1405 Imperial Census

Official information of the census performed at the time 

of the crowning of emperor Basileus Quatre Palatini. 

Civilian might

Approximately 300.000 villages, 2.500 cities* e 80 metropolises**. 

Approximately 100.080.000 inhabitants distributed in 10,180,000 square kilometers

Further subdivisions:

• Citizens 64,5%; slaves 25,5%; foreigners 3%; barbarians 5%; others 2%.
• Humans 44,6%; elves 14,3%; dwarfs 14,6%; hobgoblins 12%; goblins 8%; halflings 4,5%; others 3%.
• Males 48,2%; Females 51,8%.
• Children 24,6%; teenagers 21,1%; adults 32,9%; aged peoples 21,2%; elders 3,4%.
• Aristocracy: 202 dukes; 202 senators; 1107 marquises; 4988 counts; 26003 viscounts

 

Average population of a duchy: 450.000 inhabitants.
Average yearly revenues of a duke: 380.000 gold coins.

Roads: 602.004 kilometers, 121.000 being paved with stone or a material of similar quality. The rest uses wood, rammed earth, gravel or acceptable local substitutes.

Rate of imperial literacy: 13%, going as high as 30% in communities with a thousand or more inhabitants. That means about 16,5 millions are likely candidates for jobs in the imperial administration.

Military might

1.239 barons

Professional army (including specialized troops): 370.600 soldiers. Highlighted:

1. Falknerian Halberdier Riders (cavalry and mounted infantry)
2. Hill Garrisons (skilled in underground warfare)
3. Grouro Pikemen (immigrants receiving citizenship in exchange of military service)
4. Palatini Bears (mixed troop regiments which protect the capital)

Seasonal Militias: about  one million; two hundred and fifty thousand of these are patrolling and garrisoning at any given time. Highly divergent in training, quality and equipment. Highlighted:

1. Sycamorian archer-spearers (skilled against komatai mounted archers)
2. Gentlemen of Viellvier (marines equipped with chakrams)
3. Yellow Eye Roughnecks (patrolling the arid regions in northern Falkner)

217 ducal knight orders, that is, having at least two thousand horsemen and therefore recrutable into the legions.

10 active imperial legions.

Current campaigns:

• Punitive expedition against the Al-Shahi Sultanate.
• Rebellion of the Terra Preta duchy.
• Helping Lega Groura against incursions of the Unquiet Lands.
• Yearly purge of orcoid migrations. 

1.361 assorted knight orders; 982 have less than 50 members, like the Rooster Order, whose knights use red-crested helmets and pickaxes styled as legs with spurs.

285 sanctioned companies.

Imperial Navy: 82 ships with oceanic capabilities (mainly caravels and galleons), 167 coastal ships (galeasses, drakois and galleys), 52.000 sailors (including 20.000 enslaved rowers), 1.800 cannons of multiple bores. Flagship: Carrancão.

Ducal navies: 611 coastal ships (galleys and galeasses), 132.000 sailors (of which 40.000 are enslaved rowers), 2.000 cannons of multiple bores, plus old ballistas and catapults.

Extraordinary might

33.000 seers employed in the imperial administration, whose total average accuracy is 63,229%.

51.407 arcane magic users.


907.002 priests.

72.009 divine magic users.

22 prophecies potentially capable of harming the empire. Twelve clearly reference Lucian, dragons and Drakhazin.

Ghara is a diverse world, in cultures, horrors, reasons to kill or die, and certainly to live. Gharian history is shaped around events awesome in scale and comprehension; and at each one of these disasters, there was a reaction. Heroes, be they individuals, groups or entire nations, fought back against that which harmed them. In Ghara, there is no hero if there is no one left to tell the tale. 

-Imperial Geohistorical Codex, 1405 Post-Idura edition, year 505 since the foundation of the 

Union of Imperial Duchies, celebrating the election of the emperor Basileus Quatre Palatini.

 

*At least ten thousand inhabitants.

**A hundred thousand inhabitants or more.