Pop Types

Pop type	Strata	Wage weight	Dependent wage	Engagement	Becomes this at wealth ≤	Start QoL	Qualifications	PMs
Aristocrats	upper	5	0	70%	≤	20	required	10
Capitalists	upper	5	0	70%	≤	20	required	15
Officers	middle	5	0.5	70%	≤	10	required	6
Academics	middle	4	0.5	70%	≤	10	required	11
Bureaucrats	middle	4	0.5	50%	≤	10	required	32
Clergymen	middle	3	0.5	50%	≤	10	required	24
Engineers	middle	3	0.5	50%	≤	10	required	93
Shopkeepers	middle	3	0.5	30%	≤	10	required	107
Farmers	middle	2	0.5	40%	≤	10	required	39
Clerks	lower	1.5	0.5	20%	≤	7	required	52
Machinists	lower	1.5	0.5	25%	≤	7	required	124
Servicemen	lower	1.5	0.5	20%	≤	7	—	5
Laborers	lower	1	0.5	10%	≤ 10	5	—	221
Peasants	lower	0.2	0.25	10%	—	5	—	7
Slaves · unpaid	lower	0	0	10%	≤	1	—	—

Wage weight is this profession's share of its building's wage budget · engagement is the base share politically active, before literacy · wealth is the game's unemployment_wealth: a pop falling to or below it switches to this profession · wealth runs 1–99 and sets which buy package a pop can afford