There have been some questions as to how various pieces fit together, and there's been some feedback that have prompted a couple additions, so I'm going to run the Ashen Empire through its paces for a week. Let me know if this helps, and if so, I'll do until questions are all answered.
The Ashen Empire
23 Provinces
2 Cities
The capital, Rhakhra produces Gems, Stone, and Chemicals.
The second city, Tezhra, produces Fish and Livestock, for food. (THIS IS A RULES UPDATE. We'll have way too many workforces later on without a change, so non-capital cities will give you two resources. This change is already made in the document.)
Since the empire has 23 provinces, that gives it 23 workforces. Of those, 5 will be used to produce the available resources. Another will be used to make Enchantments out of the gems, stones, and chemicals, leaving 17. (It really doesn't have anything to do with these, and won't for a while, but that's how it works.)
The Empire also has 4 military from it's cities. It's going to take 11 workforces and conscript them into military, to give it 15 military, 6 workforce. Those 6 remaining workforces will be used to create 3 culture (this is also an update, based on feedback).
Now, onto unrest:
It's got more than a third of its workforces in the military. It can have a max of 7, it has 11. That's 4 unrest.
It has 11 undeveloped provinces, each gives 1 unrest.
That's a total of 15 Unrest. 3 will be offset by the culture, leaving 12. Since 12 is more than it's number of undeveloped provinces (11), one of those undeveloped provinces (usually the one furthest away from the capital) will revolt. That lowers the unrest by 7 (this is a clarification).
We're going to send military in to quell the revolt. The revolting province is 3 away from the capital, so we have to send 4. Might as well send five, because the other military is going to march into two provinces 4 away from its capital (it needs 5 each).
So the Ashen Empire is going to get two new provinces this week, but next week, the Unrest is going to be even higher.