We first took into account the categories of High Income, Upper-Middle Income, Lower-Middle Income, and Low Income countries. Once a reasonable population map was created we assigned GDP per capita for each region based off economic indicators found on Earth. In Star Wars the majority of the galaxy resides on high income worlds. On Earth, a disproportionate share of the economic activity is generated in high income countries with smaller populations. This was done by creating a population distribution of the Star Wars galaxy divided into regions. In a previous article Nick estimated the Gross Galactic Product (it’s like GDP but cooler…). You will find the summary for these numbers in the table below with full calculations in the attached Excel File. Important to note we also added an additional $17,500 dollars per clone for classes eight, nine, and ten to cover their equipment costs (body armor, blaster rifles, etc). We then added the cost of the Clones from Part I through the Battle of Geonosis, when the clones became public knowledge. We combined the number of ships and ground vehicles from Part II with our ship and ground vehicle costs from Part III to come up with the total cost of all the clone military’s vehicles. This week we began by combining all the previous numbers. In Part III: we estimated the cost of each type of ship and ground vehicle. In Part II: we estimated the Republic Navy’s (Space Fleet, whatever you want to call it) ship composition and how many of each type of ship, as well as ground vehicles, would be in the entire Clone Fleet. In Part I: we estimated the number of clones in the entire Clone Army and the cost of raising and training these clones. Today we close this out, combining our various previous cost estimates to look at the entire cost of creating the Clone Military and placing this next to the total size of the galactic economy. We started this series with the goal of estimating the cost of creating the Clone Army in Star Wars Episode II and determining if it would be possible to hide such a large cost in the galactic economy since the Clone Army was created in secret. “ Just like the simulations!” - Anonymous Clone Trooper
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