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**Hierarchy Level** represents the degree of hierarchy and institutionalization in the social structure of a community.

* **Bands**, the simplest level of social organization, are represented by "empty" provinces. They cannot be directly interacted with (although events may allow for interaction). Bands are always simple hunter-gatherers.
  * **Tribes** are the lowest level of social organization which allow for diplomatic interaction. Tribes can be complex hunter-gatherers or simple agriculturalists. They do not allow for most government actions, as they do not have a centralized, enforced leadership, and they can control at most one province, with no subjects. However, tribes can evolve into Simple Chiefdoms under certain circumstances.
  * **Simple Chiefdoms** have developed a centralized, enforced leadership, but that leadership's power is limited in range to one province, and they cannot have subjects. Simple Chiefdoms can be complex hunter-gatherers or agriculturalists.
  * **Complex Chiefdoms** have developed a multi-layered hierarchy which can manage one area directly and can have single provinces (under Simple Chiefdoms) as subjects. Complex Chiefdoms and above are always agriculturalists.
  * **Empires** have a much more developed hierarchy which can manage one region directly and can have areas as subjects.
  * **States** have a fully developed bureaucracy which can manage an entire continent directly and can have regions as subjects.

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