Austral world

The Austral world, or Australia, is a macro-civilizational and economic region consisting of Carsa, Hypocos, Roscia, and Varasan. It is named so due to its southerly orientation compared to Vasaro-Ausarea (also known correspondingly as the Boreal world, or Borealia).

Economically, polities of the Austral world are relatively more integrated with each other than with their Borealian counterparts, a product of historical circumstances and developments, specifically the combination of the Greater Carsan trade system and the Roscio-Hypocos macroeconomy, as well as the Vellikoppai Decrees, which forbade trade with the north for nearly two centuries. Since the relaxation of most Vellikoppaian provisions in the 21st century however, there has been significant commercial and cultural engagement between Varasanian and Ausarean states, or between northern Carsa and southern Vasarea. The symmetry and co-existence of these two worlds has mostly been abetted by the parity and plurality of major powers from each sphere.

Today, the Austral world has its own financial, scientific, and technological standards. Australia has more population and total economic output, but on average enjoyed worse material living standards than Boreal societies until the Meltdown, after which Australian development levels have reached parity with, or in the case of eastern Hypocos, surpassed that of that in the north.