"The second point concerns the targets our expedition commanders must treat with caution: the four great powers of Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Indonesia!"
After the discussion of the first point, Xiao Ying said little more. Without waiting for Great Huan's senior ministers to debate further, he promptly moved on to the second topic.
Earth World had nearly two hundred countries, and the world of Forging the Sacred Court likewise had nearly two hundred national zones, representing nearly two hundred civilizations, each modeled on its country's most promising and renowned civilization. That number seemed enormous, but with natives outnumbering Otherworlders by a thousand to one, the population allotted to each national zone was not particularly large. Meanwhile, after more than twenty years of war and annexation, only twenty or thirty countries remained truly independent and capable of deterring others. The remaining national zones had either vanished entirely, like Japan, or been annexed, like Yue State.
Africa, West Asia, Europe, and other regions with the most national zones had suffered the most severe annexations; over eighty percent of their zones had disappeared. These annexations were chiefly determined by two factors: population and civilization. Clearly, great powers with larger population bases were stronger and better positioned-an inherent advantage. Thus, the strongest national zones today were the former great powers of Earth World: China's Divine Land, the Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and so on. Japan had once been a national zone with an outstanding population and civilization as well, but unfortunately, the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty had toppled it early on, and even its territory had sunk beneath the sea. Its Otherworlders could only wander through other countries, clinging to their last breaths. Even Japan in Earth World had collapsed and been struck from the rolls,