoing changes to government
  
• Benefits (militia etc)