Talk:Imperial Army/@comment-61.94.161.109-20190701124233/@comment-2605:E000:160F:C818:387D:64D7:9D8F:349E-20190706101833

1% of the population in a professional army is typical. The United States has a similar number. It's also estimated that the Roman Empire did as well.

The thing amount professional armies is that they can be utlized with penalizing your economy. If you conscript 10% of the population for even a little while, you're going to feeling the effects years later.

Really though, both the Kingdom and Empire are incredibly weak even by New World standards. They've only survived so far because of three factors. The first is the Theocracy, which is not only powerful but had a hand in creating both nations. The second is natural barriers like the Katze Plains which prohibit hostile nations from reaching them. The third is that what the nonhuman neighors they do have are relatively peaceful. Without those three, they'd be suffering the fate of the Draconic Kingdom (i.e. being devoured wholesale by beastmen).