Just averaging out the generation span between the First Hokage and his granddaughter the Fifth (who is at least in her mid fifties)and the fact that the ninja villages were formed roughly at the same time, Konoha can only be a century old give or take a few decades.
The world seems to be fashioned as coming out of a Warring States type of era, but with a higher technology inclination. The Countries are less nations and more regions and govern more or less on the local level with loose but strong ties on the national level through a semi-fedual form of government. The world schematic seems in my humble opinion to be akin to backwater areas of China where technology is present but the infrastructure needed is absent for a complete intergretion. Thus walkie talkies and movies can exist but not cellphones and internet access since the support systems are simply not there.
Konoha is obviously open to major trade with the mulitiple appearances of the road leading away from the villages as well as the rather obvious signs. Local agricultural communites surround and support Konoha since Team 7 has done several boring farm jobs outside of the village.
I would say the population of Konoha peaks around 10,000 or 15,000 with at least a fifth of the population serving Konoha in some military way, this giving the village a fighting force of a few thousand (which is rather high in my opinion since shinobi don't fight wars in our sense but rather a series of small smirshes).
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The world seems to be fashioned as coming out of a Warring States type of era, but with a higher technology inclination. The Countries are less nations and more regions and govern more or less on the local level with loose but strong ties on the national level through a semi-fedual form of government. The world schematic seems in my humble opinion to be akin to backwater areas of China where technology is present but the infrastructure needed is absent for a complete intergretion.
Thus walkie talkies and movies can exist but not cellphones and internet access since the support systems are simply not there.
Konoha is obviously open to major trade with the mulitiple appearances of the road leading away from the villages as well as the rather obvious signs. Local agricultural communites surround and support Konoha since Team 7 has done several boring farm jobs outside of the village.
I would say the population of Konoha peaks around 10,000 or 15,000 with at least a fifth of the population serving Konoha in some military way, this giving the village a fighting force of a few thousand (which is rather high in my opinion since shinobi don't fight wars in our sense but rather a series of small smirshes).