Of course, this has a downside for them too, particularly with Ducks size. It's possible we'll see a Russian Empire scenario arise, where the Lance Empire is rather inefficient because their homelands are so massive and it becomes slower and harder to move goods, soldiers and equipment around. Cant be cheap to link all of it together, infrastructure must cost a bomb. Not to mention, he has just 2 million more people than the Vanjanans, but has around 6 times more land. Thus, a lot of the land will thus likely be unexploited and unproductive, and if a new resource is discovered it might not even be economical to exploit it because of the coast of shipping workers there and building infrastructure etc and it is also going to be harder to detect and respond to invasions
Of Course, as we progress this could be slowly fixed and with that land mass he's likely got tonnes of resources, he just needs time to slowly build up and eventually he might be able to exploit it all.

That's part of the reasons I'm worried about the spread of the islands (The Great God Gowia was unimpressed with the sacrifices lol) cause I need at least four to make my nation work so no matter what one will be situated a tad too far away for my liking, and I am also worried about being too large for my population. Still, better than being trapped on the mainland next to massive Empires of doom xD