Basetax and manpower for the American and Canadian provinces were set arbitarily but as consistant as I could make them, in the Mexican provinces the basetax and manpower was set using formulas that I had flushed out using population ranges. (Unfortunately I seem to have lost the paper that had the population ranges for each basetax and manpower number.)

Basically I assigned higher basetax and manpower to large populated provinces and low basetax and manpower to small populated provinces.

I'm interested in suggestions on how to redo the basetax and manpower to help balance out the game and yet not artifically reward undersized population centers.