[quote=@The Nexerus]
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I'm sorry if I seemed to be speaking authoritatively, I was just trying to offer advice. It's your call ultimately. But yes, 178 million sounds reasonable.
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It was my part to have done more research on the populations I was dealing with rather than simply decide something arbitrarily. Though without knowing the severity of the war itself in the Central European area, I simply went with a truly devastating war as the basis. Combined with central Europe's currently declining population, I assumed less. Though when I spoke about diversity, I meant mostly about European ethnicities, not taking into accounts things such as race but rather national identification taking precedence.