Hawaii

**Hawaii**, officially the **Kingdom of Hawaii**, is a country in the Pacific Ocean, spanning across the greater Hawaiian archipelago, primarily comprised of the eight major inhabited islands of Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Niʻihau, and Kahoʻolawe. Hawaii is a member nation of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

## History

### Big Five to Big Four

During Japanese occupation, the plantations owned by the Big Five companies expelled under the Commune would be reorganized, as one system would transfer to the other. Swaths of farmland, originally intended for redistribution, would be auctioned off to the similar Big Four zaibatsu in Japan.

## People

* **Kinoiki Kekaulike I** (born Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa) is the Queen of Hawaii. The great-grandniece of Liliʻuokalani I, she was crowned in 1953 after the unexpected death of her mother. Much like her mother, she is an avid socialite and heir to a massive family fortune. However, unlike her mother, she was never grew prepared to engage in political affairs and serve as a monarch, instead spending much of her time throwing lavish parties and becoming deeply engaged in sports and horseback riding. While she lives a happy, privileged lifestyle, her recent years have been plagued by strife and unhappiness. She had not expected her mother's early death, and, despite mostly being raised by her late grandmother, it personally affected her deeply. Forced into a position she had no control over, she has spent little time continuing her mother's work to assert Hawaiian autonomy, and has recently began heavily drinking in private. Her problems have been made even worse over the past few years, as she entered a loveless marriage with a polo star named Peter Perkins despite herself privately being a lesbian.
* **Mitsuo Fuchida** is the Prime Minister of Hawaii and a former lieutenant of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. A war hero in Japan for his actions in the Eastern Seas War, leading the successful air raid of the Port of Singapore, Fuchida would be discharged by the end of the war and later settle in Hawaii, becoming one of the main representatives for the new wave of Japanese veterans retiring in the islands. After being elected to the Honolulu city council in 1946, he would later be elected to the Senate in 1949 before eventually becoming Prime Minister in 1953.
* **John A. Burns** is a White Hawaiian and a former Honolulu police officer who stayed in the islands following Hawaiian independence and the subsequent Japanese takeover, not joining the many "white flight" refugees who fled to the Pacific States. Making ties to the working class, Burns would become an ardent social reformist, first working with the Police Benevolent Society and eventually becoming a prominent politician, officially heading the **Hawaii Progressive Democratic Party** while making under-the-table deals with the Hawaiian Citizens' Federation in the progress, hoping to create a popular front against the zaibatsu and their political dominance.

### Minor characters

* **Gordon Paiʻea Chung-Hoon** is a distinguished naval commander who, despite his mixed Korean ethnicity, chose to remain in his homeland and continue serving in the nascent Hawaiian Navy. Despite being its most skilled commander in the underfunded military, he had been passed over for promotion time and time due to the IJN's pressure not to appoint a Korean to the post. Eventually, however, the IJN caved, not out of any respect for Chung-Hoon, but because there was no possible admiral to appoint.

### Deceased

* **Liliʻuokalani II** (born Lydia Liliʻuokalani Kawānanakoa) was the second Queen of Hawaii from 1939 to 1953, appointed by the 1939 Constitution's adoption. Known for her flapper lifestyle in her youth, growing radicalization in Hawaii and becoming the witness to mass strikes would force her to become far more active in island affairs, growing more responsible by the 1930s. Eventually, as the Second American Civil War broke out and as the Emergency Directorate was declared, she would become an advisor to James Dole, pleading with him to respond to the strikes peacefully. As Honolulu fell to revolution, and Japan subsequently intervened to occupy the islands, Lydia realized that she had to use her ties and status to appeal to the Imperial Japanese Navy as well. Though her sister, Abigail, was the legitimate claimant, she was devotedly in favor of remaining an American territory, and fled to the Pacific States in 1937, leaving Lydia as the only option. After years of campaigning for Hawaiian independence within the Sphere, Lydia would finally be crowned - albeit as a puppet with very little power over a Japanese-controlled territory. Unprepared for much of the responsibilities suddenly bestowed upon her, and under scrutiny by those who saw her as a puppet of the Japanese despite her popularity, she privately began to struggle with severe depression through the 1940s, and her health would rapidly decline altogether. She died in ʻIolani Palace in 1953 at the age of 51, passing the throne to her ill-prepared daughter Abigail, who would be crowned as Kinoiki Kekaulike I.
* **Kōji Ariyoshi** was a Nisei journalist, union organizer, and syndicalist who had been an underground terror to Imperial ambitions from 1941 to 1954. Founder of the **Hawaiian Citizens' Federation**, an anti-imperialist revolutionary organization associated with labor unions, syndicalists, and anti-Imperial Nisei, with additional foreign ties to the Kuomintang and the scattered Korean independence movements. Executed by a Kempeitai agent in 1954 while exiled in Mexico.