The potential of the USA - and eRepublik - Population Capacity

Day 625, 18:24 • Published in USA Canada • by Emperor Rick

I was contacted recently by a friend upset with the war. He pointed out to me that perhaps the reason why we're losing is due to population. (PEACE nations have a larger population then that of our side - also the USA ranks 3rd in population right now with Indonesia and Hungary on the top) This is a factor, but not necessarily the reason why.

However when I was replying to him i thought about the recruitment capacity eRepublik would have over the next few years.


Let's assume that eRepublik has the capacity to bring only .02% of a countries population to this game.

IRL Hungary has a population of 10,198,315
IRL Indonesia has a population of 237,512,352

That would give Hungary the max capacity of only 2,039 after applying the .02% (which compared to the current ingame population its not that much of an increase)
Indonesia's max capacity would be 47,502 (but most Indonesians don't have computers due do massive poverty, so we must assume the number is lower)

Meanwhile the USA with 307,081,000 IRL pop has a capacity of 61,416
This says that the USA has not attained a real baby boom, we have a lot of room to expand.


So in conclusion: ADVERTISE ADVERTISE ADVERTISE



(NOTE: The reason why Hungary has so many for its pop is because when this game first came out it was advertised several times by Hungary's mainstream media)

try it yourself: Latin America, China, Russia, etc have a lot of potential.

( IRL population ) X .0002 = ( Potential )

NOTE: not every region will have the same .02% potential due to several factors (GDP, Wealth, Education, Infrastructure) but is a rough estimate.

ALSO NOTE: This doesn't take into account people of one IRL nation joining a different nation ingame. Due to a general interest of a particular country or nationality or etc (There are a lot of Americans fighting for PEACE.)