Reformed Government of Senria
Imperial Authority of Senrian Territories 帝国管理局千龙国领地 Senrian here | |||||||||
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| 1927–1933 | |||||||||
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| Status | Administratively autonomous component of the Heavenly Xiaodongese Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Bantian | ||||||||
| Government | Provisional government under military dictatorship | ||||||||
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• 1927-1933 | Shanrong Emperor | ||||||||
| Viceroy | |||||||||
• 1927 | Lu Keqian | ||||||||
• 1927-1933 | Qiu Hanjie | ||||||||
| Chief Minister | |||||||||
• 1927-32 | Yosito Otuzi | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| April 7 1927 | |||||||||
• Disestablished | 1933 | ||||||||
| Currency | Kuai (块) | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Senria | ||||||||
The Imperial Authority of Senrian Territories (Xiaodongese: 帝国管理局千龙国领地; Dìguó guǎnlǐ jú Qiānlóngguó lǐngdì) was the official name of the areas of Senria occupied by the Heavenly Xiaodongese Empire during the Senrian-Xiaodongese War from 1927 to its invasion in 1933. Throughout its history the Imperial Authority controlled most of the island of Kitasuu, with its headquarters being in Bantian (named Sakata in Senria).
The Imperial Authority was created on the basis that Xiaodong, which had rapidly industrialised during the late 1800's and enjoyed political stability, was destined to lead eastern Borea and southern Lahudica, invading Senria in 1927 partly due to the political instability following the Senrian Revolution and also due to the Senrian annexation of the Xiaodongese concession of Bantian. The political future of Senria was initially uncertain - initial occupation authorities where made up of a joint Senrian-Xiaodongese government, which aimed for the new state to be part of a Xiaodongese bloc that would see the restoration of order in Senria. However, in the later months of 1927 the government became increasingly dominated by Xiaodongese officials under Qiu Hanjie who proposed to divide Senria into two zones, one to be deported of ethnic Senrians and replaced with ethnic Xiaodongese and the other to be a rump puppet state.
Under the Imperial Authority the Senrian Genocide was carried out. However, the war turned for the worse for Xiaodong in 1931 and by 1932 the majority of the territory of the Imperial Authority was annexed by Senria. The Imperial Authority was officially dissolved in April 1933, but had de facto been in Senrian hands since June 16 1932.
History
The Imperial Authority was created by an imperial decree the day after the Heavenly Xiaodongese Empire invaded the city of Bantian on May 2 1927 which started the Senrian-Xiaodongese War. Xiaodong had been able to capture the city due to it being weakly defended under the forces of Lu Keqian. Within the month, larges areas of the Sakata and Misaki prefectures, as well as much of Mutumura prefecture and some areas of Sueoka and Sekiguti prefectures were occupied by Xiaodongese troops.
Bantian was designated as the provisional capital, with Lu commissioning a government to be created consisting of Xiaodongese military officers and Senrian collaborators. Xiaodong at this point had framed the invasion in its propaganda as a measure to impose order over Senria in the aftermath of the Senrian Revolution, and had attempted to incorporate ethnic Senrians into the regime by promising them a "strong Senria in a Greater Xiaodongese Order" warning against the dangers of Senria descending further into republicanism, liberalism and communism. The "Charter on the Development of Senria" was issued in early June 1927 which promised to create an independent Senrian state under Xiaodongese protection, with a government being created headed by Yosito Otuzi as Chief Minister. The government consisted of Senrian collaborators who formed the pro-Xiaodongese Party of National Reconstruction and Xiaodongese military officers who oversaw them.
In June 1927 Qiu Hanjie took over from Lu as Commanding Officer of the Imperial Authority, where his government explicitly promoted Xiaodongese supremicism. Qiu divided the areas under the Imperial Authority's control into Control Zones (which were under the control of Otuzi's puppet government) and Extermination Zones under the direct control of Qiu and the Peace Preservation Brigades who were tasked with conducting the Senrian Genocide.
Xiaodongese intentions regarding the territory
Xiaodongese officials throughout the war claimed they were merely setting up a new state in Senria that would ensure stability and liberate Senria from liberal republicanism and socialist agitation. However, the Xiaodongese government under Ren Xilian had prior to the war drafted policy papers and proposals that called for the entirety or at least substantial parts of Senria to be annexed into Xiaodong as new prefectures.
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The first of these proposals was drafted by Chen Guanbiao, a radical socialist theorist who called for a new society in a Xiaodongese dominated Senria that would be pan-Monic in character, with harmony between the people of Senria and Xiaodong. Chen originally a supporter of the Senrian Revolution became disillusioned with what he saw as the chaos it had unleashed - Chen blamed the revolution's failure to achieve social reform in real terms on the fact that it embraced liberal and nationalist ideology. Chen called on the Monic nations to reject barbaric nationalism and to submit to Confucian Xiaodong which would liberate the Monic world of reactionary practice and promote peace between people's. These ideas were later adapted by right-wing theorists. These rightists promoted Chen's analysis that liberalism and "barbaric nationalism" had destroyed Senria and that a new society in Senria needed to be built, but rather than promote an anti-nationalist, utopian pan-Monicism instead called for Xiaodong to subjegate and destroy Senrian society in its entirety.
Radical socialist followers of Chen advocated for Xiaodong to intervene in Senria and influenced war planners. However, these war planners such as Xu Deming called for Senria to be partitioned into areas designated for Xiaodong to be depopulated of Senrians, repopulated with ethnic Xiaodongese and absorbed as integral prefectures of Xiaodong and areas to make up a rump Senrian state that would be ruled by a Xiaodongese prince. Xu's plan was opposed by officials such as Prime Minister Ren Xilian, who called for "the orderly and complete dismantlement of Senria and the elimination of is people's" and war planner Yao Fuzhang who pushed for Senria to be made into a puppet state of Xiaodong. Nevertheless, the Xu plan was the one adopted by Xiaodong with the Otuzi government being designed to eventually be given stewardship over a rump Senrian state.
During the occupation, division existed over how to depopulate Senrias from territory occupied by Xiaodong. Military planners such as Lu Keqian advocated for Senrians to be imported into Xiaodong as slave labour and to force the remaining Senrians to undergo cultural "Xiaodongisation" whilst Qiu Hanjie advocated for the physical removal and genocide of the Senrian people as a whole. The latter policy was adopted by occupation authorities, who planned to carry out the genocide to all territory in Senria north of Keisi.
Administration
The Decree on the Imposition of Imperial Authority of Senrian Territories within the Heavenly Xiaodongese Empire laid out the basic administrative structure of the Imperial Authority. The Emperor of Xiaodong was the nominal head of state of the territory and was given the right to appoint a Viceroy to "oversee the affairs of state and command the Heavenly Army". An executive known as the State Council was created headed by a Chief Minister, whilst a legislature was due to be created at an undefined date. A single political party, the National Association for a New Senria, existed.
The centre of political power however was in the hands of the Commanding Officer of the Xiaodongese forces in Xiaodong, who was co-currently the Viceroy. The State Council and Chief Minister were little more than rubber stamping bodies as the military appointed ministers and ran local government. The National Association for a New Senria and its associated militias, served only as a conduit for the mass mobilisation of the Senrian population in Xiaodongese occupied territory rather than a genuine political party. This meant that effectively the Imperial Authority was a military dictatorship ruled by the Commanding Officer. Two men served as Viceroy/Commanding Officer - Lu Keqian from May to June 1927 and Qiu Hanjie from June 1927 to his capture in July 1932.
Judicial system
The Imperial Authority was under a state of martial law throughout its existence, meaning military courts determined the justice of those within the Authorities borders.
Military forces
Militias
To encourage local support for the new regime, volunteer militias were created by occupation authorities that aimed to incorporate Senrians into the new regime and defend against resistance groups. The largest of these was the Army for the National Defence of Senria which was created to root out anti-Xiaodongese Senrian resistance groups. Other militia's included the All-Womens Defence Corps and the Youth Brigades, both of which were the military arms of the Senrian Womens League and the Youth for the Restoration of Senria, mass organisations created by occupation forces to shore up support for the regime from all sectors of society. All militia groups were nominally voluntary, but in reality Senrian citizens were pressured into joining them; Xiaodongese commanders frequently used kidnapping and impressment to recruit. Milita members were deemed more expendable than Xiaodongese troops and as a result were frequently denied supplies and intentionally sent on suicide missions by Xiaodongese commanders. The vast majority were not loyal to occupation forces, with many aiding and abetting guerrilla forces and Senrian espionage activities, and large numbers of Senrian milita members defected or surrendered to Senrian troops when given the opportunity.
The militia groups were dissolved in November 1930 when all Senrian citizens in occupied territory were designated to be deported into extermination zones, although militia groups had been used in the genocide prior to their dissolution.
Administrative districts
Demographics
Over the course of the war, the Xiaodongese state aimed to fundamentally reconfigure the entire ethnic makeup of Senria, beginning its conversion from a homogeneous Senrian to a homogeneous Xiaodongese state. At the eve of the invasion the vast majority of the population within what would become the Imperial Authority where ethnic Senrians, with a small population of Xiaodongese people mainly in Sakata where under Xiaodongese rule the city had begun to have a ethnic majority of Xiaodongese.
Under the occupation Xiaodong divided the population along socio-ethnic lines. Ethnic Xiaodongese were afforded the highest privileges, followed by honorary Xiaodongese (Senrians who cooperated with Xiaodongese authorities), Senrians and burakumin. All aspects of life were segregated on these grounds within the Imperial Authority - the best housing was redistributed to ethnic Xiaodongese whilst burakumin and later Senrians were deported to ghettos to eventually be shipped off to Extermination Zones.