Fema Employment - What is the relationship between government employment and population size?

What is the relationship between government employment and population size?

I'm assuming that it is not directly relative, but I am looking for evidence to back this up.

There isnt actually a direct relationship, but it depends on the strategy used by the government to fight unemployment. In Venezuela, where I am from, 60% of the labor force is directly or indirectly employed by the government, and since it does not motivate the development of a greater private sector, as the population increases it is going to have to employ greater amounts of people to maintain stable unemployment figures. Basically it is greatly influenced with how bureaucratic a government can be...