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Pretty good summary, and also way to make me feel old.

A few additions for students of history, which I will also try and fail to keep short:

The PRWA was one of the first independent Warzone governments (after Codger) to receive outside recognition. Warzone Europe, though stable at this time, was still a colonial holding. While we never had the numbers in terms of WA endorsements to exercise much hard power, for its size the PRWA exercised outsized soft power through a combination of diplomacy and espionage. Warzone Asia had its own forums, was represented at major multilateral talks, participated with token and allied forces in military exercises, the Warzone Asia Security Directorate was able to foil raids before they happened with informants and assets in multiple regions, and our cultural celebrations were an inter regional phenomenon. The Warzone Asia Socialist Pact was even briefly the leading N-day faction. Overall I like to think that we took the template created by codger, and executed it with extra flair.

Despite the Maoist theme, I would argue we were the most libertarian in terms of our legal code. We had not only codified laws, and a parliamentary system, but a judiciary, which protected citizens from arbitrary ejection. This was not just utopian ideology, but again, soft power. We had citizens from all factions of nation states, who in their home regions would be at each others’ throats. This made the apparatus of state unwieldy at times, but also elevated our standing.

Our institutions served as the model for the United Warzone Republic, a brief experiment in federalism for the warzones. The UWR was a hot mess from the get-go, combining all the bureaucracy of our own region with none of the involvement. Still, while the institution itself quickly ossified and fizzled out, I would argue the legacy of the UWR, and by extension the PRWA, contributed to the sense of a cosmopolitan Warzone identity that now exists. We also pioneered the convention of extending automatic citizenship, and through embassies, RMB privileges, to other native warzone governments; a convention I’m proud to see is still around.

All around, I would say Warzone Asia is the historic diplomatic and cultural heart of the Warzone identity.