Well, I looked on the Internet, and couldn't find any information about medieval government revenues to use as a base for ballparking Sedonia's total government revenue. I did find, however, a section from Gibbon's _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ that gave information on early Roman government revenues. See http://gd.cnread.net/cnread1/ewjd/g/gibbon/hor/020.htm for the source. Anyway, I can now set an upper and lower bound for Sedonia's revenues. Note that this is for all sources, taxes, tarriffs, government monopolies, etc. The original estimate of 19.2 million Imperials per year is, as I suspected, a lowball. Based on the information from Gibbon, Imperial Rome's revenues were equivalent to between 75 million and 200 million Imperials per year. Imperial Rome was about 3 times larger in both area and population than Sedonia. Dividing the Roman numbers by 3, Sedonian government revenues most likely fall somewhere between a lower limit of 25 million Imperials and an upper limit of 66 million Imperials. For simplicity's sake, I'm going to take the mean of 45.5 million Imperials as being the typical amount of revenue collected by the Sedonian government per year given normal economic conditions. This works out to about 2.14 Imperials per capita. If Mir, Torphan, Burcancy, and Kaeir were to collect revenues at the same per capita rate, their total revenues would be: | Mir | 5.4 million Imperials | | Torphan | 74.8 million Imperials | | Burcancy | 2.0 million Imperials | | Kaeir | 1.4 million Imperials | Torphan's numbers are likely close to accurate, but Mir, Burcancy, and Kaeir almost certainly collect more revenue per capita than 2.14 Imperials (especially Mir and Kaeir). Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
