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Rinashima

 * Government: piratical/merchant republic
 * Grand Admiral: Jotaro Kujo (b. ~1259, r.1287-)
 * Capital: Rinashima-kyo
 * Economy: Although some fishing and farming is praciticed, this is mainly only to feed the people. Rinashima's greatest source of income is piracy, trade (specifically trade seeking to avoid the Li port at Tangbana, and certain illicit trades) and piracy. Oh, did I mention piracy?
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 10,140
 * Rinashima-kyo: 900
 * Religion:  3% Syonanese Shintoism, 1% Buddhism, 36% Hinduism, 57% native Malay religions, 3% other
 * Ethnicity: 3% Syonanese, 87% Malay, 6% Parawan-hito (Cuyonon), 4% other (several Filipino ethnic groups, Han Chinese, etc.)
 * Military:
 * Army: pirate sailors double as assorted infantry
 * Navy: 23 "conventional" pirate ships, 1 junk, 874 pirate sailors
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * Sack of Temasek: Rinashima's naval and general piratical might would be concentrated on the nation of Temasek around this time. The entire Rinashiman pirate fleet, as well as some young adventurous men from the outer villages on Rinashima and the Riau Islands, would embark on this adventure. The Pirate Army would storm the island and city of Singapura in the dead of night. Half of the army would land on secluded corners of the island by sundown, first rampaging around and setting fire to the outlying farmland and small towns, while carting any food and gold they could find and using the townsfolk as human shields against any Temasek troops. Meanwhile, the general fleet itself, along with the best pirates of Rinashima, would enter the port district and proceed as any normal merchant ship would, allaying suspicions among city dwellers. By midnight, the first contingent was expected to be at the walls of Singapura city, and the second contingent was expected to have secured their position. Now, all hell would break loose. As pirates flooded into Singapura from all directions, houses and other merchant ships would be looted and set on fire, the women would be defiled, and many would lose much of their life possesions to the pirates of Rinashima.
 * Events:
 * Consolidating Riau: Riau is a territory we ground into our fold by the sword. Its population is quadruple that of Rinashima itself, and it is a territory we must be finicky with. Firstly, except of creating the 23 Captaincies (detailed below), we leave the people of Riau to govern themselves, even lowering the taxes far below what Brunei demanded ("Why do we need to extort our peasants when we can extort far richer cities that aren't even under our control for far more than we could get from them?"). We also remodel the largest city in the area, Ranai, building several docks for our navy, as well as sponsoring the growth of local businesses (mainly because we pirates want places to get drunk), and building roads to outlying villages.
 * The Code of Rinashima: Due to complaints about loot distribution and normal non-pirate villagers complaining about the rare but sometimes occuring pirate raid on their village, Jotaro would pen and announce the Code of Rinashima, officially establishing governmental procedures and an official code of law. The Code of Rinashima divided up Rinashima Island and the Riau Archipelago into 23 captaincies (based on the 23 ships in the Pirate Fleet), each having their own slice of both Rinashima Island and the Riau Islands (this would effectively translate into 46 de facto captaincies, as many captains would set up shop on one island and appoint their first mates, best friends, or other capable and trusted individuals to their territory on the other island), and led by the captain of each ship. It also established that murdering, intentionally injuring, and stealing from another pirate without prior justification (i.e revenge killings) would be punishable by death via keelhauling, with this specific law stating that "All pirates are family. Killing or stealing from another pirate would be like killing or stealing from your family". It also established the leadership position (the Grand Admiral)'s parameters. The Grand Admiral would be elected by all the pirates upon the descension of the previous Grand Admiral, and the Grand Admiral could only be removed by a) death, b) resignation, c) impeachment (again handled by direct democracy). The Code of Rinashima would essentially become the iron-clad "Constitution of Asian Piracy", and the practice of direct democracy, the captainship system, and Rinashiman pirate law would endure into pirate groups of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds all across the East.