[CLOSED] Prefectural Elections Thread

Pretend that you are a resident in Japan and imagine what would happen if a dynastic state wants to be turned into a different political system. Thanks to a recent proposal issued by some of my prefectural rulers, for the first time it is your chance to vote which leader you want to see when they take the Chrysanthemum throne for next year. All you have to do is make a post stating the leader's name you want to vote for, and then your opinion on why you chose him or her. You can only vote once.

This thread has been modified by me to make it that elections now use regions to determine votes instead of prefectures; the number of candidates has been significantly lowered from 47 to 16. This meant that two candidates initially duke it out against each other for their starting region, then progress onward to outvote other regions to get a five to three majority rather than highest number of prefectures. If a tie occurs, then the swing prefecture will be chosen randomly for the runoff session with an extended deadline.

Edit 4: Re-purposed the thread's title to make it possible for prefectural elections to run annually.

Backlash wrote

Ooh, this could be fun! Do ya need any help with crafting the candidates? I'm pretty fluent when it comes to politics. ^^

I got all the leaders now, no worries. <3

>A few days ago, Lucia Konohana of her home prefecture Osaka, had suddenly removed herself from the Imperial Palace as a result of a very violent overthrow attempt that took place between the 14th and 20th of August. At that time, about roughly one-third of her entire population across the country were mistreated by her state police along with her provincial guards, classifying as “brutal” and “an unforgivable demonstration of authority.”

>However, when Genji quickly assumed the throne, and Pravda having ignored the peace treaty formed by Konohana a month ago, she did not hesitate to mobilize the nation’s ground forces, particularly in Hokkaido where the troops were already stationed near Pravda’s two closest islands. The exact details of Pravda’s advances against Japan are as of yet unknown to the public.

>Shortly after Genji announced that Pravda joined forces with North America, she left the country for Germany to meet up with an old friend of hers, which unfortunately causes her citizens concern that she could be killed overseas by her enemies. Nonetheless, this proves to be an opportunity for Konohana to ascend to the throne once more and to do the right thing this time, but first, she must win the trust of her nation’s people.

>Konohana then makes her first move to neighboring Kyoto on the first day of the race to secure a foothold under the Royalists party.

“My people have been hurt, pushed around, and left to submission for too long, but one day I will restore order in my name, and I’ll let my rivals know I am not to be feared.” Konohana vows herself to win the race.

>As day turns to night, several hundred thousand people show up in the city of Kyoto awaiting her speech. She brought along three trustworthy guards: Kan’u Unchou, Ryuubi, and Bachou Mouki to protect her at all times. They were the same three loyal girls used in the April 6th incident, and were the same three who barely manage to protect her from a short-lived crisis that occurred fifteen years ago right before she became an empress, which failed spectacularly, and since then, she retain her class representative status. Now, as a running leader for her home province, she wants to become an empress she waited for so long.

>Her three guards stand beside her unobstructed from her peripheral view with their weapons sheathed, but highly alert, unmoving, and lips closed tight. Some of the local prefectural police already set up barricades watching for any signs of civil unrest.

“Citizens of the heartland of Japan, I welcome you all in this important rally. I, Lucia Konohana, hereby state that it is time to rise up under the royal velvet banner and show us your will to support my ascension to the Imperial Palace as a rightful supreme leader.”

>Konohana then states her purpose in participating the race, as the large crowd briefly cheered and then silence.

“Dear citizens, the sun shall forever enlighten us as we continue to pour in our fullest might toward our opposition, whilst working together with our sovereign allies of Germany and Italy to crush our foes. The superiority we always have as Imperialists, shall not fade away from the catalyst that nearly caused my downfall a long time ago, without provocation, came to the fore as a warmongering force against us as a whole. We will take action to the maximum extent under per jurisdiction that we will continue to endure the harsh reality without any pretense; we will send an avalanche of movement never seen in today’s world against the very opposition that as I just said, the catalyst that nearly caused my downfall.”

>Konohana then gives out the details about what she’ll do if she becomes the first Empress of Japan.

“Under imperial law, on a case-by-case basis per jurisdiction at the time I will become an elected empress, no one will come in or out of the nation unless they have proper preparations and fully written, substantive information on their persons fully inspected by law enforcement on our airports and seaports. The media will be run by the state and heavily controlled by the government. Our streets, our seas, and property will be environmentally regulated and well maintained by law, there will be stiff taxes on corporations, high tariffs, and zero tolerance policy on all common substances. And lastly, we will be much safer with domestic security in this land, our waters, and our airspace by voluntarily offering the citizenry a chance for self-protection by lending in a fair share of our latest weaponry when they reach the age of fourteen.”

>And lastly, Konohana gives out her final words about the current condition of the war.

“Our enemies will be pushed back, we will strive tirelessly to push them back, we will not give away this land, our waters, and our skies to any foreign superpower, nor to any foreign party who wishes to take away our way of life, and we ensure our forces to strike mercilessly into our opposition outside of our borders. Their reckless actions transpired on their own deaf ears, and their rhetoric as foreboding and hostile, and we will teach them a lesson the hard way. Thank you for your cooperation, and good night.”

>Konohana and her three guards then walk away as the audience cheers loudly and the camera zooms out to show the whole city of Kyoto.

As of midday EST today, the polls indicate the Conservative Party has just overwhelmingly lost their swing prefecture Kyoto to the Royalists Party without incident. Sakuma is out of the election within the first day.

The following status updates as of 09:00 on Sept 11:

>Jana of Tokushima has switched political parties from Liberals to Conservatives.
>The swing prefecture Kyoto owned by the Conservatives was overtaken by the Royalists.
>Konohana of Osaka is now leading the election by a few hundred-thousand votes and has two prefectures.
>A drastic change in weather patterns across Japan has forced some leaders to change outfits.
>Sakuma is eliminated from the election, bringing the number of potential candidates down to 46.

>As tensions between the Lucians and Pravda are nearing full-scale escalation, Konohana called in on some of her fellow Royalists with firm pressure to give further support to the Imperial cause, whilst she prepares for her next move by traveling to Hyogo.

>One of the former Capitalist leaders named Yukimura of Tottori with her deep, soft voice appear to be defecting to Konohana's antics, and she agreed to set off for Shimane and its islands overseeing an opportunity to take it away from the Liberals for the Royalists. It went smoothly in fair weather there. Whereas Miyabi of Miyagi with a more narrow-minded, strict regimen approach went to Iwate with a military parade and a very risky speech in the middle of Morioka’s downtown streets on a chilly, rainy afternoon.

>Konohana decided to keep her cool and head for Hyogo. Some residents within the prefecture are getting uneasy of her presence, expressing their disdain of her, but nonetheless she presses onward to Kobe to start her next speech, again with her three guards watching for any dissent:

“We are here to give you a bit of a history lesson and you should learn this thoroughly. We have been here for about as long as our ancestors were here before us. Before we became Lucians, we were something else, particularly in Asia Minor where we are split into many similar names and then at some point in time we merge into one and form a legitimate reign. Now as of today, we want a permanent residence here in Japan, but only if I come to being as the one true leader, and there can only be one, so to speak.”

“We only want our enemies out of our lands and our seas, whenever there’s evil out there somewhere, there’s always a counter force readying to act on, and we are that counter force. In response to the many atrocities and injustices I have seen in many years as a class representative, this nation like Japan that has experienced the same burden as I have will one day be no more, and I make it clear we do not want any outsider and insider evil forces interfering in our way of life. That means no more outside and inside evil forces within our soil!”

“The domestic reign of silent terror will be over when it’s time, but exactly how I’ll handle the situation is up to the nation’s future administration once I take the throne. There hasn’t been a time like this in Japan when backdoor schemes and the like becomes the norm, and I don’t like it, I fully condemn them as “brazen riggers” and “anti-Imperialist sympathizers”, and they shall be investigated, punished, prosecuted, and sanctioned.”

The following leaders have been eliminated and/or replaced, along with some status updates as of 11:00 Sept 12:

>Maemi of Shimane, Izo of Iwate, and Kobe of Hyogo are eliminated from the race. There was a bit of a verbal uproar within the confines of Kobe and Morioka due to split opinions and disdain for Konohana and Miyabi, but eventually within hours, the Royalists secured a firm hold on these prefectures.
>Konohana is still in the lead with three, and is now on Jana’s doorstep via the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge. Yukimura and Miyabi are closing on the gap with two.
>Yukimura has defected from the Capitalists to the Royalists Party.
>The number of potential candidates in this race is down from 46 to 43. State media newspapers and officials just confirmed a replaced leader from Niigata prefecture named Fujimoto, and Kumi of Saga pledging to resign from office sometime later this month.
>Due to current national laws handling censorship under Genji's administration, we censored only one image due to ‘depictions of violence with state police' in state media newspapers.
>Niigata is now under control of the Liberals, whereas Shimane, Hyogo and Iwate are overtaken by the Royalists.

As time passes, some leaders' expressions have changed accordingly (a smiling, blushing face means they're winning or confident, a neutral face means they're so-so, whereas a sad or angry face means they're either losing or in danger of elimination), just to let you readers know.

Edit: As of 14:30 on Sept 15, Japan is about to experience Typhoon Talim. Her name is a shout-out to a Soul Calibur character well known for her graceful movements, and mostly having a kind voice, but in nature she's a storm.

Lucians are 'Armed and Ready'
Imperialism throughout Japan continues to strengthen. Typhoon Talim marches northeast.
Posted: 10:38AM, September 16, 2XXX

>Following the recent development of armaments and defense systems a few days ago within domestic soil, state officials have confirmed the possible future deployment of surface-to-air and surface-to-ship turrets in key installations. Local military academies were set up across the nation to entice middle and high school students into a 90-day conscription due to rising fears of an invasion with Pravda.

>In the last few weeks, several Abyssal ships were lost against the 17th KanMusu Fleet along with two Axis fleets off the coast of Midway. Many families of the deceased ships across the country mourn for their losses and a memorial planned to be erected in Kyoto by the end of this year. State officials were unable to draw conclusions as to what caused the Abyssals to stop fighting; more updates will follow as time passes.
 
>Imperialism for the second time in over eight decades is on the rise again to an all-time high whilst a typhoon turns inward northeast bearing down on Kyushu and Shikoku. Schools and universities are given a 1/2 day in preparation for the coming storm, but it is expected to weaken over the next few days. While all votes in the current election so far are 100% legitimate and submitted, several violent protests have broken out in several districts. The death toll from the combined riots is expected to climb into the hundreds. There are still some cities, towns, and villages awaiting polling results.

>An artificial island construction proposal off the coast of the home islands by a foreign kingdom has been denied by the Genji administration. The empress does not immediately comment on whether the new island will be considered "off grid" or pose a risk to Japan's territorial sovereignty, and state officials have declined to comment.

The following latest status updates are confirmed as of 11:15 on Sept 16:

>Typhoon Talim has slightly changed her course, but can still affect most, if not all of Japan regardless.
>Kanbayashi of Ehime has switched political parties from the Royalists to the Liberals party, whereas Mino of Fukuoka has switched political parties from the Royalists to the Conservatives party.
>Ehime has been overtaken by the Liberals due to a change of a leader's alignment.
>Fukuoka has been overtaken by the Conservatives due to a change of a leader's alignment.
>The entire island of Shikoku is now under Liberals territory.
>The Royalists have completely lost ground on Kyushu and Shikoku.
>Hundreds of thousands of middle and high school students are encouraged by local military academies a 90-day mandatory conscription service amid rising tensions with Pravda.
>The nation's economy is slowly improving by a few points.
>The number of potential candidates in this election went down from 43 to 42.

We should be able to continue the election as normal, Typhoon Talim has passed, but I find some affected leaders having very sad or concerned faces from the storm's aftermath.

>Lucia Konohana and her company from the previous few days discuss about the future of the nation at stake, and to her surprise, the efforts of mobilization had put in place a lot faster than she ever anticipated. She barely smiled that her progress in the election has gone very smoothly, only hoping that her chance of taking the throne are worth all the years she yearned for.

>After the devastation left by tropical storm Talim that hit all four islands, the Royalists are unhindered in their destined goal to restore the current dying dynastic system to its full, former glory. She phones in on all the other Royalist leaders in her bid to accelerate her ascension.

>On a sunny, warm day in Aichi prefecture, Tanji, the current heir to her older sister Genji, who is currently absent but is due to return soon, will travel to neighboring Mie. At around the same time, on a cloudy day in Ishikawa, Joruri, a school principal wanting to restore order to national level schools and better, stricter education, begins her trek to Toyama, Gifu and Nagano prefectures. Her success rate in Nagano unfortunately did not bode her well, though.

>In the far north, Ai of Aomori in her speakeasy decides that the other parties are too much of a concern to be dealt with peacefully, so she hires a small group of highly trained assassins to get rid of her opponents within the Touhoku region. So far, she has reserved herself away from politics, preferring not leaving her prefecture in fear she would be caught by local authorities.

>While Terada is busy dealing with recovery efforts within Hokkaido, Miyabi heads south for Fukushima but staying clear of the nuclear power plant. Her parade has been interrupted by scores of hatred voices and a lengthy riot, splitting the prefecture into two. It seems the conservatives’ party is not willing to give themselves in as easily as she initially thought.

>Lucia’s next speech takes place in Okayama, hoping that she would convince the voters there to support her in her company’s stead. At this point in the election, right before she even get started proper, several Conservative citizens attempt to boo her and even threaten death if she cannot leave their turf. This prompted her three guards to intervene.

Lucia: “Guards, protect me!”
Kan’u Unchou: “I shall protect Your Majesty!”
Bachou Mouki: “Get off my spear, damnit!”
Ryuubi: “Back off, you’re interfering with Lucia’s official business!”

>The three guards stand back to back, surrounded by an angry crowd of Conservatives.

Kan’u Unchou: “There’s just too many!”
Ryuubi: “Majesty! What should we do!?”
Lucia: “Just hold them off while I find a safe exit route!”
Bachou Mouki: “You got it! We’re gonna pin you down if you don’t relent!”

>Lucia’s attempt in taking Okayama has failed and forced to retreat to her hometown.

>Yukimura then gets her chance at Okayama, and the crowd has subsided a bit, allowing Lucia’s guards to retreat. Her speech mannerisms are more alluring and elegant and have a higher support percentage than Lucia, thus easily influencing the last bit of western Honshu. Lucia is happy enough that she'll arrange a meeting with all the Royalists in a Kyoto rally sometime by Friday.

The following status updates as of 16:00 on Sept 19:

>Okayama, Mie, Gifu, and Toyama are under control of the Royalists; however, Fukushima fared worse and are now disputed between the Royalists and Conservatives.
>Okiku, Rie, Aguni and Koyama are eliminated from the race, bringing the number of potential candidates down from 42 to 38. 
>Nissho, a new capitalist leader from Nagasaki has just entered the competition after a couple of weeks of job interviewing, bringing the number of candidates back up to 39.
>The Royalists party now has the most prefectures, with Konohana tying for three with Joruri and Yukimura, and the runner-ups are Miyabi and Tanji.
>There is now a much larger active civilian militia in place across six affected prefectures: Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Tokushima, Osaka, Miyagi, and Hokkaido. The total number of active troops including the civilian militia within Japan is now at 600,000 and still rising.
>2 Japanese KanMusu ships, Kawakaze and Verniy are nowhere to be seen and have been defected to the enemy.

Genji is not happy about what is happening lately, so she just made her return to Japan briefly to address the whole population. Perhaps a little bump might get this thread going again?

Genji: "People of the Rising Sun, this is an official message to you, the citizenry from your Empress, regarding the 'bipartisan political alliance' across our homeland. From the doorsteps of my palace to the farthest ends of our islands that I call it home, I won't allow such a mixed party joining hands with each other risking my rule into collapse."

"In my utmost response to these people, they are separate beings operating on their own goals, yet they strongly refuse to give in to my words. To bring this election I called forth barely even weeks ago to remain fair and just, those two parties of greatest concern, the Liberals and Conservatives must be split and part their ways immediately."

"I will however, regardless of who wins this election, mutually agree to step down as your faithful Empress and resume life back in Aichi, the city I was raised from by early December. I will also authorize a peace meeting in Geneva with Lucia's enemies to put an end to this unnecessary conflict next week. It's too bad we don't have the resources we used to even before the expeditions began back in mid-July, which would make me consider the smarter and safer path away from war entirely. What if they decide to refuse for talks with us, then what else are we to do? Chances are, let's just hope they have at least second thoughts before this already overwhelming global war gets too serious."

Lucians becoming desperate at home, Royalists Party becomes more aggressive amid gut-wrenching power struggle to keep dynasty system from imminent collapse.
Posted: 11:00PM, September 27, 2XXX AD

>As the election is nearing its end with a little over a week to go, several events have occurred right in the Empress' eyes. Even Konohana can't even comprehend the sheer amount of support coming from all her friends across the country capable of seizing large portions of territory by a combination of speeches, parades, live fire demonstrations in open fields, and the like.

>From north to south, Miyabi has grown even more confident and started amassing parade after parade in formal fashion across the northern mainland region, taking away Niigata, forcing Fujimoto to leave her post, as well as Tochigi and Fukushima. With the Conservative resistance suppressed, Miyabi won't stop at anything to get at the throne with her five prefectures under her belt.

>Tanji, the Empress' younger sibling has only come so far as Shizouka with her cheery, vibrant speech with a crowd of thousands. She is now on Homura's doorstep, just a few kilometers away from Mitakihara City.

>Kugimiya, a tomboy with a 'kuudere' attitude, secured Fukui and driving out the lone capitalist Seiki from the central Honshu region, wanting the nation to be quieter than what Konohana intended.

>In Kyushu, Yasue's approach to politics is far stricter and radical, so she takes her chances very seriously in achieving the most densely populated areas as a priority. The swing prefecture of Fukouka has met with similar incidents that occurred back in Okayama and Fukushima prefectures, like Miyabi and Yukimura; she is capable of securing that area, forcing Mino to take her leave.
>However, in response to said takeover, Nissho, the new capitalist leader from Nagasaki, wanted to expand her influence across the island and start taking Kumamoto, forcing Komatsu going home. At around the same time, Tengan, a high school class president with an iron fist and being sassy, her travels to visit some smaller islands south of Kagashima has net her universal acclaim, stopping short of Okinawa, a swing prefecture.

>Things don't fare well on the other side of central Honshu. Joruri's attempt to take over Nagano with her disciplinary logic has caused the ire of Mayako, a former princess of the Royalists party before she started having right-wing tendencies prior to the elections, which makes her so angry she takes back Toyama and Gifu for herself. She always seen carrying around her custom-made Type 38 rifle, and is the only leader in the election armed with a weapon.

>In Shikoku, Hironaka is angry that Kanbayashi had betrayed the Royalists-Statists party, and she wants her out. She storms through the bridge that connects between Hiroshima and Ehime with her own troops, usually civilian militia from schools that encourage military conscription, storming through Kanbayashi's place in protest for hours.

>Back in northern Honshu, Teika showed the Capitalists that the Conservatives party is serious. Terada is still trying to cope with the losses sustained since Talim, but she gains confidence by having all of the small islands surrounding her swing prefecture. While it won't help much, she might one day descend southward to Honshu all by herself to get adequate amount of voters to support her.
>Unfortunately, due to her insecurities and her defective genetics, she is starting to experience the first stage of becoming an Abyssal due to her pale white hair and unusual yellow eyes. She distances herself from civilization as far as possible, whilst still trying to lay down her next moves as a politician. If such a transformation occurs, Hokkaido will be lost to Abyssal territory, and not a territory under any party.

The following status updates as of 22:35 on Sept 27:

>Many leaders are eliminated, particularly some Liberals and Conservatives and half of the Capitalist party.
>Terada is feeling mysteriously ill; she won't be doing much for the remainder of the election and is risking becoming an Abyssal if she doesn't seek out a cure soon, even if she isn't a KanMusu shipgirl.
>The election is becoming more competitive, almost every leader is now taking part.
>Violent crime rate is going down a bit, but there are still a few ongoing protests around certain areas of Japan.
>The 17th KanMusu Fleet is fully decommissioned under the Empress' orders, however there are still a few ships awaiting retirement, so they will still be in active duty within coastal waters.
>All territories in the Pacific that were previously taken by the 17th Kanmusu Fleet are given back to its respective nations.
>There are now only 29 candidates left.

>With more than half of Japan under the Royalists' grip, Konohana is more than pleased that she is now holding a meeting with all of her friends who have supported her in Kyoto prefecture. The meeting is long and tiring, a few snippets of their dialogue from a few lucky journalists eyeing on them like spies from a distance have managed to convert these audio files into a 20-minute mixtape. Here's how it turned out:

Konohana: "Thank you for coming, all of you. Here is what used to be a symbol of the all-powerful Toyotomi Hideyoshi before this place was burnt down from a war centuries ago. Now, in its place is a city filled with few million people enjoying the modern-day cycle of life unaware of what's happening outside of this municipality. Now, what we are going to do is we are setting up the core values of every living citizen in this forthcoming new generation of the human race unlike any other nation has ever done. We are going to start the 'Carbon Fire' project, a multi-billion yen project that should help protect this nation from under direct attack, whilst also helping new-coming tourists by deploying 'companion robots.'

Yukimura: "Lucia, what will these new robots is going to do once the Empress authorizes the deployment?"

Miyabi: "Like, can they do things humans normally can't do in the confines of normality, or should their emotions be regulated to serve their high-quality purpose?"

>Konohana shows all of them as she walks through the newly installed cryo chambers of the facility that won't be finished until 2024. If she were on her own planet the whole time building this colossal skyscraper, given that time of day actually goes by at five times the normal rate than Earth, it wouldn't be even finished due to extremely high costs, taxes, and mixed opinions concerning the project until around 2257.

Konohana: "These new robots are larger than life beings that would be outfitted with these microchips she shows them the green bio chips that holds the basic necessities and functions for the robot about one-tenth the size of a penny so that the robot at least knows what to do if commanded by ordinary citizens. It also has an on/off button and is solar-powered, so these chips have limitless battery life."

Tanji: "So what those bio chips have to do with the human population, Lucia?"

Konohana: "We won't place them on humans, because these will only fit on robots, and these behind me do the thing. Though these robots aren't tested right now, not without the Empress' authorization, we do however have constantly performed tests on machinery for faster efficiency, less accidental slipping, and better accuracy of their tasks. The A.I. system of these chips is a true marvel, if it were placed on ourselves; we would have easily kicked the shins out of innocents or otherwise alter our genes unpredictably, so for safety reasons, they only fit on machinery and robots."

Yukimura: "What else does this huge project have to do with the nation's infrastructure, besides robotics?"

Konohana: "Some old idea from science fiction that's been centered on for years will soon turn reality if we are going to survive a nuclear winter or an extraterrestrial invasion. While no such things have happened yet, we will place down a huge shield dome that should be able to stop even an ICBM from reaching our soil, or near it, as well as energy blasts. Vehicles of any size and people can enter and exit with no side effects, but projectiles too small to hit it will get deflected."

Tsukiyama: "How powerful that dome can withstand?"

Konohana: "Given the size of our nation surrounded by water, it should be powerful enough to withstand at least one nuke, a huge laser beam, or multiple explosive attacks simultaneously hitting the dome. However, anything that occurs inside the dome bypasses this, and even then, monsters can still somehow go right through it if they want to and destroy it from the inside. We won't have the dome built until after the building is finished, and I would be even happier if they can get it done faster."

Yukimura: "We will have to see, our people are just as concerned as you are, if not, more so."

Konohana: "You're right about that, unless we secured like three-quarters of the nation, someone else is going to have the seat soon enough, perhaps by next blooming season, and that's why I made such a big invitation for all of us to get as much of our citizens' support as quickly as we can."

Yasue: "What of Kyushu, I can take care of the needy, but unbeknownst to us the whole time, a shadow organization might have sent in someone to assassinate the Empress."

Konohana: "There's no need to convey me such news about organized crime, Yasue. It might be best to leave that to her administration."

Yasue: "I hate to say this in the middle of a stressful situation, but someone operating under the radar wants to seize the throne for nefarious purposes, or to cause a scare knowing we are still part of the matrix system. This crap-sack reality system is far more powerful to the point we cannot underestimate its complexity, it comes from out of nowhere from ancient times to enslave us. They know way more than we do, and even if we wipe them out, some other organization might take their place. Trying to intervene in their affairs somehow and they'll wreck your life!"

Konohana: "YASUE! Please... calm... down! she sighs Just... leave your concerns to Genji and no one else."

Yasue: "..."

Kugimiya: "Is there a way we can do to improve the project, miss?"

Konohana: "Absolutely, while there might be more features that could be used to inform the citizenry within earshot of the facility's radio frequencies, at the moment the Genji administration haven't yet confirmed anything extra coming into place until after this election. Perhaps the next administration change would very likely going to scrap it and render us vulnerable to nuclear war and such. We can only hope that once I take the seat, I can rest assured this project will do wonderfully, saving us lots of yen and not have to worry about military expenditure, ever."

>Following the meeting, Konohana sets her up a slow march across the world's longest suspension bridge to Kagawa to continue rallying as many voters as she can before her rivals. In wasting no time for another speech, she and her large army of civilian protestors went right up to Himi's estate and demand that she take her leave.

>Hironaka continues her conquest to overtake Kochi, removing the presence of nekos completely. This however caused a lot of ire from the kingdom of Nyutopia, an island kingdom southwest of Shikoku to retaliate by converting some of the population into their own using their 'True Soul' gifts. Not even an Olympian athlete can overcome a neko because of their small bells that can't be taken off that grants them nigh invulnerability, only gravity magic can stop them.

>In Kyushu, Tengan captured Nagasaki, sending Nissho packing whereas Yasue overtakes Fukuoka, Miyazaki and Oita. Genji's sister is in deep trouble, as she is back to where she started due to Mayako's continued land-grabbing spree. Tengan then take on Mayako's strategy to retake whatever Yasue just did, forming a republic in her name. Yasue retreats to Yamaguchi, having nowhere else to go but to defend the strait that links Honshu and Kyushu. Tokyo is having a festival in progress, in which Honda uses it as an opportunity to crowdfund her campaign with as many people as possible, and then moving on to overtake Chiba and Gunma, because she is now the only Capitalist leader left in the nation, and the type of leader not wanting to back down anytime soon.

>Ai of Aomori reluctantly didn't go to Konohana's invitation and has since avoided politics for so long has now started taking prefectures for herself, starting with Akita. She even hired Neru on a mission to takeout Teika in the dead of night.

>Terada tries her best to feel better with help from the three Tibetan monks, she is now under supervision as she is given daily meditation lessons, aromatherapy, diet cleansing, along with dealing with depression.

>The Empress is still angry with the continuing bipartisan alliance movement, so she has ordered state police to patrol the streets of every major city in the country. She repeatedly said that she wants to keep the election 'fair and just' but they won't give in to her words. Nonetheless, Niigata, Gunma and Saitama are won back by the Liberals, however the latter two will have new leaders taking their oaths: Azuma and Mokuami.

The following status updates as of 15:30 on Sept 28:

>Mayako is now in the lead with 7 prefectures, with Tengan in second place with 6, and Konohana along with Miyabi tying for third place with 5.
>There is now only one Capitalist leader left, which is Honda. She is stubborn and is willing to put more effort to a now solo campaign to turn the nation into a moneymaking powerhouse, at the expense of the citizenry's free will.
>Mitakihara City for the first time in six years has been fortified.
>Only Homura and Arinori are the last two Liberals standing, whereas Jana, Kumi, Mayako, Tengan, and Teika are the only five remaining Conservatives left. However, after some hard-fought protests within a very short time frame, Fujimoto is placed back in office, along with two new Liberals: Mokuami of Saitama and Azuma of Gunma, both are loyal friends of her. This brings the number of Liberals back to five. Mokuami is the only leader as of now with red/purple heterochromia.
>The entire island of Kyushu is now under Conservatives control, with Tengan automatically forming the Tenganese Republic.
>Terada is too ill to continue her office duties; she has to let her sister Hagiwara to assume control of Hokkaido until she feels better.
>Yoshinaga is the only Royalist annexed with Konohana, and has decided to resign, resuming normal life tending to Nara Temple.
>The race is getting even fiercer, with only 21 contestants left.