Planning some flags for the later Pacific Federation of America - PFA/ also known as the Pacific States of America -PSA-/ United States of the Pacific/ Pacific Union and Federate Pacific States (made up by former California and Oregon according to original Japanese plan, plus Washington, maybe Alaska too later TTL) will make it a poll again so you readers get to decide wich one we will use ultimately in the End. ;D
Any suggestions on what a Pacific States of America flag should look like (colors, starts, stripes, symbols, animals)? I have a few basid ideas but more input and suggestions would always be welcome. ^^
 
Any suggestions on what a Pacific States of America flag should look like (colors, starts, stripes, symbols, animals)? I have a few basid ideas but more input and suggestions would always be welcome. ^^
I read a comic where a future version of the US used a crane as its symbol, meant to represent a focus on the sea, that could work.
 
Pacific States of America flag ideas
I read a comic where a future version of the US used a crane as its symbol, meant to represent a focus on the sea, that could work.
Some form of Crane or Fish isn't a bad idea as it can represent these new states connection to Japan as well. Will have to draw a crane or fish for that (oh lord) XD

Why not just use the one from the Man in the High Castle?
Because I find it rather ugly and unrealistic, as you can bet your everything that the true Japanese Empire would have never used red stars on a flag for all kinds of reasons (one is the relationship they had to the Soviet Union and the socialist and communist movements in general). While the Japanese have tendet to use soem local color shemes to encourage local independence of their puppets from former states, they also never outrigt used their own sun flag for them as they were the only chosen people in the land of the rising sun were day for all mankind began in their racist minds back then), if anything the Pacific States would be the Land of the Sundown, so I would imagine some form of Sun invovlement just not a full circle and maybe additionally some blue stripes representing the Pacific Ocean somehow? Red stripes could also represent the sun insted but then it looks to similar to other true US flags and the Japanese wouldn't like that either I would assume.

Not like these but somewhat in that reguard I would assume:
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But I'm not quit sure that's why I asked for further input and ideas ^^

Only thing sure now, there will be blue stripes in soem form for the Pacifis and at least one Red Sun ray of the Japanese Sun to represent the Japanese Empire and the Japanese People as well (even if no full sun is shown, similar to the other Co-Prosperity Flags TTL). :3
 
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I like the first one the best. And sorry if I offended you, rest assured, it was not intentional.
I'm not offended in any way or form (sorry if it sounded that way - that is besides by whoever did come up with that lame PSA and the Nazi American flag :p) That joke about the creator aside I really think a few seconds of research and how the Japanese did chose to decide C-PS Flags OTL would have greatly helped to make it look much more realistic and interesting. Then again I think the same is true for the Nazi US Flag in Man in the High Castle as well that's just got a Swatiska slapped on there .... both are in my opinion not very creative and logical in reguards to true flags used for their puppets by both powers.

Your (and others) ideas greatly help me wordlbuilding here, yours and others, so I appreciate all forms of opinions and criticism that help me grow as a writer, worldbuilder and person, one of the last chapters had a typo and some of my readers on deviantart pointed it out hoping I wasn't sad/ mad I was reather glad, as I've never been the best at grammars (not even in my own language :p) so I as a passionate writer love every chance to improve from my mistakes. :biggrin:👍

Maybe a part of the Sun going down west in the ocean from the first flag, like half a sun at the left part of the flag and the sun rays and the pacific ocean waves/ wtaer in between? I also like the paler colors, indicating that the sun is not rising and shining to iluminate the world, but ratehr fading behind the horizon.
 
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Chapter 719: African Axis Central Power Reinforcements
Chapter 719: African Axis Central Power Reinforcements
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In Africa, the Germans, Italians and Spanish heavily recruited local natives into their war machinery either to help with transportation, or outright be auxiliaries at the front. Around 120,000 of such forces served in the Axis Central Powers along the west coast alone, often even recruited by Fascist French local Generals like Jean-Pierre Esteva, who at the same time feared arming the locals and arrested members of independence parties like the Neo Destour. Over mounts they Allies and the Axis Central Powers had fought in Morocco and the West African Coast, some local rulers like Muhammad VII al-Munsif of Tunis and Mohammed V of Morocco. The Tunis Tirailleurs, Algerian Harki (war party/ war movement members) and Moroccan Goumiers (that while nominally serving the Sultan of Morocco, served in the French and Spanish Axis Central Power Forces made up 3 battalions and 4 companies). They were supported, or even part of the Fuerzas Regulares Indígenas ("Indigenous Regular Forces"), known simply as the Regulares (Regulars) of the Royal Spanish Army, while further south the Zaptié served the Italians in Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, Eritrea, Somaliland, Amara, Harrar, Galla-Sidamo and Scioa. All of them were volunteer units, often serving as gendarmerie behind the actual frontlines, even supported by some of the Tropas Nomads, who served in Spanish Sahara and Spanish Morocco as camel corps and desert gendarmerie for the Spanish and French Axis Central Powers. The Free French and Allies did the same with their own Tropas troops as well as their Senegalese tirailleurs. On the side of the German Empire, their African auxiliary forces were called Askari (meaning soldier or military) mainly from North African Coast, the Sahara, the Gold and Ivory Coast, Northwest Africa, Northeast Africa, Central Africa, East Africa and Southwest Africa. Most of these native African forces were used as police, gendarmerie, security guards or auxiliary forces, to increase the numbers of the Allies and the Axis Central Powers in the region.
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This meant that the natives were turned into a war they knew very little about, some of these local tribes and kingdoms didn't even knew they were subjects of any European powers at all. On sides of the Allies the situation was made worse, as outside of France, even the black soldiers of the United States were not outright accepted as equals either, but at the same time the Americans had a pretty anti-colonial stand that alienated their British, French and Dutch allies and sounded like Japanese Coprospist Propaganda to some of them. At the same time their allies view of regaining their lost colonies and continuing them sounded very much like the European Colonialism and Imperialism they fought believed many Americans. If anything this proved that the Allies were similarly like the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere towards one another more then they were true allies, similar to their own alliance with the Soviet Union as well. But were the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere were militarily and economically massively dominated by the German Empire and the Japanese Empire, with little to no overlapping zones of interest in politic, economic or military operations at all, at least none that caused too much tensions and problems during the Second Great War. This problems even led to a slow down of the recruitment of local forces by the Allies and the Axis Central Powers, as some of them only allowed for their own forces to directly recruit the natives into their own armies, but not even their allies as some of their politicians, generals and local governors outright refused even their own allies to do so in fear of losing potential soldiers and workforce during or for the time after the Second Great War. Still just like in Papua New Guinea, the African locals were in need of support from the natives to transport their supplies, help with scouting and the overall fighting, at least on the flanks and for back-line garrisons against other local bandits and raiders.
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Chapter 720: The Japanese Pacific and the Outer Defense Perimeter Problem
Chapter 720: The Japanese Pacific and the Outer Defense Perimeter Problem
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The Japanese Tactic and Strategy of the Outer Defense Perimeter surrounding their Home Islands and Core Resources Territories had one fatal flaw; the more the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere expanded, the more their Core Region and Resource Region did to, meaning that in return their Defense Region had to grow to, until all of the world would one day be part of the Co-Prosperity Sphere if this logic would continue. The situation of the Pacific Islands had greatly changed after the First Great War, when Japanese gained the South Pacific Mandate and followed their own former economic involvement and Japanese traders, plantation workers and settlers, supported by the Nan'yō Kōhatsu kabushiki gaisha (南洋興発株式会社, abbreviated to Nankō or NKKK), also known the South Seas Development Company and the Japanese Mail Steamship Company (Nippon Yusen Kaisha). Japanese population grew from under 4,000 in 1920, to 70,000 in 1930 and then 80,000 in 1933. By 1935 the Japanese population had grown to 50,000 on Saipan alone almost 90 percent of the population on Saipan was Japanese (42,547 out of 46,748). In the census of December 1939, the total population was 129,104, of which 68,257 were Japanese the rest indigenous islanders and 124 foreigners. The rights and status of the indigenous Micronesian population differed from those of Japanese imperial subjects. Employment prospects for Micronesians were more restricted, with unequal labor conditions and pay Japanese Government of the Mandate built and maintained hospitals, schools and Shinto shrines, gave free education was for Micronesian children aged 8–15 and provided basic medical aid and support. Japanese language, Japanese culture, Buddhism and the state Shinto religion were massively promoted by these state run Japanese institutions and even before the Second Great War Christian mission schools were prohibited from taking Micronesian pupils when Japanese government schools existed, to decrease American-European and overall non-Asian, non-Japanese influence. The overall plan was to Japanize the locals, or replace them by Japanese directly, turning these Pacific Islands into a part of the Home Islands.
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This was even increased during the Second Great War, more exactly during the Pacific War, when those locals unwilling to be integrated and assimilated into Japanese culture, language and religion were forcefully resettled into the Empire of Manchuria, as well as these parts of Siberia and the Far East conquered by the Manchurian and Japanese. The Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy believed that their Japanese soldiers would fight more fanatically, radical and hard if they protected parts of the Japanese Home Islands instead of just some colonial island in the middle of the Pacific. This exchange of population, culture and infrastructure massively changed many pacific islands during the Second Great War, as logistic requirements of the Allies and the Japanese. Those islands had experienced around 200 years of colonialism from Europe and America by them and some were planned to be fully annexed, while others were promised future independence. For the Japanese many indigenous people were not only Japanized or resettled, but used for labor and sometimes even forces prostitution, family separation, incarceration, execution, concentration camps, but also provided advanced education and medical support and infrastructure. During the Second Great War many Pacific Islands would experience military action, massive troop movements, and resource extraction alongside building projects as the Allies and the Japanese pushed against one another over control of the region. Many of the local, indigenous Pacific Islanders gained a new understanding about their understanding of their own relationship with the colonial powers. Many of these island communities had very little to none contact with European, American, Japanese or any outside forces and powers at all. The sudden arrival and rapid departure of so many men and machines led to the so-called cargo cults in parts of the Pacific Islands, were American and Japanese, pilots, sailors and crewman were worshiped alongside their planes and ships, sometimes even fallen ones were prayed to as deities and powerful gods. The Japanese later incorporated these local native "Samurai-Warrior-Cults" as they called them into their local network of State Shinto temples and shrines.
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Chapter 721: National Monarchism: Georgian Bragatism
Chapter 721: National Monarchism: Georgian Bragatism
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Under King Bragat IV, the reborn Georgian Kingdom, a constitutional democracy did it's best to find it's place in the Axis Central Powers and survive not only the Second Great War, but the ambitions of it's neighbors as well, the Azerbaijan Kingdom and the Armenian people (with their dream of a own Kingdom) both hoped to gain land from Georgia. Therefore King Bragat IV had to maintain a difficult balance act between the German Empire, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, the Second Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire to maintain Georgian independence not only from them, but from neighbors like Azerbaijan too. He did so by becoming a German Protectorate Kingdom at first, allying with the Austrian-Hungarians to limit Ottoman Ambitions, but in the End he would marry his daughter Leonida to the Russian Tzar Vladimir Romanov in 1946. This way Georgian Independence was secured by a strong Axis Central Power member state and the Russian Empire in return had a loyal vassal that helped them regain some of the lost influence in Southern Russia and the Caucasus Region. As a vital source for textiles, munition and warplanes (like the Yak-3, LA-5 and the LaGG-3) for the Soviet Union before, the Georgians produced and supplied for the Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd), also known as the Caucasian Army Group (Heeresgruppe Kaukasus). Because they had been sympathic to the Germans and the Axis Central Powers in the Eastern Crusade, Stalin had ordered the deportation of local Chechen, Ingush, Karachay and the Balkarian peoples from the Northern Caucasus and transported them to Siberia and Central Asia, just as he had ordered the deportation of Turkic Uzbeks, Kazakh, Turkmen and Kyrgyz people alongside German further east to Siberia. Their respected autonomous republics had been abolished and the Georgian Kingdom gladly took some of their territory for their own nation state.

Stalins attempt to use patriotic unity to boost Georgian nationalism during the Second Great War backfired, when the Axis Central Powers (mainly the Austrian-Hungarians, Germans and Ottomans alongside Russian Imperial Forces). When the Red Army encircled in Georgia realized they would not break out or be relieved, they killed hundreds of Georgian students, intellectuals and political leaders who had been critical of the Georgian Socialist Soviet Republic, the Soviet Union, Stalinism, Communism and Bolshevism before. In a attempt of ending the soviet planned economy, centralization was stopped and local regional power bases and organization established. Georgian economy began to grow rapidly even after the Second Great War, house ownership exploded alongside saving levels and German Volkswagen, Daimler-Benz, Auto Union and Opel cars were mass imported. Under George Bagration alias King Bragat IV, Georgia become one of the economically most successful nation states and monarchies formed out of the former Soviet Union inside the Eastern Axis Central Powers and high or special education was at the highest number under these as well because they had copied the German school model. Despite this corruption was common too and the Russians, Germans, Austrian-Hungarians and Neo Ottoman all tried their best to gain more influence and access to the important land in the Caucasus bordering the Black Sea that shipped Azerbaijan and Russian oil over Batum and Tuapse into Central Europe. Some of the Azerbaijan and Russian oil however bypassed Georgia into the Ottoman Empire, were it connected with the Second Ottoman Empiresincoming own oil pipelines on the Turkish Peninsula (the former Arabian Peninsula). When King Bragat IV died in 1957 the Georgian-Russian Alliance opposed the Azerbaijan-Second Ottoman in the region and both blocks tried to use other local ethnic groups and their ambitions (like the Abkhaz, Armenians, Circasian Dagestani and Kurds) for their own ambitions and power play for local dominance as well. Former Prince Irakli, now King Irakli I therefore had the difficult task of preventing a Caucasian War similar to the Balkan Wars a few decades earlier, when he started to rule the Georgian Kingdom in 1957 for the next twenty years.
 
Chapter 722: Arakan Campaign and Chindits, Allied pressure on Burma
Chapter 722: Arakan Campaign and Chindits, Allied pressure on Burma
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The Allied Offensives into Burma were lead by the British and Indien forces, starting in the Summer of 1942 and lasting till 1944, when British and Indian Commando's entered from Assam into the Pinbon-Pinlebu area of Co-Prosperity Sphere Burma. Later further Chindits were flow in or infiltrated the region, to build up forward bases in the Burmese north, taking Indaw, Maingkwan and Myitkyina till August 1942. When Burmese-Japanese Army forces pushed them back with the help of armed, local Burmese militia and police, as irregular auxiliaries (that just like their army were led by Bogyoke or Major General Aung San), sometimes even only Burmese civilians, armed with wooden spears. On their way back the Chindits armed and trained local Lisu, Kachin, Shan, Khun, Chin and Rakhine ethnic groups and minorities in Burma, hoping they would take up the fight against the Burmese Copropsit ethnic nation state. Still the Chindits would try to infiltrate Burma and weaken the Japanese and Burmese defenses in this part of South-East Asia with roughly around 9,000 to 12,000 of their special forces operating in Assam and Burma against the Indian and Burmese Coprospist governments, states and military's. The British Army and the British Indian Army tried to use this distraction of Japanese, Burmese and Azad Hind forces in East India and North Burma for their one first major attack into Burma in December 1942. But the Allies were not as prepared as they believed and the terrain they encountered, together with their failure to organize and prepare their own civil government, industry and transport infrastructure of Eastern India to support the Army on the frontier with Burma would lead to their defeat in this campaign. On the other side the Burmese and Japanese defenders occupying well-prepared positions repeatedly repulsed the British and Indian forces, who were then forced to retreat when the Japanese and Burmese received reinforcements and counter-attacked. Till May 1943 the Assam Offensive of the Allies was pushed back into India, but what neither side knew, was that the Azad Hind leader of the Provisional Government of Northeast India/ Assam and Bengal, Netaji (Respected Leader) Subhas Chandra Bose had gained information about the British-Indian plans to attack into Burma, but did not warn the Japanese, as he hoped this would force them to push into India and liberate it for his Coprospist government. Originally Bose had hoped for a quick victory in China as that would have freed forces for other regions like the Pacific, or India too. Then they could link up with the Indian resistance, rebels and other Indian independence movements and forces that were actively opposing the British Rule of India/ Raj.
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As the British Army and the Indian Army tried their best to gain momentum for a assault into Burma again, local armed civilians and militia helped the Burmese and Japanese fighting them and afterwards continued to fight those local ethnic rebel groups that were aided or supported by the Allies (mainly the British and partly the Americans) that armed them and even promised them to aid their goals. However the various Burmese ethnic rebel groups opposing the Burmese Nation State, sometimes only wished for more local autonomy in ethnic provinces guided and ruled by themselves, even some more socialist and communist extreme rebel groups. The main reason for that was that they knew total autonomy would bring with it the danger and problems that other nearby powers and nation states would make them depend on them with their bigger populations, economy and military either way somewhere in the future. Therefore remaining partly autonomous and independent inside Burma was actually the better option for some of them on the long run and the moment the Burmese Kingdom and national Burmese government realized this too, they tried to strike deals with some of the local groups by giving into some of their promises, or promising other authority and self-rule in some way or form, while turning the nearby local ethnic groups against one another. This way the Burmese hoped to distract them, weaken them with infighting, or even truly integrate them into their National Burmese Kingdom with some self-determination, or even fully integrate them into a Burmese dominated nation state and Burmeseize them to be assimilated by the major Burmese culture, religion and traditions. At the same time the Japanese, Burmese, Yikokuo and Taikokuo forces used the old Allied build Burma Road that they had used to supply the Chinese Untied Front with to reinforce their own position at the Indian-Burmese front. At the same time Japanese disguised as Chinese, Chinese, Burmese and Indian members of the Kempeitai and Co-Prosperity Sphere intelligence did everything they could to smuggle in finances, supplies, weapons and ammunition, but most were uncovered and arrested by the British authorities before they even managed to get into India itself.
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