A Caste Center is a residential institution devoted to the care of donations whose makers have not claimed them, nor do they have any citizens registered to collect them. Staffed exclusively by Subaki and Bizaki, and administered by Hizaki, each facility is a caring and vital part of the citizenry because it provides emotional and formative care to donations from the time they are born until the age they leave for caste training.
Caste Centers campuses, built throughout the domes, contain five distinct buildings clustered and connected around a central open-air space. Four of the buildings are residential, with each building housing a separate caste. Donations spend their formative years in a mixed-caste environment before transitioning to dorms with their own caste. The fifth building is a day care and socialization center where youngsters of all castes come together daily.
Donational age citizens raised in a caste-center not only receive emotional care but also a comprehensive cultural education. They learn traditional pod culture from caregivers, who instill in them the values of their society and the importance of their developmental clutch. A minority of late-arrivals come to the caste center after the death of a genetic maker or when the pod that created them endures a bond-break (divorce) following their birth. A citizen raised in a caste-center can learn of her makers after acquiring citizenship status, when she can legally access her genetic pedigree from the Citizens Catalog.
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