What is day to day life like on a generic imperial non-factory world? Like a world with business and banking and things

>You also can't expect to see different religions having different religious ceremonies, since you either worship the Emperor (are a Space Marine) or are a heretic (read: dead very soon).
That's not really true. You can worship almost whatever you like(minus chaos, psykers and mutants) in any acceptable way outlined, so long as everyone acknowledges the God Emperor as above all others. The faith is said to be pretty flexible when working with strange customs and it helps integrate lost human societies pretty well. Many times, they just outright say that whatever over-deity is most popular just happened to be the God-Emperor and roll with it. Local imperial reps obviously get a lot of say in this but, as with a surprising amount of things, the Imperium at large gives no shits so long as taxes are paid and undesirables rounded up/shunned/persecuted/killed/etc.

>life isn't so bad if you're not on a hive
>especially not in the under hives
>you know, where by sheer dint of population density the vast majority of humanity lives

Same as your everyday life IRL, only with fancy words and a whole lot more reasons to be depressed and commit suicide.

Forgot to add xenos in the list of things to stay away from.

Dystopian hell hole. Even the nice, non Hive world planets are grim totalitarian police states.

Nice Imperial planets are in the vast minority.

One guy wrote about the common life of an imperial citizen:
dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Civilian_Life_in_Warhammer_40,000_AD

Basically it is cross between soviet union, third world and feudal opression. And not to forget all of the Catholic Space Nazis.

>You can't have online forums discussing or dissing politics or alternative political systems, that'd get you killed too.
But user, the Imperium itself doesn't care if the planetary Governor of Bumfuckistan Prime rules by whipping a billion slaves into working, or holds elections every 4 years to form a government that works in agreement with him to make the planet a better place. Just pay your tithe, recognise the Emperor as your God/leader and kill any xenos/heretic/mutant that may come across.

>You also can't expect to see different religions having different religious ceremonies, since you either worship the Emperor (are a Space Marine) or are a heretic (read: dead very soon).
As long as the Emperor is worshipped and it's within the confines the Ecclesiarchy allows, you can do it in whatever way you want.

Why even would they care? There's enough shit to deal with on the larger scale, no need to micromanage every planet in the Imperium.

Not that user, but the Imperium is in a state of constant war that does not support egalitarian. Also the very faith of the Imperium preaches that intolerance is a virtue.
The Imperium is vast so democracies can happen but most imperial worlds are ruled by a authoritarian ruler. He does not let you discuss politics.
There are many faiths and cults in the Imperium what can let to civil wars. In fact civil wars are the norm in the Imperium, as long it does not grow to harmful for the Imperium. The religous strife also depends very much from the cardinal who deals with that kind of stuff.
The Imperium is ruled by despotism, everything can happen but the connection you have is very important.

>the connection you have is very important.
At the highest levels, the connections you have are all that matter.

To quote Dark Heresy:
Imperial Worlds
>“You hail from an Imperial world, one of a million planets united by a belief in the immortal Emperor. Soldier, fanatic, thief, mercenary, noble: these are some of your many possible backgrounds. Whatever your previous calling, you are now in the employ of the Inquisition, and your adventure has only just begun…” A bewildering variety of worlds are known to the Imperium. From hyper-technological democratic societies to drudging medieval worlds, many planets offer their fealty and devotion to the immortal God-Emperor of Man. Life on an Imperial World The Imperium covers such an utterly vast area of the galaxy that it is almost impossible to conjure an image of a “typical” Imperial world. In truth, no such thing exists. Amongst the million worlds of man, there is endless variety. Agri-worlds, for instance, are little more than vast farms, producing food for the good of the Imperium. Similarly, mining worlds produce ore and raw mineral for use in the vast factories of the forge worlds. Cardinal worlds are ruled by the Ministorum and are given over entirely to the Priesthood of the Imperium—the mysterious Ecclesiarchy. Stranger still are the garden worlds, which serve as havens for Imperial nobles. Paradise, however, comes at a price, for temptation and heresy may be rife in these places. Some Imperial worlds are utterly remote, having had no contact with the rest of humanity for centuries. As a result, cultural and societal diversity is to be expected from planet to planet, sometimes even within the same solar system. The closer a world lies to Holy Terra—the home planet of mankind—the more important, advanced and well governed it is likely to be. Those far-flung planets on the fringes, on the other hand, are likely to be frontier worlds, left to their own devices for much of the time, and lying under the constant threat of attack, both physically and spiritually.

Many worlds have a technological
base akin to Holy Terra, while many more have devolved into feudal backwaters with little more than black powder technology. Such worlds make excellent recruiting grounds for the Imperial Guard, the Space Marines and the Inquisition, as nothing assures obedience quite so well as fear. Upon such planets, the Imperial
Cult is surrounded by an atmosphere of superstition, demanding fealty to the immortal God-Emperor who, for many citizens of the
Imperium, is so distant as to be little more than a myth. Most major scientific advances in the Imperium come from the rediscovery of forgotten secrets from the Dark Age of Technology.
The reliance on these ancient templates creates a mishmash of tech-use on many worlds. For example, it is possible for a planet’s industry to
rely on gigantic steam-powered monorails for long-distance transport, yet still be unable to produce smaller versions of these aged devices,
resorting instead to horse-drawn carts for commuting. Governmental organisation is equally as varied. Most Imperial worlds are ruled by a planetary governor, who assumes absolute control either by birthright or by election. The nobility frequently assume all positions of power
and privilege on a planet, while the lower echelons of the class structure comprise workers, militia, fanatics, slaves and dregs. While many planets are free of the levels of scum that infest hive worlds, those closer to the
Emperor’s grace harbour countless numbers of crazed individuals— workers who have lost their place in a zero-tolerance society, or who
have realised that the galaxy is not only unimaginably vast, but full of hate and hostility towards mankind. Such realisation often leads to paranoia or outright insanity, and Imperial worlds are rife with broken individuals, prophets of doom, criminals and gutter-trash.

The waifs and strays of society, however, also serve their purpose. The millions of orphans produced by constant warfare, within and
without, are taken in by the Schola Progenium. Many Imperial Worlds are pocked with vast orphanages, where the strict drill-abbots
of the Ecclesiarchy produce faithful servants of the Emperor. Those of noble blood may become officers in the Imperial Navy, or even
commissars, while the rest will undoubtedly find employment with the Ministorum, the Adeptus Terra or one of the Emperor’s armies.
With religion, superstition and fear dominating so much of society within the Imperium, deviancy is rarely tolerated. People
place their faith in good, honest hatred to guard them against the manifold horrors of the universe. Man swarms in vast numbers
working, praying, eating and sleeping in an endless cycle, each soul forming a faceless cog in the endless grinding machinery
of the Imperium. Law and order within society is often kept by the Adeptus Arbites. Sometimes, however, more remote worlds
employ civil militias instead. On such planets, mercenaries— sometimes even off-worlders—are hired to bulk out the standing
garrisons that not only provide domestic security, but also form part of the Imperial Guard. If a world lies within a war zone, then
often these fighters are the only thing that stand in the way of the destruction of an entire world.

This doesn't sound so bad actually.

Yeah if in each case you have to recognize the Emperor has chief deity then it means you can't ahve something different.

Its not tough to understand people, if you wanna say you worship Ra not the Emperor then BLAM!

So yeah, no religion beyond ones venerating the Emperor. Like no Veeky Forums since it'd be considered WAY too irreverent by the Arbites considering there would inevitably be all sorts of fun made of the Emperor and Saints and such.

>no fun allowed.
There are actual pleasure planets used for holidays and relaxation for the populace

If there was anything like a "default" world, I think it would be like the world in the first story in Brotherhood of the Snake. It's basically a feudal world, where the landed gentry have some form of not well understood technology but the vast majority are peasants with a small midden class of functionaries and artisans/merchants.

In my head cannon, even high-tech hive worlds still operate on a feudal society (instead of being tied to working the land, you're tied to working the lathe in sector B-546y8-a, as your father and his father before him).

Another thing to note is that, due to religion, the psychology of the average dude in 40k would probably be a lot closer to a dude in the middle ages. God is 100 percent real, you exist to serve God, you WILL be punished for your sins, ect. They would be just as insane and foreign to us as we would be to someone from 1200 ad. Actually, even moreso.