While I thought Moralia might be future Monaco (generally in the right part of
France, at least), the map they flashed of Moralia's borders looked a lot
bigger than present-day Monaco. It's not incomprehensible that the borders
have changed over 300 years, particularly since AEU might use PMC for some of
its "dirty work" and thus could have given its host country more territory to
expand its facilities and support. Not sure how the French would take that,
though -- that would be carved right out of their own territory, right on the
Mediterranean.
We'll have to see if they give any further info.> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007
18:48:45 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re:
[RE][gundam] Episode 6 spoilers> > Matthew Robinson wrote:> > Moralia's
citizen-to-foreigner ratio sounds a lot like the United Arab> > Emirates -- UAE
is 85% non-citizens, compared to around 95% for Moralia if> > the total
population of the latter is 4,180,000. I'm guessing it's made> > explicitly
clear to prospective foreign workers exactly what their status is> > in the
country, with expulsion (and loss of employment) or worse for> > non-citizens
who try to upset the system.> > I think the dialog was misleading and so you
guys are barking up the> wrong tree. Monaco has a land area of 1.95 km^2. Which
is almost> exactly 100 American Football fields, or almost 5 times of size of
the> US Embassy in Baghdad. Its present day population of 32,000 already> made
THE most densely populated nation on Earth. It's almost 4 times> more dense
than Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo (all about 6000/km^2).> And almost double
density of New York City (10,500/km^2).> > If we put the 3 million people into
that tiny city (it's 560 times> smaller than Hong Kong, 400 times smaller than
New York City, it's> actually about the same size as Chinatown in Manhattan),
we will get a> density of 1,500,000/km^2, 43 times more dense than Cairo>
(35000/km^2).> > So I would interpret that line this way: 180,000 people reside
in> Moralia (making it 2.6 times more dense than Cairo or 1.38 more dense> than
Manhattan), most of the economy is dominated by PMC and the> residents of
Moralia mostly work for PMC directly or indirectly. But> the PMC and related
companies (i.e. the economic engine of Moralia)> employs 3,000,000 people world
wide; I would even suggest that most of> them have never set foot on Moralia.>
> I know I know it contradicts the wording in the sub (and reasonable to> trust
the subber translated the spoken words accurately). But it's> too crazy to
stuffs people at 57 times Cairo density or 22 times> Manhattan density. And I
think the point is not about foreign> workers, but that a huge global workforce
(a PC wording for mercenary)> are run by a tiny corporate-nation hybrid. They
contribute the work> (shooting and bombing?) that drives the economy but holds
no say over> the running of the corporate and nation.> > -- > Dr. Core>
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