Estimates vary. It is certain that there are at least 500 to 1,000 worldwide -- that many alone are participants in the online dragon community, mostly from the United States but found anywhere that Internet cabling has been lain.

As new dragons show up all the time, it seems reasonable to assume that this figure is far low of the mark. One of the more intriguing estimates I've heard is that up to 600,000 people on Earth may be dragons, most unaware of it. This figure may seem high, but keep in mind that this is only one-tenth of one percent of the world''s population, and if they all moved to the United States it would still be less than 3 percent of America.