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China

Aufsichtsrat der Ostasiatischen Generalverwaltung

^{Flag of the Chinesisches Kaiserreich}

Official Name: Supervisory Board of the East Asian General Administration

The Allgemeine Ostasien-Gesellschaft, or General East Asian Company, is a German company equivalent of the British and Dutch East India Company. The AOG was founded after the German intervention in China after the Qing dynasty made concessions to Germany after they installed Puyi as emperor of China. The AOG controls some territories in southern China on lease, meaning that de jure they are part of Qing China but de facto they control as if they were their own country, exploiting local population and resources.

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• MegaCorp: Modelled after the East India Company that many European countries had, the AOG controls trade across large swathes of the Pacific. Their influence even spreads to the Americas, as shown by the Pacific States of America focus tree.
• One Nation Under Copyright: After AOG wrestled control of Southern China, while in lease for Qing China, they basically acts as a state. Private corporations like Krupp have significant influence on the AOG administration and act as parties in gameplay.
• Private Military Contractors: Their military force while is technically part of Qing China, is mostly formed by mercenaries loyal to AOG money.
• Port Town: AOG controls port cities in the Chinese coast, similar to the Legation Cities.

Alexander von Falkenhausen

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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Left Kuomintang

^{Flag of the Chinese National State}

^{Flag of the Republic of China (Chiang)}

Official Name: Left Kuomintang, Chinese National State (under Dai Chunfeng), Republic of China

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• Our Founder: The Monument to Party Founding is an outdoor area decorated with imposing 20-metre high statues of the former party leaders, including Sun Yat-sen and Wang Jingwei.

Dai Chunfeng

Ideology: Totalism

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• Hellhole Prison: Dai establishes re-education camps where political opponents are shown their treacherous behaviour so they could be transformed into loyal citizens through hard work and teaching. Or at least, that's the official explanation; in truth, these camps are much more terrible, and inmates will never be allowed to leave (in contrast, Chiang actually keeps his word in allowing successful converts to return to their families).
• Make It Look Like an Accident: On their way to the capital to protest Dai's brutality, Song Qingling and Sun Fo die in car accidents. Before the crime scene investigators were able to analyse further evidence, the bodies and the cars are confiscated by ZhongTeJu units because 'this is a matter of national security and not of the civil police'. Some eyewitnesses have seen several trucks without license plates or markings near the two accident sites, which were equipped with an unusual front armour and seemed to be in a hurry to get out of there.
• Police State: Under Dai, China becomes an intelligence agency with a state, where no citizen or foreigner can do anything without the ZhongTeJu being aware of it.
• The Purge: Dai conducts a mass cleansing of political dissidents after seizing power.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Dai has the ZhongTeJu execute not only political prisoners, but also their families, including children.
• Would Hurt a Child: Dai is perfectly willing to kill innocent children just because they happened to be related to his political opponents.

Chiang Kai-shek

Ideology: Totalism, Market Liberalism (democratic)

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• Anti-Mutiny: The NRA side with Chiang during his coup against Dai Li out of loyalty to the constitution, which was disregarded by the tyrant Dai.
• Assassin Outclassin': During the German intervention, the assassins who were sent to kill Chiang seriously wounded him and left him for dead, not knowing that he was still alive.
• Cincinnatus: Chiang slowly begins to return democracy to China after seizing power from Dai Chunfeng and stabilising his dictatorship.
• The Coup: Soon after his identity is revealed, Chiang launches a coup against Dai Chunfeng to put an end to Dai's tyrannical regime.
• Covered with Scars: Chiang's portrait is disfigured, as a result of his nearly-successful assassination.
• Forgot the Call: After narrowly surviving his assassination, Chiang completely lost his memory and lived as a simple farmer for a few years before Dai Chunfeng helped him remember who he really was.
• Irony: Chiang can appoint Mao Zedong, his Arch-Enemy in real life, as Education Minister in his cabinet, praising him as a true Chinese patriot who, through his hard work, made China's education system competitive with those of the West and Japan in just a few years.
• We Used to Be Friends: There's a great conflict going on inside Chiang as he launches his coup against Dai Chunfeng. Even though Dai is an old friend and was responsible for saving him after all, at the same time Chiang sees that Dai's insane attempt to create a total surveillance state will ruin China.

Yunnan Clique

^{Flag of Southern Tang}

^{Flag of Great Tang}

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• A Child Shall Lead Them: Tang Jiyao will always die before his son comes of age (if he proclaimed himself Emperor of Great Tang), and his wife will serve as the young Emperor's regent until he's old enough to rule.
• Historical Character's Fictional Relative: Tang Jiyao's son with either Tseyenpil, Eileen Chang or Li Lili never existed in real life.
• Passed-Over Inheritance: After Emperor Tang Gaozu's death, he can be succeeded by his cousin Tang Jiyu instead of his young son, since the former is already an adult.

Tang Jiyao

^{Emperor Gaozu portrait}

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Age-Gap Romance: Tang (who was born in 1883) can choose either Tseyenpil (born 1905), Li Lili (born 1915) or Eileen Chang (born 1920) as his Empress.
• The Emperor: Perhaps as the result of opium or alcohol, Tang can have an epiphany that he was not just any Tang, he was the Tang, heir to the centuries-dead Tang dynasty, descendant of Lao Tzu and and Tang Gaozu, and the only rightful ruler of China and occupant of the Dragon Throne by birthright.
• Illegal Religion: After proclaiming himself Emperor, Tang bans all foreign religions, provoking riots from the Buddhist population.
• Knighting: Tang grants noble titles to his allies and close friends, and sometimes just to the highest bidder, effectively creating a new aristocratic, noble class.

Triad Syndicate

^{Flag of Great Ming}

Official Name: Triad Syndicate, Great Ming

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• Totalitarian Gangsterism: As the Legation Cities fall into chaos, the Triads can launch a coup and seize power, turning the cities into their own little fiefdoms.

Jiang Qing

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In real life, Jiang Qing was briefly an actress before joining the Chinese Communist Party and marrying Mao Zedong. Here, she never meets Mao, and instead became an opium smuggler and prominent member of the Triads.
• Young and in Charge: Jiang Qing was born in 1914, making her only 22 when the game begins and potentially one of the youngest leaders in the world.

Huang Jinrong

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Human Trafficking: Huang establishes human trafficking rings in order to satisfy his clientele's taste for exotic women.

Du Yuesheng

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Arms Dealer: Du focuses on upscaling the amount and quality of arms that are smuggled and sold to war-torn nations across the world.

Zhu Yuxun

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Rightful King Returns: Zhu Yuxun, the final heir to the Ming dynasty who has been living in a small village south of Changchun, can be given back his throne and crowned Emperor Hongwu if the Triads take over China.

Mongolian Khanate

^{Flag of the Great Mongol Empire (Ungern-Sternberg)}

^{Flag of the Russian Empire (Ungern-Sternberg)}

^{Flag of the Mongol Ardyn Khant Uls}

^{Flag of the Sacred Union of the Steppe}

^{Flag of the Sacred Union of Tartaria}

^{Flag of Mongolia (Social Democrat)}

^{Flag of the Great Mongol Empire (Ja Lama)}

^{Flag of Mongolia (Authoritarian Democrat)}

^{Flag of the Anhui Clique}

^{Flag of the Republic of China}

^{Flag of the Empire of China}

^{Flag of the Russo-Mongolian All-Military Union} kx_mongolia_russianpuppet.png

^{Flag of Zheltorossiya}

Official Name: Mongolian Khanate, Great Mongol Empire (when declared), Russo-Mongolian All-Military Union (Rezukhin)

Ruling Party: Ungern Loyalists

Ideology: Autocratic Warlordism^note Paternal Autocracy

The Mongolian Khanate is also one of the three Russian-unifiers, alongside the Russian Republic, and the Far Eastern Republic of Transamur. Should Roman von Ungern-Sternberg meet his demise in battle, Mongolia would be thrust into a turbulent power struggle among its diverse internal factions, including fellow autocratic, self-centered warlords, to radical socialists, all of whom wish to unite the Mongolian people under their banner.

Should Ungern survived his assassination, It would NOT an unscathed one. Severely wounded, he now began to experience Sanity Slippage and eventually believed he was something... Or somebody, much more powerful than anyone else.

The reincarnation of Genghis Khan himself.

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Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

^{Wounded Ungern-Sternberg}

^{Regent Ungern-Sternberg}

^{Roman I}

^{Genghis Khan II}

Role: Khan^note Head of State, Tsarkhan^note Head of State (as Tsar Roman I of Russia)

Party: Ungern Loyalists, House of Ungern-Sternberg (as Tsar Roman I of Russia)

Ideology: Autocratic Warlordism^note Paternal Autocracy, Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy (as Tsar Roman I of Russia), Esotericism^note National Populism (as Genghis Khan II)

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• Assassin Outclassin': One of Mongolia's first events is Gada Meiren's assassination attempt on Ungern-Sternberg. Whether he survives or not determines whether Mongolia goes down his path or one of the others.
• The Conqueror: Not only does he believe he's the reincarnation of Genghis Khan, his focus tree gives him claims on most of Central Asia.
• Egopolis: After Genghis Khan II's death, his successor has the choice to rename Mongolia's capital Urga to Ungern-Sternberg.
• Meaningful Rename: If he's shot by Gada Meiren but survives, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg renames himself Genghis Khan II, the reincarnation of Genghis Khan, and declares the Great Mongol Empire.
• Napoleon Delusion: If he goes insane, Ungern-Sternberg becomes firmly convinced that he's the reincarnation of Genghis Khan and destined to reclaim his ancient legacy.
• Offered the Crown: If he takes over Russia, Ungern-Sternberg can hold a Zemsky Sobor and crown either Mikhail Drozdovsky, Pyotr Wrangel or Felix Yusupov (instead of a Romanov) as Tsar of the Russian Empire.
• Plot-Triggering Death: If Ungern-Sternberg is assassinated by Gada Meiren in one of Mongolia's first events, the nation descends into total chaos, opening up all of Mongolia's other paths.
• Regent for Life: After taking over Russia, Ungern-Sternberg can hide the fate of Grand Duke Georgy, son of his late sworn liege Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov, from the public, so he could rule as Eternal Regent in the Grand Duke's stead, awaiting the 'inevitable' return of the one true Tsar.
• Sanity Slippage: If Ungern-Sternberg is shot by Gada Meiren but survives, he'll go insane and eventually declare himself Khan of Mongolia.
• The Usurper: During the Great Zemsky Sobor that he calls after taking over Russia, Ungern-Sternberg has the choice to crown himself the new Tsar of Russia, sidelining the Romanovs.

Gada Meiren

Party: Gada Meiren Loyalists

Ideology: Agrarian Socialism^note Radical Socialism, Militant Anarcho-Pastoralism^note Totalism (Moderate-Socialists demands ignored), Left Roerichism^note Totalism (Roerich idealism supported)

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• Chummy Commies: Gada Meiren's goal is to turn Mongolia into a socialist democracy, where people are cared for and secure, free from the tyranny of the Baron, the encroaching Chinese and the greedy Mongol nobility.
• Folk Hero: Many peasant farmers and herders idolize Gada Meiren for his resistance against Baron Sternberg's dictatorship as well as Chinese and Russian colonization of Outer and Inner Mongolia respectively.
• Interfaith Smoothie: Gada Meiren builds a new syncretic faith, which mixes his own shamanistic beliefs with Karma Kagyu Buddhism, Tengri, and even some socialist principles.

Bogd Khan

^{Fyodor IV}

Role: Khan^note Head of State, Tsarkhan^note Head of State (crowned by Ungern-Sternberg as Tsar Fyodor IV of Russia)

Party: Buddyn Zövlöl, House of Agvaanl (crowned by Ungern-Sternberg as Tsar Fyodor IV of Russia)

Ideology: Theocracy^note Paternal Autocracy, Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy (crowned by Ungern-Sternberg as Tsar Fyodor IV of Russia)

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• Egocentrically Religious: Nearly every single religion-based event that the Bogd Khan partakes in, one way or another, relates back to his own desires.
• Extreme Libido: One of the most popular rumors to discredit the Bogd Khan's reign, typically at the hands of his political rivals and disbelievers, like the Soyombo Revival Society, is to accuse him of being a paedophile. Another rumour also spread by a few Mongolian communist factions further claims that the Bogd Khan has also supposedly partaken in various zoophilic activities. There is little to prove the truth behind these accusations.
• God-Emperor: The Bogd Khan, better known domestically as the eighth reincarnation of the Jebtsundamba Khutughtu, the highest-given title to the spiritual head of the Gelug (one of the four major schools of Buddhism in Mongolia) decides to indulge all-in on his mythical status as a divine being. Immediately after taking the throne of Mongolia with the death of Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, the Bogd Khan ensures that the recently empowered tribal council of ministers pledge their loyalty to not Mongolia nor Buddhism, but to the Bogd Khan himself. He subsequently claims that any who oppose him are enemies of the Mongol people and of Buddhism.
• Illegal Religion: If the Bogd Khan consolidates power, 'foreign' (non-Buddhist) religions will be banned from Mongolia. Non-Buddhist minorities are either forcibly converted, jailed or outright executed on the circumstance of refusal. Even Black Shamanism, a native, if archaic faith only followed by a few amount of various nomadic tribes, might also suffer the same prosecution.
• It's All About Me: Whether as figurehead or actual leader, the Bogd Khan does nothing about wealth inequality. Since he is of the holiest title and stature in the Mongolian steppe, he deserves every single ounce of material goods and opium. Any cabinet minister who dares defy the Bogd Khan's desires and wishes would be singled out as being against not just the Bogd Khan, but Buddhism itself.
• Propaganda Machine: The newly established council of ministers at the hand of the Bogd Khan cements his grasp over the Mongolian political scene, as any sort of opposition will find themselves under persecution for daring to have rivaling views to that of the spiritual leader, the Bogd Khan. Obviously, as most Mongolians follow the Bogd Khan and his new government, this will have the populace turn against most who have differing ideologies, effectively forcing conflicting parties and their members to operate secretly, and without public knowledge due to fear of any persecution.
• Puppet King: The Bogd Khan initially serves Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as a popular figurehead to the Mongol people.

Demchugdongrub

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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• Patriotic Fervor: Building Mongolia as a conservative nationalist state, the Yazgurtan Survaljtan paints the Mongol people as the true sons and daughters of Genghis Khan and heirs to an undying legacy forged in the war and conquest.

Ja Lama

Role: Khan^note Head of State

Party: Ja Lama Loyalists

Ideology: Esotericism^note National Populism

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• Dark Messiah: Ja Lama leads a band of nationalists, zealots and outcasts who obey his every command and word without hesitation, for they know that their prophet shall lead them to salvation.
• Dead Guy on Display: Ja Lama decorates the grand temple in the town of Khovd, with his skinned opponents. Both man and animal alike are killed, skinned, and then finally displayed for the public to see.
• Earn Your Bad Ending: From requiring Mongolia to first colapse to going on a *very* length and difficult conquest of the entirety of China and beyond, Ja Lama's path is one of the most difficult to complete in the game - but doing so condemns the far east to a rule by a neo-mongolian empire whose brutality far surpasses that of the Genghis of the old, headed by a insane Khan whose twisted taste for skinning and strunging the bodies of his enemies is only matched by his xenophobic and murderous disposition towards the chinese and russian populations.
• Evil Old Folks: By game start, Ja Lama is believed to be around 74 years of age, one of the oldest possible leaders in the game.
• Evil Reactionary: Ja Lama invokes a return to the ways of the Khans of old, which involves a return to pastoralism and rejection of modernity and industrialisation, pillaging the 'modern world' so that Mongolia may grow rich off their burning corpses.
• Genuine Human Hide: After consolidating power over the Mongolian lands, Ja Lama decides that he finally has the manpower of the entire nation to bend to his will. One of the bizarre acts that he has followed throughout his life, was to convert his home settlement of Khovd into a strange fortress of a settlement, with himself and his personally crafted culture at the center of it all. To top it all off, he decides to skin his opponents and string them up around the town for all to see.
• A God Am I: Ja Lama elevates himself to a near godlike figure: the Avatar of Mahakala, the Hindu-Buddhist God of Time, Maya, Creation, Destruction, and Power.
• The Gulag: Ja Lama builds compounds in the Black Gobi, where the criminal and unruly elements of the Chinese population are put to work.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: The real Ja Lama had never held any actual authority over anyone asides from his fellow anti-imperialist revolutionaries. However, in Kaiserredux, he can finally take power and implement his radical xenophobic ideals over Mongolia.
• Hordes from the East: Emulating Genghis Khan, Ja Lama establishes a new Mongol horde to take back the rightful territory of Mongolia and slaughter its enemies.
• Mad Artist: He enthusiastically advocates his Genuine Human Hide as a new type of Mongolian art style. Over the course of his reign, hundreds of individuals deemed as "threats" to the Mongol people are killed and skinned, to the point the hides overlap each one another, creating a sort of grotesque flesh wall. Ja Lama even decides to incorporate the ghastly display into his fortification system around the town of Khovd.
• Make an Example of Them: If his various crudely unique twisted ideals are not present enough, Ja Lama has all his opposition, man or animal, killed, skinned and strung up everywhere around the town of Khovd for all to gaze upon.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Ja Lama's real name is completely unknown and lost to time. Thus, he is typically only referred to by a variety of nicknames, such as the popularly given Ja Lama or the less frequent name of Dambiijantsan.
• Patriotic Fervor: Ja Lama warns his countrymen that the Russians and Chinese have been an imperialistic plague on their lands and need to be combatted at all times.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Ja Lama's hordes claim everything of value from vanquished foes as rightful plunder of their war effort. When not at war, they are sent out across the borders in search of bounty. Raiding shall be an integral facet of the Mongolian identity.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In reality, and even mentioned in his in-game biography in Kaiserredux, Ja Lama, asides from being a militant guerilla fighter, actually spent much of his youth in Astrakhan as a pedlar and soothsayer before moving on to greater, more extreme ambitions.

Xu Shuzheng

Ideology: Paternal Autocracy

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• Cannon Fodder: The Anfu Club uses barely-organised Mongolian peasants as a meatshield during the march to Beijing.
• Evil Colonialist: The Anfu Club allows full, unchecked immigration from China into Mongolia and enforces mass Sinification in order to fundamentally change Mongolian culture so that it is no longer Mongol, but just another form of Chinese.
• Final Solution: Xu conducts 'the final solution to the Mongol problem', eradicating the Mongolian people by forcing them to interbreed with Chinese settlers, banning their religions and language, and changing their cuisine, art and music.
• The Remnant: The Anfu Club is all that remains of the once powerful Beiyang Clique which was considered the legitimate Chinese government in the years after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911.

Boris Rezukhin

Party: Soyombo Revival Society

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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• The Assimilator: After Rezukhin leads the Soyombo Revival Society to take over Mongolia, they'll begin the process of Russification. The Russian language will be adopted over Mongolian and Mongolian traditions and customs will be replaced by Russian ones.
• The Coup: In the midst of the chaos following Ungern-Sternberg's death, the Soyombo Revival Society will take advantage of Mongolian politicians being distracted with one another by replacing the interim government with a military dictatorship ruled by the Russian minority.
• Yellow Peril: As Mongolians rather obviously make up the largest percentage of the population, Boris Rezukhin and his newly-empowered Soyombo Revival Society instead aim to purge other Asian ethnic minorities from the Mongol lands, most prominently non-assimilated Chinese.

Fengtian Government

Official Name: Fengtian Government, Chugoku (under Japanese mornarchy)

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• Les Collaborateurs: Like the case of Kaiserreich, Fengtian could become one to the Empire of Japan if Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by the pro-Japanese collaborators, but this time they can deliberately pander to the monarchists to solidify Japanese control.
• Offered the Crown:
  • Despite the republicans' protest, Zhang Zuolin could choose to declare himself as the Emperor of China following his survival of the pro-Japanese faction's assassination attempt and solidfying his power. Whether he choose to be a constitutional monarch or a Bonapartist is dependant on players' choice.
  • The pro-Japanese faction have the choice to crown their new Emperor of China that is loyal to Japan. Most notably, they can crown a Japanese monarch on the throne, with Emperor Hirohito himself as one of them, in the same vein of how A.O.G. crowned the Kaiser as the Emperor of China.

Yoshiko Kawashima

Ideology: Market Liberalism

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• Historical Villain Upgrade: In the real world, Yoshiko Kawashima was a Chinese-born descendant of the Aisin Gioro clan, who had chosen to become a spy and collaborator for Japan during their invasion of China and the occupation of the Northeast. Here, she can be a candidate for the Empress of China when Fengtian is under the full control of Japan, setting up a Japanese-controlled Qing Dynasty not unlike Manchukuo. Even worse, she now has full right to rule China and more free will to be The Quisling rather than being a mere puppet like her cousin in real life.
• Rightful King Returns: Exploited by her supporters in the pro-Japanese faction, who claimed that she is also a member of the Aisin Gioro clan that would be their only choice to revive the Qing Empire, confronting Puyi who is close to Germany.

Japan

Korea

^{Flag of Juche Korea}

Official Name: Republic of Korea, Combined Communes of Korea (Syndicalist), Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Totalist), National Republic of Korea (Paternal Autocracy), Joseon Kingdom (Authoritarian Democracy), Korean Free Territory (Radical Socialist)

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Kim Koo

Ideology: Liberal Conservatism^note Market Liberalism

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Jo So-ang

Ideology: Centrism^note Social Liberalism

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Pak Hon-yong

Ideology: Centralized Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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Kim Il-sung

Ideology: Juche^note Totalism

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• Cult of Personality: Kim educates all Koreans on the Supreme Leader's accomplishments, that all of Korea owes its greatness to the Supreme Leader, and without Kim Korea would be nothing but a smouldering wreck.
• The Purge: Kim purges all moderate socialists and anarchists in order to remove all opposition to his rule.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Under Kim, all dissenters will be jailed alongside their parents and offspring, so criminals of the future and the past will be dealt with.
• Young and in Charge: Kim Il-sung is 24 at game start, making him one of the youngest leaders in the world.

Hong Sa-ik

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Paternal Autocracy

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Yi Un

Ideology: Oligarchism^note Authoritarian Democracy

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Sin Chaeho

Party: Korean Anarchist Movement^note The modern anarchist movement in Korea began to take form among the exiles who fled to China after the 1919 independence struggle, and students & workers who went to Japan. The Korean Anarchist Federation in China was formed in April 1924. and published the “Korean Revolution Manifesto”. It is militantly anti-imperialist “we declare that the burglar politics of Japan is the enemy for our nation’s existence and that it is our proper right to overthrow the imperialist Japan by a revolutionary means”. It went on to stress the need to do more than merely exchange rulers, pointing out the difference between a political revolution and a social revolution. It had no doubts about the role of anarchists; it laid emphasis on the leading role of the anarchists in a revolutionary situation. The Federation began to produce papers like Recapture and Justice Bulletin. The KAM is now the primary source of Leftist Resistance against Japan.

Ideology: Anarchism^note Radical Socialism

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Southeast Asia

Vietnam

^{Flag of the Empire of Vietnam (Cường Để)}

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• Les Collaborateurs: When the Indochinese socialists rebel against the German East Asian colonial government, the latter has the choice to set up a rival government led by Vietnamese collaborators, in the hope of keeping Vietnam in Germany's sphere.
• Rightful King Returns: Two candidates that can be crowned by Prime Minister Phạm Quỳnh after he ousts Bảo Đại are former Emperor Thành Thái and his son Duy Tân, both of whom were previously overthrown and sent into exile by the French before the Weltkrieg ended.
• The Starscream: After defeating the socialists, the right-wing Vietnamese government can decide that they no longer need their German benefactors, instead seeking to forge their own destiny as the Rising Dragon of Southeast Asia.
• The Theocracy: There are three religious sects (Cao Đài, Hoà Hảo and the Coconut Religion) that can seize the state apparatus and turn Vietnam into a theocracy.

Bảo Đại

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• The Hedonist: The Emperor is a hedonistic man infamous for debauchery and sin.

Ngô Đình Diệm

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• The Fundamentalist: Diệm, a devout Catholic, can pass a slew of anti-Buddhist laws, even going so far as to ban the public usage of the Buddhist flag and their smaller prayer flags, in the process stoking anger from Vietnam's religious majority.
• Nepotism: Diệm appoints friends and family to cabinet positions, most notably his younger brothers Nhu and Cẩn, who are granted control of private armies and administrative positions, virtually ruling over the countryside as warlords.

Lê Văn Viễn

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• Totalitarian Gangsterism: Viễn, a leading mafioso, crime boss, and kingpin of Southeast Asia, can seize control of Vietnam and lead it at the head of a band of marauding brigands.

Huỳnh Phú Sổ

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• God-Emperor: The Virtuous Master Huỳnh is seen as a messianic figure, a demigod that walks among the people, who can heal the sick and cure the insane while divining the future and communing with the heavens.
• Good Old Ways: One of the core ideas of the Hoà Hảo movement is for society and people to return to a more traditional and community-orientated way of life, free of classist hierarchies that divide mankind, free from the entrapments and pitfalls of statist society, free of the decadent clergy and nobility, free from the vile plague of urbanism, and free from politics in general.
• Young and in Charge: Despite his youth (he's only 16 by game start), the Virtuous Master Huỳnh can gather an army of fanatical volunteers and become spiritual and political leader of Vietnam (which is less implausible than it might seem, as his real life counterpart founded Hoà Hảo at the age of 19 and became an influential preacher in his early 20s).

Ông Đạo Dừa

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• Only Known by Their Nickname: Nguyễn Thành Nam is almost always referred to by his title Ông Đạo Dừa (Coconut Monk).
• Trademark Favorite Food: The Coconut Religion promotes the consumption of coconuts and coconut-based foodstuffs, and mandates the compulsory inclusion of coconut as an ingredient in all meals. In one event, the Coconut Monk and his closest students share their message to the wider world over coconut water or milk and vegetarian coconut curry with jellied coconut flesh.

South Asia

Afghanistan

^{Flag of the Barakzai Empire}

^{Flag of the Barakzai Empire (Amanullah)}

^{Flag of the Dominion of Afghanistan}

^{Flag of the Kingdom of Afghanistan (Nadir Khan)}

^{Flag of Saqqawist Afghanistan}

^{Flag of the Emirate of Afghanistan}

^{Flag of the Durrani Emirate}

^{Flag of the Jalalabad Revolt}

Official Name: Kingdom of Afghanistan, Barakzai Empire (formable, Paternal Autocracy), Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (socialist), Dominion of Afghanistan (British puppet), Khorosani Caliphate (formable, National Populist)

Ruling Party: Royal House

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Foreign Ruling Class: The Dominion of Afghanistan is a British puppet just like British India and is ruled by a English governor who answers to the Crown in Canada.

Habibullah Khan

Role: Monarch^note Head of State

Party: Barakzai Royal House (Traditionalist)

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Failure Is the Only Option: There is no way for Habibullah Khan to keep power. If he wins the war against British India, he would unceremoniously die in a hunting accident. If he either loses or simply refuses to declare war, he would be overthrown and exiled.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Downplayed. The real Habibullah was killed on a hunting trip in 1919. In this timeline, he's alive at the game start of 1936, but later die under similar circumstances after the 4th Anglo-Afghan War.

Amanullah Khan

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^{Alternative Portrait (Civilian)}

^{50s Amanullah Portrait}

^{50s Amanullah Portrait (Civilian)}

Role: Monarch^note Head of State

Party: Barakzai Royal House (Progressive)

Ideology: Oligarchism^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• Slave Liberation: While slavery was officially banned in 1923 by Habibullah Khan, it still unofficially persists in more limited ways. In accordance with his platform of aggressive modernisation, Amanullah will fully crack down on slavery.

Mohammad Nadir Khan

Role: Monarch^note Head of State

Party: Barakzai Royal House (Musahiban Branch)

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Wild Card: Mohammad Nadir Khan is willing to both work with the British Empire in order to return from his exile, and turn against the British for his own gain. The name of this trope is even his own nickname.

Mohammad Zahir Shah

Role: Monarch^note Head of State (Mohammad Nadir Khan succession)

Party: Barakzai Royal House (Progressive)

Ideology: Oligarchism^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• Young and in Charge: Mohammad Zahir Shah, born in 1914, is only 22 years old at the game's start date of 1936, and can become King not long after.

Habibullah Kalakani

Role: Monarch^note Head of State

Party: Saqqawists

Ideology: Islamism^note National Populism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show} Habibullah Kalakani was born in 1891 in the village of Kalakan, north of Kabul. An ethnic Tajik, his father was named Aminullah and delivered water to people's homes. This heritage is how Kalakani gained the nickname ‘Bacha-ye Saqao’, or son of the water carrier. During his adolescence, Kalakani ventured out of his village and traveled to the city of Kabul. In the south, he met an old Sufi who told the young Habibullah that he would become king one day. He would fight with the Afghan Army in the Third Anglo-Afghan War and the Khost Rebellion. After being discharged from the army after attacking a superior officer, Habibullah escaped Kabul in the dead of night and once again returned to a life of banditry.
Habibullah's exploits as a bandit gradually gathered him a small but loyal band of brigands, robbing caravans during the day and hiding out at night. Afghan Army units sent to round him up were routed or brought over to his cause and it was not long before Kalakani became the real authority in Eastern Afghanistan. While Habibullah grew fat and lazy in Kabul, Kalakani began to draw up plans to fulfill his destiny and become King of Afghanistan. However, despite his growing power and ambitions, he was reluctant to strike at Kabul and tear the heart out of the decadent regime he had come to despise. That time came eventually with the catastrophic war against the Raj, and despite all odds, Kalakani now has seized the reins of government. What he intends to do with his newfound power however only Kalakani and Allah know and neither of them seems interested in telling.

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• King of Thieves: Habibullah Kalakani is a self-proclaimed bandit king who leads the Saqqawists, a band of brigands who are encouraged to raid and pillage villages within Afghanistan in order to refill the treasury of the nation.

Ali Ahmad Khan

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Role: Monarch^note Head of State

Party: Barakzai Royal House (Shaghasi Branch)

Ideology: Oligarchism^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the Jalalabad Revolt is put down, Ali Ahmad Khan has already left, attempting to flee across the border into India on horseback, but is captured with the help of one of his men who defected.

Leo Amery

Party: Dominion Government

Ideology: Autocratic Colonial Government^note Paternal Autocracy

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• Evil Colonialist: Governor-General Amery rules over a 'dominion' where natives have no political powers and freedoms and are forced to learn to appreciate the benefits of being a loyal servant of the British Empire, while resources are looted to enrich white Britons.

Sikkim

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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Tashi Namgyal

Ideology: Authoritarian Democracy

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• Cincinnatus: After his reforms are done, the Chogyal turns Sikkim from an absolute monarchy to a consitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy.
• Fed to the Beast: If the Sikkimese monarchy is overthrown by socialists, hardliners and radicals demand the Chogyal to be tied to a table and letting a caged and starving tiger do the rest.
• Internal Reformist: Chogyal Tashi has long desired to reform the educational system, healthcare system, judiciary, nobility, economy and more, virtually rebuilding all of Sikkimese society from the ground up.
• Locked Away in a Monastery: Some socialists, who see the merit in Tashi's failed reformist ambitions, advocate for either sending him into exile to the Dalai Lama in Tibet, or forcing him to become a monk in the hallowed Rumtek Monastery where he could do no harm.

Palden Namgyal

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• A Child Shall Lead Them: Palden, who is only 13 by game start, can be crowned by the Kazis after their counter-revolution, should they prefer an easily-controllable puppet monarch.

Jerman Lepcha

Ideology: Radical Socialism

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• Chummy Commies: Jerman's strain of socialism is based around ideas of preserving the natural beauty of Sikkim, respecting the traditions of the many different tribes, and bringing egalitarian prosperity to all within the nation.
• Fed to the Beast: If the socialists are overthrown by the Kazis' counter-revolution, Jerman will be arrested on the way to Calcutta and forced to fight two Bengal tigers this time.

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