# Necro-Actuarial Civilization **Domain:** Predictive Governance / Political Economy **Doc Type:** Canonical Critical Model **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A **necro-actuarial civilization** uses forecasts to determine where support, rescue and investment should end, treating living subjects as declining accounts to be managed toward inexpensive disposition. The term identifies an institutional ontology rather than a particular algorithm. The same model can serve care or extraction depending on whether predicted decline triggers intervention or withdrawal. ## Mechanisms - [[wiki/Peak Person|Peak Person]] classification; - [[wiki/Forecast-Induced Dissipation|Forecast-Induced Dissipation]]; - cross-domain scoring and opportunity foreclosure; - invisible narrowing of the [[wiki/Topology of Opportunity|Topology of Opportunity]]; and - administrative language that redescribes abandonment as efficiency. ## Contrast [[wiki/Dignitarian Predictive Civilization|Dignitarian Predictive Civilization]] interprets vulnerability as a demand for investigation and restorative support. [[wiki/Climate Meritocracy|Climate Meritocracy]] faces the same choice when risk scores either ration abandonment or direct resilience resources. ## Principal Source [[articles/Peak Person and the Predicaments of Prediction|Peak Person and the Predicaments of Prediction]] ## Key Insight **A civilization becomes necro-actuarial when prediction determines whose future is no longer worth financing.**