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The **Novayan East Indies** (**NEI**), also known as the **Military Governorate of the East Indies**, was the planetary overseas territories of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth in Asia and Oceania, governed for the Novayan state from Manila through the military governorate and its imperial captaincies which administer the Philippine archipelago, Greater Indonesia, Mainland Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea.

## History

Prior to the 1812 Novayano-Japanese invasion of the East Indies, a number of European powers established colonies and alliances in Southeast Asia, then known as the East Indies; only few remain independent but were otherwise affiliated with said foreign powers. Among the colonies and nations in the 18th and 19th centuries were:

* the Spanish East Indies, which consists of the Philippine archipelago and New Guinea and is administered by the Viceroyalty of New Spain and then the Spanish crown after the 1792 invasion of the Spanish West Indies
* the Dutch East Indies, which consisted of Indonesia and is administered by the Dutch East India Company and then by the Batavian Republic/Batavian Commonwealth
* the British East Indies, which consisted of British Borneo and British Burma and Papua New Guinea and were ruled by the British East India Company

### Invasions and consolidations of the East Indies

Several years before the 1812 invasion, a number of Novayans from Japan who visit the Philippine Islands for trade reported the brutal oppression of Filipino natives by Spanish forces who crushed revolt after revolt to the local authorities. Despite the moral dilemma they raised, they were threatened with arrest, prison or even death if they dare object to their treatment of the Filipinos. As a result, the tradesmen left, this time to raise the issue of Spanish and later European cruelty and oppression towards the Filipinos to the shogunate and emperor. A meeting between the shogun and daimyos, the imperial court and clerical bureaucrats, and the Novayan civil-military bureaucrats concluded in the agreement that the East Indies, exploited for many years by the Europeans, must be liberated and the European oppressors driven out.

To that end, Novayan and Japanese representatives met up with dissident Filipinos such as Diego Silang and Palaris on the matters of an armed rebellion and an expeditionary force striking the Spanish East Indies as well as efforts at developing the islands under the protection of Japan. At the same time, spies were sent to identify the sociopolitical climate in the East Indies and various weaknesses, important locations, military bases, military strategies and tactics, armories, technologies, factories and so on, as well as directing the transfer of weapons and provision of military training to Filipino rebel groups in preparation for the joint invasion-revolution. Several representatives were sent to Prussia and China to procure a number of military advisors, master engineers, shipwrights, bureaucrats, equipment, expert gunsmiths, trade deals, mercenaries and supplies to build up an expeditionary force capable of going toe-to-toe with the Spanish forces. This process took several years.

On March 13, 1812, several Novayano-Japanese fleets departed from Kyoto, Edo, Wakayama, Yamato, Ise, Mie, Miyazaki and Kumamoto to be joined by a mixed Indohellenic-Indokalaidian fleet for the invasion. At May 7, the Spanish East Indies found itself under attack from the north, east and west by the expeditionary force and within by various armed local groups. Attempts by Spanish forces to respond to the invasion and rebellions were only half-successful as the highly-trained rebel groups countered Spanish strategies and tactics to great efficiency, while naval forces sent to interdict the expeditionary fleet were routed by individual ships sent forth as the forward vanguards. Manila was surrounded on all sides by Filipino rebels from the north, east and south and the Novayano-Japanese expeditionary force from the west and south. The fall of Manila, taking place in May 11, marked the greatest victory over the Spanish oppressors and the beginning of the liberation of the Philippines and later the East Indies from European control.

The Southward March saw the Novayano-Japanese expeditionary force and rebel forces battling Spanish forces defending areas still under Spanish control. The rapid deterioration of the situation forced the Spanish crown to respond, but by the time they responded in force, the Philippines was already under the protection of Japan; an attempt at retaking the now-fallen Captaincy-General of the Philippines turned disastrous for the Spanish forces. A humiliating peace treaty was signed in Manila, granting independence to the derogatorily-named Japanese East Indies. Now in control of the Philippines, the Novayano-Japanese and Filipino leaders established the Military Governorate of the East Indies and Captaincy-Marshal of the Philippines to ensure that it was fully developed and the necessary bureaucracy and government in place in preparation for independence.

While East Asian bureaucrats, master engineers and builders, and soldiers help the Filipinos develop their newly-liberated home, elements of the Novayano-Japanese expeditionary force began sending scouts and spies to eye potential targets in the Dutch East Indies as well as identify the strengths of Dutch forces present there. After a wait of over five years, the expeditionary force invaded the Dutch East Indies with rebel groups rising up. Having learned their lessons on fighting in different geographies and environments, Novayano-Japanese forces and routed smashed Dutch East Indian forces in locations suitable for such battles before forcing the Dutch governor(s) to surrender. Because of its inability to defend the newly-acquired Dutch East Indies due to its landmass and size, Novayano-Japanese forces began training and transforming local rebel forces into small but highly flexible armies. To the surprise of many, the Dutch sent representatives to negotiate a peace deal, which saw the conquered Dutch East Indies remaining in Novayano-Japanese hands.

The first consolidation of the East Indies saw a rapid development of the Captaincies-Marshal of the Philippines and Batavia. A temporary civil-military bureaucracy was installed in place of the former Dutch and Spanish colonial bureaucracies in order to distribute to the liberated colonial territories. Land was taken from plantation owners and friars and redistributed them back to the peoples. An education system combining elements of the Novayan, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish education systems allowed many to be enrolled properly and learn new trades and skills, while slavery was abolished and freedom of worship granted. Lastly, the economy system was revamped to boost economic growth. On May 11, 1820 the first elections saw locals voted in to govern their territories.

The first colonial referendum was launched in May 11, 1825 by the governor-militant and his staff to decide whether the Philippines and Batavia would become independent or continue development under Japanese protection. To the shock of many Novayano-Japanese civil-military bureaucrats and even the rebel leaders, the Filipino and Batavian peoples voted instead for a more unified Novayan East Indies. An investigation revealed that the peoples were more supportive of a Novayan East Indies as their Novayan-led liberators rescued them from European oppression; attempts at dissuading from voting for a Novayan East Indies in favor of independence failed, and eventually both the rebel leaders and Novayano-Japanese civil-military bureaucrats were forced to do so, signing the Proclamation of the East Indies. Following the Novayano-Japanese tradition of making the offices of the Novayan and later Novayano-Japanese military governors of Wakayama, Mie, Miyazaki, Kumamoto and Kanagawa hereditary and the Japanese shogunal succession, the office of Governor-Militant of the East Indies was made hereditary. However, to ensure that none of the governor-militant's heirs would be corrupt, incompetent and stupid, a set of criteria including skills, experience, the level of education, merits and personalities were installed; and in the event that the governor-militant died without heirs, a local military leader was appointed as Governor-Militant temporal until a suitable heir was appointed.

In 1831 British Borneo and the Rattanakosin Kingdom were purchased by the Novayan East Indies after rebel groups forced the British to accede to their demands; unbeknownst to even the Novayan East Indians, the rebel groups had studied in universities and military academies and provided their experiences to their fellows. The incident forced a civil-military bureaucracy and other development programs into place. In 1870, a number of Vietnamese representatives arrived at Manila and asked for help in liberating their homeland from French oppression. After the potestate investigated and confirmed the situation there, the Novayan East Indian government demanded that France cease oppressing the Siamese people or face invasion. Attempts by China to mediate a peace deal turned sour after the French representatives insulted the Novayan East Indian representatives, among whom was the eldest daughter of Governor-Militant Isabel Norsoutha. War was inevitable, and though French forces has the upper hand in the initial phase of the war, conscription of poorly-trained Siamese forces eventually resulted in mass protests and then uprisings that, earning the Novayan East Indies another victory, albeit a costly one. Nevertheless, France was forced to accede defeat. Later, British Burma was later sold to the Novayan East Indies for a high price as part of an agreement between the British and the central government in Manila.

#### Final consolidation and ratification of the East Indian Mandate

On May 11, 1875, the Council of the East Indies and the East Indian Admiralty agreed with the notion that a constitution be made to ensure that the peoples under them receive their rights as human beings and their citizenships and so signed the Mandate or Constitution of the Novayan East Indies. Reforms were passed to end corruption, enshrine the rights of the peoples of the Novayan East Indies, reorganize the economic, education and civil-military bureaucratic systems, downsize the military and reform the succession system where councilors, military officers and bureaucrats help the Governor-Militant educate his/her heirs.

### Early modern to present history

The Novayan East Indies began industrialization in the 1880s and 1890s, during which new factories were built up and new methods of communications were made. On 1891, at the urging of Governor-Militant Tanaka Norsoutha the Novayan and Siggean rites and the Recusant, Nea Gnostikisimos and Reformitos conclaves in Southeast Asia signed a Communion Act with their parent conclaves that resulted in their merge into the East Indian Aagiokratia. With the backing of Governor-Militant Tanaka the first High Archbishop (also known as Pope/Popess) of the East Indies was a woman known as Maria Buenaventura, who would become the great-grandmother of High Archbishop Viviane.

In 1959, the Novayan East Indies sent an expedition to Antarctica to establish a colonial settlement there. In 1968, the first Novayan East Indian astronaut landed on the moon with a Chinese, Japanese and Korean astronauts after the Americans and Russians landed there, culminating in the Novayan East Indies' establishment of the first makeshift colonial settlement on the Moon.

#### Conflicts with Cambodia and Myanmar

The Governorate-General of Cambodia, then a part of the Governorate-Marshal of Indochina, had recently elected the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, and their legitimacy was recognized by the Council of the East Indies. A few years later however, Governor-Militant Jose and his council received word from the governor-general of Vietnam of a genocide happening in Cambodia. Messengers and representatives sent to investigate and ask the Khmer Rouge-dominated Cambodian governorate were murdered, with only a few escaping to report what had transpired. Aerial reconnaissance confirmed the atrocities, forcing Governor-Militant Jose and the East Indian Admiralty to authorize an invasion of Cambodia. With Chinese military and intelligence aid, the so-called "Democratic Kampuchea" was sundered by Vietnamese, Laotian, Filipino, Malaysian and Thai forces; the Governorate-Marshal of Myanmar didn't join due to internal unrest as a result of the 1968 coup d'etat (then kept secret from the central government until 1981) despite the Council ordering it to appease the various ethnic groups. Afterwards, the Captaincy-Marshal of Kampuchea was established to handle the military and administrative operations there.

In the 1980-90s a few Burmese civilians came to Hanoi to report the deteriorating situation in Burma; at the same time, the Burmese military leadership launched a coup d'etat and appointed its leader as Governor-Marshal of Myanmar, who then established a military junta which began a series of political repressions and combat against the Rohingya, resulting in a genocide; in the process, the Burmese military junta declared its expulsion of any and all Novayan East Indian bureaucratic personnel and declared Myanmar would become independent if the federal government responds. Governor-Militant Jose, having grown impatient alongside his bureaucrats, finally declared Burma a rogue state and, with support from the Chinese Empire and the Indo-Greek kingdom of Yavana, invaded Myanmar faster than the Burmese military junta expected. Despite calls for aid from Myanmar, the international community condemned Myanmar for its genocide and allowed the Novayan East Indies to invade it. The Novayan East Indian military's rapid response to Myanmar going rogue led to the latter being conquered and the rogue Burmese military leaders stripped of their positions and medals and subsequently and summarily executed for the first time in Novayan East Indian history; Governor-Militant Jose appointed general Daniel as his successor before resigning, citing his ordering the execution of the traitorous Burmese military officers as the reason for his resignation and moral dilemma.

### Modern day

At the turn of the 21st century, Governor-Militant Charles announced he is retiring in favor of focusing on the Novayan East Indian Marine Corps, appointing Borealis III as his successor within two-three years. He did retire to focus more on the marine corps a few years later, leading to Borealis III's rise to power as Governor-Militant. At the same time, High Archbishop Jonathan Smith declared his abdication, citing his wish to focus on humanitarian missions, and made High Priestess Viviane Buenaventura the successor, elevating her to High Archbishop.

## Overview

### Politics

The Novayan East Indies operate under a Paternalist/Liberal Conservative government, led by Governor-Militant Borealis Norsoutha III. As of 2001, the Novayan East Indies is considered a powerful country in Asia and possibly the world, and a smart power in the game of politics and diplomacy.

### Foreign affairs

The Novayan East Indies was a member of the International Union and a member of the Group of Seven, which composed of itself, the Russian, Chinese and Korean empires, the Kingdom of Taiwan, the State of Japan, and the Kingdom of Yavana. It was also a member of the G7+5, and has a delegation in the Legation Cities/International Mandate.

The Novayan East Indies holds friendly relations with every nations, among which were Japan, Korea, China, Russia, Taiwan, Yavana, Babylonia, Arabia, the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, Germany, Logres, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Soissons, Switzerland, Brazil, California, Texas, Alaska, Borealia, the Federation of Native American States, Mexikha, Maya, and Inca. It also holds somewhat friendly relations with the Novayan West Indies.

The only nation that the Novayan East Indies hold strained and sometimes hostile relations with was the United States of America, which is known to aggress China, Russia and the Novayan East Indies, the latter of whom was most aggressed due to the fact America sees itself as the world's policemen and an aspiring potential superpower that wants to twist the current world order into its own, with American-made socioeconomic, sociopolitical and ideological views and the fact it sees the Novayan East Indies as the one in charge of the new world order.

The American government also claimed that the Novayan East Indies is a cultist nation where the East Indian Conclave is but the religious and spiritual arm of the government which wished to impose its ideals upon the world regardless of anyone's thoughts or feelings, and that America is the only nation that would combat such a monster with espionage and wars. Such claims were baseless and without evidence as many don't consider the Novayan East Indies as such, as well as the Novayan East Indies desiring only peace and not war; despite such peaceful endeavors, every nation knew what would happen when the United States caused the Novayan East Indies reached its limits in patience, and fear that the latter would respond diplomatically first and with war as a last resort if provoked even more. It is for this reason that Russia, China, Japan, Rome and Byzantium stood with the Novayan East Indies and keep up the fight with America in the diplomatic and political arenas.

The Novayan East Indies was represented in the Legation Cities, also known as the International Mandate for Regional Socioeconomic Development and Cooperation in Asia, tasked with ensuring that every nation in Asia cooperate and develop socioeconomically. Controversially named after the Legation Quarter and later the Legation Cities after the Boxer Rebellion that sparked the Chinese Civil War, the first Novayan East Indian to become High Commissioner of the Mandate and have an all-Novayan staff in 1921 directed the mandate's transformation from a colonial affair to a socioeconomic development and cooperation mandate and forced the Western nations (especially Britain, France, the Benelux, Spain, Rome, Byzantium, and to a lesser extent Geramny) to adhere to the new rules or suffer from the Closed Door policy (no goods from China) in an act of hateful, outright spite, which shocked even the most hardliners within Chinese leadership who thought the Novayans to be noble and lofty; in 1929, the Novayan East Indian High Commissioner was democratically replaced by a hardliner-turned-reformist Chinese leader, who ensured that any Novayan who would become High Commissioner must be observed by independent observers Chinese leadership recruited to ensure such an act of spite by any Novayan High Commissioner must never be repeated.

### Military

The Novayan East Indian Military had 8,862,800 total personnel, divided into 1,271,050 active personnel, 1,521,850 reservists, and 6,069,900 paramilitary personnel. The reason for this active-reserve-paramilitary ratio is due to the Novayan East Indies' pro-people stance, which is shown when military reservists have civilian jobs while awaiting force rotation; paramilitary forces were the various agencies and task forces which function as law enforcement, border security, and coast guards. The Civil Guard function as the law enforcement while the Colonial Gendarmerie function as border patrol (for the Frontier Security Force), intelligence operations, and internal security. Both, however, have coast guard units tasked with patrolling the coasts for any trouble that require their attention.

The Novayan East Indian Military, which has roots tracing back to the War of 1812, where a Novayano-Japanese expeditionary force liberated the East Indies from European control, was a part of the civil-military bureaucracy which administers the nation and still has a role in it. Even though the majority of the civil-military bureaucracy is occupied by civilian bureaucrats, the military was given an exception in administering the Captaincies-Marshal of Kampuchea and Burma, the former of which launched a genocide that saw the Governorate of Vietnam leading an invasion to liberate the Cambodians and the latter having sparked a conflict against native groups within its borders that eventually started a genocide necessitating military intervention. The Kampuchean and Burmese civil-military bureaucracies were administered by the military

The Novayan East Indies was a major participant in peacekeeping operations, humanitarian missions and conflict deescalation due to its pro-peace views, use of diplomacy, humanitarian stances, et cetera.