Australia (WOWW)

Republic of Australia is a nation in A World of War: World. It reformed itself into a republic since 2017 as to finally remove the last of the British influence and currently in a war against UK since December 2031 and is one of the major powers in the game, currently ranking sixth in power and is set to decline as other powers emerge. Australia is multiculture due to past and present large-scale immigration from other countries, mainly due to war or any disaster occurring in one area. Australia owns two colonies currently with one being autonomous and has direct claims over Antarctica although not colonised from other nations.

Australia has a relatively good economy but is outnumbered by other major economical powers ranking possibly at 8th or 7th. In military, Australia used to be weak after WWI by amount of soldiers, eventually it reached its peak at 2030s which they have become one of major powers by that time.

Pre-World at War (1788-2016)
Full details on history could be found on Wikipedia and information below may be inaccurate.

Before year 1788, Australia is mainly inhabited by Aboriginals. After James Cook explored Australia by land, the British colonised Australia in 1788 with convicts, military and settlers in the First Fleet with them settling in Botany Bay. Later, explorers had explored Australia between 18th century to middle 19th century century by ship.

With the British colonising Australia, the local people are reduced overtime due to diseases that they are not immune to and battles against them. Australia also became an immigration place, especially the Chinese and other Asian people during a gold rush, as well as other Europeans. By the end 19th century, the British had essentially claimed whole Australia and nationalism for Australia also rose during that time.

In 1901, a federation is established with colonies and Australia outlaws Asian immigrants to live in Australia (except those currently in) until 1960s. During World War I, many men from Australia went to Gallipoli and later participated the Battle of the Somme. The battle in Gallipoli became well-known to Australia and New Zealand for a century now. After WWI, Australia had obtained German colonies in New Guinea. During WWII, Australia had aided support in the European theatre partially in WWII's last years and in the Pacific theatre. Migration to Australia boomed after that time, due to war given to Europe, many European migrants went to Australia at numbers of millions.

Rights for indigenous people and women started to become more equal as male citizens do in late 20th century. During that time, Australia took part in some proxy wars during the Cold War such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War. In the 21st century, practically nothing happened in Australia currently apart from politics in OTL.

Fall of Commonwealth and Parke (2016-2020)
Between 2016 to 2020 most is invented and is not canon

Australia has separated from the Commonwealth of Nations in 2016 and since major organisations such as the UN collapsed due to conflicts, Australia saw the chance to reunite New Zealand as it should be again. In 2017, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and the current parliament was overthrown by many revolutionaries who seek to remove the last British influence. After this, president Frank Parke took over the government and moved the capital to Sydney again.

During that period, New Zealand is annexed at May 2017. A pursuing Isolation policy made by Parke himself and his force on his own senate and parliament is enforced. Alliances are dissolved from this result, embassies are still operating but not funded well. However this policy still allows a globalised type of economy and freedom, meaning it won't affect anything but intervention.

Between 2017 to 2020, Australia has basically done nothing but isolating themselves what they call the "Period of Separation". It also risks itself to become NPC in map game terms. Until 2020, Jonathan Kadenzies took over the government by election (four years; technically three days) and then changed election laws to allow leader to reign until death.

Kadenzies (2020-2029)
Partially between 2020 to 2029 is invented and combined from original turn

During Kadenzie's term, the Australian Agency for Astrology (AAA) (later renamed to simply the Oceanian Space Programme [OSP]) is established with a group of scientists. Satellites are now sent up a lot of times due to this until the establishment of a colonisation project that aims to make Australia colonise Mars and establish a long-term base. Australia invaded Papua New Guinea in "Australia-Papua New Guinea War" over to annex Papua New Guinea, having to capture Port Moresby just a year after the war, it wasn't until 2033 they have officially made peace and annexed the whole country itself.

Australia having to land their troops in Anatolia during a conflict against ISIS decides to send out a large-scale airstrikes across the Levant and Iraq to slow down ISIS advances. With Peru (a.k.a. New Order of Peru) claiming to take over Papua New Guinea's north wanting to get land, Kadenzies refuses. In Australia, their economy has being stagnant at around ~2.35 to 2.6 trillion USD between 2024 to 2026 until they decide to reform and increase their economical presence, making them reaching from being 15th to 9th by the end of 2029 and has started investing into foreign technology and

Edward Flinders (2029-2036)
(for history)

An election in 2036 as announced by Flinders just months after the "Isolation" policy is abolished, he decides to resign presidency in 2036 because of many people criticising his controversial movement to abolish the policy. His well known reforms to economy and interest to military has managed to make Australia rank at top ten within 10 years since the end of isolationism by power and has colonised Mars but failed within two and a half years with his help to fund OSP.

Flinders before the election in 2036, attempted an invasion in India and then swiftly withdrawn as warned by China and their relations degrade nothing but as a weak rival for China as he claimed and decides to invest onto infrastructure and building cities of New Kallipolis and Uluru to attract immigrants. Ocean cities are also being researched by his rule and after Drakidis ruled Australia, it was briefly finished and are sent only near the Australian coast and in their southern Pacific territory within four years.

Since that happened, three candidates from three factions which are the Coalition, Hellenic Faction and Roman Faction rose to take place the old Liberal, LNP, Labor and other political powers between 2029 to 2036 as the result of paganism and Hellenisation. Drakidis, governor of Phopharios has taken an advantage to use civilians in mainland Australia as a campaign to make him win the majority than his rivals.

The election 2036 made Drakidis win the seat of being the head of state, however an old former PM has also decided to take up an election but eventually failed because he isn't considered as a main candidate and independent parties usually fail in Australia.

Provinces
They are divided into territories, autonomies and provinces. Officially, the rest of Oceania is de jure part of Australia, but Madagascar is held as colony not as part of it. Note that Canberra however doesn't share the capital with the same name (the city itself).



Largest Cities
''This is a biased list so some cities aren't really included even though they might have more significant population than ones here. The list also includes their colonies. The list is as of 2029 and partially 2031''
 * 1) Sydney: 5,456,000 (2031) (capital)
 * 2) Melbourne: 5,245,000 (2031)
 * 3) Denpasar: 4,195,000 (2031)
 * 4) Brisbane-Gold Coast: 3,190,000 (2031) (both Gold Coast and Brisbane merged in 2026 even though they are kind of distant)
 * 5) Perth: 2,534,000 (2031)
 * 6) Adelaide: 2,098,000 (2031)
 * 7) Antananarivo: 1,985,000 (2029)
 * 8) Toamasina: 1,340,000 (2029)
 * 9) Mahajanga: 1,120,000 (2029)
 * 10) Auckland: 1,020,000 (2029)
 * 11) Wellington: 919,000 (2029)
 * 12) Dili: 702,000 (2031)
 * 13) Canberra: 676,980 (2029)
 * 14) Newcastle: 604,000 (2029)
 * 15) Christchurch: 587,290 (2029)
 * 16) Port Moresby: 573,000 (2031)
 * 17) Townsville: 496,000 (2029)
 * 18) Hobart: 319,300 (2029)
 * 19) Cairns: 245,000 (2029)
 * 20) Mackay: 231,000 (2029)

Foreign relations
Currently Australia has lacked relationship since 2020 from alliances but they are a member of the Silver Commonwealth and has what they consider "maintaining relations" to NAU and USEA. Their current concerns are Jabrilian Caliphate for Homo Superior and GRC for possible invasion of Angola, but however in GRC situations Australia wants to keep things tight and avoid a war.

Commonwealth of Australia [Prime Ministers] (1945-2017)
Does not include any previous prime ministers before 2016
 * Malcolm Turnbull (2015 [OTL]-2017 [WOWW] in office) (the commonwealth is overthrown by revolutionaries in 2017, temporarily destabilising Australia)

Republic of Australia (2017-present)

 * Frank Parke (2017-2020; 1963-2049) (n/a)
 * Jonathan Kadenzies (2020-2029; 1961-2035) (n/a)
 * Edward Flinders (2029-2036; 1984-2063) (Independent) (elected after Kadenzies resigned)
 * Ioannis Drakidis (2036-2043; b. 1998) (Hellenic Faction) (below are quite uncertain however WOWW 2 is announced) (due to election in 2036)
 * Thomas Collins (2043-2057; 1992-2057) (The Coalition; Liberal Alliance [LA]) (by 2050, three existing parties are renamed as religion is fading from politics in Australia since 2030) (assassinated)
 * Peter Barnett (2057-2060; b. 2013) (Roman Faction; The Nationalist Movement of Australia [NMA]) (replacement)
 * Andrew Mikhilovich (2060-2062; b. 1999) (Hellenic Faction; The Australian Hellenic Faction [AHF]) (due to election in 2060 as the previous president resigned)
 * Ethan Chong, Jr. (2063-; b. 2028) (Independent) (gained control through rigged voting)

Religion
There is no state religion however since the rise of paganism, Australia's population is now mostly made up of Muslims (subjugation of Lesser Sunda), pagans and irreligious people (which make up 29.2% for them). Christianity still exists but at 10.4%, mostly Catholic or Anglican.

A religious organisation called "Archbishop of Uluru" created by some cultists and led by a bishop formerly part of the Roman Catholic Church emerged and claim they are rightful Christians. A church recently built (probably 2025) near Uluru (Ayers Rock) by members and claim this is a holy site for God and as the members would say God will continue spread good faith to Australia eventually. Most urban areas in former central Northern Territory are believers in this "church". Only 26,000 in Australia are members of this church and the number is slowly increasing but not as much, in average only 1,200 are converted and 500 are being born as them per year, so there is no significance even for Australian government.

Languages
There is no official language in Australia, however the accepted language is an English varient called "Australian English", while New Zealand has a different varient of English being taught here. Nearly almost not many people speak English as mother tongue apart from English but as a secondary or tertiary language especially to immigrants or those subjugated by Australian force which education they've being provided for children and adults as a program.

Other languages such as some Maori (need to vertify) languages and many various Aboriginal languages exist but are dumped down to only at least 198,000 in total combined. Indonesian is still widely popular in the Lesser Sunda regions still.

Culture
Australia is currently a multicultural nation but since the start of 2026, the Australian government had forcibly rearranged some official names to English names again and since integration of Madagascar, the place names of it as well. Since 2029, Australia is starting to shift back to its culture back in the 20th century again from cuisine to civilian fashion and other diaspora, especially in Greek, Italian and Balkan diaspora influences such main cuisines to everyday life.

Indegenious people such as Aboriginals, Maori and other local people in Polynesia, New Guinea, former Indonesia and Madagascar still exist but those numbers are increasing at a faster rate (especially those of Muslim faith) than any diaspora and by the start of 2040s as some people predict., the English and other European diaspora would've being no longer a majority and other Oriental diaspora (Chinese, Japense, Korean, Vietnamese) would dominate.