Texas (Toyotomi)

The Federation of Texas is a very loose federation located in south-central. It is a polyglot nation, currently divided into 3 ethnic states, French Texas, English Texas, and Japanese Texas. Spanish-speakers are currently a small minority. Texas won her independance from in the early 19th century during the  with the help of the. She achieved borders similar to her pre-2000 borders in the, which was fought between Texas and Mexico, with the North American Confederation aiding Texas and aiding Mexico. The Confederation hoped to use Texas as an ally against Aruta, while Aruta in turn hoped to prevent this. Texas has since become a pawn of the various powers surrounding her, dominated by a succession of puppet rulers under various governmental forms and the occassional genuine would-be reformer.

With the gradual decrease of hostilities in North America over the course of the 20th century, Texas came to be left to her own devices. Texas nearly fell apart in civil war, reshaping herself into an ethnic confederation of four states, the current three and the additional state of Spanish Texas, in 1989 (?). Ethnic conflict threatened to tear the nation apart. The Emperor of took the lead in 1993, calling upon the Japanese residents of Texas not to unilaterally change their status, and two years later going further to explicitely refuse to recognize any new nation not formed by peaceful negotiations.

In 1998, Mexico's newly-crowned Emperor Agustín IV began to protest alleged persecution of Hispanic Texans at the hand of the Anglo-minority government. In the year 2000, he invaded Texas to "liberate" the Hispanic Texans, beginning what in Mexico is called the Liberation of Texas, and in other nations as the Mexican Invasion of Texas or the Partitioning of Texas. Texas' neighbors reacted with alarm. , and to a lesser extent,, sent troops to defend the State of Japanese Texas, sent troops to defend French Texas, while the  sent troops to defend English Texas. Within a few months, Mexican troops had completely overrun Spanish Texas and were on the borders with the other ethnic states. Both sides watched each other warily. In Spanish Texas, Mexican troops staged a referendum showing that the Hispanic Texans wished to join Mexico. The new Province of West Texas was declared, and by 2003, grudgingly accepted by the Texan government and the peacekeeping powers. There are still a few peacekeeping troops in each of the ethnic states, and the lengthy occupation has encouraged even greater decentralization. Texas today has become almost nothing more than a legal fiction.