Capital

A Capital is the center of governance and political activity within a polity.

• The appropriately named Capital (world) is the capital of the largest and likely the most powerful Supra-polity within Charted Space, the Third Imperium.
• Capitals are not only of interest to merchants and travellers, but they are also used to calculate the IISS metric, the Importance Extension, which is a gross measure of a world's overall interstellar importance in generalized terms.

Description (Specifications)

There are three Trade Classifications involving capitals within the interstellar trade system.

Trade Classification Codes
Class	Code	Type	Remarks
Subsector Capital	(Cp)	Political	The capital of the local region, usually a subsector in size.
Sector Capital	(Cs)	Political	The capital of a group of hundreds of star systems, typically a sector in size.
Imperial Capital	(Cx)	Political	The overall capital of an interstellar government, an interstellar polity.

History & Background (Dossier)

Capitals exist at nearly all levels of societal development. A soon as societies become large enough to separate into distinctive sub-polities, dominance among competing factions on a regional or locational level become important and the most dominant becomes designated the capital.

Charted Space has grown to be an interstellar system with an interlinking systems of competing polities whose economies affect one another. Any capital at the subsector level, Pocket Empire level, or above acquires a Capital Trade Classification. The smaller capitals at the World-State, balkanized Nation-State, or lower levels simply lacks the authority under the majority of conditions to effectively compete on the interstellar market. Such worlds may matter individually, but they will lack the authority of bigger fish to influence the economic system significantly.

Standard Polity Growth Sequence

MACRO LEVEL:

• Proto-Society → Society → Civilization → Singularity (Post-civilizational)

MICRO LEVEL:

• Proto-Society → Band Society → Tribal Society or Chiefdom → City-State → Nation-State → World-State → Pocket Empire → Interstellar State → Intergalactic State → Final State → Singularity

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science