Midorians
Location: Federated States of North America (States of Kirisutia, Uminokawa, Seibo, New Amsterdam, Nova Anglia, Nassouwen, New Sweden, Baiverte, Mizoeri, Huron, Kipewa, Massachusetts, Ohyo, Colorado, Sierra Rocosa, Aztlan), Borealia, Joudouriku, Japan, France, Germany, England, and others
Languages: Japanese (Midorian dialect with varieties and influences by foreign languages), Amerikaner Dutch, Spanish, and English
Religion: Catholicism, American Lutheranism, Shintoism, Buddhism, and others
Population: 11.4 million (2015 Census)
Culture: Mixed with Western ideas including Roman Catholic beliefs with the Japanese and indigenous North American ones but recently, progressive and moderate ideas and in terms of ancestry, the people are mixed and multiracially Japanese and Iberian as well as indigenous ancestry and probably descendants of European-descended and Japanese immigrants which is distinct from their homeland, Japan due to descendants of Catholics that escaped persecution and intermarriage.
Politics: Midorians is part of the Western/Pacific Faction of the Social Democratic Party (SD) and the Liberal faction of the Constitutional Progressive Union (CPU), remarkably moderate, progressive, and most conservative in terms of carrying issues but kept collaborating with the Eastern counterparts. The growing independence movement including the Engi Jiyou (Auspicious Freedom) movement rallies before the 1997 Consensus has shown the Midorians are advocating full independence since the short-lived country was annexed into the Federated States.
History:
According to archaeological evidence, notes accounts from Portuguese and Spanish sailors, and historians, where the origin of the word "Midoria" came from the Japanese word "Midori" or green, has been coined according to the colony located in San Francisco Bay which was settled by Black Ships and Spanish Galleons carrying Japanese Catholics fleeing persecution from their homeland with Christian Nobles persuading the Spaniards to settle in the OTL Central Valley and in OTL Oregon where the idea has been much widely approved by their respective nobles in exchange for supporting the autonomy but their motherland and their colonial trade depends on trade from Japan and East Asia, New Spain, French fur trade routes, and Manila Galleons. The mainland shogunate wants their Christian colony to pretend like another shogun to conceal their existence out of sight from their high lords.
The first and second wave was marked by immigration of persecuted Christian converts, craftsmen, intellectuals who were studying Western education, merchants, peasants, fishermen, and some lords into their colony in between 1652 to 1750, the third wave was marked by immigration of sailors, farmers, Chinese and Korean Christians who fled persecution, some Europeans, and Asian Buddhists into the colony where the government-sponsored promotion to colonization while dissent locals also followed suit to avoid harsh punishment or outright sent into the colony to maintain internal stability in the mainland Japan.
Meanwhile, the Japanese had the idea to expand their counterpart settlement with its separate project by a Buddhist shogun located in OTL Washington and British Columbia where immigrants from backgrounds in Asia and some from Japan settled in the same region which also led to the growth of harvested timbers coming from cut down trees where it can be useful for building the ships that might be essential to outmuscle their Japanese naval power even they have their own colonies in Hawaii for supply and stopover station.
Due to flexible trade, the Western ideas are imported as the distance between mainland Japan and their crown jewel colony grows stronger in the mid-18th century to the early 19th century has caused reforms to the old administration and calls for independence has still in a premature development until in the 1810s and 1820s where the news of Mexican War of Independence broke out while the sheer rift between the northern counterpart has becoming worsened when the Christian overlords have attempted to tax the Buddhist temples ended with the outrageous reaction which led to series of events such as Kirisuto (OTL San Francisco) Riots, Higashi (OTL Portland) Pogroms, and others despite the Governor-General's decision to back down and overturned the controversial law involving a tax on Buddhist temples, the situation hasn't changed either until the beginning of Takayama Bay Mutiny where mutineers had revolted against the Japanese authorities over the controversial removal of skilled admiral.
The Midorinia-Joudoriki War of Independence which takes from 1827 to 1830 where countless series of naval battles against the huge fleets of the Japanese navy especially the epic Battle of the Chinukushima (OTL Seattle) and Apache battles against loyalists has led to the expulsion of centuries-old colonial rule and the formal establishment of the 20-year republic from 1830 to 1850 which includes confederation constitution and guaranteed religious freedom to fix or mend the Northern-Southern division where the ongoing problems that led to administrative cost would not be revealed until the secret Yellow Letters and the mass encroachment by the prospectives of European-descended Amerikaner immigrants.
The Amerikaner encroachment has been a major problem where an estimated 200k settlers have been following the Central Trail (think of Oregon Trail) to settle along the Pacific Coast and the immigrants from Western Europe wouldn't stop the issue until the first firing shots have been made with the attempted Jons Steenkamp Expedition and the apprehension has also caused a diplomatic rift between the Federated States and the Midori-Joudori Confederation and the combination with the Buddhist-dominated country has led to Dissolution Wars or the Pacific American War of 1845 where thousands of brave soldiers from both sides and Joudori separatists has been clashing with each other in the last five years with the Battle of Tanikawa which led to a crucial turning point when a huge number of Confederation troops was demolished by advanced and well-trained troops as well as geography and deserted troops which the Amerikaner forces have made their way into the Pacific Coast and the final act was the Battle of Kirisuto and Minamishima; in the latest move, the British and the Japanese had threatened Federated States of possible intervention but the actual reality was a thousands of brave forces had punctured its city's defenses and captured the surrendered troops and weapons as well as unprepared forces and then the flag with the Blue-White-Orange or Oranje tricolour has raised on the top of the Capitol Palace and the resignation of president Giramu Inejiro has led to end of 30 years of confederation, leaving mixed Christian-Buddhist majority north declared independence in the Treaty of Riviere Illinois (OTL Chicago).
Today, the Midorians are the most influential in the Federated States, whether on music, films, television including anime and dramas, video games, and other forms of entertainment, corporations, financial world, sports, and mostly politics including the two presidents of the Federated States such as Saburō Eda (1969-1977), Ryūtarō Hashimoto (1992-2001), and Henrik Veldwillems (2005-2013). Midorians are also scattered in Japan, the rest of Federated States, and other Western countries but in terms of ancestry, due to periods of European and Asian immigration in two centuries, the ethnic group which was mostly Christian was now with mixed European and Asian and Latino as well as few African ancestral backgrounds.
