Sapia

* Vigoroux-Motoshige Friendship Agreement

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The **Sapian Empire** is one of the G&C-verse's secondary powers below the Rivetanian Republic, and arguably, a gradually growing power in the world. An island situated in the Circum Sea, Sapia was only bordered on the northeast by the Yamauchi River, which was shared between the Empire and the United LOLs of Roflica. Sapia as a political entity did not come about until the early 1180s, when the Fujitani Shogunate was established. From the 1180s onwards, Sapia has switched shogunates every 30 years through war or by a coup, until the Kunimori Shogunate in 1609, when, except for the Kaspierians, foreign trade with Sapia was very limited to the point of restriction.

## History

In 1868, a pro-Imperial coup d'etat has ousted the Kunimori Shogunate during the 1865-1868 Akagi War, and established a new **Sapian Empire**, with Emperor Iriguchi coronated in 1869. As a result, the Emperor's powers have been broadened, and an introduction to modernization and democracy was made peaceably without significant injury to the Empire, aside from a few skirmishes with Rivetania during the Samiyama Sea Scuffle. It would take until 1917 after the end of the Vigoroux War that Sapia comes to realize that although revenge is not the answer to Iedrain's problems, more than anything, Iedrain's military was being run on antiquated equipment.

In 1940, Sapia, with the Chrysanthemum League (in what was now the Sapian Commonwealth in the modern southern area of the western United LOLs of Roflica, has declared war on Roflica (who at the time was split between Communists and Democrats), and Iedrain declares war again, starting the Gascogne War just as Rivetania declares war on Sapia in 1941 after a surprise attack by Sapian aircraft on the Rivetanian Navy base in Port Vialzano. As soon as Iedrain loses, and its King Francisco I was ousted by Prince Alfonso IX, who negotiated an end to the war, Sapia would lose but two of its own cities to nuclear strikes by Rivetania, who, after the war, scraps the need for its own nuclear weapons program, citing the dangerous power that it has just caused.

In 1987 when Emperor Shion was coronated, progressive societal reforms have been passed, giving Sapia not only an economic boost, but also a boost of its own political confidence, which gave it the necessary leverage to co-opt Kaspieria, alongside others such as the **Simian** (officially the **Principality of the Simian River**) and the **Espor** (officially the **Principality of Espor)** as satellite states and install one of Shion's own family as Kaspieria's empress, marking the establishment of the Roflica-Simian Co-Prosperity Pact (also known as the Taishiro Sphere, named after Emperor Taishiro, who has reigned from 1788 to 1868.

## Languages

While Japanese was Sapia's official language, it's not the only one. Today, Sapian citizens, attending school or otherwise going abroad, can also learn the following languages:

* Chinese
* English
* Italian
* Spanish
* German
* Dutch

## Paramilitary links

The Chrysanthemum League was a 114-year-old militia and political organization formed in 1907 by Nissho Chijimatsu, a well-known Imperial loyalist and hardliner, as a means to train the Sapian citizenry to fight against a potential foreign invasion on their country's mainland. Gradually, the League's mission was becoming second-priority under a set of leaders after Chijimatsu, who have began to adopt an ultranationalist mindset. Up until the 1930s and 40s, the League has continued to be used by the Sapian emperors as both an expeditionary bargaining chip and a defensive system for the mainland.

Today, the League lays under the command of Yoshiyuki Morie, though two other cells in Kaspieria and the United LOLs of Roflica sit under commander Uno Yoson, born in Kaspieria, and Anna Kuronuma, born in the southwestern ULR. Given the nickname "Sappers" by ULR and Rivetanian troops, the Chrysanthemum League follows a strict code of conduct, as was shown in Shinwara, where League paramilitary troops under Yoson evacuate much of the town's population across the Lanshui river during a Red Seal Society attack.