At long last, I've finished the map I promised about six months ago: thesis got in the way. Still, you folks don't want excuses, you want a map, and so without further ado I give you Japan and Korea ITTL 2017:
Full view visible here:
https://bolshiekiwi.deviantart.com/art/Decisive-Darkness-2017-669063623
At long last, I've finished the map I promised about six months ago: thesis got in the way. Still, you folks don't want excuses, you want a map, and so without further ado I give you Japan and Korea ITTL 2017:
Full view visible here:
https://bolshiekiwi.deviantart.com/art/Decisive-Darkness-2017-669063623
It sounds like the Tokyo government has more solid control in the south than in areas closer to the capitol, oddly enough.
Especially with how terrible Japan's previous civil defense efforts got here...I shuddered when I read about the "private civil defense batallions" - one of possibly the worst anarcho-Libertarian ideas. Ayn Rand was a horrible person and thinker, and her influence is not for the better in TTL.
This is fantastic, thanks so much!
I shuddered when I read about the "private civil defense batallions" - one of possibly the worst anarcho-Libertarian ideas. Ayn Rand was a horrible person and thinker, and her influence is not for the better in TTL.
Yes, I was quite proud of myself for that one. Even Red was shocked/intrigued.
It was a great idea, it's the sort of thing I've become quite tempted to expand on since you made the map!
That's beautiful. You could make these things professionally if you don't already
I'm pretty sure being a peasant Feudal Europe or a serf in absolutist Russia was a better (if not much) fate than this part of Japan. It's hard to imagine a more kleptocratic and brutal society than this most Hobbesian calamity.
To imagine what this world is like, just imagine that your choice of law enforcement/local defense was between the Gilded Age Pinkerton Detective Agency, the Barbary Pirates, the 1920s KKK, the Chechen Mafia, the Red Army Fraction, the IRA, and the Taliban.
I'm pretty sure being a peasant Feudal Europe or a serf in absolutist Russia was a better (if not much) fate than this part of Japan. It's hard to imagine a more kleptocratic and brutal society than this most Hobbesian calamity.
I wouldn't go that far, it's not a nice place to live for the majority but there is actually a chance to make some money and achieve some level of social mobility. Mind you, the air was probably fresher in feudal Europe.
That's a thought that occurred when researching Japan (a land of which I'm largely ignorant); if Tohoku is renowned IOTL for natural splendour, I wonder how that's fared under the profit motive. Instinct says "poorly," but somebody could have decided to purchase large landholdings to preserve for their beauty. I suppose it's all rather contingent on a benevolent tyranny.
Wait a moment - Japan, anarchocapitalism, deserted wildernesses made-to-order, vast population desperate to advance their situations/with nothing left to lose - could this be Battle Royale?
I was only referring to the anarchist Hell, not Japan as a whole.