[hider=The Republic of China] [img]http://th00.deviantart.net/fs40/PRE/i/2009/043/2/b/Taiwan_Grunge_Flag_by_think0.jpg[/img] [hider=Administrative Districts of the Republic] [u][b]- Territories of the Republic -[/b][/u] Hebei Province Shanxi Province Shaanxi Province Gansu Province Sinkiang Province Qinghai Province Xikang Province Yunnan Province Guangxi Province Hainan Special Governmental Region Guangdong Province Fujian Province Jiangxi Province Hunan Province Guizhou Province Sichuan Province Hupei Province Henan Province Anhui Province Nanjing Special Governmental Region Jiangsi Province Shandong Province Tibet Autonomous Region [u][b]- Claimed by the Republic of China -[/b][/u] Taiwan Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Suiyuan Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Chahar Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Outer Mongol Region (administered by the Russian Empire) Inner Mongol Region (administered by the Russian Empire) Rehe Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Xing'an Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Liaobei Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Heilongjiang Province (administered by the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan) Hejiang Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Songjiang Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Liaoning Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Andong Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Jilin Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Nenjiang Province (administered by the Empire of Japan) Tuva Province (administered by the Russian Empire) The Autonomous Region of Dai Viet (administered by Dai Nam) [/hider] [hider=Government of the Republic] The Republic is led by the President of China, who is elected every eight years by a general election of the population of China. The President of China, however, has comparatively little power compared to the Chinese First Minister, who is the leader of the largest party of the Chamber of Deputies. The Chinese Chamber of Deputies incorporates universal suffrage and divides the lands of China into constituencies, similar to the British system in the House of Commons. Each electoral district elects a representative (called a Deputy of the Chamber, unimaginatively, and acronymed as DofC) who is then sent to Nanjing to the parliamentary building. There are several major parties in the Chamber currently - the largest and thusly the party currently in power is the Reform Party, led by Liu Xan-Tseng. The new Republic is vulnerable to breakaway regions, however, and struggles to maintain republican control over areas such as the Yunnan and the Guangxi, and the Republic is still deeply divided between supporters of the new republican regime and the Tseng government, and those who desire a return to Imperial government, led by the reactionary Prince Li Jun-meng and the Chinese Imperial Party in the Chamber of Deputies. For now, the government of the Republic seems stable, though there are several threats of breakaway warlords which Tseng must deal with to consolidate republican authority over all of China. The Chinese political system is notable due to its lack of gender segregation. This was a move by Tseng in order to gain a wider base of support across the country and gives it, at least to Tseng, a more legitimate government in the eyes of the people, particularly compared to the tyrannical imperial Qing that preceded the Republic. This, understandably, has made him enemies within the imperialist right wing, whilst the more moderate elements of Chinese politics both praise his judgement but also express concern with giving women the vote, as almost no other nation in the world has adopted such a move. In truth, this was a remnant of Tseng's time in Eisenkreis-Kzechverin and his understanding of the attitudes there, and is more of a social experiment to see if it can be adopted within China. So far, there has been little outright opposition to the move. [/hider] [hider=Dramatis Personae of the Republic of China] President Hwang Shiao-qiang, President of the Republic of China First Minister Liu Xan-Tseng, First Minister of the Republic of China and leader of the Reform Party Deputy First Minister Ji Zhong, Deputy First Minister of the Republic of China and deputy leader of the Reform Party Chancellor Zheng Sanlong, Chancellor of the Republic of China Foreign Minister Kou Keng, Foreign Minister of the Republic of China Prince Li Jun-meng, leader of the Chinese Imperialist Party and Leader of the Opposition Ambassador Geng Cheung, Ambassador to the Empire of Japan Ambassador Tsei Kang, Ambassador to the United States of America Ambassador Xiang Lin-kei, Ambassador to Eisenkreis-Kzechverin Ambassador Chung Jiang, Ambassador to the Russian Empire Ambassador Deng Lipeng, Ambassador to the British Empire Ambassador Kuang Chanming, Ambassador to the German Empire Ambassador Shen Tung, Ambassador to the State of Australia Ambassador Rong Rentsu, Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands Field Marshal Ernst Ludwig von Grafenberg, Chief of the Chinese General Staff and military advisor to Liu Xan-Tseng. General Wang Guo-wei, Commander-in-Chief of the Republican Chinese Army Admiral Yeung Xiao-dan, Admiral of the Republican Chinese Navy [/hider] [hider=Economy:] In the midst of industrialisation and modernisation, the economy of China is a whirlwind of mechanisation and the removal of inefficiency and corruption. Though currently the economic state of the Republic of China is precarious at best, Eisenkern industrial assistance is proving very useful to the Chinese state in its modernisation efforts, though it will be a long time before China is fully prepared to flex its muscles and reform its image as an outdated laughing stock of a nation. China, due to its size, is almost self-sufficient, though it lacks certain key resources that would otherwise allow it to exploit its large sources of potential income and trade goods - most notably human resources. The Chinese economy is being held back by the last remnants of the Qing past and the sprawling, choked bureaucracy that characterised the Qing and the Ming before them. Though the Tseng government is cutting both the red tape and the quantity of red tape, it will be some time before the Chinese economy is able to come up to full speed. [/hider] [hider=Military of the Republic] [/hider] [hider=History of the Republic] [/hider] [/hider]