To be honest, it was already no easy feat for East Africa to remember to spare Lanfang Overseas Province a sip of the broth during the First Five-Year Plan. After all, the mainland's level of development was still not high; being able to support overseas territories to some extent already meant tightening its belt.
Not to mention Lanfang Overseas Province, even the two provinces on Madagascar Island closest to East Africa—Mahajanga Province and Toliara Province—were currently quite underdeveloped. Their populations were even smaller than Lanfang Overseas Province's. It was only because they lay close to the East African mainland that they had not long since become a meal on France's plate.
Rhine Palace.
"Your Highness, the Kingdom of Southern Germany has requested our assistance. This is a letter from King Leopold!"
The Kingdom of Southern Germany had once been Sigmaringen's Chad colony. After East Africa formally established the Rhine Empire, the Sigmaringen Royal Family believed that the Chad colony also possessed the foundation to be elevated into an independent state. Thus, in 1901, the Sigmaringen Chad colony, centered on the Chari River Basin and the Lake Chad Basin, was formally upgraded into the Kingdom of Southern Germany.
As for the name Kingdom of Southern Germany, it was fairly fitting. After East Africa had chosen Rhine Empire as its national name, one of the alternative names considered by East Africa's new citizens at that level was selected by the Sigmaringen Royal Family. The Chad region lay in the Southern Hemisphere, and in the Sigmaringen Royal Family's view, the Kingdom of Southern Germany could not have been more suitable as their second kingdom—the first being Romania.
The monarch of the Kingdom of Southern Germany was Prince Leopold of the former Sigmaringen, now Leopold I.
By 1900, the entire Kingdom of Southern