Civilization Tiering System

The following is an overview of our new Tiering System for Civilization and Race profiles, designed to classify them based on their level of technological advancement and territorial dominion.

It should be noted that this does note replace the already existing **Tiering System** which classifies individual characters based on their sheer power and **Attack Potency**. Instead, the two should be used in conjunction for Civilization profiles, as it is quite possible for a fictional civilization of lesser technological advancement to possess greater destructive power than a science-fiction civilization, most often through enlarged magical or supernatural means.

## The Scale

**Pre-Industrial Civilization**: A civilization which has yet to undergo significant technological advancements, and lacks access to things such as electricity, industries, fuel based transports, etc.

Pre-Industrial Revolution Earth (Real Life)
**Post-Industrial Civilization**: A civilization that can harness energy sources such as electricity, coal, wind, nuclear power and endothermic energy. Typically has developed technologies at the very least comparable to 18th - 19th Century Earth, or even slightly superior to the 21st Century Earth.

Post-Industrial Revolution Earth (Real Life)
**Planetary Civilization**: A civilization which has obtained total dominion and control over its home planet, uniting all continents and nations under one government.

Combine-Dominated Earth (Half Life)
**Stellar Civilization**: A civilization with dominion over its planetary system and even its parent star, being capable of inhabiting most if not all planets of its home system, and thus a technology far superior to even the planetery civilizations.

Transhuman Space (GURPs), the Army of the Machine Lifeforms (NieR: Automata)
**Interstellar Civilization**: A civilization whose territory extends throughout multiple star systems, being capable of colonizing distant worlds, and much greater technology than other levels of civilizations below it, such as spaceships with Faster-than-Light travel, and weapons that are capeable of easily destroying entire continents.

**Galactic Civilization**: A civilization whose territory extends throughout most, if not all of its home galaxy, containing many thousands if not millions of planets united under one government. Typically possesses means of Massively FTL+ travel, and technology capable of terraforming and destroying planets.

**Intergalactic Civilization**: A civilization which controls not only its home galaxy, but numerous other galaxies as well, all united under one government.

**Universal Civilization**: A civilization which possesses control over their entire universe, or at least a significant portion of it. These beings are typically indistinguishable from goddesses, and are often seeded life all throughout the universe

**Multiversal Civilization**: A civilization of such power that their dominion extends beyond their home universe, instead spreading throughout multiple other universes throughout the multiverse. Potentially, they may rule over the entire multiverse.

**Higher-Dimensional Civilization**: A civilization whose dominion and reach extends not only across numerous, if not infinite parallel universes, but also across higher-dimensional planes of existence and higher realities as well.

**Transcendent Civilization**: Civilizations / races who control the totality of existence, on a level so complete they are effectively all-powerful.