Yeah, so as the Altarian's you would need to probably make around 3 evil choices just to get it closer to neutral. If you actually wanted to be evil as that race, you might have to wait until you were given 6 or 7 or more evil choices, or at least wait until its closer to neutral so you only pay 2500, not 10000 or whatever dumb cost it is.

Sticking with the gist of moral choices in GalCiv being heavily favored toward evil, if you actually declare evil, you should get money, not pay money. Like you blatantly steal from the government treasury and cancel all postal workers pension plans, you earn 1000 BC. If you declare good, you would lose 2000 BC because you decide to fund the social security for another 5 years at the government's expense and buy orphans Christmas presents this year.