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[@Wernher]

The US is a nation more or less on one content, not an Empire that covers a system of multiple planets. There's going to be a difference between numbers. I'll take a gander and say that most nations here will have much higher numbers of troops than >1% considering they have a system and subsequently a galaxy to watch over is the Super Space Consul Union of Diplomacy and Rainbows sends UN-esque peacekeepers to places.
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No.

It's based on percentage.

So sure, the US is a continental army (more or less) so it has 1,361,755 active soldiers for 318.9 million people. Let's say the US had... 7 billion people! It would mean a bigger army. About 49 million people. So yes, it's bigger... but the percentage doesn't actually change. I mean, look at the statistics: All the countries that have high percentages of soldiers either expect war (North korea, singapor, Israel, etc) or have a strong military service history (Findland). 

In fact, saying that the UBER UN is here, actually makes it less likely that we'd have more soldiers. Uber UN is uber, right? So we're safe so we don't need soldiers. I mean we, because you and I are minor nations, not important ones.

I plan on having a over 1% "army", but that's because I expect war at some point. The cost of employing an enormous army is crushing (As seen in north korea) and as they say... you only buy something you intend to use at some point. But hey, I don't mind, maybe the galaxy is trapped in a slowly rising cold war and 5% or 10% soldiers is normal now. But look at the AUO. "0.02% or even less of the main population is considered military". That's just a little under what Japan has right now, and it's next to China.