Great Confederacy Of Commonwealth States wrote:Senkaku wrote:It's becoming clear to me I should've reviewed GCCS's app more carefully and given him a clearer picture on what Khmer is.
Khmer has multiple rebellions, probably particularly in the Laotian and Thai regions, in addition to political turmoil, financial trouble, a weak economy, foreign powers circling like vultures (including, in all likelihood, agents of the FSR and Third Republic waiting to try and reclaim their old colony), and a generally weak and unsteady government.
Well, marginally better (if you can buy them with your nonexistent money or convince a foreign power to just give them to you and not just take over). You'll still be basically the Iraq of the Far East- Vietnamese, Hmong, Khmer, Thai, all thrown together in a state with little authority and no respect or devotion from the people. It's lines on a map, not a cohesive nation.
I'll say it again: Khmer should be basically just struggling to survive, not industrializing and building stronk armies. The government has no money, a weak army, and you're resource-rich, so any European power you invite in is going to immediately recognize that it'd be better for them to just take over (which'd be pretty damn easy). You have a stronk Japan right nearby and an increasingly resurgent China, and loads of rebels and political dissidents. If Khmer doesn't go the same way my Ikh Mongol Uls went in New Imperialism 2, I will be slightly surprised, although there is a chance it could struggle onwards. But you've already had a palace coup in the first post, which is hardly promising. If you're playing Khmer, you're gonna need to be writing a lot of political intrigue stuff.
Assuming, of course, that no one invades you.
Well, it wasn't exactly a coup, to give a clear picture. The heir to the throne basically made sure his father placed all the powers of the emperor on his shoulders, so that effective rule could take place. The emperor is dying, struck by disease. It isn't really a coup, more like early succession.
It reads like a coup, which I don't think is a bad thing. I think there should be political back-and-forth in Khmer; unhealthy amounts of it in fact. As I keep saying, Khmer cannot into stability.
