Bohemia striking out on its own was not the main issue. The problem was that most of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's industry was located in Bohemia, especially its military industry. Losing the Bohemia region would essentially reduce the Austro-Hungarian Empire completely to a second-rate nation.
East Africa's Bohemia Province (Zimbabwe) had in fact been named after the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Bohemia region, symbolizing East Africa's most industrially developed area. Of course, the industry of the former Matabele Province had also been split in two, with part of it incorporated into Lorraine Province along with Bulawayo.
Moreover, aside from the Bohemia Industrial Zone, industry elsewhere in East Africa was not weak either, with multiple major hubs having developed. Even if one industrial zone suffered a devastating blow, it would not inflict irreparable losses upon East African industry.
The dispersion of East African industry was in fact closely related to the scattered distribution of its industrial-development resources. Within East Africa, there were also places where industrial resources were highly concentrated, much like the northeastern United States, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Bohemia, or Germany's Ruhr area—namely the Transvaal and Orange of South Africa in his previous life.
If East Africa devoted all its efforts to developing that region, South African industry would undoubtedly rise rapidly. However, out of consideration for its national strategy, East Africa invested more heavily in industrial construction elsewhere. Not to mention South Africa—even Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa, East Africa's most developed industrial cities, would not have remained without a megacity of over one million people if East Africa had concentrated its resources on developing them.
East Africa's industrial construction was not merely intended to accelerate industrial growth; it also had to account for coordinated regional development, thereby building a unified national market and a nationwide industrial system. Dispersing industry also