Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-71.17.68.254-20130907025506/@comment-24891101-20150412203924

Small being a relative term. Vale's at least the size of Egypt. This suggests a population of tens of millions, well above 100 million. Egypt, for instance, has around 88 million, all crammed into the immediate vicinity of the Nile, less than ten percent of the land area.

Vale does not have these difficulties. While significant land area must be given over to industry and agriculture, if ten percent of the land area of Vale is even moderately urbanized, then Vale is home to several hundred million people.