User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/World-1: The Neo-Methuselahverse/@comment-4867780-20190618130922/@comment-26322734-20190624143707

"Seeing that Sola Longia is continent-size, hosts two thirds of the remaining human population and is divided into semi-independent districts, isn't it technically much closer to a country, with each district being a city in itself ?"

Fair assessment! I mean, you would really have to elaborate on what you mean by "country". I'd definitely argue that Sola Longia is a nation-state, but I'm not exactly sure what the difference would be between a city state and a country. For example, we consider Singapore a country, and Singapore is a city-state itself. It's semantics, really.

"What is Olympus Mons exactly ? A location or an energy ? It is said on one hand that Sola Longia is built at its base, and on the other that it runs on it, with the energy side being both clean and efficient. How does it all work ?"

Olympus Mons is a shield volcano on Mars. Sola Longia uses geothermal technology to power the city by siphoning off heat and pressure from the volcano - which also keeps it from erupting. The details of how scientists propose we do something like this is admittedly a little fuzzy, but it was proposed as one of the futuristic energy alternatives along with fusion, dyson swarms, etc.

"Hundreds ? Don't neohumans number in thousands at least, and humans in billions ?"

You've got a point there. That was an oversight by me. I'd say the number of humans freed during neohuman feudalism would range from the hundred-thousands to low millions. Neohuman feudalism was actually slightly less active in big first world countries like the US or Nordic/Western European countries. It was a bigger problem in third world countries such as El Salvador - basically places that had huge corruption issues in the first place, and weak/unstable governments.

"Which brings the key question : what is the overall neo/human ratio in the Federation ?"

Good question. The neohuman population goes through boom and bust periods - with the Golden Age being a huge boom period and the Silver Age being more of a bust period, which is usually due to the manipulations of Black Spiral, if not the Monarchs.

By the time of the 2030s, I'd say the neohuman-human ratio is 1:1,000. But researchers in the Department of Neonormal Affairs project that neohumans will eventually outnumber regular humans due to the gradually increasing rates of Quantum Events - and the fact that studies show neohumans are more likely to reproduce, and the fact that they pass on their neohuman powers at a rate of 39% (higher than the success rate of passing on schizophrenia of both parents have the disorder!)