Talk:The Empire/@comment-5982125-20140928043535

Like, less spread out ? More Urbanized? Yeah. The Helvetans are basically restricted to the Western plains where it's not inhospitably frigid and the Southern steppes (where they draw most of their light cavalry). The central / north part of the country is just a barren, barely-inhabited wasteland that's very resource rich but the climate restricts their ability to access a lot of this...

The Empire is more like Europe ... concentrated around the coasts, except in the center of the country (what would be geographically equivalent to Germany and Italy, the Low Countries, Eastern France), where the population density is just high all over. Keep in mind, the Empire's more than twice the size of Europe in Land Area but has about three times the population (22 million km^2 with 1.2 billion people vs Europe, 10 million km^2 with 450 million people). The further east you go, obviously, the sparser the population gets ... but it picks up again at the Western side of the huge mountains that run through the country and form a border that separates the eastern-most part of the Empire from the rest of it (these mountains would separate the areas equivalent to the Baltic States, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania etc from the far-eastern provinces which equate to Ukraine & Belarus). But yes, basically, the demographic distribution for the Helvetans is the same as the USSR or the Russian Empire, if you think of their country as being an even more gigantic version of that.