Manoka History and Information
Manoka is a country with a population of approximately 412 million people, spanning several hundred Islands and independent districts formerly countries themselves. Manoka formed when Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, New Guinea, and many other small Island nations (along with Taiwan) banded together to fight the new threat of China and Korea, as well as to form an economic Alliance on par with the EU.
After their success in thwarting their attacks, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, and many other places are now under the responsibility of Manoka, who is trying to rebuild their wartorn countries. Manoka serves as the right arm of the United Nations and the free world, largely replacing the Americans, although they still receive substantial financial and military support for the ongoing world crisis.
Manoka was Formed
To begin with, Manoka was a loose affiliation of South Pacific and Indian Ocean countries banding together more intensely to defend themselves from the aggressive activities from their immediate neighbors and in response to their continued. Fearing a backlash if the U.S. was directly involved in yet another politically sensitive invasion, involving Taiwan and China, the U.S. decided to be indirectly involved by providing the newly formed alliance with goods, money, and production capabilities to keep the enemy country's contained and unable to attack their neighbors. While the threat of a U.S. invasion deterred, but did not stop an eventual full fledged attack by the larger aggressor country's, it gave valuable time to prepare a response, and under direct U.S. assistance, to form and strengthen an alliance in the region which would not greatly require immediate or direct assistance of the United State's or illicit a major political response. Despite this, the growing military strength of the Manokan State's stood as a jest to the Chinese and Korean alliance, which practically invited them to attack the developing military power (and in turn served as bait to redirect the attention of the Chinese to the South Pacific states, which would consume a large portion of their country). In addition, by allying themselves with Taiwan, they only further angered the Chinese forces whom felt nearly insulted, and quickly rushed into the attack the Manokan states.
At first, it was incredibly difficult for the fledgling nations of the Manokan forces to forge a capable resistance the invasion, requiring extensive cooperation, strategies, and limited controversial air support by the Americans. As the situation progressed, with many treaties signed and violated which halted the advance of the aggressing forces (now partially including part of Mongolia) it continually became easier for the Manokan forces to fight back, gaining military goods and other equipment from the U.S. and other countries, but more importantly a well unified military structure, under several central command units, operating as a single unit. In several heavily publicized well thwarted attacks, the general invading forces was stopped in a few key major advances by the Chinese, as they tried to directly invade the primary Island nations of Manoka. Largely as a result of their training and the addition of new equipment, in addition to their ability to predict the assault by the Chinese, the resistance to the Chinese was fairly successful; while the D-Day beach style landing was a failure on the part of the Chinese, it proved catastrophic when this further cut their forces off from returning home and from their supply lines, leaving the Chinese with little choice but to surrender or die as they would quickly run out of food and other supplies. As a result of their strengthened relationship with each other, and their major military successes, the Manokan alliance was legitimized as a full fledged fighting force. Despite reluctance to keep a national identity, the effectiveness of the Manokan fighting force could be be denied and as a result became an obligation by the South Pacific country's.
Over the years, the loose affiliation grew even stronger as their continued victory's uplifted the moral of their country's and slowly ablated the moral from their enemies, providing substantial reasons to support the alliance. Drawn together, with their fates almost cemented in the military cooperation, the seamlessly integrated the Manokan Naval Command solidified itself as a defense force for the Island nations, and the world.
Arguably, the Manokan military is closer and more integrated than the nations themselves. The serve as a united force for defense and the well being of South Asia, and the world.
Future of Manoka
Despite fighting for a noble cause, their large military and substantial donations by the Americans and United Nation's caused some concern in the region; while their military forces were expensive, the arms build up created some concern that these forces could become a troubling force in the region, and that they could also take up substantial amount of unnecessary funds. In addition, while the territories were legally obtained in the Manokan wars, there was some concern that the Manokan alliance would take over the individual states they had captured, with some potential for mistreatment present in the rebuilding process.
As a result, Manoka offered to provide military assistance to future global conflicts, and agreed to treaties creating separate nations for their previously captured territories, such as Vietnam and Cambodia. Despite transferring rulers, moving to a more democratic system, they still retained their initial identities and territories. In part due to these rebuilding efforts, Manoka is now seen largely as a benevolent giant, formed in a defensive war, and an avid supporter in the world stage politics. Despite extensively following United Nation's law, they still reserve the right to be in control of their respective territories, and thus gain the benefit of not following United Nation's law in certain respective territory's, while also possessing the political benefit of appearing to have done so.
In an effort to preserve the strength of the alliance, further economic policies were implemented across the nations, which greatly improved the welfare of the country's. While their was some initial resistance to unify under a single political and economic theory, the mixed economy of the region proved to greatly uplift the country's. The obligated alliance during war time lead to a substantially improved quality of living, and thus creating favor for it's preservation. Being somewhat socialist, and very similiar to Switzerland economy, much of it's power is provided by nuclear sources, such as uranium and Thorium. In addition, while they have made great advances in scientific knowledge, as a developing nation they are equal parts agriculture, industry, manufacturing, and technological sectors. In terms of manufacturing, they new produce the majority of the United State's goods, instead of China, and due to their favored political status and ethical stand points, are now much more ideal to the U.S. economy, which has additionally begun to improve. As a result of this and their shifting political role as the "world police", the United State's has thrown behind significant support for the Manokan command.
There is also a national bank of Manoka. While this does allow some foreign influx of money into the country, it's largely designed to provide cheap loans with low interest rates to the average person of the country. The mixed economy has about 55% social sectors with 45% private, and provides free or assisted healthcare services, as well as a social security program.
United Manokan Naval Command
While the Manokan Navy has a heavy emphasis on infantry and small unit tactics, as predominately Island based nations they fundamentally are based on waterborne and Naval tactics. Being a quick deployable immediate strike capable force, they have extensive amphibious and beach landing capabilities, designed specifically to transport troops between Islands, and around the world. Despite their somewhat lower technological capabilities compared to the rest of the world, they have significant advancement in key areas, such as armor and infantry weapons, which allow the endurance and longevity of smaller forces to give them an advantage in which they take very few casualties. This, combined with their general speed, allows them to not only quickly respond to threats, but also potentially resist wars that would quickly turn into quagmires, generating immense political favor both domestically and internationally for their response to global situations. As a result, many country's have given financial assistance and allowed training in their country's, such as in India, where extremely harsh environments, from high mountains to the rainforest, to the monsoon rains allow for great exposure to potential world threats.
There are approximately 2 million individuals within the Manokan Navy, with approximately 1.5 million active duty troops, and 500,000 reserve troops. While military training is not mandatory, local militias have formed in response to the pooled military resources, and thus a greater potential pool of soldiers can be gathered from, of which many are recruited into the Manokan Navy. Due to the lower than average pay in the region, the Manokan Military has a reputation for treating it's soldier's well, whom are generally well paid and make slightly above average pay for the region. Taxes are not necessary, and a result of standardized healthcare being preformed by the Manokan military itself, many of the benefits are much cheaper to implement than standard civilian practices.
The force can at times serve as police for the region. On many high profile cases, involving terrorists, pirates, or dangerous or important individuals, military SWAT and forensics teams can be called to monitor or provide assistance for local military. In most hostile situations, there are usually called in, making the Manokan forces involvement in police affairs quite frequent. They rarely actively patrol certain areas, however.
