Population of Sirius

[Unseelie]

Assuming a 2% annual growth rate, and assuming that each sleeper had three thousand people, and that crete's population was decimated by hunger, and adjusting for their landing times, I've gathered that the populations of each house/region would be as follows:

Libertypop = 3000
Rhienlandpop = 3000
Kusaripop = 3000
Bretoniapop = 3000
Cretepop = 800
Maltapop = 1500

Libertypop (1 + .02)^815 = 30,638,100,000
Bretoniapop (1 + .02)^797 = 21,451,500,000
Kusaripop (1 + .02)^811 = 28,304,800,000
Rhienlandpop (1 + .02)^813 = 29,448,300,000
Cretepop (1 + .02)^796 = 5,608,240,000
Maltapop (1 + .02)^766 = 5,805,280,000

That is, in total, 121 billion people, give or take.
Now, of course, you could argue that crete has a population cap lower than 5 billion, or that malta shouldn't grow at that rate. This is just a preliminary guess, and its to illustrate that the infocards are much too low. As well as being ridiculous, because Planet Manhattan (a planet, mind you, all ideas of a messed up scale asside) is described as overpopulated and a planet wide city, with only a few hundred million people? So, four or five Greater Metropolitian NYCs, and there you have the entire land area of Planet Manhattan.

You can argue that war and crime should keep the population down, but I'll suggest that a devastating war kills maybe a few dozen million, which isn't really that large in the face of these populations. A devastating defeat can be the loss of 30% of your entire army, which would be a rather small portion of your population as a whole. Id rather suggest that the 2% growth rate has built in outlets for growth surges, such as wars.

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