I encountered this non terrible but annoying problem with inactive players and I wonder how to solve it.

There are various degrees of inactiveness:
- active today (* symbol next to player name)
- active in last 3 days (+ symbol)
- active in last 7 days (sleeping symbol)
- active in last 30 days (dead, skull symbol)
- active in last 3-6 months (hibernating, not appearing on most lists, player partially hidden)
- above this thereshold the player is deleted

Now, I need to display a number, how many people live in a city X Which one should I use? Generally, I was using "active/inactive" (two numbers) but it has two problems, first some players confuse it with limit of citiznes in that city, second... which "inacitve" should I use?
What's worse, I also display the list of city residents (with offices) which include everyone above hibernating, this is kind of needed to see who holds the office.
It's a big mess right now...

I don't know if it helps, I played a game similar to the concept but it was set in modern age, I think it was called Coloniam. It has implemented a voting and political party system and you vote for the people that you want for the president.

A bit too democratic for the medieval theme I'm using the system where high influence players get much more votes than the rest (weighted votes). As for political parties, I kind of have something of similar function, which is vassal system (usually your vassals will vote as you ask them, because if you are deciding who the ruler is then you have a higher persuasion power to make the ruler to grant lucrative offices/privileges to your vassals; well, maybe it's not exactly political party system, more like family bonds system).