Editing Alia:Geography (section)

===Armed Forces===

About 1/4 of low nobility are combatant knights (40k).  These 
have regional affiliations and rarely more than 1/2 of a 
region's knights are called to the field.  Typically, knights 
compose up to 10% of an army the rest are composed of militia 
drafted from the peasantry.

A region's knight-defenders will consist of 1 knight per 400 
population and 1/4 of the population might be called upon to 
defend a town or city.

A region's army sent to battle would be half the number knights 
plus as many as 1 in 20 of the population of commoners.

Slaves are rarely if ever used in combat.