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Japan
Empire of Japan
Official Name: Empire of Japan, Shogunate of Japan (Kumazawa)
Ruling Party: Kōdōhanote
Ideology: Constitutional Monarchynote
- Civil War: By March 1936, if Japan hasn't successfully defeated the Beiyang Government, a bloody conflict breaks out between the socialist revolutionaries and reactionary government in the Home Islands.
- Government in Exile: If Imperial Japan loses the civil war, the royal family can flee to either Korea or Mantetsu and form a new government.
- MegaCorp: The Big Four zaibatsu hold significant power and prop up a large portion of the Japanese economy. Depending on which path Japan follows after the civil war, they might either be weakened (by Yasuhito), empowered (by Kumazawa) or banned altogether (by the socialists).
- Rightful King Returns: The end goal of the displaced royal family (in either Korea or Mantetsu) is to eventually return to the Home Islands and take their home back from the revolutionaries. If they are exiled to Yakutia instead, they will not have the capabilities to do so, reflected in no focus for Home Islands reclamation.
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: There are two predominant political philosophies in the Japanese government at the mod's start - Sonnō-ha and Chūō-ha. Both are pretty conservative and reactionary, but the Sonnō-ha movement believes in an idealized vision of ancient Japan that it wants the country to return to while Chūō-ha are heavily modernized and focused on rapid mechanization to prepare the nation for a total war.
- Shocking Defeat Legacy: The Russo-Japanese War being an unhappy and dishonorable stalemate is the primary reason for why Japan hasn't been nearly as successful in this timeline as they were in OTL.
- Vestigial Empire: Outside of the Home Islands, Japan only controls the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, a sliver of southern Manchuria (Mantetsu), and the cities of Saigon and Hai Phong in Vietnam. If the civil war happens, Japan will lose all these four colonies regardless of the victor.
Yasuhito
Role: Monarchnote
Party: Kōdōhanote
Ideology: Constitutional Monarchynote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- Ironic Name: After being inspired by Araki Sadao, Yasuhito took the era name "Eigen" (Eternal Reign). He can be the last Emperor of Japan if the socialists win the civil war.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: After taking the throne due to his older brother's death, Yasuhito's regime began bloody purges directed at all potential conspirators against the throne, and is overall far more militaristic and authoritarian than his predecessors.
Kumazawa Hiromichi
Role: Monarchnote (Divine Wind Coup)
Party: Gen'yōshanote
Ideology: Aristocratic Reactionnote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- The Coup: Kumazawa comes to power through the Divine Wind Coup.
- Evil Reactionary: Kumazawa is a reactionary seeking to reshape Japan according to his idea of how it should've remained.
- The Usurper: Kumazawa is a pretender who can seize power from Emperor Yasuhito with the support of the military.
Ichiro Hatoyama
Role: Country Leader
Ideology: Social Conservatismnote
Saito Takao
Role: Country Leader
Ideology: Social Liberalismnote
Tetsu Katayama
Role: Country Leader
Ideology: Progressive Democracynote
Ikki Kita
Role: Country Leader
Ideology: Progressivism
Revolutionary Japan
Official Name: Pan-Asian Federation (Ōkawa, The New Order focus)
Ruling Party: Nihon Kyōsan-tōnote
Ideology: National Vanguardismnote
- Fictional Holiday: If they win the Japanese Civil War, Revolutionary Japan will celebrate their victory over the Imperial government each year on Champion's Day.
Ōkawa Shūmei
Role: Country Leader
Party: Nihon Kyōsan-tōnote
Ideology: National Vanguardismnote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- Commie Nazis: Ōkawa is a both a socialist and a pan-Asianist, and will attempt to make Japan the leader of a continent-spanning socialist power bloc.
- Full-Circle Revolution: Ōkawa coming to power would result in the replacement of Imperial dictatorship with a socialist dictatoship.
Yamakawa Hitoshi
Role: Council Presidentnote
Party: Nihon Kyōsan-tōnote
Ideology: Spartakismnote
- Chummy Commies: His government is libertarian socialist, and some of the events actually focus on breaking the rigid conservatism of Japanese society in order to make it more egalitarian.
- Regime Change: Yamakawa's main priority is to support the regimes friendly to the socialist revolution in China and Southern Asia.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: Yamakawa's path ensures the democratic character of the revolution is never extinguished.
Itō Noe
Role: Council Presidentnote (Presidential election)
Party: Rōdō Kumiai Sō Rengōnote
Ideology: Social Anarchismnote
- Band of Brothels: She supports the legalization and regulation of sex work to ensure a fair treatment of sex workers.
- Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Itō can become the first female leader of Japan.
Abe Isoo
Role: Economy Minister (Yamakawa/Abe cabinet), Council Presidentnote (Presidential election)
Party: Rōdōnōmintōnote
Ideology: Democratic Socialismnote
Taiwan
Official Name: Taiwan Provisional Republic, Tawainese Republic (Liao, Cai), Formosa (Liao, Focus tree completed), Taiwan People's Republic (Chiang, Xuehong), Revolutionary Nationalist Province of Taiwan (Tan), Republic of China (Cai, Chiang, Chinese reunification), Chinese Socialist Republic/People's Republic of China (Xuehong, Chinese reunification), Futurist People's Republic of China (Tan, Chinese reunification)
Ruling Party: Taiwanese Provisional Government
Ideology: Provisional Governmentnote
- Disaster Democracy: Independent Taiwan is born from the collapse into civil war of the Japanese Empire and may fulfill its democratic ambitions.
Thomas Liao
Role: Country Leader (Election)
Party: Taiwanese People's Party - Moderate Faction
Ideology: Classical Liberalismnote
Cai Pei-huo
Role: Head of Government (Cai/Chiang cabinet), Country Leader (Election)
Party: Taiwanese People's Party - Minquan Faction
Ideology: Left Wing Populismnote
Chiang Wei-shui
Role: Country Leader (Chaos, TPP takeover)
Party: Taiwanese People's Party - Minsheng Faction
Ideology: Democratic Socialismnote
Xie Xuehong
Role: Country Leader (Chaos, TCP takeover)
Party: Taiwanese Communist Party - Rightist
Ideology: Leninismnote
Tan Ting-pho
Role: Country Leader (TA takeover)
Party: Taiyang Association
Ideology: Fiumanismnote
- Bizarrchitecture: Tan seeks to free architecture from all forms of rules:Why shouldn't they resemble man himself or an old building on fire, why restrict architecture at all? Most importantly, why should architects not be artists unbound by such silly things as rules?
- The Purge: Tan purges all reactionaries, socialists and technocrats upon taking power.
- Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In real life, Tan was a painter. In Red Flood, he is the ruler of Accelerationist Taiwan.
- Suddenly Significant City: When Tan takes power, he moves the seat of government from Taipei to the headquarters of his club in Chiayi.
Korea
Korean Governorate
Official Name: Korean Governorate, Kingdom of Korea (Korean Civil War), Japanese Governorate of Korea (Yasuhito), Dominion of Korea (No Imperial exiles), Shogunate of Nihon-Chōsen (Imperial remnant), New Japanese Empire (Revolutionary Japan conquered)
Ruling Party: Joseon Yusinhoenote
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
- Civil War: If Japan falls into civil war, a revolution breaks out in Korea, which can eventually lead to a civil war between the Korean Republic and the Revolutionary Korean Republic once the Japanese colonialists are defeated.
- MegaCorp: A colonial government victorious in the Korean Civil War can potentially support corporatist policies.
- Evil Colonialist: The Japanese colonial government seeks to hold on to Korea as best it can, suppressing Korean nationalism and building a base for Japanese exiles to potentially reclaim their home from the socialist revolutionaries.
- The Remnant: The Japanese Imperial Family can flee to Korea but regardless of if they do, the Japanese colonial government will turn Korea into a springboard for the reclamation of the Japanese homeland.
Ugaki Kazushige
Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader
Party: Joseon Yusinhoenote
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
Yasuhito
Role: Monarchnote (Japanese Imperial Family flees to Korea)
Party: Joseon Yusinhoenote
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
See his entry in the Empire of Japan folder. Korean People's Republic
Official Name: Korean People's Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Vanguardist victory), United Communes of Korea (Chwa-chin), Korean Anarchist Federation (Chwa-chin, KPAM Model), Korean People's Juche State (Chaeho), Goguryeo (Chaeho, Manchuria conquered)
Ruling Party: Joseon Nodongdangnote
Ideology: Leninismnote
- Allohistorical Allusion: The Korean People's Republic can become a direct equivalent of North Korea, up to sharing similar borders if they do not declare war on the Republic of Korea, with similarities to it found in both its Vanguardist and Accelerationist paths.
- Historical Downgrade: Kim Il-sung, the first (and de jure only) leader of the real Democratic People's Republic of Korea is only a Red Korean general here, and cannot become leader.
- La Résistance: The Korean partisans engage in direct resistance to Japanese rule in Korea.
- We ARE Struggling Together: Red Korea is a loose collection of Agrarian Socialist, Marxist-Leninist, Anarcho-Communist and Accelerationist partisans that only barely get along.
Pak Hon-yong
Role: Head of Government (Cho/Sin cabinet), Interior Minister (Pak/Kim/Sin cabinet), Country Leader
Party: Joseon Nodongdangnote
Ideology: Leninismnote
Cho Man-sik
Role: Head of Government (Pak/Sin cabinet), Country Leader (Agrarian faction embraced)
Party: Joseon Gongsangdang - Gidoksahoejueuipa
Ideology: Agrarian Socialismnote
Kim Chwa-chin
Role: Head of Government (Sin cabinet), Country Leader (Election)
Party: Joseon Hyeongmyeong-yeonmaen
Ideology: Social Anarchismnote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- Just the First Citizen: Though Kim is the closest thing to a leader of the Korean anarchists, his charter makes clear that the position of leader is ceremonial and that his role is to speak to the world on the collective's behalf. The chairman in Pyongyang is no better or more powerful than the councillor in Hamhung.
Sin Chaeho
Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader (Election)
Party: Joseon Minjok Hyeongmyeongdangnote
Ideology: National Rejuvenatismnote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- Action Politician: Sin is the leader of the Korean accelerationists and a field marshal in Red Korea's army.
- Commie Nazis: Sin's Juche ideology combines national rebirth and ethnic nationalism with anarcho-syndicalism.
- Culture Police: Sin expels or forcibly assimilates all Japanese people living in Korea, removes the Japanese language and its influence, and outlaws Japanese culture.
- State Sec: Sin establishes the Flower Knights of Hwarang, the pinnacle of Korean culture and martial prowess, who will bring Juche to all Koreans and defend it from the impure outsiders.
- Warhawk: Sin believes that Korea encompasses more than just the lands south of the Yalu River, and is the most hawkish of Korea's potential leaders, seeking to conquer large swathes of Manchuria to restore the borders of old Goguryeo.
Korean Republic
Official Name: Korean Republic
Ruling Party: Daehanin Gungminhoe-Bosupanote
Ideology: National Conservatismnote
- Allohistorical Allusion: The Republic of Korea is a direct equivalent of South Korea. If they and the Revolutionary Republic of Korea never declare war on each other, then they'll even occupy the south of the peninsula.
- Patriotic Fervor: The Republic will encourage Korean nationalism to reforge the Korean identity after years of Japanese colonial rule and assimilationist policies.
- People's Republic of Tyranny: If the Republic maintains peace with Socialist Korea, then they may remain an autocratic regime.
Ahn Changho
Role: Presidentnote
Party: Daehanin Gungminhoe-Bosupanote
Ideology: National Conservatismnote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- Emergency Authority: If the Republic manages to kick out the Japanese and does not immediately go to war with the revolutionaries in the North, Ahn can decide to continue the emergency government until the Reds are defeated.
- The Purge: Under the emergency government, Ahn will suppress leftist organizations regardless of their lack of links with Socialist Korea.
Kim Koo
Role: Economy Minister (Ahn/Yuh/Rhee cabinet), Presidentnote (Election)
Party: Daehanin Gungminhoe-Jayupanote
Ideology: Libertarian Capitalismnote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- MegaCorp: Kim sponsors programs to propel fledgeling family businesses to become chaebol megacorporations, which would serve as guiding, shining examples for business in Asia.
Yuh Woon-hyung
Role: Foreign Minister (Ahn/Kim/Rhee cabinet), Presidentnote (Election)
Party: Joseon Inmindangnote
Ideology: Social Nationalismnote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- Golden Mean Fallacy: Yuh opposes equally radicalism from the left and the right.
- Reconcile the Bitter Foes: Yuh is the only liberal Korean politician who sees the socialists as brothers sharing the same goal, instead of as enemies. If Korea is divided after the Japanese are kicked out, he is the only potential leader of South Korea who has a shot at peacefully unifying with North Korea.
Syngman Rhee
Role: Interior Minister (Ahn/Kim/Yuh cabinet), Head of Government (Ahn cabinet), Presidentnote (Appointed emergency president)
Party: Daehan Gungmindangnote
Ideology: Anocracynote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- Allohistorical Allusion: In real life, Rhee was the leader of South Korea between 1948 and 1960. Red Flood allows him to gain power earlier.
- Police State: Rhee grants extended powers to the police and the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in order to stamp out all leftist seditious elements.
- The Purge: Rhee will enact a white terror to purge the country.
- Token Evil Teammate: Rhee is the only potential leader of the Republic of Korea who does not support democracy, instead turning his country into a rabidly anti-communist dictatorship.
Manchuria
Mantetsu
Official Name: Mantetsu, Fengtian Clique (Zhang), Fengtian Government (Zhang, Beiyang conquered), United Republic of China (Zhang, Chinese reunification), Japanese Mandate of North China (Imperial Japan in-exile), Reformist Empire of Japan (Technocrats)
Ruling Party: Kwantung Manchuria Authority
Ideology: Plutocracynote
- Allohistorical Allusion: The Fengtian Clique can declare war on the Beiyang Government after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which was used in OTL by Japan to invade China.
- Army of Thieves and Whores: The Kwantung Army is known for its abuses of power and escaping control like OTL.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: The industrial magnates in South Manchuria have come under fire for their corruption, exploitation of workers, and even slavery and torture.
- The Dog Bites Back: The Kwantung Army can, instead, be purged by Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Clique, with their experience being used to form the army to unite and form the United Republic of China.
- One Nation Under Copyright: Mantetsu is literally named after the South Manchuria Railway Company, a Japanese company given free reign in Manchuria by the government.
- The Purge: A purge of the technocrats can be ordered, removing Kishi from power.
- The Remnant: If the Japanese Imperial Family flees to Mantetsu, then the Kwantung Army can be recalled into action to help with the reclamation of the Japanese homeland. Furthermore, IJN Remnants will dock at Dailan and provide their services to either the Japanese Mandate of North China or the Republic of China through a focus.
- La Résistance: Fengtian and Manchu nationalist guerillas are still resisting Japanese rule after the "pacification" of most of the region.
Kishi Nobusuke
Role: Country Leader
Party: Kwantung Manchuria Authority
Ideology: Plutocracynote
Itagaki Seishirō
Role: Field Marshal, Military High Command, Country Leader (Kwantung Army takeover)
Party: Kwantung Military Governorate
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
- Failure Is the Only Option: Itagaki cannot prevent their own overthrow by the Fengtian Clique.
- Military Coup: Itagaki and the Kwantung Army take power after the fall of the Japanese mainland to socialism
- Short-Lived Leadership: The Kwantung Army's rule is short-lived as it will be overthrown in turn by Zhang Zuolin and his Fengtian Clique.
Zhang Zuolin
Role: Head of Government (Despotist cabinet), Country Leader (Fengtian Clique takeover)
Party: Fengtian Military Clique
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
- Military Coup: Zhang Zuolin will overthrow the Kwantung Army after their own seizure of power.
Zhang Xueliang
Role: Field Marshal (Fengtian Clique takeover), Chief of Army (Fengtian Clique takeover), Military High Command (Fengtian Clique takeover), Country Leader (Fengtian ends military rule)
Party: Fengtian Clique - Governorate
Ideology: Praetorian Oligarchynote
- Hereditary Republic: Zhang Xueliang will replace his father as ruler if he chooses to end military rule.
Tetsuzan Nagata
Role: Country Leader (North China Governorate formed, Technocrats purge avoided)
Ideology: Technocracynote
Yasuhito
Role: Monarchnote (Japanese Imperial Family flees to Manchuria, Technocrats purged)
Party: Kwantung Military Governorate
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
See his entry in the Empire of Japan folder.China
Anhui Clique
Official Name: Anhui Clique, Republic of China (Chinese reunification)
Ruling Party: Anhui Military Clique
Ideology: Oligarchynote
- Cult of Personality: The Anhui Clique has built one around the late president Yuan Shikai, to which the clique was allied. They even name their currency, the Yuan Shikai Dollar, after him.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: The Anhui Clique was exiled to Inner Mongolia after losing the power struggle within the Beiyang Government, being tasked with returning Mongolia to Chinese control.
- The Remnant: The Anhui Clique in Mongolia is a shell of the once powerful military clique but still works to return to power.
Duan Qirui
Role: Field Marshal, Presidentnote
Party: Anhui Military Clique
Ideology: Oligarchynote
In-Game Biography Click to Show
- Action Politician: Duan is president and commander (being an in-game field marshal) of the entire Anhui Clique army.
- President for Life: President Duan has led the Anhui clique for as long as it has existed, and if he secures his power, he becomes dictator in all but name.
Xu Shuzheng
Role: General, Presidentnote (Duan succession)
Party: Anhui Military Clique
Ideology: Oligarchynote
- Action Politician: Like Duan he is both a political and military leader.
Wang Yitang
Role: Presidentnote (Presidential election)
Party: Anhui Republican Party
Ideology: National Conservatismnote
Beiyang Government
Official Name: Beiyang Government, Shanxi Clique (Zhili Clique breaks away)
Ruling Party: Shanxi Clique
Ideology: Anocracynote
Yan Xishan
Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader
Party: Shanxi Clique
Ideology: Anocracynote
- Realpolitik: Yan Xishan pursues a policy of neutral relationship with all foreign powers to make Chinese industry attractive to foreign investment.
Fu Zuoyi
Role: Country Leader (Beijing Compromise or Japanese puppet state)
Party: Beiyang Military Clique
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
- The Quisling: Fu Zuoyi will come to power if the Beiyang Government gets puppeted by the Empire of Japan.
Gemingjun
Official Name: GemingjunTr.
Ruling Party: Gemingjunnote
Ideology: Religious Socialismnote
Feng Yuxiang and his Gemingjun secedes from the Beiyang government during the game and might go to war with it.Feng Yuxiang
Role: General, Country Leader
Party: Gemingjunnote
Ideology: Religious Socialismnote
Yellow Sand Society
Official Name: Yellow Sand Society
Ruling Party: Yellow Sand Society
Ideology: Reactionary Esotericismnote
The Yellow Sand Society can revolt against the Beiyang government if it loses Beijing as a result of the war with Japan.Zhu Yuxun
Role: Monarchnote
Party: Yellow Sand Society
Ideology: Reactionary Esotericismnote
- Rightful King Returns: Zhu Yuxun is the ninth-generation descendant of the last Emperor of the Ming dynasty. If he conquers China, he'll proclaim himself Emperor, with the era name Daming.
Zhili Clique
Official Name: Zhili Clique
Ruling Party: Shandong Military Administration
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
The Zhili Clique can break away from the Shanxi Clique, forming the Beiyang government as a faction with it if Shanxi/Beiyang loses Beijing as a result of the war with Japan.Sun Chuanfang
Role: Country Leader
Party: Shandong Military Administration
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
Ma Clique
Official Name: Ma Clique
Ruling Party: Ma Clique
Ideology: Oligarchynote
Ma Hongkui
Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader
Party: Ma Clique
Ideology: Oligarchynote
Xinjiang Clique
Official Name: Xinjiang Clique
Ruling Party: Xinjiang Clique
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
Ma Zhongying
Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader
Party: Xinjiang Clique
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
Sichuan Clique
Official Name: Sichuan Clique, Chinese Nationalist Republic (Qi), 21st National Revolutionary Army in Sichuan
Ruling Party: Sichuan Clique
Ideology: Anocracynote
- A House Divided: Sichuan is divided in terms of loyalties between the Guomindang and the Young China Party.
Liu Xiang
Role: Country Leader
Party: Sichuan Clique
Ideology: Anocracynote
Zeng Qi
Role: Country Leader (YCP takeover)
Party: Young China Party
Ideology: National Rejuvenatismnote
Yunnan Clique
Official Name: Yunnan Clique
Ruling Party: Military Junta of the National Revolutionary Army
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
- The Dictatorship: Type 1. Yunnan is under the military dictatorship of the local National Revolutionary Army.
Tang Jiyao
Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader
Party: Military Junta of the National Revolutionary Army
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
Long Yun
Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader
Party: Guomindang - Minquannote
Ideology: Social Nationalismnote
Hunan Clique
Official Name: Hunan Clique, Hunan Socialist Republic (Duxiu), People's Republic of China (Mao Zedong, Regional unification)
Ruling Party: Guomindang - Cheng Qian Cliquenote
Ideology: Left Wing Populismnote
- We ARE Struggling Together: The Communist Party of China in Hunan is bitterly divided between Chen Duxiu's right-wing and Mao Zedong's left-wing.
Cheng Qian
Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader
Party: Guomindang - Cheng Qian Cliquenote
Ideology: Left Wing Populismnote
Chen Duxiu
Role: Country Leader
Party: Communist Party of China - Rightist
Ideology: Leninismnote
Mao Zedong
Role: General, Country Leader
Party: Communist Party of China - Leftist
Ideology: Folk Socialismnote
- In Spite of a Nail: Like in OTL, Mao Zedong can become the leader of a People's Republic of China, defeating the Kuomintang in the process.
Nanjing Government
Official Name: Nanjing Nationalist Government
Ruling Party: Guomindang - Central Executive Committeenote
Ideology: Anocracynote
- Authority in Name Only: The Nanjing Government is in direct control only of the region surreounding the capital, the rest being under the control of cliques aligned with it or the rival Fujian Government.
Zhang Jingjiang
Role: Country Leader
Party: Guomindang - Central Executive Committeenote
Ideology: Anocracynote
The leader of the right-wing of the KMT and of the Nanjing Government. Fujian Government
Official Name: Fujian People's Government, People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China (Regional unification), Chinese People's Revolutionary Republic (Chinese reunification)
Ruling Party: Guomindang - Minshengnote
Ideology: Democratic Socialismnote
- Authority in Name Only: The Fujian Government only controls the Fujian province itself, the rest of the provinces aligned with them are controlled by separate cliques.
- The Rival: To the Nanjing Government.
Sa Zhenbing
Role: Country Leader
Party: Guomindang - Minshengnote
Ideology: Democratic Socialismnote
Wang Jingwei
Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader
Party: Guomindang - Minquannote
Ideology: Social Nationalismnote
- Historical Hero Upgrade: In Red Flood, Wang Jingwei never becomes The Quisling for the Empire of Japan.
Jiang Guangnai
Role: General, Country Leader
Party: Guomindang - Minquannote
Ideology: Left Wing Populismnote
Liangguang Clique
Official Name: Liangguang Clique
Ruling Party: Military Junta of the National Revolutionary Army
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
- The Dictatorship: Type 1. Liangguang is under the military dictatorship of the local National Revolutionary Army.
Xu Chongzhi
Role: General, Country Leader
Party: Military Junta of the National Revolutionary Army
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
Tibet
Official Name: Temple State of Tibet
Ruling Party: Regency
Ideology: Religious Fundamentalismnote
- The Theocracy: Tibet is a self-styled 'Temple State' led by monks.
Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen
Role: Country Leader
Party: Regency
Ideology: Religious Fundamentalismnote
Indochina
Empire of Indochina
Official Name: Empire of Indochina (Nam-Hùng and Bao Đai), Imperial Restoration Army (Civil War), Indochinese Governorate (Tōjō), State of Indochina (Khôi)
Ruling Party: Quan-Lai Trieu Ngyuen
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
- Civil War: The Japanese Civil War and the assassination of Emperor Nam Hùng will result in a civil war breaking out between the Empire and various revolutionaries.
- Les Collaborateurs: The Empire collaborates with its Imperial Japanese overlord.
Nam Hùng
Role: Emperornote , Head of Government
Party: Quan-Lai Trieu Ngyuen
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
In-Game Biography: (Head of Government) Click to Show
- Assassination Attempt: Nam Hùng will be assassinated shortly after the start of the Japanese Civil War.
- Plot-Triggering Death: His assassination is the spark that will start the Indochinese Civil War.
Hideki Tōjō
Role: Governor-Generalnote (Indochinese Civil War)
Party: Quan-Lai Trieu Ngyuen
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
- You Are in Command Now: After Nam Hùng's assassination, Hideki Tōjō will take direct control of the Empire to fight the Indochinese Civil War.
Bảo Đại
Role: Emperornote (Post-Civil War)
Party: Quan-Lai Trieu Ngyuen
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
Ngô Đình Khôi
Role: Presidentnote (Post-Civil War)
Party: Co-Mat Vien
Ideology: National Democracynote
Enlightened Liberation Front
Official Name: Enlightened Liberation Front, Provisional Government of Free Indochina (Civil War victory), Republic of Indochina (Diem), Socialist Republic of Indochina (Quoc), Indochinese Syndical State (Buu), Autonomous Hamlets of Indochina (Nhu), Democratic Republic of Indochina (Học), Greater Viet Nam (Anh)
Ideology: Social Nationalismnote
- Civil War: The ELF revolts itself against the Empire and will also go to war with the ELF once their mutual enemy is defeated.
- The Coup:
- The VNQDĐ can do a coup to prevent the Communists from assuming power after Diệm's disgrace.
- Nguyễn Thái Học may be overthrown by a coup.
- Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: The ELF and INVF both rise up against the Empire, but will turn on each other once the collaborators are defeated.
- The Purge: Right after winning the civil war, the ELF launches purges and public trials to consolidate its rule.
- Taking Up the Mantle: The ELF styles itself the rightful successor of the Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội, which sought to overthrow colonial rule.
- We ARE Struggling Together: Despite fighting together in the civil war, some of the ELF's factions really hate each other and will stage coups to prevent their rivals from assuming power.
Ngô Đình Diệm
Role: Chairmannote (Post-Civil War, Diem consolidates his rule)
Party Cần lao Nhân vị Cách Mạng Ðảngnote
Ideology: Agrarian Socialismnote
- Allohistorical Allusion: In OTL he was the first president of South Vietnam and can occupy a similar position much earlier in Red Flood with even the same political party.
Nguyễn Ái Quốc
Role: Chairmannote (Post-Civil War, Diem deposed)
Party Đông Dương Cộng sản Đảngnote
Ideology: National Vanguardismnote
- Allohistorical Allusion: In OTL he was the first president of North Vietnam and can occupy a similar position much earlier in Red Flood.
- Pen Name: Nguyễn Ái Quốc is a pen name he used OTL as well before becoming much more well-known under another pseudonym, Hồ Chí Minh.
Trần Quốc Bửu
Role: Country Leader (Quoc overthrown)
Ideology: National Syndicalismnote
Ngô Đình Nhu
Role: Country Leader (Quoc overthrown)
Ideology: Revolutionary Syndicalismnote
Nguyễn Thái Học
Role: Country Leader (Post-Civil War, VNQDĐ coup)
Party Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảngnote
Ideology: Progressive Democracynote
- Short-Lived Leadership: If Anh wins the election following the coup, Học's rule will be a short one.
Trương Tử Anh
Role: Country Leader (Post-Civil War, VNQDĐ coup, election)
Party Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảngnote
Ideology: National Conservatismnote
National Vanguard Front
Official Name: National Vanguard Front, Dai Minh (Long), Federated Communes of Indochina (Yvonne), Realm of Au Lac (Nam), Divine Order of Indochina (Tắc), Social State of Au Lac (Thâu)
Ruling Party: Nhom Tranh Dan
Ideology: National Rejuvenatismnote
- Civil War: The INVF revolts itself against the Empire and will also go to war with the ELF once their mutual enemy is defeated.
- Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: The ELF and INVF both rise up against the Empire, but will turn on each other once the collaborators are defeated.
- Succession Crisis: After the INVF's victory in the civil war, a power struggle will decide which leader within the movement will become the ruler of Indochina. If it doesn't get overthrown that is.
Phan Xích Long
Role: Country Leader (Post-Civil War, Triads overthrow INVF)
Ideology: Reactionary Populismnote
Yvonne
Role: Country Leader (Post-Civil War, Montagnards overthrow INVF)
Ideology: Constitutional Monarchynote
Yvonne de Mayrena is the daughter of eccentric French adventurer Marie-Charles David de Mayrena, who was for a short time king of the small Kingdom of Sedang in Indochina.- Allohistorical Allusion: The flag of the Federated Communes of Indochina is clearly based on the flag of her father's Kingdom of Sedang.
- Mighty Whitey: Yvonne is a Frenchwoman who can become queen of Indochina.
Nguyễn Thành Nam
Role: Country Leader (INVF power struggle)
Ideology: Esoteric Socialismnote
Phạm Công Tắc
Role: Country Leader (INVF power struggle)
Ideology: Theocracynote
- The Theocracy: Tắc's Divine Order of Indochina is a Caodaist theocracy.
Tạ Thu Thâu
Role: Country Leader (INVF power struggle)
Ideology: Neo-Folkismnote
- Days of Future Past: In an effort to reverse the sinicisation of Indochina and end Chinese cultural hegemony over Vietnam, Thâu seeks to create a new national mythos by reviving the Bronze Age Đông Sơn culture, which some believed to be socialist in essence.
Kingdom of Moroc-Songhrati
Official Name: Kingdom of Moroc-Songhrati
Ruling Party: Fisher Dynasty
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
Andrew I
Role: Field Marshal, Monarchnote
Party: Fisher Dynasty
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
Kingdom of Siam
Official Name: Kingdom of Siam, Kingdom of Thailand (Phibun)
Ruling Party: Khana Ratsadon (Military Faction)note
Ideology: Social Liberalismnote
- Civil War: Prince Boworadet Kridakorn will launch a royalist rebellion with sympathetic army elements to restore power to the King of Siam. The rebellion plays out through events rather than a standard civil war.
- The Coup: Phraya Manopakorn organized a coup in 1935 but failed to take power.
Phraya Phahon
Role: Prime Ministernote
Party: Khana Ratsadon (Military Faction)note
Ideology: Social Liberalismnote
Boworadet Kridakorn
Role: Country Leader (Successful Boworadet Rebellion)
Party: Khana Ku Banmuang
Ideology: Military Dictatorshipnote
- Cincinnatus: Boworadet has no intention to rule long-term, the goal of his rebellion being to restore power back to the King.
Rama VII
Role: Kingnote (Successful Boworadet Rebellion)
Party: Chakri Dynasty
Ideology: Constitutional Monarchynote
Rama VIII
Role: Kingnote (Successful Boworadet Rebellion)
Party: Chakri Dynasty
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
Plaek Phibunsongkhram
Role: Prime Ministernote (Failed Boworadet Rebellion)
Party: Khana Ratsadon (Phibunsongkhram's Clique)note
Ideology: National Rejuvenatismnote
Pridi Banomyong
Role: Prime Ministernote (Failed Boworadet Rebellion, Phahon succession)
Party: Khana Ratsadon (Civilian Faction)note
Ideology: Religious Socialismnote
Phraya Songsuradet
Role: Prime Ministernote (Failed Boworadet Rebellion)
Party: Khana Ratsadon (Songsuradet's Clique)note
Ideology: Social Conservatismnote
Burma
Official Name: Burma
Ruling Party: General Council of Burmese Associations
Ideology: Social Liberalismnote
U Saw
Role: Country Leader
Party: General Council of Burmese Associations
Ideology: Social Liberalismnote
Maritime Southeast Asia
Malaya
United States of Malaya
Official Name: United States of Malaya
Ruling Party: Federal Council
Ideology: Colonial Governmentnote
- Balkanize Me: The United States of Malaya will collapse should the Malayan Uprising succeeds.
- Les Collaborateurs: The British rely on native collaborators to maintain their rule and should the Malay Uprising be defeated, it is to them that they will cede power.
Edward Gent
Role: Country Leader
Party: Federal Council
Ideology: Colonial Governmentnote
Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad
Role: Prime Ministernote (Elections)
Party: Parti Islam Malayanote
Ideology: Libertarian Capitalismnote
Onn bin Jaafar
Role: Prime Ministernote (Elections)
Party: Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatunote
Ideology: National Conservatismnote
Collapse of British Malaya
Indonesian Union
Official Name: Indonesian Union of Struggle, Nanyang Republic (Jie), Malay Brotherhood (Kajai)
Ruling Party: Partai Republik Indonesianote
Ideology: National Vanguardismnote
- The Exile: The revolutionaries are not Malayan but Indonesian, in exile from the Dutch East Indies.
- Occupiers Out of Our Country: The Indonesian Union revolts against British colonial rule with the intent to create an independent Indonesia which would include Malaya.
Tan Malaka
Role: Country Leader
Party: Partai Republik Indonesianote
Ideology: National Vanguardismnote
- Failure Is the Only Option: Regardless of the success or failure of the coup attempt, Tan Malaka will lose power as a result.
- Rebel Leader: Tan Malaka is the leader of the Malay Uprising against the British and their Malay collaborators.
Xu Jie
Role: Country Leader (Failed nationalist coup)
Party: Chinese Communist Party - Nanyang Regional Committee
Ideology: Folk Socialismnote
- Foreign Ruling Class: Xu Jie's rule is dominated by the Malayan Chinese minority and their party is actually a section of the Chinese Communist Party rather than any Malay communist organization.
Abdul Rahim Kajai
Role: Country Leader (Successful nationalist coup)
Party: Persekutuan Persatuan-Persatuan Melayunote
Ideology: Reactionary Populismnote
- The Coup: The Nationalists led by Abdul Rahim Kajai will attempt to overthrow Malaka's government. If they succeed they will come to power, forming the Malay Brotherhood, if they fail the Chinese Communists led by Xu Jie will come to power.
Raj of Sarawak
Official Name: Raj of Sarawak, North Bornean Confederation (Anthony), Klemantan Sultanate (Abdul Rahman)
Ruling Party: Brooke Dynasty
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
- Mighty Whitey: Sarawak is ruled by the White Rajahs, descendants of a British adventurer who became its ruler.
Vyner
Role: Rajahnote
Party: Brooke Dynasty
Ideology: Absolute Monarchynote
- Abdicate the Throne: Upon the formation of the North Bornean Confederation, Vyner abdicates the throne in favor of his nephew Anthony.
Anthony
Role: Rajahnote (Vyner succession)
Party: Council Negri
Ideology: Constitutional Monarchynote
Abdul Rahman/Gerard MacBryan
Role: Sultannote (MacBryan takeover)
Party: Majlis al-Sultannote
Ideology: Personalist Dictatorshipnote
- The Coup: MacBryan can overthrow the Brooke dynasty and take the throne for himself.
- Going Native: Gerard MacBryan converted to Islam, adopted native culture and changed his name to Abdul Rahman.
- Mighty Whitey: Abdul Rahman is a white man from Scotland having gone native and can become the White Sultan of Klemantan.
- Treacherous Advisor: Abdul Rahman is the personal advisor of Rajah Vyner and may seize the throne from his nephew.
- The Usurper: Should his takeover be successful, he will become Sultan of Klemantan, usurping the Rajahs of Sarawak.
Indonesia
Dutch East Indies
Official Name: Dutch East Indies
Ruling Party: Colonial Administration
Ideology: Colonial Governmentnote
- Balkanize Me: A victory of the All-Indies Revolutionary Government leads to them taking control of Sumatra and Java, leaving the Dutch East Indies divided.
A.D.A. de Kat Angelino
Role: Country Leader
Party: Colonial Administration
Ideology: Colonial Governmentnote
All-Indies Revolutionary Government
Official Name: All-Indies Revolutionary Government, Indiër Free State (Dekker), Indonesian People's Republic (Hatta), Islamic State of Indonesia (Kartosoewirjo), Sublime Union of Noesantara (Dewantara)
Ideology: Provisional Governmentnote
- Occupiers Out of Our Country: The All-Indies Revolutionary Government seeks to end Dutch colonial rule, taking control of Sumatra and Java as part of their new independent nation.
Ernest Douwes Dekker
Role: Country Leader
Ideology: Provisional Governmentnote , National Rejuvenatismnote (Post-National Revolution)
- Half-Breed Angst: Dekker's anti-colonialist ideals are driven by the rejection and discrimination he faced due to being only half-Dutch and thus considered a second-class citizen by colonial authorities.
Mohammad Hatta
Role: Country Leader (Post-National Revolution)
Ideology: Liberal Socialismnote
- Token Good Teammate: Out of the possible leaders of the All-Indies Revolutionary Government, Hatta is the only one reliably democratic.
S.M. Kartosoewirjo
Role: Country Leader (Post-National Revolution)
Ideology: Religious Fundamentalismnote
- The Fundamentalist: Kartosoewirjo is classified as a fundamentalist and will turn Indonesia into an islamic state.
Ki Hadjar Dewantara
Role: Country Leader (Post-National Revolution)
Ideology: Anocracynote
Philippine Commonwealth
Official Name: Philippine Commonwealth
Ideology: Oligarchynote
Manuel L. Quezon
Role: Country Leader
Ideology: Oligarchynote
Oceania
Dutch New Guinea
Official Name: Dutch New Guinea, Kingdom of Irian (Simopyaref), Eurasian Collective (Dover)
Ideology: Colonial Governmentnote
- Let No Crisis Go to Waste: As the National Revolution erupts in the neighboring Dutch East Indies, either Simopyaref or Dover will take power in Dutch New Guinea.
J.W. Meijer Ranneft
Role: Country Leader
Ideology: Colonial Governmentnote
Stephanus Simopyaref
Role: Country Leader
Ideology: Praetorian Oligarchynote
Cedric Dover
Role: Country Leader
Ideology: Technocracynote
Westralia
Official Name: Westralia
Ruling Party: National Party
Ideology: Social Liberalismnote
- Allohistorical Allusion: In OTL, the secession of Westralia was approved by a referendum but failed to be realized. Here, it was.
Hal Colebatch
Role: Country Leader
Party: National Party
Ideology: Social Liberalismnote
Australia
Official Name: Australia
Ruling Party: Labour Party
Ideology: Progressive Democracynote
Thomas Joseph Ryan
Role: Country Leader
Party: Labour Party
Ideology: Progressive Democracynote
New Zealand
Official Name: New Zealand
Ruling Party: Labour Party
Ideology: Progressive Democracynote
Harry Holland
Role: Country Leader
Party: Labour Party
Ideology: Progressive Democracynote