Lucian Shihai
Nihhon-koku | |||||||||||||
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| 1869–1931 | |||||||||||||
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Anthem: "God Save the King/Queen" | |||||||||||||
| Status | Imperial political structure comprising Lucian Nihhon-koku (a quasi-federation of presidencies and provinces directly governed by the Lucian Crown through the Viceroy and Governor-General of Nihhon-koku); (b) Princely states, governed by Nihhonese rulers, under the suzerainty of the Lucian Crown exercised through the Viceroy and Governor-General of Nihhon-koku | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Akihabara, Tokyu (1869-1901) Tokyu (1901-1931) | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | English Nihhonese | ||||||||||||
| Government | Colony | ||||||||||||
| Monarch of the United Kingdom and Emperor | |||||||||||||
• 1869–1895 | Regis Lucis Caelum CVI | ||||||||||||
• 1895-1920 | Regis Lucis Caelum CVII | ||||||||||||
• 1920-1931 | Regis Lucis Caelum CVIII | ||||||||||||
| Viceroy and Governor-General | |||||||||||||
• 1869-1876 | (first) Alan Gott | ||||||||||||
• 1931 | (last) Kiriya Mountbatten | ||||||||||||
| Legislature | Imperial Legislative Council | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| 7 August 1868 | |||||||||||||
| 9 March 1869 | |||||||||||||
| 9 October 1931 | |||||||||||||
| Currency | Nihhonese Yen | ||||||||||||
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The Lucian Shihai (ルシアン 支配 "Rushian Shihai") was the rule by the Lucian Crown in the Nihhonese Archipelago between from 1869 until the opening of the first Nihhonese Parliament after the passage of the Statute of Herrenhausen in 1931. The rule is also called the direct Lucian rule in Nihhon-koku. The region under Lucian control was commonly called Lucian Nihhon-koku or simply Nihhon-koku in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called Lucian Nihhon-koku, and those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under Lucian tutelage or paramountcy, and called the princely states.
This system of governance was instituted on 9 March 1869, when, after the Nihhonese Rebellion of 1868, the rule of the Chiyoda Company Post was transferred to the Crown in the person of Regis Lucis Caelum CVI (who, in 1876, was proclaimed Emperor of Nihhon-koku). The direct rule lasted until in 1931, when the Lucian Parliament ceased to rule over Nihhonese affairs and a new Nihhonese parliament is opened and ran by indigenous Nihhonese officials. However, in accordance to the law, Nihhon-koku remained under the Lucian Crown as a Commonwealth Realm.