In our pretend world, we have a benevolent monarch. He resides in a city. The hu

In our pretend world, we have a benevolent monarch. He resides in a city. The hub of a wheel. He administers the territory using a sales tax of 5%.

The city has 10,000 people living in it, or 1/2 of the total population.

The city is 100 acres x 100 acres in size, or roughly 4x4miles, and so the edge of the city is 2M from the center, and 30m walk. And 1hr total time to walk across.

Our geography is mapped out as a set of villages of no more than 1500 people.

Each building in the village occupies no more than 10K square feet of land, or, roughly 100 buildings, and therefore covers about 25 acres, roughly 5×5 acres, or roughly 2x2miles.

Each village 30 minutes walk apart (2 miles)

The closest village is 2m from the center, or 30 minutes walk.

The circumference the city then is roughly 12miles.

There are six villages, totaling 6×1500, or 9-10,000 people.

How much land for food production?

How much land for “wilderness”, on which one can either enjoy nature, or ‘hunt’ for consumption but not sale?

(It takes an absurd amount of land to feed hunter gatherers btw)