Talk:The Future: New Era (Map Game)/@comment-29865703-20160721173838

State of Japan (pre-rev)/Imperial Empire of Japan (post-rev)
 * Government: A huge shift occurs to the right. The Republic is overthrown and the age of the Emperor/Empress begins once again.
 * Politics: A massive movement occurs. The people of Japan, seeing the circumstances of the world, want a powerful leader that doesn't need to deal with politicians spinning things in ways that help them. A young woman by the name of Okuda Matsuko becomes the leader of the movement, and after only 1 month the government is pushed out of the nation by riots and activists, fleeing into exile in South Korea.
 * Military: The Military is under absolute control of Okuda Matsuko. She promotes a council of Generals. Their names are: Numata Harukichi, Yasutake Oda, Arihyoshi Sojuro, Akoki Kimie, and Mihashi Yee. These 5 generals are the backbone of the military and are the best generals the state has ever seen. A draft is put into place. 20% of all men are to be in the military when the program concludes. This causes women to become the majority of workers in the country.
 * Laws:
 * Drugs: Minor drugs, such as mushrooms, marijuana, LSD, and Ecstasy are all legalized for medical and personal use, and are available to purchase in most stores in Japan.
 * Abortion: Abortion is made strictly illegal by Okuda, and will only be legal in cases of rape. If you do not want your child or do not have the ability to care for the child, you will put it up for adoption. To compensate for this, adoption agencies are greatly improved for the children that are living there, and any adoption agencies not taking proper care of the children situated in the homes will have their owners arrested and sentenced to five years in medium security prison.
 * Unemployment: Anyone that is unemployed is forced into the military.


 * Research & Development:
 * Military: A new body armour is researched, classified as "the most advanced body armour in the world", it can have up to 10 bullets shot at it before penetration, and weighs only 9 pounds.


 * Analytics:
 * Economy: The second reason as to why Okuda gained so much support to become the Japanese Empress is because of her economic policies, which most people agree would greatly improve the Japanese economy. The first policy is to increase interest rates through the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve's rate is the rate at which banks borrow money from the government, but, in order to make money, they must lend it at higher rates. So, when the Federal Reserve increases its interest rate, banks have no choice but to increase their rates as well. When banks increase their rates, less people want to borrow money because it costs more to do so if that money accrues interest. So, spending drops, prices drop and inflation slows. The second method is to increase reserve requirements on the amount of money banks are legally required to keep on hand to cover withdraws. The more money banks are required to hold back, the less they have to lend to consumers. If they have less to lend, consumers will borrow less, which will decrease spending. The third method is to directly or indirectly reduce the money supply by enacting policies that encourage reduction of the money supply. Two examples of this include calling in debts that are owed to the government and increasing the interest paid on bonds so that more investors will buy them. The latter policy raises the exchange rate of the currency due to higher demand and, in turn, increases imports and decreases exports. Both of these policies will reduce the amount of money in circulation because the money will be going from banks, companies and investors pockets and into the government’s pocket where they can control what happens to it.
 * Infrastructure/Public Services: boring stuff
 * Demographics: Japanese or something like that.
 * Development/Standards of Living: some more random stuff


 * Military:
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * Japanese Restoration War: In order to "restore the glorious Japanese Empire", Okuda sends 3,500 soldiers to Brunei, who fully occupy the small state within a matter of weeks. It is annexed into the empire on April 10th. Following this, Japan sends 450,000 soldiers to fight in the Philippines from Brunei. The soldiers are split half and half between the Filipino cities of Manila and Davao, capturing both on June 16th and July 4th respectively. From there, they spread throughout the islands that each city is on, occupying half of each. The Philippines is told that they should just capitualite, to prevent more bloodshed.


 * Imperial Japanese Armed Forces:  Be fore the revolution, the Armed Forces of Okuda's regime were once the Japanese Self-Defence Forces. With Okuda becoming the new Empress, she completely reformed Japan's constitution, allowing Japan to have a standing military for not only internal affairs, but foreign affairs as well.
 * Imperial Japanese Ground Forces: Before the Japanese Imperial Revolution, the Imperial Japanese Ground Forces were the Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force. Now, post-revolution, there are currently 379,197 frontline personnel, and 109,201 in reserves. Land systems include 782 tanks, 3,561 AFVs, 269 SPGs, 527 towed-artillery, and 132 MLRSs.
 * Imperial Japanese Maritime Forces: Before the IR, the Imperial Japanese Maritime Forces were the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force. Now, post-revolution, there are currently 73,818 active soldiers and 53,281 reserved. Naval crafts include 4 aircraft carriers, 3 frigates, 52 destroyers, 8 corvettes, 24 submarines, 12 coastal defence crafts, and 37 crafts suitable for mine warfare.
 * Imperial Japanese Air Force: Before dank Imperialism, the I.J. Air Force was the Japan Air Self-Defence Force. Now, post-rev, there are currently 92,726 active troops and 62,158 reserve troops. Aircrafts include 362 fighters/interceptors, 402 fixed-wing attack aircraft, 572 transport aircraft, 487 trainer aircraft, 726 helicopters, and 201 attack helicopters.
 * Total Numbers: The amount of soldiers in Japan's army totals to  770,381, with there being 545,741 active, and 224,640 in reserves.


 * Diplomacy:
 * United Kingdom: Alliance is signed.
 * United States of America: Japan asks that the American forces placed in Japan be withdrawn. They also want to sign a NAP.
 * Russia: Russia is asked if Japan could purchase the island of Sakhalin for five billion USD, or 321,422,500,000 rubles.
 * Taiwan: Taiwan is sent an ultimatum: Join the Japanese Empire or crumble under the weight of the grand IJAF.
 * Indonesia: FTA is accepted.