The Liberian population of about 3 million may be affected by a new, effective government to an extent of, say, 0.5 life-years per person, for a total of 1.5 million life-years.

Human News aims to devote 1 character to each 40,000 life-years, or 1000 average lives. Thus, the number of characters could be 1.5 million life-years / 40,000 life-years/character = 38 characters.