u/Critical_Contract886

How should you estimate the size of your world population ?

In the times I have been trying to write the world I made I tend to wonder, when you build a faction, Nation, institution or Kingdom and something resembling itself as an organization do you ever think of how much is this specific group has in their amout and population ?

For example, when I writing some of the lore in my world, it is playing in the realm of nation building and so there is question at the back of my mind "How big and how populous I should make this nation ?"

Should I follow the realistic path of the world and it should range itself in the millions, but if the time period I set this is following pre-modern era how much is it exactly ?

Or let say modeling it in that modern era or futuristic era, what number can we consider it to be appropriate, is it so many that it can lead to burden within your world or you make it in the amount where it wouldn't leave a crisis in your world ?

What are your thoughts on this, if you do have something to comment I would love to see it.

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u/Critical_Contract886 — 6 days ago

This is from my sci-fi/fantasy setting where two major powers, the Federation and the Empire of Magica, developed in opposition to each other over a shared issue: a congenital condition tied to magic.

There are other factions within the world here but for this specific part of the story I am focusing only on this two because of the fact they are the direct opposition of one another. Soooo

The Federation rejects magic and relies on technological solutions, while the Empire of Magica embraces it and attempts to adapt. For this part I want to try to justified how the Empire would approach this problem.

I'm tryna figure out if this approach would be the more understandble or atleast make more sense

Do you think adapting to magic like this is more believable than trying to suppress it And which approach feels more compelling ?

u/Critical_Contract886 — 9 days ago

Here is a little fun tidbits of lore I made, when trying to make the Federation I thought on how would their system of findings and development would fit in a Fictional world and this is what I came out with.

Have a read and see what your feedbacks are.

u/Critical_Contract886 — 13 days ago

So far when I have been trying to write the word I been making, I am starting to noticed that I am starting to have that Bias towards a Faction of one bit of lore.

I know it's not a good thing to do especially when writing and even if it's not to the point as creating that "Plot Armor" or doing wild thing that should not be fair in order to have them be either powerful or out of the struggles.

That I blindingly know is not good but what I can't seem to ignore is, that case where I feel lees motivated to Write and create the lore for the rest of the factions. Like it's less enjoyable and therefore I would just leave them on the back burner and focus on the stuff I want to write.

So in any case I wanted to see if there any opinions and feedbacks here that can be given.

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u/Critical_Contract886 — 14 days ago

Here is the continuation of the faction and nation that I am trying to write.

For this instance I am trying to Classify what do each faction's Philosophy or their core principle to exist are.

Do let me know if these fits or not

let me know if it does for or now

u/Critical_Contract886 — 15 days ago

This are some of the Nation that I am currently working on but, I do wonder when you make or trying to Design a Nation how much In terms logical things you should add and where is the line where you can just make this as Absurd as you can be

u/Critical_Contract886 — 16 days ago