Asteria Inferior

Asteria Inferior Asteria inferiore Astérie inférieure Astèria inferior Pietu Asterija
Population	400,529,464
Countries and territories	Arbolada Aucuria Azure Coast Belmonte Gapolania Keppland Nuvania Satucin Satavia
GDP PPP	$6,835 trillion
GDP per capita	$16,931
Capital cities	Castelonovo Envoort Gatôn Kalnaspilis Nassea Ponto Solar Port Hope Sartoux Vajki

Asteria Inferior is a continent located entirely in the Eastern Hemisphere, and in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, of Kylaris. The vast continent is bounded by the bustling Vehemens Ocean to the west, the Arucian Gulfs to the northwest and northeast which narrowly separate it from its closest neighbour, Asteria Superior, and the extensive Lumine Ocean to the east and south.

Etymology

Alongside Asteria Superior, the continental name Asteria is derived from the name of Hashim ibn Ashtar, a Badawiyan explorer in the service of the Crown of Caldia, who is lauded with having first chartered the Asterias, opening the continents up to Euclean colonisation. His Solarianised name of Assim Asteris therefore gave rise to the name Asteria.

Hennish navigator Johannes van Twiller, who sailed along the Southern Vehemens and the Arucian Sea in the 1510s, was the first to determine that Asteria was made up of not one, but two continents. Though this conjecture would not be conclusively accepted until decades later, he would christen the southern continent with the Solarian suffix Inferior, correctly intuiting its smaller landmass.

List of states and territories

  Arucian

Name	Capital	Population	Area (km2)	Head of State	Head of Government	Government type
Arbolada	Ponto Solar	25,948,906	916,967	Reuben Schäffer		Presidential Republic
Aucuria	Kalnaspilis	44,223,510	1,098,581	Žygimantas Barauskas	Petras Uspelevičius	Parliamentary Republic
Azure Coast	Azure Coast	22,575,970	1,042,343	Rémy Soyer	Céleste Auberjonois	Federal Parliamentary Republic
Belmonte	Castelonovo	36,334,190	1,003,144	Caetano Villa-Lobos	Rita Maurino	Parliamentary Republic
Gapolania	Nassea	19,625,443	634,224	Mosè Maggiacomo	Ivano Cerbone	Parliamentary Republic
Keppland	Vajki	20,865,930	663,264	Anita Hedberg		Federal Presidential Republic
Nuvania	Pietersburg	49,794,647	1,055,828	S.P van Heerdens	Joesoef van Lingen	Parliamentary Republic
Satavia	Port Hope	24,581,912	600,105	Jago Elliot	Arthur Warwick	Federal Parliamentary Republic
Satucin	Gatôn	201,105,368	3,051,077	Théodore I	Martin Allaire	Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy