Also, Falcon confirmed that the State has the smallest population of the 4 empires.
Additionally, while it's not listed in the book, Falcon told me that 49% of people in the Empire are slaves.
Ehm those two things got me thinking. As the wiki mention that 40% of the cluster is the empire.[
1] So I think, Falcons slave number is a little off. As I could think of that around 40% of the cluster living in the empire. Which means by given 25%[
2], that around ~15% of the cluster are slaves in the empire. Which mean a 15/25 ratio, or 0.6. Which means by given 21.449 trillions, that empire has 12,869 trillion slaves.
Of those 12.869 trillion are 10.712 trillion minmatar (see source book).****
As for the Empire it would mean that it has a total of 34.318 trillions.
Now we have also have the information that the 21.449 trillions are 29% of the empire factions. Which would mean that around 73.962 trillions live in the empire factions. Now we have also the information on the wiki about the ratio towards the total population of the cluster. As mention a page before:
Amarr Empire =
*Free 25% on the wiki.
Caldari State = =
*10% on the wiki.
Gallente Fed =
*20% on the wiki.
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Adapt ratio. From cluster to empire space:Now we just need to adapt the ration. We have already the given 29% (for the empire population) and the 25% cluster population of the Amarr Empire, which gives us a ratio of: 29/25=1.16 Now we can take this ratio and use it on the other two empire which we have numbers for. Caldari State= 10*1.16=11.6 ~11.6%. Gallente Fed= 20*1.16=23.2 ~23.2%.
So now we have almost all. Let us just add for given 73.962 trillions:
Amarr Empire = 29% + 17.4% = 46.4% = 12.869 trillion + 10.712 trillion = 34.318 trillions
Caldari State = 11.6% = 8.579592 trillions
Gallente Federation = 23.2% = 17.159184 trillions
Which gives us a total of 60,056776 for the cluster without the "rest"/"others". Which means 73.962-60.056776 would us give the "rest"/"others" population = 13,905224 =Republic, Mandate, Kingdom, InterBus, CONCORD.
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Minmatar population:(1) Now we also know that 1/3 of the Gallente Fed are Minmatar,
* which are 1/5 of the total minmatar.
* Fed population/3=17.159184/3 = 5.719728. Which would give us a total of 5.719728*5 = 28.59864 minmatars.
(2) Second way would be to take the free and enlave numbers of the source book and add them together; as the empire as 1/3 of the minmatar population. (214.491 billion + 10.712 trillion)*3 = 10.926491=32.779473
So we can say that in the cluster has around ~30 trillions minmatar. In between 28.599 trillions and 32.779 trillions.
1/4 of this 30 trillions life in the Republic. Which means ~7.5 trillions. Which puts the Republic below the State. As the wiki also mention, that the State is "second least populous entity out of the four major empires".
* So I think Falcon was wrong. I guess the State has around 8.6 trillions and the Republic so 7.5 trillions.
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Other Factions:If we now go back to the other factions. We can guess how many live in their as well. By given "rest" population of 13.905224. 13.905224 - 7.5 trillions = 6.405224. I would guess that the major junk, are Mandate and Kingdom, as the InterBus and CONCORD are just organizations (I dont know if you can be even "legal" InterBus citizen or CONCORD.). I would guess that the Mandate is maybe a little bigger as the Kingdom (as it has more space). So my guess out of thin air: Mandate = 3.305224 trillions and the Kingdom 3.1 trillions.
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off topic. Just for the beauty of numbers ....the system numbers.As for systems we have 1907 Empire systems:
Amarr=702 (36.8%)
Ammatar Mandate=118 (6.2%)
Caldari=326 (17.1%)
CONCORD=8 (0.4%)
Gallente=388 (20.3%)
InterBus=1 (0.1%)
Khanid Kingdom=84 (4.4%)
Minmatar=280 (14.9%)
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Summerary:Amarr = 702 systems (36.8%) = 34.318 (46.4%) = 48.886 population per system
Ammatar Mandate =118 systems (6.2%) = 3.305224 (4.5%) = 28.010 population per system
Caldari = 326 systems (17.1%) = 8.579592 (11.6%) = 26.318 population per system
CONCORD = 8 systems (0.4%) = (0%) = 0 population per system
Gallente = 388 systems (20.3%) = 17.159184 (23.2%) = 44.228 population per system
InterBus = 1 (0.1%) = (0%) = 0 population per system
Khanid Kingdom = 84 systems (4.4%) = 3.1 (4.2%) = 36.904 population per system
Minmatar = 280 systems (14.9%) = 7.5 (10,1%) = 26.786 population per system
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Total:
1907 systems, 73.962 trillions, 38.784 population per system (in billions)
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Edit: ****The Empire has 12.869 trillion slaves and 10.712 trillion are minmatar slaves. Which would mean that 83.2% of the slave would be minmatar. On the wiki is it 50-75%[
*]. This is a problwm which can be easly fix. We have the total of ~30 trillions minmatar. Now let us get back again. 30/3=10 trillions minmatar which live in the empire, minus the free would make 9,785509 trillions. Which would be then 76.03%. Way closer to the wiki, if we enlarge the number of free minmatar the slave number would drop even further.
Edit 2: We can even guess the population of the whole cluster. By given 73.962 trillions * the ratio of empire to cluster = 73.962 * 1.16 = 85.795,92 trillions. Which would mean that 11.833,92 trillions would live outside of the empire space. A reasonable number, If we think about it. Then 0.0 is for most people nothing more as Haiti or Somalia in our world. A world in
chaos, which has a fast secession of states and/or governments. And the
Youtube: Eve-Online Influence Map 2007 to 2013 shows the latter point brilliantly, every come and go of a color is more or less a failed state.
Edit 3: Added population per system.