  Steady technological advances and recent milestones such as intercontinental
quantum communication and the first implementation of medium-scale quantum
networks are paving the way for the establishment of the quantum internet, a
network of nodes interconnected by quantum channels. Here we build upon recent
models for quantum networks based on optical fibers by considering the effect
of a non-uniform distribution of nodes, more specifically based on the
demographic data of the federal states in Brazil. We not only compute the
statistical properties of this more realistic network, comparing its features
with previous models but also employ it to compute the repetition rates for
entanglement swapping, an essential protocol for quantum communication based on
quantum repeaters.
