Asean Confederacy

The Asean Confederacy is a group of Southeast Asian nations which banded together largely to resist the influence of China and India. They maintain a large degree of internal self-control, yet have subsumed their foreign relations and economy to a unified confederate government. While rich in resources and manpower, the decentralized nature of the Asean Confederacy for most of the 21st century gave it very little power to accomplish geopolitical goals apart from a unified resistance to Chinese island-building in the South China Sea. With the coming of the Mechanism, a divided border was eventually agreed upon, though both sides were unhappy with the deal and felt that they had given up too much.

In the late 2080s, the Confederacy voted upon a common foreign policy and unified economy, with a strengthened central government and for the first time, a supreme court. Asean is the newest regional union to truly come into its own, though it is cast by many of its competitors as a vessel for Indonesian power; Indonesians demographically and economically dominating the government of the Confederacy.

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