Kāichrén Democratic State

Kāichrén Democratic State Kāichrén Minshu Kuni
1929–1961
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Motto: Tōitsu to Kaihō Unity and Liberation
Status	Abolished in 1961 by the Idaina Shūfuku Bunsho, ceased to functionally exist in 1951.
Capital	Fuzan
Common languages	Hiakemirian Constructed Language, Kāichrén-Gengo, Kaizuei, Kaihiman, Jien
Religion	N/A (officially)
Demonym(s)	Kāichrén
Government	Unitary Parliamentary Republic (1929-1945) Unitary Dictatorship (1945-1951)
Prime Minister / Kantoku
• 1929-1945	Kurokawa Isao
• 1945-1951	Ogata Katsu
Legislature	Kokuminkai
• Unitary House	Kokkahyōkan
Historical era	1929-1951/61
• Established	April 18th, 1929
• Start of the Great War	22nd January, 1931
• Ogata Katsu's Coup	January 6th, 1945
• Death of Ogata Katsu	January 1st, 1951
• Disestablished	September 6th, 1961
Currency	Hanabikoin
Today part of	Neo-Korea Matsumae Fukuyama

The Kāichrén Democratic State (HCL: Kāichrén Minshu Kuni) was a historical Kāichrén Nation-State existing from 1929 to 1951 (or 1961), following the abolishing of the State of Kaesong. It was the state which would start the Great War, and would through such severely delegitimize the concept of democracy within the Kāichrén socio-political mindset, with its rapid fall into violent authoritarianism under even the more-benevolent leadership of Kurokawa Isao being seen as proof that such a system was not sustainable or broadly beneficial for the population. Despite this negative reputation in the modern era, the KDS also played a key role in the development of a number of cultural and political works in Kāichrén culture, with its preservation of Kigenist shrines and artistic-linguistic works being crucial to said faith's mild revival in the modern era.

The KDS as a state entity, would cease functioning in 1951 with the start of the Kāichrén Civil War, although it would only officially cease to exist with the Idaina Shūfuku Bunsho, which officially declared Neo-Korea the only true successor state to the KDS. It also abolished the Kakumei Dōmeitō as a political entity, meaning that the singular ruling party of the KDS was also abolished. Before the end of the KCW, a number of exile organizations abroad claimed successorship to the KDS as an entity.

Etymolgy

The circumstances cessation of Kaesong's existence would lead to the decision that the new name for the nation would need to be entirely seperate from such. Therefore, a number of names would be mooted - including the Pan-Hiakemirian Federation, the Democratic State of Hiakemiria, The Yanshen-Jungg'o Federation, and a number of others. All of these names would be rejected on a popular level - therefore leading to the decision that the state should fundamentally prioritize the Kāichrén in the naming of such as a form of appeasement to the population, a result of the general decrease in popular fervor for the democratic experiment as economic changes began to be enacted. As a result of this appeasement, and of the general historical tendency of disregarding the Jungg'oan population, the state would be named the Kāichrén Democratic Republic.

Throughout the course of the Great War, the state would often be referred to as the "Fuzan Republic" - owing to the centralization of state power in Fuzan following the Second Kāichrén Revolution.

History

Background

Following the death of Hamamoto Jaeon, his unwanted successor Masaki Atsushi would be unable to adequately resist the push towards forcible democratization voiced by a number of partisan groups. While the success of the Chamorro War brought relief for a few years, it would still not prevent the Second Kāichrén Revolution - which saw the abolishing of the State of Kaesong and the formation of a provisional government. This provisional government would gradually orient itself towards the goal of hosting fair elections - a dream which would not be manifested due to the sudden death of Kita Hajime and the appointment of Kurokawa Isao. While a notable democratic figure himself, Isao's willingness to work with ex-military figures of Kaesong, and especially his willingness to form the Kakumei Domeito as a "Mass Party" which overtly stated its intentions of vanguardism would lead to the seizure of state power by unrepentant figures of Kaesong such as Ogata Katsu - and eventually would lead to his own overthrow.

The first and only elections in the KDS would see the colossal victory of the Kakumei - as it had absorbed all non-marginal opposition groupings to create a big-tent "national unity" platform. This absorption of all other parties was due to a number of factors - including the revolutionary prestige of Kurokawa Isao, the belief that it would grant them a greater voice within the government than if they attempted to form an anti-Kakumei coalition, and the lack of experience in the democratic system possessed by all parties. While this would not manifest, two internal groups / former parties - the Aikoku-sha, born from a party of the same name and aligned to the right of the political sphere, and the Minshujiyūtō, a center-left party which was the first to incorporate itself with the Kakumei - would both exhibit major policy influence.

Isao would begin to rapidly implement a series of Sukoist political and economic policies in the wake of his election - this rationalization of labor putting him in a state of opposition to the Iminchebol. Following a series of legal conflicts, paramilitary violence conducted by pro-Isao workers against Iminchebol leadership, and bribery of certain neutral bodies, Isao would be able to pass the Gyōkisei, or the "Amendments to General Industry Regulations" - which called for the mandatory state-unionization of Iminchebol workforces, mandated a number of restrictions on the amount of time individuals were allowed to work, and established a number of other regulatory structures. This victory would solidify his position, and Isao would go on to pass a number of other reforms in the few years before the Great War, including a minimum wage and a pension for people of 60 years or older. During this period, his foreign policy would be highly similar to Kaesong - including continued deepening of the Anagonian economic relationship (made easier by the adoption of market systems), and general support of decolonization, especially against Marquesan - who Isao possessed a notable grudge against.

This series of policies would lead to the 1931 Incident, and the beginning of the Great War.

Great War

The Great War would begin on the 22nd of January, following the breakdown of negotiations between Marquesan, Anagonia, and the KDS. It is historically dubious to assign sole responsibility for the starting of war to any one party - the shared militancy of the KDR and Marquesan meant that any diplomatic solution following the 1931 Incident would have had to be brokered by Anagonia - who were not in a position to do such, owing to lacking lines of communication between Anagonia and Marquesan in this period, alongside lacking means to force such a peace upon either power. Therefore, it was with a shared desire on the part of the two powers that the war began - with Kaskaida and Aureumterra among others also joining Marquesan's side following the beginning of hostilities. Regardless of this though, it would take some weeks for conflict to actually start - with the First Battle of the Chamorro Islands being an upset victory against the on paper superiority of Marquesan forces. More specifically, greater concentration of air power and a focus on the continued capacity to project such from the island and the naval assets attached allowed for an early sighting of, and early attacks against, the Marquesan fleet sent to defeat such.

With Marquesan repulsed, the KDS would unilaterally declare war against their potential ally of Janpia - launching an aggressive series of air assualts which destroyed the majority of carrier assets possessed by Janpia, before following such with a serious of amphibious landings on Janpia's outlying islands in 1934 following naval battles with the remnants of Janpia's fleet throughout 31-33 - pushed forwards by the then-new Fringehead Light Amphibious Tank, which had the capacity to travel between islands through use of its newly developed Miyahara Drive. Around this period, Marquesan would once again move against the Chamorro Islands - with the second battle being a far-less decisive victory than the first, although a victory nonetheless. The amphibious campaign would continue from 34-41, until the Janpian state entity would collapse - leaving the KDS with control of the outlying islands and the capacity to send forces to assist Anagonia, who at this point had managed to convince (through Marquesan strikes on shipping) Meridon to join the Triple Pact.

With Janpia's defeat and Meridon's entry, the KDS would send a number of troops and naval assets to Anagonia - who would assist in the gradual turning of the tide against Kaskaida. While this was ongoing, the KDS continued to see increasing struggle in holding the Chamorro Islands - with the third battle in 1938 seeing the destruction of a number of key coastal defensive assets, while the fourth battle in 1942 would see the damaging of a great number of surface combatants, although continuing air capacity prevented inroads from being made on the islands. Following the battle, throughout 1942-1944 attempts at organizing an end to the war would begin covertly amongst the constituent parties of the Kakumei - with the support of Kurokawa Isao, who believed that the KDS would not be able to continue resistance at the rate of material losses. When this was revealed to military figures, Ogata Katsu would begin preparing to overthrow the "Defeatists" in the state in a violent coup, which occurred successfully in 1945.

This coup would rapidly lead to the implementation of the "Mobilized Nation", a conceptual attempt to mobilize the entirety of existing resources within the state, with this process including the complete control of industry by the state, the abolishment of even the framework of democracy which had continued to exist, and the suppression of now-growing Jungg'o independence movements. This suppression would include the seizure of agricultural production necessary for the survival of individuals within Jungg'o, in an attempt to force them to move into industrial areas where they could be put to work in munitions factories and other key industries. This militaristic nationalism would rapidly inflame ethnic and political tensions in the state, with continuing losses in the conflict - including the televised sinking of the Tanuki-class Battleship Ese-sha in the Fifth Battle of the Chamorro Islands in 1949 causing massive rioting. Following the completion of the Kalkin Locks, and the Atomic Bombing of Fuzan which soon followed after the transfer of a fleet through the locks, Ogata's government would collapse - with his assassination plunging the nation into chaos, and eventually starting the Kāichrén Civil War.

Start of the KCW

A rump government calling itself the Kāichrén Democratic State would exist for a few months during the conflict, while other powers following the same ideological or political viewpoints of Ogata Katsu would exist for the first few years of such. However, the lacking legitimacy of these factions and the early centralization of the Pan-Hiakemirist right around the government of Saeki Kichirou would render these groups irrelevant in the long term. Organizations claiming to be the legitimate KDS exist to this day, but have no real political or social influence in Neo-Korea or the Kāichrén Diaspora.

Cultural Developments

Throughout its history as a nation, the KDS would represent a notable development point for a number of later-transferred ideological and cultural concepts, with these concepts spreading to other nations through both cultural contact during the war and the overt exile of several notable figures during the period of control exerted by Ogata Katsu. The repeal of laws on censorship and the encouragement of cultural work through state funding would result in a large-scale democratization of a number of traditionally elite cultural fields, including Kāichrén Theatre, the importing and proliferation of cultural concepts like Cabaret from foreign nations, and a number of architectural developments, mainly centered in Fuzan's Kenchikie, which pioneered the field of Ninkinchiku, which attempted to combine functional building designs which could be produced en masse while retaining traditional concepts of beauty in the construction of structures.

The development of these concepts would be tied to the rapid growth of industries in the wake of Fuzan's selection as the new capital of the nation - with the service and industrial roles becoming more prominent as the population urbanized to an even greater extent than under Kaesong. This growth in high paying roles allowed for greater amounts of income to be spent on culutral and social interaction, which bolstered the prominence of these structures to an even greater extent.

Economic Developments

Throughout the lifetime of the KDS, it would see the implementation of Sukoist economic policy - the consolidation of Iminchebol production into massively standardized lines for the purposes of mass production, the implementation of the earliest concepts of mass-consumption. These policies, based on those enacted by Suko himself, based themselves fundamentally on the cultural concept of the industrialization of humankind - that is to say that it fundamentally believed that social change could be enacted by "rationalization" of culturally and politically odious elements. It was this fundamental perspective that saw it eagerly adopted by military figures during the Great War, who believed it could be used to remove resistance to their policies by working class or minority populations, especially in the case of Ogata Katsu and his perspective on Jungg'o.

These policies would see natural dissent during the course of the war, especially by those few union structures which existed in the KDS - but ultimately they would be ignored or surpressed as the need of mobilization within the nation overturned any desire to attempt to care for or otherwise assist the population in withstanding the transformative societal effects such changes in production would have. Ultimately, they would provide the basis for the modern Neo-Korean economic structures of the state, with the majority of Iminchebol continuing to run along Sukoist lines until the 1995 Economic Reforms and the abolishing of currency such entailed.