New Duvelanders

New Duvelanders, colloquially known as Moas, are citizens of New Duveland. New Duveland is a multiethnic society, and home to people of many national origins. Originally composed solely of the indigenous Māori and Melanesians, the demographics have been dominated since the 19th century by New Duvelanders of European descent, mainly of Scottish, English, French and Irish ancestry, with smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as Dutch, Greek, Belgian, Scandinavian and South Slavic, and recently, Levantine, East Asian, South Asian and Southeast Asian. New Duveland had an estimated resident population of around 18.5 million as of July 2016, although around 600,000 of those have been resident in the country for less than five years.

Today, the ethnic makeup of the New Zealand population is undergoing a process of change, with new waves of immigration, higher birth rates and increasing interracial marriage resulting in the New Duveland population of Māori, Asian, Pacific Islander and multiracial descent growing at a higher rate than those of solely European descent, with such groups projected to make up a larger proportion of the population in the future. Purely European populations have decreased in the overall percentage by as much as 15% in the last 20 years, with 37.2% of the total population as of 2016, due to an increasing number of mixed European-Māori populations, which made up almost 20% of the population in 2016, with another 25% being solely Māori.

While most New Duvelanders live in New Duveland, there is also a significant diaspora, estimated in 2016 at over 2,800,000 or 13% of the international total of New Duveland-born people. Of these, 1,200,000, just under half of the New Duveland-born population residing outside of New Duveland, live in Australia. Other communities of New Duvelanders abroad are predominantly concentrated in other English and French-speaking countries, specifically the United Kingdom and France, with significant communities in other Commonwealth Nations such as Torainn, Jarraban and New Zealand.

Language
New Duveland has three official languages, English, French and Māori, with New Duveland Sign Language holding some national significance too. According to the 2016 government estimates, around 73% of the country is bilingual in English and French, with just 15% speaking English only, and 6% speaking only French. Only about 14% of the population are proficient in Māori, with about 98% of Māori speakers speaking either English and French alongside. The highest concentration of English-Only speakers are found predominately in the province of Norfolk, where only 14% of the province's population is bilingual. Rural areas of Lapérouse and New Hérault predominately only speak French, with much of the bilingual populations found only in the highly urbanised areas, such as Esperance, Toulon and Loisieux. Other languages spoken included Mandarin 2.1%, Italian 1.7%, Arabic 1.5%, Cantonese 1.3% and Greek 1.2%.