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=Guangdong (Paths)=
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{{Infobox country
| name = State of Guangdong
| nativename = 廣東省, Guǎngdōng Shěng'
| flag = GNG.webp
| flagsize = 250px
| flaglabel = Flag of Guangdong
| location = <!-- map of guangdong -->
| locationsize = <!-- size of the map -->
| locationlabel = <!-- text of the map -->
| tag = GNG
| capital = [[Kōshu]]
| ideologyiconfile = Fascism corporate statism subtype.png
| rulingparty = [[Kanton Minseifu]]
| hos = [[Suzuki Teiichi]]
| sphere = Japanese
| alignment = Corporate Dependency
| gdp = 21.21
| credit = Good
| creditstyle = JAP
| econtype = Corporate Oligopoly
}}


The '''State of Guangdong''' is a country located in southern China, occupying the majority of Guangdong province. A puppet state of [[Empire of Japan|Japan]], Guangdong borders the [[Republic of China]] to the north and east, the South China Sea to the south and the [[Guangxi Clique]] to the west.


==[[File:Matsushita_Icon.png|40px|link=|Matsushita Masaharu]] Matsushita==
===In-Game Description===
==[[File:Sony_Icon.png|40px|link=|Morita Akio]] Sony==
''Carved out of the Republic of China as a concession to the Zaibatsu at the end of the Greater East Asian War, the State of Guangdong is an experiment in corporate colonialism, an unnatural entity existing between its Chinese roots and its Japanese suzerain. Despite its independence, Guangdong is far beneath Japan, China, or even Manchukuo in status - its Chief Executive playing second fiddle to the rest of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, even as the Four Companies of Guangdong greedily exploit Guangdong's land and people for their own benefit.''
==[[File:Fujitsu_Icon.png|40px|link=|Ibuka Masaru]] Fujitsu==
==[[File:Hitachi_Icon.png|40px|link=|Komai Kenichirō]] Hitachi==
==[[File:IJA_Icon.png|40px|link=|The Imperial Japanese Army]] IJA Coup==


''Guangdong is a country without a nation: a society bound together by wire transfers, banknotes, and share certificates. In the glittering Three Pearls of Guangdong - Honkon, Makao, and Kōshu - the Four Companies and the Chief Executive indulge in boardroom politics as the Japanese expatriates lord over the Cantonese-Japanese Zhujin, who struggle for recognition as second-class citizens. Beneath them all, the Chinese are herded from their ancestral towns into the electronics sweatshops on the Pearl River, a people displaced inside their own homeland. And as Asia awakens, few ask: will Guangdong survive the storm to come?''


=Guangdong (Mechanics)=
===Country Overview===
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Carved out from the <span style="color:dodgerblue">Republic of China</span> as an independent state by Japanese fiat in the Kanton Protocols of 1950, the <span style="color:salmon">State of Guangdong</span> is an experiment unlike any other in history: an artificial nation dedicated solely to corporate colonialism. Where the <span style="color:saddlebrown">Empire of Japan's</span> other conquests in Asia - even its most artificial child, the <span style="color:darkorange">Empire of Manchuria</span> - pay lip service to the <span style="color:red">Co-Prosperity Sphere</span>'s vision of Pan-Asianism, Guangdong stands alone in its devotion to the yen under the whim of its <span style="color:yellow">Four Companies</span> - <span style="color:red">Sony</span>, <span style="color:gainsboro">Matsushita Electric</span>, <span style="color:deepskyblue">Fujitsu</span>, and <span style="color:yellow">Yasuda</span>. Through a combination of neglect from Tokyo and the reckless ambition of its tycoons, Guangdong has become a place in the Sphere where pretenses fall away in favor of naked greed and the pursuit of profit. But all is not well inside the world's only bastion of unchecked capitalism.


The native <span style="color:royalblue">Chinese</span> population toils endlessly in the factories of the Three Pearls of Guangdong - Kōshu (Guangzhou), Honkon (Hong Kong), and Makao (Macau) - while receiving none of the benefits accruing to the <span style="color:darkred">Japanese industrialists and expatriates</span> that oversee their corporate exclave. Between them, the <span style="color:mediumvioletred">Zhujin</span> - educated professionals and businessmen, fluent in Japanese but local to Guangdong - both serve and benefit from Guangdong's economic order, a middle class decried as collaborators by the <span style="color:royalblue">Chinese</span> and seen as useful proxies by the <span style="color:darkred">Japanese expatriates</span>. <span style="color:red">Crime and corruption</span> are widespread, with the <span style="color:limegreen">Triads</span> and <span style="color:mediumvioletred">Yakuza</span> vying for control over the web of vice that sprawls across Guangdong's underground, in defiance of an undermanned <span style="color:cornflowerblue">Guangdong Police Force</span> and an uncaring <span style="color:darkred">Kenpeitai</span> garrison. In Guangdong, crime is less an aberration than simply another means of doing business, a reciprocal relationship of favors done and debts owed.


==[[File:LegCo Icon.png|40px|link=]] The Legislative Council==
Internationally, Guangdong is afforded the trappings of a country and little else. <span style="color:dodgerblue">China</span> - holding fast to its pride - refuses to accord Guangdong's representatives the equal treatment they deserve, while <span style="color:saddlebrown">Japan's</span> attention has long since drifted away from its unnatural tributary. <span style="color:darkorange">Manchukuo</span> - the original pan-Asian experiment - remains the crown jewel of the Sphere, equally condescending towards China's poverty and Guangdong's corporate upstarts alike. Guangdong is a country without a nation, in either spirit or in form. And as <span style="color:salmon">Chief Executive Suzuki Teiichi</span> begins his uneasy mission to bring Guangdong and its corporations back into Japan's dominion, the people and tycoons of Guangdong wait, <span style="color:yellow">and yearn for a future, a nation, that could yet be theirs</span>.
==[[File:GNG Suzuki Succession.png|40px|link=]] Suzuki's Succession==
===The Next Chief Executive===
===Yasuda's Auction===
==[[File:Guangdong Regions Icon.png|40px|link=]] Regions of Guangdong==
==[[File:Three Evils Guangdong Icon.png|40px|link=]] Three Evils of Guangdong==
==[[File:RnD Guangdong Icon.png|40px|link=]] The Product Cycle==
==[[File:PTRG Icon.png|40px|link=]] The Product Testing Research Group==
==[[File:Miracle Pearl River Icon.png|40px|link=]] Miracle on the Pearl River==
==[[File:Guangdong Riots Icon.png|40px|link=]] The Guangdong Riots==


==Politics==
===National Spirits===
''See also: [[Guangdong (Mechanics)|Guangdong National Spirits]]''
{| class="wikitable"
!National Spirit
!In-Game Description
!Effects
|-
|[[File:Idea GNG between two worlds.png|64px]]<br/><span style="color:yellow">Between Two Worlds</span>
|As a nominally independent state serving as a de facto economic appendage of Japan, Guangdong is a geopolitical accident - and its people and government suffer from an identity crisis as a result. With a majority Chinese population ruled by a small class of Japanese expatriates, and a small (but growing) group of Cantonese-Japanese residents after over a decade of colonial rule, the people of Guangdong have little attachment to Guangdong as a political concept - but neither are they keen to bow to the will of Nanjing or Tokyo.


=Guangdong (Characters)=
Guangdong is caught between two worlds, born of two cultures and accepted by neither. Only time will tell what Guangdong becomes, even as China and Japan go their separate ways.
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|Stability: <span style="color:lightcoral">-20.00%</span><br/>War Support: <span style="color:lightcoral">-20.00%</span><br/>Daily Political Power Gain: <span style="color:lightcoral">-0.10</span><br/><span style="color:lightcoral">Cannot train units, disband units, or edit unit templates.</span>
|-
|[[File:Idea GNG corruption the finest money can buy.png|64px]]<br/><span style="color:yellow">Culture of Corruption - The Finest Money Can Buy</span>
|A historic inclination towards small - some might say meager - government, massive volumes of financial transactions, and loose oversight have all contributed to turn Guangdong's government into a breeding ground for corruption and graft. The temptation to accept 'tea money' is a universal one, and makes the business of government far more difficult to conduct as extra effort and funding is needed to make sure directives are processed.
|Monthly Corruption Gain: <span style="color:lightcoral">+0.90%</span><br/>Impact on Real GDP: <span style="color:lightcoral">-0.25%</span><br/>Republic of China Opinion Cap: <span style="color:lightcoral">-5.00%</span>
|-
|[[File:Idea GNG security pervasive kenpeitai networks.png|64px]]<br/><span style="color:yellow">Pervasive Kenpeitai Networks</span>
|Ever since Guangdong's establishment, the Kenpeitai have played an outsize role in providing security and intelligence services - often eclipsing Guangdong's small and underfunded local police. Many locals view the Guangdong Police Force as little more than the glorified auxiliaries to the Japanese military garrison and its intelligence apparatus, enforcers of a clear ethnic hierarchy in Guangdong that pervades nearly all aspects of life.
|Chinese/Zhujin Government Support Cap: <span style="color:lightcoral">-20.00%</span><br/>Republic of China Opinion Cap: <span style="color:lightcoral">-30.00%</span><br/>Police State Control Cap: <span style="color:lightcoral">-60.00%</span>
|-
|[[File:Idea GNG fiscal sound.png|64px]]<br/><span style="color:yellow">Fiscal Health - Sound</span>
|"The Chief Executive's doing a damn good job keeping Guangdong's money under control I daresay; most impressive work. Nowhere else I'd want to put my money in than Guangdong." This is the kind of praise that comes out of the average investor's mouth when he is asked about the fiscal health of Guangdong.

Our fiscal situation is sound. Debt levels are contained, the budget is balanced, and things are generally going well.
|Inflation Rate: <span style="color:palegreen">-0.250%</span><br/>Political Power Gain: <span style="color:palegreen">+15.00%</span><br/>Credit Rating: <span style="color:yellow">8.00</span>
|-
|}

===Parties and Factions===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Name
!Ideology
!Leaders
|-
|Guangdong Civil Administration<br/><small>Kanton Minseifu</small>
|[[File:Fascism corporate statism subtype.png|30px|Corporate Statism]][[Ideologies#Subideologies_10|<span style="color:chocolate">Corporate Statism</span>]]
|[[File:Suzuki_Icon.png|20px]] [[Suzuki Teiichi]]
|-
|Legislative Council - Business Faction<br/><small>Rippoukai - Zaikaiha</small>
|[[File:Despotism corporatocracy subtype.png|30px|Corporatocracy]][[Ideologies#Subideologies_8|<span style="color:darkgrey">Corporatocracy</span>]]
|[[File:Yasuda_Icon.png|20px]] [[Matsuzawa Takuji]]<br/>[[File:Matsushita_Icon.png|20px]] [[Matsushita Masaharu]]<br/>[[File:Fujitsu_Icon.png|20px]] [[Ibuka Masaru]]
|-
|Legislative Council - Civic Faction<br/><small>Rippoukai - Minseiha</small>
|[[File:Paternalism corporate paternalism subtype.png|30px|Corporate Paternalism]][[Ideologies#Subideologies_7|<span style="color:silver">Corporate Paternalism</span>]]
|[[File:Sony_Icon.png|20px]] [[Morita Akio]]<br/>[[File:Cheung_Kong_Icon.png|20px]] [[Li Ka-Shing]]
|-
|Legislative Council - Central Committee<br/><small>Rippoukai - Chuou Iinkai</small>
|[[File:Fascism corporate statism subtype.png|30px|Corporate Statism]][[Ideologies#Subideologies_10|<span style="color:chocolate">Corporate Statism</span>]]
|[[File:Fujitsu_Icon.png|20px]] [[Ibuka Masaru|Ibuka Masaru]]<br/><small>''Following passage of The Guangdong Future Act''</small>
|-
|Legislative Council - Manchuria Faction<br/><small>Rippoukai - Manshūha</small>
|[[File:Reform Bureaucracy New.webp|30px|Reform Bureaucracy]][[Ideologies#Subideologies_10|<span style="color:chocolate">Reform Bureaucracy</span>]]
|[[File:Hitachi_Icon.png|20px]] [[Komai Kenichirō]]
|-
|IJA - Martial Law<br/><small>The Imperial Japanese Army - Martial Law</small>
|[[File:Ultranationalism ultramilitarism subtype.png|30px|Ultramilitarism]][[Ideologies#Ultranationalism|<span style="color:dimgray">Ultramilitarism</span>]]
|[[File:IJA_Icon.png|20px]] [[Nagano Shigeto]]
|}

==Mechanics==
''In-Game descriptions of individual mechanics, further information can be found in the respective subpages.''

===[[File:LegCo Icon.png|40px]] The Legislative Council===
[[File:Guangdong LegCo Start.png|320px|thumb|right|Composition of the Legislative Council at the start of 1962|link=]]
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Mechanics)|Legislative Council]]''

Inside [[File:Suzuki small icon.png|20px]]<span style="color:salmon">Guangdong's state of corporations</span>, something resembling a democratic Parliament akin to the ones in Japan and Britain exist. Though these seats are not elected, rather they comprise <span style="color:yellow">100 of the most important businessmen in Guangdong</span>. These businessmen are the ones who vote on the <span style="color:yellow">ordinances of Guangdong</span>, which dictate policy and the future direction of Guangdong. The businessmen flock to where it is most profitable to be, and their votes and loyalty are traded as currency by the different presidents of the main companies of <span style="color:salmon">Guangdong</span>, or are in some cases <span style="color:salmon">bought away to change the dynamics of the Council</span>.

The Chief Executive proposes the ordinances of the [[File:LegCo Small Icon.png]] <span style="color:salmon">Legislative Council</span>, and should <span style="color:yellow">50 seats support the ordinance</span>, it will go into effect. The businessmen are not bound loyally to a corporation however. For the <span style="color:yellow">ordinances of Guangdong</span>, the usual voting period for it is <span style="color:yellow">30 Days</span>, though exceptions can occur in special cases. An ordinance usually does not survive <span style="color:yellow">without changes</span> and might need amendments which will be proposed by other parties to seek out more than <span style="color:yellow">5</span> amendments. Whenever a bill's vote had been concluded, it will be archived in the <span style="color:yellow">ordinance history</span>, and will stay there to document the history of <span style="color:salmon">Guangdong's Legislative Council</span>.

===[[File:GNG Suzuki Succession.png|40px]] Suzuki's Succession===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Mechanics)|Suzuki's Succession]]''
====The Next Chief Executive====
With [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">Suzuki</span>'s disappearance and [[File:Yasuda small icon.png|20px]]<span style="color:yellow">Yasuda</span>'s collapse into ignominy, <span style="color:yellow">Matsuzawa Takuji</span> has become Chief Executive - <span style="color:red">a poisoned chalice</span> thrust upon him by the <span style="color:yellow">three remaining Tycoons</span> of Guangdong. They - <span style="color:red">Morita Akio,</span> <span style="color:deepskyblue">Ibuka Masaru,</span> and <span style="color:gainsboro">Matsushita Masaharu</span> - know that when the dust settles, they are most likely to be chosen to fill the vacant <span style="color:paleturquoise">Chief Executive</span>'s seat, and that the race to succeed <span style="color:yellow">Matsuzawa</span> has already begun. With each filling a role in <span style="color:yellow">Matsuzawa</span>'s Executive Council, the decisions Matsuzawa makes will be critical in deciding who gets the all-important nomination by the [[File:LegCo Small Icon.png]] <span style="color:salmon">Legislative Council...</span>

====Yasuda's Auction====
...And what becomes of [[File:Yasuda small icon.png|20px]]<span style="color:yellow">Yasuda</span> itself? Its mighty empire laid low by the economic crisis that bears its name, [[File:Yasuda small icon.png|20px]]<span style="color:yellow">Yasuda</span>'s remaining assets are to be slated to be auctioned off to repay its creditors. For Guangdong's government, the auction will serve as a <span style="color:palegreen">valuable source of income</span> from commission alone; for the <span style="color:yellow">tycoons</span>, it is an <span style="color:palegreen">unprecedented opportunity</span> to <span style="color:lightcoral">pick clean the carcass</span> of their <span style="color:yellow">rival</span> for a bargain. Whether at a fair parice or not, someone will <span style="color:palegreen">walk away with the lion's share</span> of [[File:Yasuda small icon.png|20px]]<span style="color:yellow">Yasuda</span>'s business empire - and with it, the loyalty of Yasuda's abandoned men in the Legislative Council.

===[[File:Guangdong Regions Icon.png|40px]] Regions of Guangdong===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Mechanics)|Regions of Guangdong]]''

Between the Chinese Mainland and the South China Sea lies Guangdong, an artificial state with an artificial culture and identity. In this hot pot of Chinese and Japanese culture lies the three main ethnic groups, the [[File:Guangdong Chinese Icon.png|20px]] <span style="color:royalblue">Chinese</span>, the [[File:Guangdong Zhujin Icon.png|20px]] <span style="color:mediumvioletred">Zhujin</span>, and the [[File:Guangdong Japanese Icon.png|20px]] <span style="color:darkred">Japanese</span>, who in <span style="color:yellow">each state</span> have their own approval of our government. Each of these ethnic groups represent steps in the Cantonese societal ladder, and their support or lack thereof can <span style="color:palegreen">make</span> or <span style="color:lightcoral">break</span> the finances and stability of the [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]] <span style="color:salmon">State of Guangdong</span>.

Though it might not seem like in the midst of the bustling cities of the Three Pearls, <span style="color:salmon">Guangdong</span> is a major refuge as well for the outcasts and criminals of Japanese and Chinese society, the Chinese [[File:GNG triads small icon.png]] <span style="color:limegreen">Triads</span> and the Japanese [[File:GNG yakuza small icon.png]] <span style="color:mediumvioletred">Yakuza</span>. Our own [[File:GNG police small icon.png]] <span style="color:cornflowerblue">Police</span> force is not enough to stop these forces from overrunning our nation and turning it into an opium den, but the ones who help us police these groups are as ferocious and corrupt, if not more so. The Japanese [[File:GNG kenpetai small icon.png]] <span style="color:darkred">Kenpeitai</span>, who hold ht people obedient through violence and force. The amount a group controls each state and potentially <span style="color:yellow">the majority of Guangdong's regions</span> will have major effects on the different demographics support for <span style="color:salmon">Guangdong</span>, [[File:GNG chinese nation small icon.png]] <span style="color:dodgerblue">Chinese</span> and [[File:GNG japan nation small icon.png]] <span style="color:saddlebrown">Japanese</span> support for our government and how [[File:GNG corruption small icon.png]] <span style="color:lightcoral">corrupt</span> or not our society will be.

===[[File:Three Evils Guangdong Icon.png|40px]] Three Evils of Guangdong===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Mechanics)|Three Evils of Guangdong]]''

Even if the <span style="color:paleturquoise">Chief Executive</span> sits atop the food chain in Guangdong, there are <span style="color:red">three things</span> that conspire to throw a wrench in their plan. Two that are outside the <span style="color:paleturquoise">Chief Executive</span>'s direct control - and one that <span style="color:lightcoral">suffuses everything in Guangdong</span>, formless but undeniably present.

The [[File:GNG japan nation small icon.png]] <span style="color:saddlebrown">Empire of Japan</span> - the backer of Guangdong's security and its greatest investor - has expectations that must be met, lest a Chief Executive suffer their <span style="color:saddlebrown">disapproval</span> and open himself to attack by jealous peers. And the [[File:GNG chinese nation small icon.png]] <span style="color:dodgerblue">Republic of China</span> has never had a very high <span style="color:dodgerblue">opinion</span> of Guangdong - the 'state' carved out of its southern province - and certainly knows how to make life difficult, both for the <span style="color:yellow">Companies</span> and the <span style="color:paleturquoise">Chief Executive</span>, if it is so inclined.

And beyond it all, [[File:GNG corruption small icon.png]] <span style="color:lightcoral">corruption</span> seeps into every crack and crevasse, lock up the gears of government with <span style="color:lightcoral">vice</span> and <span style="color:lightcoral">apathy</span>. Even if some would say such is fate of a nation that worships the yen beyond anything else, nobody enjoys having to deal with [[File:GNG corruption small icon.png]] <span style="color:lightcoral">corruption</span> - <span style="color:lightcoral">rotting away at souls, cheapening work, and crimping profits</span>.

===[[File:RnD Guangdong Icon.png|40px]] The Product Cycle===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Mechanics)|The Product Cycle]]''

If one were to see the companies of Guangdong as fierce warriors vying for each other's heads, then the <span style="color:skyblue">annual Product Launch</span> would be their dueling ground; their prized <span style="color:limegreen">electronics</span>, sharp-edged katanas to land the fatal blow.

The path to woo the [[File:LegCo Small Icon.png]] <span style="color:salmon">Legislative Council</span> with state-of-the-art products is fraught with intricacies. For the successful launch of each and every product two factors are indispensable: <span style="color:orange">quality control</span> and <span style="color:deepskyblue">advertising</span>. [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:gold">Product Quality</span> anchors the trust of investors in our endeavors, while <span style="color:deepskyblue">sufficient advertisement</span> accumulates consumer interest from targeted as well as potential markets.

It is through <span style="color:limegreen">a steady stream of successful launches</span> that Guangdong shall maintain its financial prestige, and contribute our part to the <span style="color:red">Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere's</span> global power projection, both soft and hard. But even if product manufacturing lies dormant <span style="color:skyblue">technology does not</span> - for our brightest engineers and researchers across the Three Pearls shall toil day in and day out for the <span style="color:palegreen">constant perfection of our releases and the optimization of state apparatus</span>.

A Product Cycle typically lasts <span style="color:yellow">100 days</span>, after which our creation will be put to the test in the murky waters of capital, depending on how well both <span style="color:orange">the quality</span> and the <span style="color:deepskyblue">popularity is</span>. Release a product of <span style="color:yellow">immense quality and popularity</span>, and watch the political clout of its parent company skyrocket; release an <span style="color:red">inferior</span> product, however, and everything might come crashing down...

===[[File:PTRG Icon.png|40px]] The Product Testing Research Group===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Mechanics)|The Product Testing Research Group]]''

<span style="color:salmon">The Chief Executive</span> has a vision, one where [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">Guangdong</span> is a <span style="color:deepskyblue">forerunner in the field of modern military arms development</span>.

In order to gather the <span style="color:yellow">much needed testing information</span> for producing a [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:gold">greater</span>, and more [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:mediumvioletred">profitable product</span>, different objectives here must be completed by the <span style="color:yellow">Product Testing Research Group's field division</span> whilst deployed in conflicts to aid <span style="color:red">the Co-Prosperity Sphere</span>.

The more of these objectives are <span style="color:limegreen">completed</span> when the crisis ends, or the team withdraws, the <span style="color:orange">higher quality</span> a final product we will receive, and we will yield a larger <span style="color:mediumvioletred">profit margin</span> from selling our plans.

We are also able to manufacture additional test-equipment <span style="color:lightcoral">should too much of it be lost in combat</span>, though this will <span style="color:lightcoral">cost</span> both time and money.

===[[File:Miracle Pearl River Icon.png|40px]] Miracle on the Pearl River===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Mechanics)|Miracle on the Pearl River]]''

[[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">The State of Guangdong</span> was carved out of the [[File:GNG chinese nation small icon.png]]<span style="color:dodgerblue">Republic of China</span> with one express purpose in mind: Using <span style="color:darkred">Japanese engineering supremacy</span> to create wealth benefitting both the <span style="color:red">Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere</span> and investors back in [[File:GNG japan nation small icon.png]]<span style="color:saddlebrown">Tokyo</span>. The thousands of investors who each day analyse [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">Guangdong's economic performance</span> from the comfort of the <span style="color:saddlebrown">Tokyo Stock Exchange</span> however, <span style="color:lightcoral">demand returns on investment</span>.

Each year, [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">Guangdong's economic performance</span> in form of pure <span style="color:palegreen">GDP</span> will be evaluated, to see if economic growth has <span style="color:yellow">reached the goal set the year prior</span>. The <span style="color:salmon">State</span> derives much of its legitimacy from these evaluations, therefore they maintain great relevancy for the composition of the [[File:LegCo Small Icon.png]] <span style="color:salmon">Legislative Council</span>, [[File:GNG japan nation small icon.png]]<span style="color:saddlebrown">Japanese Approval</span>, and the <span style="color:mediumvioletred">demo</span><span style="color:royalblue">grap</span><span style="color:darkred">hics</span> of [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">Guangdong</span>. The eventual goal is for [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">Guangdong</span> to overtake [[File:GNG japan nation small icon.png]]<span style="color:saddlebrown">Japan's favorite subject</span> headquartered in <span style="color:gold">Hsinking</span>, where the grand larger economy than the objective is managing a [[File:Manchukuo small icon.png]]<span style="color:gold">Empire of Manchuria</span>.

However, while <span style="color:palegreen">growth</span> and <span style="color:palegreen">raw economic output</span> remains <span style="color:yellow">paramount</span>, maintaining a balanced sheet is tantamount to <span style="color:yellow">upholding investor trust</span>. Should our <span style="color:lightcoral">debt-to-GDP</span> spiral upwards, our <span style="color:yellow">credit rating</span> would <span style="color:lightcoral">take a hit</span>, [[File:GNG japan nation small icon.png]]<span style="color:saddlebrown">Japan</span> would be growing more displeased, our [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:yellow">political capital</span> would be <span style="color:lightcoral">reduced</span>, and trust in [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">Guangdong's</span> markets would decrease, leading to an <span style="color:lightcoral">increase</span> in <span style="color:lightcoral">inflation</span>.
Therefore, keeping <span style="color:yellow">our spending</span> and <span style="color:lightcoral">debt</span> in control is of <span style="color:yellow">great importance</span> for maintaining the <span style="color:chocolate">Miracle on the Pearl River</span>.

===[[File:Guangdong Riots Icon.png|40px]] The Guangdong Riots===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Mechanics)|The Guangdong Riots]]''

<span style="color:firebrick">Two decades of oppression. Boiling ethnic tensions. A society built on exploitation of the weak.</span> These are the things the [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:chocolate">Rioters</span> have been facing in the [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">State of Guangdong</span>, and what they are demanding to end.

In their attempt to destroy the <span style="color:firebrick">Pan-Asian</span> <span style="color:salmon">Corporate Experiment</span>, the [[File:Guangdong Chinese Icon.png|20px]] <span style="color:royalblue">Chinese</span> have organized under the [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:firebrick">Committee of Chinese Labor</span>, while the [[File:Guangdong Zhujin Icon.png|20px]] <span style="color:mediumvioletred">Zhujin</span> stand under the [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:springgreen">Guangdong Federation of Tradesmen</span>. The severity of their actions depend on [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:darkred">strength</span> and [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:red">radicalism</span>, where if these two spiral out of control, <span style="color:red">who knows what will happen to the State?</span>

If <span style="color:salmon">the Chief Executive</span> is to [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">save Guangdong</span>, he must subjugate these two groups, either by <span style="color:lightcoral">force</span> or by <span style="color:limegreen">negotiation</span>. To do either, the <span style="color:salmon">State</span> must take sufficient measures to curb the groups' [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:darkred">strength</span> and [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:red">radicalism</span>. Yet time is a limited resource, as the [[File:LegCo Small Icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">LegCo</span> grows ever more [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:coral">desperate and irrational</span>, and the [[File:Spoiler.png|20px]]<span style="color:saddlebrown">Japanese grow ever more frustrated</span>, as long as the <span style="color:firebrick">streets of Guangdong are ablaze</span>.

==Country Paths==
''In-Game descriptions of individual paths, further information can be found in the respective subpages.''

===[[File:Matsushita_Icon.png|40px]] Matsushita===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Paths)|The Ascendant Heir]]''

The Legislative Council has voted to elect <span style="color:darkgray">Matsushita Masaharu</span> of [[File:Matsushita small icon.png]]<span style="color:gainsboro">Matsushita Electric</span> as the new Chief Executive of Guangdong. Representing a middle ground between Guangdong's <span style="color:mediumvioletred">reformists</span> and <span style="color:red">corporate hardliners</span>, <span style="color:darkgray">Matsushita</span> promises and administration guided by tempered reform and economic expansion. However, <span style="color:darkgray">Matsushita</span> is neither an engineer nor a salesman, making him something of an outsider among Guangdong's <span style="color:red">ruling class</span>. Whether this will prove his <span style="color:darkred">undoing</span> , or rather the greatest <span style="color:palegreen">opportunity</span> to prove himself yet, remains to be seen.

===[[File:Sony_Icon.png|40px]] Sony===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Paths)|The Gadgeteer of Guangdong]]''

The Legislative Council has voted to elect <span style="color:tan">Morita Akio</span> of [[File:Sony small icon.png]]<span style="color:red">Sony Corporation</span> as the new Chief Executive of Guangdong. A voice of <span style="color:mediumvioletred">reform</span> on the Pearl Delta, <span style="color:tan">Morita</span> is a champion of Guandong's <span style="color:yellow">Cantonese</span>-<span style="color:red">Japanese</span> <span style="color:mediumvioletred">Zhujin</span> class, and will seek to improve the status of the state's <span style="color:yellow">native population</span>. However, <span style="color:tan">Morita's</span> new administration is not without its opponents, especially from Guangdong's <span style="color:red">Japanese elite</span> and <span style="color:red">corporate hardliners</span>, embodied by <span style="color:tan">Morita's</span> former business partner Ibuka Masaru.

===[[File:Fujitsu_Icon.png|40px]] Fujitsu===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Paths)|The Silicon Visionary]]''

The Legislative Council has voted to elect <span style="color:darkgray">Ibuka Masaru</span> of [[File:Fujitsu small icon.png]]<span style="color:deepskyblue">Fujitsu Limited</span> as the new Chief Executive of Guangdong. A brilliant engineer and key figure among Guandong's <span style="color:red">corporate hardliners</span>. <span style="color:darkgray">Ibuka</span> seeks to build a meritocratic, technocratic state, free to pursue technological innovation free of restraint. This digitized vision of the future, however, does not include much regard for Guangdong's <span style="color:yellow">native population</span>, and <span style="color:darkgray">Ibuka's</span> opposition to reform is sure to draw ire, especially from his former business partner <span style="color:tan">Morita Akio</span>. But <span style="color:darkgray">Ibuka</span> is no stranger to emnity, and Guangdong will bend to his will, one way or another. <span style="color:deepskyblue">For the Pearl Delta is but a canvas, and Ibuka Masaru hold the brush.</span>

===[[File:Hitachi_Icon.png|40px]] Hitachi===
''Main article: [[Guangdong (Paths)|Hail Hitachi]]''

One singular night. In the space of six hours, the course of South Chinese history has been changed <span style="color:lightcoral">forever</span>. What months of preparation, planning and deals has culminated in, Komai has executed in one, final masterstroke. The Big Four Corporations in [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">Guangdong</span> lie shattered, their leaders in limbo of what their place in <span style="color:tan">Komai's</span> new order shall be, and [[File:Hitachi small icon.png]]<span style="color:tan">Hitachi</span> rules as its maestro, its leader, its God.

Chaos has descended upon [[File:Suzuki small icon.png]]<span style="color:salmon">Guangdong</span>, with many refusing to accept the hostile takeover. Riots have spread like wildfire, and with brutality not seen since Japan's subjugation of Asia, have been quashed in their entirety. While [[File:Manchukuo small icon.png]]<span style="color:gold">Manchuria</span> may celebrate. [[File:GNG chinese nation small icon.png]]<span style="color:dodgerblue">China</span> may weep and [[File:GNG japan nation small icon.png]]<span style="color:saddlebrown">Japan</span> shall look on in a muted silence, the question of what <span style="color:tan">Komai's</span> Guangdong shall truly look like forms. Nobody is quite sure, but one thing is for certain.

<span style="color:lightcoral">Those who will not bow to Komai, will be hanged by him.</span>

===[[File:IJA_Icon.png|40px]] IJA Coup===
''Main article: [[The Guangdong Riots (Mechanic)#Outcomes|IJA Coup of Guangdong]]''

<span style="color:red">Guangdong was a mistake.</span>

One that the [[File:IJA Small Icon.png]]<span style="color:grey">Imperial Japanese Army</span> is going to fix.


==Achievements==
===Shared===
{{Iconbox|Economic Genkokujo|We surpassed the Empire of Manchuria economically.|image=Achievement GNG economic gekokujo.png}}
{{Iconbox|The Business of Ingenuity|We have sold a perfect product.|image=Achievement GNG the business of ingenuity.png}}
{{Iconbox|Asia's Finest|We reformed the GPF and exorcised corruption.|image=Achievement GNG asias finest.png}}
{{Iconbox|The Curtain Falls|The tale of Guangdong has ended.|image=Achievement GNG the curtain falls.png}}


==Chief Executives==
===Matsushita===
===Suzuki Teiichi===
{{Iconbox|A Worthy Heir|Matsushita Masaharu proved himself in times of trouble.|image=Achievement GNG a worthy heir.png}}
===Matsuzawa Takuji===
{{Iconbox|Overshadowed Legacies|Matsushita Masaharu was too weak and could not carve his own path.|image=Achievement GNG overshadowed legacies.png}}
===Sony===
===Matsushita Masaharu===
===Morita Akio===
{{Iconbox|Silicon Dreamers|Morita Akio and Li Ka-shing fulfilled their vision.|image=Achievement GNG silicon dreamers achievement.png}}
===Ibuka Masaru===
{{Iconbox|Dreams Deferred|Morita Akio and Li Ka-shing came up short.|image=Achievement GNG dreams deferred.png}}
===Fujitsu===
===Komai Kenichirō===
==Cabinet Members==
{{Iconbox|Utopian Parody|What's one more casualty in the name of perfection?|image=Achievement GNG utopian parody.png}}
===Li Ka-shing===
{{Iconbox|Happy World's End|Those times with Akio... I'm so happy to have them back.|image=Achievement GNG happy worlds end.png}}
===Hitachi===
===Stanley Ho===
===Yokoi Hideki===
{{Iconbox|Crossing the Rubicon|Komai Kenichirō is his own master now.|image=Achievement GNG crossing the rubicon.png}}
===Nagano Shigeto===
{{Iconbox|Rigged From the Start|Komai Kenichirō lies bound by his masters.|image=Achievement GNG rigged from the start.png}}
===Tsuchida Kuniyasu===
===Ōmori Kan===
===Miyazaki Kiyotaka===
===Takashima Masuo===
===Song Zhiguang===
===Wang Jingxu===
===Igarashi Masato===
===Takeda Goro===
===Murai Sumio===
===Watanabe Keitaro===
==Corporate Executives==
===Yamauchi Hiroshi===
===Gunpei Yokoi===
===Matsushita Kōnosuke===
===Director Samejima===
==Guangdong Police Force==
===Lam Haau-cyun / Hayashi Kōsen===
[[File:Artwork Lam Haau Cyun.webp|thumb|right|link=|Lam Haau-cyun]]
Lam is one of two characters from Guangdong that are depicted in artwork.
===Kawasaki Minori===
===Ito===
===Lui Lok===
===Sagawa Minoru===
==Lee Family==
===Lee Chun===
===Lee Hei===
===Lee Wai===
===Lee Leong===
===Lee Mei===
==Other Characters==
===Baron Yasukawa===
===Yasukawa Yoshiko===
[[File:Artwork Yasukawa Yoshiko.webp|thumb|right|link=|Yasukawa Yoshiko]]
Yoshiko is one of two characters from Guangdong that are depicted in artwork.
===Suen Fang===

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Guangdong (Paths)[edit | edit source]

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Matsushita Masaharu Matsushita[edit | edit source]

Morita Akio Sony[edit | edit source]

Ibuka Masaru Fujitsu[edit | edit source]

Komai Kenichirō Hitachi[edit | edit source]

The Imperial Japanese Army IJA Coup[edit | edit source]

Guangdong (Mechanics)[edit | edit source]

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The Legislative Council[edit | edit source]

Suzuki's Succession[edit | edit source]

The Next Chief Executive[edit | edit source]

Yasuda's Auction[edit | edit source]

Regions of Guangdong[edit | edit source]

Three Evils of Guangdong[edit | edit source]

The Product Cycle[edit | edit source]

The Product Testing Research Group[edit | edit source]

Miracle on the Pearl River[edit | edit source]

The Guangdong Riots[edit | edit source]

Guangdong (Characters)[edit | edit source]

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Chief Executives[edit | edit source]

Suzuki Teiichi[edit | edit source]

Matsuzawa Takuji[edit | edit source]

Matsushita Masaharu[edit | edit source]

Morita Akio[edit | edit source]

Ibuka Masaru[edit | edit source]

Komai Kenichirō[edit | edit source]

Cabinet Members[edit | edit source]

Li Ka-shing[edit | edit source]

Stanley Ho[edit | edit source]

Yokoi Hideki[edit | edit source]

Nagano Shigeto[edit | edit source]

Tsuchida Kuniyasu[edit | edit source]

Ōmori Kan[edit | edit source]

Miyazaki Kiyotaka[edit | edit source]

Takashima Masuo[edit | edit source]

Song Zhiguang[edit | edit source]

Wang Jingxu[edit | edit source]

Igarashi Masato[edit | edit source]

Takeda Goro[edit | edit source]

Murai Sumio[edit | edit source]

Watanabe Keitaro[edit | edit source]

Corporate Executives[edit | edit source]

Yamauchi Hiroshi[edit | edit source]

Gunpei Yokoi[edit | edit source]

Matsushita Kōnosuke[edit | edit source]

Director Samejima[edit | edit source]

Guangdong Police Force[edit | edit source]

Lam Haau-cyun / Hayashi Kōsen[edit | edit source]

Lam Haau-cyun

Lam is one of two characters from Guangdong that are depicted in artwork.

Kawasaki Minori[edit | edit source]

Ito[edit | edit source]

Lui Lok[edit | edit source]

Sagawa Minoru[edit | edit source]

Lee Family[edit | edit source]

Lee Chun[edit | edit source]

Lee Hei[edit | edit source]

Lee Wai[edit | edit source]

Lee Leong[edit | edit source]

Lee Mei[edit | edit source]

Other Characters[edit | edit source]

Baron Yasukawa[edit | edit source]

Yasukawa Yoshiko[edit | edit source]

Yasukawa Yoshiko

Yoshiko is one of two characters from Guangdong that are depicted in artwork.

Suen Fang[edit | edit source]

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