The Sakura Pact

## **Overview**

**The Sakura Pact (TSP)**, formally known as **Imperial Sakura**, is an alliance located primarily in East Asia. A former world superpower with a unique diplomatic policy of imperialist pacifism. Its members, known as Sakurans or Imperials, were involved in the creation of many global coalitions during its existence. The Sakura Pact used to control the entirety of Japan, East China, Korea, Manchuria, Southeast Asia, Oceania, and western portions of the Americas. The Sakura Pact alliance currently uses the alliance ID of NWO, a former founding alliance in the game of CitiesWar. In the CitiesWar community, Sakura is famously known to be a "weeb" alliance.

## **Regions of Sakura**

           Sakura was split into five regions: North Japan, Tokyo/East Japan, Central Japan, South Japan, and The Outside Territories. North Japan, Tokyo/East Japan, Central Japan, and South Japan are directly on the mainland, the islands of Japan, thus putting it under the direct control of the central government. The Outside Territories was located in territories outside of the mainland like China, Korea, and Manchuria. It was highly autonomous due to its close proximity to the warfront and a vast number of cities.

### Creation of the Regions

The idea of regions was first conceived after the end of the Unification of Japan period and the beginning of expansion into Korea and Manchuria. Due to an increased number of members, Vivid and the Co-leaders created the Region Plan. This would allow regions to move independently through the use of leadership found in each region. While resembling a form of federation, a large portion of movement and planning would be done by the homeland regions. The first region flags were created on June 19th, 2020 and updated to its current flags on June 21st, 2020. After the continued expansion into regions like Korea, Manchuria, and later on China, the original purpose of regions was largely abandoned and acted more as a ceremonial territory rather then a highly autonomous region system.

### Region Waifus

A tradition of the now ceremonial regions, all four homeland regions have a waifu of their own. The chart below lists what waifu each region is represented by.

**Waifus of Each Region**
 North Japan
 Central Japan
 South Japan

## **History of Sakura**

### **Pact Period**

Starting from its creation at the beginning of The Drewsades on June 12th, 2020 to November 22, 2020, Sakura had the name The Sakura Pact, spanning from the Unification of Japan all the way to the merge with ANZAC. The Sakura Pact was created when Vivid, who had cities located North of the Tokyo Metro Area, direct messaged BakaBento, a player with cities located directly in the heart of the Tokyo Metro Area, to have peace and create an alliance together. As it was very small at the beginning, The Sakura Pact had to be cautious, because veteran alliances, like The Resistance, N.S.T.C, The Black Sun, and The Overseers had a large influence in the surrounding area. As the number of members grew and the members learned about the different kinds of equipment to use in battle, they would eventually expand and completely take over North Japan and successfully destroy the remnants of Drewsader alliances in South Japan. All seemed well, till diplomatic affairs failed between The Sakura Pact and The Overseers, ultimately leading to the Sakuro-Overseer Conflict. Sakura would come out as the victor of the conflict and further expansion into Korea, Manchuria, and China would begin.

##### Creation of United Asia

Due to a series of mergers, splits, and creation of new alliances, China would become a hotspot for conflict. To alleviate this problem and eventually create peace in China, BakaBento created a coalition, called the Imperial Authority, eventually being renamed to its final name before deactivation, United Asia. The Sakura Pact along with United Asia allies Nova and The Yao Dynasty would later on fight in the Battle of Asia. After the war, diplomatic affairs between Nova and The Yao Dynasty would collapse, leading to the deactivation of the United Asia coalition.

##### Merge with ANZAC

After the end of United Asia, the expansion of Sakura in Southeast Asia and the continued cooperation between the ANZAC Federation, would eventually lead ANZAC to be merged into The Sakura Pact on November 25th, 2020. This combined territory would lead to the renaming of The Sakura Pact to Imperial Sakura shortly after the merge.

### **Imperial Period**

The Imperial Period began immediately, after the merge with ANZAC. This period would begin the expansion into regions outside the China, Korea, and Manchuria regions and into places, like Antarctica, South America, and parts of the West Coast of North America. Many small scale attacks, due to miscommunication, happened during this time. Sakura would gain many allies during this time period, which would continue to be their allies to this day, such as Cascadia. Increasing levels of inactivity and boredom in Sakura and in the CW community, would eventually make the Sakuran leadership to decide to split into three alliances: Sakura, New World Order, and Oceania States. Sakura maintained the homeland territories of Japan, Korea, and Manchuria. New World Order controlled China. Oceania States controlled Australia, New Zealand, and other outlying islands. The island territories found between China and Australia (modern day Philippines, Indonesia, etc.) would be given back to H for its reconstruction.

### **Parliament Period**

After the voluntary split of Sakura's vast territories, members that remained in the homeland of Japan and Korea reorganized the Imperial Consul into the Sakuran Parliament. An attempt at Cascadian style governance, all decisions were first made by members (except for executive decisions made by Parliament exclusively). This process was seen as slow and unnecessary for smaller decisions and not fitting for the fast paced process of Sakura. The system was removed and went back to the Imperial Consul system.

### **Sakuran Civil War**

After an extended period of inactivity in Sakura, founding members of Sakura seceded from the empire and became the Ainu Republic, an alliance sworn to revive the culture of Sakura as the “successor” to The Sakura Pact. However, diplomatic relations broke down quickly and led to full scale war between the two alliances. (Actually it happened because of boredom duh). No one won, and New Genesis arose.

### **The Sakura Bloc**

To protect Pripyat, Sakurans came to Europe, and established a monopoly there.

Later, Sakura returned to East Asia, and once again is hibernating there.