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The Syonanese Diarchy | Syonan Nikun-shu
Reformists: Even with the most conventional parliamentary system, there will always be a couple hardy radicals. ‘Nuff said.
 * Government: Mixed Noble Republic
 * Grand Kōshaku of All Syonan, Suwawa and Tidung: 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-)
 * Nagasatoan Kōshaku:
 * Ginzo Souji (born 1453, ruled 1482-)
 * 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.
 * 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 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.
 * Administration: Syonan is divided into 2 constituent kingdoms (koku), which are further subdivided into 9 provinces (dō). The 9 provinces are in turn subdivided into 35 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.
 * Capital City:
 * Syonanese and Hiragan Capital: Morioh
 * 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 65 grams (2.29 ounces) of gold. In rural and remote areas, however, the barter system is king, due to limited state influence in these areas.
 * Demographics:
 * Total Population: 801,075
 * Hiraga: 386,886
 * Morioh: 27,360
 * Mei-nira: 52,924
 * Kanakawa: 31,225
 * Kitahara: 26,167
 * Keishi: 25,092
 * Naga: 21,879
 * Nagasato: 212,447
 * Nagasato-shi: 24,622
 * Davao: 32,058
 * Pemagarong: 25,123
 * Souhama-Shibu: 20,604
 * Cagayan: 13,071
 * Tsuhama: 12,115
 * Suwawa: 71,113
 * Gorontalo: 10,519
 * Tidung: 130,629
 * Kutei: 19,775
 * Ethnicities:
 * 37.8% Syonanese (302,806 people)
 * 12.9% Yojin (“pure” Syonanese) (39,062 people)
 * 87.1% In-jin (mixed race Syonanese) (263,744 people)
 * 29.9% Native Syonanese (239,521 people)
 * 22.8% Takairō-jin/Tagalog (54,611 people)
 * 19.7% Kabishi-jin/Visayan (47,185 people)
 * 12.5% Rusonto-jin/Ilocano (29,940 people)
 * 7.4% Ibaruno-jin/Bicolano (17,725 people)
 * 7.1% Nagasato-jin/Maguindanao (17,006 people)
 * 30.5% Other groups (73,054 people)
 * 11.9% Malay (95,328 people)
 * 2.2% Chinese (17,624 people)
 * 2.1% Japanese (16,823 people)
 * 8.4% Suwawan (68,091 people)
 * 6.7% Dayak (53,672 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.
 * ~70% of the population (~560,000 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.
 * ~62% of the population (~497,000 people)
 * Other Buddhist sects (Mahayana, Theravada and Zen Buddhism) are practiced by ~7% of the population (~55,000 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.
 * ~35% of the population (~280,000 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.
 * ~2% of the population (~16,000 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.
 * ~19% of the population (~152,000 people)
 * Military:
 * Grand Army of Syonan:
 * Deployed forces: 5,000 (mostly garrisons in coastal forts and/or peacekeepers in the outlying territories of Suwawa and Tidung)
 * Total forces: 25,000
 * 3,500 Heavy Breakthrough Elite Infantry
 * 2,000 Field Artillery Personnel
 * 7,500 Light Infantry
 * 1,000 Light Mixed Cavalry
 * 2,000 Homeland Security Infantry (Military Police)
 * Reservists/Potential levies: 15,000
 * Syonan Nikun Royal Navy:
 * Total sailors: 26,000
 * Total ships (excluding coastal patrol): 514 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
 * 12 Muramasa-class Oceanic Battlecruisers
 * Crew: 120
 * 28 Yamamoto-class Oceanic Battlecruisers
 * Crew: 70
 * 221 Subarashi Pagong-class Oceanic Cruisers
 * Crew: 60
 * 250 Subarashi Dātsu-class Oceanic Interceptors
 * Crew: 40
 * 540 Tsuna-class Torpedo Boats
 * Crew: 10
 * 495 Transport Ships
 * 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: Small improvements are made to the cannons, improving reliability at sea.
 * 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.
 * 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:
 * Majapahit: We propose to your people an alliance, preferred access to Syonan’s markets, and the ability to use each other’s ports, so that we may be able to reap the rewards of our prosperity together, forever.
 * Dai Viet: We ask your honorable nation for an alliance and the ability to use your ports and vice versa. May our two nations prosper together!
 * Events:
 * Keep Syonan Great: The Diarchy of Syonan has been the premier power in Maritime Southeast Asia for over a century, and Grand Kōshaku Kakyoin is not about to let this state of affairs change. Announcing a policy of “Keeping Syonan Great”, he shifts the Syonanese government’s focus into strengthening the armed forces (particularly the Syonanese Navy), creating strategic alliances with major regional powers like Majapahit and Dai Viet, taking control over the seas of Southeast Asia, and revitalizing the cities and farms of the country.
 * Military Reforms and Preparations: A slew of military reforms and revitalization of existing defences begins to be carried out, with several important coastal forts, most notably Fort Yoshikage on Ameshima Island (OTL Corregidor Island), at the entrance of Mei-nira Bay, fitted with the latest cannons and naval mines. Meanwhile, the command structure of the Syonanese Navy is overhauled in order to streamline communication through the ranks. Construction of a massive naval facility in Shubiko Bay (Subic Bay) begins, and once completed in 1509 will become the main base of operations for the Syonanese Navy.
 * Birth of the Syonanese Plantation System: Pioneered by one Matsushiro Shōhei, a major Nagasatoan landowner and nobleman with substantial lands in Tidung and Rutawa-do, the Syonanese Plantation System would begin coming into vogue in the arable lowland areas of the Syonanese Isles as well as in the Tidung and Suwawa Overseas Territories in the early 16th century. Using Bornean Dayak, Malay, or Suwawan debt slaves (with the occasional Native Syonanese tacked on), landowners could run sugar, cotton, rice, or cinnamon plantations at an immense profit (as they did not have to pay their imported debt slaves wages).
 * Nakamura Souji’s Bizarre Adventure (pt.1): Nakamura Souji never felt at home in the Souji palace in Nagasato. It was all too big, too extravagant, too, for a lack of a better word, artificial. So it would be no surprise that as soon as she turned 18, Nakamura would set off into the big wide unknown that was the jungles of Tidung. Living among the Dayak tribes for a while, she would eventually gain much clout with them and would often act as an intermediary among the tribes and the Syonanese authorities. Eventually, Nakamura would decide to move on from living in the jungles of Borneo. She decided that just as her ancestors Ojirou and Taihou Souji travelled to the northern and western edges of the world, so she would travel the south and the east. It is with this in mind that in 1498, she, along with some of her inseparable and equally adventurous Dayak friends, would join a government-led diplomatic legation to the far-off country of Yolngu, at the edge of the world...