Nispaña

Nispaña, officially the Republic of Nispaña, alternatively spelled Nispana or Nispanya, is a country in Central Asia.

History
After the Meiji Restoration in Japan in 1868, the nations of Spain and Japan started gaining closer ties with each other. The Spanish leader visited Japan in 1870 in a summit. Large crowds of Japanese people welcomed the Spanish to their country. A year later, Japan returned the favor and the emperor visited Spain. Spain helped decreased Japan's xenophobia, and helped them develop faster.

In 1896, Spain and Japan agreed to spend their money towards a project of creating a new satellite state country in Central Asia, approximately between the two nations, to create a new culture and improve transportation and communications between the two countries.

Settlers from Spain and Japan started arriving in Tashkent, the proposed starting location for the colony in July of 1896. Many people were excited for the new life they were starting, and quickly befriended with people of the opposite race. However, some Central Asian peoples, mainly the Kazakhs and Uzbeks, were unhappy of these new arrivals in their land. The settlers tried befriending them too eventually, and some joined their colony.

The Japanese-Spanish colony's population steadily rose with big incentives and advertisements for people to move there in both Spain and Japan. By 1900, the population had reached 500,000. Soon enough, a new culture was developing across the colony, mixing Japanese and Spanish culture with native culture as well.

In 1905, the colony had grew in size across the plains of Central Asia, and adopted the name "Nispaña", a combination of "España", meaning "Spain" in Spanish, and "Nihon", meaning "Japan" in Japanese. A new creole was also forming in Nispaña. People were having fun combining words and sentences from their native languages, and were practically inventing the language, dubbed "Nihoñol Creole", by themselves. The population grew to a 2 million eventually, and its officials met with Spain and Japan's in a summit. They signed papers to grant the Republic of Nispaña independence from the two colonizer nations on June 6, 1907.

Nispaña started a military once they gained independence, and were granted weapons from Spain and Japan respectively, being surrounded by major power hungry powers like Russia, China, or Britain. In 1918, the Russian Empire collapsed, and Azerbaijan became independent. Nispaña realized that they needed more oil and natural resources to supply their large country, and liked the idea of having more ports on the Caspian Sea. On August 12, 1918, the Republic of Nispaña declared war on the newly independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Nispaña sailed its newly built navy to the other side of the Caspian Sea, and bombed ports in Baku. They got a landing near Sumqayit, and captured the city. Nispañan troops quickly overwhelmed the inexperienced Azerbaijani troops, and made their way up to Baku. Nispaña won the Battle of Baku after an aircraft bombing raid, and Azerbaijan surrendered.

Nispaña needed more allies, and decided to ally itself with the nation of Armenia, bordering the defeated Azerbaijan. In the Treaty of Yerevan, Armenia was allowed to annex the Karabakh and Nakchivan regions from Azerbaijan while Nispaña annexed the rest of Azerbaijan.

In 1922, the Soviet Union was established. Nispaña was very worried for their safety, and in being annexed by them. Nispaña started to rapidly increase spending on their military, and keep a look out for any Soviet troops by their border. In WWI, Nispaña funded Japan with some supplies and reinforcements. Nispaña remained neutral in the Spanish Civil War in the interwar period. Nispaña also remained neutral in WWII, even when they were being pressured to support them by the Imperial Japanese government.

In the Cold War, Nispaña joined NATO and supported the United States. Because of this, they were safe from any attack by the Soviet Union. Spain was also a member of NATO.

After the cold war, tensions between Nispaña and Russia eased a bit, and Nispaña industrialized more. The population grew even more because of modernization of Nispañan cities, and the growth of the entertainment industry. Nispaña remains the closest allies with Spain and Japan to this day.

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Full article: Nispaña/Nihoñol Creole

The official language of Nispaña is Nihoñol Creole. Nispaña recognizes Japanese and Spanish as minority languages.

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