Statisticians from the Scyldari Confederacy have warned that the single pie chart they have been using for decades to track the space-nation’s population is becoming “unusable” owing to a critical shortage of colours to fill it with.

The xenophilic empire has seen a marked population boom over the last three years, owing to both its pro-immigration policy and the adoption of XenoCompatibility late last year.

At present the Confederacy’s total population now stands at 13.3 trillion, with twenty-four non-founder species and nearly double the number of half-species.

The Scyldari Office for Statistics has long been warning about the effects of using one pie chart to represent so much data. A spokesperson for the Department, Lorg’Vorg, echoed this in a press release earlier today, in which he stated:

“This situation is spiraling out of control, albeit in a 2D plane. What was once a simple, clean and uniform method of data visualization has now become incomprehensible, with new coloured pie chart slices being added every three minutes. Using pie-chart powered prediction models, we estimate we are approaching a point where we’re simply going to run out of new colours to add to the pie chart.”