[quote=@LokiLeo789]
So what should the overall population of Amestris as a whole? Would somthing from 5,000 to 10,000 people be a stretch. Then in terms of millitay strength, which I need to reorganize, I imagine about 15 to 20% of the population wouldn't be a stretch since Sin is sporting both a fulltime Pro army and a conscripted army. 
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It's truly a great toll to maintain a standing army of like 2% of your population.  However, during times of war you could probably just levy about a 35% of your population as soldiers. Naturally they're untrained and don't want to fight, and they can't fight all year because if they do then not enough people will be home to harvest the crops and so on.

Edit: As far as actual size of the civilian population, I'm not sure what to tell you. I'm not caught up with all the IC posts and therefore don't know if Amestris is just one city or an entire kingdom or something. For comparison, the Vetruvian Kingdom based in Vetros (as of my upcoming post) spans up and down most of the Mahd River and it probably only has a little over 10,000 people in it. At this point, cities are rare and what few there are probably have only a few thousand people at most. But it's feasible to have a ton of little villages united under one ruler.

[quote=@poog the pig]
[@Rtron]

I said it becausen I'm not seeing a lot of activity from anybody else except Amartia - the Angels seem blissful in their current state, and the ogres haven't done much except get lewd remarks from Astarte.
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My hands are pretty tied with the ogres. I can hardly do anything believable with them creating an army and such until we have at least crude metalworking, and who knows when that will actually happen since it's been right around the corner for the past 3 months or so.

This was one of the reasons why I've been really itching to get out of the Stone Age. Fortunately I still can write about Vetros, and I'm about halfway through a really big post covering that and Zephyrion's latest doings (even though I'd hoped and said it'd be done a day or two ago). 17,500 characters are on the post so far though, so when it finally does come out it might be something worthy of what Termite would make. :lol