This is the art of being slightly less than happy with the land dished out to you and your people in the grand scheme of things, and so deciding that you would be much happier if you had some more. Especially if the 'more' that you had in mind was bigger, sunnier, more productive and less crowded. The idea is to ship large numbers of your own people to this new place, while leaving enough to take care of the old place, and when you get there, changing all the names of all the towns to mirror those you left behind.

The more adventurous Colonials would often put the word 'New' in front of the original town name, to alleviate confusion in the postal system. Once the towns are renamed, the currency converted to one resembling your own, and the indigenous religion replaced with your own most popular form of worship, a Colonial will then set about recreating history to indicate that this was always their land in the first place, and that a mere typographical error had cheated them of it for all these years.

The Art of Colonising was made popular by the Dutch whose most famous colony was South Africa. Less friendly Colonials included the French and Portuguese. The French, however, have managed to retain many of the lands they colonised. Quite unlike the record of The Great British Empire, which was once legendary but now seems to have almost disappeared. All that remains of the Great British Empire is Britain and a couple of larger islands, like Australia.