Tenants

Tenants do not have anywhere near the wealth or power of residents or citizens, but they are the largest category of people, and they hold certain rights that protect them to some extent from exploitation. Tenants are mostly general labourers, low-skilled workers or apprentices or companions on their path to becoming residents. For the most part tenants live on land or in apartments owned by the residents or citizens for whom they work. Generally, about 65% of the population of a state are residents.

Rights of Tenants

Right to bodily and psychic integrity.
Right to live on and work a plot of land without threat of unwarranted expulsion.
Right to live in an apartment and provide labour without threat of unwarranted explusion.

Responsibilities of Tenants

Required to be born in the state or to have lived in the state for 2 Life Cycles or more.
Required to pay taxes as a share of labour, product, and/or wages.
Required to maintain the property in good order.
Required to report for civil defense if conscripted.

Gaining Tenancy

In most places, by law, the children of citizens, residents and tenants are all technically made tenants at birth (even if they are quickly or almost automatically promoted out of that category). Otherwise, tenancy can be granted to outsiders or foreigners if they have lived and worked in the state for the same resident or citizen for two or more Life Cycles, and that resident or citizen petitions for their tenancy on their behalf. Normally if a citizen makes the petition it is automatic, and if a resident makes it, interviews and or other procedures will be required.