Despite relative poverty and environmental hardships, the Indian Federation has gone on to benefit what is collectively the world’s largest population of almost two and a half billion people. Although theoretically all of an equal standing within the Federation, India is clearly the centre of gravity, home to over two thirds of the population and generator of almost all the GDP, higher than that of the USA since 2074. Although extreme inequality in wealth persists, the region has massively improved its standard of living overall due to a fair democracy and the development of an industrialised economy. It remains the source of much of the world’s cheap labour (only beaten by the African Union in this regard) and is cramped and vibrant with a radically dynamic culture which has become a majo