Interior Minister’s scale (Sharifistan)

The Interior Minister’s scale is a scale, based on the British Registrar-General’s scale and classifying jobs according to the “general social standing in the community, relative to other occupations.” Categories

1. professionals, senior officials and landowners For example: Doctors, Islamic scholars (Muftis), Judges, Pashas and Emirs, landowning farmers (with 100 or more employees), university lecturers, landlords (with 80 or more tenants), commissioned officers (Army, Navy, Al-Harreh Danistarab Coast Guard, Space Cavalry and Air Cavalry), management of charities, teachers, lawyers,and police officers (Inspector and above).

2. Intermediate for example: smallholding farmer, firefighter, imam or muezzin, police officer (Sergeant and below), sailor, airman and soldier (except conscripts).

III Non-manual – skilled occupations For example: Foreperson, sales representative and office-manager.

3. Manual – skilled occupations For example: Skilled artisan, carpenter, electrician and train driver

3. Semi-skilled manual For example: Farm worker, tenant farmer, postman/woman and conscript.

5. Unskilled manual For example: cleaner

6. Lower occupations For example: car salesman and criminal occupations.

History

Starting in 1925, it was a way of classifying occupations based on the registrar-general’s scale, used in Britain at the time.

Controversy

It is controversial for deciding women’s class based on that of a “head of household”, assumed to be a man. It is also allegedly biased towards status in Sharifistan’s upper and middle class communities, failing to take into account views amongst Sharifistan’s underclass who typically view members of the judiciary, landowning class and civilian police with suspicion whilst revering the common soldier above even an Emir as well as respecting some types of criminal.