The North American Coordination Office

[Evangeline Anovilis]

Onee-sama ga Miteru...

 

It had been about a year since the Commonwealth succumbed to the Japanese determination and righteous spirit, but while the Empire had hoped to establish a new order in North America by allowing new states that cared for themselves, strengthened themselves and would be cooperative, such seemed unlikely to happen, at least for now. The new states were hardly more energetic than the old systems, which brought the Japanese government to the conclusion that this sadly was a weakness inherent to the system and thinking of the continent. In contrast to the successes in Korea, where the newly founded Republic was maybe a bit weaker than the other regional actors, but was quite capable of arranging itself and Korean-Japanese relations were good, the Prime Minister found the relations with the Americas to be an almost complete waste of time, effort and Japanese ressources, as long as it was aimed at early emancipation. But leaving the continent to its own devices was hardly acceptable, both due to the ressources it had cost to overthrow the old system, but also because it'd just be a matter of time until others would move in, and profit from the weakness of the Americans. In the end, Akiyama thought, it was in the best interest of both the Japanese Empire, but also the Americas, to establish a more long-term scheme towards American emancipation, with a more active role of Japan.

 

The North American Coordination Office was set up as agency to replace the protectorate administration. Instead of the narrow responsibilities of the former administration, restricted to upholding law and order, as well as military security, the new NACO was to coordinate economic policy, security policy and even partly social policy within the protectorate holdings, to forment a more conductive foundation for future states, which were of better quality than the American Commonwealth. But this also was to serve in restructuring the North American economy, in ways to fit into a future vision of the Trans-Pacific relations, crushing old elites and heavy industry for a more stable environment.

 

But naturally, the North American Coordination Office was not the sole axis around which future Japanese policies regarding the Americas developed. There also was a new emphasis on bilateralism with the established nations, which hopefully at some point would lead to a multilateral system under the caring guidance of Kagami-nee-sama.

[Evangeline Anovilis]

With the dissolution of the Confederate States of America, the North American Coordination Office assumed once again authority over the territory of the short-lived state. Provisory structures and administration would be set up, which hopefully would either be replaced by an independent new state administration or a long-term protectorate one.