>> Now look at the population of the Lunar Empire - from ILH1: 7 330
000
> including the provinces. Compare this with the Roman Empire: between
> 45 and 120 million depending on which estimates you use and the
> period you are talking about. The Seleukid Empire probably had a
> population around 25 million. 7 million is more like the population
> of Hellenistic Egypt.
I would note that none of the real world places cited went from a few
hundred huddled survivors of catastrophe to those numbers in a mere
1600 years. Remember that, in many ways, Glorantha is a post-apocalpyic
world. The population levels are not even close to what they might be
in a less damaged world.
Jeff