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[@Dinh AaronMk]

Big thanks. I'll try and work up a sheet on my phone while I wait for Amazon to send me a new charger for my laptop.

So far I'm thinking that the Netherlands managed to do fairly well after the great war given it had been spared the wars ravages on manpower and personnel. While still suffering from the depression in Europe the Dutch managed to make a pretty penny off oil, rubber, and other cash crops or resources from the east indies and managed to get through the worst of it.

With that I'd say the depression in Europe promoted significant  Dutch immigration to the colonies for work, something which helped to solidify the Netherlands rule. Moreover the depression saw the ethical policy weakened, something that likely damaged the formation of Indonesian national consciousness as was the case in reality.

I'm thinking the current situation in the Europe would be a fairly rich but militarily lacking Netherlands while the state of affairs in the colonies would be one of increasing dissent. I imagine the bulk of the Dutch military would be in the colonies at rp start as a result of this.
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I wouldn't say they got off as Scott free as you seem to be implying. The IRL great war greatly threatened Dutch imports and food shortages were, according to my research fairly common. You're also combining this with an influx of refugees and the Netherlands being pretty much forced by then international law to hold any soldier who escaped, wandered, or was captured in Dutch territory for the duration of the war. So on top of German U-boat campaigns threatening imports and hampering Dutch food shipments you have a rising or otherwise large population of nationals to look after; and both they and the local population often rioted.

A depression may not leave the colonies free either, since they'd be as dependent on Dutch banks. The Germans waged unrestricted submarine warfare too, knowingly attacking neutral vessels at sea in order to disrupt the economies of its enemies. If the Dutch were at all involved in selling rubber or oil or any food stuff to the British they would be as much a target of the Germans as the British. This is not just a war-time explanation for Dutch food shortages during the war, but may also trickle into the post-war period with a severely damaged merchant marine. Moving goods from the colonies to home and abroad would be severely limited for a time without the ships to move it and incurring only further expenses.

And when everyone's suffering from a shortage of cash, I'm sure the least they want is to go into another setting as dependent on that same economy to take the risk to lose more, if they can afford to move at all. The Netherlands aren't the same as the north coast of South America or the Pacific, and growing tea isn't nearly the same as harvesting wheat or tulips.