Getting Metaphysical

The NationStates world (mostly known as The NS Earth) must be, when you think about it, a damn big place. Our Earth has about six billion people living and breathing as we speak, but the NS Earth, at the last count, had 83.4 trillion people. To be more precise, it was 83408807000000 citizens. This was spread across 131574 nations and 15803 regions. Here's the data in full:

Number of Nations: 131,574
Number of Regions: 15,803

World Population: 83,408,807 Million (83.4 Trillion)
Avg. Population: 634 Million
Median Population: 247 Million
Max Population: 5733 Million Praetor
Mode: 5 Million (3241 nations), 2nd place: 20 Million (1842 Nations)

Avg. Region Size: 8
Largest Region: The North Pacific (8395 Nations)
Largest Player Region: Gatesville (1061 Nations)

All data from March 18th

Now obviously this must mean that the NS Earth is a lot bigger than the world we inhabit today. When I envisage the NS Earth, I see a gigantic orb spinning slowly through space with regions like The Sun, or the Moon (and The Earth?) orbiting it. Discworld orbits round it too, I suppose. There's also random space nations orbiting it like large gouged upside-down mountains as they revolve on their own axes (presumably they inhabit regions like SPACE and The Universe). Occasionally as you look upon its terrene might you will see countries go flying through the skies as they are moved via helicopter. Or via giant robot boot for ejected nations. That'd be pretty amusing.

But, I wonder, if The Sun is so much smaller than the NS Earth how does every nation have a day and night? What would happen to all the nocturnal animals and crops? Where would all the badgers go, huh? Huh?! The answer is obvious of course - The Sun illuminates the Earth and only illuminates the place it's near at the same time. Impossible, I hear you say! But no, it's not.

For the world is truly a magical place.