So I'm looking at joining this RP as a side-gig to my other shows. But I must ask: why only a population under one-thousand?

I can concede this if everyone's supposed to be playing villages or a small region of several villages. But looking at the map and the territory I'm really scratching my head at the population density I'm assuming is happening. I trust the map isn't depicting an area as small as Rhode Island where such territorial claims would be acceptable, since it seems to be showing a lot of geographic and natural diversity something the size of Rhode Island wouldn't have. Therefore, I got to to assume it's at least the size of Europe.

And guessing that before the advent of agriculture at least Europe may have had a population of maybe several million it seems very unrepresentative for the major tribes to be assuming populations of up to 900-999 on such large areas of land. Like, these tribes aren't even stable: they're dying.

A social group doesn't have to be small to be a tribe. It just has to have a structure that is representative of a status before anything could be called a "state".


EDIT - The impression I get from the enforced number limit is less everyone being a tribe but more of a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan]clan[/url] in that it's the loose social structure of inter-related families than the structure of a larger society of self-sufficient groups/clans. This however still conflicts with the territorial claims.