The countries in the One Piece world were not the vast and resource-rich nations found on Earth, as many people imagined.
Because of the geographical environment and the barriers formed by the seas, most countries in this world consisted of a single island.
This gave the countries of this world many interesting characteristics.
First, the territories of most countries were extremely small. For example, the Goa Kingdom from the East Blue, which was attending the Reverie this time, was only a little over a hundred soccer fields in size if one considered its actual territory.
If that number did not give you a clear idea, then the area of the Forbidden City in China was roughly the same size.
And among the more than 130 countries affiliated with the World Government, this was already a country that ranked in the top fifty in terms of wealth and prosperity and could afford to pay the Heavenly Tribute.
If that was still difficult to understand, then Dressrosa, a very famous country in the New World and the country Luffy and his crew would later visit to defeat Doflamingo, had an area of only about fifty square kilometers, while the Forbidden City covered seventy square kilometers.
The area of Wenmikudan Island, which Ye Mu had chosen for his country, Rainbow Country, was already considered very large. Even so, it was only a little over 300 square kilometers.
This seemed very unreasonable. After all, the planet where One Piece took place seemed to be about the same size as Earth. Yet when one did the math, even if all these countries were added together, their total land area was not very large.
The reason was simple. The largest and most fertile stretch of land in this world was the Red Line, where the holy