• Your isolation level is the foundation of your roleplay narrative (Unless your religion changes). Depending on your isolation level, you have the following maluses:

  • Level 0 / Open Doors: No Changes

  • Level 1/ Adaptive: You can have a military alliance with one other player nation.

  • Level 2/ Selective: You may make trade deals as long as RP supports it.

  • Level 3/ Isolationism: You are allowed to make trade deals with nations with territory inside the Nippon tradenode. 

  • Level 4/ Closed Doors: You’re encouraged to have 1 tradeport and trade deal with an European nation. You do not engage with affairs that do not affect the Home Islands directly.

Having trade deals and/or relations with another nation will have a major influence on the Japanese nation. This change is often resisted by the ruling class of Japan. We would like to see RP about the influence of other nations, and the power balance of the factions within the home island. Japan is encouraged to have 1 tradeport by a European power on the home islands.

• Expansion should not be rushed, Japan was not unified under the Hosokawa Shogunate until 1603. 

• As a part of peace deals with other nations, other nations may demand that you lower your isolationism level and/or trade with them.

• As Japan you are encouraged to do the following:

  • Not colonize

  • Have negative relations with Korea

  • Allow Dutch/Flemish Primary Culture Nations a trade port in Japan

  • Increase isolation level.