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State of Guangdong 廣東省, Guǎngdōng Shěng'
Flag of Guangdong TAG = GNG
Politics
Capital	Kōshu
Ruling Party	Kanton Minseifu
Head of State	Suzuki Teiichi
Diplomacy
Sphere	Co-Prosperity Sphere
Foreign Alignment	Corporate Dependency
Economy
GDP	$21.21B
Credit Rating	Good
Market Type	Corporate Oligopoly

The State of Guangdong is a country located in southern China, occupying the majority of Guangdong province. A puppet state of 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.

In-Game Description

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.

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?

Country Overview

Carved out from the Republic of China as an independent state by Japanese fiat in the Kanton Protocols of 1950, the State of Guangdong is an experiment unlike any other in history: an artificial nation dedicated solely to corporate colonialism. Where the Empire of Japan's other conquests in Asia - even its most artificial child, the Empire of Manchuria - pay lip service to the Co-Prosperity Sphere's vision of Pan-Asianism, Guangdong stands alone in its devotion to the yen under the whim of its Four Companies - Sony, Matsushita Electric, Fujitsu, and Yasuda. 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 Chinese 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 Japanese industrialists and expatriates that oversee their corporate exclave. Between them, the Zhujin - 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 Chinese and seen as useful proxies by the Japanese expatriates. Crime and corruption are widespread, with the Triads and Yakuza vying for control over the web of vice that sprawls across Guangdong's underground, in defiance of an undermanned Guangdong Police Force and an uncaring Kenpeitai garrison. In Guangdong, crime is less an aberration than simply another means of doing business, a reciprocal relationship of favors done and debts owed.

Internationally, Guangdong is afforded the trappings of a country and little else. China - holding fast to its pride - refuses to accord Guangdong's representatives the equal treatment they deserve, while Japan's attention has long since drifted away from its unnatural tributary. Manchukuo - 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 Chief Executive Suzuki Teiichi begins his uneasy mission to bring Guangdong and its corporations back into Japan's dominion, the people and tycoons of Guangdong wait, and yearn for a future, a nation, that could yet be theirs.

Politics

Legislative Council

Composition of the Legislative Council at the start of 1962

Inside Guangdong's state of corporations, something resembling a democratic Parliament akin to the ones in Japan and Britain exist. Though these seats are not elected, rather they comprise 100 of the most important businessmen in Guangdong. These businessmen are the ones who vote on the ordinances of Guangdong, 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 Guangdong, or are in some cases bought away to change the dynamics of the Council.

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

Parties and Factions

Name	Ideology	Leaders
Guangdong Civil Administration Kanton Minseifu	Corporate Statism	Suzuki Teiichi
Legislative Council - Business Faction Rippoukai - Zaikaiha	Corporatocracy	Matsuzawa Takuji Matsushita Masaharu Ibuka Masaru
Legislative Council - Civic Faction Rippoukai - Minseiha	Corporate Paternalism	Morita Akio Li Ka-Shing
Legislative Council - Central Committee Rippoukai - Chuou Iinkai	Corporate Statism	Ibuka Masaru Following passage of The Guangdong Future Act
Legislative Council - Manchuria Faction Rippoukai - Manshūha	Reform Bureaucracy	Komai Kenichirō
IJA - Martial Law The Imperial Japanese Army - Martial Law	Ultramilitarism	Nagano Shigeto

Gameplay

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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 Chinese, the Zhujin, and the Japanese, who in each state 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 make or break the finances and stability of the State of Guangdong.

Though it might not seem like in the midst of the bustling cities of the Three Pearls, Guangdong is a major refuge as well for the outcasts and criminals of Japanese and Chinese society, the Chinese Triads and the Japanese Yakuza. Our own Police 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 Kenpeitai, who hold ht people obedient through violence and force. The amount a group controls each state and potentially the majority of Guangdong's regions will have major effects on the different demographics support for Guangdong, Chinese and Japanese support for our government and how corrupt or not our society will be.

Three Evils of Guangdong

Even if the Chief Executive sits atop the food chain in Guangdong, there are three things that conspire to throw a wrench in their plan. Two that are outside the Chief Executive's direct control - and one that suffuses everything in Guangdong, formless but undeniably present.

The Empire of Japan - the backer of Guangdong's security and its greatest investor - has expectations that must be met, lest a Chief Executive suffer their disapproval and open himself to attack by jealous peers. And the Republic of China has never had a very high opinion of Guangdong - the 'state' carved out of its southern province - and certainly knows how to make life difficult, both for the Companies and the Chief Executive, if it is so inclined.

And beyond it all, corruption seeps into every crack and crevasse, lock up the gears of government with vice and apathy. Even if some would say such is fate of a nation that worships the yen beyond anything else, nobody enjoys having to deal with corruption - rotting away at souls, cheapening work, and crimping profits.

Achievements

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Economic Genkokujo

We surpassed the Empire of Manchuria economically.

The Business of Ingenuity

We have sold a perfect product.

Asia's Finest

We reformed the GPF and exorcised corruption.

The Curtain Falls

The tale of Guangdong has ended.

Matsushita

A Worthy Heir

Matsushita Masaharu proved himself in times of trouble.

Overshadowed Legacies

Matsushita Masaharu was too weak and could not carve his own path.

Sony

Silicon Dreamers

Morita Akio and Li Ka-shing fulfilled their vision.

Dreams Deferred

Morita Akio and Li Ka-shing came up short.

Fujitsu

Utopian Parody

What's one more casualty in the name of perfection?

Happy World's End

Those times with Akio... I'm so happy to have them back.

Hitachi

Crossing the Rubicon

Komai Kenichirō is his own master now.

Rigged From the Start

Komai Kenichirō lies bound by his masters.