Population Control In Your Nation

[The Multiversal Species Alliance]

What's the status of population control in your nation? How is it viewed?
Population control is neccessary for our nation to remain post-scarcity, it is achieved by the mandatory implantation of contraception implant within an adolescent's reproductive organs. The people are intelligent, they know that since we are all biologically immortal, they know that population control is neccessary for Harmony within our nation.

[Sedikal]

The Sedik government does not practice population control.

[Universal Utopian State]

Utopia requires any citizen wanting to have a child to first put in a request to Administration. If the population can handle another child then the person may have one. Certain factors, such as possible hereditary traits and how many other children they have, are taken into account.

Also, adoption is highly recommended over creating a new child. Utopia adopts many children from foreign countries to give them a better home.

[Radiatia]

Most states of the Radiatian Federation have a "two child policy" - meaning it is illegal for a family to have more than two children.

Generally couples wishing to reproduce have to apply for a parental license, to show that they are mentally and financially stable enough to have children. Otherwise abortions are compulsory.

[Sardakhar]

There is no such thing as population control in Sardakhar. We let married couples conceive children freely at any time, without any restrictions, provided that it be practiced in safe privacy.

[Islamic nation of southeast asia]

we are still lacking in people, but perhaps that we provide is the practice of contraception and only allowed a maximum of 2 children

[Night Elven Empire]

The government practices no official population control, but the way Night Elf biology works, pregnancy can only occur through a specific pattern of sex. This allows us Night Elves to enjoy sex all we want without the fear of unwanted pregnancy.

[Gnark]

Population control is neccessary for our nation to remain post-scarcity,

Ah, so when you claim to be "post-scarcity", you are in fact lying. Really, you're operating under the ordinary constraints of scarce resources, but brutally oppressing your people so that you don't run up against your resource cap.

As you might guess, no, we don't enforce population control on humanity. The universe can support many, many more people than currently exist, and even Terra is nowhere near the limits of its carrying capacity, or even its peak population.

Even leaving that aside, worlds tend to have their population growth stabilize without any external interference as their technological and industrial bases develop. Exponential population growth is a sign of a culture in transition from an agrarian society to a technological society. On either side of the transition, population growth is low - on the low-tech side because life is difficult and mortality rates are high, and on the high-tech side because control over personal reproduction is readily available and the time necessary for a baby to become an educated and productive member of society means that large families are an economic load rather than a boon. It's only in between, where the mortality rate drops radically but the social implications of the changing tech level haven't sunk in yet - in many cases exacerbated by organized religions with reactionary social policies - that explosive growth happens.

In short, eh, it sorts itself out. No reason to be a jerk over it.

[Ilmare]

Ilmare operates under finite resources but does not feel the need, nor the popular desire; to enforce any sort of 'control' over birth rates and population numbers.

[Colbalt (Ancient)]

I am a massive hive mind so population control is unnessacary.

[Demirysis]

Population is growing at a slow and steady rate, and the UFD has the greatest resource availability on the planet. There is no need for population control. Though the DTS has several clandestine and brutal strategies for controlling population in the event of a population growth crisis. These measures include:

- Planting DTS doctors into the health system, and having them randomly administering placebos to people with deadly illnesses.
- Poisoning pregnant women
- Eliminating lonely, single individuals with little family, and whom will go un-missed.
- Randomly ignoring emergency ambulance calls
- Increasing the number of crimes that can be punished by execution
- Legalization of dangerous narcotics
- Eliminating non-citizen permanent residents
- Selectively acquitting guilty murderers, in order for them to kill again
- Setting up of 'Death Hospitals' - where patients are executed under the guise of failed operations and health complications

These measures are fully supported by the Federal Government should things get that bad, and they are completely unknown to the population.

[The Free and Just Republic of Freedomol]

population control through unneccessary capital punishment, highly unequal allocation of resources, and constant needless war whenever the God Emperor feels like it. Need I say more?

[Victorious Decepticons]

We have no outright population control. The only regulation that technically could be considered to result in lower reproduction rates is there to ensure the proper raising (and therefore better quality) of offspring, not limit our population.

The one regulation can be summed up like this:

Except in times of a crisis of low population numbers, all Decepticons must be individually coded and raised, and factory production is forbidden.

This basically means that in almost all circumstances, Decepticons must be produced and raised in traditional Decepticon families instead of being made by the thousands or even millions via automated processes. Individualized production and raising is the best way to produce unique, well-rounded people.

Factory-builts, as they are called, do eventually gain sapience and uniqueness thanks to the fact that Decepticon scripting adapts to life experiences, but it takes far longer for them to do so than it does for someone built and raised in the regular way. Therefore, we have foregone our maximum reproduction rates (which is in the millions per day if all capable factories were put to this use) in order to ensure a better outcome for our nation's offspring.

Still, we can't foresee ever having an outright limit on population. We'd love to have trillions of Decepticons and an army of hundreds of billions!

[The Grand World Order]

The Federation has the opposite; we actively encourage people to have children, and once used artificial methods to increase the birth rate and create greater genetic diversity. It was part of our repopulation effort after the Final War.

[Bahanesia]

What's the status of population control in your nation? How is it viewed?

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Population control policies have been absent from the legislative spectrum for over 50 years. The first and only form regarding the control of the growth of the populace was the initiation of the 'two child, one family' domestic policy, otherwise known as the 'Massakontrol'. Its tenure as an effective policy was ended after the coronation and subsequent reign of King Sujuntaro in the year 1965.

The 'two-child family policy' was first and only instituted in the Bahanesian Commonwealth during the moderate reign of King Bhumibot Jolokot, in response to the growing boom of the population after the end of the Great Wars of Empire (1939-1945). It also held economic reasons, calling for a control of labor rates and employment numbers in the country in order to prevent unemployment and exploitations of natural resources.

Two children were the maximum amount of children that a family could legally own and support. Due to worries that a one-child policy might direct a stronger gender gap, or a rising population of females, the Commonwealth Government instead utilized two-children in order to give families a second opportunity should they wish to borne a male.

Public opinion regarding the issue of enacting population control policies within the Empire are generally divided between Bahanesian Imperial societal divisions.

Advocates and supporters of the government practice proclaim that population control ensures a sound influx of citizens from relying on the bare necessities of services provided by the Commonwealth Government, and for other economic reasons, such as a reduction in labor costs and ensuring a fully-employed workforce.

Critics of the past family-planning policy generally lay argument on the basis that population control is an obsolete policy, and that its return might trigger societal backlash and unrest against the Commonwealth Government.

Age differences and societal groups also have mixed feelings regarding the practice. According to statistical reference questioning opinions of population control policy, Individuals aged 18-24 strongly abhorred the practice, noting that population control is an unnecessary infringement of human rights and restricts the freedom of individuals to choose their way of life. Respondents aged 50 and above, however, held mixed-supportive views of population control, citing that the national economy of the Empire grew to a constant rate of 2% annually, and also prevented the fear of unemployment between the workforce.

As of yet, no mention or active movement is currently present within the Empire that is calling for the return of the Massakontrol domestic policy back into the Commonwealth Government agenda.

[Defensedefumer]

The Theocracy of Defensedefumer does not have any governmental policy on population control. That said, there is a societal stigma against abortion clinics.

[Auzkhia]

We do not practice population control.

[Fransikania]

The Federal Government of the Ancient Imperial Federation of Fransikania does not practice population control.

[The Multiversal Species Alliance]

Population control is neccessary for our nation to remain post-scarcity,

Ah, so when you claim to be "post-scarcity", you are in fact lying. Really, you're operating under the ordinary constraints of scarce resources, but brutally oppressing your people so that you don't run up against your resource cap.

As you might guess, no, we don't enforce population control on humanity. The universe can support many, many more people than currently exist, and even Terra is nowhere near the limits of its carrying capacity, or even its peak population.

Even leaving that aside, worlds tend to have their population growth stabilize without any external interference as their technological and industrial bases develop. Exponential population growth is a sign of a culture in transition from an agrarian society to a technological society. On either side of the transition, population growth is low - on the low-tech side because life is difficult and mortality rates are high, and on the high-tech side because control over personal reproduction is readily available and the time necessary for a baby to become an educated and productive member of society means that large families are an economic load rather than a boon. It's only in between, where the mortality rate drops radically but the social implications of the changing tech level haven't sunk in yet - in many cases exacerbated by organized religions with reactionary social policies - that explosive growth happens.

In short, eh, it sorts itself out. No reason to be a jerk over it.

In a post-scarcity society, if the population were to increase naturally (with the increase of resources), eventually resources would once again be scarce.

[East Catalina]

Population WHAT?!
That's tyrannical. We don't practice it.

[Kington Langley]

Kington Langley is a democracy, thus we do not practice population control.

[Meritocratic States]

PMT: Confederacy of Meritocratic States (2043)

The Meritocratic States does not exercise population control. The infrastructure and food production facilities are instead being bolstered to prevent scarcity of necessities.

[Cruciland]

Population control is useless in the face of perpetual war, where more and more people can die of enemy assaults. While this is still rare, we still need to get bigger if we are going to keep posing a viable threat to our enemies. We may stop encouraging it once we are on top, and even find ways to make citizens stop.

[Straall]

Birth control only.

[Zokoria]

Abortion and artificial contraceptives are absolutely illegal in Zokoria.

So that's why we don't practice "population control".