West Enyama
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Bannō Shogunate | |
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| Status | Partially recognized |
| Capital | Takayama |
| Largest city | Iwawara |
| Official languages | Tsurushimese |
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| Demonym(s) | West Enyamana |
| Government | Quasi-feudal dynastic hereditary military dictatorship |
• Shōgun | Bannō Yudo |
| Gini (2023 estimate) | 53.6 high |
| HDI (2024 estimate) | 0.575 medium |
| Currency | New Shogunate Koban (㊎) |
| Time zone | West Norumbian Time (WNT) |
| Date format | yyyy-mm-dd |
| Driving side | left |
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The Bannō Shogunate, often known internationally as West Enyama, is country in northwestern Norumbia. It consists of the western portions of the Lagawa Depression, including the Saiso river and marshlands, and the Iwawara Mountains. The Shogunate shares borders with East Enyama to its and northeast, and Norinnia to its north, and to the south by the Makrian Ocean.
An ethnic Tsurushimese-dominated nationalist shogunate under absolute control by the Bannō clan, the Shogunate does not lay claim to areas of the former republic which do not have Tsurushimese majorities or significant minorities. The Shogunate was created in mid-2021, during the Enyaman Civil War, as a result of increasing warlordism in the Three Colors Army, the former Enyaman Armed Forces. Former general Bannō Yudo, who had garnered massive amounts of public support in Western Enyama through his antisocialist and anti-Muratagist stances, successfully consolidated enough materiel and military support from factions within the Three Colors to displace General Ashikaga as leader of the bulk of the ex-Enyaman Armed Forces, thus allowing state formation. Bannō built on an openly declared desire for the dissolution of Enyama fuelled by Tsurushiemese ethnonationalism; this put the early Shogunate at odds with unionist factions of both the Three Colors and Democratic Coalition as part of the broader Enyaman Civil War. After the 2022 New Treaty of Karasuna, the Bannō Shogunate emerged as one of the surviving factions of the war; despite claiming independence from the former Enyama, it nevertheless claims the East Enyaman capital of Fujikawa, which is of great irredentist importance to the Enyaman Tsurushimese.
The first nation to recognize the Shogunate was the fellow Enyaman separatist state of Norinnia, although relations remain lukewarm at best due to border disputes. Internationally, the Shogunate primarily enjoys support from monarchist benefactors, including Onekawa-Nukanoa, Velikoslavia, Latium and Yisrael; the political and military support of the former two greatly contributed to the Shogunate's political legitimacy during the civil war. Conversely, Nations including ____, _____, and ____ echo the East Enyaman position, and continue to consider Bannō an illegitamate warlord state on Enyaman territory, and often sanction trade from the polity. The Shogunate's political stances have attracted the pragmatic support many international monarchist polities against East Enyaman pluralism, though others consider the Shogunate illegitimate due to its status as an self-proclaimed monarchy. Such disagreements have kept the Bannō Shogunate, much like East Enyama, from concretely joining any international organizations.
History
West Enyaman territory consists largely of the coastal and inland areas of the former Enyama most impacted by both the first and second waves of Tsurushimese settlement
Government
The Bannō Shogunate has taken direct inspiration from the bakuhan system of the Isawa and Kakita Shogunates of Tsurushimese history, and thus is best described as a dynastic hereditary military dictatorship operating under a quasi-feudal divisions; though inspired by other historical Shogunates, the closest recent analogues to the Shogunate's ruling structure are found in the military organization of the Three Colors Army, especially after 2020 reforms giving increased autonomy to generals, and in the Gokudō clan system of broader Enyama, which became increasingly intertwined with government during the rule of Muratagi Eijiro, himself a former Gokudō member.
Mirroring earlier systems, the Bannō Shogunate de jure divides power between the Shōgun and a system of 224 landowning quasi-nobles known as daimyo, although de facto power remains extremely centralized under the Bannō clan. Most daimyo are military generals or analysts; it is estimated that over one third are also former Gokudō clan leaders. To ensure compliance, in 2023 Shōgun Bannō introduced a system similar to the Kakita sankin-kōtai system, with daimyo requiring to send one permanent ward to the high court in Takayama; unlike historical systems, the daimyo is themselves allowed freedom of movement, and they and the majority of their family are not required to go to Takayama themselves.
The judiciary of the Bannō Shogunate is partially decentralized, with each daimyo individually managing local judicial matters and laws; this is mediated by strong central oversight from the Shogunate's military tribunal, which is the de facto supreme court. The Shōgun’s tribunal primarily addresses high-profile political and economic offenses, particularly those affecting national security, but also mediates disputes between daimyo, or between the Shogunate and foreign representatives or companies. The ad hoc application, revocation, and enforcement of law, particularly by lower daimyo, but also by the high court, has seen the Shogunate accused of continued warlordism or neo-feudalism.