(OOC) Why I made this nation

Originally, Hatsunia was made as a backdrop for a virtual space program in Orbiter (now rebooted in Kerbal Space Program). It was a presidential republic like the US and a "United Federation" like in Star Trek, but with Japanese (especially Hatsune Miku-related) elements. It was something I originally made just for fun (a nation comprised of millions of Miku fans), but later on, I wanted it to have more serious aspects and be more Japan-like.

The history was originally vague, but one important aspect was that it was like Japan if its government chose to skip its deeply resented imperialist phase and went straight into the post-war culture without having to lose a war. I was born in a country that was invaded by Imperial Japan in WWII and I never intended to support Japanese war crime deniers. Later on, I also wanted to distance this project from far-right anime fans by having the country be mostly non-imperialist and fighting on the side of anti-fascism unlike Japan, despite it not being realistically dark like the histories of actual geopolitical great powers (even the Allies had colonies and discrimination).

I saw Japan as a high-tech country growing up in the 2000s (documentaries like this one about the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid concept and robotics development; most electronics in my house were Japanese brands like Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, or Nintendo), but several articles like this were made in the early 2010s about how Japan is not as technologically advanced as it seemed and how its tech industry was now declining. I also learned that Japan could have had their own crewed spacecraft (Fuji) but economic problems prevented that. After some discussions on alternatehistory.com (Pipcard is me), I wanted to research more into why the Japanese economy was in the doldrums since the 1990s.

I know Hatsune Miku has a niche appeal, and that a nation based entirely on a pop culture character is hard to take seriously for most people, so I wanted to expand on Hatsunia's premise. It became about emphasizing the technological/virtual aspect of Miku (because people complain about how the Japanese economy hasn't focused enough on software) and hypothetically fixing the socioeconomic flaws of a Japan-like country. Because if people are going to say Miku is for "weebs," why not make Hatsunia like an idealized version of Japan, but one that takes critiques of the country into account instead of just blindly assuming that the country is already the best place to live because of anime?