The war flag of the Second Philippine Republic is used during the Philippine Conflict.
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 Co-Prosperity Sphere.
History[]
The Philippines was occupied by Japanese forces in 1942, 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 president. The republic was set up with its capital 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 government faced numerous challenges, including economic difficulties, lack of popular support, and continued guerrilla warfare by Filipino resistance groups that fought against both the Japanese occupiers and the collaborationist government (In which the resistance still continues to this day).
On November 6, 1959, Jose P. Laurel had Myocardial infarction and eventually died due to a Cerebral hemorrhage. He was replaced by José Yulo, who was a Senator of the Philippines.
In-game[]
At the start of the game, the Philippines is one of the many territories acquired by the Sphere following their victory in World War II, but the Second Republic has since struggled to control the countryside, unable to finish off the communist and American partisans still fighting to liberate the archipelago. The Philippines is led by the KALIBAPI under President José Yulo. The KALIBAPI-run government only controls Southern Luzon, Palawan and some parts of Visayas, with the 14th Army effectively calling the shots on Tokyo's behalf. The rest of the nation is under the De Facto rule of either the Communists or the FPR. In most cases, it's not a question of whether Manila will fall but who will get there first.
Politics[]
The Philippines 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.
On paper, the Philippines is a stable, independent, democratic member-state of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. In reality, the KALIBAPI-run government only controls Southern Luzon, Palawan and some parts of Visayas, with the 14th Army effectively calling the shots on Tokyo's behalf. The rest of the nation is under the De Facto rule of either the Communists or the FPR. In most cases, it's not a question of whether Manila will fall but who will get there first.
The "republic" of the Philippines is corrupt, ruled by an autocratic presidency, and heavily biased in favor of Japanese collaboration. Any seditious behavior is also a warrant to face arrest.
The Second Republic is reliant on both a vestigial Philippine Constabulary and MAKAPILI auxiliaries as the closest thing it has to a military. All of which answer to the Japanese 14th Army.
National spirits[]
| Imperial Protectorate |
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| A Fraudulent Sovereignty... |
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... |
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 |
"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." |
