Vietnam (Reborn)

Republic of Vietnam is one of the three post-WWIII superpowers together with India and the JTO.

History

Pre-WWIII Vietnam

In 2034 the Hanoi Spring took place. Communists were overthrown and Vietnam became a democracy. Democratic Vietnam had its capital moved to Saigon in 2036. In 2043 Vietnam became a developed nation. However since Hanoi Spring leaders were strongly anti-WMD, democratic Vietnam never aquired any nuclear weapons or any other WMDs.

WWIII Chaos in Vietnam

During WWIII Vietnam remained neutral. However some ethnobioweapons targeting ethnic Chinese affected Vietnamese. Vietnam lost 64% of its population during three days. President Luong Huy Anh and most members of his government passed away during the attacks. However Vu An Nam, the Minister of Transportation, the Minister of Transportation, remained alive. Nam then assumed presidency.

Nam's government then fought a short civil war against 3 rival governments and took all of Vietnam by Dec 2nd, 2061.

During and after the civil war Nam realized that China, Japan, Taiwan and many other nations had been depopulated and that a small group of local Vietnamese expats were among the few survivors. Moreover India became the sole remaining power that had WMDs. In order to prevent India from dominating the entire world President Vu began to aggressively obtain tech and WMDs from depopulated nations and sent Vietnamese troops to defend areas with a large Vietnamese diaspora such as United States and France.

President Vu started two campaigns, the Operation Hai Ba Trung' 61 to secure depopulated East Asia and obtain WMDs there and the Operation Hai Ngoai' 61 to protect Vietnamese diaspora in Europe, North America and Oceania.

The former ended as an almost complete success as Vietnam rapidly secured Japan, both Koreas, Taiwan and advanced deep into China. Vietnamese troops found that Russia and East Turkestan were also depopulated but Tibet still had a few people left. Vietnamese troops reached the old China-Tibet and East Turkestan-Tibet borders with no opposition. They then rapidly advanced into Europe and the Middle East. There was almost no opposition before reaching the German, French, Swedish, Norwegian or Italian border where black militias and gangs were found. In the Middle East Vietnam managed to go as far as Baghdad before getting stopped by Indians.

The Indian government survived in Tamil Nadu and did not even go through a civil war before recovering. Moreover they had slightly better weaponry and arms industry compared to Vietnam. India had used up its nukes in WWIII and their computer viruses were not useful in a world temporarily without the internet. However they managed to produce a new nuke in Dec 2061 and threatened to nuke Vietnam on Apr. 17th 2062 unless Vietnamese troops retreat from Europe and the Middle East altogether.

Vietnam then complied and retreated from Europe and the Middle East which actually turned out to be a great decision for Vietnam for this was how it managed to remain mostly unscathed in the African Chaos. India which occupied Europe, the Middle East and North Africa on the other hand got severely hit by African Chaos while Vietnam managed to obtain a nuke in Jun 2061.

Recovery (2067 - 2084)

Since Vietnam was only lightly affected by the African Chaos it was the first country to recover. However it was still affected by JTO Jihads. Due to extremists in JTO waging numerous jihads against both India and Vietnam by 2070 they had become allies against JTO. JTO was forced to agree to control extremism at the nuclear threat.

Geography

In mid-22nd Century Vietnam has two components, Vietnamese Earth and Vietnamese Space.