Correlation between Population and Tax Rates

[Starrie]

This is a graph with population on the x axis and tax rates in % on the y axis. each bar is one percent of all nations in the world, with the bar farthest to the left representing the bottom one percent which averages just over 6 million people, and the bar farthest to the right representing the top one percent which is almost at 21 billion

for more exact numbers see this

it seems that the tax rates rise with population up to a certain point, then levels off/ falls a bit. this could be caused by:
-issue bias (older nations had different issues / new nations only have a certain set of issues)
-people who favor more or less taxes might tend to become attached to nationstates more of less
-people who create thousands of regions might use the same script to with the same ideals to control them all, which causes a deep but narrow dip in some places of the graph

[The Grendels]

I think it has more to do with:

Nations who answer issues in a manner that causes their taxes to rise have cumulative effects on their tax rate.

Nations who answer issues in a manner that keep taxes low will generally not affect these stats, except when a higher percentage of them are created or when issue variance causes their taxes to run away without them noticing.

Nations who want to lower their tax rates have a limited amount of issues that will help them. That makes it harder to reverse climbing taxation. The issues that do exist, with options to lower tax rates, might be options that they find unpalatable for their politics/theme of their nation. That means that a player who wants to reverse their high taxation will likely be frustrated and abandon their plans to reverse their high tax rate.

[Starrie]

well here is the public sector graph that doesn't seem to be affected by a constant increase



its easy to see how the public sector and tax rate follow the same dips and peaks

[Eist]

The Grendels is right in that people probably generally answer issues that lead to increased civil and political rights which presumably increase taxes.

Anyway, this is good stuff! Although I wouldn't read too much into the drop -- it doesn't seem that significant.

[Starrie]

more; hopefully self explanatory




https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... faGc#gid=1