Ezo

The Republic of Ezo is a country in East Asia which borders only Russia, on the island of Sakhalin. The country is located on the island of Ezo (a.k.a. Hokkaido), the Kuril Islands, and South Sakhalin (a.k.a. Karafuto). They have a claim on North Sakhalin, which is part of Russia.

History
The first republic was established in 1869 during the Meiji Restoration by the pro-shogunate navy, a few thousand soldiers, and French military advisors, who were fleeing from the pro-imperialist Japanese, who conquered all of the island of Honshu (the main island of Japan) from the pro-shogunates. The imperial army's advance was halted at the top of Honshu because the pro-shogunates brought the navy with them so the imperialists had to use ships borrowed from the british, but the naval battle in the Tsugaru Strait was lost anyways, and so Ezo survived. Then, the Japanese decided to focus on other things like colonization and invaded Korea. Then, in the following First Sino-Japanese War, the Ezoese found the perfect opportunity to retake Honshu, and invaded Honshu. The Japanese couldnt defend the invading force very well because the army was over in Korea. So, the Ezoese swept through, and sieged Tokyo. Seeing the situation was bad, the Japanese immediately called for a temporary armistice with the Chinese so that they could deal with the Ezoese. The Japanese army arrived just as Tokyo was about to fall and broke the siege. the Jpanese army then went and pushed the Ezoese all the way back to the Tsugaru Strait. Then, the Ezoese decided that they would not try to forcefully try to take Honshu again. Then the World Wars happened, and Japan was occupied. But, in the Cold War a proxy war happened in Japan with the Ezoese being the communists and the Japanese being anti-communist. After the war, the Ezoese kept communism because of threat from the Soviet Union until 1990, when they became not communist, like many other former communist nations.