Insulindia

Flag of Insulindia

**Insulindia,** Officially **Federative Republic of Insulindia,** Is a large country in South East Asia. It is officially a federative republic but the presence of Japanese troops has kept the nation from fully transitioning into a democracy, in-fact it has had only one president during its entire history due to a lack of free elections. Insulindia fought for its independence from the Dutch East Indies starting in 1937 and ending officially with the Treaty of Singapore. Insulindia needs some work it is to get out of its developing state being one the poorer nation in Asia. Insulindia was proclaimed on July 17th 1937 in the aftermath of widespread protests of dutch rule on a wave of nationalism. Insulindia was where most of the fighting between the Japanese and Reichspakt forces would take place during the Second Weltkrieg as Insulindia was fighting for its independence with Japanese support. Insulindia is a loyal member of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity sphere and is one of its more puppeted members. While not as bad as the Philippines it still is having to start converting its populace to speak Japanese. Insulindia has a deep hatred for the Reichspakt and may be more radical than Japan in its rivalry with Germany.

## History

In 1936 the Dutch East Indies was a place of rebelliousness and nationalism. The Black Monday Crisis had agitated the local people of the East Indies who wished to overthrow the government from the Netherlands. The situation would slowly get more and more volatile throughout the year 1936 with more incidents of rebellion and outright acts of terrorism against the government in Jakarta. This would all come to a head on June 17th after a union of workers in a small spice farming village refused to give up their spices to the government. This led into a shoot out witch sparked mass outrage across the islands and across Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Papua, the Moluccas, and several other islands massive revolts sparked out. And later that day in Aech the provisional government of Insulindia was declared beginning the Isulindian War of Independence. Insulindian forces would fight with dutch ones across the island but the main front was in Sumatra. Dutch forces went across the countryside burning villages and encircling units as the untrained units of the revolutionaries where unable to stop professional troops. Aech would fall and most of the government would be arrested. This was aside for Koesno Sosrodihardjo who was able to flee into the jungle with a few remnants of the government. He would continue a guerilla war against the Dutch government for 4 more years and slowly but surely his movement captured small islands and swaths of Borneo and Sumatra. However another opportunity to swing the scales would come when French forces attacked Germany and the Second Weltkrieg began. The Netherlands were drawn into the war and thus pulled troops from the East Indies. This allowed the Insulindians to capture a radio station in Borneo and contact the Japanese government. There they agreed to support Insulindian independence in return for co-operation and joining the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Japanese forces would then attack Singapore and launch a massive co-ordinated attack along with Insulindian forces who would overrun Borneo and Sumatra. However when it came to crossing into Java the naval presence of the remaining German East Asian Forces would prevent landings for another year. However smaller islands would be liberated as Japan began to advance on Papua. In late 1943 along with Insulindian forces the then Batavia fell to the Insulindian forces who renamed the city to Jakarta. After this Insulindia would mostly begin working on making a government and stabilizing its rebellious ethnic groups. However Japanese forces would keep Insulindia stable and allow it to federalize into a more stable configuration. However the threat of Reichspakt victory was still eminent and so Insulindia would continue to keep its wartime government despite the threat being low at the time. In 1947 the Treaty of Singapore was signed officially giving independence to the Insulindian Republic. But the last few years have not been easy with a devastating earthquake and several natural disasters keeping the nation from industrializing. Instability still reigns too and the government has remained in martial law even with the war over. What future awaits the young republic is up in the air like most of the world.

## Military

Insulindia's military is small but not altogether weak, Especially when taking into consideration the Japanese Garrison temporarily underneath Insulindian control. Insulinidia's amry is small but has recived good training from the Japanese military and is especially trained for Jungle combat in the isles. For an island nation Insulindia has a relatively small navy mostly comprised of stolen dutch ships. This is because of the war and also because of the relative youth of the country. It is also why Insulindia completely relies on Japan for it's aerial defense, but hopefully this will change soon.