How does the income algorithm work?

I'm trying to figure out how a country with 26 sectors has apparently the same income as I do with almost 1,500 sectors when we own each others capitols.

I know not owning your capitol cuts your income in half. But what is the base daily income? I can tell there has to be some constant value added to the amount you gain from sector value. How substantial is this value?

i hadn't actually figured numbers, but i guess it goes something like this.

you start with a base $15000.

each sector depending on the resources in that sector generate somewhere in the area of $1 each.

you lose 1/2 if your capitol is occupied.

so if he has 26 sectors he would have approx 15,026 /2 each turn = 7513

you have 1500, would be 16500 /2 each turn = 8250

$8,000 plus 0.15% (0.0015) of the materials in the sectors you own. The percent drops as you own a larger percentage of the world's sectors, though.

There are more details in the following thread:
http://gt.toomuchstupid.com/board/t_t226