Commonwealth of Australia

The Commonwealth of Australia is a branch of the centered around the continental mainland of Australia. Governed by a federal parliamentary system, it encompasses the former nations of Australia, New Zealand, East Timor and numerous other islands in the Indian, Pacific and Southern Ocean.

Originally established at the beginning of the 20th from the English colonies established, Australia would become a regional superpower and a close ally of the now-defunct United States of America and the Republic of China by the turn of the 22nd century. Maintaining a small but significant spaceworthy navy, the Australian military would participate in the and the larger. It was influential in reforming Earth into a planetary government, and remained so ever since.