Demographics
Provincial population, updated monthly
Every province has real people living in it, and that population is what generates your output, fills your armies, and decides your political weight. It grows and shrinks every month based on how well that province is actually doing.
How it works
What drives population growth
A confident, well-supported population has more children; a highly educated one has fewer. Public health investment cuts infant mortality. Urbanization tends to shrink family size, while getting women into higher education and the workforce steadies the long-run growth rate. It's the same kind of tradeoff real countries face — and the same policies that build a modern economy also, eventually, slow its population growth.
How it works
What population actually does for you
- Your economy
- A province's workforce is what generates its taxable output.
- Your armies
- Population is what your recruitment and drafting actually draw from.
- Your politics
- It sets voting weight in elections and how much regional pull a province carries.
How it works
Local shocks and specializations
A regional hub town naturally grows a bit faster than its surroundings, pulling people in from the countryside. Famine, wartime devastation, and sudden boomtown migrations can all shift a province's population directly, on top of the normal monthly growth.