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[Invincible] What is the day to day governance of the Viltrum Empire like? Is there actually any benefit to being part of it as a subject species?

Omni Man at one point talks about how Earth would benefit from being part of the empire, is there any truth to that? They seem pretty totalitarian but assuming we complied fully and were ideal subjects would there be anything Earth or a planet like Earth would actually get out of the deal? Like would they build us advanced infrastructure or give us medicine or would they just show up looking for tribute every now and then and otherwise not care what we were doing?
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In the comics, Anissa (a high ranking legbreaker for the Viltrumites) justifies the idea of Viltrumite occupation by saying that the people of Earth would be kept fat and happy for as long as it took the Viltrumites to strip mine everything of value from the planet. While she admits that humanity would inevitably go extinct after that, she believes that humanity would last longer as a species under Viltrumite supervision than they would if left to manage their own ecosystem.

In the comics we see a few worlds under Viltrumite rule, and the main tangible benefit is that there's a Viltrumite living on your planet defending it from spaceborne threats. The big downside is that the Viltrumites tend to press-gang tributes of slave-soldiers from any planet that's at all good at military stuff, to the point that most Viltrumite invasion forces consist of one or two Viltrumites and a zerg rush of  expendable slaves in power-armor.

Complicating matters is the specific resource they were hoping to extract from Earth: >!People. Mark was proof of concept for breeding an army of nearly-genetically pure viltrumites to rebuild their numbers after a number of devastating setbacks.!< This might mean that they have a higher-than-average incentive to keep the planet livable than they otherwise might have.