December 1913 was definitely the busiest month for Australasia. In just one month, Australasia had taken over a large number of Anglo-French Pacific colonies, successfully expanding its sphere of influence over much of the Pacific.

If we look at the current land area of Australasia alone, it is only a little more than 8 million square kilometers.

But if Australasia's territorial waters are included, Australasia can actually be claimed to be a huge country with tens of millions of square kilometers.

It is important to know that at present, the division of territorial waters in various countries around the world is not clear, and there is no relatively unified data to define the scope of territorial waters of various countries.

This also means that if Australasia's navy is strong enough, it may even be able to turn most of the Pacific Ocean west and south of Hawaii into its own territorial waters.

If this goal is truly achieved, the mainland of Australasia will be inviolable, and the Pacific Ocean is the inland sea of Australasia.

The Australasian government takes the new territory very seriously, and the navy is almost always on standby for any eventuality.

In fact, it is. If Australasia were able to fully control these new territories, it would be able to form a strong chain of defended islands beyond the Australasian mainland.

At that time, even if it is a confrontation with an industrial and economic power like the United States, Australasia will have sufficient strength and confidence.

What is most lacking in Australasia at the moment is time. It will take time both to develop the population and to stabilize the rule of these new territories.

The navy's fleet escorted convoys to the colonies and territories, carrying not only the governors of the new colonies and territories, but also the garrisons that needed to be stationed there, as well as some scarce local resources and food.

Time flies, and in the midst of the busyness of the Australasian Cabinet Government, December is fast coming to its end.

On 31 December 1913, as was customary, the annual annual report meeting was held at the Sydney Palace.

This year's annual report meeting will report not only on the year 1913 as a whole, but also on the deployment of new colonies.

At present, Australasia's actual sphere of influence has expanded to the central Pacific Ocean, and these territorial waters need to be defended.

Similarly, the dispatch and communication between the colonies, as well as the ties between the native and the colonies, required the enactment of corresponding policies to solidify.

Throughout 1913, Australasia's population was still in a state of exponential growth. Although some European countries have begun to restrict the export of migrants, Australasia is not actually restricted due to its accession to the Entente.

British and Russian immigrants, who were important to Australasia, were arriving in Australasia as full citizens.

For the first time in 1913, the number of newborns in Australasia exceeded 400,000, reaching 431,400.

This figure is the highest number of births in Australasia's history, thanks to the new Cabinet Government's pro-birth policy.

The policy of encouraging fertility has given Australasian people no worries when it comes to childbearing. Not only can you get incentives for having a baby, but the government will also have to bear a large part of the tuition and medical expenses for the newborn baby.

This also makes the current Australasian people more active about childbearing, anyway, everyone usually has no loan pressure, and having children has become the choice of most people.

In terms of immigration, due to the large increase in Russian immigration, the immigration environment in Australasia is still maintaining a state of rapid growth.

In 1913, Australasia received a total of 1.3 million immigrants, of which Russia contributed more than 800,000.

In order to attract immigrants from Russia, the Australasian government even sent people to bribe Russian middle- and low-level officials, so that the immigration road was unimpeded.

For Russia, less than 1 million immigrants is a small number, and it is a drop in the bucket for the total population of Russia.

And a large number of immigrants to Australasia, and can also exchange some military equipment and strategic materials from Australasia, it is completely a profitable deal.

There is no shortage of people in Russia, there is no shortage of weapons and industrial products in Australasia, and a large number of immigrants is a win-win for both sides.

Of the remaining nearly 500,000 immigrants, more than 310,000 are from Britain and France, 20,000 from Germany, 40,000 from Italy, and the rest are distributed in various European countries.

Due to the popularization of various welfare benefits and the construction of medical care in Australasia, the number of deaths in 1913 was actually very small, only more than 20,000.

Combined with the population of the newly accepted colonies totalling more than 100,000 (indigenous not counted), Australasia's annual population is more than 1.8 million.

After subtracting the number of deaths, Australasia's net population increase is still just over 1.82 million, one of the highest population growth rates in the world today, if not one.

The total population of Australasia has reached 13.932 million and is catching up with 15 million people.

Of course, when the Australasian government calculates the population, it does not count the millions of indigenous people in Australasia.

If you include the indigenous population, Australasia has a population of more than 15 million.

The problem is that Australasia's more extreme nationalism has led to millions of indigenous people not being accepted by the majority of Australasian people.

Most of these populations, who are fundamentally different from the average Australasian population, are not so easily assimilated.

It was the indigenous populations of the newly accepted colonies that were well assimilated. These indigenous populations have lived with local European settlers for decades, many of whom have become fluent in English, and some have even converted to Christianity.

In particular, in some colonies of the British Empire, many indigenous populations were already Protestant and considered English their primary language.

These natives are easier to assimilate and may be able to become recognized citizens of Australasia in the future.

While population growth is good news, the various subsidies that the Australasian government provides to newborns and immigrants are also costing a lot of money.

According to the Ministry of Finance, the Australasian government has issued subsidies to families with newborns amounting to more than 3 million Australian dollars.

These figures are more than 20% higher than the previous year, and it is enough to see that there are more and more newborns in Australasia.

But this is good news for Arthur and the Australasian government.

Compared with immigrants, the newborn babies of the native population are the core of the population. These populations are Australasian from birth and have a much higher level of national and ethnic identification than immigrants from abroad.

These immigrants from abroad had to undergo at least fifteen years of assimilation before they could be completely assimilated into Australasians.

Or is it because European immigrants and Australasian people have almost the same roots. In the case of immigrants of different skins and races, the time for assimilation is even several times greater.

Due to the large number of new students, the average household size in Australasia is as high as 6.3 people.

This also means that Australasian couples at the appropriate age have begun to generally choose to have three or four children.

If this continues, it may only take a few years, and the number of newborn babies in Australasia alone is expected to be in the millions.

At that time, the Australasian government will not have to work hard to bring in immigrants from abroad, and only need to properly deal with the new population in the country, and will not be able to develop Australasia into a populous country.

Australasia's population growth rate is exaggerated if current population trends are taken into account.

If the rate of population growth can be stabilized, Australasia's population could double in ten years' time.

Of course, immigrants will be affected by the war to some extent, and it is possible to double the population in a dozen years.

Even if it weren't for Australasia's strict requirements for Russian immigrants, the number of Russian immigrants alone would have exceeded one million people every year.

For the population of Russia, Arthur only needed innocent civilians, that is, former serfs.

For those who have unique ideas, or who are not very settled, they will naturally go through a strict selection and will not be allowed to enter the borders of Australasia.

Arthur didn't want the future Russian revolution to reach Australasia. What can best destroy a country is not aggression from external enemies, but chaos from within.

Of course, foreign intelligence agents are not omnipotent, and it is inevitable that some fish will slip through the net and come to Australasia.

It's just that all immigrants who come to Australasia have to go through an observation period of about half a year.

During this six months, intelligence officers, immigration agencies, public security and police departments, and the local government will closely monitor these migrants, and once any problems are discovered, the final outcome of these migrants is to go to the mine to work as a laborer for a lifetime.

Don't underestimate Arthur's emphasis on immigration. In 1913 alone, the Australasian government unearthed hundreds of "unstable elements" from the immigrants who were not innocent.

Some of them either carried out several illegal actions before emigrating, or they were participants and planners of some revolutions.

These people didn't even think about it, they went directly to Arthur's blacklist and won the right to work in the mine.

If they want to regain their freedom, they may have to pray that Australasia will become the world hegemon as soon as possible, so that Arthur will be happy, and maybe he will let them out with a wave of his hand.

Moreover, once these people are verified, they usually have to go through the interrogation stage. If they are found to have come to Australasia in a group for a purpose, they may be shot directly.

For the sake of Australasia's stability and security, when it comes to immigration, Arthur adheres to the attitude that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go.

Even if he was able to maintain stability during his reign, Arthur could not guarantee that without his own suppression, the revolutionary forces in Australasia would not rise.

Therefore, solving them at the root is the only way Arthur can think of to maintain the stability of the country.

As long as the people of Australasia can live a good life and try to prevent the entry of foreign revolutionaries, the security and stability of Australasia can still be guaranteed.

Although Australasia is very underpopulated, there is still a six-month observation period for each immigrant.

Unless you are a particularly capable technical and scientific talent, you must make a very significant contribution to obtain Australasian citizenship directly.

As a simple example, if an American has information about stealing high-tech weapons from the United States, he can also obtain Australasian citizenship.

Of course, such a possibility is very small. Because at present, the United States does not have a significant lead in Australasia in all aspects of military technology.

But before absorbing European scientists and technical talents, the United States was at best at the level of a great power, and even lagged behind such old powers as Britain, Germany, and France in many respects.

In 1913, Australasia's economy was also growing rapidly. This is due to the massive population growth, as well as the ongoing infrastructure construction in Australasia and the commissioning of the Leonora industrial base.

In 1913, Australasia's gross national product (GNP) reached US$1.578 billion, equivalent to £315.6 million, or A$631.2 million, a growth rate of 10.3%.

Although the growth rate is already very good, there is still a certain gap compared with other major powers.

The rapid growth of GNP is most evident in per capita income.

At the end of 1913, Australasia's per capita income was $51.7, behind France, but already slightly ahead of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Italy.

It is not uncommon for Russia to lag behind in per capita income. Gray cattle are not called for nothing, but the majority of civilians in Russia are still in the stage of not having enough food and clothing, and it is a problem that the per capita income can catch up with other powers.

And the gap between Italy and Austria-Hungary and Australasia is actually not big, in fact, it is gradually widening.

If it weren't for the fact that the population of these two countries is several times that of Australasia, I am afraid that the gross national product of Australasia would have surpassed that of these two countries long ago.

Although Australasia's per capita income is not yet as high as that of countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, if only the people's happiness index is counted, Australasia may be able to wrestle with these countries.

Arthur's annual millions of dollars in relief money are not spent in vain, and powers like Britain, France, Germany, and the United States cannot avoid people starving to death and freezing to death.

After all, they have a population of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, and once the corresponding relief policies are promulgated, it will be an unaffordable loss for the country's finances.

Australasia doesn't have this problem. At the time of the enactment of the relief policy, Australasia's population was still small. According to the per capita income and the average household income, the number of people in need of relief is very small, and the funds spent are naturally not much.

Although the population has increased now, there are many people whose incomes have already exceeded the per capita level.

Coupled with the fact that there is no shortage of jobs in the country, the number of people in need of relief in Australasia remains relatively small.

can be fed and clothed, and have a certain amount of savings, and a happy family. This should be the best wish of most civilians in the world!

In Australasia, there is a high probability that this good wish will come true, which is the real reason why Australasian people love Arthur and love this country.

Civilians really don't want much, and those in power only need to take care of civilians simply, so that they can get the favor and love of civilians.

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