Social Engineering choices & their effects

Politics:

Frontier - Frontier politics represent the informal governing arrangements made in early colonies, before populations reach levels requiring more advanced forms of government. Frontier politics provide no bonuses or penalties.

Prerequisites: None

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Police State - Police State uses oppression to keep their citizens in line, and allow their leaders great power over military decisions, but oppression of this type also decreases economic efficiency

Prerequisites: Doctrine: Loyalty

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Democratic - Democracies allow citizens to participate in government, and forego oppression and the stability it confers in favor of growth and efficiency. But citizens remain suspicious of large military deployments, and civilian oversight creates large military bureaucracies, so military support costs increase.

Prerequisites: Ethical Calculus

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Fundamentalist - Fundamentalist politics unite a society behind a strong, dogmatic religion. Evangelizing the populace can create loyal, even fanatical military forces, and tends to immunize citizens against (or other forms of) brainwashing, but technological research tends to suffer under the continual assaults on intellectual integrity associated with such regimes.

Prerequisites: Secrets of the Human Brain

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Economics

Simple - Simple Economics describes the informal, ad hoc economy which develops in the early years of Planetfall, before more organized economic systems can be put in place. Simple Economics provide no special bonuses or penalties.

Prerequisites: None

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Free Market - Free Market Economics turns market forces loose in your society. Unfettered market economics can produce great wealth quickly, but in the context of Planet's fragile emerging economies can also lead to extremes of pollution and ecological damage. Also, citizens rendered suddenly poor by the actions of unscrupulous moguls may revolt against their energy-fattened masters.

Prerequisites: Industrial Economics

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Planned - A semi-market economy kept in check by fierce governmental regulation, Planned Economics promotes stable industrial and population growth, but sacrifices efficiency.

Prerequisites: Planetary Networks

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Green - Green Economics strive to integrate human progress with the needs of the biosphere. Green Economies use resources efficiently and tend to avoid the excesses of industrial development which could provoke Planet's native life, but population growth suffers for lack of space.

Prerequisites: Centauri Empathy

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Values

Survival - Survival is, of course, the all-encompassing first priority of early human space colonies. "Survival" as a priority provides no special bonuses or penalties.

Prerequisites: None

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Power - Leaders seeking Power build strong, well paid military forces to enforce their will. But economic and industrial infrastructure may suffer from bloated "defense" budgets.

Prerequisites: Advanced Military Algorithms

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Knowledge - Leaders seeking Knowledge and intellectual enlightenment will pour resources into research and education. They will also tend to promote the free exchange of information, which increases efficiency but also carries greater security risks.

Prerequisites: Cyberethics

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Wealth - Leaders seeking Wealth will concentrate on building economic and industrial infrastructure rapidly. They achieve rapid growth and development, with possible side effects being decadence and moral decay.

Prerequisites: Industrial Automation

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Future Society

None - "None", or no future society, simply means that your society has not yet evolved to a far future society. No special bonuses or penalties.

Prerequisites: None

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Cybernetic - In the far future, citizens may turn many of the tasks of governing society over to artificially intelligent computers, increasing efficiency and freeing humans for more creative tasks. But will workers displaced by computers sink into despair, poverty and possible unrest?

Prerequisites: Digital Sentience

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Eudaimonic - Perhaps the most pleasant to contemplate living in, this far future society takes its name from an ancient Greek work for fulfillment and happiness. Eudaimonic society encourages each citizen to achieve happiness through striving to fulfill completely his or her potential. Population, Economy and Industry all experience healthy growth. Violence fades as society grows more tolerant and just, and even when this society's hand is forced it often shoots to subdue rather than to destroy.

Prerequisites: Eudaimonia

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Thought Control - The ultimate in "Big Brother" methods, Thought Control effuses subtle neurochemical triggers into the atmosphere to render it's population obedient, loyal and resistant to outside ideas. But significant resources are required to maintain this level of control.

Prerequisites: The Will to Power

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