Greater Istanistan wrote:Sanabel wrote:Hey! The West is led by Australia in the Pacific!
Question:
Why is Australia's population twice what it is now IRL? And how did Australia rapidly incorporate that many people into a territory that has difficulties sustaining its current population with modern tech? Where does its wealth come from? Even if it annexed all those islands, prothat couldn't account for this. Those islands were and are tiny.
Justify, plz?
Alright.
Basically, after ww1, very effective, more effective than irl, immigration policies were put into place, offering land for homesteading, etc. Most people moved to the southern coast, where there was a baby boom of immigrants to sustain the family farms. This population continued to grow and be sustained through immigration, with a lot coming from East Asia now. This, plus the addition of new land allowed for the population to be the size it is.
So like the USA, the population is sustained by immigration. They became rich due to foreign investment, and being one of the biggest food producers during ww2, selling it to the allies in Europe, especially the suffering Soviets.
I do agree that I should reduce the population a bit, however.