Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books)

[londonlassie]

As far as I can gather, it is actually the original Bingtowners and Rain Wilders who mirror the Australian 'convict past'. In this, Jamaillia is to Bingtown and the Rain Wilds as England is to Australia and, in place of the Satrapy, we have the British Empire/Government.

Well, she got the corrupt, sending-the-country-down-the-pan-through-greed-and-ineffectiveness Satrap bang on the mark in that case

Oh, the lucky Dutch!