Manchuria (In Frederick's Fields)



Manchuria is a region in the, officially composed of six different subjects of the Union; an oblast (Primorsky), an Affiliated State (Manchuria) a State of the Union (Korean Manchuria), an Autonomous City (Port Arthur) and two National Okrugs (Evenkia and Amurye). For a long time a barren region with extremely varying climates that prevented consistent farming and therefore with few inhabitants, almost entirely of the local nomadic Tungusic ethnic group, the arrival of Russia to the region and the rapid development and industrialisation of the region led to the establishment of Manchuria as an economically vital and extremely diverse region of the Eurasian Union.

Due to the fact that Manchuria contains six different nations, the region is extremely varied in all terms. Economically, politically, culturally and socially, the six nations differ; for instance, Port Arthur and Vladivostok, highly industrialised cities and Eurasia's main ports in the Pacific coast, are amongst Russia's largest, most economically active and culturally diverse regions, while the territory of Amurye is a tribal trust territory with only one major settlement and only a few hundred thousand inhabitants.

Great Manchu Empire
Dominant, both in size and population, as well as in the level of autonomy it is granted by the duma, amongst all other subjects of Eurasia in East Asia is the Great Manchu Empire (in Manchu, Ambu Manju gurun). The Empire is a remnant from the Qing Empire that controlled between 1644 and 1900, after which, faced with internal civil war and Russian encroachment upon its borders, the Chinese government was forced to move to the City of Mukden, and eventually lost most of its independence, becoming a federal subject of the Eurasian Union. However, even then, Manchuria has retained much of its internal autonomy in regards to military, economy and cultural matters. The Parliament of Manchuria is fully devolved from Eurasian control (and is infamously undemocratic and uncooperative). In fact, Manchuria often has acted in ways deeply against the wishes of the central Eurasian parliament (most notably in commiting active ethnic cleansing of its Chinese subjects between 1930 and 1965, something that is generally credited as the cause of the death of nearly a million ethnic Chinese). The Manchu government is currently a big deal more authoritarian than other governments, ruled by the descendants of the Aisin-Gioro clan (today going by the mildly Russified name Aisingorov).

History
The Great Manchu Empire was born after the end of the first stage of the, when, in 1913, the battered monarchist armies were forced to a negotiating table by allied Russian forces, which accorded an agreement with the Federalist government of Chiang Kai Shek giving Russia the non-Han periphery of the nation in exchange for support in defeating the myriad of warlords that took over the rest of the country (especially the Boulangist, French-sided Guangdong Clique and the later Chinese Communist Party). While this was mildly successful, this resulted in Emperor Puyi being essentially forced to give up all his claims to any land outside Manchuria.

Between 1910 and 1920, with Manchu independence being de facto recognised by both Eurasia and China and the monarchy struggling to maintain Chinese immigrants out of the nation, the Manchu nation began experiencing deep changes that would bring to birth the modern Manchu state.

Government


The unicameral Jakun Gusa (Eight Banners, after the original form of organisation in the Manchu people) acts as an advisory body to a Council of Ministers picked by the Emperor and approved by the Parliament. The government is controlled to a large degree by the monarchy and the military, which emphasise their power in the form of a civilian political party, the Concordia Association (named evoking cooperation between Chinese, Manchu, Mongol and Russian, after the ethnic cleansing period of the 1940s), a "Compassionate Conservative" party evoking its ideas from the One Nation Conservatives of the United Kingdom and allied to the Nationalist Party of Eurasia, with whom it sits in the National Duma. While officially a multiparty democracy, the only other party that even comes close to contesting Concordia's rule over the Manchus is the centrist People's Party (with no official affiliation as it acts as the Manchu representative for the Kadets, Trudoviks and the Party of Regions), which gathers support from the bourgeoisie and the intellectual elite, but has never gotten over 30% of the vote at a national election, and has never left its role as Official Opposition in the Jakun Gusa. Albeit the last election gave the People's best result at 29.7% of the suffrage (in comparison with Concordia's 50.3%), it is still a far cry away from seriously threatening Concordia's prospects.

The Manchu government has the right to its own constitution, its own armed forces, its own taxation policy, and free spending of the money it recieves in any way it wishes. Education, healthcare and trade policies are decentralised, but are required to work by standards set by the Eurasian government (an issue of contention amongst many). The police force is fully devolved as well.

Demographics
Last census placed Manchuria's population at 21,561,724, and 2015 estimates place the Manchu population at 25,610,000. With 10.4% of Eurasia's total population, Manchuria has the greatest population of any federal subject. Of the population, 37% identify as Manchus; 13% as Mongolian; 10% as Korean, 23% as Han Chinese and 15% as Russian, an increase in the Manchu population (from 35% in 2005 and 33% in 2000). Linguistically, Manchurian is only spoken as a first language by only 30% of the population, with a further 30% natively speaking Chinese and the rest speaking their respective ethnic languages. This process of Sinicisation amongst the Manchu populace has been slowly reversing itself in the last 100 years, but a large proportion of the population remains Sinicised.