Population

Population is the number of billion of inhabitants in the civilization or Colony.

Generation
The primary way to generate is through, subject to the hard limit of the , and the soft limit of.

The is generally increased by constructing cities using.

is a soft cap on, because is calculated by the  divided by the. Since is independent of, any  will decrease , which in turn will decrease the  bonus to.

Synthetic Life ignore and instead increase  through constructing the $$ improvement.

Other direct effects to include:
 * The Prolific ability when colonizing
 * Crisis events in

Impact
is the most important bonus to. For example, a of 10 will add +10 to. The is also the denominator when calculating.