Dion

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Population Dieuporteille;

Free farmers;

80,512

Serfs;

31,233

Craftsmen and artisans;

70,009

Soldiers;

12,653

Noblemen

5,897

TOTAL:

200.304

EDIT: This means I can theoretically field a small army of 16.000 +- soldiers based on soldiers and noblemen (but not every nobleman is a warrior obviously).

Conscription is definitely a thing, though, so I could always yell 'yo farmers, take this sword and board, and go fight'.

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@Flynn The church did head counts, since back in those days everyone was registered with the church.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that therefore headcounts were very accurate because atheism wasn't a thing.

The problem was when people moved around. :/ And given we're in an empire, people are moving around all the time.

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@Kho

The issue here in lies not in the fact that the cities are small or big but rather that we set up a pre-determined amount of populace and then decided to spread them around.

It would've been better if there was a part of the form that said 'populace:' and then allowed you to fill a number. And then we added it up and tada.

For instance I wasn't planning on having 360k people in my province. That's actually a lot, it's more than most big big capital cities had, and mine isn't intended to be like that. It's Cour de Dieu, which is the capital, and then there'd be some small villages and maybe a second town.

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@Kho

Nearly 3x as much, yes. Interestingly, Paris has more than the next 3 ranks combined.

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@Vilageidiotx you have given me severe depression with this image

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@Kho I think the capital could reach 1 mil. pop on it's own entirely -- empires have a tendency to grow very large capitals as people from new provinces ultimately would move there for better chances.

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@Flynn I imagine the capital is Cour de Dieu, which means court of God, hehe. Should place it somewhere in the middle. There's not many other provinces I'd imagine since like Kho mentioned, we suffer from poor amounts of populace.

@Kho As per map; I can try but since he already drew mountains and shiz, it's gonna be hard. Also, I rather like the map he has.

As per your suggestion - - yes but it is something we should arrange IC.

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@Flynn burgundy?

ℳarches of ℳan: ℰxpedition of the ℬanner of St. ℱriedrich

I'm about halfway through with my own character, after which I'll upload it so you at least have an idea of what I'm looking for.

I'm actually gonna get started on a summary for my exam though.

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@Cyclone The mutual benefits was something I considered to be more of a factor than the history, but frankly that relies entirely on how your ambassador and mine see each other and this history..

As they say; 'we'll see.'