Dang, apparently you can't set population controls by species - on your main species
Of course I'm still playing xenophiles who I don't think can do it anyway. "Our empire values xeno species too highly." I'm surprised Fanatic Egalitarians can even enable population controls as policy, I know it makes the faction upset.
It's 2373 and things have gone well. The The Federation has 6 member states including the United Nations of Earth. At this penultimate level, and with several conflicting ethos, there's a significant cohesion drain. 1 envoy from each state is enough to counteract that though. I have to send more envoys whenever we gain (or lose) a member due to the one-time hits, but that's very temporary. The rest of the time my envoys are dealing with the Galactic Community, hehe...
Short history: The UNE regained contact with the Commonwealth of Man and, thanks to diplomacy and "not being filthy xenos", had a peaceful relationship. Eventually the UNE federated with a pair of militarist empires, one of which was xenophile too! That one eventually adopted egalitarianism, becoming Democratic Crusaders. They were very annoyed when we invited an authoritarian trade league in, but were outvoted. (Neat trick - to get these Peaceful Traders to join, I had to set my war policy to defensive. Ten years later I changed it back. They're not even pacifists, and often vote in support of subjugation wars... silly birds).
Sadly the Commonwealth of Man wanted nothing to do with this, and even refused association status. Some nearby *barbaric despoilers* were far more cooperative, though they had misgivings about being more than associates. Suddenly "honorbound warriors" cut a swath through the Commonwealth, taking territory right up to Deneb itself! This was obviously unacceptable, but what could we do?
Oh right, unrestricted warfare... I claimed and retook the territory for Humanity (And Pals). Huzzah!
...and then since the Commonwealth clearly couldn't survive on its own, probably due to their unenlightened bigotry, I "offered" them vassalage. Then "insisted". This ended up taking two wars by accident. The Commonwealth of Man was now merely Deneb, while their other colony was a much more agreeable new "state" with a forgettable name. (I later vassalized the aggressor xenos as well, mostly to save them from the barbarians)
To bring this back to new mechanics, all these new mini-states were both a curse and a blessing. Each absorption caused The Federation a cohesion hit, but they each had their own envoy pools and were willing to contribute, so it worked out long-term. Even with all the diverse ethics. Until eventually the barbaric despoilers, to my surprise, seemed ready to sign up as The Federation members! The only thing was that they couldn't abide the Commonwealth-splinter on Rixin. The xenophobic Commonwealth itself? Perfectly fine, but those other ones, no way.
Turns out that just as you can bring vassals into a federation without a vote (aside from a general policy toggle which may have started active) you can also absorb them. I don't generally do that to vassals, but... 2 years of bureaucracy later, the barbaric despoilers happily joined us... I'm not questioning it! The The Federation now controlled a bit more than half the galaxy. And our greatest threat was a fairly nice empire of Federation Builders on the other side of the core, an advanced start which formed a powerful federation but seemed completely uninterested in war, even on neighboring states. I can respect that!
So I screwed around with economics for about a hundred years. I can't believe I picked the Xeno-Compatibility perk *and* evolution ascension... probably should have gone psionic, ugh. All the rainbow demographic circles are nice though, and hybrids are literally better. But long story short it was a prosperous golden age.
Except I kept seeing half-humans on the slave market
I bought a *lot* of slaves with my stupidly strong economy, but I'm pretty sure they were derpily migrating away. To my authoritarian federation partner. IT KEEPS HAPPENING and this time it was my fault for voting for open borders in The Federation. No, I couldn't fix this with immigration controls. Even if I could rescue every human-hybrid, what good would that do? I needed to save *everyone*.
As you see, two of those nations are already violating guidelines. A previous bill outlawed *chattel* slavery, and basic subsistence or stratified economies. In other words they could still have their slaves, if they paid them a living wage and had them work domestically.
Apparently that's not agreeable to them, so let's see if they're willing to implement universal social welfare~ That's right, decent conditions aren't decent enough once this passes. *Academic Privilege* isn't nice either (it's pretty stratified TBH). And no slavery of any kind now, duhh.
How am I pulling this off, though? Mostly pops and tech. Those scores are more valuable in my galactic community because we've passed bills which encourage research and civil rights. Along with environmental bills which weaken the economic lobby, and warcrime legislation which apparently weaken the threat of military force.
also I gave that trade union, the biggest opponent who stands to lose their entire slave-based economy on this, 340 dark matter for 10 favors. They cost 25 influence each to cash in, but each one seemed to counteract 10% of their vote. I hope the dark matter keeps them cold at night! Slaver fu-
heh, I almost forgot they're in my Federation. Doesn't really matter though - from what I've read, this is going to screw over the entire galaxy XD Just kinda amusing that they're *not even upset with me*, we're in the top "excellent" relations tier.
At this stage they *can* give all their pops Social Welfare (yep, even authoritarians!) if they don't like the sanctions. Sanctions I will be ramping up. They don't even have the slavery civic so they don't have to reform, just stop enslaving xenos by species. It's the next and final stage that's actually unreasonable, requiring Utopian Abundance
Or Shared Burdens heh, or mandatory pampering. Oooooor, and I guess this would *technically* work without requiring an ethics shift - Chemical Bliss
*fondly regards rainbow demographic pies as the galaxy falls apart*
Fakedit: The war I'm in is actually thanks to those barbaric despoilers - they wanted to pillage the other Federation for no reason and everyone voted yes. Probably... to get more slaves. Their worlds are covered in ruins and I have to wonder if it's from me buying my dunkass pops back en masse.
my federation is awful
they deserve whatever crisis puts this doomed galaxy out of its misery
Edit:
N-no, it's fine! 500 influence and about 800 dark matter later, I've worked out that you can keep calling favors on the same empire. I can't get any from the biggest opponent because we're at war, so I basically bribed my federation ally another 20 times to get triple his vote supporting me.
I will die on this singularity!
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