What if the CANZUK Federation United Today?

Today, the CANZUK Federation is a proposed alliance that involves four countries: Canada, Australia New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and is for military, trade and economic purposes, similar to what the European Union is now. Also, before I start the blog, I haven't done many of these parts of the series where I don't reunite empires but instead unite federations and international organizations, so please let me know if you'd like to see more of these. Now time to start the blog!

But what if the Federation united into one single country today?

As always, the first thing we need to think about a fully united CANZUK Federation is the population and land it would control and encompass. Starting off with the basics, a total 4 different countries, spanning across 3 different continents would make up the union: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. These would also be quite far away from each other, with a considerable distance between them, apart from Australia and New Zealand which could limit some easy trade between different parts of the country.

Despite having only 4 countries making the union up, CANZUK's land area would still be gargantuan if you take into consideration how big these 4 countries actually area. Standing at a total of 7,022,000 Square Miles (18,187,000 Sq km), this would easily be enough to make it by far the largest country in the world, even significantly larger than Russia (17,098,000 Sq km) and nearly double the size of China's (9,077,000 Sq km).

Similar to its massive land area, the federation would also have a huge population, standing at 136 Million. This would be enough to make it the 10th largest country in the world, even well ahead of other extremely populated countries like Mexico (128 Million) and Japan (126 Million), but still behind Russia (146 Million) and Bangladesh (164 Million). The United Kingdom would be the most populous country making it up, with a population of just over 67 Million, accounting for very nearly 50% of the union's entire amount.

A united CANZUK Federation would also boast some huge and very significant cities, spanning across all parts of the country, with lots to show for. The capital city for the union would probably be London as not only is it already a gargantuan city and would pretty much be the biggest economic and population hub within it, but is also located in the UK which would probably be the most significant and largest population and cultural centres in the federation too. This would also become the biggest city within its borders too, with a huge urban population of 14,800,000, even enough to earn a Megacity status. Here would be the rest of the top 10 most populous urban areas within CANZUK:

As well as all of this, a united CANZUK would also have a massive economy, bringing us to the next topic. Focusing on its total wealth for now, the Nominal GDP of the union would stand at a gargantuan $6.867 Trillion, which would definitely be much more than enough to put it in 3rd place, terms of Nominal GDP, beating up other booming economies like Japan ($5.378 Trillion), Germany ($4.319 Trillion) and India ($3.049 Trillion), but still remaining behind the economic giants of China ($16.642 trillion) and the United States ($22.675 Trillion). When comparing this to the European Union's economy of $15.167 Trillion, this would still be significantly lower but could grow at a faster rate in the future and eventually overtaking this.

Due to such a huge Nominal GDP, the Nominal GDP Per Capita of the federation would also be very high, enough to sustain it as a high-income country, standing at $50,492. This would make it have the 21st highest living standards in the world, slightly richer than the conditions Belgium ($50,103) and San Marino ($49,765), but also slightly behind Germany ($51,860) and Austria ($53,859).

The CANZUK Federation would also control a huge portion of the world's oil reserves, located in Canada, which currently controls the world's third largest oil reserves and is already the fourth largest oil producer so this product would most likely become the federations largest export.

The next interesting topic we need to think about a united CANZUK is the religious and ethnic groups prevailing within its borders.

Starting off with Religion, Christianity would be the most followed faith in the union, with the majority of the population adhering to it at 60%, split between 44% Protestant, 14% Catholic and 2%. This would be trailed by Islam, being the second largest religion within CANZUK at 3.4%. Hindus would be the last major religion in the union, accounting for 1.5%.The final block of the population would be a mix of other small religions and Atheists and irreligious people within its borders at a huge 35.1%.

Focusing on Ethnic Groups now, people who identify as exclusively white would be the largest ethnicity prevalent in the union representing a very significant 87% of the population. French people, mainly focused around Quebec, in Canada and other French-majority areas, would altogether make up 3.6% being the second largest ethnic group within CANZUK, followed by Indigenous people at 2.2%. The final 7.2% of the population would be a mix of various other small ethnicities prevalent.

Continuing off its religious and ethnic groups, we now come to the linguistic groups of the united CANZUK Federation, which would actually be fairly similar in comparison. First of all, English would of course by far be the most spoken language collectively, with 78% of the population speaking that as their first language. French would be next, making up a further 5.5%, which would be closely followed by many Indigenous languages at 5.2%. The remaining 11.3% of the CANZUK population would speak a variety of different small languages in its borders.

English on its own would most probably become the official language of CANZUK as it would by far be the most spoken among the people but French could also become an official language, too, just to respect the eight million people in Canada that speak the language as their mother tongue.

The last interesting topic there is to think about a united CANZUK Federation is its military. Starting with manpower, the union would, in total, possess 283,500 active-duty personnel, which would be the 17th largest force in the world, bigger than some other militaries like Sri Lanka (255,000 troops) and Japan (247,150 troops), but remaining smaller than Colombia (293,200 troops) and Turkey (355,200 troops). In addition to this, the federation would also possess an extra 146,600 troops placed in reserves, bringing its army to a total of 430,100.

The budget to fund this military would also be huge, standing at around $96.8 Billion, which would easily be enough to become the 3rd highest budget in the entire world, even larger than India ($71.1 Billion) and Russia's ($65.1 Billion), but still significantly smaller than the budgets of China ($261 Billion) and the United States ($732 Billion).

On top of all of this, the CANZUK Federation would also be a Nuclear Power, inheriting all of the UK's arsenal of nukes, which would give it between 200 and 250 warheads at its disposal.