Asteria Inferior

Asteria Inferior Astérie inférieure Astèria inferior Asteria mažesnė
Population	196,281,051
Countries and territories	Satucin Vilcasuamanas Nuvania San Felix
GDP PPP	$4.059 trillion
GDP per capita	$16,931
Capital cities	Gatôn Biržuventis Envoort El Felix

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	Head of State	Head of Government	Government type
Nuvania	Envoort	31,448,333	1,055,828 km2	uh	Johannes Cronje	Parliamentary republic
San Felix	El Felix	12,311,560	289,076 km2	Juan Manuel Saavedra	Simón Montes	Parliamentary republic
Satucin	Gatôn	125,105,368	3,051,077 km2	Théodore I	Martin Allaire	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Vilcasuamanas	Biržuventis	29,384,500	1,513,434 km2	Vytautas Kaparauskas		Parliamentary republic
Sanslumiere	Découverte	10,342,850	120,982 km2	Arnaud Noirenègre		Parliamentary republic