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.

“This situation is spiraling out of control, albeit in a 2D plane,” spokes-xeno Lorg’Vorg told Xenonion earlier today. “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.”

He went on to warn that experts had predicted the space-nation was approaching a point where it could simply run out of new colours to add to the pie chart.

Lorg’Vorg warned the effects of a colour shortage could be “catastrophic”, with the possibility of new data on the pie chart being represented as an aesthetically unpleasing solid black fill.

The pie chart remains one of mathematics most advanced tools, and is used universally across the galaxy by all species. Scyldari officials were quick to praise the tool’s utility, instead blaming the Galactic Community for only sanctioning the use of 25 colours that meet its stringent eye safety standards.

At the time of writing, Scyldari statisticians have announced that they are attempting to devise new methods of data visualization that, if possible, may involve lines, bars or a combination of the two.