Second Philippine Republic

The Second Philippine Republic (Republika ng Pilipinas), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a Japanese satellite state in Southeast Asia established on the Philippines following World War II. They are a member of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. While it holds de jure sovereignty over all of the Philippine Islands, the KALIBAPI-run government only controls Southern Luzon, Palawan and half Visayas on behalf of the 14th Army of the Empire of Japan; the north and south are under the effective control of the unrecognised All-Filipino Revolutionary Socialist Republic and Free Philippine Republic, respectively.

History

On December 08, 1941, the Empire of Japan would invade the Philippines. By 1942, the Japanese forces would completely occupy the archipelago following the surrender of American and Filipino troops during the Battle of Bataan. The Japanese established control over the islands and sought to create a collaborationist government to legitimize their rule. On October 14, 1943, the Japanese officially established the Second Philippine Republic with Jose P. Laurel as its first president, leading the Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas or known as the KALIBAPI. The republic was set up with its capital based in Manila. The Japanese hoped that this government would help them control the population and resources of the Philippines more effectively.

The establishment of the Second Philippine Republic was met with resistance from many Filipinos who opposed Japanese occupation. The resistance, primarily the Hukbalahap and the remnants of the Commonwealth, would conduct guerilla warfare against the Laurelist regime. As a result, the government faced numerous challenges, including economic difficulties, lack of popular support, and continued guerrilla warfare by Filipino resistance groups that have still been fighting against both the Japanese occupiers and the collaborationist government. When World War II ended in 1945, resistance would continue. The north would be dominated by the Hukbalahap and the south would be dominated by the remnants of the Commonwealth.

On November 6, 1959, José Yulo, a former Senator, succeeded Jose P. Laurel as President of the Philippines after the latter's death from myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage. In the same year, the Hukbalahap would attempt an Socialist revolution while in the south, the Commonwealth remnants would rise up. The 14th Army would assist the Philippine Army in fighting against the Commonwealth remnants and Hukbalahap. In 1961, a ceasefire would be called. The Hukbalahap had retreated back to the Cordilleras while the Commonwealth remnants would be stemmed in Visayas and Mindanao. The Second Republic is virtually despised by everyone and has little legitimacy backing it up and as the weight of the Huks and Commonwealth remnants threaten to crush the fragile republic.

National Politics

The Second Philippine Republic is led by the KALIBAPI under President José Yulo, which traces its roots to back to WW2. 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. Any seditious behavior is also a warrant to face arrest. The Second Republic struggles to win the hearts of the population it rules over and struggles to maintain order in the countryside, unable to finish off the communist and Filipino-American partisans still fighting to liberate the archipelago. In most cases, it's not a question of whether Manila will fall but who will get there first.

The KALIBAPI itself is divided between Quintín Paredes and his fellow Laurelists, Claro M. Recto and his fellow Nationalists, and Sergio Osmeña Jr. and his fellow Reformists. They all represent the Parliamentary Faction within the KALIBAPI and are united under Yulo's leadership.

The Second Republic does not have a formalized armed forces. Instead, the KALIBAPI is reliant on a vestigial Philippine Constabulary and the MAKAPILI auxiliaries as its self-defense forces. However, the Japanese 14th Army has the final say on its operations.

In Game

National Focus

The Second Philippine Republic does not have a focus tree as of version 1.7.0a.

National Spirits

Fully Dependent Member of the Sphere	GDP Growth Boost: 3% GDP to Sphere Leader Modifier: 5% As a result of missed debt payments to Japan, governance failure, or many other reasons, the internal governance of this nation is under the full control of Japan via Japanese "advisors" in this nation's government ministries. In this nation, the Head of State, Head of the Government, as well as the Ministers and Military Leaders serve in an almost ceremonial capacity. Any and all of the decisions this government is allowed to make are judged by such "advisors" who ensure that such actions do not go against the whims of Tokyo. As a result, the entire state apparatus in truth lives only to serve Japanese interests, with those of the nation's citizens taking second, if not third place."
A Fraudulent Sovereignty...	Political Power Gain: -50% Recruitable Population Factor: -30% Division Recovery Rate: -30% War Support: -20% Monarchies derive their right to rule from an almighty god. Tyrannies invoke theirs by force of arms, the first resort of lowly brutes. Democracies outshine both by receiving their mandate from their consenting governed, for only when a President respects his people will the people respect him in turn. Our democracy is bestowed - not 'We derived', nor 'We invoked', nor 'We received' - by a Diet of foreigners three thousand miles away. What does that say of the Republic? Of our people?
...A Paradoxical Government...	Political Power Gain: -0.25 Stability: -10.00% GDP Growth: +0.50% The Second Republic presents itself as a democracy whose great families manage its lands for the people's benefit, with its chosen President in Malacañang Palace merely the first among equals. Yet the expansive, almost dictatorial powers his office has held since the Liberation contradict fictions so polite. Look no further than the Army lording over the provinces with an iron fist, or the secret policemen leaving behind them dissidents' empty homes. And yet its would-be nobles lord still over their fiefdoms from Tarlac to Tayabas, where God is on high and Manila so far away. One has to wonder: does a dictator rule our Republic? Or do his kumpares rule for him?
...and a Listless Spirit	Division Defense: -20.00% Division Organization: -20.00% Max Entrenchment: -15.00% Division Attack: -15.00% "First came the Kastila, who promised salvation before installing taxes and the corvée. Then came the Kano, who promised freedom before installing their own governors after hijacking our revolution. The spirit of a proud people, hence buried under three hundred unbroken years of foreign rule - if it ever existed at all." "Then the Hapon stole us whole from a war we never asked for. Twenty years on, the legacy of an independence fought for us shows in a make-believe democracy strung like marionettes from Tokyo: a prop for their pan-Asianist fantasies and little else. Yet it is ours, and it is free. Now we are free." "The facts speak plainly: either the Filipino spirit will wake with a free people, however slim the chances may be... or it will die with a people broken one last time."

Politics

Cabinet

Cabinet Member	Role	Ideology	Traits/Effects
José Yulo	Head of State	Anocracy	Bagong Laurelismo: Daily Political Power Gain: +0.10 War Support: -5.00%
Vacant Position	Head of Government	None	None
Vacant Position	Foreign Minister	None	None
Vacant Position	Economic Minister	None	None
Vacant Position	Security Minister	None	None

Political Parties

Political Party	Ideology	Popularity	Party Leader	Is ruling?
Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Orthodox Faction (KALIBAPI - Orthodox)	Despotism	55%	José Yulo	No
Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Parliamentary Faction (KALIBAPI - Parliamentarians)	Paternalism	40%	José Yulo	Yes
14th Army	Ultranationalism	5%	Generic	No
14th Army's Headquarters in the Philippines (14th Army Headquarters)	Despotism	N/A	Masazumi Inada	No

Political Leaders

Leader	Ideology	Party	In power	Popularity
José Yulo	Anocracy	Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Parliamentary Faction (KALIBAPI - Parliamentarians)	Yes	40%
National Assembly	Interim Government	Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Orthodox Faction (KALIBAPI - Orthodox)	No, comes to power after the assassination of José Yulo following an SPR victory in the Balintawak Blitz	N/A
Quintín Paredes	Anocracy	Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Parliamentary Faction (KALIBAPI - Parliamentarians)	No, can come to power in the election that follows a successful reconstruction of the SPR	N/A
Claro M. Recto	Social Nationalism	Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Parliamentary Faction (KALIBAPI - Parliamentarians)	No, can come to power in the election that follows a successful reconstruction of the SPR	N/A
Sergio Osmeña Jr.	Paternalistic Developmentalism	Kapisanan ng Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas - Parliamentary Faction (KALIBAPI - Parliamentarians)	No, can come to power in the election that follows a successful reconstruction of the SPR	N/A
Masazumi Inada	Interim Government	14th Army's Headquarters in the Philippines (14th Army Headquarters)	No, comes to power if the SPR wins the Balintawak Blitz and the following reconstruction fails	N/A

Economy

The Second Philippine Republic has a starting GDP of $3.36 billion and a real GDP growth rate of 2.331% with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 0.0%. The Second Philippine Republic starts with 5 production units; 4 are assigned to Military Factories and 1 is assigned to Consumer Goods.

Military

Branch	Manpower Used
Free Manpower	59.15K
Army	148.10K
Air	0
Navy	0

Army

The Second Philippine Republic's starting templates are:

• Brigadang Pamayapa (6 Infantry battalions with 1 Recon Company and 1 Military Police Company)
• Dibisyong Pampangulo (6 Infantry battalions with 1 Support Artillery Company and 1 Engineer Company)
• Brigadang Makapili (4 Light Infantry battalions with 1 Military Police Company)
• Hohei Shidan (6 Infantry battalions with 1 Support Artillery company, 1 Engineer Company and 1 Signal Company)
• Dokuritsu Konsei Ryodan (8 Infantry battalions with 1 Engineer Company and 1 Signal Company)
• Konoe Shidan (6 Elite Infantry battalions with 1 Support Artillery company, 1 Engineer Company and 1 Recon Company)

The Second Philippine Republic starts with the following:

• 12 Brigadang Makapili divisions (12 Trained I)
• 5 Hohei Shidan divisions (5 Regular II)
• 3 Brigadang Pamayapa divisions (3 Regular I)
• 3 Dokuritsu Konsei Ryodan divisions (3 Regular II)
• 2 Konoe Shidan divisions (2 Regular III)
• 1 Dibisyong Pampangulo division (1 Regular III)

Flags

Flags
Flag	Country Name	Ideologies	Notes
	Second Philippine Republic	Anocracy Interim Government Social Nationalism Paternalistic Developmentalism	Used post-Balintawak Blitz
		Anocracy	Used before and during Balintawak Blitz
	Provisional Government of the Philippine Archipelago	Interim Government	Used if the reconstruction of the SPR fails