China (Alternity)

The People's Republic of China (PRC), more often and commonly referred to as simply China is a nation in East Asia, and with a population of over 1.1 billion, it is the most populous nation in the world. The PRC consists of twenty-one provinces and three autonomous regions as well as claimed jurisdiction over the neighboring Philippine Empire district of Formosa, which as of June 1997 is currently suffering a civil uprising against Philippine rule. But in recent months, the UN has called for China to end its claim to Formosa and recognize the rebel Republic of China (ROC). The nation borders the Philippine East Asia Region of Indochina, Myanmar, Tibet, India, Urdustan and Afghanistan to the south, Kazakhstan to the west, Mongolia and the Russian Federation to the north, and Korea to the east-southeast. It also shares maritime borders with the Philippine Empire and Japan to the east and southeast.

The PRC was established on October 1, 1949 by the CPC (Communist Party of China) under Mao tse-Tung, who defeated the anti-Communist, democractic and nationalist-inclined Kuomintang (KMT) under Chiang-Kai shek in the long and bloody Chinese Civil War that lasted from 1927 to 1950 and resulted in over 5 million casualties total.