Democratic People's Republic of Yamato

Yamato, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Yamato (ヤマト民主人民共和国), is a country in east Asia. It constitutes the entirety of the Yamato Penisula and also includes a large number of islands in the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Chunjin, Liǔtiáon and Siberia to the north, the Yellow Sea to the west, the Yamato Sea to the east and the Philippines Strait to the south.

During the first half of the first millennium, the peninsula was split between three warring kingdoms, which included the Kingdom of Yamato to the north. However, eventually Yamato triumphed and the peninsula unified into the First Yamato Empire. Over the next few hundred years, the Empire expanded its borders to include most of eastern Chunjin, successfully fending off the Mongol hordes and establish colonial holdings in the Philippines and Matya to the south.

However, during a particularly weak rule under Emperor Tyuso, the empire collapsed upon his assassination as he had no apparent heir or replacement. The empire went under an extremely extended period of civil war known as the Mirrored Dawn period, which lasted from 1512 to 1847, whereupon the Yamato empire was re-established under the first Kaya emperor, Akagashi as the Second Yamato Empire.

After a brief period of relative peace and prosperity, the Second Yamato Empire would lose its power after losing the Second Great War in the Pacific, having to surrender its holdings in the Phillipines and Chunjin. After failed conspiracies by both the victorious Chunjin and Caironian allies, the nation was split between North Yamato (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Yamato, shortened to DPRY) in the Chunjin bloc and South Yamato in the democratic ITO bloc until the 1980s when a combined offensive by the north resulted in the reformation of a unified Yamato.

This was followed by another period of economic growth, Yamato establishing itself as a powerful Asian economic stronghold, one of the world's great powers, contributing greatly to the digital age, leading in industry, robotics and science. During the Bellum Adest period of the 2020s, the DPRY backstabbed the PACR and declared independence, resulting in the nation that still stands today.

## Etymology

Yamato is named for the northern Kingdom of Yamato of the Three Kingdoms period, one of the early predecessors to the modern Yamato state. It itself was named for the word "yama" (山), meaning mountains, which covered the entirety of its northern borders. Though the Chunjin states referred to Yamato as Riben (日本), resulting in Giapan or Japan in western tongues, this fell out of usage quickly after Yamato conquered most of the Chunjin states. European traders who reached Chunjin would so know of the nation of "Yamato" to the far-east.

### Mirrored Dawn Period

Main article: Mirrored Dawn Period

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## Geography

Yamato is a peninsula nation, located in east Asia, which also comprises many thousands of small islands. It extends some 2,000km from continental Asia into the Sea of Yamato and is surrounded on three fronts by water masses, to the west by the Yellow Sea, to the east by the Yamato Sea and the south by the Philippines Strait, which connects the two seas. The Yalu river in the north forms the border with Liǔtiáon and the Tumen river likewise for Siberia. A notable island is Nipu Island to the east.

The south and east of the peninsula are mostly plains whilst the north and west are made up of large mountainous regions.

### Climate

Yamato is a temperate climate with a large range of temperatures, with an extremely rainy summer and a few seasonal cyclones and typhoons, still considerably less so than many other east Asian nations. Due to its regional positioning, it also experiences cold winters brought down from the Siberian areas, which combine with the humid airs of the Pacific Ocean, often resulting in snowy periods during dryer seasons.

Due to the size of the nation and the north-south orientation, the climate also widely varies dependent on geographic location with ranges up to 20 degrees. However, all are affected by the monsoonal seasons and the nation is regarded to be a rainy location.