Can someone help a newbie?

[Pestillance]

Hello, I am new to the site and new to role playing full stop. Been looking at the website for a while and finally decided to have a go a few days ago.

I do have a few questions if somebody could help me out.

My first task is to create a factbook but im not sure what stats to use. When displaying my population and financial details do i have to use the figures from my nation page and http://www.sunsetrpg.com/economystatistics.php?nation=pestillance or can I make it up? For e.g. On my nation page it says i have a population of 7 million, but I would like a bigger population and economy. I'm not going to go OTT with it. But when thinking up the history of my nation i had more in mind.

Any pointers would be appreciated

[Herrebrugh]

Just use NStracker.org

[Picklepoo]

You have to wait to get a bigger population you cant make it increase but dont worry itl'l steadily increase over time.