Juba City, the provincial capital of Nile Province.
Recently, Juba City had seen obvious large-scale activity: workers and Black slaves were moving in by the masses. Of course, the most conspicuous presence was the military—the East African 311th Division had marched into the area.
Anyone unaware of the situation might have thought a major war was about to break out, but this was clearly a routine redeployment. Juba lay in the rear; if there were going to be fighting, it should be in the north or east. To the north was Egypt, and to the east was the Abyssinian Empire. Yet even if East Africa went to war with either country, there was no need to station troops in Juba.
Nile Province was what had been South Sudan and part of Sudan in Ernst's previous life. In recent years, its development had been rather inconspicuous.
The first issue was its terrain. As a basin among East Africa's many highlands, Nile Province was not a particularly livable region.
It was already located in the tropics, and in tropical regions, the conditions for habitability were the opposite of those in temperate and frigid zones. Cooler areas such as mountains and plateaus were instead more suitable for human habitation.
The most typical example from his previous life was Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. In this time and space, with East Africa around, Brazil naturally could not be allowed to shine alone at the forefront, but that did not change the fact that the Brazilian Plateau was good land.
Thus, tropical countries dominated by plateau terrain, like East Africa, were instead rare treasures. In fact, that was exactly the case. Among the few major powers in the tropical regions of his previous life, all were plateau nations—Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico...
Indonesia might have been somewhat