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Nihon no Domei [WIP]

 * Government: Feudal Confederation
 * Empress: Uchiha Tomoko
 * Shogun: Kanzaki Izuku
 * Constituent Clans: Miyamizu, Fujiwara, Minamoto, Taira, Kangeinoshima
 * Economy:
 * Allies: Ezo, by personal union with Fujiwara [Warm towards the Empress]
 * Capital: Kyoto
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 16,590,000
 * Urban Population: 2,680,000
 * Rural Population: 
 * Ethnicities: Yamatai (78%), Chinese-origin (5%), Joseon (8%), Syonan (6%), Other (2%)
 * Religion: Shinto, with Buddhist influences
 * Wars and Conflicts (italics: Potential War):
 * Japanese Civil War [see events]
 * Armies:
 * Yamato no Domei:
 * 10,000 horses
 * 34,000 general infantry (swordsmen)
 * 104,000 irregular infantry (shieldsmen, swordsmen)
 * 6,000 support staff (logistics)
 * 7,000 irregular auxillaries
 * 1,000 auxillary infantry (archer-medics, scouts)
 * 15,000 mercenary forces (cavalry-based)
 * The People's Front:
 * 9,000 general infantry (swordsmen)
 * 420,000 irregular infantry (swordsmen, archers, clubbers)
 * 3,000 horses
 * 7,000 support staff (logistics)
 * 25,000 irregular auxillaries
 * The Outsiders:
 * 3,500 auxillary infantry (archer-medics, scouts)
 * 80,000 irregular infantry (new archer-medics, scouts, shieldsmen, swordsmen)
 * 2,000 support staff (logistics)
 * Navy: [entirely Empress-aligned]
 * 37 kawataro-fune
 * 101 cargo ships
 * 34,000 sailors
 * Diplomacy:
 * Wu [from the Outsiders]: Wu is offered a military alliance from the Outsiders should they support their rule over Nihon, as well as reparations for the killing of Wu officials in Kangeinoshima.
 * Events:
 * The Ransacking of Edo - Beginning of 1421: After a final attempt at preventing uprisings results in a mass burning bringing down thousands of homes, thousands of peasants from the regions surrounding Edo, particularly Yokohama, storm the city and burn down the dockyard, killing hundreds and pushing Imperial forces out of one of the largest cities in Nihon. The peasants, disorganised as they are, then reject the authority of Mori and instead declare themselves the Province of Tokyo, refusing outside help.
 * Battle of Kyoto - Spring 1421: Declaring the People's League and the Outsiders illegal organisations hellbent on removing the Empress, Shogun Kanzaki leads a 12,000-man-strong force to purge the city of 'subversive forces' when Hori signs a brief document condemning the system of clans in Nihon as 'inherently unfair and illogical'. This quickly devolves into a city-wide brawl where civilians and merchants hide in their homes whilst all around them cannons fire and peasants riot, burning down almost the entire commercial district around the river. The battle eventually halts when Kanzaki ups the force to roughly 30,000 men, quelling unrest; but sparking mass discussion in Yamato about the abilities of Kanzaki, whose first venture has been a miserable failure.
 * The Outsiders' Escape - Autumn 1421: Caught in the carnage in Kyoto, Seishiro and Bakushi barely escape, but not without Seishiro suffering a serious leg wound that requires permanent amputation; hundreds of loyalist forces sacrificing themselves to give them enough time to escape into friendly territory and eventually reach Hiroshima. The Outsiders officially rename themselves the Restoration Organisation, although the old name sticks essentially permanently; alienation is felt on the part of some of the Outsiders' Tohoku supporters.
 * Battle of Edo - Summer 1422: Attempting to overturn the shame of his first failure, the Shogun arrives in Edo and immediately quells the peasants in Edo with a quick iron fist, descending all at once and so rapidly that a tiny mixed 10,000-man strong force retakes the city in all but a week, securing control of the largest city in Honshu; the economic damage incurred from a year of largely lawless rule, however, means that the city has halved in population and largely become a partial ghost town.
 * Conscription of the Masses - End of 1422: After minor defeats and victories outside Yamato between the People's League and Yamatai forces, the upper echelon of the People's League, primarily spearheaded by Mori, pushes a call for conscription which ups the ranks of those within it by hundreds of thousands. This provokes a similar call from the other two factions, leading to a balloon in the ranks of all factions' militaries.
 * No Ships Welcome - Mid-1423: A series of raids carried out by tiny Outcast cells deny the Yamatai Navy landings in Kyushu and Shikoku; in those places, the Outcasts and People's League forces develop a live-and-let-live attitude towards one another, sometimes local clans helping to forment literal cooperation between the two factions while creating anti-naval defences. Political change is up in the air as well - in Kagoshima, for example, the two factions agree to a kind of agreement where both compete for places in the local government, a kind of pseudo-direct democracy at a time when monarchy is the norm in East Asia.
 * Siege of Osaka - Winter 1423: Yamatai forces dig in around the city of Osaka, which has remained a People's League stronghold since the beginning of the civil war; demanding the city hands over control to an Empress' representative. The bloody stalemate and siege that emerges out of this kills over eighty thousand people due to starvation and disease and turns Osaka from a city into a battleground with almost no civilians left, the rest having escaped into the countryside.
 * The Push into Tohoku - Spring 1424: The stalling situation in Osaka provokes a dissatisfied reaction from the Empress, who wants back merchants; threatening to cut taxes for all merchants and recoup the losses from her nobles, Uchiha orders an immediate push into the Tohoku landscape, a radical rush that scrapes across numerous old clans which have been ripped apart by the fires of war. The People's League puts up meagre resistance, unable to actually secure victories; however, morale remains high due to continuous attacks from Yamatai forces on peasants.
 * The Massacre of Niigata - Winter 1424: After a humiliatingly difficult siege, Shogun Kanzaki turns a blind eye to his men committing mass rape and beating peasants and merchants in the city to death; the resulting carnage so senselessly brutal the two factions in Tohoku come to a unified agreement to instead fight for themselves, as the new Tohoku clan, which implements reforms demanded by both parties, including peasant halls, mandatory education for all merchants, and supplying peasants with weapons when entering the military instead of having them bring their own. The war is set to continue into a protracted stalemate.
 * Factions:
 * The People's League: Founded by Mori Kyoko and her former partner, the League claims that the Clans' reign over Nihon is entirely illegitimate and believes that the age of traditional Clans must end if the peasantry are to see any return to prosperity.
 * Yamato no Domei: The Empress' faction, it believes that Nihon must adopt strict discipline and honor in order to restore Nihon to a great power. It controls almost all of the counry's Navy and a large majority of the Army, with its main power base in Tachibana.
 * The Outsiders: Under the control of Seishiro Kirie and Bakushi Yona, as well as major support from parts of Kangeinoshima, it believes that there is another way to restore Nihon to greatness, cooperating with the clans, the peasantry, the merchants via a new import - religion.
 * Tohoku: Alienated by faction leaders fleeing to the West, the Tohoku clan was formed in order to guarantee peace in Tohoku forever; embracing Tohoku's old Ainu traditions as well as new ones, it aims to provide progress and prosperity for the folk of Tohoku. Whether its existence is tolerable to the other factions, however, is questionable.