Yet Another Civilization Index [Still Alive]

[Friendly Island]

Nation: Friendly Island
Tier: 1
Level: 8
Type: 3.5
Power Comparator: 25
Special Notes about your civilization: All members of the civilization share a mental link which functions like networked intelligence.

[Hystaria]

Nation:Hystaria
Tier:9
Level:1
Type:9
Power Comparator: (see below)5.2
Special Notes about your civilization: Hystaria just ignores space law, and colonizes planets within other empires, it is everywhere
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index?
Military

[Trinadaed]

Nation: Trinadaed
Tier: 8
Level: 4 (can only manipulate weather, not very arcane)
Type: 5
Power Comparator: 11
Special Notes about your civilization: They live on an island.
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index?: I'll think...

[Great Aletia]

Nation: Greater Aletian Empire (Imperium Aletianorum/Αυτοκρατορία Αλετικός)
Tier: 8 (Genetic and cybernetic enhancement is the norm and FTL communication and travel are common)
Level: 2 (The psychic potential of the Aletian populace continues to develop, although at a very slow rate)
Type: 8 (Aletia maintains control over the overwhelming majority of its namesake, the Aletian star cluster)

[Cult of the Black Beast]

Nation: Cult of the Black Beast
Tier: 4
Level: 9
Type: 6?
Power Comparator: (see below) 18.75
Special Notes about your civilization:

The hardest one to answer (and I'm actually not particularly satisfied with my answer) was influence type. The Cult of the Black Beast is less of a nation and more of a very, very loose culture with a large number of unaffiliated covens. Type listed above is roughly based on influence; what we actually control is just a few patches of wilderness that are claimed but mostly uninhabited by other nations.

Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? As said before, arcane level is not set up as well as it could be. I don't know how I'd tweak it, but a linear scale might not be the best way to have it structured.

[New Tussia]

Nation: New Tussia
Tier: 7
Level: 0 (very few magic)
Type: 5
Special Notes about your civilization: Spans most of our planet with few colonies.
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? none.

[Old Northwest]

Nation: Old Northwest
Tier: 6
Level: 0
Type: 5
Power Comparator:16
Special Notes about your civilization: Our people are heavily armed and extremely politically conscious, meaning that in the event of an invasion, our people would be very resistant to the invaders.
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index?
Not really! Thanks for doing it :-)

[Broader Confederate States]

Nation: Confederate States of America
Tier: 6
Level: 0
Type: 4
Power Comparator: 18
Special Notes about your civilization: Spaceflight is possible but as of 2063 only five flights have happened over 23 years of existence, all under the Air Force, as the CSA doesn't at the moment have its own separate space program. Technology pretty much stood still at 2020-2025 with a few exceptions, but nuclear fission is the main energy source as opposed to a natural gas and coal combo, and while computers can interact over the Internet with most other countries, they typically struggle with websites of more technologically oriented nations.

[Fardhin]

Nation: Fardhin
Tier: 7
Level: 10
Type: 7
Power Comparator: 8.8
Special Notes about your civilization: Two natures to this NS. One, in certain timelines; it is purely physical with no fantasy, just pure tech. In other timelines, it has some degree of magic. Depends on the RP.
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? Specifically for the magic part, the amount of magic users should also be considered. For example, one civilization might have a godlike power; except there's only one individual with such abilities, compared to a civilization with thousands of these individuals, they may come to have the same power level according to this index.

[United Nations Confederation of Earth]

Nation: The United Nations Confederation of Earth
Tier: 8
Level: 0
Type: 8
Power Comparator: 7.5
Special Notes about your civilization: None
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? None

[Planet Chandra]

Nation: Planet Chandra
Tier: 7
Level: 0
Type: 7
Power Comparator: (see below) 7
Special Notes about your civilization: Planet Chandra has sent five manned missions to Planet Meteklan on the edge of our star system and we have relations with several nations on planet earth, our people's world of origin
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index?

[The Vexian Union]

Nation: Vexia
Technology Tier - 6
Arcane Level - 0
Influence Level - 5
Special Notes about your civilization: N/A

[The Transhumanist Commune]

Nation: The Transhumanist Commune
Tier: 9
Level: 0
Type: 8
Power Comparator: 7.5
Special Notes about your civilization: Nah
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? Nah

[Xanthal]

Nation: Xanthal
Technology Tier: 8.5
Arcane Level: 5
Influence Type: 7

[Vespertania]

Hello respective nationstates!

I'm extremely glad that the civilization index has seen such widespread use over the years by this community I like a lot. When I originally made it, I didn't expect it to be as popular like it turned out to be. Yet whenever i'm going through the forum now it's common to see at least one user on any given thread with a link back to the Civilization Index. So really, thank you to everybody that's come upon and decided to use this!

Excidium Planetis has been crucial for the last three years of the CivIndex's existence, maintaining and updating it with their own ideas. It's sad to see that two weeks ago they ceased to exist, and it's my hope they come back some time in the future. Regardless I'm inclined to not let the CivIndex drop out of relevance. So as the original maker, I'm taking it upon myself to create the third iteration for this.

I'm not loaded with new ideas for improving upon or adding anything new to the CivIndex, however. Which is a shame, because for our community something like this deserves that. So I'm looking for somebody with a good mind and a few relevant ideas of their own to step up and continue maintaining the CivIndex. All that's really needed to set up a new threads is a few things: Copying the CivIndex of this thread onto a new one, mentioning/listing credit to past caretakers (excidium planetis and myself), and as well links to the two previous threads for reference.

If nobody is interested, I'll make a new thread shortly. Like I said though, the CivIndex still has potential for more growth, in the right hands.

Send me a telegram if you're interested.

[Ungvarnfjall]

Nation: Ungvarnfjall
Tier: 2
Level: 4
Type: 3
Power Comparator: 58
Special Notes about your civilization: nope
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index?
nada, pretty good

[Nagatar Karumuttu Chettiar]

Nation:
Tier: 3
Level: 5
Type: 5
Power Comparator: (see below) Let me see...
Special Notes about your civilization: Themed off the Chettiars of Chettinad, a vast merchant Kingdom, spanning thousands of square miles, and 4.4 billion Chettiars on the planet Kirakam.
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? Nope

[The-Knights-of-Rhodes]

Nation: The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Malta, Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Rhodes
Tier:4
Level:0-3
Type:4
Power Comparator: 26.5
Special Notes about your civilization: most people are level 0, but superstitions of people up to level 3 run rampant as many people believe in stuff like witches(which also gets many people hung due to false accusations of witchcraft).
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? nope, looks good!

[Nicropolis]

Nation: Nicropolis
Tier: 7 (Stellar Settler)
Level: 0 (Inept)
Type: 5 (Regional Regent)
Power Comparator: 13.7
Special Notes about your civilization: PMT-era: Space travel is possible in this nation but only used for diplomatic purposes. Nicropolis has few alliances, resulting in a Type 5 influence.
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? None

[Trinadaed]

While the Civilization Index created by Querria (now Vespertania) is quite useful and comprehensive, I felt it was lacking in some respects... The technology levels were not as linear as I would like, and there was no inclusion of Fantasy levels in the scale. The sphere of influence levels were also quite limiting for nations which might have widespread influence, but not complete control of even one planet.

So, seeking to make my own civilization scale that was more in depth, I modified Vespertania's index and added in elements of the Ascended Empire's Index and Aeiouia's model for a Fantasy/Magic level (the latter of which has been extremely heavily edited of late).

By combining the three scales that will be listed below, you have a much more accurate classification for your nation.

Rather than having to explain that Excidium Planetis is a Future Tech nation that still uses MT and PMT technology in many cases and has no magic whatsoever, I can easily say Excidium Planetis is a Tier 8, Level 0, Type 8 nation. Of course, not all that is needed. Tier 8 tech level will suffice in most cases.

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Technology Tiers
The Technology Tier Scale measures a civilization's advancement in technology: scientific discoveries, knowledge of mathematics, etc. are rated on this scale. Most Tiers fall under one of the traditional NS labels (MT, FT, etc.)

Note that all tech examples are examples, not requirements. If you have technology that would meet a Tier 6 categorization, but somehow lack nuclear reactors, then you are a Tier 6, not a Tier 4.

• Tier 0 - Innovation Infant (Pre-PT)
  Tier 0 is the start of every civilization. Tier 0 civilizations have not developed any technology, they may utilize fire or raw materials as tools, but cannot make anything themselves. If you have not yet figured out what a wheel is, you are here.
  
  
• Tier 1 - Clever Craftsman (PT)
  Tier 1 civilizations have discovered primitive tools. Crafting weapons or other items out of raw materials such as stone or wood is common, and on planets whose environments allow it, fire can be created. Concepts such as wheels, pulleys, or levers may have been discovered. Agriculture may have begun.
  
  
• Tier 2 - Simple Smith (PT)
  Tier 2 civilizations have discovered some more advanced chemical processes: Metallurgy, the creation of metal alloys and the use of them in equipment. Architecture is beginning to be understood, and writing has allowed ideas to be communicated more easily. A beginning understanding of science and mathematics allows the further progression of technology.
  
  
• Tier 3 - Studious Scribe (PT)
  Tier 3 civilizations have grasped the elementary principles of physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The use of chemical reactions to create ballistic weapons is emerging.
  
  
• Tier 4 - Innovative Industrialist (PT)
  Tier 4 Civilizations have begun utilizing machines to replace citizen labor. Chemical reaction powered devices operate in typical commercial applications, and firearms have rendered most other infantry weapons obsolete. Breakthroughs in the sciences have led to the use of electricity as a power source.
  
  
• Tier 5 - Practical Physicist (MT)
  Tier 5 civilizations now understand the atomic nature of matter and the structure of atoms, they may even have ventured into general relativity and quantum mechanics. Nuclear Fission may now be utilized in limited capacities. For Earth-like planets, powered flight has been achieved.
  
• Tier 6 - Digital Discoverer (MT)
  By now, civilizations may have managed their first ventures into space, if they did not dwell there already, and may safely reenter some planetary atmospheres. Travel on a solar system scale is likely possible, but very slow. Computers and/or a knowledge of genetics has likely emerged as a possible, but still far off, path to the creation of new life. Nuclear Fusion may be used in some applications, but is likely not an efficient energy source.
  
  
• Tier 7 - Stellar Settler (PMT)
  Civilization may now travel across their home star system if they have one, with slow but practical speeds. Colonies on multiple planets are technologically feasible, and slower-than-light interstellar craft may have been sent out into the void. Genetic engineering and cloning are probably possible. Nuclear fusion may be utilized. Directed Energy Weapons may have become practical.
  
  
• Tier 8 - Void Venturer (FT)
  Civilization now probably has access to faster-than-light travel. Sentient, but not sapient, artificial intelligences may have been created. Antimatter can be utilized on a larger scale, as either a weapon or a tool, but likely is costly and impractical. Understanding of biology may allow the creation of entirely new forms of life. Cybernetic enhancements or Genetic modifications are likely the norm.
  
  
• Tier 9 - Wise Wanderer (FT)
  Tier 9 societies have begun to unravel the very fabric of physics. Reactionless drives, utilization of zero-point energy, energy shields, and/or FTL weapons systems may be utilized. FTL communications not involving the use of ships likely exists. Cybernetic or Genetic enhancements have likely rendered baseline members of the civilization's species obsolete. Construction of Megastructures such as Dyson Spheres is possible, but likely extremely difficult or impractical. It may be possible to destroy whole planets with some weapons.
  
  
• Tier 10 - Eternal Elder (FFT)
  Travel between universes is likely possible with a Tier 10 civilization. At any rate, the construction of megastructures is probably child's play. Even stars can likely be created by a Tier 10. Immortality was likely long ago achieved, and weapons have become so advanced that destruction of entire star systems is possible. Not even Tier 8 civilizations stand any hope of defeating a Tier 10 civilization in battle.
  
  
• Tier 11 - Dimensional Diety (Post-FFT)
  Civilizations at this stage can manipulate the laws of physics easily and at will, a feat achieved even by common civilian appliances. Creation of new universes might be possible, and technology resembles magic even to those in Tier 9.
  
  
• Tier 12 - Oldest and Omnipotent (Post-FFT)
  A civilization at this level is so advanced, I can't even imagine what they would have the ability to do.

Arcane Level
The Arcane Level Scale measures the average magical ability of the average citizen of a civilization. "Magic" here means "non-physical means of affecting the world", whether than means spells, psionic abilities, the Force, or spiritual abilities. In cases where the average citizen is non-magical but rare magic users exist, please utilize the Level corresponding to the average Voodoo practitioner in your civilization.

• Level 0 - Inept
  Individuals of this rank have no magical abilities to speak of.
  
  
• Level 1- Telepathic Teller
  Individuals that fall into this rank are able to interact with their environment through non-physical means in an extremely limited manner, such as receiving premonitions or sensing the emotions of others.
  
  
• Level 2 - Sage Soothsayer
  Individuals of this category have a greater degree of active control over the physical world, able to directly influence it in minor ways rather than just passively interact with it. Examples may include active clairvoyance, minor psychic abilities, or small feats of alteration of the physical world.
  
  
• Level 3 - Clairvoyant Cultist
  An Individual that falls into this rank can more competently act on the world through magical means, although still in a limited fashion. Examples might include slightly greater feats than those that might fall under Level 2, the ability to conjure, or perhaps even brief alteration of local time and space.
  
  
• Level 4 - Able Acolyte
  Individuals under this definition have a more impressive control over their immediate surroundings, and the local environment may easily bend to their powers. Examples might possibly include weather manipulation, large scale conjuration, or destructive abilities on small scale.
  
  
• Level 5 - Mystical Magician
  At this Level, Individuals have mastered control over their local environment, possessing a great degree of control over their surroundings. Control over the remote or on a grand scale may exist in limited forms.
  
  
• Level 6 - Sly Sorcerer
  Individuals of this Level can influence the wider world through non-physical means to a greater degree than any previous Level. Perhaps this includes long distance teleportation or dimensional travel, long range magical spells, or remote psychic abilities such as mind control.
  
  
• Level 7 - Wonderful Wizard
  At this rank, magical members of a nation are extremely competent, possessing great control over their local area and high control over more remote or otherworldly environments. They will be able to perform all feats one might at earlier levels but with greater ease and efficiency.
  
  
• Level 8 - Mighty Mage
  Individuals of this rank find that magic comes easily, almost second nature, and can use it to exert very high degrees of control both locally and remotely, even with only minimal training in the arcane.
  
  
• Level 9 - Almighty Archon
  At this rank, the non-physical will seem almost as real or perhaps even more so than the physical realm. The laws of the physical world are less concrete than the laws of magic to those who can use it, and they use it to bend the universe to their will.
  
  
• Level 10 - Terrible Titan
  Beings of this rank effortlessly influence the world around them, possibly possessing the ability to wipe away worlds with their magic or create life depending on their preference. Non-physical manipulation of the world on an impressive scale comes to them almost without thinking.
  
  
• Level 11 - Cosmic Creator
  At this rank, beings have no limit to their ability to influence the universe. Possibly they can create whole worlds or realms, or instantly travel to any location (in any universe) they desire, or even permanently alter the laws of physics. There is nothing that a species at Level 11 cannot do.
  
  
• Level 12 - Dauntless Divinity
  There is nothing a being at Level 11 cannot do, except what the, for all intents and purposes, gods of Level 12 can do. Their magic is omnipotent and incomprehensible to all but their own. Examples may include creating all that we know, being the source of all reality, existing outside of time, forming a rock heavier than they can lift, and resolving paradoxes.

Influence Type
The Influence Type Scale measures how much of the multiverse is impacted by a civilization. Note that actual direct control of territory is not necessary to be considered influential, merely being able to heavily affect the actions in a given area counts as influence.

• Type 0 - Household Head
  A civilization of Type 0 is hardly a civilization at all... they influence but a single small family.
  
  
• Type 1 - Clan Chieftain
  A Type 1 Civilization holds sway over their extended family, and maybe a few other families too. Their clan is significant in some very small corner of the universe.
  
  
• Type 2 - Tribal Tyrant
  At Type 2, a whole people group is held sway by the civilization. They can make an impact on a few local villages, and maybe interact with a larger nation, but little more.
  
  
• Type 3 - Wilderness Warlord
  Type 3 civilizations control a small region, usually within a larger nation. They may unite several smaller tribes together under a common banner or goal.
  
  
• Type 4 - Domestic Diplomat
  Type 4 civilizations control their own nation, and may interact with neighboring civilizations, though on a limited scale.
  
  
• Type 5 - Regional Regent
  A civilization in the Type 5 category holds sway over several nations on their own homeworld, which may be protectorates, puppets, commonwealths, or separate nations. Control is not necessary... influence via trade or threats may be used.
  
  
• Type 6 - Planetary Politician
  Type 6 civilizations have extended their influence across their homeworld, and may even have extended the political sphere out to space and to other astronomical bodies.
  
  
• Type 7 - Astro Ambassador
  Many planets, planetoids, moons, space stations, asteroids, or other large stellar objects are under the influence of a Type 7 nation. These bodies do not necessarily need to be in the same star system or even the same universe.
  
  
• Type 8 - Stellar Senator
  A Type 8 civilization regularly influences the actions of multiple star states across several star systems.
  
  
• Type 9 - Galactic Guardian
  The home galaxy of this civilization is heavily influenced by the actions of it. Interstellar empires regularly rise and fall at a Type 9's whims, and most advanced life in the home galaxy has at least heard rumors of the Type 9. A few civilizations in other galaxies may be aware of the Type 9.
  
  
• Type 10 - Universal Uniter
  Multiple galaxies are held in the control of a Type 10, and those that aren't are still affected by the actions of the Type 10 power.
  
  
• Type 11 - Multiverse Monarch
  Type 11 civilizations have begun reaching out beyond their home universe, and into the many universes beyond. Civilizations in many different universes feel the impact of a Type 11's actions.
  
  
• Type 12 - Everlasting Emperor
  Nothing happens anywhere without the say of this civilization. I really hope you didn't choose this, as you are clearly delusional.

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Now that you know the Tiers, Levels, and Types, you can use the application form below to have your civilization officially registered in the Excidian Civilization Index!

Application form
Note: Only pick 1 Tier, 1 Level, and 1 Type. If you think your civilization is in-between two Tier/Level/Type, choose the one that more accurately portrays your nation. If both reflect your nation equally, choose the higher option.

]Nation: Trinadaed
Tier: 10 (no FTL)
Level: 2
Type: 8 (main nation is small, but has many colonies)
Power Comparator: 5.8
Special Notes about your civilization: For tier, we have no Faster-than-light, immortality or anything special like that. We just have the insane ability to manipulate entire solar systems with ease. Level, we can mostly only interact with the environment. We can definitely manipulate weather at a huge scale. However, it is a 2 since we have great ties to the Just Shapes and Beats universe and can slightly influence the universe. For type, we have a small, ordinary nation on Earth. However, we own colonies throughout many different solar systems. (In our universe, it is 2040.)
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? eh no

[Mascovia]

Nation: Mascovia
Tier: 6
Level: 1
Type: 5
Power Comparator: 15.83
Special Notes about your civilization: Our Arcane Level 1 applies to a group of people within Mascovia known as "Chirra". They are essentially shamans who claim to have magical abilities, although not recognized by the government as having those powers, but rather as a minority ethnic group from the northeastern region. There are only 350 of them.
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? None! Great job!

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

Nation: The World Capitalist Confederation
Tier: 9
Level: 0 for the general populace, 8 to the vampires and 'anomalies'
Type: 7
Power Comparator: 7.1
Special Notes about your civilization: N/A
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? N/A

[Nurizon]

Nation: Nurizon
Tier: 2
Level: 1 - Only a few people who have gained access to the technology of the lost world, can hold this power.
Type: 3
Power Comparator: 55.5
Special Notes about your civilization: The Nuri people live in a post-apocalyptic world. It is a very primitive civilization, and the only truly advanced technology can be found in the ruins of the old world. Most Nuri people stray away from such things, as it is forbidden by the Goddess of Nurizon.

[Novorope]

Nation: Novorope
Tier: 6
Level: 0
Type: 5
Power Comparator: 16
Special Notes about your civilization: N/A
Any Improvement Suggestions for the Index? N/A

[Menaturia]

Nation: Menaturia
Tier: 7
Level: 0
Type: 5
Power Comparator: 13.7