Peru: World War III

The Neutral Years (2055-2058)
At the initial outbreak of World War III, Peru took a stance of neutrality. Not being a major power and uninterested in the war, no one in Peru saw a good reason to join the Allies or Hegemony.

During this time, pressures from Colombia and Brazil urged Peru to pick their favored side: Colombia with the Allies and Brazil with the Hegemony. Despite this, Peru stuck to its pose, attempting to avoid a war in their homeland.

Invasion of Japan
That was the case until China invaded Japan in 2057. In spite of technical neutrality, Peru assisted in the evacuation of Japan, carrying millions of people to safety. Due to its heavily Japanese descendant population, many of whom called for war with China, seeing their aggression as an unwarranted attack on a defenseless nation, the Peruvian government formally declared war on the Chinese Hegemony.

The Latin Front (2058-2061)
During the first two years of Peru's war, the Peruvian homeland was untouched by the war, assisting in the failed defenses of Australia and New Zealand, but keeping most of their troops subjected to Peru, very much afraid of rising tensions between it and Brazil as well as Argentina to the south, nations that were only neutral in name and not secretive about it.

War at the Doorstep
In 2060, China and the Communist Federated Republics (CFR), struck directly at the US itself, invading the state of Hawaii. Not long after, China called for a meeting of all the neutral nations of Latin America in Panama City. There, China's dictator General Hon, threatened everyone in attendance, ordering them to pick a side or suffer horrible retribution.

Nations dying for an excuse to join the war immediately picked their prefered combatant. Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela joined the Hegemony immediately, invading the Allied and neutral nations of South America. Within the front's first year, Brazil and Argentina swept through Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. They quickly then turned on Peru and Colombia.

Fall of Peru
Despite battling rigorously for control of their land, the superior Hegemony armies of Argentina and Brazil punched through defenses, and the entirety of Peru fell to the Hegemony in August, 2061. The government fled to Colombia, but those captured were forced into slavery by Brazilian and Argentine occupiers, while Japanese refugees discovered were shipped back to China for proper termination.

Occupied & Free Peru (2061-2077)
Peru was occupied by the Hegemony for five years with its people forced to perform menial labor, like mining for resources and creating deadly weapons for the Hegemony. Naturally, though, these discriminatory policies sparked a rebellion in Peru, one that hindered the Hegemony war effort. In 2063, the Latin Hegemony members agreed to Safety Order 2063, a ten percent reduction of Peru's population.

Immediately after passing the regulation, the Hegemony began systematically exterminating the older and more sickly of the population in newly constructed death camps. Over the course of those years, the Peruvian population was cut in half.

Meanwhile, in Colombia, the remains of the Peruvian government, military and people fought for control over the last holdouts in South America. As the front became entrenched and the war dragged on, hopes for seeing a liberated Peru were seen as fantasy.

In mid-2063, Brazil fell into civil war as the actions of its Pro-Hegemony government ignited a resistance movement in the country. Brazil was knocked out of the war, relieving much of the pressure put on Colombia and Ecuador. Argentina took over the occupation of Peru entirely afterward.

In 2064, the Holy Islamic Empire then betrayed the Hegemony in a final blow to the war effort in America. Quickly, the front in the US collapsed in on itself, with China being pushed out by late-2065. Right after that, the Allies invaded Venezuela and liberated the warring Brazilian factions.

Liberation of Peru
With the Allies regaining the initiative, all that was left was Argentina, which still controlled roughly half of South America. But as the front widened for Argentina, it diverted forces in Peru for a campaign in Brazil. This provided an opportunity for its liberation. In late-2066, Brazil invaded Occupied Peru, taking it back without nearly the resistance expected, but soon being stopped at the mountainous regions of Bolivia.

The Last Years
During the final years of the war, Peru mainly focused its attention on Argentina, but as it played a more minor role in the war, forces were redirected for campaigns against China and the HIE.

When the HAVA Virus struck in 2067, Peru was forced to assist in burning down the Amazon Rainforest, which due to the virus's unique ability to travel through plant life, became ground zero for the pandemic to flourish.

In 2077, when the Chinese finally surrendered to the Allies, Peru joined the new earth superstate, officially dissolving by 2078.