Federative Commonwealth of Oceania (Night of the Living Alternate History Map Game)

This nation is a union, internal affairs of each nation are moderated by an elected council. For the most part the two nations function alone from each other but give each other support in times of need. The confederation between Australia and New Zealand occurred in 1970. The Commonwealth Council is a fully democratic society, with compulsory voting. The Commonwealth, developing tactics to protect itself from the Zombie virus, hopes to arise from all this crap as a super powerful nation. The nation has advanced in medicine and may be able to start research and development of a cure or vaccine to this virus.

After a long period of research with only the brightest scientists, researchers, micro-biologists and equipment, the Commonwealth made a breakthrough, Phlaxicortin-X, which is a fluid that can be mist dropped or injected manually to a Zombie. Its effects are slow acting, however.

The nation is a self-declared superpower, seeing as it has influence over much of Indo-Oceania, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, as well as the fact that it supports its allies in expansion and rebuilding.

History
Communications with the United States, from which the Zombie virus originated, were fine until the apocalypse cut off communications with Australia in middle part of 1970. The government, only knowing little of what was going on, closed off the borders to any incoming or outgoing civilian, military or trade traffic to prevent the disease from entering Australian territory.

In 1970, one year after the Apocalypse occurred, the governments of Australia and New Zealand noted the crippling world around them, along with the opportunity to become stronger, and united into the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand.

The nation gradually became more and more powerful as it supported other nations in wars.

In the early to mid 1980's, the Commonwealth government built a massive complex that would be used to develop a cure for the Zombie Virus. The government brought in five Zombie Specimens from Malaysia, of which had been infected several years earlier, to the Cureplex in Canberra, where massive research went underway to create a medicine that does not kill the zombie itself, but rather reverts the effects of the virus and eventually kills it, curing the former Human of the Zombie virus. with several years of vigorous research, some of the Brightest scientists succeeded at doing so, creating Phlaxicortin-W. However, one of the Filler chemicals in the substance, of which is dropped as a mist, inadvertently caused cancerous tumors in Malaysian soldiers. The Malaysian government sent several of their soldiers to the Cureplex, where this filler chemical was discovered. The private producer of Phlaxicortin-W was ordered by the government to remove this chemical, doing so, the government and the producer proclaimed the cure, which is currently in use, Phlaxicortin-X.

The Commonwealth Brought itself out of isolation almost ten years after the Apocalypse to see the world. Ships were sent out far and wide across the pacific national community to open diplomacy.

Since the opening of the borders in 1980 or so, the Commonwealth has fought in several wars, some of which almost brought the world to WW3.

The Commonwealth is an Internationally recognized major power.

Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia, more commonly known as Australia has gained its independence since the dissolution of the UK, government within the nation is iffy, leaning towards a presidential republic in the future. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand. It has recently been re-establishing contact with other nations and plans to possibly ease the massive border control policy enacted at the beginning of this crisis. It is a nuclear power, currently developing ICBMs for its own defense from some schematics found lying around, and materials from all of its territories.

The Commonwealth government recently launched a project, just outside of Canberra, believed to be the public, but known to government officials to be a secret project for research of the Zombie Virus by the UCO.

Military
The commonwealth operates a military numbering up to around a million soldiers, most in reserve, 850,000 active members, all of whom have been withdrawn from operations overseas (except east coast USA cleanup operations) and four million trained reserve personnel, which do not do regular exercises, and live a normal life along with the greater populace of the Commonwealth.

Army
The army has the largest denomination of active soldiers and reserve soldiers, with 850,000 actives and 2.5 million reserve members. It is divided into 42 subdivisions and eight divisions:

-National Guard

-Light Infantry

-Heavy Infantry

-Armoured Infantry

-Light Artillery Unit

-Heavy Artillery Unit

-Armoured Attack Unit

-Special Operations

Navy
The Navy has the third largest denominational military population, holding out at 150,000 active soldiers, and 500,000 reserve soldiers. It is divided into eight divisions:

-Patrol

-Light Combat

-Heavy Combat

-Conventional Warfare

-Landing Party

-Boarding Party

-Air force co-operation

-Coast Guard

Aircraft Carriers
CNV Sydney

CNV Perth

CNV Wellington

CNV Queenstown

CNV Darwin

Destroyers/Battleships
(Names not listed)

15 Darwin-Class

22 Iowa-Variant Class

12 Sydney-Class

19 Hobart-Class

5 Perth-Class

16 Daring-Class

Submarines
29 Collins-Class submarines

Air Force
Second Largest denomination: 250,000 active soldiers and one million reserve soldiers. The reserve department can move around soldiers to the army if need be. It is divided into eight divisions:



-Fighter Force

-Escort Force

-Transport Force

-Cargo Force

-Interceptor Force

-WMD Delivery force

-Bombing Force

-Raid Force

-Phlaxicortin-X delivery force

-Global Strike Command (Radar Tracking)

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Foreign Intrests
The Commonwealth formerly possessed an expansionist government, taking the island of Guinea and most of the oceaniac islands.

The Commonwealth holds territory in the following: