Raku

Raku is a nation located in the Illescas Peninsula, in Peru. It's official language is Japanese, and it's capital is Korihana.

## History

For years, the Illescas Peninsula (also known as the Fujishirai Peninsula for the native Rakuites) has been abandoned and desolate. According to a legend, the Incas used to reside there at winter to protect them from the Jés, long before the Inca Empire was built.

At that time, when the Inca Empire started growing, they had plans to fulfill the desert to communities, but when the Spanish came, the ideas were all burnt up and scrapped.

The Japanese inmigration to lima was extremely massive in the 1900's, that people had to forcefully speak Spanish in and outside their homes. This led to a protest of only 100 people in the streets of Ventanilla, but then, in 2 hours, the protest was supressed and suspended by the Peruvian government, because they thought they were Incas protesting for their rights, or so the diaries reported.

   45 of the people there, including the rebel Ashiro Kotake, which is a descendant from the island of Kyushu, tried to move to Piura, but because of the hot climate and lack of cool wind, they stopped at a place which at that time was called Bayovar, on which the Japanese called Ookamishi, which meant, "wolf village".

As the years have passed, in 1926, the city of Ookamishi became an industrial town for the Japanese in a foreign soil. The Peruvians had a plan to turn the city into a condominium for native people living there, but the Japanese people refused that plan, and 1000 people protested when the president Augusto Leguia landed on a boat at the port. Ashiro's answer was a rebellion, but due to the strong army that Leguia had while visiting the city, as a result of not getting shot by them, this plan was considered null.

But in 1934, when Benavides took power over the country, the Japanese people, tired of speaking Spanish and adapting to the Peruvian culture, joined to make an organization called The New Serenade, led by Ashiro himself. When he proclaimed himself as the leader, some people knew him as "Korika", which is Rakuite slang for "the defender"

The independence was made in 1935, when the Japanese people, after killing 20 Peruvians who were lurking in the city (possibly cadets from the Peruvian Military Army), emerged victorious from a small protest that happened in Hakoukawa Street. The city of Ookamishi was then renamed Korihana, to honor the ashes from Ashiro.

## Economy

Raku's currency is the Ken, on which works a tad similar to the Japanese yen, but with 2 dollars more worth the price. Raku had suffered a damage since 2017, with it's GDP per capita being $90,000.

## Provinces

Raku is divided into 8 provinces and one Capital Region which covers the central part of Korihana.

## Symbols

Raku's flag was made by one of Ashiro's sons (who was born by one of her many wives, which is American), Rukomei Kanshi. It contains a green background with a four-sided diagonal square, and a optical illusion made out of circles, which is one of Raku's crests.

Raku's anthem is Sora no Amayo Nakama (These Soft and Sweet Friends), which was played for the first time in 1944.

## Telecommunications

Raku decided to ban traditional television in 2018, due to streaming services being worldwide. The news are also banned on radio stations since 2019 due to the same reasons, and news are heard on the young "inter-audio stations", which are virtual radio stations used to encourage the past activities that were banned in the country ever since.

The last television station to close doors was RTH, which was closed in 2019 due to failure to comply with the law.