Talk:Australian Civil War/@comment-1441607-20160326115125/@comment-27.99.41.75-20160416113507

But a WA economic collapse would make them more economically dependent on the east, not less. If anything, mining booms are a reason for WA to secede, not a mining collapse. And having worked in Western Australia, even the staunchest pro-secession west Australian I met would hardly consider actually fighting a war over it.

And if any Australian state would voluntarily secede, it would be Tasmania, but they are too economically dependent on the rest of the country to do so.

In the case of the civil war as put in the game though - the Northern Territory is hardly likely to be the base for a secessionist movement though as there isn't remotely high enough population or economic power there to instigate such a move unless there is mass immigration to the North which, currently, is hardly likely.

If say, far-north Queensland split from the rest of the state, and there was a large push for the establishment of trading ports and new cities across Australia's north coast, perhaps an effort pushed for by Chinese corporations that have been purchasing large amounts of land in Australia - that would allow for an immigration and population boom in what is largely pretty barren and desolate country - and most of these immigrants were Chinese which the wiki entry suggests they might - and if the entire north end of Australia including WA run their economies on mining and fossil fuel extraction, and these new split northern states formed a coalition- then maybe there'd be a case for the civil war in Human Revolution.

But it's a hell of a lot to happen in the 16 years between the release of Human Revolution and the events depicted in it. Too little time for, for example, these new cities in Australia's north to be built and populated and a culture of the region to form and drive the motives of the inhabitants as culturally distinct from the nation's south. If the economy up north goes bad, most people would just move back down south. It happens all the time in Queensland and WA.