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Citizen Grade is the money-driven social ladder inside the Yeouido quarantine zone in NAKWON: LAST PARADISE. It ranks every refugee in the safe zone and decides which districts, equipment, and privileges they can access. Higher grades unlock more of the game; lower grades keep the survivor on the safer, leaner edge of the economy. For wider context, see the overview.

How Citizen Grade Works

Citizen Grade is tied directly to in-fiction money. The dossier-confirmed framing is that money earned during expeditions goes toward two things: rent on a personal shelter and gear upgrades. Money also feeds into Citizen Grade, with higher grades unlocking more privileges, broader equipment access, and the freedom to move through restricted districts on subsequent runs.

The ladder is therefore both a status mechanic and a gating mechanic. Status, because a refugee's grade describes their standing in the community; gating, because a low grade closes off areas of the map and tiers of equipment that a higher grade would open.

Citizen Grade and Money

Money is earned by extracting loot from the night-phase expedition map and selling it inside Yeouido. Items carried into an expedition can be lost permanently if the player dies, so every run is also a Citizen Grade bet: a successful extraction with high-value loot raises the survivor's standing; a failed extraction loses both the carried gear and the income it would have produced. The shelter rent line item adds a steady drain that the survivor has to keep up with to avoid sliding back down the ladder.

What Citizen Grade Unlocks

The closed alpha framing of Citizen Grade is consistent across press materials and dev coverage: higher grades open up restricted districts, give access to better equipment categories, and grant general quality-of-life privileges. Specific named privileges per grade and a numbered ladder have not been published in detail. The table below captures the confirmed shape without inventing exact tier counts.

Why Citizen Grade Matters

Citizen Grade ties the day phase and the night phase together. The shelter side is where money is spent, the expedition side is where money is earned, and Citizen Grade is the visible indicator of how the survivor is doing on the long-run economy. Skipping expeditions to save rent is not a stable strategy because no money is coming in; running risky expeditions for high reward is not a stable strategy either because a death wipes the gear that produced the reward. The Citizen Grade ladder rewards consistency: incremental extraction, careful gear management, and steady rent payments add up to a higher rank over time.

What Is Not Yet Public

The total number of Citizen Grade tiers, the specific district unlocks per tier, the exact rent amounts, and the per-grade equipment lists have not been published. The dossier captures the system's shape and what it controls, not its exact ladder of numbers. Future builds and post-launch coverage are likely to expand the detail; until then, the article holds back on specifics rather than invent them.