"Yesterday, Lind, leader of Oran Island, fully unified the Oran Sea and founded the Oran Empire. The world's new largest nation has burst onto the scene!"
The next morning, many people across the world learned of the Oran Empire's founding as soon as they got up.
Photographs of Lind delivering his speech and the Oran Empire's military parade spread across the world as well, leaving everyone stunned.
The newspapers also introduced the Oran Empire in detail, covering its population, economy, technology, agriculture, industry, and more.
For ordinary people who had previously learned about Oran Island mostly through conversations between merchants, this was their first detailed look at such a unique place.
So the people of the Oran Empire lived such happy lives! Its schools, hospitals, Security Force, and all kinds of extraordinary fruits, drinks, and liquor were nothing short of astonishing.
Their envy of the Oran Empire's residents was beyond words.
The Oran Empire's reputation instantly grew even greater than Oran Island's had been. Its businesses would no doubt flourish even more in the days ahead.
Quite a few ordinary people who were not pirates would even set out to sea, intending to immigrate to the Oran Empire and settle there.
Lind naturally welcomed these immigrants. Although the Oran Empire already had a large population, it was still sparsely populated compared with its vast territory.
On top of that, Lind had arranged for people to keep digging up soil from the Red Line to expand its land area. The Oran Empire would remain very welcoming to immigrants for a long time to come.
The sea, however, was anything but peaceful. Those setting out for the Oran Empire would face countless dangers along the way.
All Lind could do about that was "hire" people from the Blue Route to escort and