The Rich Look After Themselves, While the Poor Help the World

The greatest change 1927 brought to the nation was probably the steady growth of industrial jobs created by the relocation of more than a thousand companies to Australasia.

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For a world suffering from an economic crisis, changes in employment affected more than just the number of businesses and the economy. They also affected the constant flow of people in and out of various countries.

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Australasia's jobs naturally attracted large numbers of Europeans and Americans, making its population growth in 1927 utterly insane.

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Arthur had thought the net population increase of 2.71 million the year before was already crazy enough. Unexpectedly, last year's population growth surpassed 2.81 million.

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What did that represent? Australasia's population growth last year was already equivalent to more than one-third of the entire population of the Dutch people.

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If the economic crisis lasted more than three years, then the net population increase over those three years alone might exceed the total population of the entire Netherlands.

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However, the Netherlands was merely a small country in Europe, so the comparison did not mean much.

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Still, population growth was always good news. Two consecutive years of explosive growth had brought Australasia's population to more than 35.29 million, and it was already advancing toward the 40-million mark.

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However, a population of 35 million was still too small for a great-power-level country. It could not even support the losses of several large-scale battles.

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Arthur had personally experienced the brutality of the First World War and understood how severely a war in which a single large-scale battle could leave more than a million dead and wounded would drain a nation.

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Thirty-five million people might look like a lot, but in the First World War, it would take only one or two battles