Kaiserreich Story (Part 4: Asia and Other Places)

Kaiserreich is a fictional story made up by an anonymous player of a mobile game; "Hearts of Iron 4", the story is in-depth and has a lot about a great "what if?" question of what would happen if the Central Powers won World War 1.

This is the last part of this 4-part wiki series about Kaiserreich. In this page, we will talk about the other places around the world, the kind of places that the story only speaks about on an occasion.

## China

Though on the other side of the world where World War 1 or even any kind of Syndicalist movement has little to no influence. Even in a place like China, history changes. It started in 1911 where the Xinhai Rebellion fails and fled to Manchuria, thus allowing the Qing Dynasty to "somewhat" continue.

But, the Qing Dynasty doesn't hold on to the entire region, China still fragments (a story tried and true since China's inception 3,000 years ago) and is now ravaged in a civil war very different then in our reality. The Qing only rule a small region in the northeast, and their at constant war with the other "cliques" in China, and their \*real\* opponents are "ironically" in Manchuria, and it's run by the "Fengtian Movement" which is one of the last remnants of Sun Yat-Sen's failed rebellion.

By 1926 with the German Empire now getting involved in other global affairs decides to help the Qing Dynasty to defeat the Fengtians as well as the other "warring" warlords and bring the Dynasty to the way it was before the start of the 20th century.

In Kaiserreich, with Germany now the world's largest power, it wants to spread the glory of a strong emperor all across the world since they have defeated the capitalist and social governments. By the next year (1927) the Qing Dynasty (with German aid) was able to unite all the Chinese regions, but with a twist. The Qing would establish a "constitutional monarchy" with Emperor Puyi at the center. But the Qing is no superpower like Germany, because it'll be under constant threat by it's Far East neighbor; Japan.

## Japan

What about my favorite foreign nation, the Land of the Rising Sun; Japan? How does this country do in this story?

Well, its influence is confined to the main Japanese archipelago as well as the Korean Peninsula since Germany won the war it had to give back the islands in the South Pacific that once belonged to Germany, what's worse for Japan in Kaiserreich is that it too has gone through a series of economic crises in the immediate years following the end of the war since Germany now controlled the global market and with the Syndicalist uprisings in Western Europe and the United States (the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 didn't really help matters either). In fact 1926 was considered the worst year for Japan as its economic crises only got worse, and to top it all off, Emperor Yoshihito dies and Hirohito ascends to the throne, and with Hirohito emperor, Japan slowly (but surely) recovers from its economic slump.

But, they come under threat from the newly revived Qing Dynasty (who has German backing) as they have taken most of China (even the Fengtian Movement in Manchuria who Japan supported).

By the 1930s, Japan is getting its military for an invasion of Manchuria (almost like in our reality) but in Kaiserreich, it is to stop the Qing Dynasty from taking over the rest of China and also to expand their territory by, and (if necessary) prepare for a war with Germany as Japan sees them as a threat since they're helping the Qing despite strife and unrest going on within Japan's own territories.

## Africa

Africa is a mixed bag, even as Germany took most (if not all) of the colonies once owned by Britain and France. Germany owns the largest colony in Africa (namely the Equatorial region) which is bigger than even the continental United States.

Apart from Germany's large Equatorial colony, the other African regions once were colonies to Great Britain and France respectively are now independent regions, and they're at odds with the German colony to the south.

## India

With Germany's victory in the war, India also became independent from its colonial holdings (namely Great Britain), but it wasn't all "Sunshine and Rainbows" for India, their depleted military power has left India vulnerable to mass protests and political unrest, one of which resulted in what is called the Amritsar Massacre in 1919 which only intensified the unrest in the nation.

Like the United States in this story, India is under massive unrest by numerous parties; some which still want to be loyal to the British, some that want an entirely different government, some that want to restore a monarchy to power, and even some socialist and nationalist movements too. In fact, after the war, a civil war would erupt in India with a provisional government (called the "Indian National Congress" and led by Mahatma Gandhi) and it too saw its own share of unrest especially when a socialist movement had assassinated the local Maharajah and his family in 1922 (which would be called "Red Summer). Causing more Indian people and monarchs and Princes to look up to the British to help, and many fled to Bombay (modern-day Mumbai)

But when the Syndicalist military of the "Union of Britain" defeated the Royal Military in 1925 as a lot of the British forces still loyal to the Royal Family saw their bad situation worsen, and even with British Governor General "Rufus Issacs" consolidated his forces in the southern part of India with the help from 2 Indian princes "Hyderabad" and "Mysore" to try to stop the rebels in the north, but hopes to stop them were quickly extinguished, as were hopes of a ceasefire with the INC. Soon, riots against Hindus by Muslims and Sikhs grew, but were suppressed in 1931 in what is known as the "Purge of Dhaka". This is when a faction called "Free India" (sometimes called the "Azad Hindh") had to meet with leaders from the Sikh and Muslim factions to call for them to be independent from Free India, but was rejected by the INC.

Eventually, in 1934, Gandhi would then agreed to a truce with Muslim leaders, and leading to permanent peace and the Punjab region (still held by Indian Rebels) eventually took what would be known as Pakistan, but they were still having a hard time with the south which still had British governors.

## Oceania Region

Though, ANZAC (Australia-New Zealand Army Corp.) failed at Galipoli , but found better success in the Middle East and New Guinea, that is until the Central Powers began to turn the tide of the war and in 1921 with the Central powers winning the war, New Guinea was given back to Germany (which was met with scrutiny by the Australian Press), and with the Union of Britain coming to power in 1925, Australia knew it was going to be alone, or did it?

Well, let's say Australia and New Zealand decided to "get married" so to say. After a Police Strike in 1923 which led to a week-long riot which the military had to suppress, something called the "Melbourne Commune, and the agreement of something called the "Consolidation of Resources act", this formed what is called the "Australasian Confederation".

## South America

I'm going to do a quick reference for South America since 1, this is the last part, and 2, most of South America's nations are republics.

* Syndicalism conquers Chile
* Brazil sets up a republic of states (like the US and Mexico)
* Patagonia exists and wants independence from Argentina and is getting aid from Chile

Okay, that's it.

## What now?

The question now is "What would happen now?" Would there be an "Alternate" World War 2 with either a British or French "Hitler"-like person? Would Germany still remain a superpower? What would become of the United States, would it reunite or would it stay divided?

Well,

Maybe Mexico and Canada would swoop in and take the US and divide it amongst themselves.

Or maybe, the European Syndicalists would unite into one power and try to take down Germany together.

Or maybe, Russia would start another war against its ancient rival, the Ottoman Empire.

Or maybe, Japan would take advantage and conquer the world.

Or maybe, this page will end right now.

And the 5th scenario will happen.

This will conclude my 4-part wiki page series. Don't forget to check out my Games and Movies wikis too. Until next time, this is JohnnyOTGS signing out.