Ezo Republic

The Ezo Republic is the most northerly member state of the Intercontinental Alliance. A small and bitterly cold archipelago, Ezo had never been rich even in the best of times. A contentious and mercurial series of governments navigated the country unsteadily away from resource extraction to more technological economy. During the Great War, Ezo found itself most relevant in terms of isolation and geographical placement, hosting foreign ships, aircraft, signals intelligence, and a huge variety of other assets. Union efforts to disrupt these operations soon scaled up to full scale naval interdiction and strategic bombing with devastating consequences. By the war's climax, bombing and blockade had completely destroyed the economy, directly or indirectly caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and brought about hardship unknown to living memory.