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Basic premise is a Virgin Earth is populated by fauna and flora from South East Asia, than 50 million years later the actual nations are ISOT'd. Continental drift was frozen whilst the animals and plants expanded outwards, but has continued now that the nations and humans have arrived.
Northern expansion has been a lot slower than southern expansion. Major efforts are being made to make these footholds self-sustainable, in order to be able to swing into the Americas.
The Yangtze River is full of agricultural/mercantile city states, and serves as a highway for colonization further inland.
Burma never recovered from its civil war. Poverty, juntas and famine are their only claim to fame.
The fertile Ganges Delta, like the Yangtze, contains the most foreign refugees and city-states. Maybe one day they'll unite and form a proper republic, but for now they're too technologically backwards and divided.
Xindei is the first non-transported nation that fulfills the requirements to be listed as a sovereign state. It was created as a successor state to Thailand and Cambodia, founded on anti-royalist beliefs.
Thailand hopes to take all of India and to use it as a launch pad into the oil rich Middle East.
Aceh secured their freedom from Indonesia, but at a significant technological cost. Their colonization efforts have been restricted to the northern tip of Sri Lanka, where border clashes with the Andaman and Nicobar Republic are common.
The South China Sea dispute has still not been resolved, and without China in the mix, competition for the islands is more heated. Malaysia and Vietnam are butting heads over it.
Mindanao is a lot less extremist than it used to be, but still isolates itself. Reports of Christian purges are common from refugees escaping the island.
Indonesia is fighting hard to regain control of these islands, and they're finally winning. Chaos and anarchism, as well as healthy dose of pirating ruled over these islands for the first fifty years.
Not really West Papua anymore, but they name kinda stuck. Currently going through a detente with Indonesia after years of fairly cold behaviour. They're actually helping the Indonesians reclaim the pirate islands.
Competition for land down under will be fierce in the following years, but for now the three countries that have staked claims so far are distant enough to not be worried. The Australian Orangutan is quite a sight!
Biologically and politically regarded as the swing point into Africa.
A series of practically independent military forts that are only held to Indonesia by semi-regular naval visits. The visits are hard to do with limited oil, however.

Description
Basic premise is a Virgin Earth is populated by fauna and flora from South East Asia, than 50 million years later the actual nations are ISOT'd. Continental drift was frozen whilst the animals and plants expanded outwards, but has continued now that the nations and humans have arrived.
Northern expansion has been a lot slower than southern expansion. Major efforts are being made to make these footholds self-sustainable, in order to be able to swing into the Americas.
The Yangtze River is full of agricultural/mercantile city states, and serves as a highway for colonization further inland.
Burma never recovered from its civil war. Poverty, juntas and famine are their only claim to fame.
The fertile Ganges Delta, like the Yangtze, contains the most foreign refugees and city-states. Maybe one day they'll unite and form a proper republic, but for now they're too technologically backwards and divided.
Xindei is the first non-transported nation that fulfills the requirements to be listed as a sovereign state. It was created as a successor state to Thailand and Cambodia, founded on anti-royalist beliefs.
Thailand hopes to take all of India and to use it as a launch pad into the oil rich Middle East.
Aceh secured their freedom from Indonesia, but at a significant technological cost. Their colonization efforts have been restricted to the northern tip of Sri Lanka, where border clashes with the Andaman and Nicobar Republic are common.
The South China Sea dispute has still not been resolved, and without China in the mix, competition for the islands is more heated. Malaysia and Vietnam are butting heads over it.
Mindanao is a lot less extremist than it used to be, but still isolates itself. Reports of Christian purges are common from refugees escaping the island.
Indonesia is fighting hard to regain control of these islands, and they're finally winning. Chaos and anarchism, as well as healthy dose of pirating ruled over these islands for the first fifty years.
Not really West Papua anymore, but they name kinda stuck. Currently going through a detente with Indonesia after years of fairly cold behaviour. They're actually helping the Indonesians reclaim the pirate islands.
Competition for land down under will be fierce in the following years, but for now the three countries that have staked claims so far are distant enough to not be worried. The Australian Orangutan is quite a sight!
Biologically and politically regarded as the swing point into Africa.
A series of practically independent military forts that are only held to Indonesia by semi-regular naval visits. The visits are hard to do with limited oil, however.