International Human Context: Identity, Ordinary Life, and Civilian Worlds

People are not extensions of institutions

Institutions are not populations. Country profiles describe public institutions; character biographies describe individual lives. A citizen may oppose, ignore, depend on, work for, fear, or barely encounter a state institution, and none of those relationships can be inferred from nationality alone. The human-context layer therefore sits beside the institutional atlas rather than underneath it.

• Government conduct does not define civilian character.
• A character may hold several legal, territorial, linguistic, and cultural identities at once.
• Political loyalty is never auto-filled from citizenship or residence.

Identity is a set of loosely coupled fields

The site now distinguishes legal name, preferred name, display name, native-script form, transliteration, citizenships, residences, territorial identity, home language, heritage languages, administrative languages, interface language, migration history, and self-described affiliation. Each field has its own provenance, time range, uncertainty, and correction history.

• ui_language controls presentation only.
• char_home_language belongs to biography and cannot be overwritten by interface settings.
• Transliteration supplements rather than replaces the original script.

Ordinary systems shape extraordinary choices

Housing eligibility, rent, transport schedules, weather, childcare, elder care, remittances, debt, disability access, school calendars, shift work, and community commitments create believable constraints. They explain why a character is late, tired, cautious, generous, unavailable, or unwilling without invoking a national temperament.

• Material pressure is context, not a guilt score.
• Care work and household labor are visible systems.
• Infrastructure and schedules create spatial and temporal limits.

Causal biography replaces stereotype

A biography follows a chain from historical period and location through family resources, schooling, migration, work, relationships, and present pressures. Personality is not mechanically assigned from ethnicity, religion, region, class, or language; behavior is connected to specific experiences and remains capable of change.

The world continues off-screen

Characters retain commitments and conflicts when the player is absent. Friends, relatives, colleagues, neighbors, faith communities, unions, clubs, care networks, and administrative obligations can interrupt missions, create support, or make a person refuse a request. Relationships may be asymmetric and cannot be reduced to a single loyalty meter.

• Care and resentment may coexist.
• A relationship can change without disappearing.
• NPC time is not owned by the player.

Human-context publication gates

A public character requires a population-boundary check, name and script check, language-separation check, material-plausibility check, protected-trait check, relationship diversity check, accessibility review, and a correction path. Uncommon combinations are permitted; reviewers ask for a plausible life-history bridge only when context is needed, not permission for the identity to exist.