Demographics of the (1st) Republic of Icenia

The following are known historical censuses and estimates for the population of Icenia at different points in time.

Pre-Independence Population

ChrisChrispie's first recruitment drive for Icenia happened on June 11th, at this point in time Icenia was essentially a one man town run by chris with the newfriends attracted by this campaigns marking the real start of Icenia as a town.

While censuses were conducted for the formation of Kaiserin governments prior to the Icenia's declaration of independence on July 8th, they are currently inaccessible or perhaps even lost. It is however known that by the time of Icenia's independence it was more populated than the rest of the nation combined.

July

27 players - From a citizen list given by ChrisChrispie on 27th July to the Great Northern Alliance, possibly includes inactive players.

August

29 players - First Official Census of Icenia.

38 players - Posted in August 14th by BritishWanderer on /r/Icenia, this list includes the 14 citizens that had participated on the August census at the time and an additional 24 players.

52 players - Calculated by adding the unique citizens in both the official August Census and BritishWanderer's estimate.

September

23 players - Second Official Census of Icenia. Also the first time district of residence was included in the Census.

October

13 players - Third Official Census of Icenia. Did not run for the full month due to the closing of /r/Icenia following DroidJoe's ousting from the Council of 3.

November

15 players - Forth (and last) Official Census of Icenia, Icenia would be annexed into Volterra on the 13th.

Post-Annexation Population

I currently do not have values for the population of Icenia post-annexation, but I do know that the population of Icenia declined drastically until the city was ultimately abandoned and given to Eslar. I am also unaware of the evolution of Eslar's population during this period and until the end of civcraft 2.0.

Conclusion

With these findings we can see that Icenia was indeed big. In the period concurrent to Icenia's existence, Mount Augusta is widely believed to have been the most populated city on the server, with a July census counting 49 permanent residents and 7 semi-permanent . While these values were obtained very differently to Icenia's potential August peak of 52 players, and thus shouldn't be compared directly, they nevertheless show that Icenia was among the largest cities on the server during the July-September period, and easily the most populated in its quadrant.