To expand on Robert Dean's question - what's a world GNP? How much GMP
does a Rich Industrial world generate?
If and when we know that figure we can assume that a world spends some
percentage of the GNP on miltary and security matters.
On our own balkanized world we would have ranges from 0.001% or so for
Andora (an army of 35 - the band) to 35% of Iraq from 1980 to 1991.
My fear is that if the GNP be known, most of the naval ships are
horribly expensive. A backward world would probably not have anything
beyond an SDB or two.
The internal security matters are less problematic - all it takes a
few armoured cars of MCr0.5 each to settle many problems very well. If
there is balkanization then more major expenditures are required. The
jump from "wheeled 25E water hose" to "grav 65E 100MW laser" seems to
be about MCr20 or so in Rob's designs. When GvPz Battalions are raised,
Credits roll.