History Characters / TNOSoutheastAsia

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The more reformist-minded factions within the KALIBAPI view cooperation with Japan and Co-Prosperity Sphere "membership" as this. Beyond hopes of greater leverage for ensuring genuine independence, restoring order to the country also means avoiding the prospect of the Japanese [[HereWeGoAgain launching yet another bloody invasion]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Taruc decides to take a harder stance against non-socialist elements and [[ThePurge attempt to "liquidate" them]], this not only destabilizes the AFRSR's hard-won gains. [[spoiler:But it also gives Ferdinand Marcos an opportunity to stage an armed coup.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Downplayed. While the KALIBAPI-run government is seen by many Filipinos as a glorified puppet of the Japanese, there remains ''enough'' popular support for it to maintain some measure of legitimacy. Depending on who becomes president should it survive the Balintawak Blitz, it could potentially make a concerted effort to mend that image.
* AristocratsAreEvil: The governors ruling the countryside are nobles in all but name, many of them even belonging to political dynasties that have a stranglehold over their respective regions. The dire situation in the provinces all but implies this trope.

* UniversallyBelovedLeader: Tañada is universally beloved across the Philippines, which made him the perfect compromise candidate to lead the Coaltion, until official elections can be held. In the upcoming elections, Taruc can subvert this trope for Tañada by stoking dissent towards his perceived incompetence, allowing Taruc to win the majority of votes.

* TheQuisling: {{Downplayed}}. Ngô Đình Diệm will accept Japanese support for his regime, but it's only half-hearted on his part.

!!''Luis Taruc''

->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]], Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

* BilingualBonus: The kanji on the Nanpo Gunseikan's flag translates to "Inspectorate General of Southern Military Government", indicating that the region is governed by the Southern Expeditionary Army Group.

* BilingualBonus: The kanji on the Nanpo Gunseikan's flag translates to "Southern Military Administration", since North Borneo is geographically south to the Japanese Home Isles.

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->'''Official Name:''' Free Philippine Republic, OFN Mandate of the Philippines (14th Army Ceasefire)

!!''Dwight Edward Beach''
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->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Head of State (14th Army ceasefire)
->'''Party:''' Philippine Department Headquarters
->'''Ideology:''' Military Mandate[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Prior to the Philippine Conflict, the most service in the Pacific Dwight Edward Beach could claim was Guadalcanal and New Guinea, as a field artillery officer. He had no history in the region otherwise: no investment in any one of its long, grueling wars, no connections with the natives to draw from, nor the magnetic charisma holding insurgencies together like glue. A [=MacArthur=], Wainwright, or a Fertig he is most decidedly not. Nevertheless, the Pentagon chose this Army man as the fourth Commander of the United States Army in the Philippines.\\\
What the 45th Infantry Division's general did have, however, is more firepower than any of his predecessors ever had. The increasingly desperate Joint Chiefs of Staff approved limited escalation before the decapitated USFIP bore the brunt of Japan's reprisal; in other words, they handed Beach a blank check for equipment heavier and more blatantly American than the "deniable assets" already in theater. M55's, ATGM's, Pattons, honest-to-goodness Skyraiders - he names it, he gets it.\\\
Beach may be no [=MacArthur=], come to return with his corn cob pipe, aviator shades, and the full might of the US Army. He may be no Fertig, so trusted by his men that they would follow him to the ninth circle of Hell. Then again, the actual [=MacArthur=]'s an invalid in a military hospital. The actual Fertig's six feet under. What good would aping those failures do him now?[[/labelnote]]
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* FishOutOfWater: Downplayed. Beach has next to no real connection with the locals and is for all intents and purposes a complete newcomer to the region. Despite those hurdles, however, he's a competent commander and has more than enough support from Washington to make up for any shortcomings.
* GodzillaThreshold: Beach's appointment as the USFIP's new military commander goes alongside an escalation in military hardware being shipped to the Philippines, which are more modern and so blatantly American that they barely count as "deniable assets" anymore.
* InadequateInheritor: Beach lacks the prestigious careers and magnetic charisma wielded by [=MacArthur=] and Fertig, but he will be put in charge of the FPR, turned into an OFN Mandate, if the 14th Army takes Luzon and potentially Visayas in the ceasefire.
* LoopholeAbuse: He skirts around the definition of "deniable assets" just ''enough'' that it doesn't rile the Japanese too much into openly declaring war against the United States.
* TookALevelInBadass: Previously, Beach was an unmemorable American commander, but when given command of the USFIP, the OFN will practically give him a blank check of anything he needs to bring the archipelago under OFN control, suddenly turning him into one their most well-equipped military officers.

The formerly French Indochina came under Japanese rule after World War II, who reorganized Indochina into several loyal client states. In Vietnam, Japan filled the country with their colonists and corporations. Vietnam has since become a failing nation, with oppressive overlords and a resentful population.

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* DivineRightOfKings: Devarāja, or kingliness, is a religious belief legitimizing the monarch as a god-king who deserves to rule. The Kampuchea rework teaser shows that the House of Norodom exploited this belief to rule lazily. This ended up undermining them when Thành took matters in his own hands and overthrew them.

* HypercompetentSidekick: His teased biography calls him the brainchild behind Thành's regime, a respected National Assembly politician during Sihanouk's reign, and an elder statesman who negotiated the end of Issara. Thus, his reputation soars beyond even that of Thành's.

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]They say it's not surprising that Son Sann knows money-as the son of a wealthy landowner and with a degree from the Hautes Études Commerciales, he was born into wealth and grew to understand it. He distinguished himself as a civil servant in the Issara years, and proved himself a worthy enough
bureaucrat to join a new cabinet as Minister of Finance.\\\

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* TheCoup: Thành seized power and deposed the king to create the Republic of Kampuchea in a coup.

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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Monarchist Coup, Tokyo Plot success)

->'''Role:''' Head of State (Khmer Serei Coup)

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[[folder:Republic of Thailand]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Republic of Thailand
->'''Ruling Party:''' Khana Ratsadon - Manangkhasila[[note]]People's Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Revolutionary Nationalism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]]

* CrushingThePopulace: Having acquired Cambodian and Malaysian territory for their role in World War II, Thailand has tried assimilating the ethnic minorities there, far more radically than even OTL.
* {{Egopolis}}: After the Franco-Thai war, a part of the newly annexed territory from Cambodia was reorganized into the 'Phibunsongkhram Province' being named after Plaek Phibunsongkhram when he was still Prime Minister of the Kingdom.
* FascistButInefficient: Thaification programs are actively rejected by many of the minorities living in Thailand, forming insurgencies that destabilize their grip over the southern province and conquered territories.
* TheMigration:
** Countless minorities from Burma flee to Thailand, much to the chagrin of the latter's populace.
** Similarly, Japanese migrants have also begun settling in Thailand and opening more small businesses than the local Thais, even driving some into bankruptcy.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Following Phibunsongkhram's coup against the monarchy, Thailand was officially turned into a republic and the ruling party calls itself the "People's Party" in English. However, this supposed democracy is a fraud, with all power concentrated to the Khama Ratsadon and anyone who speaks out against it is suppressed.
* SuccessionCrisis: The power vacuum left by Plaek's death can worsen if Ananta Samakhom Hall gets bombed by a terrorist attack, delaying the Assembly's attempt to confirm a new President.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** The Thai National Army is wracked with factionalism, specifically between the Soi Ratchakru and Sisao Thawaet factions.
** The Seri Thai movement is an anti-establishment faction opposed to Phibunsongkhram and the current Khana Ratsadon dictatorship. Beyond this shared enmity, the movement is ideologically split between the pro-royalist Seni and the left-wing Pridi.

!!''Plaek Phibunsongkhram''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' Khana Ratsadon - Manangkhasila[[note]]People's Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Revolutionary Nationalism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in 1897, the Grand Marshal was given the name "strange" as a young boy - few could predict how prophetic this title would come to be, as he now rules over a Thailand unrecognizable from all those years ago. Decades of grooming the Thai nation to fit his idealized image has led Plaek Phibunsongkhram to this moment - opulent, prosperous, yet woefully out of time.\\\
Plaek sits as the Pater Patriae, at the helm of almost thirty years of brutal modernization and cultural rejuvenation programs. Championing the successes of fascist movements in Europe, Plaek emulated its deeply authoritarian nationalism by taking inspiration from Italy's Duce and Germany's Führer to rival the European empires encircling the underdeveloped nation. If anyone is responsible for dragging Thailand into the modern day, kicking and screaming, it is Plaek Phibunsongkhram, who did so with ideological conviction and martial abandon.\\\
Having involved Thailand in the violent and bloody uprooting of European colonialism across Asia in Japan's nationalist coalition, Phibun's public support grew in zeal. Yet, the passing of the 'Patriarch Charter' - abolishing the monarchy and assuming sovereign power - had prompted others to finally draw out their daggers in the dark. The Grand Marshal's ailing health degenerates; the people ask more questions of the future - will he live long enough for him to answer them?[[/labelnote]]

* MinorMajorCharacter: Plaek is the chief architect behind Thailand's rapid industrialization and cultural programs, transforming the humble Thai monarchy into an industrialized nation directly inspired by the fascist movements in Italy and Germany. However, Plaek doesn't play much of an active role in the game itself, as he'll pass away shortly after the game's start.
* PlayingBothSides: Underneath his facade of loyalty to Japan, Plaek has been covertly feeding the CIA presence in Thailand, starting a shadow war between Japan and the United States to ensure that neither side has too much influence over his nation.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His death triggers a succession crisis that determines who will lead Thailand and shape the country in their image.
* TheQuisling: Plaek secretly despises that he's had to submit Thailand under Japanese military envoys, which is why he's been sending some support to the CIA to weaken the Japanese presence in his country.
* RepressiveButEfficient: Plaek's modernization and cultural rejuvenation programs worked in turning Thailand into a prosperous nation, but they came at a heavy human cost.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Plaek is adored across Thailand for his abolition of the unpopular Thai monarchy and his expulsion of the European imperialists in Southeast Asia.
* VillainousFriendship: Despite their ideological incompatibilities, Plaek had a friendly relationship with Thawan, which could influence the latter's appointment as president.
* WarHero: He's a renowned war hero to Thailand, which contributed to the reason why he managed to become prime minister of Thailand.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Plaek suffers a stroke and dies at around a year and a half after the game's start.

!!''Sang Phathanothai''
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->'''Role:''' Minister of Foreign Affairs[[note]]Foreign Minister[[/note]] (Plaek cabinet), Prime Minister[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Plaek cabinet - Wichit passed away), Head of State (Caretaker President, Post-Failed Military Coup)
->'''Party:''' Khana Ratsadon[[note]]People's Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Managerial State[[note]]Despotism[[/note]], Interim Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]] (Caretaker President), National Syndicalism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]] (Confirmed Presidency)
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]If anyone was to bet on Marshal Phibun's successor, they would have lost. Sang Phathanothai is no exception.\\\
Sang was born in 1915. Growing up in poverty, people jokingly called him a camel since his idea of lunch was constrained to water and his first encounter with eating utensils was when he arrived in Bangkok. Yet at the same time the 'camel' was also extremely bookish, so much so that he ruined his eyesight and had to scrabble around for money to get glasses.\\\
As he grew, he found himself a teacher known for his revolutionary fervour. When the Government tried to close his school, he led and organised a strike which forced the Khana Ratsadon to suspend the plans. This first strike led by students and teachers in Thai history was a great achievement for a man that had begun life too poor even to take the cheapest train to Bangkok.\\\
Time wore on, and Prime Minister Phibun noticed Sang's talents. Appointing him first a radio show host, then head of the Publicity Department and official spokesperson of the Thai Government, Phibun at last took him into his personal staff as an advisor. Not even Sarit Thanarat's assertion in 1957 that Sang was a communist was able to shake Phibun's trust in him; indeed, after the coup, Sang's next post was foreign minister, followed by the prime ministership after Wichit Wichitwathakarn's death.\\\
Now Sang Phathanothai sits on a throne he never thought a poor, outspoken Samut Prakan kid could attain. He knows who he has to thank for that-so he will continue Phibun's work while implementing his own radical economic policies and his vision for a new revolution where all Thais, rich and poor, unite under a single tri-coloured banner.[[/labelnote]]

* {{Bookworm}}: The young Sang was so obsessed with reading that it ruined his eyesight and forced him to wear glasses.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: {{Subverted}}. After Plaek's passing, Sang gets nominated as caretaker president and he promises to step down when a new cabinet is assembled. However, he can break this promise after a failed military coup, getting himself confirmed as President to continue the legacy of Plaek.
* CommieNazis: While still a radical Thai nationalist in the same vein as the rest of the Khana Ratsadon, Sang is also deadset on implementing radical economies policies that will greatly benefit working class Thais.
* OpposeWhatYouSuffered: Having suffered a childhood of poverty, Sang seeks to help uplift Thailand's poor with his vision of a new revolution once he becomes leader.
* PovertyFood: Growing up in absolute poverty, Sang's usual lunch was constrained to water, only discovering eating utensils when he arrived in Bangkok.

!!''Thanom Kittikachorn''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Military Coup)
->'''Party:''' Khana Pathivat[[note]]Revolutionary Council[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Thanom Kittikachorn knows war and cruel violence like few others in the halls of power; even fewer can leap with such dexterity to it. Organised, disciplined, and inexcusably fiendish, Thanom commands not only armies in the field, but the personal loyalties of those lurking in the shadows of government where one would least expect it.\\\
The well-educated strategist spent his youth in military academies and institutions until the opening of war against the Europeans in 1940, wherein his service in the Burmese campaigns earned him promotions for his leadership and initiative under extreme pressure. To many, it seems the extreme pressure of the campaigns had built a monster out of a man excelling in the field, who then treated politics like war. Each medal pinned to his uniform were but insignia of his killings; rewards for his ruthlessness.\\\
Thanom's grueling victories during Operation Issara in the East, as well as his rapacious influence in ascent to the inner circles of the Rongrean Nai Roi military clique, had spun him a web of influence, willingly or unwillingly ensnaring those in the general's orbit. Now, after launching a coup against the interim government, these snares have grown intrusive and more barbarous - his forces now run Thailand; he, the Commander-in-Chief of whatever horror he can craft from the mud of the battlefield.[[/labelnote]]

* GeneralRipper: Thanom is proud of the many military battles he's ruthlessly led in his career and is easily the most despotic leader who can take power in Thailand.
* MeetTheNewBoss: If Thanom takes power in Thailand, not much will change from the Plaek administration, as the populace is once more subjected under a fascist government, only with a different leader.
* MilitaryCoup: Shortly after Plaek's death, Thanom can launch a military coup to install himself as dictator of Thailand.
* UndyingLoyalty: Wishing to maintain the status quo of Thailand, Thanom wants to maintain Thailand's pledge of loyalty to Japan.

!!''Praphas Charusathien''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Thanom succession)
->'''Party:''' Khana Pathivat[[note]]Revolutionary Council[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Reactionary Nationalism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

* DragonAscendant: After Thanom is killed by dissident naval officers at the Battle of the Chao Phraya River, Praphas is named his successor.
* ThePurge: The first thing he does as President is conduct a thorough purge in the government of any potential sympathizers to the coup that murdered Thanom.
* RedScare: During his inauguration speech, Praphas firstly blames communists for murdering his predecessor and threatening to destabilize all of Thailand.

!!''Kris Sivara''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Thanom ousted)
->'''Party:''' Khana Rattapraharn[[note]]Coup Group[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A man thrown into the bloody aftermath of Marshal Thanom's hate, and the screaming chaos that has swallowed the nation since, Kris Sivara is a man with the burden of millions of futures on his shoulders. Power rests in his junta's hands, yet as shadows begin to crawl from the corners of his vision, no one is sure of who can be trusted.\\\
In his earlier years, Kris had risen to local prominence serving in the armed forces; his advances into British-controlled Burma had landed him among the same circles as Thanom Kittikachorn, wherein he consolidated relationships with those who would come to form the linchpins of the Sisao Thaweet clique. Thanom, having taken notice of Kris' reputation, kept him neatly within select various commands and, after his coup, government posts to carefully monitor his activity - until it happened.\\\
Thanom's barbarian reprisals of students and civilians in the streets of major cities had pushed Kris and other like-minded officers to act; they had forced the tyrant marshal from power, and severed the head of the brutal regime. Kris now heads a council running the young republic, whose wounds gape and bleed, gashed by the scourge of man. Only time will tell if his house of cards will stand on the shaky foundations so many have bled and wept over, and if dignity will wash up on Thailand's shores ever again.[[/labelnote]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: While supportive of Plaek's dictatorship, Kris is disturbed by the barbaric suppression instituted by Thanom and Praphas if he leads Thailand, which drives him and his supporters to try couping the Kittikachorn.
* TheStarscream: Kris plans to betray and coup Thanom to end his over violence for good.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His attempted coup against Thanom has a chance of failing, which cause Praphas to take power instead, who is even more brutal than Thanom.

!!''Kriangsak Chamanan''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Sivara resignation)
->'''Party:''' Phak Chart Prachathipatai[[note]]National Democratic Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Controlled Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

* {{Cincinnatus}}: After being handed power by Kris, Kriangsak promises to reestablish free elections as quickly as possible.
* ALighterShadeOfGrey: The government he oversees isn't perfect. Kris still wields a dangerous level of influence in the government and the economy is dominated by the oligarchs. However, it's at least more stable and less oppressive than the past two decades Thailand has been through.
* WarHero: He's a well-respected general who is popular among the Thai people.

!!''Chatichai Choonhavan''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Military Coup)
->'''Party:''' Khana Ratsadon[[note]]People's Party[[/note]], Phak Chart Prachathipatai[[note]]National Democratic Party[[/note]] (Khana Ratsadon Dissolved)
->'''Ideology:''' Managerial State[[note]]Despotism[[/note]], Authoritarian Developmentalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (Khana Ratsadon Dissolved), Personalistic Dictatorship[[note]]Despotism[[/note]] (Temporary Martial Law), Corporatism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]] (Permanent Martial Law)
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The only son of Field Marshal Phin Choonhavan, supporter of the Phibunsongkhram regime and face of the old guard, Chatichai Choonhavan has stepped beyond the shoes of his father for some time now. His family name an insignia and rite-of-passage in Bangkok's halls of power, Chatichai has become a face frequented by anyone who is anyone in the young republic.\\\
As war had raged on in Indochina against the French and then the British, Chatichai shadowed his father's efforts to lead the armed forces into battle and take the bloody fight to the imperialist europeans. Bravery under fire and excellent strategic planning, although restrained by the Japanese high command, had earned the Choonhavan name great fame and respect; he and his father's tales were often retold at dinner parties in wealthy establishments.\\\
However, as Operation Issara came to a grinding halt, and all of the republic's daggers were pointed to his father, Chatichai sat outside of the spotlight of Thailand's military affairs. Now that the Grand Marshal is dead, the ranks of soldiers call the Choonhavan name once again. Chatichai is young and inexperienced in the seat of the President, but few cast their doubts over his passion for justice.[[/labelnote]]

* EmergencyAuthority: Chatichai can declare martial law as a response to the oil crisis, which will either result in an unparalled centralisation of power to himself if it was temporarily declared or his own Prime Minister sidelining Chatichai if it was permanently declared.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: While despotic, Chatichai is no where near as repressive as the more brutish Thanom.
* MeetTheNewBoss: Of all of Plaek's potential successors, Chatichai's rule is the most identical to his predecessor's.
* {{Nepotism}}: While a skilled military commander in his own right, Chatichai being the son of Field Marshal Phin Choonhavan has certainly helped in elevating his status in the military.
* PragmaticVillainy: In response to the riots that breakout in Thailand over the oil crisis, Chatichai can make massive widepread reforms that include the dissolution of Khana Ratsadon, the future implementation of a new constitution and the announcement that elections will be held in the future. However, many believe that Chatichai only issued these wide-sweeping changes with such speed so that only he can properly react to them, allowing him to cement his rule over the nation.
* PuppetKing: If martial law is declared permanently, Chatichai will be turned into a puppet of his own Prime Minister, Pramarn Adireksarn, who seizes de facto control of his government after making an alliance with the military.
* RepressiveButEfficient: Upon coming to power in a military coup, Chatichai is set to use his web of influences and military prowess to create a productive, authoritarian government.
* SecretPolice: Upon taking power, Choonhavan's administration is propped up by a system of secret police who suppress any domestic threats to Thailand's security.

!!''Thawan Thamrongnawasawat''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Plaek succession)
->'''Party:''' Khana Ratsadon[[note]]People's Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Transitioning Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Many wonder how absurd it would be for the Grand Marshal to have a friendly relationship with someone so distant from his doctrinal beliefs, but it seems Thawan Thamronnawasawat was just the man to stand firm in such a way to remain in his position. Commander-in-Chief of the tender, yet considerable, Thai Navy, Thawan's aloof stance has been considered by many apolitical; others thought him a dormant mastermind.\\\
Rising in the ranks of Thailand's nascent navy, Thawan has served in the force from a time where the world considered the fleet ceremonial. Now, he presides over what he considers the pride of the nation's standing across the world; the seas offered Thawan a version of Thailand, however, a safe distance from the truth - his homeland was ruled by a tyrant, and no admiral could change the fact.\\\
nAs the army frothed at the mouth with spewings of ideological militarism over the years, or indulged in opportunism to advance an officer's career with violent force, Thawan's navy, disciplined by crashing waves, remained largely unmolested by the stoked divisions that plagued its sister branch. Now, he sits in the seat of the President, keeping the divided army cliques at bay, and bitterly holding together the shattered pieces of the republic's legacy against military rebellion and civil war.[[/labelnote]]

* {{Cincinnatus}}: After taking power in Thailand, Thawan announces new democratic elections to be held, heralding a new age of freedom for the country.
* InternalReformist: With or without Japanese aid, Thawan plans to massively reform Thailand's infrastructure, military, and even some parts of the government through democratization.
* TheQuietOne: Thawan is noted to be a quiet and reserved figure, which belies his very ambitious plans.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Admiral Thawan's coalition of support is but a house of cards, only tacitly supported by military leadership, with it being likely for him to be couped by a different military faction before he is able to democratise Thailand.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Unlike his peers in the military, Thawan has refused to indulge in any ideological militarism or corruption.

!!''Khuang Aphaiwong''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (1968 Election)
->'''Party:''' Prachatipat Party[[note]]Democrat Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Big Tent[[note]]Liberal Conservatism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born to Siamese royalty in 1902, Khuang Aphaiwong would come to the world when his father was governor of Cambodia, 5 years before Thailand would lose the territory to France. He was a sharp man from a young age, studying first in Bangkok before doing so as well in Lyon. Then at just 30 years old he would go on to take part in the Siamese revolution before his intellect quickly turned him into a minister during the rule of both Phonphayuhasena and Phibun. But his nation's vow to the Japanese and Phibun's repressive regime left him disgusted. Powerless to do anything, Aphaiwong was left with no other options than to disappear from the limelight.\\\
And then Thawan became president, and it seemed as if Aphaiwong's dream of a free and democratic had finally come back after so long. Despite his long self imposed exile from politics, Thawan made him his Minister of the Interior and as soon as elections were scheduled he knew what he had to do. Rallying the noblemen, moderates and even old Seri Thai members of the Prachapitat, Aphinwong provided Seni Pramoj's coalition with the more palatable candidate they needed to win the elections.\\\
The work ahead to ensure a free and democratic republic won't be easy. But even with his old age, Aphaiwong is determined to finally see his dreams for Thailand come true.[[/labelnote]]

* DefectorFromDecadence: He took part in the Siamese revolution and used to be a minister, but was disgusted by Thailand's vow to the Japanese and Phibun's repressive regime, causing him to resign and disappear from the spotlight until Thawan potentially restores democracy to Thailand.
* TheDeterminator: Khuang has dreamed of a free and democratic Thailand for a long time and is determined to see it come into fruition should he become President.
* RoyalBlood: Khuang was born into the now deposed Siamese royalty.
* ShortLivedLeadership: If elected, Khuang will only serve for 6 months before passing away, being succeeded by Seni or Lekha from the Democrat Party.

!!''Seni Pramoj''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Khuang succession)
->'''Party:''' Prachatipat Party[[note]]Democrat Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Progressive Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Few could have predicted the return of Seni Pramoj to Thailand's soils, and even fewer could utter the title 'President' before his name without a smirk - yet he sits in the most powerful office in the land, to the surprise of the nation and many abroad. In a bizarre turn of events, it seems that the champion of the late kingdom has returned to make his mark on the seat of power.\\\
Seni Pramoj, part royal in blood, had spent much of his life back and forth throughout western countries, studying and practicing law, until he was sent to the United States as ambassador in 1940 in what is best described as an 'unofficial exile.' As his homeland was consumed by war and generals preying upon the future of the country, Seni began to abandon the duties of his post to organize a resistance against Plaek's government. However, as Hawaii burned in atomic fire, and as the Americans were forced to the negotiating table, the embers of resistance dimmed before dying out completely.\\\
Thawan's coup of the Bangkok government following Plaek's death, however, signaled a change in course for the future of a free Thailand; the Admiral had promised reform, and it concluded in an election none on earth could predict. The exiled democrat now sits in the seat of the president, urging his countrymen to support his government as Thailand wanders towards a new future where she may finally find peace.[[/labelnote]]

* ArchEnemy: Seni is the the most prominent opponent to Phibunsongkhram and his regime.
* DarkHorseVictory: As a former member of the disgraced Seri Thai movement, Seni is unlikely to win an election, with many expressing surprise if he actually does.
* MeetTheNewBoss: {{Downplayed}}, after succeeding Khuang, Seni swears to use his power to uphold traditional values and preserve the course set by Khuang.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Seni was unofficially sent on exile from Thailand when he was assigned as an ambassador to the United States in 1940.
* TakingUpTheMantle: After Khuang passes away, Seni can succeed him as president and vows to preserve the course he set for Thailand.
* TookALevelInIdealism: After the Axis victory in World War II, Seni resigned to the military autocracy established in Thailand, but his optimism in reforming the country can be restored if Thawan takes over and sets up democratic elections.

!!''Lekha Aphaiwong''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Khuang succession)
->'''Party:''' Prachatipat Party[[note]]Democrat Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Paternalistic Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: If she succeeds Khuang, Lekha becomes the first female president in Thailand.
* InternalReformist: As the favoured candidate of the young liberal activists, after succeeding Khuang, Lekha promises to continue and expand on his economic reforms.
* TakingUpTheMantle: After Khuang passes away, Lekha can succeed him and continue the work of her late husband.

!!''Pridi Banomyong''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (1968 Election, National Unity Government)
->'''Party:''' Sahachip Party[[note]]Unionist Party[[/note]], Rattabarn Haeng Chart[[note]]National Unity Government[[/note]] (National Unity Government)
->'''Ideology:''' Democratic Socialism[[note]]Progressivism[[/note]], Provisional Government[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (National Unity Government)
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The new president of the Republic of Thailand sits in the most powerful seat in the country, but many still ask if he truly is the most influential man in Bangkok's halls of power. Swept into power with the vast support of the people and political establishment, Pridi Banomyong's election was an event many saw on the horizon, but none could know of its consequences.\\\
Pridi's past relationship with the Khana Ratsudon is a complicated one; once respected as a nationalist who had worked tirelessly to establish a modern constitution as well as cancel unequal treaties with the west, he had fallen into partial disgrace as his rivalries with military wings of the party consumed his position of power. Plaek's rise to the seat of Prime Minister rolled Thailand further towards military dictatorship; Pridi could not stomach a dictator in place of an absolute monarch, and harbored resistance to the totalitarianism of the Grand Marshal's regime, before being shelved to positions of little temporal authority.\\\
Today, the Grand Marshal is no more, living only in the memories scarred into the landscape Pridi has inherited as president of the republic after Thawan's resignation, and yet his progeny crowd the young democracy. Pridi may have outlived Plaek and his thunderous wrath, but he could not outlive the deep marks he has left on Thailand forever.[[/labelnote]]

* DefectorFromDecadence: He was once a proud nationalist who was friendly to Khana Ratsudon, but as Plaek began turning Thailand into a military dictatorship, Pridi grew disgusted of the Khana Ratsudon.
* InternalReformist: If elected after Thawan's resignation, Pridi will commit himself to reform Thailand away from its military dictatorship into a functioning democracy.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Owing to his lack of loyalty to the Khana Ratsudon, Pridi was shuffled around into menial positions in Plaek's government, greatly reducing his ability to oppose the Grand Marshal.

!!''Pramarn Adireksarn''
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->'''Role:''' Minister of Interior[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Plaek cabinet), Head of State (1968 or 1972 election)
->'''Party:''' Phak Chart Thai[[note]]Thai Nation Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Revolutionary Nationalism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]], National Conservatism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (1968 election), Right-Wing Populism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (1972 election)

* RedScare: During his election campaign, Pramarn's slogan is "right to kill left", with his victory speech having him vow to protect Thailand from "leftist agitators".

!!''Supha Sirimanon''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (1972 election)
->'''Party:''' Sahachip Party[[note]]Unionist Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Revolutionary Front[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]

* InternalReformist: Supha promises radical economic reforms to cure the ills of Thailand.
* TakingUpTheMantle: As a protege of Pridi, Supha promises to enact economic change resembling that detailed in Pridi's Yellow Book dossier.

!!''Puey Ungphakorn''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (1972 election)
->'''Party:''' Sahachip Party[[note]]Unionist Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Social Democracy[[note]]Progressivism[[/note]]

* CharacterCatchphrase: His famous political slogan is "from womb to tomb", referencing his platform for better social security that will last a lifetime for everyone.
* SuicidalPacifism: {{Subverted}}. His opponents in the right-wing and military frequently accuse him of this, claiming that he's too pacifistic and weak. To prove their claims, they often cite his opposition to the security forces' handling of the Thammasat University raids, which highlights that they're too politically biased to have their accusations taken too seriously and, in either case, it doesn't stop most of the nation celebrating his inauguration.

!!''Kukrit Pramoj''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (1972 election)
->'''Party:''' Phak Kao Na[[note]]Progressive Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Populist Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

* RoyalBlood: Kukrit is a scion of the Pramoj noble family.
* SiblingTeam: Kurkit ascends to the presidency through the strength of a coalition between his Progressive Party and his brother Seni's Democrat Party.

!!''Thammanoon Thien-ngern''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (1972 election)
->'''Party:''' Phak Prachakon Thai[[note]]Thai Citizen's Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascist Populism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]]

* PresidentEvil: Thammanoon, a fascist, can get elected into power after liberal democracy returns to Thailand.
* RedScare: One of the three major pillars that Thammanoon was elected on is "crushing communists".

!!''Chalard Hiransiri''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Bangkok Conference failure, Black Friday coup)
->'''Party:''' Khana Thaharn Haeng Chart[[note]]National Military Council[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Revolutionary Nationalism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]]

* MeetTheNewBoss: Chalard's coup represents a return to the old status quo of the days of the Khana Ratsadon, with his military clique being affiliated with many of their old bureaucrats.
* MilitaryCoup: Chalard can potentially seize control of Thailand and put an end to democratic rule, declaring an end to the "mismanagement and instability of previous governments".
* ThePurge: Chalard starts his rule by purging the Thai administration of disloyal bureaucrats and officers as he rules with a heavy hand.

!!''Sangad Chaloryu''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Bangkok Conference failure, Black Friday coup)
->'''Party:''' Khana Patirup Karn Pokkhrong Phaendin[[note]]National Administrative Reform Council[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]], Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

* MilitaryCoup: Sangad can potentially coup the Thai government as a "preventative measure" against "ambitious and disloyal" elements from the civillian and military administration.
* PuppetKing: Many suspect that the high-profile members of right-wing think tanks that make up his new cabinet are the true power behind his junta.
* RedScare: Part of the reason behind his coup is to strike against "leftist agitators threatening our country".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Union of Burma]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Union of Burma
->'''Ruling Party:''' Dobama Asi Ayone - Pinma Yezikyaung[[note]]We Burmans Association - Mainstream[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

* {{Cincinnatus}}: {{Subverted}}. After suspending the 1953 Constitution, the collaborationist regime promised to restore it once national security was achieved. This vow never came to fruition and the people are becoming increasingly impatient over being kept in the dark.
* PaperTiger: Aung San's administration proclaims to be revolutionary and the rightful government of Burma, yet they barely control anything beyond six miles of Rangoon.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Japan's conquest of Burma would prove to be a burden on the puppet government, as communist and minority uprisings continue to plague the country. The people are not impressed by the lack of progress in rooting them out, which could threaten the legitimacy of the entire government.

!!''Aung San''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' Dobama Asi Ayone - Pinma Yezikyaung[[note]]We Burmans Association - Mainstream[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Revolutionary, Socialist, Traitor, Collaborator, Founding Father.\\\
All of these words describe Burma's founding father Aung San, depending on who you ask. Born to middle-class beginnings in 1915 as Htein Lin, Aung San was forged to become one of Burma's many legal functionaries - at least until he became involved with the Burmese revolutionary nationalist movement. From then on, the trajectory of his life changed rapidly, as he quickly became a household name within the Dobama Asiayone, or the "We Burmans Association". Arrested in 1939, fate would strike Aung San's hand when Japanese officer Keiji Suzuki approached him in Rangoon - a relationship which would at least last for another decade.\\\
When India fell in 1943, Burma was finally granted independence - but power was shared between Aung San's revolutionary nationalists in the military and Ba Maw's Sinyetha, but this was not to last. Ba Maw had few allies, and the Japanese recognized this crucial weakness. On a fateful day in 1952, Bo Hmu Aung and Ne Win marched on the Presidential Palace in Rangoon, and forced a plebiscite among the Burmese legislature that nominated Aung San as President.\\\
Aung San finally achieved his dream, but the credits do not roll there. The state is a ramshackle entity as rebels plagued the countryside. The spiritual leaders of Burma reject Aung San's secularism hand-in-hand with their landlord allies. The looming shadow of Japan still holds over Burma, and Aung San has no way out other than his inspiration and close ally Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - who is more preoccupied with freeing India once and for all.\\\
A great man with great ambitions requires great sacrifice. The question is, how much is too much?[[/labelnote]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He got his dream of becoming Burma's president, but his grand ambitions eventually backfired. As the head of the regime, Aung San became disdained by religious groups for his secularism and rebel groups who continue to resist Japanese occupation. More than a few people wonder if he's capable of weathering such troubles.
* PresidentForLife: He formally serves as interim president, but there are no constitutional limits on his power, especially as the suspension of the 1953 Constitution has yet to be lifted. Aung San himself is desperate to hold on to his power, willing to use extreme prejudice to perceived threats.
* TheQuisling: Collaborating with Keiji Suzuki and the Japanese has benefited Aung San greatly, awarding him the presidency over the more disliked Ba Maw.
* TheRival: When Burma was granted its "independence" by Japan, Aung San became a rival to fellow collaborator, Ba Maw. Ultimately, Aung San came out on top when a pressured Burmese legislature was forced to nominate him as interim president.

!!''Ne Win''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Head of Government[[/note]] (Aung San cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Bama Amyodha Tatmadaw[[note]]Burmese National Army[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]There is no better way to describe Ne Win other than a smiling tiger hiding in the grass. Even his birthdate is uncertain, only known to his Thirty Comrades. All there is to know about his pre-revolutionary past is that he was born into a Hakka family in Pyay District, and was vocally trained as a doctor. Despite being expelled in 1931, he would then apply the same precision and surgical skill he did in university to his military ambitions, joining U Ba Sein and Thakin Tun Ok's faction within the Dobama Asiayone in 1931.\\\
As the Japanese entered the heartlands of Burma beyond the Thai border in 1942, Ne Win was quickly assigned to create guerrilla networks behind British lines to disrupt them with great success and stunning skill. This experience proved to be invaluable, as Ne Win knew the ins and outs of guerrilla warfare - a skill useful when pitched by Ba Maw against Smith Dun's rebellion following Burma's independence. However, Ne Win started to develop his political ambitions for a Burma which can stand on its own two feet - and thus he and Bo Hmu Aung marched towards Ba Maw's palace on a fateful day in 1952.\\\
Ne Win was quickly appointed as Aung San's deputy, and he became infamous for establishing the Tatmadaw's reputation as a stunningly efficient, but brutal anti-guerrilla force. Four cuts was all it takes - inspired by Japan's actions in Northern China, but the guerrillas' resolve merely rises and rises, and the Tatmadaw is overstretched. Some say it is due to civilian interference that the rebels have not been quashed yet, and like a tiger in the grass, some also say Ne Win is merely waiting for the right moment to strike against those who stand in the way of a great Burma.[[/labelnote]]

* AmbitionIsEvil: Ne Win is very ambitious, having joined Dobama Asi Ayone in 1931 and worked with the Japanese to disrupt British lines, with their being hints given that he seeks to get rid of Aung San to establish his "great Burma".
* DragonWithAnAgenda: While he serves as Aung San's Prime Minister, Ne Win has his own plans for Burma that differ from Aung San's vision, prepared to do whatever is necessary to protect his nation.
* MilitaryCoup: In 1952, he and Bo Hmu Aung marched on the Presidential Palace in Rangoon, and forced a plebiscite among the Burmese legislature that nominated Aung San as President.
* MysteriousPast: Little is known about his pre-revolutionary past, with even his birth date being uncertain.
* RepressiveButEfficient: {{Subverted}}. Initially, Ne Win established the Tatmadaw's reputation as a stunningly efficient but brutal anti-guerrilla force, however, the Tatmadaw has since become overstretched as the guerrillas' resolve merely rises and rises.

!!''Thakin Nu''
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->'''Role:''' Minister of Foreign Affairs[[note]]Foreign Minister[[/note]] (Aung San cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Dobama Asi Ayone - Totetthaw[[note]]We Burmans Association - Progressive[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Left-Wing Nationalism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A lawyer by training, U Nu was born into a respectable family in 1907, before entering the field of law in Rangoon in 1929. In the university, he met Aung San, and an unbreakable bond was formed between the young revolutionaries. From university rectors, to local police, and eventually the British, Aung San and Nu became revolutionaries through thick and thin - at least until the Japanese came.\\\
Despite his reluctance to enter the field of battle, U Nu kept strongly to his Marxist ideals even after the 1954 Constitutional Amendment, whereby communism was banned under threat from Japan. U Nu was sheltered by his connection to the Bogyoke however, but his comrades were not - and neither were his distant brothers in the Communist Party. For now, U Nu's dream of a democratic, just and socialist Burma remains a mere dream - unless drastic actions are taken to change the fate of the nation.[[/labelnote]]

* TheDeterminator: Thakin Nu has dreamt of a democratic, just and socialist Burma since he first became a revolutionary, realising that need needs to take drastic actions to change the fate of Burma.
* TheRemnant: After the 1954 Constitutional Amendment, whereby communism was banned under threat from Japan, Thakin Nu remains the only prominent socialist in Aung San's government after his comrades that shared his Marxist views in the Dobama Asi Ayone and the Communist party were purged.

!!''Thakin Mya''
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->'''Role:''' Minister of Finance[[note]]Economy Minister[[/note]] (Aung San cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Dobama Asi Ayone - Pinma Yezikyaung[[note]]We Burmans Association - Mainstream[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Aung San's network of revolutionary allies relied on youthful elan and brotherly friendship - and none exemplify those values better than Thakin Mya despite his relative age. Born in 1897 in Pyay District, he was vocationally trained in the sciences, but quickly became involved in the nascent nationalist movement. Despite not being a member of the Dobama Asiayone and being a senior to Aung San, he quickly became a trusted confidant and advisor to the Bogyoke. Despite being not vocationally trained, he gave his best, negotiating the Shonan Agreement of 1945 which saw Burma become formally independent following the end of the Pacific War, and kickstarting Burma's economic development. The future was bright for Burma, but the story does not end there.\\\
17 years after independence, Burma is still stuck in Japan's shadow. Instability still rocks the young nation, and the government does not hold all the areas it claims in practice. Thakin Mya has persevered for many years, but the reality of Burmese independence is the toughest challenge he has faced in 65 years of living, and the 3 decades of being an independence fighter.[[/labelnote]]

* TheDeterminator: Thakin Mya has persevered for many years, fighting for three decades as an independence fighter and continuing to fight for a bright future for Burma.

!!''Bo Hmu Aung''
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->'''Role:''' Minister of Defense[[note]]Security Minister[[/note]] (Aung San cabinet)
->'''Party:''' Bama Amyodha Tatmadaw[[note]]Burmese National Army[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born as San Hlaing to a family of farmers, Bo Hmu Aung's life began with an interest in religion. An avid reader, he spent his youth studying and memorizing Buddhist literature. Before he could pass his senior exams as a monk, however, he returned to the countryside and made a living out of farming. The turmoil of the 1300 Revolution would set him on the final path that he would walk: that of a revolutionary.\\\
Bo Hmu Aung became a member of the Thirty Comrades: those who had answered Aung San's call to study military training abroad. Burma's independence in 1943 induced him to return. Nine years later, he and Ne Win would march into the Presidential Palace in Rangoon, forcing a plebiscite that resulted in Aung San's appointment as interim President. Now, he serves as the regime's chief of staff, directing the Tatmadaw's brutal, if efficient anti-guerrilla operations.[[/labelnote]]
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* {{Bookworm}}: An avid reader, he spent his youth studying and memorizing Buddhist literature.
* MilitaryCoup: Alongside Ne Win, he marched on the Presidential Palace in Rangoon in 1952 and installed Aung San as Burma's leader, deposing the unpopular Ba Maw.

! The Philippines
[[folder:Second Philippine Republic]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Second Philippine Republic
->'''Ruling Party:''' Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas[[note]]Association for Service to the New Philippines[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Controlled Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
The Second Philippine Republic is the Japanese-sponsored republic established on the Philippines following World War II. Supposedly a "sovereign" and "democratic" republic, the Japanese client state is heavily dependent on the Japanese 14th Army to maintain stability, and is currently reeling from the fallout of a recent rebel offensive.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Downplayed. While the KALIBAPI-run government is seen by many Filipinos as a glorified puppet of the Japanese, there remains ''enough'' popular support for it to maintain some measure of legitimacy. Depending on who becomes president should it survive the Balintawak Blitz, it could potentially make a concerted effort to mend that image.
* AristocratsAreEvil: The governors ruling the countryside are nobles in all but name, many of them even belonging to political dynasties that have a stranglehold over their respective regions. The dire situation in the provinces all but implies this trope.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: On paper, the Philippines is a stable, independent, democratic member-state of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. In reality, the KALIBAPI-run government only controls Southern Luzon, Palawan and some parts of Visayas, with the 14th Army effectively calling the shots on Tokyo's behalf. The rest of the nation is under the De Facto rule of either the Communists or the FPR. In most cases, it's not a question of whether Manila will fall but who will get there first.
* BackForTheDead: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benigno_Ramos Benigno Ramos]], a Japanese collaborator in both OTL and TNO, appears in one event pondering his life before dying of a heart attack.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A Japanese officer clamors to become part of the Guard Division, given the highest honor of defending the Emperor, but rarely sent overseas to risk his life and fight for Japan. He sacrifices much to achieve his dream, from sending bribes to breaking up with his girlfriend over political differences. However, his plan ends up backfiring when his division is sent to the Philippines to fight the partisans and almost certainly die there.
* CassandraTruth: It seems pretty unlikely at first for yet another Japanese invasion to happen, with the collaborators' attempts to stop one just coming across as them justifying their atrocities. They are quickly proven right however should they be soundly defeated in the civil war and the United Filipino Front breaks down, with Japan swiftly launching a counter-invasion to bring the Philippines under its fold.
* CivilWar: Shortly after the Yasuda Crisis, the AFRSR and FPR will form an alliance to liberate the Philippines from the puppet Second Republic. If the former triumph, the Philippines can fall into a second civil war if the AFRSR and FPR refuse to form a coalition government, fighting each other and a Japanese retaliatory invasion from the 14th Army.
* DarkHorseVictory: Downplayed. While the likelihood of the KALIBAPI surviving the Balintawak Blitz doesn't seem likely at first glance, it is possible for the Second Republic to triumph, both giving the Japanese a stable foothold in the region and potentially opening a path towards actual reform.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The more reformist-minded factions within the KALIBAPI view cooperation with Japan and Co-Prosperity Sphere "membership" as this. Beyond hopes of greater leverage for ensuring genuine independence, restoring order to the country also means avoiding the prospect of the Japanese [[HereWeGoAgain launching yet another bloody invasion]].
* LesCollaborateurs: The government is ruled by the Japanese collaborator KALIBAPI, which traces its roots to back to [=WW2=].
* HeelRealization: Benigno Ramos, a Filipino collaborator, thinks back on his life as he lays dying on a hospital bed, realizing how wrong it was to betray his country and turn a blind eye to the Japanese atrocities against his fellow countrymen. His last living thoughts are spent berating himself as idiotic for ever throwing his lot in with Japan.
* HomeGuard: The Second Republic is reliant on both a vestigial Philippine Constabulary and MAKAPILI auxiliaries as the closest thing it has to a military. All of which answer to the Japanese 14th Army.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The "republic" of the Philippines is corrupt, ruled by an autocratic presidency, and heavily biased in favor of Japanese collaboration. Any seditious behavior is also a warrant to face arrest.
* PuppetState: The Second Republic is propped up by Japanese bureaucrats and their Filipino collaborators, creating a sham democracy that proclaims their independence, but nonetheless remains tied to the Sphere.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The reconstruction of the Republic officially ends when four MAKAPILI auxiliaries play a drunken game of Russian roulette, accidentally firing a live bullet that causes several nearby constabularies to also fire and start a barfight. This eventually escalates into a riot, dubbed the Manila incident, sapping most of the Constabulary and 14th Army's manpower. Even worse, if the reconstruction is unsuccessful, the growing chaos requires Inada to intervene and dissolve the National Assembly, installing an unstable regime in its place.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The myriad KALIBAPI factions and political clans struggle to find much common ground, even with the constant shadow of the Imperial Japanese Army behind their back, or the ever-encroaching threat posed by both the AFRSR and Free Philippine Republic.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: The Philippines was one of the many territories acquired by the Sphere following their victory in World War II, but the Second Republic has since struggled to control the countryside, unable to finish off the communist and American partisans still fighting to liberate the archipelago.

!! ''José Yulo''
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->'''Party:''' Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas[[note]]Association for Service to the New Philippines[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Controlled Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote: Click to Show]] Like most of the KALIBAPI's upper echelons, José Yulo Yulo has the peculiar distinction of having served under both the Commonwealth and the Republic. In his case, the bar topnotcher and lawyer by trade practiced a career of guiding Presidents Quezon and Laurel's legislative agendas through court since 1935. Such a distinguished career informed his decision to retire in 1959, after which he planned to resume his old profession as a corporate lawyer.\\\
Said plans, like the rest of the Republic, were thrown awry when President Laurel died and the rebels declared all-out war later that November. Deadlock had consumed the National Assembly while cities fell and battle lines inched closer to Manila. After weeks of contention between the Greater East Asia Ministry and the KALIBAPI's predominant "Laurelist" faction, Yulo became seen as an acceptable compromise - and so he was hastily sworn on Christmas Eve as the Second Republic's second, if temporary, president.\\\
Although the rebels have been stymied since his ascendancy, President Yulo has a long way yet before he can declare "mission accomplished". Vast swaths of the country remain under rebel hands, and those the Republic does control fare little better. But the 14th Army will take care of it in due time; for now, Yulo has preoccupied himself with abolishing the late president's less popular policies until he inevitably steps down. [[/labelnote]]

The current president of the Second Republic, who was picked as the compromise president after his predecessor Jose P. Laurel's death during the 1959 Philippine War. While he successfully managed to push the communist rebels back all those years ago, Yulo now leads a country on the verge of a second rebel offensive and tries his best to keep it all together.

* {{Cincinnatus}}: Yulo only plans on staying president until he can handle the rebels in the Philippines. In the event of victory, however, he winds up being killed before he could properly retire.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: If Yulo unites the Philippines under his republic, he won't savor his victory for long, as he'll get assassinated shortly after.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Yulo joined KALIBAPI out of pragmatism and a desire to mitigate Japanese excesses rather than genuine support for the regime.
* MandatoryUnretirement: Having served under both the Commonwealth and the Republic, Yulo hoped to refire from his post in 1959 and become a more modest corporate lawyer. However, the death of President José Laurel and the emergence of the Filipino rebels threw a wrench into Yulo's plans and he was quickly rushed back into becoming a compromise president for the Greater East Asia Ministry and the KALIBAPI's "Laurelist" faction.
* MoodWhiplash: After crushing the partisans in the Blitz, Yulo joins the victory celebration, as he's hailed as the Republic's heroic savior. Then, he suddenly gets assassinated and passes before a hospital can save him.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: If the Second Philippine Republic wins the Balintawak Blitz, Yulo will get assassinated, throwing the nation into chaos and forcing Japan to oversee a difficult period of reconstruction to keep the islands stable until a successor can take over.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: In OTL, Yulo was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1943, and eventually had a failed bid for the Filipino presidency after [=WW2=]. In TNO, he finds himself becoming president of a country on the verge of chaos.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Should the guerrillas reach the outskirts of Manila, he and his cabinet will be evacuated to Tokyo before the ensuing siege.

!! ''Quintín Paredes''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Successful reconstruction)
->'''Party:''' Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Parliamentary Faction[[note]]Association for Service to the New Philippines[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Controlled Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Caution and initiative are the two backbones of national politics, and balancing both is a game Quintin Paredes has shown himself as an adept time and again. Consider his tenure as Minister of Public Works and Communications, in particular his role in creating President Laurel's ambitious National Development Plans. Despite budget hawks on one hand and grifters on the other, industrialization continued apace with the right people appeased - and with a shoestring budget at that.\\\
Paredes' achievements and political acumen made him a kingmaker within the KALIBAPI, a position he first truly wielded during like-minded President Yulo's appointment. The proverbial king's inadvertent death suddenly cast his reforms' lastingness in doubt, with the likes of the firebrand Recto and despot Osmeña aiming for his seat. Their candidacies dispersed all reservations the former Speaker had harbored.\\\
Several favors and one landslide later, and Quintin Paredes now presides over his predecessor's oathsworn duties. The arduous task of rebuilding, healing and reuniting the country falls to the "industry shogun" and his close advisors. Perhaps an old, capable hand like his will guide the Republic through the night before dawn. [[/labelnote]]

The Minister of Public Works and Communications during President Laurel's time, Quintín Paredes' natural talent at national politics has cemented himself as a kingmaker within the KALIBAPI and he now uses his position to aid President Yulo in his reformist agenda.

* InternalReformist: Upon his election, Paredes vows to liberalize and reform the Republic, ending its despotic administration.
* LandslideElection: If Paredes is elected, his victory is a landslide due to his political acumen and role as a kingmaker in the KALIBAPI.
* TheQuietOne: Paredes is a soft-spoken individual, which belies how cunning and ruthless he can be.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Downplayed. Should Paredes be elected following a KALIBAPI victory, he proceeds to continue the legacy of the Second Republic's first president, Jose P. Laurel, and generally remain a loyal Japanese "ally." On the other hand, he also vows to continue the reforms started by Jose Yulo, though whether he intends to follow through with those promises remains to be seen.

!!''Claro M. Recto''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Successful reconstruction)
->'''Party:''' Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Parliamentary Faction[[note]]Association for Service to the New Philippines[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Lawyer, poet, and nationalist firebrand - Claro Mayo Recto, Jr. is many things, but most of all he is more alike to José Rizal than his detractors claim. Like Rizal he possesses a keen mind and mastery of logic, which served him well in the courts and the Assembly. Like Rizal he writes eloquently on love of country. And like Rizal he harnessed both tendencies towards opposing the imperialists who had plundered his country. The results speak louder than those who question his sincerity: a free Philippines, aided in no small part by his decades-long tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs.\\\
Therein lies the contradiction beneath the "Great Academician". For a nationalist and former Senate Minority Leader under the Commonwealth - and is that not an indictment in itself? - he seemed far too eager to trade one overlord for another. The man agrees in part. Make no mistake: the Japanese Empire is no different from the Americans they replaced, whether in their seductive rhetoric or in their rapacious, self-serving intent. In his quieter moments Recto wondered if freedom was worth abetting the many, many crimes the 14th Army had committed against his people.\\\
In the end, Recto concluded that nothing else mattered more than his motherland's freedom. No mean is too distasteful for such an end. Hence he shackled himself first to the Quezon government, who promised freedom in ten years; then to the Greater East Asia Ministry, who promised freedom forthwith. He shackled himself a third time to the Laurelist sycophants with the Presidency in sight, and in doing so the Assembly appointed him the Philippines' second most powerful man next to the General of the 14th Army. For the first time in his storied career, Recto the idealist has superseded Recto the pragmatist.\\\
Modernization, centralization, and true independence - beloved Pilipinas will have them all, he swears, lest he had compromised on his principles in vain.[[/labelnote]]

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and a nationalist firebrand within the party.

* DespairEventHorizon: If the reconstruction fails and the 14th Army dissolves the National Assembly, Recto silently tears up in despair, unable to bear seeing his nation humiliated and destroyed once more.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Recto considers his collaboration with Japan an acceptable price to pay for the freedom of the Philippines.
* PatrioticFervor: In his electoral speech, Recto makes an incredibly nationalist speech, vowing to keep the Philippines free of colonial exploitation, no matter the cost.
* PrinciplesZealot: Recto is an uncompromising nationalist who will stop at nothing to the Philippines free of any colonialism. This could potentially come back to haunt him, however, risking the ire of his Japanese allies.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Privately, Recto wonders if the freedom attained by the Philippines was worth abetting the many crimes committed by the 14th Army against his people.

!!''Sergio Osmeña Jr.''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Successful reconstruction)
->'''Party:''' Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Parliamentary Faction[[note]]Association for Service to the New Philippines[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Oligarchy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Sergio Veloso Osmeña, Jr. is a businessman by trade rather than a politician. He speaks a language disdained by the Tagalogs of Manila. His ideas deviate more from KALIBAPI orthodoxy than the most principled reformist's. His family had left for America with President Quezon and never looked back. He has few friends in a city where connections decide how far up a man can get; indeed, his fellow KALIBAPI claim he wouldn't be one if President Laurel weren't so hard-pressed for Cebuano assemblymen. Not for nothing, then, do the Manila press corps call Osmeña the "black sheep of Philippine politics".\\\
Nevertheless, "Serging" is an Osmeña and a businessman before he is a wayward lamb. An Osmeña makes do with what he alone has; a businessman pounces on every opportunity he finds. When the 14th Army sought contractors for its supplies he became that. When assemblymen sought donors for their campaigns he became that too. His machinations eventually earned him an advisor's seat in the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, and from there he and his newfound industrialist friends grew inseperable. No jealous rival could prevent him henceforth from becoming the party's chief financier. Soon enough, no one at all could prevent him from becoming President.\\\
Osmeña enters Malacañan buoyed by the alienated, whether it is the businessmen who chafe at the government's overbearing reach, the loyal dissidents unwelcome in the KALIBAPI, or the Bisaya endangered by Tagalog assimilationism. Which voices his administration shall project remain known only to himself. Amid the tumult the new President leaves behind his wake arises only one certainty: the businessman at heart knew business all his life, and he will run the country like one until he no longer can.[[/labelnote]]

* DarkHorseVictory: Owing to his paradoxical views, cozy business ties with the Japanese and relative isolation within the KALIBAPI, Osmeña is seen by the local press as a black sheep. Which makes his victory all the more shocking.
* HistoricalInJoke: In OTL, Osmeña was a senator who lost to Ferdinand Marcos in the 1969 presidential elections, eventually winding up in exile as the latter declared martial law. Here, he ''finally'' gets his chance to run the country.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: As a businessman and a relative outsider in Manila politics, Osmeña considers his dealings with the Japanese as necessary in order to both help his countrymen and make ends meet.
* InternalReformist: Osmeña is by far the most reform-minded out of Yulo's successors, as his electoral speech is noticeably absent of any vows to maintain the Republic's Laurelist values.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In the aftermath of the Balintawak Blitz, Osmeña urges all Filipinos to reconcile with each other so that they may progress as a united nation.

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->'''Official Name:''' All-Filipino Revolutionary Socialist Republic, People's Republic of the Philippines (AFRSR Victory), Third Philippine Republic ([[spoiler:Post-Marcos Coup]])
->'''Ruling Party:''' Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas[[note]]Philippine Communist Party[[/note]] - Popular Frontism
->'''Ideology''': Revolutionary Front[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]
A band of socialist guerrillas that control the mountains of northern Luzon. While beaten back in 1959, the increasing weakness of Philippine government and the Japanese 14th Army presents a new opportunity to strike at Manila.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: The AFRSR is very much based on the real HUKBALAHAP insurgency.
* CapitalOffensive: Their ultimate goal is to capture Manila and proclaim a republic based on Socialist principles with Manila as its capital.
* EnemyMine: If the FPR and AFRSR succeed in overthrowing KALIBAPI, they can form the United Filipino Front to both prepare for the inevitable Japanese invasion and set up a coalition government.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The socialists attempted to topple the Republic in the 1959 Philippine War, but their efforts were halted and a ceasefire was called in 1961.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: To the United States, a PRP takeover of the Philippines is not ideal, but preferable to a 14th Army victory, because they will at least deny Japan an important territory in Asia.
* {{Realpolitik}}: Despite strong ideological disputes with the Americans and an unwillingness to subordinate themselves to the US, Taruc and his supporters are pragmatic enough to welcome OFN aid, if not direct membership into the OFN proper.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** Originally, the PKP was divided between José Lava and Luis Taruc, after they retreated to the Cordilleras Base Area. Taruc eventually won the power struggle and now prepares the AFRSR for another war against the Republic.
** The AFRSR begrudgingly works with local landlords to keep the army alive, even if they consider it a temporary arrangement.

!!''Luis Taruc''
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->'''Party:''' Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas[[note]]Philippine Communist Party[[/note]] - United Front Wing, Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas[[note]]Philippine Communist Party[[/note]] - Orthodox Wing (AFRSR Victory)
->'''Ideology''': Revolutionary Front[[note]]Socialism[[/note]], National Communism[[note]]Communism[[/note]] (AFRSR Victory)
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Many questions assailed the exiled partymen of the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas following the Great Paddy March. What happened to the Offensive? When and where did it go wrong? Above all, who is to blame? Finger-pointing became pointed words, then became ruptures which threatened to sunder the Revolutionary Republic in a tasteless parody of the old Soviet Union's dying days.\\\
In the chaos stepped Luis Taruc, Supremo of the PKP's armed wing the HUKBALAHAP. The firebrand general's word now carried even more weight after the Party's fighting retreat, and he leveraged his magnified standing by launching a scathing critique of their then-General Secretary José Lava. Had Lava not held his men back so many times, he accused, then perhaps the fascists wouldn't have compelled them to cower in the Cordilleras. Lava's dogmatism and caution have cost the Revolution far too much to overlook; perhaps now they should correct course before their chance is lost forever.\\\
With desperate, frenzied applause it was decided: Lava shall go, and Taruc shall take his place. Like caesar and pope in one, "General Alipato" now commands the totality of the revolutionary struggle. Yet some still wonder if an effort so herculean is enough to snatch victory from defeat... or what tenets of the Revolution he will carelessly discard in its pursuit. [[/labelnote]]
The leader of both the PKP and its armed wing, the HUKBALAHAP. Taruc is determined to continue the revolutionary struggle, even if that means discarding some "unecessary" revolutionary dogmas.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: He leads the HUKBALAHAP in an armed struggle against the Filipino government, just like he did in Real Life.
* ChummyCommies: Compared to his predecessor, Jose Lava, Taruc is much more willing to compromise, viewing a dogmatic commitment to Marxism a detriment to the Revolution. Though some of the hardliners in the AFRSR are implied as becoming uneasy with his discarding of old socialist tenets.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Taruc decides to take a harder stance against non-socialist elements and [[ThePurge attempt to "liquidate" them]], this not only destabilizes the AFRSR's hard-won gains. [[spoiler:But it also gives Ferdinand Marcos an opportunity to stage an armed coup.]]
* KlingonPromotion: A non-lethal variant. During the chaos of the 1959 retreat, Taruc delivered a ''scathing'' ReasonYouSuckSpeech to former General Secretary Jose Lava, saying that his caution and dogmatism costed the revolution far too much and that he should be removed before their chance at true socialism is lost forever. Unsurprisingly, it was decided that Taruc shall replace Lava as the General Secretary following some desperate and frenzied applause.
* ThePurge: To consolidate power and control following an AFRSR victory, Taruc can opt to liquidate all non-socialist elements that could pose a threat to his new regime. [[spoiler:This backfires, however, resulting in his death and Ferdinand Marcos usurping power.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Compared to his predecessor and rivals within the party, Taruc isn't stuck up on dogmatism and can compromise with non-socialist Filipinos in order to genuinely win over the people. He could also opt to ''not'' double-down on implementing socialism in favor of compromising with the rest of Filipino society.
* RedBaron: Is called "General Alipato" by his fellow revolutionaries.
* StartMyOwn: Taruc doesn't take kindly to being snubbed by the United States after the Blitz and will reform the AFRSR into the PRP, as an opposing faction to the Americans.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Taruc resorts to some underhanded tactics to secure his power for the sake of building a socialist utopia for the Filipino workers and peasants.

!!''[[UsefulNotes/FerdinandMarcos Ferdinand Edralin Marcos]]''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Coup)
->'''Party:''' Kilusang Bagong Lipunan[[note]]New Society Movement[[/note]]
->'''Ideology''': Right-Wing Populism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]What immortalizes men into the annals of history? Their virtues and vices? The sheer weight of their deeds? The reverberations thereof? Or is it something as mundane as chance - being in the right place, with the right deals, at the right time? Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos' experience suggests a pinch of everything... but mostly the last three.\\\
For the Marcoses were the kingpins of Ilocos when Japan struck its blow. Rather than reach out to the southern resistance groups after the Kawit Incident, then-Major Marcos withdrew with his father Mariano to their home province, fending off government forces with a sizable private army. The Marcoses' insulation from Tacloban placed them closer to the AFRSR than most nominally-FPR formations: a fact which the elder Marcos dealt with force of arms. Free to deal as he sees fit after his father's death, "Ferdie" instead found his enemy's enemy in Luis Taruc. So began a bargain that held even after Marcos' compatriots further south died beneath the red onslaught.\\\
Said bargain ended the moment Taruc became king of the Philippines' ashes. With the victory-drunk reds purging the landlords in their closet, Marcos rallied everyone right of the Huks - former FPR, former KALIBAPI, the lone Japanese expat - and struck out of self-preservation. One firefight later, Marcos proclaimed himself President while Taruc's bullet-riddled corpse cooled beneath his feet.\n\nThe thrice-right man has won the musical chairs for a land that has seen more war in ten years than it had in a hundred. Its people tire of games yet their new master does not. What will he do now?[[/labelnote]]

Ferdinand Edralin Marcos is the head of the Marcos family, the most powerful political dynasty outside Manila and lords of the Ilocos region. He and his father have managed to keep the Japanese and Second Republic at bay with their private army. After his father’s death, Marcos struck a deal with the AFRSR and is now willing to contribute to an upcoming rebel offensive.

* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** Ferdinand Marcos gained infamy for his dictatorial rule in the Philippines, from 1972 to 1986. In TNO, he can seize control over the country under very different circumstances. Coincidentally, the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (“New Society Movement”) is also the name of his political movement in OTL, while the Third Philippine Republic's flag is the same one used in the latter years of his real life rule.
** Marcos' ostensibly neutral foreign policy of [[PlayingBothSides playing both the Americans and Japanese]] to his own ends has echoes of Rodrigo Duterte's similar pretensions during his presidency.
* BeneathNotice: While Marcos is by no means insignificant, he's initially seen by the AFRSR as just another landlord that it has to deal with and tolerate in its struggle against the Japanese. [[spoiler:This allows him to emerge as the most powerful man in the country, with Taruc's purges having eliminated or crippled most of his rivals.]]
* TheCoup: [[spoiler:Marcos stages an armed coup within months of the AFRSR's victory and Taruc's purging of non-socialists, resulting in the declaration of the Free Philippine Republic.]]
* DarkHorseVictory: While not insignificant, Marcos only really becomes a major contender [[spoiler:should the AFRSR win, and if Taruc opts to purge all non-socialist opposition]].
* EnemyMine: While nominally aligned with the FPR, Marcos and his family’s private army found common cause with the AFRSR against the KALIBAPI. [[spoiler:That goes out the window once the AFRSR wins, with Marcos instead aligning with every non-socialist within reach, including KALIBAPI remnants and a lone Japanese expat, to depose Taruc.]]
* FeudalOverlord: Marcos heads one of the most powerful landlord families outside Manila, with de facto control over the Ilocos region of northern Luzon.
* RedBaron: A [[https://preview.redd.it/jkpj5rmsfv081.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8811cc4137ff1a9ea5937d586044c74f47b2d74a future compass teaser]] has Marcos being referred to as the "Don of the North".
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Despite supporting Taruc in ousting the KALIBAPI, Marcos can seize the opportunity to depose Taruc himself in an armed coup.]]
* TeamSwitzerland: Marcos pursues an ostensibly neutral policy regarding the OFN and Co-Prosperity Sphere, being more content to [[PlayingBothSides curry favor with both sides]] to his country's (and his own) benefit. This potentially makes the Third Philippine Republic a regional WildCard.

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->'''Official Name:''' Free Philippine Republic, OFN Mandate of the Philippines (14th Army Ceasefire)
->'''Ruling Party:''' Partido Nacionalista[[note]]Nationalist Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology''': Oligarchy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

An American-backed guerrilla force based in Mindanao, made up of remnant Philippine Commonwealth and WWII-era US forces in the Philippines.

* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** The Free Philippine Republic is partially based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Philippines Free Philippines]] government in OTL WWII.
** In real life, after the end of the war, Japanese soldiers continued to hold out for decades, mostly in isolation in the Philippines. Here, it's the Americans who are stranded and keeping up the fight.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Downplayed. After two decades of [[BystanderSyndrome seeming inaction and neglect]], the Free Philippine Republic can finally receive support from across the Pacific, from CIA advisors to direct OFN reinforcements.
* EmergencyAuthority: The FPR's government tries to handwave the underlying feudal oligarchy and corruption as consequences of wartime measures which would eventually be dealt with. While few actually believe it, it's up to the player if the FPR does follow through.
* EnemyMine: If the FPR and AFRSR succeed in overthrowing KALIBAPI, they can form the United Filipino Front to prepare for the inevitable Japanese invasion.
* FireForgedFriends: After decades of fighting the Japanese, the Filipino and American soldiers under Fertig's command have become these.
* FullCircleRevolution: If the communists and 14th Army are defeated by the FPR, half of the population recognizes that true independence is out of their reach again, as the Americans have practically replaced the Japanese as their new masters and intend to exploit the archipelago for their own gain.
* GovernmentInExile: The old Commonwealth government is still technically active in America.
* HereWeGoAgain: If the FPR wins, not only is the prospect of a Japanese invasion likely, but it could wind up escalating tensions as the US and OFN become directly involved.
* MeetTheNewBoss: Downplayed. If the FPR takes control, the old Commonwealth government is formally reinstated under OFN oversight, effectively bringing the Philippines under de facto American rule. With the prospect of an imminent Japanese invasion, however, Filipinos are willing to tolerate it, if this means direct OFN support and eventual independence.
* OldSoldier: The American soldiers within the FPR have been fighting the Japanese for 21 years, with some keeping old photographs and dog tags as mementos of a world an ocean away.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The remnant American colony in the Philippines does not fit the "free" or "republic" moniker in its name. The so-called democracy is more akin to a feudal oligarchy, with the government bartering goods from the local provinces in exchange for guns and protection, even as the peasants languish under this oppression.
* LaResistance: The Free Philippine Republic is home to resistance fighters who have been specially trained by old Filipino and American soldiers to overthrow the Japanese collaborationist regime in Manila.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** García has been forced to make some deals and favors with the local dynasts in exchange for supplies, lest his men starve.
** There is a sharp divide in the population over whether to return to the old system of American dependence or to forge their own unique path. If the FPR takes over the Philippines, this important question will need to be answered in the election.

!! ''Carlos Garcia y Polestico''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' Partido Nacionalista[[note]]Nationalist Party[[/note]]

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The Bard from Bohol, or Carlos Polestico García is a rather quiet and serene career politician. Behind this veneer of a poetic virtuoso lies a man of cunning and ruthlessness that has led him to the arduous duty of leading the last vestiges of an ostensibly free Philippines away from both the boots of the Japanese and the hands of the Americans.\\\
Garcia grew up with politics, and would start his journey to the office of the President by climbing from one post to the other; first as congressman, then governor, then senator. Yet his anticipated tenure in the Senate would never come about, with the invasion of the Japanese forcing him underground into guerrilla activities.\\\
As the dust cleared over the Philippines, the hastily abandoned remnants of Commonwealth and American forces scattered down south to stake it out on their own when it became clear that [=MacArthur=] would never return. It is here that Garcia's shrewd opportunism would take him all the way to the presidency through payoffs, intrigue, and aggressive politicking.\\\
Now, he stands as the head of a crumbling house with weariness from near-constant war taking its toll, anti-Americanism spreading, and a serious decline in his own effectiveness as president thanks to the corruption and sycophancy that brought him to power. The question now stands: Can Garcia weather the coming storm?[[/labelnote]]

* BewareTheQuietOnes: Given his quiet demeanor, it's easy to underestimate the fact that he's also a cunning politician who's been playing off the Japanese and the Americans to preserve what little independence the Philippines has left.
* LesCollaborateurs: Garcia had a relatively accelerated career under the American colonial system, advancing through politics as a congressman, a governor, and a senator. His career was only cut short when Japan invaded and forced him underground.
* CorruptPolitician: His administration is built off of corruption and favoritism to local governors who accept his feudal-like bartering.
* FeudalOverlord: Garcia's regime is practically run like a feudal lord; he offers guns, titles, and protection to any local magnates who submit to him, giving him the food produced by the peasants.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Garcia knows that the FPR's corruption and feudal-style oligarchy make a mockery of its pretensions to freedom and democracy. He considers this state of affairs as a temporary and necessary evil, however, in the name of protecting what little sovereignty his country has left.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Should the UFF be accepted or the country be fully unified under the FPR, Garcia quietly accepts that his days are numbered, trusting the Filipino people to choose their own destiny as a free nation.
* NecessarilyEvil: Garcia oversees a presidency of corruption and sycophancy, all in service to the greater good of preserving his republic's independence from Japan and the United States.
* RedBaron: Garcia is also known as the Bard from Bohol.

!! ''Wendell Fertig''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Military coup)
->'''Party:''' Pamhalaan ng Pambansang Pagkakaisa[[note]]Government of National Unity[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]An engineer by trade, a guerrilla by circumstance, and a leader by will; Wendell Fertig has embraced his role as a Man of Destiny, no matter the consequences.\\\
Fertig came to the Philippines as an American military engineer, working to halt the Japanese advance in World War 2 by demolishing bridges. The advance swept past his efforts, and he was trapped behind enemy lines, forced to retreat into the mountains alongside the remnants of his unit and fellow Filipino fighters. Abandoned by his country with the Akagi Accords, Fertig was the first American in the Philippines to renounce his citizenship and declare his intent to fight for a Free Republic with his own signature on the Leyte Proclamation.\\\
And what did he get out of this? Fertig has been stuck in the role of an oft-forgotten advisor, a man of talent wasted in the dusty little corner Carlos P. García shoved him into. Fearing that García's lack of strategic knowledge would render all his sacrifices worthless, he launched a coup to install himself as supreme leader. Now he works to transform the Free Republic into a weapon aimed at the heart of Japanese occupation. He will step down when they are victorious, of course - he is no despot, merely an engineer who seeks to fix a broken system.\\\
But when he is done, they shall all know that it was Wendell Fertig that brought the Philippines into the light of freedom.[[/labelnote]]

* {{Cincinnatus}}: Fertig plans to step down from his position, once the Japanese are expelled from the Philippines and the "light of freedom" is restored to the archipelago. If Magsaysay's countercoup is thwarted, leadership will be passed down to Avelino.
* DefectorFromDecadence: When the United States surrendered the Phillipines in the Akagi Accords, Fertig renounced his American citizenship and continued resistance to liberate the Philippines under the Free Republic.
* IgnoredExpert: García has practically no respect for Fertig, who is often relegated to worthless positions so he can't offer helpful counsel.
* MilitaryCoup: Believing that Garcia will drive the Free Republic to ruin and render every American sacrifice null, Ferig will ally with Avelino and launch a military coup to try overthrowing him.
* OldSoldier: Has been leading the American-affiliated guerrillas fighting the Japanese for 21 years.
* ShortLivedLeadership: Fertig will only take charge until he's either ousted by Magsaysay's countercoup or power is passed on to Avelino. Either way, he's not going to be sitting as leader for long.

!!''José Avelino y Dira''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Failed countercoup)
->'''Party:''' Pamhalaan ng Pambansang Pagkakaisa[[note]]Government of National Unity[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Interim Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Following the death of Elpidio Quirino, the Liberal Party was left with no leader. In the chaotic politicking that followed, many promising candidates rose and fell. It wasn't until American exile Wendell Fertig lost his patience and put his fingers on the scale that the party consolidated around a single man: José Avelino y Dira.\\\
Despised as an American puppet by his people and holding little sway among his party, Avelino has no grand ambitions to remake the Philippines. A functionary and former Speaker of the House, he understands that his role is to serve as a bench-warmer, a pleasant and inoffensive leader that with an air of legitimacy. His own liberal, democratic ideals have become secondary to shepherding the nation through this moment of crisis after the deposition of Carlos García—at least that's what he tells himself.\\\
For now, he works hand in hand with the man who made him ruler, Wendell Fertig, and tries to go about his duties in a quiet and efficient manner. He ignores the protests in the streets and the rumors of growing dissatisfaction in the army. He prays that his American handler has the ability to quell all this unrest so that this whole wretched business might have been worth it in the end.[[/labelnote]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Avelino is hated by nearly everyone in the country as a corrupt, power-hungry politician and even his military allies can barely tolerate him.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: His longtime wish was to become president of the Philippines, which is granted if Fertig's coup is successful and staves off a countercoup by Magsaysay. Unfortunately for him, his newfound position becomes a curse, as he's now become the most hated man in the Philippines and unable to command the respect he thought came with the job.
* MilitaryCoup: Always desiring the presidency for himself, Avelino supports Fertig's military coup so he can topple García and seize the position.
* ShortLivedLeadership: Even if Avelino seizes Manila, he'll have no choice but to accept the creation of the United Filipino Front, giving up his short-lived presidency to set up post-war elections he's not in the running for.
* VoluntaryVassal: With the support of Fertig and the military, Avelino will align the Philippines under the American sphere.

!!''Diosdado Macapagal''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Post-war election)
->'''Party:''' Partido Liberal[[note]]Liberal Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Liberal Conservatism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Nobody could have expected the rise of Macapagal and the new guard in the Liberal Party. But considering how he started, perhaps they should have seen it as inevitable.\\\
Son of a poet, raised in a home of boarders and a yard of pigs, the Poor Boy from Lubao saw education as his only way out. And with a little financial help from his relatives he excelled, coming out top of his class in elementary, high, and law school. He landed a top job as the assistant to President Quezon, then the collaborationist regime. Of course, the discovery of him being a spy for the resistance necessitated a narrow escape down South, but a man of his talents had no problem fitting in with the FPR. There he remained an unremarkable member of the Liberal Party, until once again an opportunity in Avelino's resignation presented itself. And as always, he grabbed it.\\\
Macapagal brings a new type of freedom to the ones the Filipinos have fought and died for. This is the freedom of opportunity, a freedom without ceilings and fits plowshares as well as swords. No longer a colony, the Philippines welcomes all, will trade with all, let all be able to compete and thrive in this nation. And let its President prove how much an opportunity can mean to those who take it.[[/labelnote]]

* DarkHorseVictory: Macapagal's rise to the presidency is an unexpected development to many, especially if García retained power and rejected the UFF, giving himself a 70% chance of being elected.
* HopeBringer: His election represents a turning point in history for Filipinos, one where they can engage in free trade and enjoy more opportunities than they ever could.
* LesCollaborateurs: Subverted. On top of being TheMole within the KALIBAPI, Macapagal is happy to work with the United States. That said, he'd rather do so as an equal ally rather than a glorified colonial puppet.
* TheMole: Macapagal worked inside the Japanese collaborationist regime, until he was discovered as a spy for the resistance and forced to flee south.
* RagsToRiches: He started life in a rural family of pig farmers, which gave him the nickname "the Poor Boy from Lubao". However, his work ethic and financial help from his relatives, he excelled in his education and became a prominent politician in his own right.

!!''Dwight Edward Beach''
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->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Head of State (14th Army ceasefire)
->'''Party:''' Philippine Department Headquarters
->'''Ideology:''' Military Mandate[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Prior to the Philippine Conflict, the most service in the Pacific Dwight Edward Beach could claim was Guadalcanal and New Guinea, as a field artillery officer. He had no history in the region otherwise: no investment in any one of its long, grueling wars, no connections with the natives to draw from, nor the magnetic charisma holding insurgencies together like glue. A [=MacArthur=], Wainwright, or a Fertig he is most decidedly not. Nevertheless, the Pentagon chose this Army man as the fourth Commander of the United States Army in the Philippines.\\\
What the 45th Infantry Division's general did have, however, is more firepower than any of his predecessors ever had. The increasingly desperate Joint Chiefs of Staff approved limited escalation before the decapitated USFIP bore the brunt of Japan's reprisal; in other words, they handed Beach a blank check for equipment heavier and more blatantly American than the "deniable assets" already in theater. M55's, ATGM's, Pattons, honest-to-goodness Skyraiders - he names it, he gets it.\\\
Beach may be no [=MacArthur=], come to return with his corn cob pipe, aviator shades, and the full might of the US Army. He may be no Fertig, so trusted by his men that they would follow him to the ninth circle of Hell. Then again, the actual [=MacArthur=]'s an invalid in a military hospital. The actual Fertig's six feet under. What good would aping those failures do him now?[[/labelnote]]
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* FishOutOfWater: Downplayed. Beach has next to no real connection with the locals and is for all intents and purposes a complete newcomer to the region. Despite those hurdles, however, he's a competent commander and has more than enough support from Washington to make up for any shortcomings.
* GodzillaThreshold: Beach's appointment as the USFIP's new military commander goes alongside an escalation in military hardware being shipped to the Philippines, which are more modern and so blatantly American that they barely count as "deniable assets" anymore.
* InadequateInheritor: Beach lacks the prestigious careers and magnetic charisma wielded by [=MacArthur=] and Fertig, but he will be put in charge of the FPR, turned into an OFN Mandate, if the 14th Army takes Luzon and potentially Visayas in the ceasefire.
* LoopholeAbuse: He skirts around the definition of "deniable assets" just ''enough'' that it doesn't rile the Japanese too much into openly declaring war against the United States.
* TookALevelInBadass: Previously, Beach was an unmemorable American commander, but when given command of the USFIP, the OFN will practically give him a blank check of anything he needs to bring the archipelago under OFN control, suddenly turning him into one their most well-equipped military officers.

!! Post-Balintawak Blitz

[[folder:Coalition Government of the Philippines]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Coalition Government of the Philippines
->'''Ruling Party:''' Nationalista Party[[note]]Nationalist Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Controlled Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
Should either the AFRSR and the FPR defeat the Japanese collaborators and peacefully unite, a coalition government will be formed with beloved politician Lorenzo Martinez Tañada as its president.

* TheAlliance: The Coalition Government can be formed if the AFRSR and FPR achieve victory in their guerrilla war against the Japanese and peacefully unite together in a joint government to fight the upcoming Japanese invasion.
* ClosestThingWeGot: While the Coalition Government isn't the most desired outcome for the OFN, it's nonetheless seen as the next best thing, with the Americans still eager to provide aid and support to the liberated Filipinos.
* DemocracyIsFlawed: In the interim period of reconstruction, a bicameral Congress is hastily created to oversee the process, but many of its congressmen fiercely debate over domestic matters and even get fistfights with each other, threatening to tear apart the nation, unless the reconstruction is successful. Otherwise, Ramon Magsaysay will stage a coup and assume power in the name of keeping the fragile nation together.
* EnemyMine: Though the AFRSR and FPR are ideologically opposed to each other, they can unite together to form the Coalition Government out of a shared interest in helping the common Filipino people.
* HereWeGoAgain: They have to face ''yet another Japanese invasion'' after booting out the collaborators, though with the AFRSR and FPR's forces united and some OFN help it won't be as one-sided as the previous invasion.
* MeetTheNewBoss: Downplayed. The Coalition Government nominally reinstates the institutions of the pre-War Commonwealth of the Philippines. Only this time, with the Filipinos themselves clearly in charge, albeit with some OFN aid.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The communists and FPR are reluctant to work together and their first meeting starts off tensely with both sides holding on to their guns. Fortunately, they eventually drop their weapons and begin the negotiations to form a coalition government because they have a mutual goal: defend the Philippines from a Japanese counter-invasion and rebuild the nation.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: It's possible for the Coalition Government to fail their reconstruction campaign, leading to a military coup by Magsaysay.

!!''Lorenzo Tañada y Martínez''
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->'''Party:''' Koalisyon ng Pampamamahala - Kaliwa[[note]]Coalition Government - Left[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Popular Front[[note]]Progressivism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]No matter how his story will unfold from here on, Lorenzo Martinez Tañada will forever be remembered as the one man who openly defied the Laurel regime and lived. Head of the Civil Liberties Union of the Philippines, the lawyer-activist's crusade for the Filipino's freedoms continued into the Occupation, earning him the Kenpeitai's ire and charges of sedition. To their surprise he successfully appealed his case before the Supreme Court; in a rare act of clemency, and despite considerable pressure from Japan, then-Chief Justice José Yulo personally acquitted Tañada of his charges.\\\
Those who had hoped the experience would cow Tañada into irrelevance would be proven wrong in the 1949 elections, when he would set yet another precedent by winning one of Manila's two assemblyman seats despite owing no allegiance to the KALIBAPI. The Assembly's sole independent then used his seat as a pulpit for speeches decrying the Laurel government, and as a conscience vote for the reformists' occasional good bill. This quid-pro-quo lasted a decade before Tañada alienated his on-and-off allies by denouncing Yulo's "illegitimate inauguration" in 1959. Sensing opportunity, the Kenpeitai drew their knives anew and acted - and if the Joint Anti-Laurelist Offensive had struck any later, then perhaps Tañada today would be sleeping in a cell in Shonan-to, rather than in Malacañan Palace.\\\
As it is, the Coalition found the ideal compromise candidate: principled, universally beloved, but unaffiliated with either half. "Ka Tanoy", for his part, has plans beyond mediating between the militarists and the Communists. He envisions nothing short of a grand revival for the country he loves so dear. The schemes of men seem paltry before such a vision - but if he must walk their tightropes a fourth time to bring it about, then walk again he shall.[[/labelnote]]

* InternalReformist: In the Second Republic, Tañada has stood firm in his mission to liberalize the country, unafraid to criticize Yulo or the Japanese.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When he sees Magsaysay prepare his coup and gather his men around the Palace, Tañada realizes that he's lost and peacefully steps down from his position, though spiting Magsaysay by refusing to meet him for the transition.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tañada has always espoused support for Filipino rights since the days of the Japanese occupation and he's fully committed to building a stable democracy for the Philippines.
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: Tañada is universally beloved across the Philippines, which made him the perfect compromise candidate to lead the Coaltion, until official elections can be held. In the upcoming elections, Taruc can subvert this trope for Tañada by stoking dissent towards his perceived incompetence, allowing Taruc to win the majority of votes.
* VetinariJobSecurity: Under the Second Republic, his political savviness and audacity had allowed him some measure of influence, despite both the KALIBAPI and Kenpeitai's efforts to apprehend him.

!!''Diosdado Macapagal''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Successful reconstruction)
->'''Party:''' Partido Liberal
->'''Ideology:''' Liberal Conservatism
See his entry in the Free Philippine Republic folder.

!!''Ramón Magsaysay y del Fierro''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Unsuccessful reconstruction)
->'''Party:''' Nationalista Party[[note]]Nationalist Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Among those who answered the Commonwealth's clarion call was a humble mechanic from Zambales. As fate would have it, the mechanic would come to her aid decades later as a beloved general, against a threat far more insidious than even the 14th Army itself - but let's not get ahead of ourselves.\\\
Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay, Sr. fixed trucks in the Army long before he earned his stars. When Bataan fell, he escaped and formed a guerrilla band in his home province. The newly-minted captain's first campaign lasted until the Akagi Accords; like most resistance groups, Magsaysay began his second after the massacre at Kawit. He ruled Zambales from its hills until the 14th Army proved too much to bear. Faced with either retirement in seclusion or cooperation with José Lava's communists, Magsaysay chose the former. It would last until 1959, when Russell Volckmann, his old superior and friend, convinced him to participate in the Joint Anti-Laurelist Offensive as a fellow general. He found some accommodation with the communists when Taruc took over, who agreed to a desperate truce as he retreated.\\\
The preemptive strike he had planned after the liberation of Manila would be precluded by none other than General Fertig himself - and so the fervent anticommunist watched, unable to act, while communists sabotaged the post-war government the Old Man had given them. As they too proved too much to bear, so too did he and his men retire a second time. Chaos reigned thereafter; disgraced, Tañada offered Magsaysay the country to save it.\\\
Now "Monching" sits atop the short-lived Coalition's corpse, inheriting from it a war-torn land blooming with the red cancer. It won't be long, he swears, before it is excised in full - and from there shall arise a nation reborn, a people enriched, and a land forever unsullied by false prophets' taint.[[/labelnote]]

* {{Foil}}: He is this to Takayama Shinobu. While the 14th Army assuming control precludes more death and suffering for the Filipinos, Magsaysay's takeover is done with the express purpose of ''avoiding'' such a harrowing outcome.
* MilitaryCoup: If the reconstruction fails, Magsaysay will launch a coup against Tañada and unofficially become its new dictator.
* RagsToRiches: Maysaysay was initially a humble mechanic from Zambales before rising to become a beloved general fighting for the Philippines' liberation.
* RebelLeader: Magsaysay is a Filipino soldier who has been fighting against the Japanese colonial government in his home country and can be appointed as its leader if both the AFRSR and FPR win and unite together. Once in power, one of his first challenges is to ward off the Japanese counterinvasion by the Firipin Gunseibu.
* RedScare: Magsaysay's biggest concern upon seizing power is eliminating the remaining communists in the Philippines.
* TenMinuteRetirement: Magsaysay initially retired from the resistance rather than cooperate with the communists in the Philippines. However, his retirement was cut short when his old friend and superior, Russell Volckmann, convinced him to rejoin in uprising against the Laurelist administration.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Firipin Gunseibu]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Firipin Gunseibu[[note]]Military Governorate of the Philippines[[/note]], Firipin Shotō Rinji Seifu[[note]]Provisional Government of the Philippines[[/note]] (14th Army victory)
->'''Ruling Party:''' 14th Army's Provisional Government
->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

* AlasPoorVillain: The 14th Army commits horrific war crimes during their invasion and are the most evil faction in the archipelago. However, there is a degree of pity surrounding their defeat, as the once vigorous survivors are left traumatized and sullen that they've not only failed a second time, but also seen more of their comrades slaughtered for a lost cause. As they retreat back to Japan, the soldiers bid one final, solemn farewell, as the transport ships are loaded with coffins of their dead comrades.
-->''No heroic deaths await us.''
* DownerEnding: A 14th Army victory is the worst possible outcome that the Philippines can be subjected to, as they are once again dragged back into Japan's sphere of control and brutalized under a military regime far more violent than the Second Republic.
* EasyLogistics: {{Subverted}}. The 14th Army suffers a weekly debuff of losing supplies, which will make their conquest of the Philippines harder as time passes.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The revitalized 14th Army are introduced launching a barrage at Lingayen Bay and murdering hundreds of civilians, showing how serious they are with avenging their past defeat and the levels of brutality they will descend to achieve their goals.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: If the 14th Army reconquers the Philippines, a Japanese soldier recalls his company coming across a 12 year old boy, wielding a rifle and desperately trying to fight off the invaders. It's the first time that the company is taken aback, unwilling to kill a child, and even their CO takes the "burden" for once by shooting the boy for them.
* EvilColonialist: The Firipin Gunseibu is a retaliatory Japanese invasion of the Philippines if the natives and/or Americans defeat the Second Philippine Republic, sent to bring the archipelago back into Japanese control.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm:
** If the 14th Army is defeated for a second time, Japan declares the Philippines a lost cause and orders a difficult retreat, with hundreds of caskets being sent back to the Home Isles and the survivors despondent over their failure.
** The 14th Army can call for a ceasefire where they they retain control of Luzon and/or Visayas, dividing the Philippines in two.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The 14th Army suffered thousands of casualties when they were forced to flee the Philippines after the Republic fell. Upon returning with Takayama at the command, the 14th Army survivors are eager to exact vengeance on the rebels. Even thousands of reserve troops were eager to sign up with the 14th Army so that they can restore Japan's dignity after the Republic fell.
* TookALevelInBadass: Having failed to defend the Republic in the Balintawak Blitz, the 14th Army will return back to the Philippines stronger than ever, thanks to Takayama's strict discipline and dogma.

!!''Takayama Shinobu''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Retaliatory invasion)
->'''Party:''' 14th Army's Provisional Government, 14th Army Headquarters in the Philippines (Post-victory)
->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The Emperor's men march to wherever He decrees they are needed most. As He would have it, Takayama Shinobu departed Tokyo for a reunion with the land of the dead.\\\
For the Philippine Islands now, as it had then, offers nothing but death. This lesson he'd learned as a lowly colonel under General Masaharu Homma. He'd seen better men than he succumb to its jungles and the bandits within. Heard their pitiful wails in the hospitals and the medical tents, teenagers-turned-conscripts begging for aspirin, their parents, a quick and painless death. Held their coffins before planes carried what remained of them home. No glory awaited the Empire's sons here, and such a place was worth only purgation, through and uncompromising, lest any more of them fell.\\\
If only its generals learned the very same, rather than vaciliating between half measures for decades. Then the 14th Army wouldn't have died far away from home. Its commander, Masazumi Inada, wouldn't have gutted himself in shame. Alas, Takayama returns with an army reborn and directives no clearer: pacify the Islands, by any means necessary.\\\
History shall repeat before it turns page anew. The Empire, its servant swears, will not be so lenient a second time.[[/labelnote]]

The commander of the returning 14th Army following its defeat in Balintawak Blitz, hell-bent on crushing the rebellion and bringing the Philippines back into Japanese hands whatever the cost.

* GeneralRipper: Takayama plans on retaking the Philippines under the Japanese flag and will not be so lenient on the rebels for their uprising.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Having already fought on the archipelago in World War II, Takayama knows that the campaign in the Philippines will be brutal, but he still follows Japan's orders to pacify the islands, no matter the cost.
* NecessarilyEvil: Despite having witnessed the brutality of the original invasion, from Takayama's perspective, he believes that harsher reprisals are necessary to ensure that the locals would think twice from rebelling again.
* NobleDemon: Takayama genuinely cares for his subordinates in the 14th Army and is committed to seeing that their sacrifices are not in vain. Unfortunately for the Philippines, this translates into a far more ruthless campaign to ensure that no insurrection ''ever'' happens again.
* PragmaticVillainy: If it were up to him, he would dissolve the Republic for its incompetence, especially after their failure to save Yulo from an assassination. However, he respects the reconstruction effort and lets them elect their leaders because the Emperor wants to keep the Republic and Takayama wouldn't dare defy him.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Takayama is frustrated by the Republic's inefficiency and claims that he could have prevented Yulo's assassination if he were present.
* WarIsHell: Takayama subscribes to this mindset, having witnessed the utter hell that Japanese soldiers had to endure during the Philippines invasion in World War II.

!!''Inada Masazumi''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Unsuccessful reconstruction)
->'''Party:''' 14th Army Headquarters in the Philippines
->'''Ideology:''' Interim Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Masazumi Inada is the latest in a long line of 14th Army commanders and protégés that had benefited handsomely from the Philippines' old status quo. Its underlying system, insofar as it can be called that, was inseparably intertwined with natives playing patronage politics. Thus, the experienced hand eased its successor into the convoluted web of friends, allies, and acquaintances taking "ignorable" slices of the Republic's wealth.\\\
Much to the detriment of the bureaucrats whose funds buttress the country's growth, or the conscripts bereft with proper housing and equipment. Then again, did it really need the money? Anything more than a skeleton force? Not in the last decade, so surely neither in the next.\\\
Then came 1963, when it suddenly did. Yasuda's collapse upended the status quo, as the Philippine economy nosedived after Tokyo stopped writing its checks. The Blitz crippled its system through its flaws, as ill-equipped conscripts died helplessly before the rebel hordes. The Manila Incident ended the system, and much of its participants, for good. Now the capital's skyline glows cherry-red with fire; meanwhile, Tokyo has entrusted Inada to quell it. Or else.\\\
Squirreled away in Baguio with the government he had disbanded, a grifter in uniform counts his days as his golden goose chokes to death on its own blood.[[/labelnote]]

The corrupt commander of the 14th Army. Much like the previous commanders before him, Inada doesn't really care at all for the army's sorry state and is more pre-occupied with enriching himself.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: If the Second Philippine Republic is defeated in the Blitz, Inada will commit suicide before he can be captured.
* CorruptPolitician: Inada is among the many 14th Army commanders who have taken "ignorable" amounts of money from the Republic to fill his own pockets.
* DeadlyEuphemism: When the Japanese reconstruction of the Philippines fails, Inada is tasked to "stabilize" the country quickly, while implying that there will be grave consequences if he fails.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Inada's suicide largely goes unmentioned by most because everyone in the 14th Army is too focused on rebuilding their strength and exacting revenge on the partisans.

! Malaya
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->'''Official Name:''' Military Governorate of Shonan-Marai, Sultanate of Johor (UMAJF-leaning ceasefire), Military Governorate of Shonan-to (Total UMAJF victory), Federation of Malaysia (right-wing victory in election), Democratic Republic of Malaya (socialist victory in election)
->'''Party:''' 25th Army's Provisional Government
->'''Ideology:''' Colonial Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
Japan's provisional puppet government in former British Malaya. Ever since their conquest of the peninsula in 1942, the Sphere has been fighting a continuous battle against Malay and Chinese guerrillas and both sides are stretched to their breaking point.

* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** The situation the Japanese find themselves in is highly reminiscent of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Emergency Malayan Emergency]] faced by the British OTL.
** P. Ramlee still finds a successful film career here, such as releasing the buddy-comedy film ''Labu Dan Labi'', which is now focused on Labu and Labi working for a Zaibatsu and serving as a metaphor of the Sphere' oppression in East Asia.
** The flag used for Malaya post elections is an OTL unsuccessful proposal created during the 50s.
* BarBrawl: If Boestamam gets elected, a bar brawl breaks out and escalates into the Shonan-To Riot. It starts over an argument over import quotas being enforced by the Zaibatsu, with the Chinese civil servants complaining about being overworked and taxed, the Japanese businessmen trying to defend them as misguided but in the right, and the Indian and Malay shopkeepers who hate the growing business competition. By the time the police arrive to break it up, the main participants flee the scene, with one ominously warning that Japan's holdings in Malaya will one day be destroyed.
* BigotVsBigot: The Malays and Indians are prejudiced against Chinese people as terrorists, while the Chinese disdain the Malays and Indians for being unfairly favored and given more benefits by Japan. As a result, ethnic conflicts occasionally break out between these groups.
* BreakTheHaughty: A Japanese soldier eagerly volunteers to put down the UMAJF out of pride in his country's Pan-Asian doctrine and dismisses any talk against it as American or Nazi propaganda. However, when the war is won, the soldier's faith is shaken when he sees the people's ambivalent looks to the triumphant Japanese, giving him a taste of how flawed his country's rhetoric is.
* CivilWar: Right from the game's start, Malaya is torn apart in a two-way civil war between the Japanese puppet government and the UMAJF rebels.
* LesCollaborateurs:
** Supporting the 25th Army are the Marai Giyugun, militias still believing in Pan-Asianism, though they aren't numerous and often corrupt.
** The Sultanates of Malaya and Singapore were allowed to keep their power in exchange for collaborating with the Japanese, which they accepted.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: The collaborationist government in Shonan projects itself as a loyal vassal to Japan, with rich resource deposits and a booming population that enjoys a good education system and celebrates Japanese holidays. However, this all covers the growing resentment of the population against their foreign occupiers, which culiminated in the UMAJF's uprising.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: One of P. Ramlee's biggest hits is ''Ramchong Ke Tokyo'', a romantic social commentary on the unequal relationship between Malays and Japanese. More than a few audience members worry Ramlee is pushing too many buttons on the Diet with his latest film.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: As violent riots break out after after Jaafar's election, the Diet dithers and hesitates to do anything, leaving the residents to fend for themselves and letting the city burn.
* HumiliationConga: If Razak gets elected by the UMAJF, a rapid series of crises hit Shonan-To in a matter of days, including a controversy of Sumitomo laying off Malay and Indian employees, a Chinese worker being murdered at a hotel, and the local Guard, mostly made up of Japanese officers, being sent to put down a riot mainly comprised of Chinese, Malay, and Indian citizens.
-->''[[SarcasmMode This doesn't sound ominous at all.]]''
* DeadlyEuphemism: When riots break out after Burhanuddin Al-Helmy's election, the reason for these outbreaks is lost to history when their police reports are burned down with the government buildings. Some spread conspiracy theories that the Diet purposely let those papers be destroyed, but these voices are quickly silenced by bribes or by taking them "under the dockyards".
* LonelyAtTheTop: P. Ramlee is one of Shonan's most celebrated filmmakers and actors, but he has nobody to consider a true friend.
* PaperTiger: The Japanese 25th Army is supposed to be one of the most elite units in the Sphere, guarding the strategic Straits of Malacca and the resources of Malaya. However, the constant attrition with the guerrillas have depleted its manpower and equipment. To make up for this, Shonan conscripts any abled person to compensate for the 25th's ineffeciency and form a marginally more competent fighting force.
* PleaseSelectNewCityName: Under Japanese occupation, Singapore has been renamed to Shonan-to.
* PuppetKing: At least initially, the Japanese tried to make the old royal houses into their glorified proxies. It didn’t work, with the Interim Government by 1962 already teetering on the brink of collapse.
* PuppetState: "Shonan" means "Light of the South" in celebration of Malaya and Singapore's liberation from British colonization. Truthfully, Shonan is anything but, as Japanese businessmen dominate the scene and extract the country's raw resources for their own personal gain.
* RashomonStyle: After Burhanuddin's election, an ethic conflict breaks out between two mobs, one Chinese and the other comprised of Malays and Indians. A Japanese commander and the police arrive to break up the fighting, but accounts diverge from here. The Chinese protestors claim that the commander ordered the police to five on them. However, the Indian protestors claim that the commander only sent the police to push back the Malays and Indians, while leaving the Chinese alone. In either case, all semblance of order breaks down and the mobs stampede to fight each other, with the commander never seen again.
* TheScapegoat: When an armaments storehouse is destroyed in a riot, the government blames "communist saboteurs" for the incident, despite having no concrete evidence to prove their claim.
* SunkCostFallacy: Keeping control of Malaya has been a massive money sink for Japan, with the 25th Army unable to put the UMAJF rebels down for good. However, they can never leave the country because its resources are vital to the Sphere and Shonan-to must be protected at all costs.
* UnwantedRescue: The arriving Japanese soldiers sent to quash the UMAJF are barely tolerated by the native Malayans, who can see through the propaganda lies that they're fighting for their liberation and freedom from foreign imperialism.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: After Razak's election, Sumitomo conducts a "minor economic restructuring" that lays off a few dozen employees, most of whom are Malay and Indian. Despite the relative insignificance of this event, many see this as undeniable proof that Japan is prioritizing their interests over the native people, kickstarting a massive riot that only gets worse with a series of other controversies.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: A major contributor to Shonan's lack of stability is the thin network between the country's allies, in which most of the country's collaborators regularly fight each other for more personal power, even leading some to become sympathizers with the nation's rebels.

!!''Yamamoto Moichiro''
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->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Head of State
->'''Party:''' 25th Army's Provisional Government
->'''Ideology:''' Colonial Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]For Major General Yamamoto Moichiro, Malaya was supposed to be one last hurrah in a storied, politically fruitful yet bloodied career throughout Japan's conquests of China and the former Dutch East Indies. When the Malayan revolt broke out following the collapse of the talks between the Marai Hokokai and the ever-increasingly centralising Republic of Indonesia, Yamamoto was reassigned from Java, being an important contributor to the negotiation of Indonesian "independence", to step in and lead the Japanese intervention.\\\
The initial phases of the intervention were successful, as the United Malayan Anti-Japanese Front was driven out of major population centres in most of Malaya, barring the resource-rich and strategically vital regions of northern Perak and Pahang. Ever since then however, Yamamoto's last hurrah has turned into a rapidly deteriorating quagmire, with a disappearing enemy incredibly proficient in jungle warfare. However, the situation does not end there - in fact, it's even worse than expected.\\\
With the Republic of India, and some say the OFN aiding the broad front of anti-Japanese insurgents, Yamamoto has resorted to escalation: a rational measure in his eyes, as the Malayan population has been incredibly resistant to Japanese efforts at collaboration. To this end, he has brought some of the original architects of Malayan victory, such as the infamous counter-insurgency strategist Nishiura Susumu. Time is against Yamamoto however, as his own retirement looms large - and so does the momentum of UMAJF. [[/labelnote]]

* {{Cincinnatus}}: Moichiro will only hold power until Peng's rebels are suppressed before he steps down and opens elections to decide on Malaysia's next leader.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Moichiro considers his increasingly extreme crack downs against the UMAJF as a justified measure to restore order back to Malaya.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Moichiro planned on ending his career with a last "hurrah" by driving the UMAJF from Shonan. While he did successfully drive them from the more resource-rich and strategically vital regions of the nation, he's still been unable to dislodge them completely and faces a hopeless guerrilla war that can escalate to a full-blown civil war.

!!''Kurosawa Takeo''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Total UMAJF Victory)
->'''Party:''' Shonan-to Garrison HQ
->'''Ideology:''' Colonial Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]

* TheRemnant: If the Japanese colonial government loses control over Malaya, Kurosawa will rally the remnant Japanese forces and retreat to Singapore. Luckily for them, the UMAJF can't attack them there because Singapore is too important for Japan to lose and any invasion there would threaten more heavy Japanese intervention that the rebels have no chance of winning against.

!!''Burhanuddin Al-Helmy''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Election)
->'''Party:''' Partai Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya[[note]]Malay Nationalist Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Left-Wing Nationalism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]

* DarkHorseVictory: Given his socialist beliefs, few would've expected that Burhanuddin can win the Malayan elections after the collaborators win the Malayan Emergency.
* InternalReformist: Burhanuddin's platform is based on delivering a mix of socialist and Islamic reforms to fix the collaborationist government's worst flaws.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Though a Japanese collaborator, Burhanuddin is disliked by Japan as too radical for his own good. His anti-colonialist rhetoric might stand opposed to Japanese influence in Malaya and his amiable attitude towards Sukarno in Indonesia might empower the latter's regime too much and upset the balance of power in the Sphere.

!!''Dato Onn Jaafar''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Election)
->'''Party:'''
->'''Ideology:''' Paternalistic Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

* NecessarilyEvil: Onn doesn't enjoy working for Japan and earnestly wants a free Malaya, but he stands opposed to the UMAJF because he believes liberation can only come from negotiating a decolonization with Japan.
* PuppetKing: His willingness to work with Japan makes him the perfect figurehead for them to exert their control over Malaya.
* TheQuisling: Onn is content to keep Malaya under Japan's thumb, which is his campaign receives significant Japanese support during the Malayan elections.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: After the Malayan Emergency and elections, Onn will have to contend with his growing age and the increasing fractures within his own party, which will significantly hamper his ability to govern the nation.

!!''Syed Jaafar Albar''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Election)
->'''Party:''' Persatuan Melayu Semenanjung[[note]]Peninsular Malay Association[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Conservatism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Most of the Japanese establishment dislikes Syed Jaafar because is a Malayan nationalist who might commit ethnic violence and [[PragmaticVillainy make the Sphere's unequal nature all the more obvious]]. He only ends up ascending to the premiership when either Jaafar passes away or when a ceasefire is called, where no other worthy leader can take power because Burhanuddin was murdered by partisans.
* MeetTheNewBoss: Whether he succeeds Onn upon his passing or just blatantly seizes power himself, Syed Jaafar has the same foreign agenda in mind: continued collaboration with the Japanese.
* PatrioticFervor: Syed Jaafar can rise to power in the collaborationist government by espousing nationalist views that win him the support of native Malayans, at the potential cost of starting ethnic violence against the country's minorities.
* TheQuisling: Syed Jaafar is eager to collaborate with the Japanese, even if it means subjecting his own people to another round of colonial oppression. On the other end, Japan dislikes his overt nationalism, but will accept him as Prime Minister because he can be useful counterbalance to the growing Thai influence in Southeast Asia.

!!''Ismail bin Ibrahim''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (UMAJF-leaning ceasefire)
->'''Party:''' Ismail's Court
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
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* TheQuisling: Ismail is a Malaysian soldier serving under the Japanese collaborationist government and will be appointed as its leader if the Malayan Emergency ends in a ceasefire.

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->'''Official Name:''' United Malayan Anti-Japanese Front
-->'''Victory against Japan:''' Provisional Government of Malaysia, Federation of Malaysia (Razak), Democratic Republic of Malaysia (Boestmam)
-->'''Loss against Japan:''' Provisional Government of Malaysia (Askar Wataniah Takeover), Malayan National Liberation Army (MPAJA Takeover), All-Malayan Revolutionary Front (Emergency Rule ended)
->'''Ruling Party:''' United Malayan Anti-Japanese Front - Parti Komunis Malaya[[note]]Communist Party of Malaya[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Mao Zedong Thought[[note]]Communism[[/note]]
An alliance of Malay and Chinese partisans fighting against the Japanese and their collaborators. While driven from major cities, the resistance is still alive, if depleted.

* ApatheticCitizens: If the CIA begins to meddle with Malaysian elections, it will soon find that most Malaysians are largely politically illiterate and that campaigning with banners and posters are ineffective. [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Other tactics seem to work better]].
* ChummyCommies: The UMAJF is a communist united front dedicated to freeing Malaysia from Japanese imperialism by any means necessary, including cooperating with the OFN.
* CommonalityConnection: An American representative and UMAJF general empathize with each other when they discuss all they've lost to the Japanese, with the former losing his family when Hawaii was occupied, while the latter lost his son when Japanese soldiers shot him in cold blood.
* DealWithTheDevil: Should the UMAJF take a port, the OFN is more than willing to flood them with guns, advisors and supplies. While their neighbors may sneer at them for receiving assistance from the west, at least they will be free and very well-armed.
* TheDeterminator: The UMAJF starts at a disadvantageous position to Shonan, but all of their fighters are still determined to fight for their cause, casually disregarding the possibility of death.
* EasyLogistics: {{Subverted}}. The American aid to the UMAJF is hindered by a lack of ports to send them substantial help, which makes it incredibly vital for the rebels to acquire one if they want to win.
* EnemyMine: The UMAJF is an alliance between four different groups: the Communist Party of Malaya (PKM) led by Chin Peng, the socialists under Ahmad Boestamam, the nationalist PEKEMBAR under Tun Abdul Razak, and the Askar Wataniah Regiment under pro-nationalist General Yeop Mahidin.
* HiddenInPlainSight: A CIA agent and Malay contact discuss sending financial aid to Razak's election campaign, disguising themselves as fishermen talking about partitioning their share. Since this is a common sight, the conversation goes unheard by bystanders.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Many deride the UMAJF's outreach for generous American support, but the group justifies their actions as necessary to liberate Shonan.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: If the Malayan Emergency lasts too long and the UMAJF fails to gain enough territory, the MPAJA and Askar Wataniah will break ranks and put the conflict to a screeching halt.

!!''Chin Peng''
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->'''Party:''' United Malayan Anti-Japanese Front - Parti Komunis Malaya[[note]]Communist Party of Malaya[[/note]], Barisan Rakyat Malaya - Persatuan[[note]]Malayan People's Front - Association[[/note]] (Defeated by Japan)
->'''Ideology:''' Mao Zedong Thought[[note]]Communism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A man shrouded in myth and lionisation, Chin Peng, born Ong Boon Hua, is the current public enemy number one for the Shonan-Marai Military Government - a hardened, relentless fighter in the thick jungles and hills of central and northern Malaya. Successfully leading the 1957 anti-Japanese revolt amidst the collapse of the Marai Hokokai, Chin Peng has led his Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army through success and failure - a campaign forged in blood with comrades born in fire, as well as comrades of convenience.\\\
However, not all was bright for the hardened guerrilla. The desperate situation in the dark years of 1959-1961 has forced the already-stranded MPAJA to escalate violent raids on villages and settlements along the Thai-Malayan border simply to survive - placing the very settlements the MPAJA claims to protect at the firing line of Japan's ruthless counter-insurgency methods. It seems like time was running out, until Chin Peng received a telegram from fellow resistants within the Askar Wataniah. And thus, the United Malayan Anti-Japanese Front was forged in fire in early 1961.\\\
The insurgency's fortunes quickly shifted, as the Front was able to secure vital ports along the Western Malayan coast - allowing further support from the Republic of India (and some say, a greater benefactor) to aid the Front. A normalisation of relations with anti-Japanese states is a compromise Chin Peng can get behind, though he is not entirely unaware that the non-Communist armed opposition to Japan is growing. Short of seizing power for himself and collapsing the Front, he is forced to scale back his political ambitions: allying with the comparatively moderate Ahmad Boestamam. Boestamam has his own ambitions, but the two are symbiotic for the time being, as Boestamam relies on the MPAJA for muscle, and the MPAJA relies on Boestamam for popular legitimacy.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Japanese-leaning Ceasefire) [[labelnote:Click to Show]]More than 20 years of struggle, two wars, a traitor's plot and the defeat of the UMAJF punches through the spirits inside the revolutionary fighters of Parti Komunis Malaya. The great gambit for independence, forged with the necessity to form an alliance with the reactionaries and nationalists alike had failed. The breakdown of the UMAJF had nearly sealed the fate of Chin Peng and his fighters to be pushed back into the forests, forced to fight from the shadows, broken in spirit and muscle. Not this time- Yasuda's collapse rocked the Rising Sun enough that the traitors cannot push forward into their revolutionary bastion.\\\
A naive man could assume Chin Peng's rump state cannot last with the Rising Sun's puppets surrounding them, but the man that was Ong Boon Hua says otherwise. Never had one thought the PKM would be able to spring out of the forests holding more than a few villages, let alone span several states. No, even if he was defeated in battle, the PKM's communist spirit has reached the top rungs of leadership. A promise to all of Malaya had been made: he would not stop fighting as long as Japanese lapdogs taint Malaya and bring their rightful riches away to enrich themselves.\\\
But could the war-torn lands of Malaya stomach another long struggle and war for freedom from the Japanese before the land is broken? Can Chin Peng's state survive their precarious position and bring the revolution to the south? Or is Malaya doomed to have each of its struggle beaten down, fated to be the subjects of a foreign power? Only time can tell.[[/labelnote]]

* ChummyCommies: Peng is a Malaysian Chinese communist fighting for the liberation of his home country against Japanese imperialism.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: If the UMAJF triumphs in the Malayan Emergency, Peng plans on acting as a caretaker governor, until new elections are held and a president is formally chosen. However, this becomes {{Subverted}} if the UMAJF achieve ceasefire in favor of the collaborators, in which he adopts emergency powers and is unlikely to step down in the near future.
* TheDeterminator: Peng will stop at nothing to liberate Malaya from both the Japanese and Americans. Even if a Japanese-leaning ceasefire occurs, Peng will never stop fighting from the jungles, awaiting a chance to strike again.
* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: Peng is not only opposed to the Japanese occupation, but also to the possibility of the United States staying in Malaysia and replacing the Japanese, once the Malayan Emergency is over. If the UMAJF wins and Peng stays in power, he will cut ties with the OFN and pursue an independent foreign policy.
* OldSoldier: Peng has been fighting the Japanese for over 20 years.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: If the Malayan Emergency ends in a Japanese-leaning ceasefire, Peng will need to adopt emergency powers to stop a coup attempt by Askar Wataniah and hold off further Japanese attacks, becoming a dictator in the process.
-->''The light of democracy fades away.''
* WhoNeedsEnemies: He is only allied with the OFN so long as Japan continues to occupy Malaya. If he remains in control of the country after the conflict ends, he ceases all continued diplomatic ties with the United States.

!!''Ahmad Boestamam''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Election)
->'''Party:''' United Malayan Anti-Japanese Front - Parti Buruh Malaya[[note]]Labour Party of Malaya[[/note]], Gabungan Peralihan Tanah Melayu[[note]]Transitional Coalition of Malaya[[/note]] (UMAJF Victory)
->'''Ideology:''' Revolutionary Front[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]
The socialist candidate for Malaysian leadership, supported by both both Peng's communists and moderate socialists.

* ChoosingNeutrality: Boestamam can only be called an American ally during the Malayan Emergency, where the rest of the UMAJF relies on OFN aid to expel the Japanese. Once the conflict is over, Boestamam will cut ties with the OFN, which would be an unfavorable outcome for the United States.
* ChummyCommies: Besides being a socialist, Boestamam is dedicated to rebuilding Malaysia after its devastating civil war.
* GracefulLoser: If Razak wins the election, Boestamam will feel frustrated about the people rejecting his rhetoric, but he doesn't hold if personally against his opponent and only implores him to not let the Americans garner too much power and turn Malaya into another puppet state.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He recognizes that not many are keen on accepting his socialist ideas, leading him to ally with more moderate elements in the UMAJF to keep the coalition together.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Upon taking power via election, a large nationalist movement rises up in opposition to him, indicating that his efforts to reform Malaya will not be easier than liberating it from Japan.

!!''Tun Abdul Razak''
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->'''Party:''' Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu[[note]]United Malay National Organization[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Paternalistic Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]] %%Anocracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (Sucessful monarchy referendum, National Operations Council)
The American backed candidate for Malaysian leadership, representing right-wing nationalists.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: He can become Prime Minister of Malaysia just like OTL, albeit a decade early.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: The CIA can utilize its lavish budget to bribe Malaysian politicians and political campaigners to smoothen Razak's way to victory.
-->''The drug called payola is quite effective''
* VoluntaryVassal: Razak is friendlier to OFN interests than Boestamam and will turn Malaya into an OFN observer, if he gets elected.
* WonTheWarLostThePeace: Even if Razak secures election after the Malayan Emergency, a strong socialist coalition, led by Boestamam, stands opposed to his agenda, casting doubt on if the new president can push his agenda without tearing the nation apart.
* WorthyOpponent: Even after Razak beats Ahmad Boestaman in the Malaysian elections handily with sufficient CIA support, when the latter voices his frustration and accuses the former of being in the pocket of the CIA, Razak takes the time to listen to and empathize with his defeated foe, befriending him in the process.

!!''Yeop Mahidin''
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->'''Role:''' Military Commander, Head of State (Japanese-leaning ceasefire)
->'''Party:''' Askar Wataniah[[note]]Territorial Army[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Junta[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]

* {{Cincinnatus}}: Once he seizes power, Mahidin institutes a temporary military junta, promising to eventually step down when Tun Hussein Onn arrives back from exile in India. Many cast doubt on the authenticity of his promise, but Mahidin can actually live up to it and let Hussein take over.
* TheCoup: In the case of a Shonan-leaning victory scenario in the Malayan Emergency, Mahidin and the Askar Wataniah can coup Peng's MPAJA, establishing a temporary dictatorship until the return of Hussein.
* PaperTiger: Though the Askar Wataniah regime is outwardly popular, it is still quite fragile, especially as the Malaysian communists still exert considerable influence in the countryside and Japan awaits an opportunity to further destabilize a potential American ally next to them.
* VoluntaryVassal: Sympathetic to the OFN, Mahidin begs for financial aid from them to prop up his regime in the war-torn peninsula, including a request for $1.5 billion per annum.

!!''Tun Hussein Onn''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Mahidin succession)
->'''Ideology:''' Semi-Constitutional Monarchy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

* TheExile: Since the Japanese conquest of Malaya, Hussein has lived in exile in the Republic of India, though he can return if Mahidin takes over the UMAJF remnants and steps down from power.
* OddFriendship: Hussein is surprisingly good friends with [=LeMay=] from the United States, with the latter promising that the NPP will send more aid to Malaya and defending him from a racist who confronts the two.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hussein is willing to compromise with the collaborationist government and reunite bloodlessly to end their feud. Even better, this approach can work, as the UMAJF remnants can peacefully unite Malaya, with the exception of Shonan-to.

! North Borneo
[[folder:Nanpo Gunseikan]]
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->'''Official Name:''' North Borneo Military Administration, North Borneo Transitional Authority (Dismantlement)
->'''Ruling Party:''' 37th Army
->'''Ideology:''' Colonial Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
The Japanese military administration over the former British Borneo, commanded by General Baba Masao and his 37th Army.

* BalkanizeMe: In Takagi's route, the Nanpo Gunseikan will be balkanized into three states: itself, Sarawak, and Brunei.
* DayOfTheJackboot: the North Borneo Administration is where the IJA's presence in Southeast Asia is most directly felt, with the military garrison having near-absolute control, and a blank check to do whatever it wants away from Tokyo's prying eyes.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Should Takagi become Prime Minister and order an investigation into the North Borneo Administration, [[spoiler:he can have the IJA garrison withdraw, rationalizing that it’s causing more trouble than it’s worth. The territory is instead handed to a transitional authority tasked with overseeing its partition.]]
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: An investigation of North Borneo under Prime Minister Takagi [[spoiler:reveals a web of corruption and brutality that [[EveryoneHasStandards shocks the Japanese government]] into dissolving it]].
* WretchedHive: While North Borneo on paper is strictly run by the IJA garrison, in practice it's rife with myriad abuses and exploitation. So much so that [[spoiler:should these come to light under Prime Minister Takagi's investigation, he has the territory dissolved and partitioned almost immediately]].

!!''Baba Masao''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' 37th Army
->'''Ideology:''' Colonial Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The British belongings in Borneo always held a special place in the Japanese plans in their quest of the Asian dominance. For a time, the oil resources of the island were objects of temptation for the economic giants of the Empire and its strategic position amidst the shipping routes between East Asia and Australia proved to be invaluable for reinforcing the Japanese units across the battlefields in Asia. After the short and triumphant campaign of the Japanese forces in Borneo, the former British territories were reorganized as a domain for the military, to be held by a strong-willed and determined commander. This man was Baba Masao, the general of the 37th Army, once fancied as the Borneo Defence Army.\\\
A hereditary army officer and student of the Prussian discipline, Baba saw his career's upheaval during the Japanese war in Indonesia, paving his way through victories against the Americans. Subsequently, he became the commander of the garrison in Borneo and its military governor, a post he held ever since for his past glory, remaining unchallenged by his rivals and enviers. Befitting for a Japanese military ruler, Baba ruled with an iron fist, not shying away from any brutal methods to suppress any attempts at resistance and enforce his will. A believer in the Japanese supremacy above everything else, he furthered the Japanese assimilation policies in the region and turned it into a playground for the Japanese monopolies each seeking to get their share of riches from the island.\\\
As North Borneo was turned into a heavily militarized and entretched zone following the course of the war and its aftermath, the former British protectorate became the outpost for the Army in maritime Southeast Asia. Maintaining its strong presence at the border with Indonesia, the 37th Army under Baba serves as a reinforcer of the Japanese hold in the Greater Sunda Islands and as a 'supplemental' force to the collaborationist governments, should they fail to hold the anti-Sphere insurgencies by themselves.[[/labelnote]]

* EvilColonialist: Baba Masao is a tyrant who does not shy away from any brutal methods to suppress any attempts at resistance and enforce his will. A believer in Japanese supremacy, he furthered Japanese assimilation policies in North Borneo and turned it into a playground for Japanese zaibatsu, each seeking for their share of riches from the island.
* FalseReassurance: Masao is on the receiving end of this [[spoiler:from Takagi upon being ordered back to Japan. While he's ostensibly being given a hero's welcome and commendation, he breaks down upon realizing that this is only a pretext to his imminent trial in light of the government's investigation into Borneo]].
* VillainousBreakdown: In Takagi's Conservative path, [[spoiler:Masao loses it upon being recalled back to Japan. Despite ostensibly receiving a hero's welcome, he knows that his days are numbered once the truth comes to light.]]

!!''Sugiyama Shigeru''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State (Nanpo Gunseikan Dismantled)
->'''Party:''' 37th Army Headquarters
->'''Ideology:''' Interim Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]

* BoringButPractical: Sugiyama's control of North Borneo is far more limited than Masao's, but this means that Japan doesn't waste as much money on maintaining their tight occupation of North Borneo, delegating that job to the native collaborators and giving leeway for how Japan can spend their funds.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: Sugiyama is tasked to oversee the transition of power to local collaborators, with the bulk of the garrison being withdrawn once this is accomplished.
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[[folder:Brunei]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Sultanate of Brunei
->'''Ruling Party:''' House Waddien
->'''Ideology:''' Absolute Monarchy[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]

* TheGoodKingdom: The restoration of the monarchy in Brunei is portrayed as a positive consequence of Takagi's reforms and a restoration of autonomy back to the natives.

!! ''Omar Ali Saifuddien III''
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->'''Role:''' Head of State
->'''Party:''' House Waddien
->'''Ideology:''' Absolute Monarchy[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]

* RightfulKingReturns: After the Nanpo Gunseikan is dismantled, Saifuddien will be invited back to power as the Sultan of Brunei, restoring independence back to the country.

[[folder:Sarawak]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Raj of Sarawak
->'''Ruling Party:''' Parti Negara Sarawak[[note]]Sarawak National Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

* LaResistance: With help from the OFN, the people of Sarawak have bitterly resisted the Japanese occupation of their homeland, in which they may get their semi-independence when Takagi dismantles the Nanpo Gunseikan and releases them as a Japanese aligned state

!! ''Abang Haji Mustapha''
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->'''Party:''' Parti Negara Sarawak[[note]]Sarawak National Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

* TheQuisling: Mustapha has collaborated with the Japanese ever since their occupation of Sarawak in World War II, in which he can then take charge of the country if Takagi dissolves the Nanpo Gunseikan.

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* {{Catchphrase}}: His famous political slogan is "from womb to tomb", referencing his platform for better social security that will last a lifetime for everyone.