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West Enyama

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Bannō Shogunate

伴野幕府
"Bannō Bakufu"
(Tsurushimese)
Motto:    
StatusPartially recognized
CapitalTakayama
Largest cityIwawara
Official languagesTsurushimese
Other spoken languages
Demonym(s)West Enyamana
GovernmentQuasi-feudal dynastic hereditary military dictatorship
• Shōgun
Bannō Yudo
Gini (2023 estimate)53.6
high
HDI (2024 estimate)0.575
medium
CurrencyNew Shogunate Koban (㊎)
Time zoneWest Norumbian Time (WNT)
Date formatyyyy-mm-dd
Driving sideleft
  1. West Enyaman is a denonym typically only used in international contexts, and not by the Shogunate itself. Regularly, the denonym for the Shogunate is a simple "of Bannō" or "Shogunate".

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.