Why is population only half the real value

Democracy 4
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I was taking a look at the files and I noticed that for each country the population is only half the actual value. Is there any specific reason for this?

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Its divided by 2000, not 1000

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Wow, IDK that! You learn something new everyday! Wonder why it’s divided by 2000 instead of 1000 though?

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I guess 2000 voters is enough of granularity

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I guess, what I’m thinking is why not more or less, is there some reason? Maybe it’s because 2000 voters is a representative sample of the population at large?

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Yeah, it was like this since first game.
Maybe it could be changed to 5000 voters since computers are better now.

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You’ve been playing since D1?

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Since Democracy 2 - that game had smokers and drinkers as separate voter groups :smiley:
But I assume that first one also had same thing

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That’s a very funny early development categorization.

I wonder if the population is cut in half so the population graph would fit.

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Huh, interesting.

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I believe it was to manage early computers.