When Japan was reshaped during the second wave of nuclear impact, the Tohoku region of Japan fell into the grips of bandits, preying on the weak, taking from others and killing and raping to their heart's content. It was a bad time for everyone but the men who let the beast in them decide, but this anarchy ruled by looters was below the standards of mankind. Over time, acknowledging that their safety depended on some form of stability, the bandits became rulers, establishing their dominance over villages and towns and, in the south, eventually over provinces.

In the Tohoku region of Japan it was not the warlord bandits who had the monopoly on post-apocalyptic law and order, however. People wishing to fight those petty despots banded together, clinging to past institutions as a way to stay sane, to stay strong in the fight for a normal life. However, people had little faith in what were essentially successors to the government: mayors and lawmakers were ignored, surpassed. Instead they found solace in the modern, stable yet past institution of the company. In this case a new one, at the time of the second wave of nuclear impact, called Tohoku Denryoku, a stock company or kabushiki kaisha. People were at a loss as to what use Denryoku, electricity, had at that moment, but the name stuck and became almost sanctified.

Under the open, semi-democratic direction of shareholders, the Kabushiki Kaisha was versatile and well-organised. Bonds of loyalty in this company exceeded the often situational power structure of the bandit warlords, who relied on the law of the jungle for their authority. The power of salarymen working together under a common goal created by careful deliberation by directors through endless board meetings at every corporate level was not to be underestimated!

Tōhoku Denryoku Kabushiki Kaisha

• Claim type: state
• Technology level: Napoleonic
• Provinces owned: map
• National focus: bureaucracy