Jipangunesia
19-05-2006, 17:46
Introduction
SR Jipangunesia is a nation of almost countless islands lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans. It is a troubled place of many cultures, faiths, and races, beset with natural hazards and socio-economic problems.
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Brief History of Jipangunesia
Jipangu, meaning Land of Gold, was the name that Marco Polo initially gave to Japan, based on rumors of its inexhaustible wealth. The name Jipangunesia, then, describes the lands lying some way to the south as, "islands that are near Japan". In history the name was used as a general reference to a large cluster of island groups that included many internal divisions including native kingdoms and imperial territories of various classes and names, but it was only after the Second World War -which had brought Japanese occupation to all the islands- that the name Jipangunesia became official, adopted by independence fighters across the islands as they sought solidarity in opposition to Japanese and European forces attempting to restore western domination.
Soviet aid added to the weapons captured from the Imperial Japanese Army (including weapons previously taken from thousands of surrendering British, Dutch, and American forces) as the Jipangunesian movement took on revolutionary as well as anti-colonial aims, leading ultimately to the creation of the Socialist Republic of Jipangunesia across the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Papua New Guinea, Sarawak, North Borneo (Sabah), Brunei, and the Philippines.
Problems facing the SRJ
Today that state is often described as anarchic. Catholicism, Islam, Shamanism, secularism, and a range of other Christian and indigenous religions cause much conflict, as do ethnic differences and the political legacy of the Sino-Soviet split and the later collapse of the USSR and Chinese abandonment of Mao Tse-Tung Thought.
Illegal logging, poaching, and the cultivation and smuggling of drugs, along with an illegal arms trade and rampant corruption in local government, infrastructure difficulties presented by the nature of a vast archipelago featuring so much jungle and related regional differences in economic prosperity and the difficulty of paying and supporting government workers and military personnel across the nation make life even worse for the Jipangunesian people and state. The claim to Socialism in action seems ridiculous, and it is no longer even possible to see whether the multitude of problems are sufficient to prevent its realisation or whether the modern government simply lacks the will to pursue the noble aims of its predecessors.
Diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever, hepatitis, rabies, and countless others contribute to a mountain of problems. At least HIV and AIDS are not as yet widespread, though increasing drug addiction and booming sex tourism are likely to change that for the worse, especially in light of likely governmental inability to act and provide treatment or advice.
Flooding, droughts, landslides, forest fires, active volcanism, earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons also afflict the troubled nation with varying degrees of severity across its vast area.
Statistics and economy
Jipangunesia stretches across 3,000,000 square kilometres (including recognised territorial waters but not the full extent of claims nor exclusive economic zones).
Natural resources are significant, including 7.5bln barrels of oil proven along with 5 trillion cubic metres of natural gas with more of both suspected, and other resources including massive quantities of timber along with coal, gold, silver, tin, copper, iron, nickel, cobalt, bauxite, manganese, salt, fisheries, and fertile soils with significant agricultural potential.
Unfortunately, the level of corruption, utter lack of investor confidence due to instability, and poor infrastructure seriously limit the proper exploitation of Jipangunesia's economic potential, and per capita GDP remains at little more than three thousand dollars. Agriculture occupies a large portion of the population, as does a fairly inefficient industrial sector. Services also employ many in the state sector, but moral here is poor thanks to unreliable wages.
A wide range of agricultural products includes rice, peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn, bananas, pineapples, mangoes, rubber, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, pepper, coconuts, tea, sugar, vanilla, timber, poultry, pork, fish, and shellfish.
Major industries are in petroleum and natural gas, mining, logging, wood products, construction, cement, chemical fertilisers, textiles and clothing, footwear, food processing, and fishing. Potential for tourism is ruined by instability, though there are bare plans to develop relatively stable minor islands for this industry.
Government
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The Socialist Republic of Jipangunesia is lead by President Syungma Santosoputra at the head of a government that appears strong in its frequent use of force, but which is riddled with corruption at lower levels, limiting the real influence of the central authority -based at Ujung Pandang on Sulawesi- on a day to day basis.
Syungma is an authoritarian and harsh character of relentless ambition, while his de facto deputy, Prime Minister Setiawan Dianputra, has a more mild reputation and is believed to be idealistically true to the Socialist Republic's roots. Setiawan's appointment is believed to be something of a concession to moderates likely to be tempted to extreme factions were Syungma's policies undiluted.
It should be noted that an underground movement called Ban Kingdom asserts that native cultures should return to dominance over western and Maoist influence in Jipangunesia, while self-proclaimed Emperor Ban Xuande, A.K.A. Xuande the Incredible, claims to be the right master of the jungles. He is known as a bloody xenophobe famous -or infamous- for having gold fangs. The sway of the Ban is uncertain, but it is sufficiently powerful to be an official enemy of the Socialist Republic and the subject of frequent security operations by the military.
Military
The People's Defence Forces include Army, Navy (with Marine and Naval Aviation elements), and Air Force.
SR Jipangunesia is a nation of almost countless islands lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans. It is a troubled place of many cultures, faiths, and races, beset with natural hazards and socio-economic problems.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/Chivtv/NS1/jipangunesianmap.jpg
Brief History of Jipangunesia
Jipangu, meaning Land of Gold, was the name that Marco Polo initially gave to Japan, based on rumors of its inexhaustible wealth. The name Jipangunesia, then, describes the lands lying some way to the south as, "islands that are near Japan". In history the name was used as a general reference to a large cluster of island groups that included many internal divisions including native kingdoms and imperial territories of various classes and names, but it was only after the Second World War -which had brought Japanese occupation to all the islands- that the name Jipangunesia became official, adopted by independence fighters across the islands as they sought solidarity in opposition to Japanese and European forces attempting to restore western domination.
Soviet aid added to the weapons captured from the Imperial Japanese Army (including weapons previously taken from thousands of surrendering British, Dutch, and American forces) as the Jipangunesian movement took on revolutionary as well as anti-colonial aims, leading ultimately to the creation of the Socialist Republic of Jipangunesia across the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Papua New Guinea, Sarawak, North Borneo (Sabah), Brunei, and the Philippines.
Problems facing the SRJ
Today that state is often described as anarchic. Catholicism, Islam, Shamanism, secularism, and a range of other Christian and indigenous religions cause much conflict, as do ethnic differences and the political legacy of the Sino-Soviet split and the later collapse of the USSR and Chinese abandonment of Mao Tse-Tung Thought.
Illegal logging, poaching, and the cultivation and smuggling of drugs, along with an illegal arms trade and rampant corruption in local government, infrastructure difficulties presented by the nature of a vast archipelago featuring so much jungle and related regional differences in economic prosperity and the difficulty of paying and supporting government workers and military personnel across the nation make life even worse for the Jipangunesian people and state. The claim to Socialism in action seems ridiculous, and it is no longer even possible to see whether the multitude of problems are sufficient to prevent its realisation or whether the modern government simply lacks the will to pursue the noble aims of its predecessors.
Diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever, hepatitis, rabies, and countless others contribute to a mountain of problems. At least HIV and AIDS are not as yet widespread, though increasing drug addiction and booming sex tourism are likely to change that for the worse, especially in light of likely governmental inability to act and provide treatment or advice.
Flooding, droughts, landslides, forest fires, active volcanism, earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons also afflict the troubled nation with varying degrees of severity across its vast area.
Statistics and economy
Jipangunesia stretches across 3,000,000 square kilometres (including recognised territorial waters but not the full extent of claims nor exclusive economic zones).
Natural resources are significant, including 7.5bln barrels of oil proven along with 5 trillion cubic metres of natural gas with more of both suspected, and other resources including massive quantities of timber along with coal, gold, silver, tin, copper, iron, nickel, cobalt, bauxite, manganese, salt, fisheries, and fertile soils with significant agricultural potential.
Unfortunately, the level of corruption, utter lack of investor confidence due to instability, and poor infrastructure seriously limit the proper exploitation of Jipangunesia's economic potential, and per capita GDP remains at little more than three thousand dollars. Agriculture occupies a large portion of the population, as does a fairly inefficient industrial sector. Services also employ many in the state sector, but moral here is poor thanks to unreliable wages.
A wide range of agricultural products includes rice, peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn, bananas, pineapples, mangoes, rubber, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, pepper, coconuts, tea, sugar, vanilla, timber, poultry, pork, fish, and shellfish.
Major industries are in petroleum and natural gas, mining, logging, wood products, construction, cement, chemical fertilisers, textiles and clothing, footwear, food processing, and fishing. Potential for tourism is ruined by instability, though there are bare plans to develop relatively stable minor islands for this industry.
Government
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/jipangunesia.jpg
The Socialist Republic of Jipangunesia is lead by President Syungma Santosoputra at the head of a government that appears strong in its frequent use of force, but which is riddled with corruption at lower levels, limiting the real influence of the central authority -based at Ujung Pandang on Sulawesi- on a day to day basis.
Syungma is an authoritarian and harsh character of relentless ambition, while his de facto deputy, Prime Minister Setiawan Dianputra, has a more mild reputation and is believed to be idealistically true to the Socialist Republic's roots. Setiawan's appointment is believed to be something of a concession to moderates likely to be tempted to extreme factions were Syungma's policies undiluted.
It should be noted that an underground movement called Ban Kingdom asserts that native cultures should return to dominance over western and Maoist influence in Jipangunesia, while self-proclaimed Emperor Ban Xuande, A.K.A. Xuande the Incredible, claims to be the right master of the jungles. He is known as a bloody xenophobe famous -or infamous- for having gold fangs. The sway of the Ban is uncertain, but it is sufficiently powerful to be an official enemy of the Socialist Republic and the subject of frequent security operations by the military.
Military
The People's Defence Forces include Army, Navy (with Marine and Naval Aviation elements), and Air Force.