Empire Blog - Great Southern Empire

Well, I decided to do an informative empire blog on my own empire. Enjoy!

Capital: Hobart

Leader: Emperor Geopro

Countries included:

Australia, New Zealand (Wellington), Indonesia, East Timor, United States (Hawaii), Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, France (New Caledonia), South Africa, Tanzania.

Population: 459,000,000 (2022 estimates)

Biggest cities (urban area according to citypopulation.de):

Jakarta (28,600,000), Johannesburg/Pretoria (14,500,000), Kuala Lumpur (9,100,000), Singapore (7,950,000), Bandung (6,850,000),Dar es Salaam (6,750,000), Surabaya (5,850,000), Sydney (5,450,000), Melbourne (5,150,000), Cape Town (4,375,000), Medan (4,075,000)

Area: 19.019km²

Population density: 24.12 people/km²

Major allies:

The GSE's major allies include the Palapyan-Botswanan Empire, the Greater Indian Empire, and the Blaze Empire.

Major enemies:

The GSE has no major enemies (anymore) because Emperor Geopro has the power to do anything he wants, so no one wants to be on his bad side. The only time an empire tried to compete with the GSE was the Korean Empire, and that challenge ultimately failed.

Government type: Constitutional monarchy

Official languages: Australian English, Malay, Swahili, Palawa Kani

GDP: 13.37 trillion AUD.

Major industries: Tourism, mining, agriculture, aquaculture, technology.

Major exports: Lithium, opal, iron ore, oil, lamingtons

Military: 764,976 active duty personnel, 1,257,603 reserve

Floral emblems: Golden wattle and blue gum.

Faunal emblems: Tasmanian devil, tiger snake, kangaroo, and tiger quoll

National gemstones: Sapphire and opal

National sports: Cricket and Australian rules football

National foods: Lamington, meat pie, and chicken parmigiana.

Currency: Australian dollar (AUD)

Driving side: Left

Demonyms: Great Southerner, Aussie, Down Underer

HDI: 0.853

Calling code: +61

Religion and beliefs:

Christianity: 63%

Atheism or irreligious: 16%

Hindi: 7%

Islam: 7%

Buddhism: 4%

Judaism: 1%

Other: 2%

National holidays:

January 1: New Year's Day

January 25: Australia Day

April 25: ANZAC Day

September 5: Great Southern Empire Day

November 17: JetPunk Day

December 25: Christmas Day

December 26: Boxing Day

Easter (dates vary)

First Monday of November is Tasmania Day

The GSE is a megadiverse country, with most of its territory in the Southern Hemisphere. It has large deserts, tall mountains and long ranges, tropical and temperate rainforests, large cities, and sparsely populated areas, savannah, and heaps of wildlife. Temperatures range from 50 degrees Celsius in the Outback, to -50 degrees Celsius in Antarctica.

Listed below are the first-level subdivisions of the GSE, and their capitals:

Internal Territories:

Tasmania - Hobart

Victoria - Melbourne

New South Wales - Sydney

South Australia - Adelaide

Western Australia - Perth

Northern Territory - Darwin

Queensland - Brisbane

Australian Capital Territory (including Jervis Bay Territory) - Canberra

Java - Jakarta

West Papua - Sorong

Sulawesi - Makassar

Borneo - Bandar Seri Begawan

Sumatra - Medan

Bali - Denpasar

Malaya - Kuala Lumpur and Singapore

East Malaya - Dili

Tanzania - Dodoma

South Africa - Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein

External Territories:

Great Southern Antarctic Territory

New Caledonia

Norfolk Island

Wellington

Christmas Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Coral Sea Islands

McDonald and Heard Islands

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

Semi-autonomous region:

State of Zanzibar

The main territorial ambitions of the GSE is to control as much of the Southern Hemisphere as possible. This is unlikely though, because they don't really want to go to war with anyone yet.

The GSE is a very neutral country, not supporting either side of WWIII, but simply watching and writing it.