The Civilization Index

[Shengxiao]

Nation: Shengxiao
Tier(pick one): Tier 7 by choice
Type(pick one): Technically III.... Though most people rarely leave Shengxiao, preferring to train.
Government Size(Pick One): National
Special Notes about your civilization: We trade with people all over the world, and have no qualms with people coming and going. Most just tend to stay in Shengxiao, preferring to continue their training, and most others tend to cross Shengxiao off of their vacation list because of our people's intense training.

[Kushtor]

Nation: The Republic of Kuxtor
Tier(pick one): Tier 4
Type(pick one): Type II
Government Size(Pick One): National
Special Notes about your civilization: Aspirations to move to Tier 3 in the future, possibly further.

[Mkuki]

Nation: Mkuki
Tier: Tier 5
Type: Type II
Government Size: National
Special Notes about your civilization: Mkuki is currently ending a civil war. The fascist rebels are small and do not count as a viable faction.

[Alternate Universe 912]

Nation: Alternate Universe 912
Tier(pick one): Tier 4
Type(pick one): Type IV
Government Size(Pick One): Planetary power
Special Notes about your civilization: Type IV due to Interdimensional but not FTL travel; government rules formerly uninhabited parallel Earth (and thus the only power on its homeworld);postcyberpunk culture. For more, see our factbook.

[New Chelel]

Nation: New Chelel
Tier(pick one): Tier 7
Type(pick one): Type II (We like to travel, but find it difficult due to a complete lack of high - speed transport technology)
Government Size(Pick One): Regional power
Special Notes about your civilization: Fantasy Tech; swords, sorcery, and Tier 4 - like, magic - powered battlemechs are all used in battle; government is factional but there is not an active civil war at the moment. For more, see our factbook.

[Pine Mountain]

Nation: The Freedom-Defending Enclave of Pine Mountain
Tier(pick one): Tier 6
Type(pick one): Type I
Government Size(Pick One): National/local level
Special Notes about your civilization:
The population is isolated as a result of being surrounded by enemy-held territory.
The technology level is at about that of the USA in 1920-1940, which is at the pinnacle of Tier 6. Pine Mountain doesn't have or use any fossil fuels like oil or coal, but uses domesticly-produced canola biodiesel.

[Bears Armed]

Nation: Bears Armed
Tier: 5
Type:III
Government Size Regional power
Special Notes about your civilization: Technology scale, some elements of level 6 have been kept (e.g. steam trains, and [of course ] airships, too...); Government scale, inside the country's border most functions are handled not by the the national government but by the separate governments of the country's constituent clans instead.

[New Zepuha]

Nation: New Zepuha
Tier(pick one): 2
Type(pick one): VI
Government Size(Pick One): Interstellar power
Special Notes about your civilization: The Imperium spreads across an entire arm of the milky way galaxy. Refer to WH40k for any lore or further questions.

[Tierra Sol]

Tier 6
Type III
Superpower

[The Celestial Flame]

Nation:The Celestial Flame
Tier(pick one):Beyond scale
Type(pick one):Beyond scale
Government Size(Pick One):Beyond scale
Special Notes about your civilization: Our nation broke your scale. We are significantly beyond all the tiers listed. We can travel between the verses, universe ; multiverse; higher verses, with a population sufficiently high for such activities. Our government, being able to control the parts of our empire in different verses means that it is significantly beyond the top listed tier for that as well.

Also of note is the descriptions of the scales are completely off in most regards.
Picking one of the examples from most of the tiers being weaponry. Relativistic weapons would be far superior to lasers, which would already be in use for their 4/5 civilizations. Lasers actually have a maximum energy density before they simply start create matter anti-matter pairs, losing significant power with distance until the energy densities drop below a point for which that can occur. Something small like a grain of sand shot at high relativistic speeds into a planet would cause a nice fusion reaction with whatever it came into contact with, including the planet’s atmosphere. Handheld anti-matter weapons are also a bad idea given that to any malfunction or miss targeting would destroy everyone around them, friend and foe alike.
Any and all listings about AI are incorrect as well, as well as creating life, which a stage 4/5 can do, etc.

[Malfyria]

OOC:


May I offer some constructive criticism.

Your scale frequently uses example technologies such as "steam technology" for tier six however you are not taking into account that some nations/species may have explored entirely
different routes. For example a culture that discovered ways to harness solar power in a desert climate will probably not use any other means of energy until confronted with an unfriendly
climate. Some planetary powers will be vehemently against using sentient A.Is but would that make them a lower tier?.

The government structure is also slightly flawed, a nation could be in a near permanent state of Anarchy or civil war but still exert considerable influence through said warring factions.

I am not trying to be petty about this, I think it is a glorious achievement to devote yourself to, however I just think that if it is to be used by a large range of NS nations its currant form
makes classifying some of the more un-conventional nations difficult.

[The Whaltrean District]

Nation: The United Whaltrean States of the Whaltrean District, Landinnio, and New Tsartheln (the UWS, for short)
Tier(pick one): Tier 1
Type(pick one): Type VII
Government Size(Pick One): Universal Power
Special Notes about your civilization: The Whal's used the technology from their predecessors. They're even said to have created human life.

[Querria]

OOC:


May I offer some constructive criticism.

Your scale frequently uses example technologies such as "steam technology" for tier six however you are not taking into account that some nations/species may have explored entirely
different routes. For example a culture that discovered ways to harness solar power in a desert climate will probably not use any other means of energy until confronted with an unfriendly
climate. Some planetary powers will be vehemently against using sentient A.Is but would that make them a lower tier?.

The government structure is also slightly flawed, a nation could be in a near permanent state of Anarchy or civil war but still exert considerable influence through said warring factions.

I am not trying to be petty about this, I think it is a glorious achievement to devote yourself to, however I just think that if it is to be used by a large range of NS nations its currant form
makes classifying some of the more un-conventional nations difficult.

To answer the question in red, no it wouldn't make them a lower Tier. To provide an example, Querria is currently a Tier 3 civilization on the one scale, but does not have FTL capabilities, and in fact the Querrian Hegemony is mostly a Tier 4 civilization still. Querria has asynchronous linear-induction weapons & spacecraft though which means it can qualify for Tier 3. For the Tier scale, base the tier your civilization is at on the strongest technology you have. Compare it to the criteria described in each tier and if it fits any or is on the same level field, use that tier for your civilization.

I already explained that in my first post, in a short one-line sentence right above the application.

Sorry, but I am not looking for any criticism on The Civilization Index. It's kind of a "made for me" thread that I'm letting other people use, like an RP tool. You're free to make your own version of this if you want though.

[Scientia Eterna]

Nation: The Unified Imperium of Scientia Eterna
Tier: Tier 0
Type:Tier VII
Government Size: Universal Power
Special Notes about your civilization: We are technically a universal power, though our territory encompasses only one solar system. This system, however, occupies its own pocket universe which we constructed to protect ourselves. We conduct trade through the use of multiverse-traveling space vessels. We are probably much weaker than other civilizations in our tiers.

[Cruciland]

Nation: נַוָד לגיון של צלבארץ. (The Nomadic Legion of Cruciland)
Tier(pick one): 0.
Type(pick one): VII.
Government Size(Pick One): Planetary.
Special Notes about your civilization: They are believed to be just short of transcendent due to being sufficiently advanced nanomachines with incredible psychic powers. They are nomadic, and therefore span across the known multiverse. Their governmental body is only "planetary" because they are confined to one orbital body- their enormous Citadel. Given they were not being hunted by a much more powerful nation, they would settle and rapidly go from Class E to Class A.

[Querria]

Updated. I fixed some spelling/grammar errors.

[Sassinia]

Nation: The United Federal Republic of Sassinia
Tier(pick one): 4
Type(pick one): III. However, we have a base on the Moon and are building one on Mars.
Government Size(Pick One): Superpower
Special Notes about your civilization:

Nation: The United Federation of Socialist Planets
Tier(pick one): In between Tier 3 and 2.
Type(pick one): VI
Government Size(Pick One): Interstellar power
Special Notes about your civilization: My FT version of Sassinia (this) is not related to Sassinia at all, except in history.

[New Lyrane]

Nation: New Lyrane (Rireinu)
Tier(pick one): 2
Type(pick one): V
Government Size(Pick One): Planetary power
Special Notes about your civilization: Lyranians are not terribly keen on expanding beyond their home system, but what they consider theirs, they intend to keep. They conduct a small amount of interstellar trade, and are generally suspicious of other civilizations.

[The Ecumene]

Nation: The Ecumene
Tier: 1
Type: VI
Government Size: Universal
Special Notes about your civilization: The Ecumene prefers to work and dictate the Mantle a galaxy at the time, and is currently content with the milky way, thought it wouldn't take long at all to conquer Andromeda and other galaxies. Nonetheless, where the Ecumene goes, the Mantle follows and thus we will do what we must, in our universe, or the next one over.

[Waldmania]

Nation: The Democratic Republic of Waldmania
Tier(pick one): 4/5
Type(pick one): II/III
Government Size(Pick One): National/local level/Regional power
Special Notes about your civilization: It is recovering from a destructive war for independence and is considered a second-world country that is on it's way to become a significant power in the near future.

[The Plagued Lands]

Nation: The Confederacy of The Plagued Lands
Tier(pick one): 4
Type(pick one): III
Government Size(Pick One): One could view it as anything from anarchy to national/local level
Special Notes about your civilization: The government size is hard to determine because of the fact that we do have a federal government, but the more local governments have more power, and the corporations have even more power. These different local governments aren't, and never will be, at war but they do only work together to a degree and do what they want.

[Margavero]

Nation: The Free Android Republic of Margavero
Tier(pick one): 2/3
Type(pick one): VI
Government Size(Pick One): Planetary Power
Special Notes about your civilization: Margavero is a recently formed Republic of fully sentient androids from the tyrranical Walmian Empire. The Walmians mistreated the androids and after the failed android civil rights movement decided to leave. They gathered together from a variety of Walmian planets and left, moving to a distant solar-system in the galaxy and inhabiting an uninhabitated planet. The nation is still basically under construction.

[Grand Duchy of Nardin]

Nation: Grand Duchy of Nardin
Tier(pick one): 4/5
Type(pick one): II / III
Government Size(Pick One): Regional power
Special Notes about your civilization: The Grand Duchy has been around for almost a millennium, and has recently been delving deeper into unlocking the secrets of FTL technology.

[The Intersphere]

Nation: The Apex
Tier(pick one): Tier 0
Type(pick one): Type VII
Government Size(Pick One): Anarchy
Special Notes about your civilization: The Apex is less a civilization and more a blanket term that covers a wide variety of individual entities and their personal forces. They rarely operate as a whole and usually operate individually, seeing more than one Apex 'Master's' forces within the same star cluster is an extraordinarily rare event and only seen within the Orion Arm. Extremely unconcentrated, heavily dispersed. Focused primarily in one galaxy, with a small handful of backup installations in another.
Class J

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Nation: The Ulysses Corporation
Tier(pick one): Tier 2
Type(pick one): Type V
Government Size(Pick One): Interstellar
Special Notes about your civilization: Not a country, but rather a corporation. Possess Relativistic Weaponry.
Class P4

[Gandhapura]

Nation: The Celtic Federation of Gandhapura
Tier(pick one): Tier 4
Type(pick one): Type 3
Government Size(Pick One): Regional Power
Special Notes about your civilization: Aspire to become a Tier 3 and Superpower Government Size in a not too far future