[Alneyan]

You might be able to argue that the gold cost for recruiting a militia is actually the cost of taking a peasant out of the fields, meaning less gold is produced... that's assuming there's no unemployment in the world of Dominions, and no way for the bosses to make the remaining peasants work harder to make up for the lack of manpower, or...

Now introducing "The economics of being a menial worker in the world of Dominions, or 'And you thought working in a call center was bad'".