
Xenophobe is an ethic in Stellaris 4.5.2 that costs 1 of the 3 ethic points. It cannot be taken with Fanatic Xenophile and Xenophile. It gives +10% Pop Growth (or Assembly) Speed, +50 Add Attunement with the Eater of Worlds and -15% Refugee Attraction.
What Xenophobe gives
Country modifiers from the ethic's country_modifier block, as the game prints them; then what the ethic allows or rules out (its tags, in the game's words).
- +10%Pop Growth (or Assembly) Speed
- +50Add Attunement with the Eater of Worlds
- -15%Refugee Attraction
Can Purge aliens
Can Enslave aliens
Decreased Opinion for other species
Cannot give aliens Full Citizenship
Cannot allow aliens Full Military Service
Cannot use Refugees Welcome species policy
Factions of Xenophobe pops
Pop factions whose guiding ethic this is (common/pop_faction_types), with the game's faction icons and election header.


Cannot be taken with
Civics that need Xenophobe
Civics whose rules name this ethic as needed (alone or as one of several); the list below them rules it out.
Origins and Xenophobe
In the game
The stakes could not be higher as we reach into the vast uncharted expanses of the galaxy, for we are gambling with the very survival of our species! Never trust the alien; its false smile hides an unknowable mind...
Xenophobe: questions
How many points does Xenophobe cost?
1 of the 3 ethic points.
What is the opposite of Xenophobe?
Fanatic Xenophile, Xenophile: an empire cannot have both.
Which civics need Xenophobe?
Inward Perfection, Barbaric Despoilers, Pompous Purists, Experimental Sentencing, Scorched World Heralds, Judicial R&D.
Source: common/ethics and common/governments, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).