Canada (Central World)

The Dominion of Canada, also known simply as Canada, is a large nation that covers most of the northern portion of North America, and stretches from the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Arctic Ocean in the north, and the border of the United States to the south, which is the longest border any two single nations share. Canada covers nearly 10 million square kilometers, making it the largest nation in the world based on size.

Brief History (Before POD)
The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom.

World War I
Canada fought valiantly during the First World War, fighting alongside the British and French and other colonials on the Western Front. Canadian forces were responsible for one of the few victories in 1917, the capture of Vimy Ridge, which was the first time that all four corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought together, and achieved the ridge in one day, where bother the British and French failed. Canadian forces were among the last to give up the war, and was granted an independent seat at the peace conference, though it still lost the war itself.

Inter-War Period
The dominion severed the last few remaining political ties with Great Britain after the war, and made official in 1921, when the British Parliament agreed to give powers to change the Canadian constitution to Canada itself. Canada soon prospered, and, befitting the role it had played in the War (which even Kaiser Wilhelm II was said to have admired), was able to finally emerge from the Motherland's shadow, and was accepted as a fully independent nation.