Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34992768-20180909131747/@comment-31763506-20180909160402

Be aware that mathematical scaling is probably one of the game's weaker points.

The various prices of investments and their effects are scaled based on gameplay considerations rather than economic logic. (Returns tend to be way in excess of 100% nominal growth per year, which means Arclent is either in a state of permanent triple digit inflation or Megail is reporting consistently vast real returns that would make Bernie Madoff say "now wait a minute"...)

For example, how many men are in the Iron Cudgel? Equipping 1000 men with low grade equipment costs 700,000 Sx per Megail, Sx are supposed to be freely exchangeable with ProN, a night at the Pale Orchid in Stineford costs 10 Sx. A beer costs 5 Sx next door. So let's say the Iron Cudgel has 500 members and the first payment of 10,000 ProN keeps them going for a month. That's 20 Sx per man per month, enough for 4 beers or two nights at the inn... And that's not including wear and tear on equipment and whatnot.

There's also a big problem of macro-geography based on the Arclent and Renthnor maps. Basically, if you assume the Southernmost portion of the Renthnor Wilds is on the same latitude as the Northern coast of Arclent, that the Renthnor and Arclent maps are to scale, and that Philon is pretty near the North Pole while Zirantia is pretty near the Equator, and that the Pithu and Entir oceans are the same body of water... Basically, Arclent covers about ~45 degrees of latitude and ~45-60 degrees of longitude, which means that if the planet is a globe that there are at least 330 degrees of longitude of open water between Zirantia and Gheldaron. (Which would have made even Columbus say "yeah, fuck that...".)

To answer your question, if the TLS world is the size of the Earth, then Arclent is something like 3150 miles (~5100 km) from North to South, and maybe 50% wider.