• The Dictatorship

  • Previous government kept order really well with harsh punishments for criminals and dissidents, but mostly freedom for everyone else

  • El presidente’s party gets banned and later becomes a nuisance in a different form

  • ?The president is a sort of omnipresent figure who is never seen (until a point) but the fallout from his actions often create conflict for the protagonist

• The New Republic

  • Dictator in hiding, intelligence services will get you boyo dw

  • ?A later bit has the dictator on trial by a legislature committee and the protag has the deciding opinion

  • Or maybe is burdened with what to do but in the end it doesn’t even matter

  • Oh yeah naming style, gotta get that down

  • Maybe faux-Japanese

  • Just lost a war against the {NOT AMERICA} coalition which ousted the dictator of {NOT JAPAN}

  • The dictator was rabidly popular but that dropped sharply near the end of the war when {NOT JAPAN} was losing

  • The occupying {NOT AMERICA} are trying to transition {NOT JAPAN} to democracy but are really hamfisted about it and oftentimes are a nuisance to deal with

  • How hard to be on war vets

  • Soldiers need to be rehabilitated

  • People need to be de-El Presidente’d

  • Higher ups need to be prosecuted…right?

  • “These men and women all helped us fight the war! How dare you even THINK about throwing them into prison or, god forbid, murdering them.”

  • {NOT AMERICA} tensions

  • Diplomacy or threats?

  • A big chunk of pre-war territory is yet to be returned

• Rise of The New Republic

  • Imminent economic boom

• Education

  • Good cultural emphasis on education

  • Education needs to be overhauled, it was pretty good but too much el presidente worship

  • More conservative members of the legislature want to add in “realistic” elements, downplaying the country’s loss in the war and the negatives of the presidente regime

• Industrialisation

  • Compromise with the private companies? Reduce regulation despite how it hurts the people in order to spur economic growth and later public works.

  • South Korea and Japan both name their big conglomorate companies with special names (Chaebol and Zaibatsu then Keiretsu)

  • Economic reform with the help of some tense negotiations with {NOT AMERICA}

  • Over-loaning as a clever tactic

  • Maybe the protag’s closest friend/ally is a high up economic advisor

• Democracy Debate

  • Transitional council, can’t rush into democracy too soon now

  • Many in the ruling party are divided between the people not being educated enough to vote yet, and that the party should never allow voting for efficiency’s sake

  • There’s also a small minority who believes that we need to implement democracy right flipping now but they are very much not the majority

  • Wtf does “educated” even mean?

  • Later on, need debate about lack of term limits for president

  • Losing the president could bring a lot of the country’s tensions to the fore

• Misc

  • Could be merged with the Charon independence story, but the modern-ness is part of what makes it work

  • ESPIONAGE, it’s a thing that happens

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A New Republic