Manchuria (Alternity)

Manchuria, officially referred to as the Republic of Manchuria (Mandarin: 满洲共和国), is a nation in East Asia. The nation borders the Russian Federation to the north, Mongolia and China to the west, and Korea to the south. A population of 107,350,000 makes Manchuria the 14th-largest nation in the world by population.

Once a province of neighboring China, Manchuria was granted its independence by Qing Emperor Puyi (the Xuantong Emperor) in October 1949, three years after the region's liberation from Japanese rule as the puppet state of Manchukuo at the end of World War II in April 1946. Puyi's decision to grant Manchuria its independence stemmed from a necessity to rebuild a war-torn China without attempting to reintegrate Manchuria into the Empire. Within three years of its independence, Manchuria was overtaken by a Communist revolution led by Mao Zedong and the exiled former Chinese Communist Party, which had been reformed into the Manchurian Communist Party in 1950. From 1952 to 1992, the nation was under the grip of Communism as a USSR satellite state, but with reformations to the south taking China into a new era of prosperity, Manchurians longed for freedom from the tyranny they had lived under since the Japanese invasion in 1932. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Manchurians found the opportunity they had been waiting for and launched the Manchurian Revolution of February 1992, imprisoning Communist leaders and dissolving the Manchurian Communist Party by overwhelming popular vote. In the five years since, Manchuria has adopted a democratic system of government heavily based on that of neighboring Korea, but national prosperity has yet to see an upswing, probably due to lingering Communist influence in the National Assembly.

World War II and Japanese Domination (1938-1946)
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Manchurian Revolution (1992)
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