Protectorate of Japan

**Japan**, also known as the **Protectorate of Japan** and formerly the **State of Japan**, is an island country in East Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Part of the Ring of Fire, Japan spans an archipelago of 6,852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is Japan's capital and largest city; other major cities include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.

Japan is among a number of territorial locations (Korea, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, Manchuria, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia) which saw units of the Novayan Expeditionary Force being stationed there. Tokyo, the capital of Japan, also serves as the NEF's headquarters. After the revelations of the Shinomiya affairs, however, Japan is placed under martial law to prevent socioeconomic collapse, leading to the eventual transformation of the nation itself into an occupied state under Novayan military rule, effectively placing it under a Novayan military-guided democracy.

## Politics

### Overview

The Protectorate of Japan is in a stable, if not precarious state as it is currently under Novayan military occupational rule. Many Japanese citizens fear their rights will be violated and so took to the streets to protest against the occupation. The lack of expected harsh response from the NSC Armed Forces (especially those of the Novayan Expeditionary Force), aside from a few soldiers stationed to ensure the safety of those participating in the protests, surprised many as they had thought the Novayans to be no different.

Despite this lackadaisical attitude from the Novayan military, security is tight (albeit still allowing Japanese civilians to go about their daily lives) due to the martial law and nightly curfew, supported by military patrols and mass surveillance. However, because of this security overkill and *de facto* control in the hands of the Military Staff Committee, the budgets for defense, law and order, education, healthcare, environment, industry and welfare saw increased spending. The Japanese National Police Agency, having fallen into Novayan military control, is reformed to handle issues it has since left ignored before, while the Japanese Self-Defense Forces saw an increase in manpower (albeit the majority were in the reserve force and numbered about 1,500,000 reservists). All closed and open schools and hospitals were rejuvenated and refurbished, while industrial sectors were renovated to make them eco-friendly, and vehicles were refueled with ethanol and methanol fuel sources. Corporations who may or may not have influence in politics were heavily-taxed and barred from politics.

As part of the MSCGM's agenda to develop Japan while still occupying it, all contraceptives and other forms of birth control were repealed and the Yukari Laws were implemented. Environmental policies included planting mangrove forests; constructing offshore platforms using environmentally esoteric materials to build CO2 Direct Air Capturers; setting up low carbon technologies such as tidal energy and algae biofuels; rapid deployment of Rainbow Serpent-type massive serpentine entities (coordinating with and directed by various members of the Titanspeaker and Natureweaver Orders to only focus on healing the world and not destroy human civilization) to drastically reduce carbon emissions, regrow vegetation with unprecedented speed, improve the health of coral reefs overall, double the growth and recovery of various endangered animal species to render them no longer endangered, allow for increased snowfall leading to the reformation of trillion tons of ice, and allow for the resurgence of extinct albeit nominally docile or territorial animal species;

### Foreign relations

The Protectorate of Japan holds neutral relations with all the nations of the world, but it holds cordial relations to the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, which is its overlord. However, because of its status as a Novayan client state, the developed countries of the world held tense relations with it as this gave the Novayan military a permanent foothold on Earth and possible fears of being influenced by it through Japan, despite the Novayans holding no ill intent.

 * Prosperous Unification/Scion
* Oligarchic
* Distinguished Admiralty
* Police State
* Military-Industrial Complex
* Fanatic Militarist
* Materialist

Japanese:
* Adaptive
* Nomadic
* Traditional
* Wasteful

Novayans:
* Resilient
* Quick Learners
* Talented
* Conservationist
* Repugnant

Otherworlders (Terrans/Fantasy/Modern Human Races):
* Hard Magicians/Soft Magicians/Naturally Balanced Magi
* Originium Arts Users
* Oripathy
* Agrarian/Industrious
* *Positive and negative traits vary between Terrans and Fantasy/Modern Human Races*

### Government and politics

The Protectorate of Japan is operated by an Authoritarian Democratic regime, where it is a military-guided democracy under the direct control of the Military Staff Committee of the Grand Marshal, which holds *de facto* authority over the nation. Despite its authoritarian rule and security overkill, the MSCGM has taken to heart