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First Up: Japan!

Formal Name: The Empire of Japan
Government Type: Constitutional Monarchy
Primary Executive: Emperor Akihito
Secondary Executive: Prime Minister Taro Aso
Legislative Body: The Imperial Diet
Judicial Body: The Imperial Diet, overseen by the Emperor

Description: The government of the Empire is managed primarily by the Imperial Diet, an elected Parliament, and its head the Prime Minister. All legislative and judicial elements are handled by the Diet, as well as law enforcement and civil affairs. The Emperor, however, commands the military and can veto anything short of a unanimously agreed upon law.

In the many member states of the Empire's 'Co-prosperity Sphere', local governments are largely left to their own business. Each state is run by a locally elected and representative excecutive council, although the states do not have the right to field a military or contradict the Imperial government. The states include:

-The Republic of Korea
-The Second Phillipine Republic
-The Republic of China
-The State of India
-The State of Burma
-The State of Vietnam
-The State of Khemeria
-The State of Singapore
-The State of Pacifica
-The State of Malaysia

International Dealings: Japan is a founding member of the United Nations and resides on the UN Security Council as a Permanent Member. It shares close ties with Britain and the United States, but has a very tense relationship with the People's Republic of China and USSR. Japan is currently the third largest economy in the world, and is consistently a member of the G5 (5 wealthiest nations). Japan is always willing to go to war, and shares a large nuclear arsenal with Chinese Empire, United States, United Kingdom , and USSR. Despite its highly uniformed (and at times blatantly militarist) policy, Japan was the President of the Kyoto Accords to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons and Environmental Deterioration, signed by nearly every nation on Earth in early 1989.

Military: Japan's military consists of the Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Navy, Imperial Military-Police (Kempei-Tai), and Imperial Homeguard. These forces were previously titled 'Imperial Japanese', but the word 'Japanese' was removed during the late Emperor Hirohito's reforms against what he and some of his advisors dubbed 'a detrimental attitude towards our subjects and new brothers and sisters'.

Controversy: During the early post-war period, minorities and subject peoples were often openly discriminated against by Imperial and Japanese companies and organizations, resulting in an era known as the 'Lotus Apartheid'. This lead to massive protests and an Imperial Decree outlawing racism in any form. There were some business leaders who still refused to allow the minority peoples into their organizations after the decree in early 1952. These Businessmen were promptly executed for dishonoring the Emperor's glory.

Gowing Concern:
As of August 2009, the world is vigilant and concerned over the possibility of a major conflict in the Pacific. Although minor border skirmishes were not uncommon between the People's Republic of China (Manchuria) and the Kingdom of China have not been unusual in the decades following World War Two, the conflict recently accelerated at the Beijing Summer Olympics when the hosting Japanese Goverment failed to intercept a nuclear explosive carried by several members of the revolutionary People's Liberation Army of China (PLAC) posing as spectators. Tens of thousands were killed by the blast, and the infrastructure of Beijing was nearly demolished. The Japanese Government then argued at the UN headquarters in The Hague that the PLAC has always been supported by the Manchurian Government, and that the Nuclear weapon was clearly supplied by the People's Republic. The UN has been toiling to find a solution, but Manchuria has several allies rich in gold and equipment, and has a sizeable nuclear arsenal. Only time will tell if the Japanese Empire will remain the only victim of a nuclear attack, but the Emperor made himself abundantly clear during a meeting with US President Barack Obama one week ago:
"The victims in Beijing were the first casualties caused by a nuclear weapon. If Manchuria chooses to continue its support of terrorists and rogue states, than it shall find that its people are the second."

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