The Australasian Republic

The Australasian Republic is a democratic government formed from the merging of Australia and New Zealand following the government of the former’s destruction during the Human-Vanna War. Serving as the host nation of the Armor Corps and by extension the Armor Corps Coalition, the nations making up Australasia have surged from relative unimportance to becoming a leading nation of the post-invasion world. Australasia alone has enjoyed a consistent level of stability and prosperity uncommon elsewhere in the world since the 2014 invasion and are confident that they will be the ones leading the way for humanity's new era. 
Between the years of 2014 to 2020, the union of these nations was formally referred to as the “Unitary Alliance of the Tasman Sea”, the name coming from the sea between New Zealand and Australia. The rather odd “Unitary Alliance” term coming from the fact that Australia was still regarded as a separate nation despite lacking a government. By the end of 2020, legal proceedings had concluded that allowed for New Zealand to annex Australia entirely, with the new combined nation succeeding the alliance as Australasia.
==Pre-war==
Before the Human-Vannai War, Australia and New Zealand were both independent nations with a close shared history under the British monarchy and members of the Commonwealth of Nations. 
==Human-Vannai War==
After the Two Week War had ran its course, remnants of the Australian military retreated to New Zealand and began contacting Pilots with offers of safe refuge and a chance for a counterattack, executing Operations Water Main, Falling Down, and Unlikely Heroes, the results of these missions leading to the creation of the Armor Corps Coalition and Armor Corps itself establishing its headquarters in New Zealand. The New Zealand government quickly ceded control of the country to Armor Corps in order to maximize support for the war effort against the Vannai Puppets, and Armor Corps was able to quickly take back Australia. 
Although Australia had possessed a population roughly three times the size of New Zealand before the war, the Australian government had been completely destroyed during the Two Week War, and the status of the governments of the rest of the world, the United Kingdom in particular, was unclear. After the death of the British royal family was confirmed, there was a push for government reform from a parliamentary constitutional monarchy to a stronger democracy, coupled with the more pressing need for changes to be made to take up ownership of the massive Australian continent. A third factor came from the Armor Corps' need to utilize the resources of both landmasses under legitimate pretense. Up to this point, Armor Corps had been allowed to do as they pleased, but Australia now lacked a legitimate government despite still possessing a significant population, and it was unclear at the time how Armor Corps itself assuming governance would be accepted. As a result, the Armor Corps fully backed the expansion of the New Zealand government, though mostly out of an interest in expanding the control of their puppet government.
In 2015, the "Civil War" within Armor Corps had exposed the ACC's inherent instability and compounded the ambiguity of just how much authority Armor Corps had over the government. A series of meetings with Armor Corps Command eventually resulted in the Wellington Agreement, which clarified each respective entity's jurisdiction and role and returned much of the military power and governing authority back to New Zealand. From this point forward, New Zealand and ACC cooperated as two distinct entities.
==Post-War==
After the war, the Australasian Republic's has continued to host and support the Armor Corps, though it does so with greater autonomy that it had in the past. New Zealand is a popular retirement location for Pilots, while Australia would come to host a number of Armor Corps facilities, testing centers, and other establishments such as the Lacroix Foundation, and houses some of the world's foremost experts on Vannai technology.
==Policies==
===Economy===
Between the two landmasses, Australia is the "backyard goldmine" of the Australasian Republic. Australia's abundant and diverse natural resources include extensive reserves of coal, iron, copper, gold, natural gas, uranium, and energy sources. It was through these resources that the Armor Corps was able to sustain its campaign to win back the planet from the Vannai Puppets, and continue to ensure that the territory overseen directly by the Armor Corps continues to enjoy prosperity and safety. Australian resources contributed heavily to the Libra project.  
New Zealand, on the other hand, has had its industrialization accelerated by the sponsorship of the ACC. Combined with the inflated population of refugees from the war, New Zealand saw its largely rural landscape increasingly swallowed up by a need for living space, manufacturing space, and defenses. The liberation of Australia offered some reprieve, but it was not until the end of the Human-Vannai War that large-scale relocation and repopulation efforts began. Australia has proven a harder sell for migrants due to its hostile fauna and harsher climate compared to the idyllic New Zealand islands. The government has subsequently attempted to incentivize moving to Australia through a variety of means while also subtly establishing policy barriers towards moving to New Zealand.
===Military===
See also: Military Equipment of the Australasian Republic
The Australian Defense Force was considered technologically advanced relative to its small size before the war. Shared membership in both NATO and the Commonwealth of Nations, as well as the near nonexistance of the New Zealand military, ensured little issue in establishing across-the-board standardization and integration of both national militaries into a single defensive fighting force capable of deployment to multiple locations beyond Australasian borders.
As the bulk of the Republic's military forces are drawn from its formerly Australian population the Australasian military possesses a rather distinctive character.
Funded by a full 6% of the Republic’s national budget, the AZAF possesses 34,774 active personnel with 15,462 in reserve.
===Diplomacy===
The Australasian Republic represents itself separate from the Armor Corps Coalition on the international stage, but remain in close cooperation with one another. Neutrality remains the primary endeavor of the government, though relations with the European Federation tend to be on the more stiff side, and the American Coalition has likewise shown minimal interest in cooperation with what it still sees as a puppet state of the Armor Corps. The government of Taiwan has distanced itself from the Tasman government due to the actions of ACC pilots in the China War, while the Empire of Japan has cut off contact since the Dokuritsu Insurrection.
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