Empire of the Tao

Empire of the Tao 道教帝国 Dōkyō Teikoku
Flag Imperial Seal
Motto: Tao ni shitagau Follow the Tao
The Location of the Tao in east Ophion
Capital	Ein
Largest	Capital
Official languages	Japanese
Recognised national languages	Japanese, English
Recognised regional languages	Aoban
Ethnic groups (2018)	Taoists (86%) Podians (8.5%) Aznazians (4.7%) Other (0.8%)
Demonym(s)	Taoist
Government	Constitutional Monarchy
• Enpress	Sora Miroyu
• Prime Minister	Nori Kenshin
• Speaker of the House	Juro Hideyoshi
Legislature	Senate
• Upper house	Imperial Council
• Lower house	Imperial Governors
Foundation  Independence from ancient POD (2300 BC)
• Stelten Invasion of the Tao	1600
• Rhodeve annexation of the Tao	1793
• Aznazian takeover of the Tao	1832
• Independence from Aznazia	June 3, 1903
• Constitution	May 19, 1948
• Monarchy Re-Established	May 16, 2019
Area
• Total	886,067 km2 (342,112 sq mi)
• Penninsula	718,960 km² 277,592 sq mi
• Islands (including Aoba)	167,106 km² 64,520 sq mi
Population
• 2018 estimate	108,000,000
• September 2018 census	108,557,494
GDP (nominal)	2018 estimate
• Total	₩5,121,904,000,000
• Per capita	₩47,425
Gini (2017)	28.2 low
HDI (2018)	0.894 very high
Currency	Taoist Way (₩) (WAY)
Time zone	UTC+8 (Taoist Time)
Date format	mm-dd-yyyy
Driving side	right
Calling code	+213
ISO 3166 code	TAO
Internet TLD	.tao

The Empire of the Tao (道教帝国 Dōkyō Teikoku) was an independent historical nation state from 1927 to 1948. For a short period of time, it was considered to be one of the great powers of Sunalaya.

The empire was birthed when Izumo Takehiko passed away; this left his son, Izumo Shou to take control of the Republic of the Tao in 1927. Shou would immediatly begin making serious chages to the government and military structure of the state, one of the largest changes was a new national constitution, which rebirthed the republic into the empire.