Outsiders

 

Outsiders have very few rights. Usually, they are low-skill workers or general labourers who may work for tenants or for residents and are paid meagre wages and or simply paid in kind with food and lodging. Since most people are born into tenancy, outsiders are persons who do not have, or have lost their natural tenancy rights, either because they have relocated to a new state where their tenancy is not recognized, or as the result of a punishment for a crime (often both).

Outsiders are not normally trusted, as most people don't believe anyone would willingly give up tenancy rights, and so those without them must be criminals. Needless to say, this simplified view discounts persons who are displaced and sadly, many outsiders are persons who are displaced from neighboring states due to conflict, drought, disease or other catastrophe, and who they must suffer the added indiginities of being treated with suspiscion while they work under terrible conditions in hopes of re-establishing tenancy.

In most places on Tear about 10% of the population of a state are outsiders - though this number can fluctuate sigificantly in times of conflict. Note that outsiders are not typically permitted within the established perimeters of cities.