The Japanese Affiliates

POLITICS:	Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
POPULATION:	Earth: 214.31 million Space: 68.03 million (approx)
ECONOMY:	Government-industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation (1% of GDP) have helped Japan advance with extraordinary rapidity to the rank of second most technologically powerful economy after the United Americas and third largest economy after the United Americas and the European Federation.
COLONIES:	7

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Japan is one of the five major colonial powers. The Japanese Imperial Government is nominally a monarchy and is actually a constitutional monarchy where a large degree of governmental power is vested in the emperor. Unlike the old Earth Chinese Emperor's who received heaven's mandate to rule, Japanese Emperors are literally living gods. This fact has enabled Japan to claim at least 2000+ years of unbroken imperial power.

Also to be reckoned with are the large corporations, which are in some sense hereditary. These corporations, often massive transnationals of the 20th, 21st, and early 22nd centuries, have established themselves as massive controllers of power within the Japanese government. Greatest of these is Cenargo Corporation, an Anglo-Japanese combine which is the major financial investor in Japanese colonial expansion.

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