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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1648460" data-attributes="member: 891">Large countries with low density are only possible with trucking, refrigeration, and highways.Food need to get from farm to market, and goods need to be dispersed.Traditional pattern has always been dense populations, even going back to primordial prehuman days - humans lived in tight bands close together for security, food, and reproduction.I don't know the population of Khorvaire, but if it gets too far below 40 per square mile it will break aparrt - the means of keeping a food supply going are not there.This is especially true in a post war situation, not less true, but more so.If the population had been dramatically lowered by the war - despite people reproducing throughout those hundred years and not having the technology to do sudden population drops until the last day of the war with the creation of the Mournland - if the population had gone down, people would move away from their homes into central areas - making the kingdoms very small again, with a lot of wildlands in between.Even at the height of the black plague, England's population only dropped from about 99 people per square mile to roughly 50 - if I'm reading <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/england/emid_black_death.shtml" target="_blank">this</a>  and <a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Population%20of%20England" target="_blank">this</a>  and even <a href="http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/peasant_life_changes_and_continu.htm" target="_blank">this</a> right (remember, a square kilometer is about 1/3 of a square mile - England: 50,085 square miles, 130,395 square kilometers). Most of -that- death was in the cities.Look at old world civilizations - a village every mile. You see that in Europe, Africa, Asia, New England, and everywhere else that had advanced civilization before electricity.Without the means to distribute goods, food, law, and sex you cannot have a civilization at low density. You can have a land mass with low density - merely because most of it will be uninhabbited, the size of the actual civilization will just shrink back from its old borders.</blockquote>

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