Talk:Konig des Menschen Chapter VI (Map Game)/@comment-31417419-20200519075835

Nihon no Domei WIP

 * Government: Feudal Confederation
 * Empress: Himiko San-nin
 * Shogun: Kaizaki Setsuna
 * Constituent Clans: Miyamizu, Fujiwara, Minamoto, Taira, Kangeinoshima
 * Economy: Class economy. While agriculture makes up a significant portion of the overall economy a craftsman and writing class exists, continuing to force forward the nation into the future. But all is not well in Japan - the resplendent feudal economy continues to wrestle away power from the Empress, long weakened since the days of Shogun-Empress Gozen; with the clans able to exert any power they wish over merchants and requesting contracts at their own pleasure. The peasants grow restless with increasingly inefficient farming methods encouraged by the clans, criminals and 'traitors' occupying so many of the fields. Biyearly famines are placing any attempts at expanding the merchant class on hold; and the clan leaders continue to interfere with the workings of the nation, raising samurai and ninja against one another as they so please, attempting to raise a force over Nihon the other cannot. Unaccountability runs rife. That may be about to change...
 * Allies: Ezo, by personal union with Fujiwara
 * Capital: Kyoto
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 17,830,000
 * Urban Population: 4,300,100
 * Rural Population: 13,529,900
 * Ethnicities: Yamatai (78%), Chinese-origin (5%), Joseon (8%), Syonan (6%), Other (2%)
 * Religion: Shinto, with Buddhist influences
 * Wars and Conflicts (italics: Potential War):
 * N/A
 * Army:
 * 10,000 horses
 * 45,000 general infantry (swordsmen)
 * 5,000 auxillary infantry (archer-medics, scouts)
 * 15,000 support staff (logistics)
 * Navy:
 * 60 kawataro-fune
 * 150 cargo ships
 * Diplomacy:
 * N/A
 * Events:
 * A Murder in Kyoto - Spring 1401: On the eve of the New Year, a curious body is found floating down the Kamo river, collecting against the Shogun's home. Kaizaki immediately orders the body suddenly collected and sent for personal investigation, something which raises eyebrows at court for a brief moment; but given her previous erratic and impulsive behaviour, it doesn't stay in the spotlight for long. Until the coroner arrives at the Empress' court and divulges that the body is that of Kaito Minamoto, the youngest son of the current Minamoto clan head - Shiroe; and the coroner is almost immediately murdered as well. The string of murders and street brawls that sweep Kyoto and old Yamatai-koku begin to raise suspicion as the clan heads butt heads at court, spurring mass suspicion.
 * The Island who shot the Empress - Winter 1402: After a disagreement at court, Empress Himiko, already unpopular amongst the clans for seemingly favouring the Miyamizu clan (what would give them that picture? It's not like she assigned three more islands to the clan's care without even holding court early into her reign) is shot. With an arrow. Kangeinoshima Alliance leader Seishiro openly denounces Empress Himiko while gloating about ordering the assassination attempt, his demeanor disturbing those around him, calling her a tyrant and invoking an old law left behind from Shogun-Empress Gozen's days giving himself power over all matters on Kangeinoshima. This sparks a crisis of power within the country the same year a mass famine breaks out in Tohoku, leaving the Fujiwara clan to run its own affairs as Empress Himiko comes into conflict with Shogun Kaizaki regarding the nature of who will lead a force to put that meddlesome little island back under control. Oh. Fuck.
 * The Empress Dies - Summer 1403: Okay, nobody expected that. Not even her own doctor, which is exactly why he continued with his Daevite-style medical treatments of bloodletting... oh, fuck. Now-dead former Empress Himiko's doctor is executed (but is later found partying away in a Nagasaki inn, celebrated,), sparking a massive succession crisis. Mainly the fact that it has been the Empress' choice to a successor and she has always chosen her successor in time for the last five-hundred-years - and this one didn't. Dead two years before she turned twenty-five she was never able to anoint her successor at Shinto court, leaving the nation with four possible successors. Meet the fighters!
 * Seishiro Kirie: From a side-clan of a side-clan(the Kujo), Kirie rose up to become a popular northern peasant force with strong support from Fujiwara (primarily because her sheer popularity has kept them safe from any total power losses by rebellion). Fourty-years old her consolidated power base allowed her to enter the Imperial court as - surprisingly - a friend of the Empress, giving her much maneuvring power. Favoured by Fujiwara and unlikely to be opposed by Miyamizu, her charisma and political instincts may outfox the rest and define Nihon; what she'd like to do being less clear.
 * Kanzaki Izuku: In a matriarchal society Izuku defied all convention in the incredibly matriarchal court of Minamoto, making his way to the highest confidants of the Minamoto clan head, Hana Minamoto Yon-ban; and possibly a murderer who stoked political tensions which helped to produce the string of murders in... ...lots of baggage. As a military strong-armer he has professed an absolute reverence for Shogun-Empress Gozen; believing that absolute authority in Nihon should be given only to the strongest (and of course completely ignoring the fact that Gozen is more similar to a socialist revolutionary than a military dictator but why let that get in the way of taking power for yourself?). Supported by nationwide military-men, particularly those in Edo and Hiroshima who still remember the fact that their naval ships were stripped away by Miyamizu and Tachibana during their stint there; he might just have what it takes to make his mark upon Nihon.
 * Uchiha Tomoko: A political strategist beyond the means of woman to emerge from the higher or lower class, Tomoko was born to two merchants in Edo involved in illegal fishing and smuggling. Taught in the merchants' ways she exploited her way to control much of Edo's merchant associations (and its black market), turning institutional crime into her greatest business. Despite being Yakuza as she is she's an economic pragmatist who views the future of Nihon not as a unitary state or as a military state but one fully reformed for the common people who are willing to work - and she's got more than enough chops to manipulate her way through Nihon's political elite. Whether she can actually achieve popularity with the common people, however - peasants her organisations have previously terrorised. But with immense support from many merchant organisations and less solid support from the Kangeinoshima Alliance, she might have what she needs to completely rewrite history.
 * Mori Kyoko: Out of left field comes... an Ezoan. Yeah. But that doesn't actually show who she as as a person; previously a pirate in Ezo and Karafuto, she raced up and down the five main islands and when she ran out of other pirates to loot she ran down to Syonan for several years, earning herself a great penchant from the military - eventually joining the Imperial Navy as one of the most impeccable captains they'd ever have. Ending up in Himiko's court she was the only part of it that openly criticised the dead Empress, making her immensely popular amongst Minamoto and Taira clan leaders and respected amongst even Army officials; as a pragmatist, she sees the need for reform and wishes to dismantle the fractured feudal system that has ruled Nihon for years now. And in the worst case, she'll always be able to threaten the hell out of any competitors.