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The Syonanese Diarchy | Syonan Nikun-shu

 * Government: Mixed Noble Republic
 * Grand Kōshaku of All Syonan, Suwawa and Tidung, Lord Protector of Sabah and Palawan: The Grand Kōshaku is the ruler of Syonan. He is elected by the Syonanese Diet upon the previous Kōshaku’s death, resignation, or impeachment and serves a life term.
 * Noriaki Kakyoin (born 1462, ruled 1491-)
 * Subordinate Kōshakus: The constituent kingdoms of Hiraga and Nagasato are each ruled by a subordinate Kōshaku. Subordinate Kōshakus are the second most powerful positions in Syonan, with a subordinate Kōshaku having almost total control in their respective domains, answering only to the Grand Kōshaku and their respective Diets.
 * Hiragan Kōshaku:
 * Yoshimune Kira (born 1449, ruled 1475-1514)
 * Ryohei Higashikata (born 1455, ruled 1514-)
 * Nagasatoan Kōshaku:
 * Ginzo Souji (born 1453, ruled 1482-)
 * Yang di-Pertua Agong of Sabah and Palawan: Serves a similar role to a subordinate Kōshaku, with free reign over the 8 prefectures of Sabah and Palawan.
 * Pengiran Dahud Sinaman (born 1470, ruled 1511-)
 * Syonanese Diet: The Syonanese Diet is the main legislative body of Syonan. A bicameral system based on Syonan’s 2 constituent kingdoms, it is composed of Syonan’s nobility and particularly powerful burgher families. The Syonanese Diet hosts 732 delegates in total.
 * Hiragan Diet: The Hiragan Diet is the main legislative body of the constituent Kingdom of Hiraga (located in the northern half of Syonan). Made up of notable Hiragan noble and burgher families, the Hiragan Diet hosts 437 delegates.
 * The autonomous province of Sabah and Palawan sends 27 delegates to the Hiragan Diet.
 * Nagasatoan Diet: The Nagasatoan Diet is the main legislative body of the constituent Kingdom of Nagasato (including the overseas territories of Suwawa and Tidung), located in the southern half of the country. Composed of notable Nagasatoan noble and burgher families, the Nagasatoan Diet hosts 295 delegates.
 * Suwawa and Tidung, being governed under Nagasato, is theoretically subject to the Nagasatoan Diet. However, there is little to no representation of the two overseas territories in the Syonanese legislature.
 * Political Parties: Although no real political parties exist in Syonan as of yet, there are several loose power blocs within the Syonanese Diet, with borders between specific power blocs sometimes muddy and difficult to discern. Many delegates are influenced by multiple blocs.
 * Centralists: The Centralist bloc is composed of those delegates who desire more central government control over local affairs in Syonan. An extremely big tent bloc, Centralists range from those who simply want more government oversight in day to day governance, to supporters of Anjuro Katagiri’s absolutist and imperial policies, to those who want to do away with the Diarchy system altogether. Significantly more powerful in the north than in the south the Centralists, along with their bitter enemies the Federalists, are the two most powerful blocs in the Syonanese Diet.
 * Federalists: The Federalist bloc is composed of those delegates who desire less central government control over Syonan. A similarly big tent bloc to the Centralists, they range from feudalists to status quo supporters to even a few Nagastoan secessionists. Significantly more powerful in the south and in the Bornean territories than in the north, the Federalists, along with the Centralists, are the two most powerful blocs in the Syonanese Diet, and are perpetually at odds with one another.
 * Traders: Supporting mercantilist policies and touting the trade guilds as the lifeblood of the Syonanese economy, the traders punch far above their weight in power, mostly due to Syonan’s control over the seas. They are the most staunch supporters of the Sulu Sea sound toll. Many of them tend to agree in part with the Militarists on certain supposed “integral territories of Syonan”.
 * Militarists: The Syonanese militarists are probably by far the most unified bloc in Syonanese politics, uniformly advocating for stratocratic principles and aggressive foreign policy to “keep Syonan great” (read. continue Syonanese near-hegemony over maritime Southeast Asia). They are quite inclined to randomly scream “Syonan Banzai” and debate you for hours on how Palawan and Sabah are integral territories of Syonan stolen by the Bruneians.
 * Traditionalists: The traditionalists are a faction dedicated to preserving the status quo. They are the most socially conservative group, and also tout an isolationist foreign policy, which they call “Sakoku”. No one really takes them seriously at the moment.
 * Religious Supremacists: Syonan’s religious supremacists are a mostly fringe group that emphasize increased authority of religious bodies over governance and everyday life. Although the Shinto, Buddhist, Hindu and Xianist blocs clash often, their proposed policies are much the same, designed to give their religion more power in state affairs.
 * Reformists: Even with the most conventional parliamentary system, there will always be a couple hardy radicals. ‘Nuff said.
 * Administration: Syonan is divided into 2 constituent kingdoms (koku), which are further subdivided into 10 provinces (dō). The 9 provinces are in turn subdivided into 43 prefectures (ken), which are in turn further divided into districts (gun).
 * Suwawa and Tidung are considered overseas territories of the constituent Kingdom of Nagasato. They do not have any representation in the Syonanese Diet, and their people are not considered Syonanese citizens (and thus are not awarded the rights of Syonanese citizens) unless they are descended from at least one Syonanese parent or descended from at least one parent that has served in the Syonanese military.
 * Sabah and Palawan is an autonomous province under the constituent Kingdom of Hiraga (with the exception of the southernmost portions of former Bruneian Sabah, which has been incorporated into the Kingdom of Nagasato as Tarakan Prefecture). Autonomous provinces are similar to normal provinces except that they have more power domestically, as the constituent kingdom-level government is not allowed to impose laws and restrictions on the autonomous province, with the only power they are able to wield over provincial authorities in an autonomous province being a veto.
 * Capital City:
 * Syonanese and Hiragan Capital: Morioh
 * Sabahan Capital: Sandakan
 * Nagasatoan Capital: Nagasato
 * Suwawan Capital: Gorontalo
 * Tidungese Capital: Kutei
 * Economy: Syonan boasts a diverse and robust economy geared towards foreign trade. Major sectors of the Syonanese economy include agriculture, mining, the spice trade, fishing, and logging. The late 15th and early 16th centuries would see the inception of the Syonanese plantation economy, particularly prevalent in the plains of Central Luzon and inland Mindanao, while urban and coastal economies would remain dominated by various merchant guilds.
 * Currency: The Syonanese taru is the main currency in Syonan, backed up by gold reserves, with one taru equivalent to around 3.2 grams of gold. In rural and remote areas, however, the barter system is king, due to limited state influence in these areas.
 * Demographics:
 * Total Population: 1,102,118
 * Hiraga: 400,295
 * Morioh: 30,025
 * Mei-nira: 55,012
 * Kanakawa: 32,525
 * Kitahara: 26,878
 * Keishi: 25,193
 * Naga: 22,378
 * Nagasato (including Tarakan but not Suwawa or Tidung): 262,470
 * Nagasato-shi: 26,145
 * Davao: 33,104
 * Pemagarong: 25,992
 * Souhama-Shibu: 21,023
 * Cagayan: 13,887
 * Tsuhama: 13,125
 * Sabah and Palawan: 237,048
 * Sandakan: 29,370
 * Api: 20,925
 * Suwawa: 71,028
 * Gorontalo: 11,213
 * Tidung: 131,277
 * Kutei: 21,169
 * Ethnicities:
 * 28.9% Syonanese (318,245 people)
 * 12.9% Yojin (“pure” Syonanese) (41,054 people)
 * 87.1% In-jin (mixed race Syonanese) (277,191 people)
 * 22.6% Native Syonanese (248,993 people)
 * 22.8% Takairō-jin/Tagalog (56,770 people)
 * 19.7% Kabishi-jin/Visayan (49,052 people)
 * 12.5% Rusonto-jin/Ilocano (31,124 people)
 * 7.4% Ibaruno-jin/Bicolano (18,425 people)
 * 7.1% Nagasato-jin/Maguindanao (17,679 people)
 * 30.5% Other groups (75,943 people)
 * 14.4% Malay (158,280 people)
 * 1.6% Japanese (17,523 people)
 * 0.9% Chinese (10,021 people)
 * 6.3% Suwawan (69,023 people)
 * 9.0% Kadazan-Dusun (98,865 people)
 * 6.8% Bajau (75,225 people)
 * 2.9% Murut (32,145 people)
 * 6.7% Dayak (61,777 people)
 * 1.3% Other (mostly Southeast Asian, Indian and Arabian traders) (14,021 people)
 * Religions: Religion in Syonan is not necessarily exclusive, with many Syonanese ascribing to beliefs from 2 or more religions.
 * Syonanese Shinto: Syonanese Shinto has diverged greatly from Shinto in the Japanese islands, with many Shinto kami being syncretized with native and Hindu deities, and Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism heavily influencing the religion. Most prevalent in coastal, urban and lowland areas dominated by ethnic Syonanese, Syonanese Shinto is the main religion of Syonan.
 * ~55% of the population (~600,000 people)
 * Syonanese Buddhism: A sect of Buddhism almost totally exclusive to the islands of Syonan, Syonanese Buddhism is heavily influenced by Shinto, Hinduism, Theravada Buddhism and native beliefs. It is by far the most influential Buddhist sect in Syonan, although other sects do manage to gain followers in the Syonanese Isles.
 * ~50% of the population (~550,000 people)
 * Other Buddhist sects (Mahayana, Theravada and Zen Buddhism) are practiced by ~9% of the population (~98,000 people)
 * Hinduism: Practiced by many indigenous and mixed-race Syonanese especially in Mindanao and the Visayas, Hinduism in Syonan has been heavily syncretized with Syonanese Buddhism and Shinto (and vice versa), with many Hindu gods in Syonan being almost indistinguishable from the Syonanese variants of Shinto kami. A more “pure” version of Hinduism exists in coastal Tidung and in newly-acquired Sabah.
 * ~40% of the population (~450,000 people)
 * Xianism: Xianism states that the sole god of man, Tian, has endowed humans with the ability to become "Xian", basically deities, unlocked by committing good deeds in Tian's name, and understanding Tian and the way the universe works. Unlike many Eastern religions, Xianism is a monotheistic religion. Practitioners of the religion are mostly confined to the ethnic Chinese minority within Syonan, and are most prevalent in Pemagarong and Mindoru Prefectures.
 * ~1% of the population (~10,000 people)
 * Other: In remote, mountainous areas of inland Syonan, as well as in the jungles of Tidung and Suwawa, many native tribes still live as they did before Syonanese settlement on the islands, and still worship their old gods in much the same way as they once did.
 * ~15% of the population (~170,000 people)
 * Military:
 * Grand Army of Syonan:
 * Deployed forces: 40,000 (Sulu Sea War)
 * Total forces: 25,000
 * 8,000 Heavy Breakthrough Elite Infantry
 * 5,000 Field Artillery Personnel
 * 20,000 Light Infantry
 * 7,000 Light Mixed Cavalry
 * 5,000 Homeland Security Infantry (Military Police)
 * Reservists/Potential levies: 0
 * Syonan Nikun Royal Navy:
 * Total sailors: 26,000
 * Total ships (excluding coastal patrol): 565 ships
 * SNRN Muramasa-class Oceanic Battlecruiser Muramasa
 * Crew: 120
 * SNRN Yamamoto-class Oceanic Battlecruiser Yamamoto
 * Crew: 70
 * SNRN Yamamoto-class Oceanic Battlecruiser Higashikata
 * Crew: 70
 * 13 Muramasa-class Oceanic Battlecruisers
 * Crew: 120
 * 32 Yamamoto-class Oceanic Battlecruisers
 * Crew: 70
 * 242 Subarashi Pagong-class Oceanic Cruisers
 * Crew: 60
 * 275 Subarashi Dātsu-class Oceanic Interceptors
 * Crew: 40
 * 600 Tsuna-class Torpedo Boats
 * Crew: 10
 * 515 Transport Ships
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * Sulu Sea War (1518-): The Sulu Sea War was a conflict between Syonan and neighboring Zhaowa sparked by the events of Burning Pemagarong, where a group of Zhaowanese merchants would start a 2-day riot in the port city of Pemagarong after being forced to pay the dreaded Sulu Sea Sound Toll. (see Events for more information)
 * All 40,000 troops and potential levies are raised, to stand on guard for an invasion of Zhaowanese territories. All Syonanese ships are put on guard for naval operations on Zhaowanese ships or ports.
 * Second Battle of Tangbana: After the events of the Rape of Tangbana (see Events for more information), a Zhaowanese garrison and several Zhaowanese ships would be stationed on the island of Tangbana, to defend against any further incursions onto the island. On December 24th, 1518, 55 Syonanese ships (including several transports with 3,000 troops aboard) would attack the Zhaowanese fleet stationed on the island, hoping to seize it from Zhaowanese control.
 * Battle of Kajoa Island: On December 13th, 1519, Syonanese ships from Cayagan would enter the Molucca Sea. Due to heavy fog the day before, Zhaowanese ships stationed in Sufu and the Sangihe islands could not follow them. This would result in them constantly being ahead of the Zhaowanese fleet. The few ships which encountered them were crushed, and they received no major resistance until they reached Kajoa island on December 15th, a few kilometers away from the capital of Maluku. Langká Diyo, stationed on Obi island with a fleet of 140 ships, would rush to Kajoa island, where he would engage the Syonanese fleet of 350 ships. The Syonanese fleet and Zhaowanese fleet would meet at sunset, December 15th. The Syonanese would unleash their torpedos, which would certainly be unexpected. However, Diyo would recognize them as some sort of naval mine, and would bide his time. The Syonanese would underestimate the range of Zhaowanese rockets and cannons, resulting in the Zhaowanese fleet being able to fire at the Syonanese fleet even with a 800 meter gap, caused by the Torpedos basically serving as a wall between both sides. However, night soon arrived, and wind would begin to go seawards. This would result in the Syonanese torpedos moving towards the fleet. As soon as a suitable distance between the torpedoes and the Zhaowanese navy would be achieved, the Zhaowanese navy would go on the offensive, as the torpedoes crashed into the Syonanese navy. The result would be a major Zhaowanese Victory and a major shock to the previously-unchallenged Syonanese Navy.
 * Manado Campaign: 15,000 troops would be promptly shipped to Suwawa, to assault Manado and its environs from land, as 125 ships blockaded the port by sea.
 * Coastal Raids: Coastal raids by the Syonanese Navy on Zhaowanese ports in the Molucca Sea begin in earnest. We secretly invite the pirates of Rinashima to join in in the raiding of Zhaowanese ports, enticing them with promises of loot.
 * Research:
 * Type 001 Yajiri Torpedo Mod. 1498: An updated model of the Yajiri Torpedo allowing it to reach faster speeds in water and improving its accuracy.
 * Subarashi Kulog Taihou Mk.V: We begin to equip more ships with this cannon.
 * Bakuchiku Mk.I: The Bakuchiku cannon is now standard fare for all Syonanese ships.
 * Kogata-jū: A variant of the Javanese arquebus indigenous to Syonan, the Kogata-jū has become the standard firearm of choice for the Syonanese Army.
 * Arquebus Reverse Engineering: With sporadic trade from Agoustan Brunei reaching our shores, we begin trying to reverse engineer their strange and powerful “arquebuses”, with mixed success.
 * Early Rocket Developments: Syonanese rocket prototypes slowly inch further and further towards a usable weapon.
 * Reptilian Growth: Continued breeding of the Filipino monitor lizard has caused the species to grow in size, through decades, if not centuries will be required for the lizards to grow even larger.
 * That being said, they are now large enough to be farmed for food, as these monitor lizards slowly become a delicacy in the Nagasatoan region.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Zhaowa: you have lost living privileges
 * Rinashima: hëlp
 * Events:
 * Burning Pemagarong: On October 27, 1518, a delegation of 27 seemingly ordinary merchant ships composed of several allied Zhaowanese Hwais sailed into Pemagarong Harbor, presumably to trade spices. After docking in the Port of Pemagarong, they would be approached by local port authorities, who would demand that the Zhaowanese merchants pay the hated (by the Zhaowanese) Sulu Sea Sound Toll levied on all merchants from non-allied countries (e.g Japan, Dai Viet) who came to trade in the ports of western Syonan. When they promptly refused, they were thrown into the local jail. However, in the dead of night, the Zhaowanese would manage to lockpick themselves out of their cells, as well as slaughter the prison guards and stage a prison breakout. What followed after this would rock Pemagarong and the entire nation of Syonan to the core. Quickly assembling a group of escaped criminals and disgruntled Bornean slaves, the angered Zhaowanese merchants would begin a riot, sparking great destruction and mayhem across Pemagarong: houses were torched, businesses and docked merchant ships ransacked and looted, men slaughtered cold-blooded in the streets, their wives and daughters raped so viciously many of them would bleed to death. It is said the air above Pemagarong smelt of acrid smoke mixed with the blood that ran red through every street in the city during what would come to be known in the collective Syonanese psyche as “Burning Pemagarong”. The carnage of Burning Pemagarong would rage on for three days and three nights until the Syonanese Army was shipped in to deal with the threat. Sadly for the Syonanese, however, the militant band of Zhaowanese merchants and petty criminals would manage to hold off the Syonanese Army for hours, hours which they used to mount an escape from the ruined port city, kidnapping several important local government officials, including several members of Syonan’s most prominent merchant guilds, the Mayor of Pemagarong, and Nagasatoan Koshaku Ginzo Souji’s most beloved niece, Daikou Souji. By October 31st, a full third of the city of Pemagarong had been destroyed (with the damage being greatest in the port district, which had burnt almost completely to the ground and was rendered completely useless), 1,207 Syonanese civilians had been massacred, and thousands more were left grievously injured or homeless. Burning Pemagarong would leave a searing mark in this generation of Syonanese, as many would vow retribution on the Zhaowanese for their heinous crimes against the good, humble folk of Pemagarong.
 * Mass Hysteria, Lynching, and General Madness: The events of Pemagarong would spark an almost immediate uproar in Rutawa Province, quickly spreading through the rest of Mindanao and then all of Syonan. Revenge killings of ethnic Chinese living in Syonan were rampant between November 1518 and March 1519, in what the Chinese-Syonanese community would later term “Red Winter”. Anywhere from a third to half of the Chinese community in Syonan would be murdered in cold blood in the bloodiest period of ethnic cleansing in Syonan for over a century. Chinese villages would be ransacked by their Syonanese neighbors the next village over, Chinese-owned businesses would be burnt down to the ground, and the screams of Chinese-Syonanese being burnt alive would become a near-daily occurrence in the seedy neighborhoods of Syonan’s major cities.
 * The Rape of Tangbana: On November 2, 1518, a group of 1,400 drunken peasants and sailors, enraged by the news from Pemagarong and swept up in the hysteria immediately following the event, snuck into the Zhaowanese city of Tangbana in the dead of night, proceeding to wreck havoc in the city, torching the city, slaughtering the Zhaowanese garrisons in their sleep, and savagely and systematically brutalizing and murdering the civilian population of Tangbana in an explicit tit-for-tat revenge killing of Zhaowanese civilians. The so-called “Butchers of Tangbana” would maintain control over the city for 6 weeks, until Zhaowanese forces would retake the city from its untrained peasant conquerors on the 17th of December after a short siege and naval blockade. However, the damage was done, as the town was completely ransacked and destroyed, 4,500 of its 5,000 inhabitants slaughtered and the rest blinded by the vengeful Syonanese invaders.
 * The 10 Demands: As the populace of Syonan increasingly clamored for retaliation, retribution, and war against the “Zhaowanese snakes”, the Syonanese Government knew it had to react fast. After days of deliberation on the best course of action to take, the Syonanese Diet would finally compose the 10 Demands on November 3, 1518, an ultimatum directed towards the Zhaowanese Government that would specifically be designed in order to provoke the Zhaowanese public with several “unreasonable demands”, including but not limited to forswearing war forever and eliminating its military, disbanding all Hwais that participated, aided, or benefitted from trade in Pemagarong, and handing over the Zhaowanese territories of Tangbana and Manado for an unspecified and indefinite amount of time. Unsurprisingly, this would elicit a fiery response from the Zhaowanese Government and the people of Zhaowa, and would be the catalyst for the beginning of the Sulu Sea War in December 1518.
 * Goddamned Slaves Need To Know Their Place: In the midst of the chaos started by Burning Pemagarong, the slaves of the city would use this chance to break free from their terrorized masters, led by a former Dayak tribal elder by the name of Silurong. With the express goal of freeing all the slaves in Mindanao, sailing to Tidung and liberating it from Syonanese oppression, the Freedmen’s Army, as they would call themselves, would carry out a low-level guerrilla war in western Mindanao for the next half-decade.
 * The Black Hand’s Blossoming: Tourin Souji would grow to become a charming young man, always able to win over the admiration of all who passed by him. Funny, intelligent, sharp-witted, outspoken and likeable, it is no surprise that he would make friends and contacts everywhere within the nobility and ruling class of Syonan, as well as with many of the average people below him. This massive web of ties would serve him well later on. Meanwhile, he would begin courting Chiyo Kakyoin, one of Grand Koshaku Noriaki Kakyoin’s daughters, cultivating a strong romantic relationship with her, as well as building a deep friendship with the Grand Koshaku himself.