How are population quotas decided and administered in the three civilizations? Does one have to apply to have a child? Or are they chosen to be a parent? Do they have any say in the matter, or is it considered a duty you don’t question if you are selected by some criteria you meet? Would this vary by caste and class ranking?

In all three civilizations, most young are raised by the state and not by parental figures. That is a luxury afforded to those in a lofty place in the hierarchy and is indulged by those with the most power, and again for selfish reasons, to have, in a sense, a personal clan made up of one's offspring who are then groomed to serve the parents with loyalty expected and enforced ruthlessly. But because being born into the family of the most powerful in society brings enormous advantages and privilege, most such offspring will find a way to fit the mold cast for them and will serve their forebears because it is in their best interest to remain a part of a royal family, for example, or other powerful functionaries serving the state at a high level of authority, and therefore having special privileges and luxuries, with respect to the exercising of personal power primarily, because material goods are readily available through their advanced technology and the various slave colonies that provide raw materials needed for the production of goods. Many have commented that the depiction of extraterrestrial realms in motion pictures are a strange combination of super powerful and technologically advanced beings who nonetheless are ruthless and treat others arbitrarily and often with disdain if they belong to another race. But the reason this combination of characteristics appears again and again, outnumbering those offerings depicting extraterrestrials as lofty and loving beings taking a genuine interest in humanity, and only wanting to help humans advance as well, is due to divine inspiration being a major influence on the arts among humans. That dark view of the extraterrestrial worlds is the accurate one. There are no loving physical extraterrestrials who will ever encounter human beings, or come to their rescue with any kind of assistance or upliftment. There are extraterrestrial beings in other dimensions who care greatly about the progress of humanity, and saving the Earth in particular, as a key to an expansion of possibilities for greater free will privileges elsewhere in the universe, but if that experiment fails within the Milky Way Galaxy, that will set back all such plans for a considerable period and might even necessitate a restarting of the universe as a whole. So what has gone wrong is the loss of spirituality leading to glorification of the state as the great determining factor and force making the rules and enforcing them. The lesson in all of this has played out within human societies a number of times now, that the lure of socialism, looking to the state as a kind of parental substitute to care about its citizens and treat them fairly and allow equal sharing of rewards and privileges, always turns into a form of fascism where the state becomes a power center that ends up subjugating the citizenry and taking away privileges and rights that, in a twisted logic, is mandated as "state-sponsored fairness and equality" that is truly a lowering of standards and elimination of freedom, because the citizens cannot flourish but will end up having to serve and pay homage to the state in whatever is mandated for them to contribute. So individuals end up every bit as much as a cog in a machine as presented as a specter of capitalism, where workers are assumed to always be suppressed and treated unfairly by capitalist taskmasters, but it is only in the latter kind of society where one can aspire to having independence and an entrepreneurial role in creating wealth. That is a far better system in bringing abundance to the whole of a society than what is, in effect, a kind of slave world of sameness and a low standard of living, in the absence of incentives provided by gaining a true reward from increased effort, and that includes parental duties. Other than that exception where there is a selfish interest from holding status, to be able to groom offspring personally and control them as a kind of clan within the society as a whole, parents are reduced to being a breeding stock in service to the state.