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THE WORLD - AUSTRALASIA
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This page is divided into the following sections:
Click on the country names to return to the top of the page. Map of the World | Europe | Asia | Africa | North America | Central America | South America | Antarctica L'AustralisFrance has claimed and settled the east and south of real world Australia, having 'skipped ahead' of the Dutch, discovered the east coast and settled it. The British at the time did do not have the reach to maintain colonies that far from home. Though there were one or two British landings and claims there, they did not last. L'Australis has a significant population of people descended from the Tuareg of the North African deserts. Most of these live something resembling the traditional Tuareg life in the dry interior of the continent, but there are also significant numbers in the more hospitable coastal regions. In the nineteenth century the French government encouraged Tuareg to emigrate to L'Australis to help develop and exploit the colony, and also as a means of reducing the level of trouble the Tuareg caused in France's North African holdings. This worked to some extent, and many Tuareg have played a significant role in the life of L'Australis. However, despite the best efforts of the French government, after immigrating many Tuareg continued their traditional practises of enslaving and interbreeding with the locals in their new home, so that many Australisian Tuareg are now physically indistinguishable from Australisian Aborigines. As part of this, many Tuareg have also been influenced by the Aborigines, leading to the formation of a new hybrid Tuareg-Aboriginal culture with strong Islamic roots. DingiswayoslandThe small Zulu colony on the west coast of Australis. It is a struggling place, often used for the internal exile of those out of favour with the Zulu regime. GeorgslandThe main Union colony in the East Indies, opportunistically taken from the Dutch in the 1820s. The Kingdom of Hawai'iAn independent Pacific nation that has remained so due to its being not very strategically useful in this world. Even so, it is devoutly neutral, with a western-educated monarchy, and has defensive treaties with France, the Union and the Dutch. With rising sea levels the inhabitants of a number of low-lying Pacific islands, now submerged, have come to Hawai'i as refugees, something that has caused tensions and occasional outbreaks of violence between them and the local Hawai'ians. Nederlands-IndieThe Dutch Colonies in the East Indies [real world Indonesia]. Neuer Hanover (New Hanover)The northern island of what was New Zeeland, initially a Union penal colony with major problems with the Maoris, it is now a member of the Union and ruled by a government modelled on that of Hanover with a member of the Hanoverian Royal Family as the head of state. Its capital is Georgstadt (Georgetown) [on the site of real world Wanganui]. Neues Prussia (New Prussia)The southern island of what was New Zeeland, initially a Union penal colony, it is now a member of the Union and ruled by a government modelled on that of Prussia with a member of the Prussian Royal Family as the head of state. Its capital is Neues Berlin (New Berlin) [on the site of real world Lyttelton]. Nova HollandThe Dutch north and west of the continent of Terra Australis, colonised down from the Nederlands-Indie. SophiaslandThe Union settlement in south-west Terra Australis, now a full-fledged member of the Union, a parliamentary democracy with an economy largely based on mining. The World in 2000 | Europe | Asia | Africa | North America | Central America | South America | Antarctica Go to the Clive-Less World Timeline, Politics, Society, Science and Technology or Differences Pages. Back to the Clive-Less World Home Page. The flags shown on this page are taken or derived from those shown on the Flags of the World web site. They are used here without permission but for personal game use only and not for profit or commercial gain. |