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| Anthem | "The Song to the Auspicious Cloud" | ||
| Capital | Qingdao - Jinan - Qingdao | ||
| Largest city | Qingdao | ||
| Language official |
Chinese (Standard Mandarin) and Japanese (co-official) | ||
| others | Chinese (Wu, Yue (Cantonese), Min, Xiang, Gan, and Hakka), Japanese and Korean. | ||
| Religion main |
Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism | ||
| others | State Shinto | ||
| Ethnic Group | Han | ||
| Government | Republic (under supervision of Japan) | ||
| State President | |||
| Premier of National Council | |||
| Independence | from First Chinese Republic | ||
| declared | 19?? | ||
| Annexation | to Second Chinese Republic | ||
| date | 19?? | ||
| Currency | CSB Yuan | ||
| Organizations | Greater East Asian Prosperity Alliance | ||
The Chinese State Union (国家联盟中文, Guójiā Liánméng Zhōngwén), was a government established by the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was created has a prospect of being the future government of at least Northern China and occupied territories once a peace treaty or armistice was negotiated.
At the end of the Second Sino-Japanese and Great Pacific Wars, all political functionaries and personalities where put on trial by various War Crimes Tribunals sponsored by the Allies or national courts of justice.
Theoretically, the CSU controlled all of China with the exception of Tibet, Mengjiang and Manchukuo, the last two recognized as an independent states. In actuality, actual borders changed as the Japanese gained or lost territory in the war.
During the war, the Imperial Japanese Army committed numerous atrocities in areas controlled by the CSU, including so-called "mopping up" operations to frighten the populace.
History
The Chinese State, created by the Japanese, was a fragile and nostalgic effort of recreating a bygone society in an age of railroads and airplanes. It was a decision to built a Great unity (大同, dàtóng) in accordance with Confucian values and western learning. Although this idea was alien to common Chinese, it had been publicized and discussed in some circles after the fall of Yuan Shikai. (...) However, the imprint of collaboration with an enemy (the Japanese) would mark its demises.(James Leggert (1960), War and internal crisis. Notes on the Japanese Occupation of China (1960), pag 36.
The CSU was a loose union of Confucian bureaucrats of the former empire, local warlords of the civil war, former politicians of the Yuan regime and westernized technical advisors that tried to create a new and harmonious society that could have the best of the old and new times that swept China since 1911.
Government
The State structure of the CSU was largely the one outlined in the Proclamation of the CSU and Basic Government Act.
- The executive resides in the State President, that is the Head of State, elected by the National Assembly for a 6 year term and reelection. The Premier and the National Council are the head of government. They are nominated and removed by the President.
- Legislative power resides in the National Assembly, a bicameral legislature composed of a State Council and Legislative Council. The term of the State Council is of six year terms divided into two classes and a Legislative Council of three year terms. The members of the State Council were chosen by the provincial assemblies and special electoral colleges. The legislative representatives were chosen by provincial constituency and special interest constituencies.
- A Supreme Court, nominated by the President on advise of the Senate, directs and manages all courts of justice. A State Prosecutor is in charge of supervising, guiding and enforcing public prosecution on behalf of the State and investigation of criminal cases. Main tasks of the National Assembly are to draft legislation, approve the budget and treaties, and impeach corrupt officials
The vote is given to men and women, over 21 years old and that can read and write. Additional property and educational credentials allow to vote in the provincial electoral college of the State Council and have additional votes for the special interest constituencies of the Legislative Council, provincial assemblies and local government.