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[quote=@Dinh AaronMk]
[quote=@Durandal]
Um, KillAllKebab, you can't have that large of a population. Maximum for the American theater is 100,000. You bring it over that, not to mention having significantly more people than anyone else.
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The entirety of a population isn't all military dedicated. 100,000 isn't all that large given he's claiming all of Lousiana with a modern population of 4 million.

By all standards, a tenth of the population can safely be in the military under certain conditions, providing they're not warrior nomads or trying to build a modern industrial lifestyle with very non-industrial means. As well, a tenth of that would safely be only what they'd be able to deploy in offensive operations without jeopardizing home.
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I know, but Dual stipulated that there can be no more than 100,000 people in population for the [i]American theater[/i]. Not one nation, but all nations totaled.
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What Aaron is trying to say is that 100,000 is unrealistically low anyways. The population of New Kiev is a third of that of my hometown, which is small anyways, and New Kiev is ALL OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A single military base could supply the entirety of North America with weapons if the population is 100,000. The only nations in the world with a population at all comparable to that of our nations are tiny island nations (mainly UK territories), the Vatican, and Sealand. Examples of nations with a comparable population to that of the entirety of North America in this RP are the illustrious and famous nations of the "Independent and Sovereign Republic of Kiribati" and the "Federated States of Micronesia".

Then we have to take into account the many, many people actively organizing doomsday shelters already. Imagine what it would be like after asteroids show up! Everyone would be going crazy, buying rooms in bunkers that are [i]already being set up for commercial sale[/i].
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With a population of a few thousand anyways you're not really running a nation anymore. You're running a small town. So it becomes pointless in the grand scheme unless you want to play City Builder.

Presuming this even could have killed 90% of any state's population from infection or violence after the fact we'd all still be looking at populations in the few hundred ten thousands. There may be larger drops in more densly populated regions since this sort of density would lend into making infection easier. But for the Carolinas and Lousiana it'd be laughable to dive well below Dakota-tier population.