I've also thought about the economic structure of Alternia and I think Alternia is a anarcho-capitalist hellscape where people are allowed to pretty much do whatever they want in terms of business, no property taxes is needing to be paid, but the world revolves around money and coins anyways so you have to make something that people deem worthy of buying.

A lot of the trolls seemed to not have any jobs or go to school, which makes me think that, because Alternia was a planet of children that the only thing they really focused on was popularity and survival. And the Friendsim and Hiveswap kind of showed that pretty well IMO, as a lot of the priorities of the Trolls in those games were to just survive until they were to be called to the Military or whatever.

I'm guessing schooling and other things are handled by the Lusus, so this makes me think they're all homeschooled in some way. But this has varying degrees of success depending on how well the Troll can even protect their Lusus from other people. We know that the hives the trolls live in were made by that Troll, I imagine it started off very small, but as the troll gets bigger, they advance their home-building skills. Or some of them get lucky and live in what is already a pretty cavernous space. Nepeta literally lived in a cave, and Terezi lived in a tree in the forest. I imagine they both chose places that were secluded and hidden away from others for safety. (Als,o those places just seem like fun places to live.)