Aquitayne wrote:Zomania wrote:I have a question about population and national power. I've seen a few RP's here where people have nations with nine or ten digit populations, that intervene in a conflict with a million troops. Is this sort of thing normal around here? I'm trying to RP a vaguely Yugoslavian/Bulgarian eastern european communist dictatorship, so I lack either the population or the military power to actually remain relevant in many such conflicts.
Do I need to make my nation more powerful or not?
You really don't.
Ultimately, the size of a player's nation is up to them to decide. However, a smaller nation can actively - and effectively - take on much larger forces for a lot of reasons; mostly, being that nations with billion-citizen stats are going to be dirt poor (think China, but larger), and their military is going to be extremely under equipped. Whereas, a smaller nation will have better (depending on history) living conditions, and a technologically superior military force.
I would direct you further to these threads, as they will be of great help to you: viewtopic.php?p=9160667#p9160667
My nation is a middle income country, not first world, and in many cases the large nations I see seem to have either a middle income or first world standard of living.