Africa (In Frederick's Fields)

Africa is the second largest continent in the world, by both land and population. It is located at the southwesternmost end of the Old World, surrounded on three sides by open ocean (to the west and south by the Atlantic, and to the east by the Indian ocean). The African continent is bordered to the north (across the Mediterranean Sea) by and to the east (across the manmade Sinai Canal) by.

Often placed as the origin of mankind, the African continent also saw the rise of the world's earliest civilisations, but was overtaken in military power by its northern neighbour after the Industrial Revolution. In the, Africa was split amongst all the major European states, leading to its current division. After some minor changes after the, the continent remained under full European occupation until the mid-twentieth century, where civil protest and negotiation gained most of the continent its independence. Since then, Africa has become a sort of battleground between the Boulangist and the democratic worlds, leading to several bloody civil wars and régimes throughout the continent and the impoverishment of many.

Africa is generally considered as the world's most backward and poorest country, partly because of the colonial oppression it has suffered throughout the ages. However, the African population has taken great amounts of measures since the 1980s to close the gap with the rest of the world. Currently, one native African state (the South African Union) is on par with the rest of the European continent in regards to wealth, and two others (the East African Federation and Loango) are extremely close by. On the other hand, the Congo Technate and Ouadai remain by far the world's poorest nations; the Technate because of the oppression by part of several large international corporations that moved to the area, as well as the previous brutal treatment by part of the corporate-scientific white elite over the native population to acquire resources (and sometimes to develop experiments or manufacturing); while Ouadai suffered a terrible 50-year dictatorship under the Bokassa dynasty, which overthrew the native Wadai rulers and established a brutal régime over the nation, until they were overthrown in a bloody civil war between 2007 and 2011. However, Africa as a whole has significantly shortened the gap with its northern and eastern neighbours, and might be able to close it soon.

Africa remains the most politically diverse continent, with one technate, several monarchies, various Marxian states and even two of the world's last directorates.

List of Nations
The African Council recognises forty sovereign nations in the African continent. Note that the United Nations counts only 38 "native nations" (Tibesti and Fezzan are counted together, and the Ifni is considered a Spanish colony) plus four "colonial states"; ' (in Dakar and Djibouti), ' (in Rif), ' (in Libya) and ' (in Cape Verde). The 40 nations recognised by the African Council are: