User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/TL Suggestions/@comment-4656717-20120924043232

G'day, sorry I've taken so long to respond, but here it is. The light-green nation in the centre of the West is completely untenable. As LG said, it has way, way too much desert and very little coast. If you look at a map of otl towns in Western Australia, you will find no towns of any significance in that part. In fact, the only major town in northern and central WA is Broome, which is in the northern country (Novarussia, I think). The south-eastern country is in by far the best position of the lot. It contains the entire Murray-Darling Basin (Australia's only major river system), and otl Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide and all of Tasmania. Realistically, the country to the north stands no chance. It des have otl Townsville, Rockhampton and Bundaberg (where I'm typing this from), Darwin and Broome.

So yeah. I'd go with LG's solution and divide the mid-western country, or gust give it in it's entirety to the south-western one.