Laos

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**Laos,** Officially the **Kingdom of Laos,** is a nation in South East Asia dependent on its neighbors for protection and trade. It is a Unitary Constitutional Monarchy with a governmental system based off of that of Japan's, it is ruled by the house of Sisavang. Laos, like most of South East Asia, was born out of the fires of the Second Weltkrieg as the only state in South East Asia to not have an insurgency going on before then, Laos is the weakest country in South East Asia. Laos was declared on 29th of August 1942 after negotiations at Vientiane over the fact that Siam had been promised the lands Laos controlled. Laos in the aftermath of Vientiane was stripped of most of its territory leaving it with just the mountainous north where the royal, and now official, capital lays. Laos is reliant on the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere to simply survive for more than a few years given the constant agitation of Left Kuomintang elements within the country and lack of trade routes outside of its immediate neighbors.

## History

In 1936 Laos was at the time a split nation with part of its land belonging to both Germany and Siam. The German part was relatively rural and mountainous with little value to German East Asia in terms of economics. Thus Laos was left alone by East Asia and when the Black Monday Crisis hit the people of Laos did not feel it as hard as their neighbors to the East and south. Thus when the insurgency outbreak in South East Asia began, Laos was the only region of the colony that didn't have a major insurgency. This was not to say that the Lao did not support the insurgency, they simply did not actively fight but their lands did become a safe harbor for many of those looking to flee from Vietnam. This would give the Lao more favor in the eyes of Germany who decided to allow the Lao some self rule over their territory in an attempt to make an example for what could happen should the other insurgencies lay down their weapons. This of course was not heeded and many across the region saw the Lao as traitors to the rest of South East Asia. However tensions would grow when in 1940 Germany rescinded this in order to conscript from Laos and get more men to the front lines of the Second Weltkrieg. This would spark the feelings of anger within the Lao but there was little to be done at the time. But things would begin to change in 1942 with the entry of Japan into the war along with the revolution of all of the other Insurgencies into full blown revolutions. The king of Laos decided to try his own luck at independence and declared that Laos was now an independent state on the side of the Japanese. This however would cause more issues with Siam having been promised much of the land of Laos and a newly independent one would cause difficulties in borders. Laos would try and negotiate with Siam at Vientiane with Vietnamese mediation between the two. It was decided that Laos would lose the south witch was mostly jungles for the mountainous north witch while equally as rural was not as useless as the south. However Vientiane was still lost to Siam witch left a bitter taste in the mouths of nationalists, but at least they were allowed to exist and weren't conquered outright. Laos would end up through the rest of the Second Weltkrieg dealing with some remnants of the Kuomintang who had fled from China into Laos and were trying to establish a Socialist state there. This prevented Laos from helping out the rest of the G.E.A.C.P.S witch ticked Japan off a bit. However some negotiations later and Laos was allowed to keep existing in return for Japan taking over certain industries within the nation. The future of Laos seems to be a interesting one as an outsourcer of labour for the G.E.A.C.P.S and with a bit of industry Laos may become an equal in the eyes of alliance. Only time will tell.

## Military

The military of Laos is small but not all together insignificant. Laos really only has an army comprised of a couple of very well trained divisions witch mostly serve as a royal guard but are currently dispatched to go and put down the insurgency. Laos also has an air force albeit it is very small and is currently on lease from Japan who is considering taking them back.