He rules over "a great empire with a vast population, immense wealth, a charismatic leader, and mind-boggling reach and influence".
The result is a rapidly expanding population, with vast numbers of young people.
Due to poor isolation, these highrises, built cheaply to house a growing population, consume vast amounts of energy.
India's extremes of hydrology, poverty and population present vast difficulties for water management which it has never mastered.
"We're talking about less than 1% of the population, the vast majority of the population don't have anything like this [amount]," he said.
Monaco, the world's smallest state after the Vatican, has 360,000 registered bank accounts and a 35,000 population – the vast majority of whom are foreign expats, many British, paying no income or capital gains tax.
Debt has already played a role in deterring students from working-class backgrounds since fees were introduced and leaving significant proportions of the population with vast and unpayable burdens.
Modern farming, for an ever growing population, employs vast areas of greenhouses consuming considerable amounts of energy.
Scandinavia, with its low population and vast open spaces, enjoys pristine forests and relatively little air pollution.
Although women make up a growing cohort of the veteran population, the vast majority remains male — some of whom suffer from prostate cancer, in some cases caused by chemical agents.
