Imperial China (1983: Doomsday)

The Qing Dynasty, often called Imperial China or Qing China, is a small nation in the Manchuria Region of China. Not much is known about the nation, except that it is controlled by a heir to the old Qing Dynasty and that they are a heavily armed, but not hostile, state. They seem to be hostile, however, to who annexed several of the "fiefdoms" to the north out of "pure hostility and with brute force". It contols the areas of Tieling, Siping, Songyuan, Baicheng, Tongliao, and other areas.

History
The area has gone through many empires and regimes. Among them was the Qing Dynasty, which originated in Manchuria. Below you will find a detailed history on the nation.

History of the Old Qing Dynasty
The Dynasty was founded not by the Han who form the majority of the Chinese population, but the Manchus, who are today an ethnic minority of China. What was to become the Manchu state was founded by a minor Jurchen tribe in Jianzhou, in the early 17th century. Originally a vassal of the Ming emperors, Nurhaci in 1582 embarked on an inter-tribal feud that escalated into a campaign to unify the Jianzhou Jurchen tribes. By 1616 he had sufficiently consolidated Jianzhou region to proclaim himself khan of "Great Jin" in reference to the previous Jurchen dynasty. Historians refer to this pre-Qing entity as "Later Jin" to distinguish it from the first Jin Dynasty. Two years later Nurhaci announced Seven Grievances and openly renounced the sovereignty of Ming overlordship in order to complete the unification of those Jurchen tribes still allied with the Ming emperor. After a series of successful battles he relocated his capital from Hetu Ala to successively bigger captured Ming cities in the province of Liadong, first Liaoyang in 1621 and again in 1625 to Shenyang.

Doomsday
Manchuria was hit hard by strategic nuclear strikes, as it was a vital industrial region in the PRC and the local government quickly proved unable to control the crumbling region. Falling into anarchy with military leaders fighting each other for supremacy, many Chinese simply decided to escape to the north. Manchuria was split in half on Doomsday, due to strikes on Shenyang, Harbin, and Dajian. Due to fallout and starvation, the last functioning government in the area, in Tongliao eventually was near-collapse. It shadowed its old population, now at a 200,000 populace record, the area still managed to remain a sea of organization in a sea of destruction. However, many refugees escaping from the south soon owerwhelmed the city and the city descended into chaos.

Exile and Conquest
Around 1984, several PLA and Han Chinese were exiled into Inner Mongolia after an uprising in Ughyr against the Soviets who attempted to conquer them. With a caravan of over 90,000 people, mostly civilians, the large nomadic group overwhelmed any surviving communities. Eventually they settled what is now known as a much smaller.

However, in 1988, a small group was even further exiled when a military coup was attempted at taking over the provisional People's Republic. One of the leaders of the rebellion was HH Chinese Pretender Prince Hengzen, his wife Tu Yanling, and 7 year old son Jin Xing. Although Hengzen had been part of the Rebel forces as a film projectionist in the PLA, his history led him to being nicknamed "Emperor General", and along with a small group of 2,000 people most of them military, they set out further into Inner Mongolia in search of a new home. They arrived at the tip of Inner Mongolia, at what would remain of the city of Tongliao. Without more than a word spoken, the People's Liberation Army crushed anything that seemed to be a "rebellion", and soon established their first outpost there nicknamed the "Tongliao Country". Soon after, the now "TLA" Army helped free Siping and further parts of Inner Mongolia. At a census taken in 1989, there were only 79,000 people living in Tongliao Country". At first the TC was not only communist, but it was a heavily militaristic society and always elected military members.

Hengzen soon became a topic of interest occasionally. Now that they were in Manchuria, Hengzen's ancenstral home, many in the army joked on whether "Emperor Hengzen of the Qing" would take the throne or not. These talks became more serious when it became obvious that the pathetic generals in charge could not handle the situation, and after a brief skirmish with Siberia, the forces were further diminished. His son, who was 13, had been raised with hearing stories that he was "Emperor of China" and that he could "save his people". He had also wanted, before Doomsday, to be a member of the army. His dream came true eventually, in 1996, when Siberia finished annexing northern Manchuria, Jin Xing, who was 18, was accepted into the TC's Army. By the time he was 21 he was a "Shang Xiao", or Colonel. He led the 3rd Battallion Liberation Army into Liaoning, which was eventually liberated and annexed to Tongliao Country.

Restoration of Imperial Rule
Soon the Council of Generals of Tongliao had massacred a village of Manchus after they attempted to leave TC. Xing was a Manchu. He had suddenly been brought back to the days of his childhood. Living in poverty and filth moving from one war-torn village to the next. The times food was stolen from him, and he was beaten up for it. How he and his family were expelled from the rump People's Republic for speaking out. How the Council of Generals had failed to provide for the people of Tongliao. He decided, he planned, he was finished with the bullshit of Mao's legacy and his pathetic generals who had brought nothing but misery upon the people of China. He had had enough. The communists must die.

Jin Xing and several other leaders had started a movement with the populace on anti-Communism, similar to his father's original movement, that it was those ideals that caused Doomsday in the first place. After several minor riots, he was eventually expelled from the Army and was tried to be executed for "high treason". However, he was rescued several hours before a public hanging was to take place. His "followers", mostly those who he rescued from Liaoning, who nicknamed themselves the "Imperialists" would attempt to depose the Communists, which eventually resulted in civil war. The war ended quick with the Xing Faction winning after the TC leadership, and key military figures were killed. Soon, the Imperial Party took control.

Under Xing's leadership, he effectively restored Imperial rule over this part of China, and his father, the original heir to the throne as a successor to the Qing Imperial bloodline. While not a communist state, the Emperor would take the beneficial practices of the People's Republic government, such as public transportation, government farms, and public housing. Public Housing was the easiest since over 700,000 homes sat empty in Tongliao! Under Empire rule, his lands expanded, and what started as a small city-state around Tongliao eventually grew into a state that controlled most of Central Manchuria. Also, the fiefdom system was introuduced, like the Empire of old, Qing would gather taxes and tribute from small villages or towns in return for protection.

At first they had gathered taxes from all of Manchuria, including the Siberian portion, but when an Imperial "peacekeeping" brigade of soldiers were shot up by Siberia, thinking of them to be raiders. This started a long period of resentment towards.

Contact with Korea
Contact with Korea occured in 1999, when Imperial forces began to expand deeper into Manchuria, establishing the "Second Empire" to the east. With this newly created outpost, many Chinese refugees were drawn by a lure away from a life of filth and squalor. Korea then began to notice this drop in immigrants, and, eventually sent out a field battalion to investigate the situation. They discovered the Qing, and with it a unique government. However the Chinese soon drove the Koreans out after reports from the Chinese refugees of Korea's harsh methods to deal with them, even though the Koreans actually seeked peace, the amount of rascism towards the Chinese made tensions too high.

To the Empire, they were surrounded on all fronts by enemies. The only ones who they could get along with were Jiangsu, and to a certain extent after contact in 2002 with Japan. This made the Empire adopt a sort of isolationist policy.

Modern Day
To this day, they remain an isolationist state. Since reports to the world that they are a warlord state, and they still have lingering tensions with Korea, it is nearly impossible that they pursue international relations. They are dependent on sea trade with Jiangsu, but the Jiangsu are also heavily suspicious of the "Warlord Empire". Their only powerful ally is surprisingly the Socialist Republic, which due to cultural similarities are willing to trade with Qing China.

Economy
China's economy is supported by many things, such as heavy industrry, textiles, soy beans and rice, and many other things. Coal is still mined in Liaoyuan but needs to be done so slowly and carefully to prevent exaustion. Food is just at the level of need and all food goes inwards since nobody would like to relive the disaster of Mao's Secret Famine. They can manufacture their own bullets since heavy industry survived, and like pre-Doomsday China, have a very large military.

Politics and Government
Imperial China is obviously an empire. The Emperor rules practically absolute, but has a "Senate of the House", which advises the king, and can occasionally veto his laws if they are too disputed. The current emperor belongs to the House of Qing, which has been around for 466 years and has rules uninterupted for about 12.

Emperor
The Emperor belongs to the house of Qing.

Heir
The Heir is the one who will take the throne when the Emperor dies or resigns. Currently Xing is the only heir, but it is rumored that his father will soon abdicate. As of September 2010 it is confirmed that Xing has had a child, named Yīng, Chinese for Eagle with a Manchu woman. Should all heirs die, the Senate of the House must perform a search for any other surviving family members, and if none are found then the country will transform into a Republic.Unlike the empire of old there are no requirements for a spouse to the heir, it can be a Tibetan businesswoman to a Han Chinese farmer to a Manchu senator. However it is preferred that an heir to the throne have many children to prevent extinction of the monarchy. This has happened before, and should Xing not have survived the monarchy would have gone extinct.