Demographics

A thread of 2 messages, 24 May 1992 to 26 May 1992, in the order they were sent.

#4215 Demographics

Hans Rancke-Madsen · 24 May 1992

I'm working on a small Traveller adventure (a small fix to keep my
group together until I get the time to continue my campaign :-).
The locale is a small planet with roughly 24.000 inhabitants,
most of which are concentrated in one big colony. Do any of you
have any figures about how many doctors and nurses and hospital
beds a community of 24.000 would have? How big a police force,
how many lawyers, crooks and politicians, how many restaurants,
bars and hotels, how many barbers, butchers and bakers, how many...
well, you get the idea.



      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
     [email removed]
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        subsector  armed  forces  have  four Kinunir class
        ships in service,  each with enough troop strength
        to put down any military operations that threathen
        the peace of the Imperium."

                        ---Adventure 1, The Kinunir

#4232 Re: (4215) Demographics

James T Perkins · 26 May 1992 · reply to #4215

Hans Rancke-Madsen [email removed] writes:
> Do any of you have any figures about how many [community resources] a
> community of 24.000 would have?...

How about visiting a small but relatively isolated town nearby, or
contacting the chamber of commerce therein? If I was looking for a town
in the 45.000 range, I might choose Corvallis, Oregon (home of Oregon
State University and Mark Cook). I'm not rightly sure how many varied
shops Corvallis has, but as a college town I can state with some
authority that when I was in school there there were exactly thirteen
pizza outlets.

James