Guanyin 1, a hive world
One of very few worlds to have reached the point of being a hive world due to hundreds of years of lots of people moving in and very high birth rates among those people while medical advances meant that those death rates weren't very high then being followed by "oh god the entire planet is just a giant city reaching miles into the sky and the ground and oh god now those death rates are matching those birth rates what hell has this become?", Guanyin 1 has tonnes of raw materials being pumped in constantly and various products made from those resources being constantly pumped out. Despite a massive quantity of food being pumped in all of the time and many fungal farms on the planet, there are constant food shortages and food is tightly rationed for the inhabitants.
Demographics
Most inhabitants are of Chinese descent as it was initially part of the Oriental Empire, but there are also a good number of people of other racial/ethnic groups. Religions are countless. Most are unemployed and so unable to buy food or healthcare, leading to ridiculous crime rates. There are some aliens that live here but these are all outlaws by definition of the CHG's laws regarding non-human intelligent species.
Government
Planetary governor -> crap tonne of continental governors (as every billion people is a "continent" on hive worlds) -> regional governors (every 10 million people) -> settlement governors (every 100,000 people) -> local governors (every 1,000 people). Weirdly enough hive worlds are the closest to true democracies as the lack of free space means that the usual methods of cheesing the democratic systems can't be done. At the same time though the democratically elected governors here have less power compared to the CHG-installed ones than elsewhere so take whichever side you like when it comes to how democratic things are.
As for rules: food is bought by citizens from the government with money they get from their factory work with there being both privately owned and state owned factories, but many people are unemployed. To combat crime, punishments on this planet are automatically 3x more severe than on regular worlds, with judges getting the right to slap on a degree of extra punishment if they consider the criminal to be a legitimately awful person. Lots of police as they receive free food and the CHG is willing to hire lots of them to combat crime on both the unemployment and "people getting away with it" points.
Defences
Each of the massive blocks has a single death turret on it. Lots of blocks. Lots of death turrets. Aliens should not feel safe heading towards this world. Oh and of course there are plenty of warships guarding the planet and the planet's ability to produce massive numbers of warships and weapons in a fairly short amount of time while having plenty of people to have use such warships in case of an attack. On top of this the planet is part of the Guanyin life ring and so any especially long-ranged turrets on the other worlds of the ring can be used in Guanyin 1's defence.
Industry & Trade
Resources in; consumer goods, weapons, etc out. The internal economy consists of rations and goodies stolen from factories, rarely being noticed amidst the mass of produced goods.
Infrastructure
A city covering the entire world that reaches miles skywards and into the ground with many layers of roads and railways linking up the truly gargantuan tower blocks containing shops, factories, farms, homes, etc that has been built up over centuries by private companies and the state with many slums hanging off of the sides and in the damaged parts of such blocks. Times at which such blocks and the things within them were made can be seen as building styles and architectural technologies while the buildings themselves are in various states of disrepair with graffiti, missing parts etc.
Assets
If you fling 1000 tonnes of iron into here and say you want 1000 tonnes of warship out the other end, you'll get it in less than a month, but with 10 or so tonnes of the iron going missing somewhere within the production process.
Guilds and Factions
Gangs, political parties, workers unions, large private companies, rings of corrupt police, religious organisations. The full package of various factions with potential to have competing interests, really.
History
So the Oriental Empire kills literally every alien on this world that's actually hella fertile and has tonnes of resources for them to take advantage of and is like "fling the humans on it!" to make use of this. Things kinda spiral out of control when it comes to expanding cities due to high birth rates and advanced medical technology. The UHN takes over, looks at this and is like "There are still some resources left to extract and use? Well, I see no problem with this at all...". The CHG takes over and now there are no resources left but the CHG is like "well our space travel gear is hella advanced and those factories are right there so if we just fling the resources in we can get cool stuff out". Meanwhile the population is still rising at a ridiculous rate as cities expand until it gets to the point where now the CHG is flinging food in as well. Eventually the CHG starts building massive tower blocks in square formations skywards and with lots of bridges between them and then building stuff inside these tower blocks while letting private companies and civilians do the same until you've basically got this all over the planet, meanwhile people have been building stuff deep underground due to space shortages. Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk of why the ancestors of these people should've been given contraceptives.
Architecture
Mostly just those tower blocks but there's still some old stuff in the gaps between them and some interesting stuff inside those tower blocks.
Geography
Doesn't really apply anymore... used to be very jungle-y.
Natural Resources
They're all gone! We kept saying "maybe just a little more" until there were none left! We're sorry (*crying zoidberg noises*)!
Alternative Name(s)
Ewwww a stinky hive world
Type
Ecumenopolis
Population
Dude. We're talking trillions of people.
Related Ethnicities
Inhabitant Demonym
Slumworlders, hiveworlders (there are like 3 hive worlds so far so it's pretty obvious who's being roasted)
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