User blog comment:FloaterJ/Nitpicker's Nook/@comment-25869525-20150225024024

Earlier this evening I posted about the low population inside Mt Weather. This got me thinking about just how low a number of people had to be in the mountain that first year. I mean, if after 97 years they only got to not quite 400 (before the ones getting killed over the course of Season Two). The Ark, started with a population of just a few hundred (I'm not entirely sure, but what I've gathered suggests 600 at most), and despite a "one child per couple" policy (which shold actuall result in a population decrease, since it takes two to make one), and draconian punishments that would make even the most totaltarian real-world regimes think they take it a bit far, we still got to hear of a population of 2,700 during Season One.

Aboard the Ark, all resources were scarce and limited, so they put in effect these strict population controls out of necessity. Mt Weather, on the other hand, looks like quite a spacious place, based on the maps we've seen. They should easily be able to handle much more than 400 imhabitants. I don't know; maybe they only have enough equipment for hydroponics to produce enough food for 400. Still, it seems to me they could have figured out something to make increasing their numbers viable.

Am I missing something?