Asteria Inferior

Asteria Inferior Asteria inferiore Astérie inférieure Astèria inferior Mažesnė Asterija
Population	400,529,464
Countries and territories	Aucuria Belmonte Gapolania Nuvania Satucin Satavia Zaralaja
GDP PPP	$6,835 trillion
GDP per capita	$16,931
Capital cities	Castelonovo Envoort Gatôn Kalnaspilis Montes Nassea Port Hope

Asteria Inferior is a continent located entirely in the Southern and Eastern 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
Aucuria	Kalnaspilis	44,223,510	1,098,581	Žygimantas Barauskas	Petras Uspelevičius	Parliamentary republic
Belmonte	Castelonovo	36,334,190	1,003,144	Caetano Villa-Lobos	Graça Fonseca	Parliamentary republic
Gapolania	Nassea	19,625,443	634,224	Mosè Maggiacomo	Ivano Cerbone	Parliamentary republic
Nuvania	Pietersburg	49,794,647	1,055,828	S.P van Heerdens	Joesoef van Lingen	Parliamentary republic
Satavia	Port Hope	21,501,500	663,130	Arthur Livingstone-Scott	Jago Elliot	Parliamentary republic
Satucin	Gatôn	201,105,368	3,051,077	Théodore I	Martin Allaire	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Zaralaja	Montes	29,561,855	who knows	Valentín Mina	Rosario Aparicio	Parliamentary republic