Chiyoda Company Post

The Chiyoda Company Post refers to the rule or dominion of the Lucis Nihhon-koku Company on the Island of Nihhon-koku. In 1847, the Royal Navy first arrived in Nihhon-koku at the Tokyu Port during a bad storm. The Commander of the fleet, Benedict Harold sought refuge and accepted the Nihhonese aid. He met with Emperor Meiyo and ended it with the assurance that the United Kingdom would return the favour by initializing a trade with the country. The following month, the Lucio-Nippon Treaty was signed, which prompted the formation of the Lucis Nihhon-koku Company with the assurance of increasing trade between the two nations and ruling over the Chiyoda Ward.

Eventually, the company post expanded to include Kyoto, Tanegashima, Kanagawa, and Osaka. The Company was a private company owned by stockholders and reporting to a board of directors in Insomnia. Originally formed as a monopoly on trade, it increasingly took on governmental powers with its own army and judiciary. It seldom turned a profit, as employees diverted funds into their own pockets. The Lucis government had little control, and there was increasing anger at the corruption and irresponsibility of Company officials or "nabobs" who made vast fortunes in a few years. The Nihhon-koku Act of 1851 gave the Lucis government effective control of the private company for the first time. The new policies were designed for an elite civil service career that minimized temptations for corruption. Increasingly Company officials lived in separate compounds according to Lucian standards. The Company's rule lasted until 1868, when, after the Nihhonese Rebellion of 1868, it was abolished. With the Government of Nihhon-koku Act, the Lucian government assumed the task of directly administering Nihhon-koku in the new Dominion of Nihhon-koku.