Leypeople (Lorica)

Leypeople
The commoners of Lorica are often referred to by those in the maging community as leypeople. This refers to leys, which as a general rule are tended to by commoners who don't understand the full importance of the leys they tend.

Commoners make up the bulk of the population of Lorica. In the time of the Chronicles, world population stands at 100 million.

Occupations
As the effective technological age of the time is equivalent to medieval Europe in the 1300s (magic having never really seeing widespread use), the vast majority of attentions are focused on agriculture, at 85% of the population. These are the farmers, fishermen, ranchers, hunters, etc.

Those people who, in particular, work leys are called leyfarmers. Leyfarmers represent 6% of the world population.

There are 1,500,000 soldiers/warriors/guards supporting the various realms of Lorica, amounting to 1.5% of the world's population.

There are 30,000 nobles of various ranks.

The vast majority of the rest are merchants, craftsmen, laborers and servants of various kinds.

Almost everyone in Lorica is a leyperson. The maging community consists of only 0.025% of the world population.