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Metropolis c. 3000 ACE: "78 Million" - Step Two
Okay. Refresh your memory here:
http://dewline.livejournal.com/333415.html
I need to do the same.
Next up...adding those three New England states' real-'verse populations, which gets us this figure:
11,165,084
Last I saw, Metropolis was at roughly 11,000,000. So put the figure up to here:
22,165,084
Gotham City?
At its pre-No Man's Land peak, it was somewhere in the 8-million range. The figure for the first year after NML that got printed in the Daily Planet Guide to Gotham was 2.7 million. Not quite sure if we're supposed to be right back at the old 8 million figure by now, though. Split the difference to be safe for the moment and call it 5.4 million. So, now we're here:
27,565,084
Now we're still left with these two questions: how much of Massachusetts to add in, and which New Jersey and New York State counties as well? That map from 1988?
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It doesn't help much, although I do have to allow for four World Wars between "now" and the Legion Era, any one of which could have deranged the physical landscape of the Atlantic coastline in the intervening centuries. Meantime, here's something I roughed out with the help of Google Earth and CorelDraw to help me wrap my brain around the question:
And with that, I'm throwing it open to the floor...
http://dewline.livejournal.com/333415.html
I need to do the same.
Next up...adding those three New England states' real-'verse populations, which gets us this figure:
11,165,084
Last I saw, Metropolis was at roughly 11,000,000. So put the figure up to here:
22,165,084
Gotham City?
At its pre-No Man's Land peak, it was somewhere in the 8-million range. The figure for the first year after NML that got printed in the Daily Planet Guide to Gotham was 2.7 million. Not quite sure if we're supposed to be right back at the old 8 million figure by now, though. Split the difference to be safe for the moment and call it 5.4 million. So, now we're here:
27,565,084
Now we're still left with these two questions: how much of Massachusetts to add in, and which New Jersey and New York State counties as well? That map from 1988?
" />It doesn't help much, although I do have to allow for four World Wars between "now" and the Legion Era, any one of which could have deranged the physical landscape of the Atlantic coastline in the intervening centuries. Meantime, here's something I roughed out with the help of Google Earth and CorelDraw to help me wrap my brain around the question:
And with that, I'm throwing it open to the floor...