Triple Pact

Triple Pact HCL: Mikuni Kyōtei Seurian: Triple Pact Arcadie: Triple Pacte
Type	Military Alliance
Membership	Major Members: KDS Anagonia Meridon (post-1941) Minor Members: Republic of Arcadie (post-1942) Joseon
Establishment	January 20th, 1931
• 1931 Incident	January 1st, 1931
• Beginning of the Great War	January 22nd, 1931
• End of the Triple Pact	10th April, 1951

The Triple Pact (Also translated as the Triple Pacte or Mikuni Kyōtei) and popularly known as the Three-Power Alliance was a military coalition which fought in the Great War against Marquesan and its allies. Its principle members were the Kāichrén Democratic State, Anagonia, and after 1941 Meridon. The members were unified by shared grievances against Marquesan, and in the case of the KDS and Anagonia by a shared desire to decolonize or otherwise open the East Hiakemirian region, to allow for economic and political utilization of such by both powers. Outside of this shared goal they possessed lacking ideological or political collaboration, especially following the rise of Ogata Katsu to the role of Kantoku in the KDS.

The Triple Pact was born from existing secret treaties between Anagonia and the KDS, which pledged mutual alliance in the event of a declaration of war by Marquesan upon either of the two powers. These secret treaties agreed to split the overseas territories or allies of Marquesan and its likely allies (Aureumterra especially) amongst the two powers, with the KDS to seize the territory of the then-extant Janpian Empire and Marquesan possessions in East Hiakemiria, while Anagonia would reclaim its lost island of Bekershafen and other Aureumterran islands within the Anagonian Ocean. Meridon would join the alliance as a result of Marquesan targeting of their shipping, while the Republic of Arcadie and Joseon would join in the wake of such to attempt to gain territorial boons. Before Meridon's enterance into the war, the Triple Pact was more popularly known as the Anagonian-Kāichrén Rikai (or the Anagonian-Kāichrén Understanding).

The Triple Pact would be abolished with the end of the Great War, due to diverging geopolitical interests on the part of all three members and the beginning of the Kāichrén Civil War and the murder of Meridonian troops which occurred during such. To some extent, international organizations such as the now-defunct International Coalition of Nations or the Pan-Regional Multilateral Partnership have been considered to inherit some of the ideals of the Triple Pact.

Major Members

Kāichrén Democratic State

Main Articles: Kāichrén Democratic State, Ogata Katsu, Kurokawa Isao

War Justification

Throughout the entirety of the war, the KDS would phrase its actions to be in line with the generally held beliefs of Pan-Hiakemirism, despite the lack of personal belief in many of the leading figures of the state. That is to say that the conflict was justified through the means of making it a larger scale "anti-colonial" war against Marquesan, one which would shatter the state of affairs in East Hiakemiria and allow for the dreamed-of unified state entity comprising such to be established. It was therefore this mindset that the state would use as a means economic and political mobilization amongst the general population - with the sacrifices from the population which necessary to allow for the mass construction of naval, air, and ground assets being justified as being a temporary issue until they could experience complete independence from want or struggle in the wake of unification.

It was with this mindset that they would engage in the first strikes against Janpia - attacking without warning and devastating key assets of the fleet and ground assets of such, before preparing a campaign to invade the outlying islands of such. It is also here where the mindset of liberation that had been established would first be compromised in a public fashion - with the seizure of outlying islands not being followed by a promised invasion, as had been originally set out, but instead an entrenchment and exploitation of the Janpian population within what regions had been captured as labor. This was classified as another temporary ill - necessary to allow for the defeat of Marquesan on the Chamorro Front, and the public acceptance of such would lead to the enactment of similar policies targeting Jien population groups by Ogata Katsu.

With the coup later enacted by Ogata, this façade would generally cease being meaningful - as the ideological aims of the war had turned from a proclaimed liberation into a war of survival against the resurgent forces and allies of Marquesan, a narrative which allowed for continued rapid decreases in the standards of living for non-military figures within the state.

History

The Kāichrén Democratic State had for the most part inherited the internal and geopolitical situations of the State of Kaesong despite their revolution and establishment from such. They maintained an anti-Marquesan perspective in the majority of pre-conflict influential parties, continued the alliance and economic codependency with Anagonia, and had the same economic pressure for continued militarization, in the form of the Iminchebol. With these factors in mind, the 1931 Incident - the lynching of a Marquesan tourist - became the perfect perceived method of creating a societal safety valve, preventing the collapse of the state's early democratic institutions by creating pressures for political unification and a strong enemy to fight against. Therefore, the foreign policy establishment of the state (primarily controlled by the military) made little effort to actually stop the progression of the situation towards war, instead utilizing the repeated failures of diplomacy as a means to encourage the population.

The unification of the majority of political parties into the Kakumei Dōmeitō would be crucial to the wartime measures undertaken later, with the unification of the majority of parties clamping down on independent political expression and "defeatism" in equal amounts. It also allowed for the enforcement of political mobilization amongst the population, with repeated utilization of early mass media and also-repeated tours by train across the state allowing the Kakumei to present itself in a populistic fashion despite being the sole party of power. It also allowed for programs designed to assist in the reaching of self-sufficiency to be worked upon, with the Kakumei investment into synthetic oil in the form of liquified coal being crucial for their ability to maintain the war effort past the point where such could be easily imported from Meridon.

Throughout the course of the war, this mobilization of the state would be expanded and eventually institutionalized by Ogata Katsu following his coup - with his Mobilized Nation being in many ways an extension of the existing political goals of the Kurokawa government, despite the latter's claims otherwise during his exile. It would take the first utilization of an atomic bomb to damage the resolve of the nation to an extent that caused the state to collapse - with landing forces sent by Marquesan in the wake of the establishment of the Northern Kalkin Canal being repulsed a fair number of times before the nuclear option was chosen.