I think a good rule of thumb would be that Prime Base is 10% of the human assets of the Project, so base you Prime on how big you think your Project is. I have always though that a Project that deploys an average of 1000 people per State is about right.
So if there are 50,000 staffers out in the US (between 500 and 1,000 bolt holes) and there are 4,000 staffers plus dependents at Prime it makes sense to me.
Population in 1990 in the US was around 250 million. Even if there is a 99% kill (very much a worst case scenario) that leaves 2.5 million survivors. 50,000 field people mean 1 staffer per 50 survivors (assuming no losses for teams, but I would assume 10% losses due to bad luck and such). In a scenario with 50% survival that means 50,000 MP team members to help 125 million people or one team member per 2,500 survivors.
The MP teams are designed to be everything from paramedics to police to teachers to physicians. In the US most urban areas have between 1 sworn officer per 400 to 200 people. That doesn't include State Officers and Federal Law Enforcement types.
I think 1 per fifty is way too many but 1 per 2500 is going to make life pretty rough, since all team members are not all things to all people.
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