The Anglo-Saxon Empire wrote:the UAWC is notable for its powerful military forces. Every UAWC citizen counts as military as when the country is attacked it is collectively defended. Of course not every citizen will be a straight-up soldier, but every citizen is military personnel and thus is given basic military training and on request, more specialized, extensive and advanced training is readily available. The UAWC rarely goes to other countries for military purposes (except to defend an ally), though when it does only about 8% of the total population will fight.
How do you equip, and train so many soldiers? The fact that the materials for all of those weapons will have to be mined, smelted, or created in some way, all of those parts will need to be made, and the weapons put together. All of that alone will take up several people just to equip one soldiers, also unless a massive number of your people are dedicated soldiers than it will be nearly impossible to train all of those soldiers. Also you will need to pay all of those soldiers, people getting the materials for the weapons, people making the parts, people assembling the weapons, and people training your soldiers, it will probably end up with at least 10% of your society being dedicated to making weapons, or training soldiers meaning that only 90% of your people and resources can be used for necessities such as food, and manufactured goods. This would not be as much of a problem if your people were warlike, and managed to gain wealth by raiding other people, but according to you, your nation is largely a pacifist nation.
To sum it all up, I really doubt your military is that big because a large part of your resources (food, supplies for weapons, supplies for housing, and buildings) are going solely to making weapons of war, yet you are gaining nothing in return for those massive investments. Also you are taking everyone that helps with the production of weapons of war away from other more vital tasks meaning that you cannot use as much resources on producing vital stuff (food, vehicles, tools, clothes, buildings).
Your assumptions are largely correct.
OOC: Please keep in mind that this is a national factbook and as such there is some degree of exaggeration.
