Australasia

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**Australasia,** Officially the **Australasian Confederation,** is the largest of the two independent realms of Oceania. It is a a Confederated Federal republic with autonomy for large areas of the state with its Australian core, However it is officially underneath the house of Windsor with King Edward VIII in charge of the state. Australasia did fight in the Second Weltkrieg however none of said fighting occurred on Australasian soil, Australasia is by far the dominant power of oceania in terms of army but not naval power. Australasia was a key component in the success of the ***Homecoming*** and thus, like Canada, has been granted full autonomy by Great Britain however they are still loyal members of the Entente. Australasia is the representative of the Entente in Asia and is making key trade relations and regular alliances with much of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and a few members of the Cairo Pact.

## History

In 1936 Australasia was underneath a temporary military dictatorship as the wave of instability across much of the British empire nearly caused a full scale Syndicalist revolution on the continent. However 11 years had passed and it was clear that democracy had to be restored in order for the Australasian government to retain any of its formal authority over the people under it. And this process would be undertaken in 1936 even after the Black Monday Crisis hit the entire world with a wave of instability. This forced a demilitarization of the economy witch benefited the opposition parties even more and they would end up breaking the National Party's stranglehold on the Australasian government. Australasia would end up fully transitioning around August and a string of more Conservative leaders would come only being broken in 1945 by the current Social Democratic Ben Chifley. Australasia would focus on its military and economy leading up to the Entente's entry into the Second Welkrieg but in the meantime an incident did occur with Japanese forces accidentally bombing the wrong part of new Guinea. However cooler heads prevailed in the end preventing a pre-mature war with Japan. 1943 would eventually roll around and Australasian forces while they didn't participate in the actual ground fighting were crucial in preventing the escape of key American Syndicalist leaders. This would be much of Australasia's actions during the war with them doing much of the fighting in the rest of the Atlantic with the island of Saint Helena witch would be the last part of the Union of Britain to fall. However Australasia hadn't contributed much to the war until the landings in Ireland were made in wish Australasian forces would land on their own near Cork and would end up being more well received than the Canadian troops were by the locals as a kindred spirit was found. The Australasians would be left to garrison Ireland for the rest of the war while Canada landed in Great Britain. This occupation would end in 1948 with the Australasians having done quite a bit of little things throughout the war. However their usefulness in keeping Ireland would end up getting them enough favor in Edward VIII's eyes that Australasia should be granted autonomy like Canada. However this may also have been due to the sheer massive distance between Great Britain and Australasia. In the meantime the Treaty of Singapore would give the rest of the Eastern half of Papua to Australasia as German East Asia was carved up among several different factions. Australasia during this time was not idle getting Trade Relations with Oman and Iraq as well as securing Japanese support for the rising Kalterkrieg. Australasia's relative distance from the rest of the Kalterkrieg gives it a bright future ahead of it, and should Great Britain fall once again to revolutionaries Australasia stands ready to receive his majesty once again, unlike Canada who's had to deal with this before and doesn't want to have to do so again.

## Military

The Australasian Military is one of the stronger ones in the Entente but is not the strongest when it comes to its members. The Australasian military is well known for having some rowdy members and being great for occupation. However it also is quite fierce in battle and along with the New Zealanders the Australasian Army can strike terror into those who fear the Aussies. The Australasian Navy is also quite large and serves to protect its many islands. However it has the range to conduct operations in the North Sea so a potential confrontation with German ships is not out of the question. Australasia also has a massive air force made to protect itself in case of Japanese aggresion. while this never took hold with the new advent of Aircraft Carriers has given Australasia a use for all of the metal it used to make this air force.