These Numbers Make Any Sense?

[Sigile]

So, got a calculator, and came up with these numbers. Sigile's military is 1% of her total population. So, do these numbers make sense? Is this a sound spread of our forces in our different branches or does it look kind of silly? Thanks for the help.


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Currently the entirety of Sigile's defensive force is 3,570,000 (1% of their entire population)

Active Duty: 1,570,000

Army: 750,000
Navy: 300,000
Airforce: 300,000
Marines: 220,000
In Reserve: 2,000,000

[Bears Armed]

That depends on your land borders, your coastlines, how you get on with your various neighbours, how much overseas trade (& possibly other interests overseas) you have to protect, your alliances, your level of technology, your level of wealth, and probably other factors as well...

[The Anglo-Saxon Empire]

Why is so much of your population in your military?

[Globexanter]

Maybe they look big, but if you want a professional Army, I have calculated via NSTracker (divide the Defense Budget by 1,000,000) that you could easily have a professional army of some odd 470,000 men.
That is, of course, if you don't want a conscripted style one.

[Bears Armed]

Your best bet is probably to select a RL nation whose situation you think is reasonably close to yours and look at how they do it.

[The Anglo-Saxon Empire]

Maybe they look big, but if you want a professional Army, I have calculated via NSTracker (divide the Defense Budget by 1,000,000) that you could easily have a professional army of some odd 470,000 men.
That is, of course, if you don't want a conscripted style one.

Generally speaking funding has little effect on quality past a certain point, really you shouldn't pass 0.5-8% if you want an army on par with the US or UK. Most of the additional funds that say the US has compared to the UK mostly go towards large projects like research into the F-22 and the construction of super carriers and the like.

[The Anglo-Saxon Empire]

Your best bet is probably to select a RL nation whose situation you think is reasonably close to yours and look at how they do it.

The problem with that is that the situation quickly gets out of hand due to NS scale. I would suggest you cap your military percentage at a certain percent of your population (US/UK have about 0.5%, Israel is like 2%, South Korea is like 3%, North Korea is like 4%) and work from there.

[Bears Armed]

Your best bet is probably to select a RL nation whose situation you think is reasonably close to yours and look at how they do it.

The problem with that is that the situation quickly gets out of hand due to NS scale. I would suggest you cap your military percentage at a certain percent of your population (US/UK have about 0.5%, Israel is like 2%, South Korea is like 3%, North Korea is like 4%) and work from there.

Or you could cap your population, at the appropriate level, instead: Bears Armed, for example, has a population of no more than 19 million rather than the 10 billion plus that the game suggests. Of course you might have to be a bit more selective about whom you RP warfare with than if you kept the higher & still-rising figures, but on the other paw you wouldn't need to keep on adjusting your armed forces (or, for that matter, your maps) to allow for the extra growth...

[Novariea]

Sounds fine to me.

Personally I only have 0.5% of my population in active service in the military (which is still 10,000,000), with another 1% (20,000,000) in reserve. I think that's reasonable for the kind of professional, well-equipped and well-trained military I want to field (especially considering 20% of the budget goes into defense).

[Charlotte Ryberg]

Anything outside 1.5% of the population would require a good reason for realism, such as conscription, the legacy of conscription, or a long-standing tradition.

A reason such as "everyone regardless of conscience, ability or gender is automatically part of the military" might be acceptable as an official statement from a government, but bear in mind it is not possible in practice to have 100% of the population in the military.