The New Order REDUX: Asean Expansion for People Playground

World War II has been over for twenty years, but its legacy still lives on. As in the West, the German Reich spans sea to sea, putting the boot of oppression and certain subjugation on those who refuse to conform, so in the East, where the Japanese Empire assimilates all in the Pacific and Asia, in the name of the empire's prosperity, and in the name of the Emperor.

Hirohito, in his 60 years of life, had not seen a more thriving home nation before, but he knew very well that there were cracks, temporarily mended by the soft foams of compromises and notions of honor. The economy and nation that built a war machine that lasted ten years of total war and conquest was unprepared for the following peace procedures, as the Japanese and the German Reich, once close allies, became bitter and rivalries sprung up, and the United States, picking itself up from the humiliating defeat following the war and the nuking of Pearl Harbor, has led a coalition of nations in the name of a free world. It is a three-way Cold War, and the empire may not make it.

The empire, spanning from the eastern most parts of the North Pacific, to Bengal and Indonesia, is a vibrating conglomeration of rump states, governments in slavery, and unrest within and without, held together only by the chains of slavers and bounds of the Taisei Yokusankai and zaibatsu corporatism, is bound to fail, and once it does, no one will come to assist the emperor's herd.