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<blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1648856" data-attributes="member: 571">Simple, some people are asking the population of Italy to run Russia. Can't work, you need a certain population minimum to maintain nations of a certain size at a certain level of technology. A United States with only 30 million people would be a far different place than it is now.Keith mentioned oasis of civilization separated by wilderness. Yet the Five Nations are supposed to be feudal nations. Don't work that way. Given his scheme the Five Nations would be confederations, with one city-state having pride of place over the others. If the whole thing didn't fall apart into independent city states in the first place.Having thought upon this for some time an alternative has occurred to me. Khorvaire is too big. Instead of 5,000 miles east to west, make it 500 miles east to west. Still underpopulated, but not disastrously so.Why does it matter? Because people have noticed. People will noticed. When it's a week's travel time between thorps people are going to notice. They will ask embarrassing questions of you. It damages the versimilitude of the setting. A Thrane that's 50 miles across east to west works a lot better than a Thrane that's 500 miles across. (I like Thrane, sue me).BTW, Keith, I fuss because I love. Now stop fidgeting, you'll wrinkle your suit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mythusmage, post: 1648856, member: 571"] Simple, some people are asking the population of Italy to run Russia. Can't work, you need a certain population minimum to maintain nations of a certain size at a certain level of technology. A United States with only 30 million people would be a far different place than it is now. Keith mentioned oasis of civilization separated by wilderness. Yet the Five Nations are supposed to be feudal nations. Don't work that way. Given his scheme the Five Nations would be confederations, with one city-state having pride of place over the others. If the whole thing didn't fall apart into independent city states in the first place. Having thought upon this for some time an alternative has occurred to me. Khorvaire is too big. Instead of 5,000 miles east to west, make it 500 miles east to west. Still underpopulated, but not disastrously so. Why does it matter? Because people have noticed. People will noticed. When it's a week's travel time between thorps people are going to notice. They will ask embarrassing questions of you. It damages the versimilitude of the setting. A Thrane that's 50 miles across east to west works a lot better than a Thrane that's 500 miles across. (I like Thrane, sue me). BTW, Keith, I fuss because I love. Now stop fidgeting, you'll wrinkle your suit. [/QUOTE]

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