Maxington wrote:I'd just like to know the thought process behind how certain nations have varying populations
lewiselder1 wrote:Maxington wrote:I'd just like to know the thought process behind how certain nations have varying populations
I think Polites detailed some of that in his first posit here. Primarily it’s regarding relatively recent RP and how we think they’d affect the population; climate; and where reasonable we made changes depending on some of the things you’ve seen here, such as if the population density seemed ridiculous or it clashed with the history. (So if a nation RP’d a food shortage but is in a relatively bountiful climate, you’d expect it to have a bigger population. As an example.) It’s not the most hard-coded scientific approach, but it’s not a hard science to decide these types of things methinks.
Some of the others may be able to provide more detailed responses as they may have took a more active role in general than myself.
Polites wrote:That's some very good points you bring here, and I wouldn't mind seeing Kalistan grow a bit due to its refugee history, although that happened quite a long time ago.
In what concerns the difference between Indrala and Aldegar, the population densities are the same as for the RL territories (except for a slight 7% bonus for Indrala). Much of the difference comes from the fact that Indrala is much bigger than Aldegar (1.6 times bigger to be exact) so even with the same density Indrala would end up with a much higher population. Your point about the distribution of populations within different countries makes a lot of sense, and it isn't really something we took into account for the climate-based population, except for when we broke up large countries like China, Russia, or the US into sub-regions. Eventually we may end up working on different population caps at the province level, and then we may introduce discrepancies like Kingston vs. the rest of Jamaica or Java vs. the rest of Indonesia. As Lewis said though, this isn't an exact science, and climate alone does not determine population density. That's also why we took RP into account, including, for instance, a history of heavy urbanization.
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