User blog comment:Mr.Xeight/Forum for the Federation of Greece in the Universe of 1983:Doomsday/@comment-811633-20100823025254

How about we go with 8 million? There's also Albanian and Italian/Sicilian refugees/political dissidents that fled their homelands in the western islands (hence the reason Kerkyra has the least amount of Greeks in a ratio of natives to newcomers, minus North Africa that is...), so while there might be 7.5 million Greeks, Arabs, and Copts (I averaged your two numbers, Oerwinde), there's another half a million of the refugees/political dissidents I mentioned above. There's also that little nub of Albania that Kerkyra administers; the Albanian villagers on the coast were greatful to become part of a fairly-stable survivor-republic and integrate some Greeks [more hands to help at harvest time, as well as more people to diversify the gene-pool] into their society, even if the survivor-state is Greek).