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Australia is approximately the Roman empire?
Long roads forging through nowhere? Check.
Has a senate? Check.
People being killed by scary animals? Check.
Uncontested on it's continent? Check.
On the edge of a giant desert? Check.
Seems about the same.
So what is the rule exactly? "Australia's" and "Rome's" both have an apostrophe, and that's what "it" is standing in for here.
https://www.scribbr.com/nouns-and-pronouns/possessive-pronouns/
I don't know, seems kind of goofy. For a word like "his", there is no counterpart "hi", but there is an "it".
I'm assuming that "him" is related to the hypothetical counterpart "hi"