New Socialist Party of California (Eastern Manifest Destiny)

The New Socialist Party (Japanese: 新社会党 Shin Shakaitō Chinese: 新社會主義政黨 Xīn shèhuì zhǔyì zhèngdǎng) is one of the three major parties in the California Imperial Republic. It is currently the ruling party, although the People's Party controls the National Diet.

The NSP was founded in 1935 by moderate members of the now-defunct Socialist Party of California (Japanese: 社会党 Shakaitō) as opposition against the radical Morita Sōhei. Morita had been democratically elected by the people over the Labor Party candidate Ryū Saiko. Two months after, Morita abolished the positions of President and Vice President and declared himself the General Secretary of the Socialist Republic of California (Japanese: カリフォルニア社会主義共和国 Kariforunia shakai shugi kyōwakoku). Following the uprising led by the NSP and Anti-Communist Party of California that killed Morita in 1937, Gikaku Noda, a member of the Nationalist Party, was selected to assume the position of President. In the following years after Morita's regime, term 'socialist' struck fear in the hearts of the people, which prevented the NSP from gathering members. The NSP did not make an appearance in the public again until the 1977 Presidential Elections, when the first NSP candidate made the ballot, but lost to the People's Party candidate Rakuyama Ryūnosuke. The 2013 elections was the first time an NSP candidate won an election.