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[–] 28 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

Some propaganda:

Tho OPs pic's point remains - SW is a space western & can't give us the full picture of how the average world lived under either of systems, but going from widespread and generational corruption (not just the Jedi, but starting there) to a single point of power (dictatorship) initially lowers the corruption & dethrones (or recruits in diminished way) various mini-powers/leaders/mobsters bcs if nothing else they are simply a threat to the image.

At any rate, never be ok being governed by a 900 year old unelected frog that can't spot a Sith Lord if they shared a urinal at his visit to the senate (and the frogs religious zealotism is centred around genociding said Siths).

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Billions of beings? China and India are not far off of billions. It should at least(!) be trillions.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There's 8 billion humans on earth, and if you assume that's the average planet population in the empire, you're only maybe a trillion of there's over 100 planetary civilizations under imperial rule.

    I'm not a big enough nerd to know how many there really are, but thinking back to how many reps were in the republic senate scenes, it's probably around a trillion (they generally rep a planet, right?). But that's being generous, plenty of those planets are noticably smaller than Earth and I don't think they all end up imperial.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Coruscant's entire surface is covered with a single city with a population density like Tokyo

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