The Rise Of Australasia

The storm over the Food Safety Act was still ongoing, and as a result, Arthur had established the Food Safety Administration to supervise and manage the safety of food and catering.

Regarding food safety, Arthur welcomed and encouraged Australasians to actively report enterprises suspected of violating the Food Safety Act. Once verified, they could receive rewards of up to 1,000 Australian dollars.

Although Arthur encouraged everyone to actively report, it could not be ruled out that some might make malicious reports. For malicious reporting, especially repeated malicious reporting, the government would impose fines depending on the situation.

Generally speaking, ordinary people would not maliciously report food enterprises in succession, as doing so without reason would put themselves at risk.

While the nationwide food safety inspection campaign was still underway, Arthur took a special train, preparing to head to the location of the new capital, the Mure River Basin.

Accompanying Arthur were Minister of Transportation Lauren, Minister of Finance Kevin Taylor, and a few members of the Guards.

Long before the construction of the new capital began, a campaign to consult public opinions was held nationwide.

After all, it was an entirely new capital built on a barren land, and it should have a brand new name too.

Arthur gave the naming rights to the entire Australasian population, soliciting opinions through major newspapers and allowing voters to select the most popular name for the new capital.

Eventually, Saint Arthur Castle emerged and was confirmed by Arthur as the official name of the new capital.

Major newspapers received over 5 million name suggestion letters, and selected 100 more reliable names for the public to vote. Stay updated via empire

Saint Arthur Castle received a high support rate of 49.3%, with over 3 million people voting for it.

Arthur’s English name translates to Arthur as well. Similarly, the legendary and historic monarch King Arthur of the United Kingdom also shares this name.

Saint Arthur Castle (Saint Arthur) not only commemorates Arthur’s great contribution to Australasia but also remembers the famous figure in Celtic mythology.

Whether King Arthur’s story is real or not remains uncertain, but the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table allows all British people to be proud and is often remembered with nostalgia.

Adding a "Saint" prefix in front of Arthur’s name may be controversial, but no one disputes doing so for King Arthur’s name.

Anyway, Arthur hails from the British Royal Family, and claiming Australasia to inherit the cultural heritage and legends of the British Empire has no flaws.

Saint Arthur Castle is located at the confluence of the Mure River and Darling River, and the current permanent population has exceeded 1,000 people.

After a day of hurrying, Arthur finally arrived in the new city before dark.

It is Arthur’s first visit to this region. Before this area was designated as the new capital’s location, it was not even connected by railway.

Even in future Australia, this area was never developed. The vast plain gradually became deserted, wasting hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land.

The situation now is much better than that a hundred years later, as entering the Mure River Plains, one can see a lush plain area.

Since it has been designated as the new capital’s location, a railway connecting Adelaide to Melbourne has been built in this area.

Beside the railway is a brand new highway prepared for the new capital, which has four lanes in each direction and is 12.5 meters wide.

From the administrative map of Australasia, it is clear the capital’s location is at the intersection of New South Wales State and Victoria State, while the entire Mure River Basin is also within the boundary of these two states.

Just like the previous Capital Territory, this area is destined to be separated and a new administrative district will be established, further dividing the southeastern region.

As a country with nearly the same land area as the United States, Australasia has only about ten administrative divisions, while Native Land (Australia and New Zealand) only has nine.

Although it seems that single states cover an area as large as millions of square kilometers, such large-scale administrative divisions are not advantageous but rather deficiencies in the country’s administration.

Especially for the southeastern region of New South Wales and Victoria State, the combined size of these two states exceeds the total size of all other states in the Australian region.

If it were not for the land near Sydney being separately divided into the Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria State would even be twice as large as the other states.

As time progresses, large urban cities have become the mainstream internationally. Still, it doesn’t mean that the division of Victoria and New South Wales, which occupy a considerable portion of the country’s population and scale, is healthy.

Moreover, being on the severe side, these two states can influence the entire country at any time and easily create political imbalance.

Returning to Saint Arthur Castle, upon arriving at the planned urban area, Arthur did not rush to inspect the progress of the capital’s construction but instead followed the Mure River and Darling River to observe the flow rates of these two rivers. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

These two rivers are undoubtedly the two most important rivers in Australasia, with a river basin area of 1.64 million square kilometers, most of which are flat plains.

If these two river basins could be fully developed, it would be a tremendous boost to Australasia’s agriculture, animal husbandry, and development.