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^After the resolution of the First World War, Japan, having gained the Chinese city of Shantung
^(which had been leased to Germany previously) and the Marshall Islands in the peace settlement,
^began plans for a campaign of expansion across East Asia and the Pacific. This begins the stage
^for this scenario, and the back story to the Second World War in East Asia and the Pacific. You
^can play as the Japanese, coming under a militarist government and seeking to expand across the
^map (the Protagonist), or as the Thai, who, while technologically backward and geographically
^small, are growing closer to Japan diplomatically, or you can oppose Japan as the Soviets, a
^newly reorganized Communist state after several years of civil war (represented by their Siberian
^holdings and their puppet state in Mongolia), the French, with their colonies in French Indo-China,
^part of the Solomon Islands, and French Polynesia, the Chinese, who are pre-industrial and with
^a woefully corrupt and ineffective government, but with a big population and army, the Americans,
^with the Western U.S., as well as Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, the Phillipines, and, due to strong 
^influence, Northwestern Mexico, or the British Empire, with India (including Ceylon, Bangledesh,
^and Nepal), Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, New Britain and New Ireland, Fiji,
^Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Samoa, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Hong Kong, and Western Canada, plus
^their close allies Portugal (with Macao and East Timor) and the Netherlands (with the Dutch East
^Indies). The goal is to, if Japan, to conquer as much as possible, and, if most others, to stop
^them. The scenario ends in %STRING2, just before the Pearl Harbor attack opens total war in the
^Pacific.

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