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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
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
Industrialise
Cause
- 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
Plot
Part one: Capitulation
- Protag races to the capital
- Hear about capitulation over the radio
Part two: Transitional council
Part three: Parliamentary democracy/boom times
Part four: Trouble in democracy
People
Protag
- Member of controversial anti-war movement
- Lefty, but pragmatic
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