Kanto

## Kantō State

**Kanto**, officially the **Kantō State** was a faction in Geonium 6.0, located in East Asia.

## History

*The following is a list of events that NEVER happened in-game and are only lore. The only canon events continue after "An Ultimatum", but were modified in a way that would fit the setting.*
### Foundation (1967)

#### Fall of the Old Government

Due to unknown reasons, in the year 1967 a crack in the spacetime opened in the middle of Japan (covering all of Kanto region) and teleported its inhabitants to another dimension with strangers from other dimensions scattered around a wild world. Around 25 million people teleported.

In the first few years, many people died from diseases caused from the change of environment outside the teleported region, lack of resources and hunger, which caused the government to rapidly collapse alongside the society of Kanto. A coup d’état was done in 1968 by the general Ginchoh Hoshiba to redirect the situation and stabilize the now-stagnating country.

### Authoritarian Decade (1968-1978)

#### Hoshiba Constitution

Ginchoh Hoshiba, along with his military, began a nation-wide operation to gather resources and feed the remaining population. He rebranded the nation to the Kanto State and wrote a new authoritarian constitution to maintain the stability while the country was adapting to the situation. Because of the crisis in the now-Kanto, the population declined massively as millions starved to death.

The new constitution of Japan, known informally as the Hoshiba Constitution, was published in 1969. This new constitution deprived some of the population’s rights in order to come back to normality in the long-term. Many people across the country protested against the constitution and created militias and factions outside the country’s boundaries. This began the so-called “Kantonian Rebellions”, led by left-wing factions like the Kantonian Front for Freedom (KFF) and the New Japan Workers’ Confederacy (NJWC).

#### Resource Wars

With the new constitution in place, despite the high tension amongst the citizens, reconstruction began in Tokyo while places in the country-side like Kanazawa had a strong support towards the rebels, and became the epicenter of warfare between them and the government. In addition to the social conflict, there was also a resource conflict because of the new-found oil across the plains of Kanto. The government took advantage of most of these resources while the rebels fell behind despite the strong support from the workers.

Social tension escalated when Hoshiba, as a response to the new rebellions popping throughout the country, stricter measures against those who did not share his ideology, including imprisonment and executions, and completely abolished freedom of press, which was already at the brink of extinction.

In 1975, the government’s army was training near their border when they had a brief border dispute with the Republic of Shizuoka, a nearby country. Due to unknown reasons, troops from both sides exchanged shots, killing 30 soldiers from both countries. This prompted the Kantonian government to demand Shizuoka to merge with themselves, but Shizuokan authorities refused this. A war was declared shortly after and the Kantonian Invasion of Shizuoka began.

#### Kantonian Invasion of Shizuoka

The war began and Kantonian troops began marching towards Shizuoka. Because of the low population in this country, Kanto had the military advantage. However, as they were getting to Shizuoka they stopped encountering resistance. Nonetheless, Hoshiba ordered his troops to continue the invasion.

When Kantonian troops reached the Shizuoka City outskirts, they found out that the enemy had built a tank. This alone gave Shizuokan troops total advantage in the battle as there were many casualties on the Kantonian side. The generals, who were concerned at this, used as many explosives as possible to destroy their tank, hoping it was the only one, as they did not have enough intel on their side.

Hundreds of explosives were thrown at the tank as Kantonian troops were being killed one by one. This finally succeeded after many attempts as the Shizuokan tank exploded, as it paved the way for Kantonians to continue their invasion. They quickly destroyed Shizuokan defenses at the cost of many lives.

Kantonian troops soon entered the Shizuokan Government Building searching for the leader, but they soon found his corpse and realized he had shot himself. Other generals from the Shizuokan military surrended and consequently were defeated. Kanto eventually annexed the entire country with the Treaty of Tokyo in 1976.

#### Return to Democracy

Near the end of the Invasion of Shizuoka, the Kantonian population rose quickly due to the return of modern medicine and agriculture. In 1982, the population returned to its original numbers from 1967 and continued rising.

However, the support towards Hoshiba declined further and rebellions strengthened. In 1977, Hoshiba made an attempt to regain support by giving some rights back such as the return of the 8-hour working days from Monday to Friday, partially freedom of press and freedom of assembly.

These new laws backfired against the authoritarian government as more people were susceptible to rebel ideas. In 1978, Hoshiba was assassinated by a communist partisan who was also killed in action. This prompted Hoshiba’s brother, Masahiro Hoshiba, to take over the control but, unlike his brother, he listened to the rebels’ demands and implemented a democratic system, thus ending the authoritarian regime.

### Transition to Democracy (1978-1982)

#### New Royal Family

Entering a democracy, Hoshiba called for elections later that same year to elect a new prime minister. Meanwhile, Masahito was crowned as the 125th Emperor of Japan albeit the country renamed to Kanto, thus beginning the Youji Era.

This was the first time the royal family was restored after eleven years of continuous dictatorship. However, the Imperial House of Japan was dissolved and instead the remnants of the Taira clan took the throne.

Shortly after the royal family was formed, Hoshiba wrote a brand new constitution that returned many of the pre-1967 rights to Kanto, like freedom of speech, press and education. This was informally known as the Youji Constitution.

#### Elections of 1978

In 1978, the first elections in thirteen years were celebrated, with a voter turnout of more than 70%, barely higher than the previous elections. Kanto Liberal Democratic Party, a conservative party, won by a landslide with more than 60% of the votes.

This victory caused tension across the streets, with many people demanding to redo the elections because of ‘a vote fraud’ caused by the KLDP. However, this tension soon ceased slowly, but there were still some controversies inside the party, which was led by Yuu Nishimura at the time.

### Youji Era (1982-)

#### Exploration of Honshu

Nishimura’s first major project upon investiture was the exploration of Honshu. Despite the objections from the opposition, this project was approved in the parliament, and officially began in 1983. The main intention of this was to retrieve resources and to establish contact with other people in the wild forests.

#### New Shibuya Ward

Many explorers were dispatched this same year, and found uninhabited land across Honshu. The last exploration crew was dispatched in 1984 and resource gathering efforts began. Meanwhile in Tokyo, the city was growing quickly to house around 5 million people.

#### An Ultimatum

In the morning of July 16th, 1985, the first foreign ship disembarked in Tokyo, thus establishing contact with Kantonians for the first time. After approaching Kanto’s Prime Minister and the Emperor, they revealed themselves as people from an organization called “Moonfall”.

Suddenly, these members revealed their true intention to send an ultimatum to Kanto. They would need to join Moonfall within 24 hours or their Emperor and Prime Minister would be killed and the country would be forcefully annexed. The Prime Minister was hesitant about this but the Emperor gave in to their ultimatum in order to spare the population.

Eventually, the country joined Moonfall. All existing resistance in the country was destroyed by the Moonfallese forces because of their superiority in military and economy. Because the Kanto authorities accepted the ultimatum, Kanto was granted a moderate level of autonomy within Moonfall as an autonomous region but needed to dethrone the Emperor and the governor was from Moonfall. The governor’s name was unknown but he was nicknamed “Silver”.