Residency Trials

"Content Warning: Includes depictions of homophobia, transphobia, every kind of phobia really. Just a bunch of fascist nutjobs if you ask me."The residency trials are a series of tests and interviews one must go through before they are admitted into the Jana Sphere as a resident. The tests are notoriously difficult, and the categorization one must undergo before they are admitted is overly specific.

Background
The Jana High Council (JHC) created the trials when people began to first migrate to the Sphere. Many of its people feared that with growing immigration, they would eventually be overrun and outnumbered in their own home. Or worse, that they would lose their culture and racial purity to migrants.

So, the JHC created the special status of Residency, which would allow for a migrant to stay for long periods of time without being forcibly removed.

The trials were, by design, difficult. There is an intellectual trial to test knowledge of the language as well as if the migrant's education was up to standards. Then, a medical test of mental and physical health. Anyone mentally or physically unfit could not gain residency. After the medical test, the categorization process would begin, which was to be a much more invasive and strict version of the test already imposed upon full citizens.

Intellectual Trials
The Jana Sphere has notoriously high standards for education and intellect. Residents must prove they can meet at least half this standard, as they acknowledge the limitations of a "feeble non-Janite mind". The trials also include obscure parts of Janite history, designed to trip up anyone who doesn't desperately want to live on the world.

Medical Trials
To even obtain a visa to the planet one must prove they are free of any communicable diseases that are either active or dormant in a person's body. Since many migrants are from worlds with vastly different diseases, serious candidates go through an intensive and invasive viral eradication therapy.

Mental health is also important, to make sure the candidate is free from any mental disorders. Mental disorders, according to them, include (but are not limited to) "retardation, gender and sexual confusion, and anxiety".

Categorization
Categorization happens only upon passing the trials. They begin with the so-called "shallow trials" which categorize who one can interact with on certain levels by physical appearance. This includes race, physical fitness (by Janite standards), attractiveness (also by Janite standards), and language ability. This "social level" can be changed based on results from the intellectual categorization.

Intellectual categorization starts with a hypermodern edition of the IQ test. This determines the migrant's professional level. Then, the migrant is given a series of personality tests to put them in the right section of society.

The categorization is much like what the Janite citizens go through, but designed to keep migrants below specific social levels, although it does tend to elevate those whom Janites might find "fetishly exotic".