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Chinese Peoples
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Founded: Dec 28, 2013
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Postby Chinese Peoples » Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:04 pm

Since military service is mandatory, all able-bodied males aged between 18 and 40 are enlisted by default.

Between ages 20 and 23, enlisted personnel are required to serve 3 full years in active units; thereafter, they may choose to be put on reserve units or become professional soldiers. Discharge occurs at age 40 for enlisted personnel, 55 for officers. Officers of a certain rank or above may choose to delay discharge until age 70.

Hence, we have a total strength of 71 million as of early 2015, though only 3.5 million are on active duty, the majority of whom are in the army branch.
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Novus Salvator
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Postby Novus Salvator » Wed Jun 24, 2015 12:00 pm

One Million Men in The Navy
Two Million Men in The army/air force
half a million in The Naval Infantry
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Imperial States America
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Founded: May 23, 2015
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Postby Imperial States America » Wed Jun 24, 2015 12:27 pm

For RP purposes I would cap my military at around 500,000-800,000 active personnel with a reserve force of around 200,000-450,000
with total between 700,000-1,250,000 trained and organized troops but lacking any really good high tech to match modern militaries. I also have a militia movement of around 500,000-1,000,000 civilians in case war breaks out in the homeland.

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Taigawa
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Postby Taigawa » Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:24 pm

Think like 3 million in the army,
and 2.3 million in the navy.

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Postby Apiatica » Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:04 pm

The Imperial Army has a total of 190.000 enlisted worker bees, though only about 120.000 of these are in any condition to fight, giving the country a military participance rate of less than 1/1000, which is fairly small, especially be outsized NS standards. However, hives also have about 80.000 militarized police that can serve as soldiers, and the Imperial Army can draft millions of conscripts for any long-term slaughterhouse.
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Founded: Apr 17, 2014
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Postby The Worst Country in the World » Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:07 pm

According to NS stats I have about 191 million in the military. RP wise, I haven't agreed on a definite estimate yet.

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Zinhu
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Founded: Apr 13, 2015
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Postby Zinhu » Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:26 pm

The Zinhu National Defence Forces have 118,180 personnel total.

The Zinhu National Republican Army has 30,000 active and 20,800 reserve personnel.
The Zinhu Republican Air & Air Defence Force has 6,500 active and 1,000 reserve personnel
the Zinhu Republican Navy has 3,380 personnel
the Zinhu National Police Force has 21,500 personnel
the Party Militia has 35,000 personnel.

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Allancia
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Founded: Jul 24, 2013
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Postby Allancia » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:17 pm

Almost 20 million are in reserve. However, this is effectively impossible to actually mobilize all at once. Only 3 or 4 million at a time (under good circumstances) can ever be dispatched for any lengthy period.
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Renewed Imperial Germany
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Postby Renewed Imperial Germany » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:20 pm

2.9 million men total. 2.7 million of those men are in combat branches, with the remaining 200,000 being in the logistical branch.
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Confederated Socialist Republic
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Founded: Jun 24, 2015
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Postby Confederated Socialist Republic » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:23 pm

The Self-Defence Forces compromise 0.38% of the population.
The Reserve Self-Defence Forces compromise 1.12% of the population.
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Doperland
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Founded: Nov 19, 2013
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Postby Doperland » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:29 pm

Well, we have a standard army of about 80,000 soldiers, although many are highly trained, and in times of dire need we can instate a draft, where we can get almost a billion human shields- I mean, soldiers.
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Postby Kazarogkai » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:37 pm

Every household is required to maintain 1 warrior who can be called upon in times of war but simultaneously the Boroughs are only required to maintain 1 standing Land Regiment(1200 personnel). As such typically most warriors within a borough are technically apart of the reserve(Home Guard). There are 500 Boroughs as such we currently have 600,000 personnel in are land forces.
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Free New India
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Founded: Jun 25, 2015
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Postby Free New India » Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:22 am

Right now there is 1,100,000 active personnel, and 5,000,000 in the reserves. During war the nation can conscript over 100,000,000 able-bodied soldiers between the ages of 18 and 45.
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Sino nations
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Postby Sino nations » Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:25 am

115 Million Army Troops
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Kettering Town
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Founded: Dec 18, 2012
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Postby Kettering Town » Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:28 am

Well Lets see here....1,2,3,4........
45 Hours Later
376,399,173, 376,399,174, There! 376,399,174 Including Reserves.
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East Vordania
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Postby East Vordania » Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:36 am

I'd say that we have a middle sized armed forces. We spend about 8.5% of our GDP on Defence Spending. National Service is compulsory, however it is deferred for some depending on their studies, the medically unfit are not required to do anything other than register, those in reserved industries are exempted as are mothers. Men complete 24 months service, and are overrepresented in combat units, while women complete 12 months service and are overrepresented in non-combat roles.

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Akcristan
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Postby Akcristan » Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:49 pm

I have a rather large military. 875,900 troops are active, with about 540,000 reserve. We spend about 5% on our GDP, and 40 some million troops are available for callup.
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Artemea
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Postby Artemea » Sun Jul 05, 2015 10:45 pm

The Artemean military consists of 275 000 personnel, that is, 75 000 active duty members and 200 000 reservists. Their main duties are peacekeeping, managing internal security matters within their jurisdiction (patrolling the coast and facilitating aid to areas stricken by natural disaster, for example), and fighting human trafficking and slavery. Artemea is known to be generally isolationist in their military policy, except for fighting slavers. The Artemean military prides itself on its history of aggressive anti-slavery tactics and its current human trafficking prevention model.

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Kalmarium
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Postby Kalmarium » Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:38 am

Well according to NSEconomy we should have a steady supply of 481,765,551 or so soldiers.

Now since I like to be a bit more realistic, I think ~9mil or so would be a more appropriate size.
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Latzemia
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Postby Latzemia » Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:44 am

Our military is just enough to defend our nation from attackers. We don`t invade (because it`s not possible in this game, right?).

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Postby -The Islamic Queendom- » Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:52 pm

Excluding those serving their mandatory 1 year service, our military has a total of around 154,000 troops. Out of that 154,000, 53,900 are in active service and 100,100 are in reserves.
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Deanson
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Postby Deanson » Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:57 pm

Not sure what this classifies as, but counting reserve troops there's a little over 4 million total personnel in the military, with the total population being a little over half a billion people.
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Aikoland
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Postby Aikoland » Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:38 am

Our military currently has 12,351 total troops with 4,093 being active.

Our constitution restricts the maximum number of troops (both active and reserve) at 250,000 and the maximum number that can be in active service at any time is 55,000.
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Ventalia
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Postby Ventalia » Tue Jul 14, 2015 12:08 pm

Ventalia has 280,000 active personnel. This is about right for a nation of 128 million.
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Zanzatar
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Postby Zanzatar » Tue Jul 14, 2015 12:55 pm

We have a really large military, with forced conscription for men of age. We have a sizable navy as well.

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