Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana) is an Italian colony located in the Horn of Africa. It borders Reichskommissariat Ostafrika to the south, a small portion of Reichskommissariat Zentralafrika to the southwest, and the Kingdom of Egypt to the west. Italian East Africa is part of the Triumvirate due to their status as an Italian colony.
Situation
In 1962, Italian East Africa is still governed by Viceroy, Governor General, and famed war hero Amedeo di Savoia-Aosta, serving for Emperor Umberto II. Following the end of the war, East Africa became less of a jewel and more of a financial burden on Italy, struggling to return a profit: this is majorly due to the Governor insisting on granting benefits and welfare to the locals, something which makes him well-loved by the locals, but much less by the Imperial Colonial Treasury.
The colony has seen major reform under the Duke's hands, seeing increases in quality of life and native rights, but this is dampened by the fact that the Governor is very ill and is not expected to live to 1963. His appointed successor Enrico Cerulli has many of the same ideals as he does, and will most likely continue his reforms.
Politics
National Spirits
Colonia Primigenia
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The Neverending War
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The Somali Youth League
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Legacy of the Mau Mau Rebellion
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Colonial Government
Rather than an independent country, this territory is governed directly by Italy as a governorate of the Empire. Its foreign and internal policy is bound by the will of Rome, and its people live under the watchful eye of the Roman eagle.
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In Game
Italian East Africa will unavoidably, at some time in the middle to late 1960s, collapse into a civil war between the remains of the Italian Occupation, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Oromo Liberation Front, and Kenia[sic] as part of the collapse of the Italian Empire. Italy will directly intervene in this conflict in order to restore East Africa.
Trivia
As in real life, Italy was on the losing side of World War 2, Italian East Africa officially ceased to exist in 1945 - in addition to Italy's colonial possessions from before the war in the region (the land Eritrea, Italian Somaliland - respectively making up the modern-day Republic of Eritrea and Somalia - and Ethiopia) the region only briefly occupied the French colony of Djibouti and British Somaliland (what is now Somaliland, which while claiming independence, is largely not recognized as a nation and is considered by the international community to be part of Somalia).
