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# Demographic

o1.city.Demographic
sealed trait Demographic

A `Demographic` indicates which demographic (“slice of the overall population”) a particular household belongs to (if any). It is used by the simulator to mark households on a city map.

There are two kinds of `Demographic` objects: `Vacant` and `Occupied`:

- The singleton object Vacant is used for indicating that a residence is empty and does not belong to any demographic.

- Occupied objects indicate that a residence belongs to a specific demographic; each different demographic is assigned a different `Color`. For instance, a residence may be “occupied by the red demographic”, or “occupied by the blue demographic”.

What exactly constitutes a demographic is unimportant for the purposes of this class. Demographics could be based on people’s socioeconomic status, political views, ethnicity, age, or something else.

All `Demographic` objects are immutable.

The trait `Demographic` itself does not define any methods; it merely serves as a supertype for Occupied and Vacant.

## Attributes

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Supertypes
  class Object
  trait Matchable
  class Any
Known subtypes
  class Occupied
  object Vacant