How to interpret this 'Zipf' (survival, war casualties) plot?
As you look at the chart, you can see the vertical axis represents some kind of Survival Function and horizontal axis defines War Casualties. As you can see, the higher the magnitude of Was Casualties, the lower the Survival rate/function and vice-versa. The higher the Survival rate the lower casualty count. Each dot represents each recording. Most likely, you need to look into how Survival Function is defined to really get a good understanding.