Saber Marionette Populous

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  1. BakaMattSu

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    Still on my journey to know everything Saber, I got another doozy for you fans...

    What are the populations for the existing six countries at the time of J and/or R?

    I'm really hoping this data is out there somewhere, so I can compare things... If you don't know, how about your estimate?
     
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  2. kapitanbar

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    Xian seems to be overpopulated like in the real china, but that's improbable because they're cloning themselves as well.
    Gartland doesn't shows a lot of people in the streets. Maybe their always at their homes when they're not in the weaponry factories?.
    Romana shows many people but not as many as Xian (I mean, in the SMR saga), at least in the first episode (the coliseum scene at the beginning, for example).
    New texas shows a lot of people at the Capitol like building at the end of SMJ Again.
    Not much comes from Peterburg. In the few scenes of SMJ it only shows a lot of tanks, Kriegers and lots of K.O. Tanya marionettes (for giving a name for the marionettes for peterburg).
    Japanes shows fairly less people than the modern japan. It's more like if it were in the Ruroken time, but with technology.

    For all of them, population growing has to be lineal, instead of geometrical . Because cloning can be absolutely planned.

    Let's guess,...

    Xian=10 million
    Gartland= 2 million (most of them in the army)
    Romana= 1 million
    Peterburg= 500,000
    Japanes=1 million
    New Texas= 3 million
     
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  3. luvweaver

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    Which poses a contradiction.

    How can there be gangs of criminals in a country where all the children are wanted?

    Intrafamiliar violence is transmitted from parent to child.

    But when children are artificially cloned the cycle breaks.


    So where do the punks and junkies come from?

    *great mysteries of Terra II*
     
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  4. BakaMattSu

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    I believe you could get "punks" and "junkies" with our without "parental consent", lol...

    There are many other factors that could contribute to crime. And because the population is using controlled methods (the removal of family in most cases), I would think that friends would take the place of family - and in some cases gangs, where these lonely individuals will do what it takes to fit in with the crowd...that would be where your "transmitted violence" would come from - adopted from friends where family is void...

    And don't discount familial relations. It's been shown that they do exist (although likely in rarer cases) - take the Hanagata family of Mitsurugi, Yumeji, and Kamatarou...
     
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    I don't think any states during the SMJ series ever reached the 1 million mark on populations. In SMJtoX the episode where Otaru gets sick, General Chao points out that there are only 200,000 people in Xian; If Xian is anything like China, it'll be the most populated state. So here are my estimates:

    Xian: 200,000
    Japoness: 125,000
    Gartland/Germania: 165,000
    Petersburg: 100,000
    Romana: 135,000
    New Texas: 125,000
     
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  6. BakaMattSu

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    True. After all, the "countries" are mainly big cities, and would have populations more comparable to those figures.

    Good refresher on the Xi'an Population from J to X. There's no argument there.

    I took a short time out to compare the SM countries to their real-life counterparts. In other words, I found their real-life proportions to China, scaled that down using the 200,000 benchmark, and came up with what I think may be the close rounded figures for these ficitonal cities:

    Japoness: 19,000
    Gartland/Germania: 12,500
    Petersburg: 23,000
    Romana: 9,000
    New Texas: 45,000
     
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