Okanama City

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The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune of Okanama City

The Flag of Okanama City The Coat of Arms (Digital version)
Motto: The City of Freedom
Region	Alçaera
Capital	Downtown Okanama City
Largest District	Le Petit-Monmartre
Official Language(s)	Japanese, French, Paristani, English
Communal Anthems	The People United Will Never Be Defeated! The Internationale
Government	Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune
- Main International Diplomatic Representative	Hoji Leferbve-Tomishi
Independence	from Luo Geng
- Declared	8 August 1868
- Recognized	10 August 1868
- Established as the ASCOC	14 Janurary 1998
Population	20,000,000
Economic Sector	Y2007
- Non-Credit-Based	62%
- Credit-Based	42%
CHDI	N/A
Currency	None. Okanama Labor Credit is used
Timezone	E.A.S.T
- Summer (DST)	N/A
Internet TLD	.okc, .oka
Calling code	+300
ISO Code	OKAC
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Overview

The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune of Okanama City (abbreviated: ASCOC), commonly known as Okanama City, is a Anarcho-Syndicalist commune that was founded in Janurary of 1998, after the events of the Great Okanaman Proletarian Revolution (GOPC) of 1992-1998. From becoming independent from Luo Geng in 1868 to the formal dissolution of powers in 1998, it was known as The Popular Democratic Republic of Okanama City (PDROC).

Since the GOPC and the establishment of Okanama City as the ASCOC, the Okanaman economy has been witness to a dramatic level of economic and social growth in the past five years, which has resulted in the re-industrialization of Okanama City, the upgrading of its telecommunications infrastructure, the development of renewable power sources, particularly nuclear power, the updating of its Heathcare system and the re-development of its educational system.

Okanama City and its productive capabilities are governed and controlled by the entire population, through the Syndicalist Union of Okanaman Unity/L'Unité Okanamien Union de Syndicalisté (SUOU/UOUS), which is basically a bottom-up association of neighborhood and workplace assemblies.

History

Before the arrival of the French in 1771, Okanama City did not exist. Rather, it was just a uninhabited peninsula that belonged to the enslaving nation of Raissa. This changed with the Raissan-French war of 1754-1763, which was provoked by individual Raissian city-states that were trying (in vain) to prevent the growth of France's colony in Alcaera - the modern-day New Paristan - from destroying their territorial integrity.

The French Colonial Era (1763-1789)

During the Rassian-French War of 1754-1763, The French, aided by their Paristani colonists, captured what is now the Okanaman Peninsula, and the Raissans, frightened by the power of a advanced France and the emerging colony of New Paristan, gave up the peninsula to France as a offering of peace, along with a large part of its territory. The peninsula and the large amount of territory belonging to Raissa were immediately integrated into the growing colony.

Seeing the need to keep the Raissians in check through the most reasonable use of the peninsula, the French colonial administration permitted its Paristani settlers to establish a town on the peninsula, one that would be able to restrict the ability of Nicopolis to maintain a monopoly on trade in the Morgan Sea, and one that would serve as a defensive barrier to attack from other colonial powers, such as Celdonia.

On February 15, 1771, 400,000 settlers from the southern part of New Paristan, upon the orders of the French colonial administration, came to the western tip of the peninsula and established such a settlement. They named this settlement Rouen, thus beginning Okanaman history.

Between 1771 and 1789, the population of the settlement exploded to 1,500,000, due to the increasing profitability of the port and the growing prosperity of the inhabitants. Also during this time, it became a hotbed of anti-colonial activity, with many actively demanding the independence of New Paristan from French rule. The reason for this favorability towards independence was because many of Rouen's population also experienced the brutal policies of France, causing an overwhelming growth of hatred towards France.

In fact, Rouen was one of the first places to rise up in rebellion against France in the days immediately before the French Revolution of 1789, leading to Paristanis in other towns and cities to rise. This eventually lead to an outright declaration of independence and battles ensued for the better part of the year, until the newly-independent Republic of New Paristan was able to bring things under control.

The Paristani Era (1789-1819)

In the years immediately after independence, Rouen experienced another wave of growth, pushing the number of the population to at least 2,000,000. This lead to the expansion of the city through the creation of its second district, Le Petit-Monmartre. This new wave of growth came from the rise in the birth rate of those in the city, in addition to the migration of people from other parts of New Paristan.

During this time, it began its slow evolution from an city without native culture into a impressive cultural center, demonstrated by the opening of what is now the La Okanamien Opera Grande and the construction of the central hub of what is now the Okanama Public Library. However, this development was cut short, when Luo Geng declared war on the young nation of New Paristan in 1819.

The war reached a turning point on April 22, 1819, when the Gengi navy began to bombard the naval defenses of Rouen. The hope was that by taking over the city, they could force New Paristan to submit. The defenders of the city responded and a fourteen-hour battle soon ensued. Rouen fell when Admiral Kiramoto, a Gengi naval commander and an army of 300,000 men landed on a low point outside of the city and attacked the the naval fort from behind, after overwhelming the main land fort protecting the city's main entrance.

The Gengis used the fallen Rouen to break some of New Paristan's trading operations from May of 1819 to August of 1819, driving New Paristan to negotiate peace by officially giving up the city to Luo Geng. This became official on December 31, 1819.

The Gengi Era (1819-1868)

On 1 January 1820, the occupiers of Rouen officially installed their presence; they dissolved the City Council of Rouen, which governed the city from 1789 until 1819, the year before. They re-named Rouen Okanama City, after a major populated region of Luo Geng. And most of all, they installed the Imperial Colonial Administration of Okanama City (ICAOC), integrating the City into the Empire.

On 3 February 1820, the ICAOC made Japanese and French the official languages. The reason why they decided to integrate the French language into the linguistic control mechanisms of Okanama City is because they wanted the French-speaking popluation to remain and to retain some aspect of their heritage, as they were already generating, just by engaging in resumed trading activities, a large amount of profit for the colonial administration and in turn, the empire. The reason why they put in Japanese as the first official language was because Luo Geng is a Japanese-speaking nation and they wanted the population to become totally apart of the empire by making the language the most dominate means of communication in the city.

Many inhabitants initially resisted the imposition of Gengi rule upon them, leading to the Rue de Decartes Rebellion of 1820, which lasted from 18 March 1820 - 20 March 1820, when emergency reenforcements from naval ships stationed in Okanama City managed to put it down. After the rebellion, the majority eventually accepted the control of Luo Geng, except for a unnoticed few.

To ensure that the ex-Paristanis that were living in Okanama City would not demand at some point, any kind of reunification with New Paristan, and to ensure that they would not rebel on the basis of completely maintaining their cultural identity, the ICAOC took two steps. The first step was to sell Kirkos island and its smaller counterpart to Raissa, thereby leaving Okanama City bordered by Raissa on two sides. The second step was to promote the immigration of Gengi immigrants to Okanama City on a constant basis. This way, they hoped, the Francophone Paristani population would eventually be intermarried with the incoming Gengi immigrant population and that at least 1/5 of their cultural identity would be preserved.

The next twenty years of the Gengi colonial regime (1820-1840) were characterized by the following:

• Over 3,000,000 immigrants of Gengi descent immigrated to Okanama City and a rising birth rate, pushing the total population of Okanama City to over 6,700,000 people.

• The emergence of a nascent capitalist class, mainly made up of Paristani and Gengi entrepreneurs that benefited from the salutary neglect policy of both the Okanaman colonial administration and the Empire. They mainly functioned in the retail and transportation sectors, which took products imported from Luo Geng and then, in turn, sold it to other countries.

• The emergence of a nascent working class in the retail and transportation sectors, made up of the majority of the population. They mostly received low wages and were treated unfairly by the powers that be.

• A rising level of intermarriage between the new Gengi inhabitants and the relatively native Paristani inhabitants, leading to the legalization of hyphenated surnames (i.e. Mikashi-DeJeune). This was actively supported by both the Empire and the colonial adminstration.

• The expansion of Okanama City to it's current northern districts, and the movement of commerce from Old Rouen District as it was now called to the newly-built downtown district.

In 1840, the ICAOC decided to undertake an analysis on the current social, political and economic conditions of Okanama City as so to be a form of clarification to those in Luo Geng on what was actually happening there. The results of the analysis found the following:

• The Parstani inhabitants of Okanama City made up 30% of the population. While intermarriage and Gengi immigration had taken their toll on the general Paristani population, They had mostly maintained reasonable population growth.

• The Gengi inhabitants of Okanama City made up another 40%. While intermarriage had led to a significant mixed population and had reduced the amount of Gengis that were born in Okanama City, there was sufficient immigration to sustain a large presence.

• The Mixed inhabitants of Okanama City made up another 20%. They were the result of intermarriage and of policies to promote intermarriage by the ICAOC.

• The Bourgeoisie of Okanama City had enriched themselves through trading with other nations, and that a large amount of that wealth was not going back to neither Guo Leng or the ICAOC.

• The Proletariat (working class) of Okanama City had even lower wages and lived in often horrible conditions, at the expense of the Bourgeoisie. This did not particularly offend the ICAOC nor the Bourgeois class, but it was important enough to be concerned about.

• The expansion of Okanama City to what is now Shin Nippon Beach and the western districts.

The economic analysis, which reached the Imperial capital by 3 March, caused Luo Geng and the ICAOC to mostly end the salutory neglect policy that had been in place in the past 20 years and forced the Bourgeois class to surrender a part of their operations to the ICAOC. That way, the Empire benefited more. The new policy, which was called "Proportional Profiteering", mitigated the Bourgeois class to a less-affluent role and made things even harder for the Proletariat as their wages fell even lower than they had fallen.

This lead to the establishment of the Okanaman Independence Front/Front Independance de Okanamein (OIF/FIO) 24 March 1840 during a midnight meeting of Bourgeois ideologues at the home of young 20 year-old Henri Leclerc, the future first president of a independent Okanama City. The OIF was a pro-capitalist organization that advocated the end of the "Proportional Profiteering" system, the end of Gengi colonial rule and the development and the expansion of the manufacturing sector as so to increase the affluence and power of the Okanaman Bourgeoisie internationally. The OIF was also dedicated to the liberation of Okanama City from the Domination by any means necessary.

The development of OIF initially did not have much effect upon the colonial administration of Okanama City, for the concept of Okanaman independence had not deeply integrated themselves in the minds of the Bourgeois class, despite their increasing difficulties, and for the Proletariat had no effective mechanism to defend their interests, even if they actually supported the concept of independence.

Independence and Early Years (1868-1870)

The Okanaman Industrial Revolution (1870-1930)

The Era of Reform (1930-1970)

Economic and Social Decay (1970-1992)

Working Class Revolution and Re-establishment (1992-1999)

The Modern Era (1999-Present)

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