Vietnam

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**Vietnam,** Officially the **People's Republic of Vietnam,** is a small country in South East Asia. Vietnam is a Unitary Parliamentary Republic with one centrist party controlling all seats within said parliament, as Japanese influence keeps others from gaining seats. Vietnam was born from a large scale rebellion in 1937 against the German East Asian colonial government in the area around Saigon. And after a long guerilla warfare campaign Vietnam would be "liberated" via the forces of Japan and Siam. However this would come at the cost of Laos and Cambodia to Siam. Vietnam was proclaimed on August 5th 1942 after Vietnamese forces took the city of Saigon and an elaborate ceremony in the town hall would officially see a declaration of independence. Vietnam was able to stabilize quickly enough to have its units take place in the Capture of Ceylon and Maldives and Vietnam was able to construct its own naval force to combat german fleets in the Indian Ocean. Vietnam is a member of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity sphere but with as much Japanese presence here as in Formosa Vietnam is essentially a puppet government to the Japanese Empire. Vietnam also aligns with the Entente secretly, hoping to combat the German Empire.

## History

1936 German East Asia was not the model colony many believed it would be. Far away from almost any other colonial government and made for the purpose of spices and wood this colony was poor and a ripe ground for revolution. Syndicalist agitators from the KMT had fled into the colony and there they found like-minded individuals within the villages and cities of Indochina. And behind the scenes they began to stoke the flames of revolution. But something would quickly come to a head as the government in Singapore demanded that the Vietnamese raise the quotas of wood beyond any reasonable limit in an attempt to combat the Black Monday Crisis. On March 10th 1937 a large scale revolution would occur in Saigon after German Forces attempted to stop a Vietnamese holiday as punishment for not reaching the quotas. Syndicalist and other socialist leaders would quickly take charge of the government and would begin marching out into the rest of indochina. The revolutionaries saw success at first but would be later put down with brutal efficiency with only the most remote areas still holding remnants of the revolution. But these remnants would remain in the shadows hoping to rekindle the revolution and they would delay and sometimes even take convoys of material heading to Saigon. These attacks would get more and more bold throughout the years until the raid on Hanoi finally caused mass retribution through a bombing campaign inside of the jungles. In 1941 with the Second Weltkrieg beginning and protests against conscription getting ever violent The Veitnamese joined in revolution once again. Around the same time as Insulindia requested help the Indochinese requested Japanese aid. However Japan needed to secure Indochina before Insulindia and was worried about potential issues regarding the fleets in the area. So Japan requested the help of the Siamese army who agreed in return for Laos and Cambodia to be annexed into the country. While this wasn't optimal it was still freedom for the people in the area and so they agreed despite reluctance to accept Siamese domination. When the offensive came it was swift and destructive with almost every major city falling to rebels in the case of most inland areas, and to Siamese and Japanese landing forces quickly breaking German defensive lines. However in the north of Laos another rebellion would break out in support of a monarchist nation however most of Laos had already been secured. Siam would negotiate with them with Vietnam as a mediator and it was accepted that the territory they currently controlled would go to Siam with the rest to Laos. Vietnam would spend 1943 stabilizing and would send some of its units to go help in Ceylon and the Maldives however most were kept at home as a new navy was being built. Soon the Vietnamese fleet would be the third largest within the Co-Prosperity sphere above Hawaii but below Siam. Vietnamese fleets would be known for their nimbleness during the war using smaller air craft carriers that could move instead of ones with more capacity. In 1947 after nearly 6 years of war since its creation the Treaty of Singapore would officially dissolve German East Asia and partition it among new states, Japan, Siam, And Australasia. Vietnam would soon join the congress of nations and is now internationally recognized. However when elections were called to be held Japan finished an operation long in the making to remove the Syndicalist government and after a swift coup the already non-socialist prime minister was put as a supreme ruler of all of the government as a new one is currently being made.

## Military

Vietnam's military is the third strongest in the entirety of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and is known for its great ability to ambush. The Vietnamese army is small but is well accustomed to the Jungle climate of the region. Being able to go through areas long considered unpassable by most it gave the Japanese forces far more mobility than their German counterparts who were not used to the Rainforests. Vietnam's navy is also very strong and more numerous than other navies in the surrounding area. Vietnam built its navy to be small and nimble being able to do hit and run attacks on German fleets and it does have small air craft carriers because of this. It also has an Air Force that it bought from Japan and it used on its fleets. This Air Force terrorized German Task Forces and is known for its raid on the Seychelles in 1946.