Burma

Flag of Burma

**Burma,** Officially the **Democratic People's Republic of Burma** is a Authoritarian Socialist country in Southeast Asia. Burma's current regime is very similar to that of Valois back in France as a Totalist regime. Burma did not participate in the wars surrounding it rather it went through a couple of massive coups and a civil war. In 1942 as the people, inspired by the success of Bharatiya, rebelled against the government accidentally creating one of the worse regimes on earth. Burma is very militarized given it is on the border of Siam a nation of near opposite ideology. Burma was established on March 2nd 1942 after the fall of the last republican forces in the Shan States. Burma did not participate in the Second Weltkrieg wishing to stabilize and assimilate the other ethnic groups within the country, A brutal process that is still going on. Burma is aligned with India as a member of the new "Fourth Internationale" project witch doesn't see to be bearing any fruit yet.

## History

Burma in 1936 was isolated from the rest of the world and wished to remain so. The Black Monday Crisis did not hit the country relatively hard as the nation had very little in terms of economic activity with the rest of the world. The people where still poor but happy for now as Burma worked on development and establishing a stable democratic system. However in 1938 signs of trouble would be on the horizon with the break out of the War of Indian Unification to the west witch spread the seeds of instability in Burma. Partisans would cross the border hoping to take resources away and this meant Burma essentially lost control of its entire northern half. This was exacerbated when the different ethnic groups in the region took the opportunities to establish their own rebellious states witch would throw the country into even more chaotic fighting. And still more chaos was to come when a military general attempted to coup the government and establish a National Populist regime within Burma. This would start the first phase of the Burmese Civil War, a low intensity conflict as the scattered nature of the fighting and the inability to make large offensives in the rural terrain prevented large scale battles from deciding the course of the war. Burma would essentially remain in several pieces for a couple of years as different factions slowly consolidating different provinces. But a new wildcard would change the future of Burma forever. Ne Win a socialist and supported by the neighboring India would launch a coup and succeeded establishing a new socialist state after the people overthrew the National Populist regime. He would send out forces quickly putting down the rebellious states in the north and would begin passing legislation turning the country into an autocratic state based off of Valois' France. This would prove to be a massive mistake later on as the Third Internationale would lose the Second Weltkrieg. In order to prevent another revolution and also to control his populace the supreme leader would begin spreading propaganda and brainwashing his populace. He would also strip the other peoples of their identity and forcing them to speak Burmese and refer to themselves as Burmese instead of their local ethnicity. This would unfortunately work with most of these peoples stripped of their identity within only a few years. This has given the Burmese government a very bad reputation across the world and has contributed to their increasing isolation. With little other choice the Burmese government relies on India for its protection as the last and only socialist neighbor nearby.

## Military

The Burmese nation is one of the most militarized countries on the planet with a overwhelmingly expensive military that it cannot hope to afford. The Burmese army is very professional and is mechanized, something very uncommon in South or Southeast asia. It also is good at the mountainous warfare that Burma is used to. The Burmese Navy however has been completely neglected and is only comprised of a few corvettes and rusty First Weltkrieg era submarines. The Burmese Air Force however has received funding and for its HDI its air force is quite large and modern. All in all Burma is certainly not a country to take its threats lightly.