People's Republic of Hokkaido

Hokkaido
Hokkaido (pronounced ho-cai-doe), officially the Peoples Republic of Hokkaido is a socialist republic on the island of Hokkaido in the Japanese archipelago.

Political Geography
The Peoples Republic of Hokkaido is divided into 4 provinces: Hanokoa, Narokaia, Soridoki and Achidoko, plus a special district called the Sapporo Special District around the nations capital in Sapporo.

Legislature
Regional leaders for each province (not including the SSD, it is governed by the president directly) are selected out of all the mayors of cities of each region by the mayors every 2.5 years. The mayor with the most votes becomes a regional leader for their province. Regional leaders select 2 other mayors to assist them, which get the titles of left-wing vice and right-wing vice. Every week, the regional leaders and their assistants meet in parliament in Sapporo and discuss new laws and the such. Any new laws, policies or other ideas from the members get passed to be voted on by 100 members of parliament, selected by the leader. If a majority votes for it, the idea, law or policy is passed to the leader, who approves or denies it. The leader can also make laws, policies or any general idea which does not need to be voted on. A new leader is picked every 5 years, and the former leaders MP's vote amongst them for which MP should become leader.

The Japanese Civil War (1969-1975)
The Japanese Civil War was a civil war in Japan from 1969 to 1975. It had 5 main factions. They were the Hokkaido Popular Front, the Chugoko Liberation Army, the Aomori Republican Militia, the Japanese Government and the Japanese Socialist Union. The HPF, CLA, ARM and JSU gained support from the Soviet Union and the PRC, while the Japanese recieved support from the South Koreans and Taiwanese. The Japnese were heavily outnumbered and quickly lost the war, officially dissolving on June 6th 1975 into the Chugokan Social Republic, the Aomori Republic, the Peoples Republic of Hokkaido and the Socialist Republic of Japan.