Asia - Listings of Countries

[GBW]

This thread is for those listing the countries they want in Asia and the information related behind their nations. Only post here if your nations is approved either by a majority of the moderators/other participants of SME.

The format of your nation's information should (as a guideline) be this:

Post the Region of your nation/country in the Title bar at the very top.
Name
Leader
Government
Flag
Military Forces
History (about two paragraphs)
Technology

[DuQuense]

Name: Siberia [is as good as Any]
Ruler; Various Tribal Chiefs
Flag: Tribal Banners
Military: Warrior-Hunters
History: POD 8.000 BP, TTL missed out on the Agucultral Revolution. The world is full of Hunter-Gather, & Nomadic Herdsmen.
Technology: IOTL there was the Old & the New Stone Ages, ITTL there is a third, The Advanced Stone Age. There are also Small Communities of Bronze Workers. As well as Traders from Bronze Cultures to the South, Arrow Heads, Swords, Cook Ware, And Art. This TL is producing Bronze and Porcelain Art, to make the Ming Kings, green with Envy. In the far north several of the tribes have Domesticated Mammoths & Masadons . Traveling in Giant Yurts Pulled by these.
Warning : If visiting watch out for the Remnants of the Cave Bear, & Saber tooth Cats.

[American_Samurai]

Name: Siam aka The Empire of Siam
Flag: http://www.alternatehistory.com/Dis...read.php?t=4298
Capital: Bangkok
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Technology: Similar to OTL Japan
Population: 3,321,345,000 (Approxiamte)
History: In this ATL The Kingdom of Siam was able to take over the countries of Burma and Viet Nam as well as supress a Cambodian Revolution. The country kept the name Siam because it did now in fact control the peninsula. (Siam is Thai for Peninsula) Siam kept up its history of independence but traded with most of Europe throughout the eightteenth to twentieth centuries. The Kingdom remained militarily indepent, joining the Allies in the Great Japanese War (WWII) less then fifteen years later they rejoined their allies in the Chino-Siam war of 1951.( Korean War) Allied Victory insured that Communism would spread throughout the continent of Asia. The Kingdom of Siam evolved from one of the largest centers of trade in the world to becoming a hub for international buisness and technology. The Kingdom of Siam has a role in this ATL not that different than Japan does in OTL.

[Diamond]

NAME: Khaganate of Kirghiz
CAPITAL: Samarkand
POPULATION: 92,000,000 (79,000,000 after Event)
LEADER: Khagan Uzmur IV
GOVERNMENT: Traditional Monarchy
MILITARY:
Navy: Some coastal patrol units (Caspian Sea)
Air Corps: 102,000 personnel
Army: 410,000 personnel

HISTORY:
In Kirghiz’s world, the Black Plague struck more than a century and a half early and was much more devastating. China, the Middle East, and Europe lay in ruins; only Japan, the British Isles, southern India, and Scandinavia remained relatively unscathed. The steppe nomads of central Asia survived intact mostly due to the vast distances and cold climates of their home. A warlord named Jingiz Khan united the Mongol tribes in 1215, just in time to sweep down on plague-ravaged China. His grandsons invaded the depopulated Middle East and Europe near the end of the 13th century, and by 1350 the Great Khaganate ruled from the Sea of China to the Bay of Biscay.

The Great Khaganate began to stagnate and fragment in the 1700s as regional powers like the Britannic Empire, Andalus, and Vijayanagara began to grow. A great civil war in 1744 saw the end of Jingiz’s empire; in its place were six lesser Khaganates, of which Kirghiz was one of the more prosperous and stable. Throughout the last half of the 18th century and into the 19th, four more great plagues swept Eurasia, spreading death and anarchy in their wake. The Britannic Empire reigned uncontested in Europe and North Hesperia (the two continents of the New World were discovered in 1685); Andalus controlled the Iberian peninsula, most of west and central Africa, and South Hesperia. The Italian peninsula, the Balkans, and much of Africa were a collection of petty states.

In 1905 a fanatical, racist Hindu group transformed the Kingdom of Vijayanagara into a theocratic dictatorship. By 1950 they were in control of the whole Indian subcontinent, most of southeast Asia, and the island continent of Afiri (Australia). For the last half century, the central Asian Khaganates have been engaged in a cold war with Vijayanagara, constantly dueling over Tibet, southern China, and other border regions, while the rest of the world watches.

The Khaganate of Kirghiz is a monarchy whose royal family can trace their lineage directly back to Jingiz Khan. The nation is fairly enlightened by our standards, though military service is mandatory, and most forms of media are controlled by the state. Vital industries, such as oil and electricity production, are nationalized. In its own world, Kirghiz controlled the vast oilfields of the Caucasus, a region which is now lost to them, and will shortly paralyze their military…

TECHNOLOGY:
Kirghiz’s technology level is roughly a century behind ours due to the devastating waves of plagues of its home TL. Electricity is still a novelty, only having been invented some 30 years before; steam power is widespread, up to and including massive steam-driven ‘landships’ used by the army on the vast plains of central Asia. Airships and early-generation airplanes are also in use.

There were four major religions in Kirghiz’s TL: Buddhism (common in the Khaganates and most of Europe and the Middle East); Islam (Andalus and its colonies, and certain small enclaves in the Arabian peninsula and eastern Africa); Hinduism (Vijayanagara and its possessions); and an almost unrecognizable form of Christianity (the Britannic Empire).

[perdedor99]

Name:Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Areas ISOTED: Parts of the Russian SSR Far East area, parts of the Mongolian SSR and parts of the Manchurian SSR.
Main administrative center ISOTED area: Khabarovsk.
Leader ISOTED area: Colonel General Arkady Baskaev, commander Far East Front.
Population ISOTED:16,000,000
Military:
32 Regular Army divisions; 14 motorized, 6 mechanized, 6 armored, 6 airmobile(only the mechanized and airmobile divisions at full capacity. Armored divisions at 60% and motorized at 50% or less.)
10 OVD motorized divisions (all at full capacity)
4 air wings
a small quantity of light naval vessels

Name: Empire of Japan
Areas ISOTED: Karafuto(OTL Sakhalin)
Main administrative center ISOTED: Toyohara
Leader ISOTED area: General Endo Yoshii, commander 6th Imperial Army
Population ISOTED: 1,500,000
Military:
IJA:4 mountain infantry divisions, one AA and one Artillery brigades.
IJNne Antisubmarine squadron and one fighter squadron at NAS Toyohara. Also a Boomer Submarine with 12 nuclear ICBMs was in the waters close by to the Island and small naval units in Toyohara Naval Base.


History:

The Soviet Union defeated Japan in the Second Russo-Japanese War(1939-1940) and annexed Manchuria plus Korea. The Japanese was so desperate they signed a peace treaty with China in early 1940 and withdrew their forces from China in an attempt to bolster their defense of Korea but to no avail. By early August 1940 the war was in effect but not in name over. The Japanese army was decimated and the cliques in it eliminated. But the Japanese Navy came out of the war as the great winners. They destroyed the Soviet Pacific Fleet and the SNLF conquered the northern part of Karafuto by early 1940. On the other hand the Soviets rule supreme over the former Japanese vassals of Manchuria and Korea but with no means of attempting an invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. With the German invasion coming on schedule in June 22 1941 the Soviets decided to scale down hostilities in the Far East. Peace treaty never signed. No war on the Pacific. USA entered the European war on May 29 1942. Soviets annexed Outer Mongolia in 1946. Soviet Union didn't fell like in OTL.

The Soviets areas ISOTED from TTL 2004 are in turmoil. The Soviet Union is dying but is going down fighting. Separatists movements in both the Manchurian and Mongolian SSR are being brutally suppressed by the MVD forces and guerrilla forces roam the country sides as well as in other parts of the Soviet Union and even a terrorist nuclear weapon destroyed the city of Omsk(2002). The Japanese ISOTED area is full of land and offshore gas and oil fields necessary to both the civilians and military sectors of the Empire. The Japanese Empire is a economic power house in Asia and their military is very well trained but with very limited combat experience.

Technology: in military terms same as OTL in Soviet areas. a little ahead in Japanese areas. (caseless ammo rifles, laser aimed AA batteries, stealth technology for naval ships and fighters planes is common) in civilian terms 5-10 years behind in Soviet areas(due to longer time of Soviet rule), same as our TL in Japanese areas.

[perdedor99]

Name: Empire of Japan
Capital: Tokyo
Population: 130,000,000
Leader: Emperor Akihito (head of state), Prime Minister Yoshii Kono (head of government)
Government: Constitucional Monarchy
Military:
IJA: 24 divisions; 4 of them left behind due to the event.
IJN: 6 carrier battle goups, 8 missile cruisers, 84 destroyers, 20 LST ships and 30 nuclear powered submarines, 300 airplanes; 8 destroyers left behind
IJAF: over 2000 aircrafts; 200 left behind

History:
Same timeline as Asia 11. After their defeat in the Second Russo-Japanese War(1939-1940) Japan spent the 1940's in a period of political turmoil only resolved by the Emperor naming Admiral Yamamoto(hero of the last war due to the excellent record of the IJN during the war) as Shogun in 1945, a title and position not used since 1867. Under his authority the Communist agitators and the more militaristics elements in the armed forces were purged while the defense budget was raised to create a more flexible and modern Army. His greatest achievement was perhaps the Constitution of 1952.

The Constitution of 1952 created a House of Peers and a House of representatives modelled in the British model but most important was the Bills of Rights included in this Constitution, a copy of the United States Bill of Rights word for word. With this accomplished, Yamamoto step down after the national elections of 1954 to national acclaim. He is considered the father of the modern empire and today reverence to his memory is only second to the one given to deceased emperors.

The 1960's saw a bigger rapport with the United States in the fight against Communist. With the European nations colonial ending in Southeast Asia, Japan took over the mantle of defender of that new nations against Communist. Against Japanese advice the United States got embroiled in the former French IndoChina but thanks to Imperial mediation the former colony was partitioned into two nations by 1969. While only a stalemate was reached in IndoChina, the Communist movements in the newly formed nations of Malaysia and Indonesia were stamp out by japanese "advisors".

The 1970's and 1980's saw a big boast for the Japanese trade, especially consumers goods to the new SouthEast Asia nations for fossil fuel products. The Empire transformed itself into a capitalist paradise, with minimal business taxes and little regulation of business practices.The high growth of japanese heavy industries that started in the 1960's transformed the Empire in an economic power house by the late 1970's with the creation of the EACPS(East Asia CoProsperity Sphere) a free trade alliance. Also the 1980's saw the development of high technology industries especially in the military combines and the laser industries.

The last 15 years have seen the Empire transformed from the humbled nation of 1940 into a regional leader with over 200 ICBM but casting wary eyes to the dying giant to the West, The Soviet Union.


Technology: same as OTL in civilian matters, slightly forward in military ones.

[Imajin]

Name: Joeson Jeguk (pretty sure it means "Korea's Empire) (Commonly just called "The Jeguk")
Capital: Pyongyang
Population: 2.7 billion (World-wide Empire) 25 million (Transported Area)
Leader: Sunjong Il
Technology: Faster computers than OTL, huge fear of nuclear weapons, wartime technology around WW2 levels.
History:
Jeguk has been an Asian power for many years, but it's status as the world-spanning empire only came after the Axis Wars. The civilizations of Europe fell to dictators in 1943, and America tried a barrage of newly-created and still experimental nuclear bombs to stop them, with devastating results. The Americans had no time to test thier bombs, and so many failed, hit the wrong target, exploded on launch... when it was all over, America had inadverdantly ruined Europe. To help Asia escape this fate, the Jeguk took over the lands of China, Japan, and India, who had either weak rulers, or had lost thier European Imperialist rulers when the bombs exploded.

Of course, the Jeguk is not perfect. Recently, the Emperor decided that the peasentry were too powerful, and turned them into serfs who could not even leave their masters land. The United States, the second most powerful nation in the world but still very weak compared to Jeguk, has demanded that this action be stopped.

Today, the Jeguk rules across Asia, Africa, and South America. Europe still cannot regain it's footing, and though the United States is actually larger than OTL, it has become very weak, thanks to a massive demilitarization after the disastorous Axis War. Pyongyang is a center of learning, trade, and government.

[Nosb]

Name: The Qing Empire of China
Capital: Beijing
Population: 750,000,000
Government: Constitutional Parliamentary Monarchy
Leader: Emperor Pu Tsung, Prime Minister Wu Zhang
Flag:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v352/marzhukov/album/china_flag2.bmp
Military Forces: Ground Forces 6,500,000; Air Force <3,000 modern planes; Navy, 3 Aircraft Carries, 14 Battleship, numerous cruisers, destroyers, light patrol craft, submarines, etc
Technology Level: 1990 military technology, slight advanced (+5 – +10 years) in medicine technology, aerospace technology, computer technology
History:

The attempt of the Empress Dowager Ci Xi to overthrow the reformist Emperor Guangxu in 1898 end in failure. Vengeful reformist ministers orchestrate massive retributions against conservatives in the administrate and army, anti-reformist secret societies, and Confucian orthodoxy not only help eliminate opposition, but open vacuums for pro-reformist nationalist.

The country quickly made efforts reflecting the thinking of a group of progressive scholar-reformers who had impressed the court with the urgency of making innovations for the nation's survival. Influenced by the Japanese success with modernization, the reformers declared that China needed more than "self-strengthening" and that innovation must be accompanied by institutional and ideological change.

The imperial edicts for reform covered a broad range of subjects, including stamping out corruption and remaking, among other things, the academic and civil-service examination systems, legal system, governmental structure, defense establishment, and postal services. The edicts attempted to modernize agriculture, medicine, and mining and to promote practical studies instead of Neo-Confucian orthodoxy. The court also sent students abroad for firsthand observation and technical studies. All these changes were brought about under a de facto constitutional monarchy.

The country slowly modernized and began to undergo slight industrialization in the early 20th century. Westerns still occupied huge pieces of China though. After the out break of the Great War, China say a change to group these areas back. In 1917, with covert German support (after promising to handover control of it’s colonies to China), well armed, reformist Chinese secret societies revolt throughout western occupied China, quickly supported by the modernized Imperil Army. Stressed by involvement in Europe and the Middle East, mainland UK and France colonies are quickly sized by the Chinese as is Russian occupied pieces of the North. The Allies, afraid of possible invasion of other Asian colonies, agree to sign over these areas, but keep several trade privileges, at the same time funding Japanese attacks into Manchuria.

Following the war continued modernization made China an increasingly powerfully country, despite Western and Japanese attempts to undermine the country’s stability. Involvement in WW2 (Chinese involvement didn’t alter the outcome of WW1) was limited to puppeting Mongolia and creating a Korean nation out of formerly Japanese land. After the victory of the Allies in 1944 (lesser war in the Pacific and butterflys ends the war almost a year and a half earlier). China quickly become one of main anti-Soviet countries during the Cold War, eventually becoming the World’s number one economic power because of foreign investment.

China has slowly moved politically to democracy, the world’s biggest in 2004. It still was a figurehead Emperor, devoid of all real power since the 1947. Most power resides either in the office of the Prime Minister or the 10,000 strong all-Chinese Parliament. A recent nationalist surge after economy decline after oil-shortages was caused the majority coalition to both incorporate and become lead by the new nationalist political party, the New Birth Party.

[Leej]

Name: Sri Lanka / Tamila
Government: Semi-constitutional monarchy / monarchy
Technology: Late 18th/early 19th century. In the middle of the industrial revolution.
Military: Sri Lanka has a very small standing army though it posseses the biggest navy in the world- quite how useful these sailing ships will be in the mosaic earth is questionable however.
The part of Tamila transported is currently at war with Sri Lanka and has a lot of troops and naval forces massed for an invasion.


This is a world where civilization failed to arise in the west and it has fallen upon India to do this, Sri Lanka is sort of like what Britain was in our world holding the largest overseas empire and being the center of industrialisation

[American_Samurai]

It has come to my attention that my estemnated population for the empire of Siam was way, and I mean WAY to high. 3,000,000 is way to high. What it should say is 300,000,000.

[Leej]

...That is 100* higher

[American_Samurai]

Sorry everybody I ment 3,000,000,000 was to high. My origianal population was 3,321,345,000 which was to high, than I was shown that estimate was to high so I decided to change it to 300,000. I'll be the first to call my self a dudnderheaded idiot, please forgive me and my lack of math skills I've been out of practice with summer vacation and all that.

[Ward]

AS4
The HORD
Wang the Nauseis
Pop 3 million
Military about 800,000 warriors

The Hord is from a world were civ has not gone past that of about 800 AD
The Hord has moved into this area about 300 years ago when it moved from the steps of Aisa . They conquered and crushed the Hundo Civilation that was there .
The Hord thinks that any one who farms is a dirt eater and should be killed .
The Hord lives by hurding sheep and there Horses . This is a warrior nation and belives that raiding its neigbors is the way to get richs and women .
Women have no say in the Hords world the women in this world are treated as sheep and only good for having sons . The Hord is about to split and move to new grazing areas .

Tech is about some were around the 9th century they do have steel weapons and some early Fire Arms think of hand cannons .

[Diamond]

PM me with changes/requests, etc.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/DiamondJim/AS.gif

[Flocculencio]

I hope this is the right place

AS9- The Bharat Confederation

Government: A confederation of democratic states and constitutional monarchies

Technology: varying between 1950's-1990's in various fields (e.g. piston driven aircraft have not been totally supplanted by jets but government agencies and academic institutions have simple internet technology)

Population: 423,000,000

Brief history: Buddhism caught on very strongly in India, fusing with and coming to dominate Hinduism unlike OTL. With factors like the caste system no longer relevant, India progressed by leaps and bounds and was, by the early 20th century, one of the Great Powers of it's world. Internally, India had been united in the Bharat Confederacy (somewhat like OTL EU but stronger) by the mid-19th century. It's capital was at Cochin on the South-Western coast of India. In the mid-20th Century, India stood as the main opponent to the totalitarian Ch'in government and was forced into war with them. Shortly before relocation to Moasic Earth, the war had been ended through the use of nuclear weapons by Bharat forces. Due to the relocation, the bulk of the Bharat forces were not transported, as they were either in Ch'in territory or in the Confederacy's northernmost province of Afghanistan.
The industrial heartland of the Confederacy in the Deccan has been transported however.

[General_Paul]

AS8- the United Provinces of India

Gov't: Parlimentary Government, Prime Minister Thomas Finney

technology: Equal to the year 2014 (ICBM's are in full use, and Ion Drives are being developed for manned space flight.) Hydrogen Fuel Cells are supplanting most combustion engines. One Space Launch Facility (still under contruction for use by the European Union) outside Calcutta (New London.) Computers are in wide spread use.

Population: 217,000,000

Military: Standing Army: 700,000 (All armed with Modern British Weaponry, 50,000 of those are british special forces and regular army stationed in the provinces before the great disturbance) Reserves: 2-3 Million (Most are over the age of 30). Air Forces: Fourteen Squadrons of Third generation Harrier Jump Jets (only four squadrons are fully functional, the rest are switching over to hydrogen fuel cells.) Over 300 B-52 Bombers in Various States of Repair, and usage. (100 are grounded, the rest, are fully functional). Navy: Submarines: 25 H-K's (Hunter-Killer's), 20 Nuclear Launch Platform Submarines. ICBM':77 Ground based, 175 Submarine Based. Aircraft Carriers: 4 Full sized, 7 Escort, 15 Converted (Most converted from battleships, and from Freighters. Battleship models only number in the range of five, can be turned back into battleships with ease.) Battleships: 3, Cruisers: 1 squadron (Each squadron numbers in the dozen or so range). Destroyers: 2 Squadrons. Destroyer Escorts: 15 squadrons (Numerous others either in the line of being scrapped, or in the process of being scrapped.) Numerous Coastal patrol Craft.

History: The British Crown Colony of New London began her life in the year of our lord 1775, to suppliment lagging control over the British controled North American Colonies. But, instead of crushing the native tribes, the colonists who reached the site of New London signed peaceable treaties with the tribes, and brought them into the Capital city of New London (Calcutta before the year 1945) and proceeded to anglocise them. By the year 1781, the British had lost control of ALL colonies in North America, even the Belize Colony went into full rebellion. Thousands of colonists were sent to india, in particular, the New London Colony. By 1850, the British Crown Colonies in India numbered in the mid 10 million range, not counting the native population, who had intigrated with the rest of British society (They numbered in the mid 100 million range, stretching from the Siahan Mountain range in Pakistan, all the way to the borders of French IndoChina. During the indistrial Revolution, the colony had been completely industrialized to balance out the production downfall due to the loss of the canadian colony. When the African Colonies began to even out the imbalance, the New London Colony began to grown its own cotton. During the American Civil War, (Between the Canadian/Northern Colonies, and the Confederacy), the New London Colony produced 1/5 of the world's cotton supply. The colony grew rich, so rich in fact, that it was able to lay down its own rail lines. By the year 1900, the New London Colony was the most profitable colony in the British Empire. When the great War broke out, the New London Colony sent three Divisions to aid her mother country (the 1st Mountain division, the third Low lands division, and the fourth mechanized), all three are still in existance. By the time that the war had ended, the New London Colony had become fully industrialized, disease, and famine were beginning to become erased from the memories of the colonists. But, when the Spanish Flu of 1918 swept through New London, no one was left untouched. Over three million perished, disease and famine became common place. It took the colony ten years to recover, and by that time, radical Islam, and Hindu ideas began to spread through the minds of many. One man, named Mahatma Gandi, lead the masses in a war of non-violence. This went on for ten years, from 1930, to the year 1940. When, in the year 1941 however, things got dicey. The government of Japan declared war on the Western allies (the United States of America, England, and her crown colonies.) The Japanese army spared none. They pushed through Indochina, through Burma, and reached the southern borders of New London. The divisions pressed into southern India, and began the process of systematically cutting the rail lines. By the time that the British army rallied, and drove the invaders out, over 50% of the southern Rail lines were cut. By the time that the japanese military surrendered, the Colony was already in the process of re-building the shattered economy. The cotton fields had been all but burned to a cinder, the factories near Burma had been destroyed, and the rail lines were inoperable. The entire country had to do one major overhaul. It took well into the 1960's to repair the broken colony, and rebuild her economy. With the death of Mahatma Gandi, the pacifist movement ceased to exist. They accepted their role as british citizens, and moved on with their lives. During the 1960's, fears of a breakout of communism into New London were widespread, the british army mobalized five divisions to combat any invasion. The british East Asia fleet was berthed at Calcutta, and strategic alliances were set up. Through the Vietnam War, and the russian War to control Afghanistan, the New London Colony stood firm. The colony officially changed its name to the United Provinces of India. By the year 1991, the colony had gained almost full status as a country. When the USSR collapsed in 1992, the colony was granted full rights as a country. The United Provinces Chose to keep the flag of their ancestors, the traditional flag of England, the Union Jack, positioned on a field of Red and white stripes. This is to signify the original provinces of the Colony, and to signify her place as a free and independent India. The end of the millenium brought the British East India Fleet back to port in Calcutta, the Provinces had signed a treaty with the British Gov't to berth the fleet once again in its traditional port in Asia. The British Army and the Royal Air Force (RAF) built over 30 bases around the provinces, to help with protection.The new government also purchased many used aircraft, and technologies from the rest of the world, so as to protect her from any threats, from inside the flegling Union, or outside. Communist Indochina (Made up of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos), had a significant standing army, and a medium sized navy, and was ready and willing to go to war with any of her neighbors, so, the provinces stand ready and waiting. When the great disturbance that brought the Provnices here, the british Fleet, and the planes and ships that it had stationed pledged allegiance to the Provnices, untill they could get home, if they could...

Flag:
http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/GRANDUN.GIF