2 fledgling empires

A) with 2 cities and 10 militia.   1 with a workshop, some unrest buildings and the other with a study and some unrest buildings.  Essentially got 1 city and focused on military.

B ) with 5 cities and 0 spearmen.   3 with workshops and studies, some unrest buildings.   2 brand new.   Essentially no military, focused on city building.

I'm really curious what the relative faction power would be (think I might test it when I get home).  

Unless A is really close to B and can rush 5 cities successfully - I would almost think B is more 'potentially' powerful.  

B has the ability to turn on a war machine and probably be able to produce a counter force that would defeat the initial army sent in and then reinforcements, and most likely be able to then carry the battle back.

I'm assuming faction power isn't relative to other civs, does anyone know?  i.e. in the 2 scenarios above would it be the same absolute # assuming everything else in that empire is the same?