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As of 2030, Truk has a permanent population of 1,026,985 people. 45.9% self identify as 'Trukian' or Island Daxians as is the term on official census metrics; this population is of mixed polynesian and Daxian stock. Mainland Daxians constitute 36.2% of the population, both recent migrants and people who can trace their ancestry to the original settlers who came with the start of imperial rule. There is also a significant minority of [[Loa]] people who fled the civil war in [[Takatta Loa]] and were allowed to settle provided they were muslim or willing to convert. There is currently a scholarly debate on whether they should be included on the census as Island Daxians for reasons of accuracy. Another recent group moving to Truk are wealthy people from [[Rusana]], attracted to the better quality of life and services on the islands and the freedom to practice their religion (which would be constrained on mainland Daxia).

The standing official policy of encouraging conversion of anyone wishing to live on Truk has resulted in an almost uniformly Muslim population. The sole exception are Daxian officials and members of the military garrisons who are there on a rotational basis; these people tend to be atheists or very rarely Christians. Linguistically a majority of the islanders speak mainland Daxian and around 34% also speak a pidgin polynesian dialect with Daxian loanwords known as Matai.