The other is Lelouch Lamperouge, an exiled Britannian prince who sympathizes with a revolutionary faction yet has become disillusioned by his inability to act the success of this insurgency represents the opportunity to finally have revenge for the murder of his mother. One is Suzaku Kururugi, a career soldier of Japanese origin who hates bloodshed and has been rapidly rising through the ranks of the occupation forces success represents his dream of earning a noble title in order to use the rights and privileges that come with such an honor to change the Britannian system from within. Two friends who had met as children in the days before the war have bumped into each other again, now as young adults. The story begins seven years after the invasion.

The Japanese nation was stripped of everything-including its name-for almost a decade and is now referred to only by a numerical designation based on when the territory was conquered ( 'Area 11'). Thanks to their Humongous Mecha, the conflict is ended in short order, with Japan only winning a single minor battle. Several years before the start of the main story, Britannia invaded Japan to secure a rare mineral that will make a new power source possible. Many years later, this nation evolved into Britannia, a Social Darwinist empire which controls over a third of the world. The series takes place in an Alternate History where Britain won the American Revolution but lost a later war against Napoleon, who went on to conquer the British Isles.

The story is notable for playing with a lot of common tropes in interesting or entertaining ways and for having one of the most extreme examples of a Broken Base in recent memory. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion is a two-season anime series that aired from 2006 to 2008.

Lelouch takes over the world