Gensou Island

Gensou Island (幻想島 gensōshima, "Island of Illusion") is a very mysterious island at the very north of the Asiapelago. It is small for it's geographic size, but it is bigger than it looks, holding over two million population in total. It is known for holding an extremely mysterious yet dangerous class of creatures known as Yokai that come in many shapes and sizes ranging from looking practically the same as a regular penguin, to resembling actual monsters. They live almost exclusively within Gensou Island.

History
Gensou Island has a long history line. The old gap yokai explained The forming of Gensou Island, but the rest was explained by Kyuu Holden.

The forming of Gensou Island

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Over a thousand years ago, only yokai lived on the island. As it was conjoined to Japaland back then, a group of penguins wanted to prove their strength so they can be honoured by their emperor. The group travelled to the island. A whole colony followed these penguins and the yokai got angered by this. The old gap yokai separated Gensou from Japaland and formed Gensou Island. It was placed very south, away from Japaland. Nowadays, penguins live with these yokai in near-harmony.

Beginning of International Trade

 * April 3rd, 1487

Gensou Island, though only in contact with Japaland for so long, was shocked at the appearance of strange looking ships that appeared at the shoreline of the island one day. The ships turned out to be Lisboaguese merchant Galleons that were carrying the famous explorer, Quim da Algarve. Quim's fleet of merchant ships decided to sail into The Other River to the outskirts of Penguin Village, where they made contact with the natives. Quim met with the Island's ruler and established official foreign relations between the then Japalandese controlled island of Gensou. Quim stayed on the island for about a week, while several of the merchant ships began to circle the island so the cartographers could make an accurate map of the island. The Lisboaguese traders managed to trade their compasses, telescopes, and gold jewelry in exchange for Gensou Island silk, tea, and jade statues. A few months after Quim's departure, several more Lisboaguese ships had arrived to trade. A year later, the Zhouese and the Castillans decided to also become involved in trade with the island as well. He was lucky that he didn't get eaten by one of the yokai.

The Nuclear Calamity Incident

 * March 12th, 2011

The Tsuchinoko Incident

 * January 24th, 2016

K.A.G.U.Y.A was just walking through a forest, and saw a Tsuchinoko. The Tsuchinoko was provoked and tried to spew venom to her, but it missed. Chiruno and Shiki Eiki, and others like Xgopen and Kamochi Onoduka went to go see this Tsuchinoko, and the little, yet big snake was like a fearless puppy. It stood up, and jumped at Xgopen and fell, and everybody attacked it, but turned into dirt, and went underneath the ground. Without knowing, its slithered into the shoulder Onoduka, and screamed, and soon, it turned to dirt, and was never seen again. The five never want to talk about this incident, again.

Cowrei Shrine
The Cowrei Shrine is a small shrine located on the south-east of Gensou Island. Formerly a farm, Raymoo tends it as its shrine maiden. As its higher up in the mountains, not a lot of people come to visit it, other than Raymoo's friends where its a frequent meeting spot for them.

Komainu, a Guardian Puffle, also guards the shrine but without Raymoo's permission. She's been trying to get Komainu to leave, even with a bit of force, but to no avail.

Scarlet Puffle Mansion
A mansion that came to being at around 1788, it's located at the south-west of Gensou Island, adjacent to the Misty Lake. The Scarlet Puffle Mansion is owned by the elusive Lucina Scarlet, a Bat Puffle rumored to have Vampirism, due to her prolonged age, living in the mansion since it first came to be. Many more puffles live in the Scarlet Puffle Mansion as servants to Lucina Scarlet, along with a couple of Yokai and the only Penguin allowed to live within the mansion.

It is also rumored that another Bat Puffle with the same vampirism strain as Lucina lives in the Scarlet Puffle Mansion, but there has been very few sightings of her for hundreds of years.

Geography
Gensou Island is a very small island, but when entering the island, it looks extremely huge. It is not because of servers, but by manipulating time and space, according to Inusakuya. Gensou Islands has very few river systems, the longest is the Red River. It reaches from the left of the island to the right of the island into Higan.

Inhabitants

 * ''Main Article: Gensou Island/Residents

As Gensou Island was once only filled with yokai, they're the dominant species that live on the island, but ever since Gensou Island opened its doors for trade with other countries, many more penguins from all over the continent came to live there permanently. Due to the large presence of battles and danger that occur all over the island, however, the penguin population isn't actually as big, especially compared to other countries.

Some well-known residents include Raymoo Cowrei and Melissa Seamist, members of the famous Incident-Solving Gang.

International Relations
Gensou's relations had not made any contact with any country other than Japan prior to 1487.

Gensou's relations with other nations:


 * Japaland - Horrible. Since separating from Japaland, Gensou Island never wants to be involved with them again, unless it involves Anime. Several Anime Penguins from Japaland really want to live on Gensou, though.
 * In fact, there are so many anime penguins who want to live there that they make merchandise, anime and they also cosplay as a lot of the well-known residents.


 * United States of Antarctica - Unknown. USA has heard of this island and they want to conquer it. Too bad they don't know about Old Hag Yukarin.


 * Snowzerland - Bad. Snowzerland knows about Xgopen, whom is living on Gensou currently. They plan to capture her and become a reliable source for nuclear weapons.


 * Ruscoe Federation - Bad. Rusca also wants Xgopen.


 * Amataria - Decent. After the events of Break In Dimensions, Amigopen found out the similarities of the universe and the island, so he worships them now.


 * Malesia -


 * Margate - Decent They are good trading partners


 * UnitedTerra -


 * Puffle'and - Good. Puffle'and was the first nation to recognize Gensou Island's independence from Japaland. They are actively involved in trade.


 * Calada -


 * Castilla - Decent. Castilla and Gensou Island are trading partners and several Castillan merchants visit it occasionally.


 * Zhou - Good. They are allies since they both hate Japaland. Like the Castillans, the Zhouese send merchants to trade with the Gensou Islanders. One of the yokai, China, originally came from Zhou.


 * Lisboagal - Decent. Lisboagal was one of the first nations to trade with the island in 1487. They have been trading with them ever since, especially so they could rival with the Castillan merchants.


 * Batavia -


 * Frankterre -


 * Polaris SAD -

Culture
Penguins and yokai alike live in near-harmony on the island. Well, at least within the Capital and a couple of major towns. Anywhere outside of those places is basically an uncontested battleground between both yokai and magic users alike who live for the thrill of battle. Although its normally an undisputed rule to not injure eachother to the point of fatality, quite a lot of yokai don't follow this rule.

Cuisine
The Gensou cuisine sometimes varies in different regions; it mainly consists of traditional Japalandese food. Ever since Gensou Island had first started trading with other nations, their doors have opened up to a much higher variety of cuisine from all over the Ninja Archipelago and Asiapelago for residents to eat.

This doesn't stop Gensou residents from making their own type of cuisine though. Walking through the streets of villages, especially the capital, one will find many street vendors selling unique delicacies. A lot of the food, however, is not really to the average penguin's taste.

Clothing
The average Gensou resident wears a kimono. It's very difficult to find a resident to wear identical clothing from one another.

Trivia

 * Gensou Island, as a whole, is mostly a parody of the entire Touhou Project franchise.