John King
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In one source, the Barrayar population is said to be 2-3 billion ie 250m/500m per Count but the behaviour of the Counts is closer to medieval with access via Count's Courts and the like. And at least one Count-capital is at the 250,000 level - or is that me overwhelming with fanfic (oops) Is this my reading or is their a hiccup? Thanks JK
Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm not sure where you got that population figure, but it wasn't from me. Too high. Some major cities are that large, though. (Which isn't that large -- my home urban area is something like 4 million, iirc.)
"Current" population of the planet is more than 50 million (that was its population back at the end of the Time of Isolation), less than 500 million. Komarr has maybe 1/10 the population of Barrayar. Sergyar, it's been noted, is up to about 2 million, making Vicereine Cordelia's administration roughly that of a mid-sized Midwestern city.
Ta, L.
I'm not sure where you got that population figure, but it wasn't from me. Too high. Some major cities are that large, though. (Which isn't that large -- my home urban area is something like 4 million, iirc.)
"Current" population of the planet is more than 50 million (that was its population back at the end of the Time of Isolation), less than 500 million. Komarr has maybe 1/10 the population of Barrayar. Sergyar, it's been noted, is up to about 2 million, making Vicereine Cordelia's administration roughly that of a mid-sized Midwestern city.
Ta, L.
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