Celestial Chancellorship

The Celestial Chancellorship was a major Japanese empire of the Late Classic Era, with most of its territorial holdings being located in parts of Eastern Asia and Siberia. It also held various colonies in Australia, South America, North America, and Africa. After the collapse of the Terran Confederation, it would become the most powerful nation in the world for the next decade. The nation followed an unusual ideology invented by its first leader known as "Celestialism". The collapse of the nation was caused by the solar flare, which prevented the government from censoring information, disillusioning the citizens and leading to massive rebellions against the ideology. Empress Kei was executed and most of the Sumi family was murdered by the rebels that broke into the Imperial Palace of Kyoto. A branch of the family escaped to China. Celestia experienced a minor revival a few decades after the solar flare, but this second incarnation failed to gain almost all of its former territories back. It would be destroyed by a monarchist rebellion, and Celestialism as a serious ideology completely disappeared within a few decades.
This page is currently being rewritten and expanded upon due to biases from its original creator.
==Celestialist Takeover of 217AD==
===Celestial Revolution===
The Celestial Chancellorship had its origins in the Celestialist Takeover (known as the Celestial Revolution in their official textbooks) of 217 AD. After the Daigo-Timorese War of 209AD which resulted in the former being conquered, a Special Forces Unit of the Daigo military, the ナイトウォーカー, or the Nightwalkers, went into hiding after the final surrenders in Tōhoku, near Hokkaido. The leadership was angry at the Japanese people as a whole for not being able to defend themselves against "a rabble of backwards opium-snorting islanders" and determined that Japan cannot rule herself advantageously, not with the "inefficient and useless squabbles of nationality and ideology." After eight years of activity in Honshu, indoctrinating and recruiting soldiers, the Nightwalkers rose up, choosing a charismatic figurehead known as Sumi Kaguya to radicalize the citizens. She was also given the moniker "Kaguya of the Revolution" in a lackluster effort to mythicize her.
During the takeover of Japan, the "flag of the revolution" was used by the Nightwalkers. According to a surviving member of the CPP in 242AD, the black was supposed to symbolize the "impending revolution" and the rising sun "the Japanese culture." Given the inherent contradictions within the symbolism, many agree the member was not being entirely sincere.
The Celestialist leadership, during its first bout of historical revisionism maintained that the takeover was caused by oppression of the Japanese people by the Timorese. Post-flare historians note that while the colonial regime had not made any large-scale effort to better Japan, they had not done much in the way of suppressing the Japanese peoples' voice, choosing to let the Japanese self-govern with the exception of foreign affairs. The notion of "ridding the nation of oppression," without defining what "oppression" is besides vague axioms, became the base of what would be the Nightwalkers' most egregious and infamous form of societal manipulation: the Celestialist ideology and its branching forms. 
===The Northern offensive===
The Northern Offensive was the first organized military operation performed by the fledgling Celestial army. The offensive entailed the occupation of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Little to no resistance was met from the stunned Timorese troops, and Hakodate, the largest city on the island, was wrested from Timorese control. 
===Beginning of the monarchy===
When the Celestial militia claimed the spiritual capital of Japan, Kyoto, they utilized its high prestige and legitimacy to crown Sumi Kaguya as the first empress of Celestia, in an effort to control Japan more effectively. This indeed gave the Nightwalkers great prestige and legitimacy, and more people supported the Celestial rule. Soon afterwards, the rest of the Japanese Home Islands were conquered with no real resistance from Timorese forces, ending Timorese colonial rule. 
== The Celestialist ideology==
Celestialism is a concept named after the Daigo Special Forces unit, the “ナイトウォーカー”, or “Nightwalkers”, referring to the stars of the night. This same special forces unit would produce the generals and commanders who created Celestia as a whole, with Kaguya herself having been a veteran of this force. It is thought that an accident with a grenade while in this unit caused severe mental trauma to Kaguya, turning her maniacal. Kaguya, along with her trusted generals, created Celestialism as a perfect manipulative ideology. 
Its goal was to corrupt the population and give them easily manipulated mindsets, by making them all believe they were “liberating others of oppression”. Kaguya herself planned to “liberate” the people of Japan via high human resource spending, although this was never the reality. The actual situation was dramatic military spending resulting in mass poverty, and a disillusioned population waiting for the liberation that never came. Celestialism's true purpose was to serve as a ploy for Kaguya to expand her empire, and therefore her control. It preyed on underdeveloped areas of the world, and other easily corruptible places. In Kaguya’s eyes, no nation was truly liberated unless the Celestial banner flew above its cities. 
NOT REWRITTEN The Celestial state according to this ideology must be libertarian in nature, meaning that the state should interfere with the citizen's life as scarcely as possible. This means that the state only exists to benefit a citizen's life and not to decrease its freedom. Alongside this social policies (like gay marriage and trans rights) are generally left wing since that allows people generally to enjoy the most amount of things. (how do i even rewrite this???) 
Kaguya's theoretical end goal for the Celestialist ideology and nation was for every single continent and region of the world to be controlled by her state, with it eventually "decentralizing" into many smaller local nations which would also follow Celestialism. In reality, these nations would be de facto directly controlled by her, while still giving them the illusion of some self-governance. 
== Early Expansion of Celestia ==
=== Early Independence ===
Upon the Celestialist victory against the Timorese in Japan, the state was declared a Shogunate. Kaguya soon after declared herself the Empress of Celestia, claiming to have liberated the Japanese islands from their "oppression" under the Timorese in an attempt to gain support from the population. The nation began its first expansions out from the Japanese islands, landing in Kamchatka in the Far East, expanding into the entire peninsula. The reason for expanding into Kamchatka was to supposedly free the Siberians from their "oppression and impoverishment". Although the peninsula saw reconstruction following its conquest, there is little evidence that the quality of life rose significantly during this period, with most funds actually going towards military improvements. 
Kaguya's early foreign policy began with the establishment of Asian embassies in Celestia and vise versa, leading to the establishment of the East Asian Pact. It was established as a military alliance, centered in the Asian city of Pyongyang. Soon afterwards, the Timorese Empire would end up joining it, leading to the two nations beginning to attempt to re-establish relations after the Celestialist revolution. 
=== Border conflict with Straisia ===
During Celestia's expansion into Kamchatka, a small border conflict occurred between them and the Straisians when they attempted to colonize just north of Celestial territory. According to sources from within Celestia, tribes in Straisia were reportedly forcefully put into boats and sent to the new colony. Other sources from Straisia and other countries contradict this, suggesting this claim was likely false. During this, Celestia briefly declared war upon Straisia to force them out of the area. Shortly afterwards, Straisia withdrew from the region to prevent further conflict. While all the colonists were given the choice of returning to Straisia or staying in Celestia, most left the former colony's territory back to the mainland of Straisia. 
=== Oceanic expansion ===
After most of Kamchatka had been conquered by Celestia, they turned their eyes south. With the fall of New Portugal, the island of New Guinea was abandoned. They established a small colony on the island, and eventually expanded it to most of the island. Only the Papuan Peninsula did not end up being annexed by Celestia, instead being taken by the Asian Federation. Although Celestia claimed that the island had "suffered under an apartheid state" under New Portuguese rule, no evidence supporting such a thing has ever been found. The area was later ceded to the Nicolides after a referendum. 
After this, they would then expand into Australia. Landing in Arnhem Land, the colony quickly grew to encompass most of the northern territories of Australia. It also stretched into the center of the continent, almost touching Brazil's territory in Australia. It would become known as the "Southern Territory" due to its location within Celestia at the time. Although it took up a sizeable portion of the continent of Australia, most of its territory was worthless deserts, and had little value to Celestia. 
=== Establishment of the Chancellorship ===
In 218AD, Kaguya called for the first general elections in Celestia. In these first elections, her party, the "Celestial Prosperity Party" or CPP, won a landslide victory with nearly 90% of the votes, leading to Kaguya becoming chancellor. Despite that, she still officially remained empress, effectively retaining all her power as both emperor and chancellor. Due to the high turnout and massive landslide victory of the CPP, many believe that these elections were rigged in her favor to allow her to keep control over the nation. As a result of the Celestial Civil War in 223AD, elections were suspended indefinitely, giving her indefinite dictatorial powers.
=== African and American expansions ===
After initially declaring their next colony to be Ireland, they instead chose to colonize southern Madagascar. Using this colony, they established another colony in Nigeria, which eventually grew to control all of the unclaimed land in the area. Afterwards, they also colonized parts of Uruguay and Argentina next to La Plata, and later Colombia as well. They later sold their land in Uruguay to Brazil. The colony in Colombia grew to encompass all of Colombia as well as western Venezuela.
After a terrorist attack in their Argentinian territory which the Celestial government linked back to La Plata, they invaded them alongside Brazil and annexed the southern half of La Plata. They also joined their allies in their war against Quebec, annexing Newfoundland and Labrador. After the collapse of the Yupiks, they colonized part of Alaska, but gave up that colony in exchange for Terra's colony in the Congo region.
=== Anti-Soviet Coalition ===
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Akhenaten reporting here: This cringe mary sue topia's going to get flown directly into the Cool Zone (read: improved and rewritten) 
I'm just gonna paste what i want to follow while rewriting this blatant propaganda shit to make this article plausible and objective
Revamp Celestia into being a branch of the former Daigo Military that were extreme radicals and expansionists, as well as Totalitarian With Celestialism being a ploy by the High Command of the party to manipulate the people into believing they are doing something righteous Basically allowing them to manipulate as they please, and rewrite history to their every whim They fell in the Solar Flare due to all of the restrictions that were put on info being destroyed, allowing the population to find out the reality of their state, nation, and history, resulting in extreme and mass revolts across the country. 
Mary Sue I (Kaguya): Likely a lunatic vying for more and more power while pretending to be a hero. Basically what Hitler did.
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