Talk:Nguyen Weapons Systems Incorporated/@comment-6191693-20130320033347

Small thing to point out: it's kind of hard to tell how many workers a large corporation should have and it seems logical for it to be fairly large, but I would like to point out that Izhmash, the company that makes the Kalashnikov firearm family (among other weapons, as well as motorcycles and, until recently, cars), is considered one of the largest firearms manufacturers in the world. It however only reports just under 1,000 employees. Granted, there is a level of mechanization today that would not have been present at the turn of the 20th century, but, on average, only about 90% of the industrial workforce has been replaced by machines. That would mean that, using this rough mathematical formula, Izhmash would have employed about 10,000 people, maybe a little more (I wouldn't guess more than 20,000-25,000).

Just think -- 200,000 is a larger population than many cities, especially in a mostly-rural, sparsely-populated nation like Inesea.