if you want to understand the modern world you need to understand it primarily consists of unfathomably large numbers of people on unfathomably vast patches of land who you never really think about
but they are there and they are the majority
Indonesia is a microcosm of the third world
you probably cant name a single city on Sumatra, it doesn't house the capital, it's largest city has 2 million inhabitants
yet scattered across an enourmous jungle you find sixty million people in small towns and villages