Asia

Asia (Continent)
The largest continent on earth.

Asia is the largest continent on earth. Asia covers 30% of the world's total area and is home to the majority of the human population (and as of 2019 accounts for roughly 65% of it). It is the continent with the highest GDP combined in purchasing power parity and nominal estimates and was home to several Cold War atrocities of Western-backed coalitions and military forces notably after World War 2, including in Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Indonesia, Israel, and many others.

Political Importance

History

China and India have been the largest economies in the world for roughly two centuries up until the 1800s, which ended when discovery by European and American imperialists first "out-commerced" China and later just plundered Africa.

Like Africa, two-thirds of Asia was conquered by European countries by the 1900s, with only Afghanistan, China & Japan to be the main powers not under the influence of a foreign entity. China somewhat allowed most of that to happen, as Japan had been coerced by US and national capitalistic entities to start trading with the world and end its policies to isolate itself, causing multiple power grabs by Japan and a Japanese rule of South East Asia.

Asia didn't escape bloody combat at the end of imperialism and World War 2, with Japan entering China in a bloody war, the British having removed Turkey from ruling the middle east and helped to found Israel and the French and Dutch forcing to leave their opium-producing colonies alone. Asia became home to some increasingly hostile Cold War conflicts surrounding the Bandung Conference, which massively hurt the first generations living under freedom in those countries.

Asia is home to two countries of the UN/Security Council. These two - Russia and China - act as a sort of opposing power to the western countries, who make up a majority, causing a stalemate for actual political leverage in the council.

US-Chine Trade War

Western commercially-controlled media noticed China and North Korea had the unique advantage of "assassinating or eliminating" all US spooks working there, seemingly paving the way for a new Cold War 2.0.

Religion

Asia is a very mixed continent in terms of the populace, terrain, and religion and was the birthplace of most of the world's common-known ones, including Hinduism, Judaism, Buddism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Sikshim, and Christianity.

Strategic Positions

Drugs

The Golden Triangle is the 2nd most important heroin-producing area of the world. It is located between Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The Golden Cresent - very coincidentally - right after the 1980s Afghan war has become the biggest opium-producing area in Asia since 1991. Afghanistan - again, quite the coincidence - became the largest country after the ban by the Taliban on producing heroin was lifted after a US/NATO-led invasion costing $1,000,000,000,000 in which a country occupied by the NATO troups became responsible for 90% of the worlds heroin production.

Oil

The Suez Canal has been fought for by dozens of countries, mostly Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel, as Big Oil relies on the vital waterway for distribution. 12% of all global trade and 8% of all liquefied natural gas pass through the canal. A temporary blockage in 2021 - even during the Covid-19-pandemic - caused $9 Billion in damages.

 

Nation states

Nation state	Description
Afghanistan	"The graveyard of empires" - Afghanistan has a reputation for undoing ambitious military ventures and humiliating would-be aggressors. Present belligerents take note.
Armenia	Small Eurasian nation; formerly part of the USSR
Azerbaijan	A former part of the USSR.
Bangladesh	8th most populated country in the world. Formerly part of the British Empire.
Bhutan	Very small country in the Eastern Himalayas. A constitutional monarchy which has Buddhism as the state religion.
Brunei	Small kingdom in South-East-Asia
Cambodia	A Buddhist nation in Indochina.
China	The most populous nation state in the world
East Timor	An island country in Southeast Asia.
Georgia	A former part of the USSR.
India	The "Jewel in the Crown" of the British Empire. Until independence in 1947 it was ruled from London under the auspices of a British-appointed Viceroy whose powers were absolute.
Indonesia	A large nation in South East Asia
Kazakhstan	Uranium/tar sands rich central Asian nation, former part of the USSR.
Kyrgyzstan	A former part of the USSR.
Laos	A socialist state and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia.
Malaysia	Kingdom in Southeast Asia. Known for air disasters.
Mongolia	Mongol Nation, is the worlds largest landlocked country
Myanmar	An strategic Asian state part of the "Golden Triangle" named by the CIA known for opium production. The military has a tight grip on the country. Location of a new coup in 2021.
Nepal
North Korea	One of the most politically and culturally isotated nations in the world, a dictatorship under Kim Jong-un.
Oman	The oldest independent state in the Arab world.
Pakistan
Qatar	Oil rich, gas richer!
Russia	The largest nation state in the world
Saudi Arabia	Longtime political ally of the USA, Saudi Arabia possesses larger easily accessible oil reserves than any other nation state.
Singapore
South Korea
South Vietnam	US puppet state and location for most of the Vietnam War
Sri Lanka
Taiwan	A large island of mainland China. De facto independent despite claiming to be the legitimate government over all of China.
Tajikistan	Central Asian nation states which was one of of only 3 worldwide (as of July 2021) to mandate vaccination for all adults.
Thailand	South east Asian kingdom. The first country to report a case of COVID outside China, on 13 January 2020
The Philippines
Turkmenistan	Natural gas rich Asian state. One of the first 3 nation states in the world to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for all adults.
Uzbekistan	Former USSR country in Central Asia. Home to the 3 most important cities on the Silk Road.
Vietnam	The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the 15th most populous country. Known most famously for the Vietnam War.