The scarcity of coal resources doomed the Kingdom of Southern Germany to never fully replicate East Africa's industrial development path from the previous century. However, the Kingdom of Southern Germany did possess certain oil and natural gas reserves, though they had unfortunately remained undeveloped.
Like East Africa, the Kingdom of Southern Germany called itself a "German state," but there were subtle differences in the early composition of their populations. East Africa's early immigrants consisted of Germans, people from the Far East Empire, and Slavs of various groups from within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while the Kingdom of Southern Germany was primarily populated by Germans, people from the Far East Empire, and Romanians.
The Kingdom of Southern Germany had achieved its current development mainly through agriculture and gold mining, thereby obtaining the primitive capital needed for its early development.
Only in recent years, with East Africa's assistance, had it established some new industrial and mining sectors, such as natural soda extraction at Lake Chad, bauxite and iron ore mining, and the rough processing of non-ferrous metal ores.
From an industrial perspective alone, the Kingdom of Southern Germany's industries were essentially appendages dependent on the East African market, with little worth mentioning. Its agricultural progress, on the other hand, had been relatively substantial in recent years.
This was especially true of its newly occupied territories, roughly corresponding to the junction of Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad in the previous world, where agricultural development had advanced rapidly.
For instance, the Komadugu Yobe River Basin in what had once been northeastern Nigeria had been an important "granary" of Nigeria in the previous world, only for food production to decline later because of religious and tribal wars.
Now that this region had fallen into the hands of the Kingdom of Southern Germany, it had been extensively utilized