Within the Necromancer Kingdom, the Concordance of Malqort, the standard unit of work is the Lifeless Equivalent...

Within the Necromancer Kingdom, the Concordance of Malqort, the standard unit of work is the Lifeless Equivalent Unit. (LEU).

This refers to how much labor you provide. As you provide more labor for the benefit of everyone, you have better access to anything the Church provides.

At about an hour a week of labor, you have access to the Barracks. These aren't great, but you have an assigned place to sleep, food, and basic health care. And, to be clear: freedom of movement.

As you do more labor per week, you have access to greater resources. These can be pooled, of course: If your spouse is on a Mission, they can use that to give you an effective maximum LEU, so long as you are a Believer.

The max is pretty nice! In the cities, this is a 2,000 square foot dwelling or so. If you want, you can open up a shop (this requires an LEU of only 4, so it's not like it's highly limited. I'm just saying, with an LEU of 10 you can get this, too.).

A combined LEU of 7 for a family gives access to an 800 sq ft places in the insulae. This requires about 40 hours a week, pooled across adults.

All of this comes with access to food & health care, of course. The Necromancers want you to be healthy. Also, education.

There are absolutely other means of producing wealth. These are the ones the church cares about -- hours of service, in return for being a person in good standing. It's never particularly arduous work -- that's better done by Lifeless.

The key thing is an individual needs just a few hours a week in a communual prayer service to be eligible for decent housing and food. Living alone in the common apartments takes less than 4 hours a week of service.

Note: I'm not necessarily stuck on the term LEU. It seems to bureaucratic. Ideas?