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One wonders how a planet like Courscant, with a population exceeding a trillion, could possibly import enough food to maintain its population. Sure, in Star Wars we have cheap space travel, but there's still the difficulty of distributing everything at the space ports. Perhaps they have a large hydroponics system to supplement imports?

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From what we've seen in the movies, the entire planet seems to have landing pads and such throughout the upper levels. If they've got a sizable fraction of the planet's surface area usable as a spaceport, distributed throughout essentially the entire planet, any logistical problems would not come from getting things between the spaceports and where they are needed.

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