For Vanilla Sins, the maximum alleigance of a given planet is determined by its shortest distance to your homeworld (in phase jumps). These values are starting alleigance values - they are the values the planet has immediately upon colonization (this can of course drop or increase in accordance to influence to hostile/friendly culture respectively).
0 Jumps (i.e. your HW): 100%
1 Jump: 90%
2: 80%
3: 65%
4: 50%
5: 40%
6 or more: 25%
-1 jumps*: 25%
* The only time a planet has -1 jumps as its distance from home planet is if the shortest (and only) route goes through a wormhole, which can be a challenge in maps with planets isolated by wormhole connections. It's most noticeable on the map Ancient Gifts, where travel from one system to another MUST be done via a wormhole - there are no links to the stars of each system.
Culture can up the values by 10%, the Advent's Allure of the Unity tech can increase this further by 5%/10% depending on research level.
Once you start talking about Entrenchment, I believe the Advent Starbase can bump alleigance even further up, but since I'm not an Entrenchment player, don't quote me on that.
Culture spread rate is a function of the number of broadcast structures in a gravity well, the culture rate of one station, and the number of phase lanes connected to that gravity well.
-- Spread rates of multiple broadcast structures add up (so 2 stations have double the spread rate of 1, three have triple the spread rate of 1, etc.).
-- Culture rate is determined by how much research you have put into culture spread rate. All broadcast structures generate culture at 10.0/sec initially, but can be upgraded to 12.0/sec for TEC and Vasari, 13.0/sec for Advent, and increased by 25% by the Manifest Dominion artifact.
-- The culture generation from one gravity well is distributed evenly among its connected trade lanes, so for one station broadcasting at 10.0/sec with one phase lane connection spreads at 10.0/sec, 5.0/sec with 2 phase lanes, 3.3 with 3 lanes, and so on.