Nihon, the land of the rising sun
A short written account by Tamagotchi the illiterate
on Economy, Industry, Commerce, Corruption and Waste
Nihon has a highly Militarized and Industrialized feudal economy, It has four major industrial centers that produce some the finest goods known to mankind, taxes and internal trade is quite low due to the massive mountains that dominate the Home Islands, projects to create a vast internal network of roads have been discussed for a long time but no emperor has had enough interest in carrying them out.
Nihon is known as Japan by the various barbarians they traded with, most trade is conducted with Manchuria and Korea through the
Nihonkai (Sea of Japan), a good deal of trade is conducted with Jiangsu and Fujiang trough the
Higashi Shina Kai (East China Sea), Trade with Heibei-Beijing and Guangdong is more rare, usually only popular if war or other reasons disrupt normal goods flow to the settlements of the other Chinese, Manchu and Korean barbarians, trade with other Barbarians is rarely done on a significant scale, not that they would have use or could pay the fine products of our superior craftsmanship.
Nihon’s Honor based social structures make is so that Corruption is nearly non-existent and has only an negligible impact on Japanese economy, however the very same social structure causes an increased amount of waste than de facto equalizes the amount of lost economy to that of other societies, most of the waste is caused by fighting between feudal lords due to questions of honor and attempts to gain prestige to climb the ladder of nobility.
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The Shogun and one of his favorite generals were discussing an upcoming military campaign:
…..most enlightened shogun, am i sent on this fool’s errand as punishment for failing you somehow?
If you had failed me somehow you I would have ordered you to commit
seppuku, no this is a mission of great importance, even though little honor is gained by destroying barbarian forces we need to expand, our people have spent so long fighting each other that after centuries of fighting we have gained nothing in the terms of territory, now the Japanese people are stuck in a cycle of overpopulation, famine and rebellion each time an harvest fails to be more bountiful as the previous one, our people need living space and so we must expand, tame wild lands and spread our superior Civilization.
Diplomacy:
From
Nihon
To
Korea
We offer you a Trade Agreement with the aim to augment the amount of trade done between our peoples, we also offer Pact of Non Aggression as stable relations are also important factor in our merchants minds.