Sol Fertilis: Beta Plus
Thinking in Service
Name: Beta Plus
Symbol: B+
Position: Upper Middle Class
Description: Beta Pluses served as the intellectual, professional, and administrative backbone. They are educated, articulate, and highly useful, which makes them extremely valuable. Marriage for Beta Pluses is legally restricted to Delta Minuses, a policy designed to bind intellect to force and prevent the formation of independent elite blocs. They are expected to embody discipline, productivity, and ideological compliance.
Color-Code: Turquoise (Adult/default), Aqua (Girls/Unmarried), Capri (Boys/Unmarried), Cerulean (Men), Cyan (Women), Dark Cyan (Elder)
Demographics: 7% of the general population
Gender ratio: 1:1.2
Age of Marriage: 27
Occupations: Beta Plus men are permitted, alongside Delta Minuses, to serve as soldiers, particularly in technical, strategic, or command-support roles. They also commonly work as college professors, music directors, meteorologists, police officers, statisticians, urban planners, economists, systems engineers, and research supervisors. Women are frequently employed in human resources, architecture, graphic design, newscasters, editorial work, column writing, public relations, policy analysis, instructional design, and institutional consulting. They would often volunteer in public service. Unisex occupations include journalists, medical technicians, dentists, lawyers, accountants, editors, librarians, archivists, researchers, curators, air traffic controllers, auditors, compliance officers, and low-ranking government officials. They are more like the “Outer Party,” only allowed to implement the policies.
Housing: As Middle Rank citizens, Beta Pluses can live in single-family houses, cottages, or large apartments located in well-regulated urban districts and suburban zones. Prima class Beta Pluses can live in Centrioppida, which are walled-off suburbs similar to the Upper Ranks. They would only live there only if they deemed highly valued to the Alphas. For those ages 18 to 27, they would be sent to “student housing,” where they are expected to spend nine years learning, training, and working in their role until they get married and sent to their assigned home,
Methods of Transportation: Beta Pluses are allowed to drive and may own private cars if financially able, though they cannot afford chauffeurs. They frequently use public transportation, taxis, bicycles, and motorcycles, depending on location and lifestyle.
Traits: Beta Pluses are analytical, articulate, and achievement-oriented, with strong professional pride and a desire for stability. They tend to internalize stress, value intellectual autonomy, and quietly resent restrictions placed on their private lives. Many exhibit cautious behavior, emotional restraint, and an ingrained habit of self-censorship developed under long-term observation.
Life under Pre-Open Doors: Before the Open Doors reforms, Beta Pluses lived under constant and intensive surveillance due to their education and analytical capacity. Although classified as privileged, they were provided only poor-quality “luxuries” that mimicked comfort without offering true autonomy. They were paid strictly in wages rather than salaries, subjected to intrusive moral regulation, and permitted sexual activity only for procreation. Women in particular were vulnerable to domestic violence, with limited legal recourse, as family stability was prioritized over individual safety. Intellectual deviation, even in private, carried severe consequences.
Life under Post-Open Doors: After the Open Doors reforms, Beta Pluses transitioned from wage-based compensation to salaried pay and were mostly released from systematic surveillance. They gained personal, intellectual, and sexual freedom, legal protections within marriage, and the ability to pursue relationships beyond state-mandated reproduction. Professional autonomy expanded significantly, allowing them to become vocal participants in reform movements, labor unions, and policy critique while retaining their role as the state’s educated class.
