[hider=National standard][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Chinese-army_Wuhan_flag_%281911-1928%29_18_dots.svg[/img]
堅不可摧的青睞。
[i]Unbreakable by the Ages[/i]
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鐵是血。
[i]Iron in Blood[/i][/hider]
[u][i]Nation's Name[/u][/i]
Kong Empire of the Sacred Flame of the Center Lands

[hider=Anthem][youtube]Wc9PEJMFeR4[/youtube]
 Forge our iron empire,
 In the crucible of fire,
 All the world will do right in its toils,
 United in justice and truth,
 As long as the Kong rules!
 Our empire is emblazoned by light,
 And our boundaries are vast and preserved.
 The ash blows on infinitely,
 The earth trembles in awe! [/hider]

[u][i]Nation's History[/u][/i]
HEAVY METAL CONCEPT ALBUM THINGS HAPPENED, ALSO DRAGON-SERPENTS AND SEAS OF IRON

GONNA FILL THIS OUT PROPER LATER PROBABLY

[u][i]Form of Government[/u][/i]
Absolute Monarchy/Imperial Bureaucracy

[u][i]Political Status[/u][/i]
Troubled by the aftershocks of an infant republican movement's failed revolution, clashing with age-old stratified class system and bureaucracy, as well as warlordist and usurpist whisperings. Economically workable but undeveloped and arguably hobbled by the same Durstweallian treaty policy that is allowing for increased pace of development, forming the basis for nativist labor crises and riots.

[u][i]Political Overview[/u][/i]
 Centralized power and fiat lying in the Emperor, but governance is largely delegated to attendant ministers, whom delegate further to decentralized, localized governments and bannerman governors in semiautonomous slope-holds. TO BE FLUFF-IZED

[u][i]Current Political Leader[/u][/i]
Emperor Within the Flame Kong Dao Kai, seated at the Ironblooded Redoubt of the First City, also known as 'The Iron City'

[u][i]Notable Figures[/u][/i]
ORCS
SOME HUMANS

[u][i]Total Population[/u][/i]
290,000,000~ (total)

[u][i]Employed Population[/u][/i]
HOLY SHIT STILL A LOT OF ORCS

[u][i]Military Population[/u][/i]
FUCK ME HOW ARE THERE SO MANY ORCS

[u][i]The Specie's Information[/u][/i]
[i][b]Ash Orcs[/i][/b]
[i]"Of the races of this world, we can safely say that we are the most blessed of all. With strength beyond men, and a matching intellect, a history as far back as our Orminnian benefactors and contemporaries, high ascendant from a savage past, overflowing with the blood of the earth, a veritable cornucopia found in our agriculture, and the gift of the wisdom of that inner and outermost fire, unreceived by all but a few peoples on the earth beyond us, it is no wonder that we are the foremost nation on the earth and beyond it. Some may question this, saying we have fallen behind, out of modernity, into a backwater, but to this, I say no. A fluke, and result of some hundreds of years of closing off in the wake of the Flu, a state we will soon rise up out of as phoenix from the ashes. Besides, if we did not slow our pace now and again, it would hardly be fair upon all the rest, after all!"[/i]
-Imperial Scholar Yuan Bao Mu, [i]A History of Civilizing[/i]

[i]"Fraxinus Orcus! A thoroughly paradoxical creature, touting itself as the creme de la creme of the developed world, despite not being a part in the first place. Scourge of the old world and a not entirely relevant blotch on the map through middle, and let nothing be said of the present, dear reader, for you who have read my previous volumes will assuredly know of that squalorous state. Take an elfin-earred, primate brute, shave him, clean him, break his slouching posture by the cane into a proper high-headedness, dress him up in the finest silken robes, but he is still a brute, in the end! But I digress. I must give him some credit, as it is an oft-spoke canard that those of that 'empire' in the not-quite-centered lands that he is nothing more than a recently civilized Beastmarch cutthroat. Hogwash. He is rather a very long-civilized Beastmarch cutthroat. Now, on to the shape and nature of his skull, which is..."[/i]
-Durstweallian eugenicist and anthropologist Jonathan Krausewitz Schenkt MDE of the Krakenwæcce Committee for Genetic Hygiene, [i]Racial Phrenology and the Nature of the Continentals[/i]

[u][i]Army Overview[/u][/i]
WORK IN PROGRESS

[i]"The Reformed Armies of the Kong, circa the Sanguine Rebellion, were intended by the Emperor to be trained, equipped, tactically and strategically modeled on foreign lines. The armies themselves were, generously speaking, best described as a half-armed, disloyal, undisciplined and altogether useless mob. Of course, the modernized sectors were the ones to throw their lot in with the revolution, subsequently being further armed by hawkish libertine-crowing Republican interventionists, foreign elements. Frankly, I do not see how the Kong could have managed without the intervention of Durstweall, but to our mutual benefit, his Majesty's forces did preserve this ancient state and rearm the whole of the loyalists; a great boon, that, considering the allowance for a unified supply chain that the rebels, being so troubled by too many makes and models, different cartridges, lack of translated maintenance manuals or spare parts, simply could not manage. On the offense, the Sanguinary revolutionists' army, at first advantaged, was now falling apart at the seams, while that of the loyalists had already fallen to ashes and been reborn. By our aid, of course. The revolution was quashed within four months. A wonder how, after a thrashing of their militants and a show of central power thereby, a general fading away of both the sentiments of foreign-advocating modernizers and foreign-spurning self-enstrengthenists follows, and the populace threw the remaining sympathizers before us with gusto."

"In the modern context, though perhaps not the most modern force technologically or tactically, I would say that they are the most potent contender- continentally speaking- within the rankings of the modern by number and peculiarities of armament and what the men have deemed 'a peculiar fighting spirit,' which I can personally attest to and confirm. Abnormal size and a lack of dexterity amongst the prime and older men made our standard-issue rifles plainly unsuitable without the removal of a trigger guard, and still so after the counterrevolutionary action, with citations of poor egonomics and lacking stopping power. I can attest that a particular orc, a farmer turned militiaman who served under my mixed army group, compared our issue to a varmint rifle his town's gunsmith had assembled for him previously. The occasional capture of rebel Fomalhaut and Aldebaraan rifles- how they arrived into the Kong is a mystery, considering I know of neither formal nor clandestine Rankarite involvement with the revolution at this time- was often considered cause for celebration. This in mind, development began on a suitable replacement by the triumvirate of Cookson & Roper Engineering Co, Kalthoff Waffenfabrik von Prus and Chiang Steelsmithing, producing the Kalthoff-Kubrick Rifle for Imperial Standard Service, or KK-RISS. Designed around a 13.2mm round of comparable if not equivalent ballistic properties to the Rankarite .50 caliber, fitted with seven-round internal magazine well, a capsule design capable of being topped off by side-mounted magazine door. Straight-pull bolt. Potentially troubled by the magazine's imbalance in human hands, but wielded without trouble by orcs. Front-line and storm units are uniformly equipped with this rifle- the reserves largely with it- and furthermore with bulletproof steel helms of that particular Cannaed design, sallet-like and resembling that of Krankar and the former Principalities, differing in adornment by a high-reaching spike, and matching iron breastplates. I would trust the former to hold up to anything short of a .60 Rankar round and the latter any shrapnel or more standard-caliber rifle bullet. The command structure is rather more rigid than ours, adhering to the doctrine of the grand battleplan. Even as their war literature exemplifies a certain unpredictability and extremeness of action, the present military structure is dominated by older, more complacent officers taken to defensive reaction rather than offensively-oriented wars of movement. The younger officers, on the other hand, are taking to the newer ideas almost uniformly, and Durstweallian influence has seen some semblance of our platoon-level independence of action, where necessary."

"The unobservant would, by his notion of the exemplary new Kong infantryman, look at him and his arms as crude, his officers as reactionary and unimaginative or else as imitative foreign-drilled bootlicks, their mechanization of the land army or lackthereof as crippling. A rusted sledge to the honed and rattled sabre of the more 'civilized' peoples around, and frankly there is no more terrible a mistake to make. They are a sword of war. Their body armor-- the new line in particular, but even their traditional iron plate proved tough to crack- is a significant boon at distance as well as in close for general survivability, and the KK-RISS, despite some of my contemporary's ill-educated conception of it as some kind of inaccurate punt-gun, is in fact a robust, accurate and reliable weapon that could put a hole in a man well past a thousand meters. The wielder is trained, motivated, and has the strength & endurance of several men at his disposal, a shell of iron around any vitals one might like to cripple him by. More importantly, he will not give up until either his conception of 'justice' is done, or until he or you is dead. I watched Sanguinary Order members yet live a while longer as our sappers brought the Great Southfort down into the magma, ash orcs crawling doggedly across falling spires of stone and shorn iron bracings, heat-mad from convection, brains and eyes boiling out as the skin caught flame and the muscles contracted and ripped. Cremated alive. They yet made their way towards our positions, or where they believed them to be. The army's reserves, even not as well-equipped as the line, will not stay so for long, and are capable of a sufficient caliber of 'fighting spirit' as any of the line, or any guerrilla fighter we have yet encountered. These peoples have a will of steel. Overwhelming firepower, tactical and strategic superiority would be necessary in any attempted pacification of the Kong. Without somehow acquiring local manpower, even this will not be sufficient to do more than secure an opening to scorch the earth. Durstweall as a great power would not survive the vengeance to follow, whether it be months or decades down the line. I put forward, then, that there can be no pacification as such. Rather, Durstweall must be very careful in its maneuverings around this would-be client state, its present government, and any future contenders, in ensuring that they remain friendly to our causes. Else, I'm afraid we'll have awoken a sleeping giant that will permanently close our best opening into continental influence by proxy."[/i]

- EXCERPT FROM DURSTWEALLIAN WAR PLAN 'YELLOW'

[u][i]Navy Overview[/u][/i]
SUBMERSIBLE TORPEDO BOMBERS

[u][i]Air Force Overview[/u][/i]
FLYING SUBMARINES

[u][i]Nation's Location[/u][/i]
Dignified Imperial Demesne of the Kong, Long May We Reign: 98, 97, 25, 24, 23, 10, 11, 22, 21, 23 
Lesser Beastmarch (special territory): 12, 13
Greater Beastmarch (NPN, former territory): 14, 15, 16, 1, 41
Durstweallian Economic Cooperative In The Emperor's Name And Word (cooperatively administered, de jure territory): 95, 94

[u][i]Nation's Geography[/u][/i]
[i]"Those greyskins up in the mountains, I don't know how they live. By all means, they ought to be dead. The hospitable areas are generally all along volcanic mountainside, and no matter how fertile, too much is on sheer slope and switchback, or else well behind a crucible of obstacles of the same like. How do you build out from that? How can you lock stone edifices that large onto the rock, and how do you move the soil to fill in the terraces? And it's so muggy, so utterly miserable. Hot and humid at once. The coast is more tolerable, but then you have to consider that it's the coast. Storms never end, and you have to build on cliff or behind seawall. Nevermind the boonies, where it rains ash as much as water- forming this awful all-swallowing mud that's like concrete when it dries- and iron flows in rivers. And they thresh it out to cast and forge, just like that! Nature's iniquities in this place never end. Just over the border there's the namesake feature of the Troll Claws. Obsidian. Cracked and shattered, all over the place, stepping stones made of razorblades. Thankfully, the glass doesn't seem to kick up into the dust storms. Not broken up enough normally. But even with modern technology, it'd be mad to try and break ground in this terrain, yet they've been living here for thousands of years! Not a single rational explanation for it."[/i]
-Horzten Kantos, Arkillian geoscientist & meteorologist.

[u][i]Economy Overview[/u][/i]
iron-producing miracles

also rice