When you go to cut up a region into cities, thorps, shopping malls etc.... do you have any guidelines you use?


How big is a country that has to feed itself? I know population and land quality change everything but do you use any guidelines to say...

There's room for 2 countries there or 3 or .....

IMHO England has been a hugely influential country with very little space but a lot of security.

The Sahara is a huge tract of land but won't support a dense population. With no dense population its borders are not really watched.

Anyone have anything they use as a rule of thumb?


Sigurd