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Hive Worlds have huge import/export ratios, exporting a vast range of materials, and relying on imports of food and water.
There are 38,256 hundreds of Hive Worlds in the Imperium<sup>3</sup>. Most consist of various enclosed Hive cities or Hive clusters surrounded by wasteland, jungle, ice, plains, etc. In the most extreme examples the Hive World has developed beyond the point of separate Hive clusters - the planet's surface instead is completely urbanized with hundreds of stacked layers of arcologies, covering the entirety of the planet. Holy [[Terra]] is an example of this "city-planet".
In common with most other Imperial worlds, Hive World society has distinct classes, with a ruling class and a working class. Invariably the lower classes inhabit the lower and more decayed and polluted levels of the Hive.
*<sup>1</sup> ''[[Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook]]''
*<sup>2</sup> ''[[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]]''
*<sup>3</sup> ''[[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition RulebookConfrontation]]''
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