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Name - 中华联省 (Chinese)
Continent - Asia
Capital - Nanjing
Administration
Head of state and government - Supreme President -------
Legislature - The Six Boards and the Board of One Hundred and Eight (initiative), National Conference (decision)
President of the Board of One Hundred and Eight - ---------
President of the National Conference - --------
Financial assembly - Board of Finance
President of the Board of Finance (and Minister of Finance) -
Conserving body - Board of Supervisors
President of the Board of Supervisors - --------
Chief Grand Secretary - -------
Judiciary - Grand Court of Revision
Minister of Justice -
Form of government - Federal republic under a democratic presidential solonic constitution
Form of law - Cambacérès Code, Chinese traditional law (fused)
Demonym - Chinese
Geography
Area - 10,940,065 km^2
Largest cities
-Nanjing - 34,203,000 (city), 36,910,000 (metro)
-Ningpo - 13,039,000 (city), 24,108,000 (metro)
-Guangzhou - 14,527,000 (city), 20,372,000 (metro)
Time zone - TMP+08:00
Currency - Chinese yuan
Demography
Language - Chinese (Mandarin)
Population - 1,623,574,000
Density - 148.41/km^2
Symbols
National festival - Republic Day (August 21) - commemorating the Declaration of the Republic (1901)
Anthem - 卿雲歌 (Song to the Auspicious Cloud)
Motto - 爱、秩序、进步 - Love, Order, Progress
Flag
-Eight Trigrams on the flag is a legacy of the Bai dynasty
-as part of its weird religious beliefs
-the present flag was a war banner which was flown by Marshal Lee during Russo-Chinese War (1893-9)
-is the flag flown by him over Vladivostok in famous calo
-following his putsch and rise of the republic, this becomes the flag of the new republic
Government
Cities
| Rank | City | Province | City proper | Metropolitan population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nanjing | Nanjing | 34,203,000 | 36,910,000 |
| 2 | Ningpo | Zhejiang | 13,039,000 | 27,108,000 |
| 3 | Chongqing | 16,887,000 | 25,013,000 | |
| 4 | Guangzhou | Guangdong | 14,527,000 | 20,372,000 |
| 5 | Fuzhou | 16,180,000 | 19,885,000 | |
| 6 | Hankou[1] Wuhan | 10,223,000 | 17,211,000 | |
| 7 | Shantou | 7,398,000 | 16,453,000 | |
| 8 | Dali | Yunnan | 9,113,000 | 15,832,000 |
| 9 | Wenzhou | Zhejiang | 10,032,000 | 15,137,000 |
| 10 | Siming[2] Xiamen | 11,443,000 | 14,802,000 | |
| 11 | Hangzhou | 8,329,000 | 14,391,000 | |
| 12 | Xi'an | Hubei | 6,329,000 | 13,947,000 |
| 13 | Jiangmen | Guangdong | 10,318,000 | 13,445,000 |
| 14 | Chengdu | 10,439,000 | 12,932,000 | |
| 15 | Changsha | 9,432,000 | 12,427,000 | |
| 16 | Taiyuan | Shanxi | 7,735,000 | 11,913,000 |
| 17 | Guiyang | Guizhou | 7,361,000 | 11,491,000 |
| 18 | Tieshan[3] Near Beihai | 6,527,000 | 10,793,000 | |
| 19 | Shenyang | 8,312,000 | 10,423,000 | |
| 20 | Haishenwai[4] Vladivostok | |||
| 21 | Lanzhou | 4,247,000 | 10,281,000 | |
| 22 | Lushunkou | |||
| 23 | Nanning | Sichuan | 3,448,000 | 9,438,000 |
| 24 | Kaifeng | Henan | 3,983,000 | 9,201,000 |
| 25 | Yichang | 3,639,000 | 9,094,000 | |
| 26 | Tengyue | Yunnan | 3,653,000 | 8,731,000 |
| 27 | Beiping[5] Beijing | 5,248,000 | 8,462,000 | |
| 28 | Jiujiang | 3,025,000 | 8,093,000 | |
| 29 | Chengzhang[6] Daqing | |||
| 30 | Tsolotoisuko[7] Zheltuga |
-the great economic corridor of China is the Yangtze River
-connecting the capital of Nanjing with the great metropoleis of Ningpo, Chongqing, and Fuzhou developed around it
-and great branching railroads from it connecting it to Dali, in turn with Luzhou
-second greatest is the Pearl River
-with Guangzhou and Jiangmen (adj. to Macau) making a truly ginormous municipal area
-and Nanning growing as near it
-and Changsha growing as near Pearl and Yangtze corridor
-in contrast Beiping has declined a fair bit from its heyday
-because it stripped of its capital status
-and for a long time it was near Qing Manchuria which was too close for its safety
-but still pretty big and has attracted newer industry as of late
-Xi'an is the center of the Yellow river area
-because it's well south of Qing-controlled Mongolia
-which makes it for a while the northernmost safe Bai city
-Manchuria was formerly a backwater
-but as part of industrial modernization has boomed a lot in recent decades
-Yunnan having been a quasi-independent state has developed Dali a lot
-and China seeking to keep connections to it has spent a lot of money building railway through mountainous terrain
-similarly it has developed Tengyue as a city and Tieshan as a port
-Beiping is OTL Beijing
-renamed to erase its status as capital
-Chongqing grew due to its position near Nanjing
-Dali is so large due to its history as the capital of the essentially independent state of Yunnan
-Shenyang boomed thanks to its use as a Russian port
-with it having been destroyed after Russo-Chinese War (1893-9) it gets reconstructed
-it gets pretty modern development afterwards
-and booms in recent years due to this
-Taiyuan boomed due to the use of the coal deposits nearby since the Bai era
-Fuzhou was a treaty port
-Ningpo so big because British Chusan nearby made it the gateway to China
-Hankou aka Wuhan so big because Nanjing near river
-Haishenwei, formerly Vladivostok, rose rapidly after its Chinese conquest
-as a huge era and as a gate to the Pacific
-about let's say 5 million
-Tsolotoisike, Sinicized from Zolotoysk
-OTL Zheltuga
-grew as a gold settlement under Russian rule
-Chengzhang grew originally under Russian rule as railroad headquarters
-and got way way bigger afterwards due to its oil
-named after Lee Cheng-chang
-Sikepoliefusichi, Sinicized from Skobolevsky, from Russian general Skobolev
-Fulajimilofuka, Sinicized from Vladimirovka
-Samajiersike, from Samagirsk
-Shangwutingsike, from Verkhneudinsk
Ethnic groups
Religion
Maitreya Buddhism
-deeply shaped by Bai era statebuilding
-the cult claimed Maitreya Buddha has been spread across China as part of its formation
-as well as the rise of Guanyin and Amitabha as their cults across China
-and in particular the veneration of the Eternal Mother as an old wizened goddess
-and as part of the very violent rise it has become established most firmly in South China
-however attempts to suppress and purge Confucianism from Buddhism have failed and been abandoned
-Buddhist teachings became wholly integrated into imperial examinations during rise of Heads of China > 1858-1888 Mingzhi Emperor
-by modern day it's most popular religious movement in China
-has cohered into a centralized movement with the passage of time
-Eternal Mother is most popular god in all of China and regarded as friend of the people and central in its temples
-the claimed Maitreya is also revered massively
-deemed as having given the peasants of China self-pride
-in North China this religion is a lot less well established
Tibetan Buddhism
-common among Mongols as well as the smaller minority of Tibetans and among some Chinese
-with the Bogdo Khan the practical leader of Tibetan Buddhism in China
Confucianism
-continues to be the founding ideology of China
-as a discrete religious tradition it's better established in North China due to Qing
-mandatory elections often justified as a state ritual
Taoism
-heavily merged with Buddhism due to legacy of rise of the Bai
Islam
-headed by Ethnic groups > Hui
-centered around Yunnan
-where it has become deeply influenced by Arabic and Persian culture
-in addition to the rise of neo-Ming sentiments
-also the Kashgar Turks are Muslim
-centered in Hami where the Kumul Khanate got formally dissolved
-state has officially pushed through Hui-fication, with some success
-Hundred-Word Eulogy displayed on walls of almost every mosque outside Yunnan and Hami
Orthodox Christianity
-among Ethnic groups > Russians and Ethnic groups > Tungcheng
-tends towards unorthodoxy due to both emigration patterns and that mainstream orthodox fled
-Chinese Orthodox Church organized like a presbytery with Most Holy Synod only leading it
-Spiritual Christians and Dukhobors being notable here
Roman Catholicism
-unrecognized as a religion by the state
-because its opposition to Confucianism means its members sometimes don't even take part in elections
-and because its members are appointed directly by the Pope
-strongest in Pearl River and near Macau
Judaism
-among Ethnic groups > Jews
-also known for the Kaifeng Jewish community
National Academies
-ancient system, reformed radically
-sits at the apex of the university system and very tough to get into
-especially with population boom
-they've been massively modernized
-and a focus on engineering, math, Analyzers
-special orientation towards training bureaucrats
Guozijian
-grand academy in Nanjing
-central and administers the entire academy system