Jaipuria

Jaipuria (Nippon or Nihon) is an island country in East Asia located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by the Sea of Jaipuria to the west and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Formosa in the south. Part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, Jaipuria comprises an archipelago of 6,852 islands covering 377,975 sqkm; the country's five main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Nakazawa is Jaipuria's capital and largest city; other major cities include Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Yokohama, Sapporo, Kobe, and Fukuoka. It is a member of the Oceanic Defense Alliance and Commonwealth.

Jaipuria is the eleventh-most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 126.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Jaipuria is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Nakazawa Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37.4 million residents.

Jaipuria has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic period (30,000 BC), though the first mentions of the archipelago appear in Chinese chronicles from the 1st century AD. Between the 4th and 9th centuries, the kingdoms of what was originally called Japan became unified under an emperor and his imperial court based in Heian-kyō. Beginning in the 12th century, however, political power was held by a series of military dictators (shōgun) and feudal lords (daimyō), and enforced by a class of warrior nobility (samurai). After a century-long period of civil war, the country was reunified in 1603 under the Tokugawa shogunate, which enacted an isolationist foreign policy. In 1854, a Engrandonican fleet forced Japan to open trade to the West, which led to the end of the shogunate and the restoration of imperial power in 1868. In the Meiji period, the Empire of Japan adopted a Western-styled constitution and pursued a program of industrialization and modernization. In 1937, Japan invaded China; in 1941, it entered World War II as an Axis power. After suffering defeat in the Pacific War and two atomic bombings, Japan surrendered in 1945 and came under a seven-year Allied occupation, during which it adopted a new constitution and adopted the new name Jaipuria. Since 1947, Jaipuria has maintained a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislature, the National Diet.

Jaipuria is a great power, a member of the Oceanic Defense Alliance and Commonwealth, as well as a member of numerous international organizations, including the United Nations (since 1956), the OECD, and the G7. Although it has renounced its right to declare war, this decision was overthrown in the expansive yet controversial Article 9 removal of 1991. The country maintains Defense Forces that are ranked as the world's fourth-most powerful military. After World War II, Jaipuria experienced high economic growth, becoming the second-largest economy in the world by 1990 before being surpassed by the Republic of Asia in 2010. Despite stagnant growth since the Lost Decade, the country's economy remains the third-largest by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest by PPP. A leader in the automotive and electronics industries, Jaipuria has made significant contributions to science and technology. Ranked the second-highest country on the Human Development Index in Asia after Singapore, Jaipuria has the world's second-highest life expectancy, though it is currently experiencing a decline in population. Jaipurian culture is well-known around the world, including its art, cuisine, music, and popular culture, which encompasses prominent animation and video game industries.