>>370838Sort of, he got removed for denying the rape of Nanking (muh isolated incidents, clean ija, no systematic war crimes, etc) - which isn't really that surprising, given that he's a grand strategy obsessed jap.
His removal was for the better, though. Verlax was absolutely terrible at coding, writing, and project management, delivering gems such as "completely denuclearizing japan and the us in one (1) focus" and "using the focus tree maker to create kayas tree".
Actual Japan development started in spring 2020, after Albert took over, so the rather lacking state of the nation is not surprising.
