diff --git a/server/data/systems.db b/server/data/systems.db
index 38920b01f..45007b50f 100644
Binary files a/server/data/systems.db and b/server/data/systems.db differ
diff --git a/tooling/economy-db/import_economics.py b/tooling/economy-db/import_economics.py
index ab12871f6..727b99781 100755
--- a/tooling/economy-db/import_economics.py
+++ b/tooling/economy-db/import_economics.py
@@ -1617,14 +1617,31 @@ _CULTURAL_ACTIVITY = {
     "industrial_heritage", "medical_elite", "ecological", "military",
     "financial_technocratic", "cosmopolitan", "compact_cooperative",
 }
+# Canonical 47-value heritage taxonomy (#1016, D-237). Source of truth:
+# docs/workshops/system-economic-specialization/heritage-taxonomy-draft.md.
+# Real-world people/nationality granularity, lowercase_snake. Heritage wins over
+# activity values when both apply. Pin only when a system's founding heritage
+# DIVERGES from its corridor baseline (D-167/D-232); corridor-typical systems
+# stay NULL and take the corridor default.
 _CULTURAL_HERITAGE = {
-    "scottish", "french_provencal", "vietnamese", "afrikaans_cape", "zulu",
-    "chinese", "italian_northern", "tagalog", "norse_compact", "irish",
-    "portuguese_iberian", "korean", "japanese", "swahili", "hausa",
-    "bengali", "punjabi", "yoruba",
-    # MENA / Central-Asian heritage seeded by the #1019 South-African rebalance.
-    # The full canonical 47-value migration (renames + sector normalisation) is
-    # #1016; these three are added early so the rebalanced systems validate.
+    # British Isles & Anglo-diaspora
+    "anglo", "scottish", "irish", "welsh",
+    # Iberian, Latin & Lusophone
+    "portuguese", "brazilian", "afro_brazilian", "cape_verdean", "angolan",
+    "sao_tomean", "spanish", "canarian", "italian", "french",
+    # Northern / Central / Eastern European
+    "german", "dutch", "nordic", "finnish", "polish", "czech", "russian",
+    "luxembourgish", "hungarian",
+    # Sub-Saharan African
+    "afrikaans", "cape_malay", "zulu", "xhosa", "herero", "shona", "swahili",
+    "igbo", "yoruba", "hausa", "akan",
+    # South Asian
+    "indian", "bengali", "punjabi", "konkan",
+    # East & Southeast Asian
+    "chinese", "korean", "japanese", "vietnamese", "tagalog",
+    # Pacific
+    "maori",
+    # Middle East / North Africa / Central Asia
     "arab", "persian", "turkic",
 }
 _CULTURAL_VOCAB = _CULTURAL_ACTIVITY | _CULTURAL_HERITAGE
diff --git a/wiki/economics/system_specialization.toml b/wiki/economics/system_specialization.toml
index 0939be2fb..45f76317d 100644
--- a/wiki/economics/system_specialization.toml
+++ b/wiki/economics/system_specialization.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ dominant_faction = "syndic_dominant"
 
 ["GJ 764"]  # Nova Roma — MVG vehicle production
 economic_specialization = "vehicle_production"
-cultural_specialization = "italian_northern"
+cultural_specialization = "italian"
 dominant_faction = "concord_assembly"
 
 ["GJ 251"]  # Renaissance — Gate Corp fabrication
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ dominant_faction = "concord_assembly"
 # decision 2026-05-31, overriding the workshop §7 hop-6 concord_assembly
 # default (which was a pure distance heuristic this layer exists to beat).
 economic_specialization = "geothermal_hub"
-cultural_specialization = "afrikaans_cape"
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 166A"]  # Keid — Conservancy research station
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 395"]  # Confluent / VGV — terroir viticulture, F8V lock (D-177)
 economic_specialization = "terroir_agriculture"
-cultural_specialization = "french_provencal"
+cultural_specialization = "french"
 dominant_faction = "compact_sympathetic"
 
 ["GJ 475"]  # Braemar — brach fiber biological monopoly (D-177)
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 3737"]  # Nyrheim — Kvitfjell marble (D-177)
 economic_specialization = "marble_monopoly"
-cultural_specialization = "norse_compact"
+cultural_specialization = "nordic"
 dominant_faction = "compact"
 
 ["GJ 601A"]  # Ostmark — Compact founding member, 5c agricultural base
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 357"]  # Altmark — deliberately non-aligned commercial transit hub
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
-cultural_specialization = "cosmopolitan"
+cultural_specialization = "financial_technocratic"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 136"]  # Dài Lộ — Grand Road transit gateway
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 dominant_faction = "disputed"
 
 ["GJ 783A"]
+cultural_specialization = "institutional"
 economic_specialization = "governance_center"
 dominant_faction = "veil_institute"
 
@@ -197,46 +198,60 @@ economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 dominant_faction = "concord_assembly"
 
 ["GJ 1235"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 1267"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
 dominant_faction = "compact_sympathetic"
 
 ["GJ 127A"]
+cultural_specialization = "arab"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 142"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 174"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
 dominant_faction = "compact_sympathetic"
 
 ["GJ 189"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
 dominant_faction = "compact_sympathetic"
 
 ["GJ 309"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
 dominant_faction = "compact_sympathetic"
 
 ["GJ 3943"]
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 428A"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 482B"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 dominant_faction = "syndic_dominant"
 
 ["GJ 532"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
 economic_specialization = "general_industrial"
 
 ["GJ 556"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 598"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 61"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
@@ -245,9 +260,11 @@ cultural_specialization = "turkic"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 892"]
+cultural_specialization = "scholarly"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 1245A"]
+cultural_specialization = "igbo"
 economic_specialization = "rare_mineral_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 1289"]
@@ -255,15 +272,19 @@ economic_specialization = "governance_center"
 dominant_faction = "concord_assembly"
 
 ["GJ 1292"]
+cultural_specialization = "swahili"
 dominant_faction = "syndic_dominant"
 
 ["GJ 139"]
+cultural_specialization = "igbo"
 economic_specialization = "financial_hub"
 
 ["GJ 183"]
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 216B"]
+cultural_specialization = "artistic"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 273"]
@@ -271,27 +292,34 @@ economic_specialization = "governance_center"
 dominant_faction = "concord_assembly"
 
 ["GJ 300"]
+cultural_specialization = "scottish"
 economic_specialization = "marine_farming"
 
 ["GJ 34A"]
+cultural_specialization = "japanese"
 economic_specialization = "precision_tech"
 
 ["GJ 3622"]
+cultural_specialization = "nordic"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 3820"]
+cultural_specialization = "finnish"
 economic_specialization = "rare_mineral_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 402"]
 economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 408"]
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 410"]
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 575A"]
+cultural_specialization = "konkan"
 economic_specialization = "terroir_organics"
 
 ["GJ 588"]
@@ -304,16 +332,20 @@ economic_specialization = "rare_mineral_extraction"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 661A"]
+cultural_specialization = "institutional"
 economic_specialization = "legal_archive"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 663A"]
+cultural_specialization = "nordic"
 economic_specialization = "company_mining"
 
 ["GJ 673"]
+cultural_specialization = "nordic"
 economic_specialization = "company_mining"
 
 ["GJ 706"]
+cultural_specialization = "maori"
 economic_specialization = "marble_monopoly"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
@@ -322,99 +354,127 @@ cultural_specialization = "persian"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 75"]
+cultural_specialization = "igbo"
 economic_specialization = "financial_hub"
 
 ["GJ 770"]
+cultural_specialization = "maori"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 780"]
+cultural_specialization = "spanish"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 825"]
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 876"]
+cultural_specialization = "finnish"
 economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 879"]
+cultural_specialization = "punjabi"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 880"]
+cultural_specialization = "nordic"
 economic_specialization = "terroir_organics"
 
 ["GJ 653"]
+cultural_specialization = "scottish"
 economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 667B"]
+cultural_specialization = "swahili"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 1005A"]
+cultural_specialization = "french"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 105A"]
+cultural_specialization = "czech"
 economic_specialization = "consumer_goods_bazaar"
 
 ["GJ 1073"]
+cultural_specialization = "tagalog"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 107A"]
+cultural_specialization = "vietnamese"
 economic_specialization = "terroir_organics"
 
 ["GJ 1125"]
+cultural_specialization = "korean"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 1128"]
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 124"]
+cultural_specialization = "vietnamese"
 economic_specialization = "marine_farming"
 
 ["GJ 137"]
+cultural_specialization = "russian"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 17"]
+cultural_specialization = "vietnamese"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 172"]
+cultural_specialization = "vietnamese"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 205"]
+cultural_specialization = "japanese"
 economic_specialization = "general_industrial"
 
 ["GJ 268"]
+cultural_specialization = "korean"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 3135"]
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 325A"]
+cultural_specialization = "bengali"
 economic_specialization = "rare_mineral_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 3379"]
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 34B"]
+cultural_specialization = "korean"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 3612"]
+cultural_specialization = "vietnamese"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 3728B"]
+cultural_specialization = "korean"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 412B"]
+cultural_specialization = "finnish"
 economic_specialization = "company_mining"
 
 ["GJ 423A"]
+cultural_specialization = "tagalog"
 economic_specialization = "marine_farming"
 
 ["GJ 4274"]
+cultural_specialization = "chinese"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 4285"]
+cultural_specialization = "vietnamese"
 economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 432A"]
+cultural_specialization = "punjabi"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 438"]
@@ -427,25 +487,30 @@ economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 541"]
+cultural_specialization = "indian"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 555"]
 economic_specialization = "general_industrial"
 
 ["GJ 566A"]
+cultural_specialization = "financial_technocratic"
 economic_specialization = "financial_hub"
 dominant_faction = "syndic_dominant"
 
 ["GJ 620.1A"]
+cultural_specialization = "vietnamese"
 economic_specialization = "rare_mineral_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 625"]
+cultural_specialization = "chinese"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 635B"]
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 660A"]
+cultural_specialization = "korean"
 economic_specialization = "geothermal_hub"
 
 ["GJ 667C"]
@@ -455,27 +520,33 @@ economic_specialization = "research_station"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 682"]
+cultural_specialization = "chinese"
 economic_specialization = "general_industrial"
 
 ["GJ 687"]
+cultural_specialization = "japanese"
 economic_specialization = "general_industrial"
 
 ["GJ 713A"]
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 754"]
+cultural_specialization = "korean"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 
 ["GJ 784"]
+cultural_specialization = "hungarian"
 economic_specialization = "general_industrial"
 
 ["GJ 79"]
+cultural_specialization = "japanese"
 economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 848"]
 economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 860B"]
+cultural_specialization = "korean"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 866A"]
@@ -485,6 +556,7 @@ economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 909A"]
+cultural_specialization = "vietnamese"
 economic_specialization = "vehicle_production"
 
 ["GJ 1002"]
@@ -494,12 +566,15 @@ economic_specialization = "marine_farming"
 economic_specialization = "research_station"
 
 ["GJ 213"]
+cultural_specialization = "cape_malay"
 economic_specialization = "terroir_organics"
 
 ["GJ 299"]
+cultural_specialization = "brazilian"
 economic_specialization = "marine_farming"
 
 ["GJ 27"]
+cultural_specialization = "herero"
 dominant_faction = "compact_sympathetic"
 
 ["GJ 3323"]
@@ -509,15 +584,18 @@ economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 393"]
+cultural_specialization = "spanish"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 4053"]
+cultural_specialization = "shona"
 economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 411"]
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 423B"]
+cultural_specialization = "afro_brazilian"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 54"]
@@ -527,22 +605,28 @@ economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 566B"]
+cultural_specialization = "compact_cooperative"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 dominant_faction = "compact_sympathetic"
 
 ["GJ 567"]
+cultural_specialization = "spanish"
 economic_specialization = "precision_tech"
 
 ["GJ 644A"]
+cultural_specialization = "zulu"
 economic_specialization = "general_industrial"
 
 ["GJ 644C"]
+cultural_specialization = "angolan"
 economic_specialization = "terroir_organics"
 
 ["GJ 688"]
+cultural_specialization = "canarian"
 economic_specialization = "marine_farming"
 
 ["GJ 693"]
+cultural_specialization = "swahili"
 economic_specialization = "terroir_organics"
 
 ["GJ 768"]
@@ -555,12 +639,15 @@ economic_specialization = "research_station"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 86"]
+cultural_specialization = "akan"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 884"]
+cultural_specialization = "institutional"
 economic_specialization = "legal_archive"
 
 ["GJ 896A"]
+cultural_specialization = "polish"
 economic_specialization = "general_industrial"
 
 ["GJ 1"]
@@ -568,15 +655,18 @@ economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 dominant_faction = "compact_sympathetic"
 
 ["GJ 103"]
+cultural_specialization = "dutch"
 economic_specialization = "marine_farming"
 
 ["GJ 1116B"]
+cultural_specialization = "polish"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 1232"]
 dominant_faction = "compact"
 
 ["GJ 127B"]
+cultural_specialization = "luxembourgish"
 dominant_faction = "compact"
 
 ["GJ 150"]
@@ -592,6 +682,7 @@ economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 ["GJ 229"]
+cultural_specialization = "finnish"
 economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 
 ["GJ 231"]
@@ -603,10 +694,12 @@ economic_specialization = "transit_hub"
 dominant_faction = "compact"
 
 ["GJ 320"]
+cultural_specialization = "agrarian"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 dominant_faction = "compact"
 
 ["GJ 3333"]
+cultural_specialization = "dutch"
 economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 dominant_faction = "compact"
 
@@ -620,10 +713,12 @@ economic_specialization = "breadbasket"
 economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 442A"]
+cultural_specialization = "nordic"
 economic_specialization = "precision_tech"
 dominant_faction = "compact_sympathetic"
 
 ["GJ 453"]
+cultural_specialization = "compact_cooperative"
 economic_specialization = "general_industrial"
 dominant_faction = "compact"
 
@@ -659,6 +754,7 @@ dominant_faction = "independent"
 economic_specialization = "marine_farming"
 
 ["GJ 628"]
+cultural_specialization = "irish"
 economic_specialization = "ore_extraction"
 
 ["GJ 631"]
@@ -697,6 +793,7 @@ dominant_faction = "independent"
 economic_specialization = "financial_hub"
 
 ["GJ 1248"]
+cultural_specialization = "artistic"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
 
 # --- #1019 South-African heritage rebalance: thin afrikaans systems rewritten
@@ -713,3 +810,131 @@ dominant_faction = "independent"
 ["GJ 1245B"]
 cultural_specialization = "persian"
 dominant_faction = "independent"
+
+
+# --- #1016 cultural-write pass: heritage/activity pins from GTTR/name triage ---
+["GJ 95"]
+cultural_specialization = "scottish"
+
+["GJ 194B"]
+cultural_specialization = "welsh"
+
+["GJ 473B"]
+cultural_specialization = "zulu"
+
+["GJ 603"]
+cultural_specialization = "scottish"
+
+["GJ 877"]
+cultural_specialization = "nordic"
+
+["GJ 1116A"]
+cultural_specialization = "zulu"
+
+["GJ 1230A"]
+cultural_specialization = "finnish"
+
+["GJ 3991"]
+cultural_specialization = "scottish"
+
+["GJ 197"]
+cultural_specialization = "spanish"
+
+["GJ 412A"]
+cultural_specialization = "spanish"
+
+["GJ 4A"]
+cultural_specialization = "cape_verdean"
+
+["GJ 536"]
+cultural_specialization = "brazilian"
+
+["GJ 67"]
+cultural_specialization = "sao_tomean"
+
+["GJ 737B"]
+cultural_specialization = "canarian"
+
+["GJ 860A"]
+cultural_specialization = "xhosa"
+
+["GJ 905"]
+cultural_specialization = "zulu"
+
+["GJ 282A"]
+cultural_specialization = "french"
+
+["GJ 807"]
+cultural_specialization = "french"
+
+["GJ 3533"]
+cultural_specialization = "vietnamese"
+
+["GJ 49"]
+cultural_specialization = "french"
+
+["GJ 111"]
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
+
+["GJ 138"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 147"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 169"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 204"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 211"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 282B"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 286"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
+
+["GJ 3442"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 349"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
+
+["GJ 407"]
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
+
+["GJ 421B"]
+cultural_specialization = "xhosa"
+
+["GJ 501B"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 528A"]
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
+
+["GJ 546"]
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
+
+["GJ 672"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 68"]
+cultural_specialization = "dutch"
+
+["GJ 684A"]
+cultural_specialization = "german"
+
+["GJ 684B"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 7547"]
+cultural_specialization = "afrikaans"
+
+["GJ 707"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"
+
+["GJ 904"]
+cultural_specialization = "portuguese"