Oriental Wasteland

The Oriental Wasteland is a loosely defined geographic region, which includes Hebei, and Tianjin, with other maps stretching its boundaries all the way to the Yangtze River.
== Background ==
Compared to the other major cities of China, the region has remained relatively intact. In a large-scale municipal redevelopment program initiated by the Chinese government in the 2030s, Beijing was redeveloped, combining traditional style architecture of the Old City with the new retro-futuristic, modern style of the 21st century.
During this redevelopment, as a result of a nationwide scare following the outbreak of the Euro-Middle Eastern War and the collapse of the United Nations, the Chinese government took preliminary steps to fortify Beijing and its surrounding municipalities from a nuclear attack. Structures were reinforced with steel and strengthened concrete, while large shelters were built by rival companies Sinotec for civilians to evacuate to.
Beijing and other large municipalities were largely automated, as a result of the manpower shortages and the government push for autonomization. Automated robots repaired infrastructure and took on jobs formerly held by people, while automated intelligence were built to run the cities' clockwork. Despite the region becoming one of the most efficient, many protested against the greater integration of automatons within society.
Despite government preparedness, the evacuation effort during the nuclear strikes were a disaster. With everyone rushing to evacuate into the shelters, a large human stampede occurred in the streets of Beijing. While Chinese defense systems managed to forcefully disarm many ballistic missiles, the chaos within Beijing and Tianjin would lead to many unable to enter a shelter with the unlucky many fleeing into Beijing's subway systems, hoping that the subway would hold out until they were able to venture out. However, subway sections began to collapse and cave in with even the formidable state shelters beginning to buckle.
The early weeks following the blast would be devastating as cultural monuments and landmarks would burn down in a fire known as the Great Fire, which would last for months on end. Food remained relatively abundant within shelters due to months of preparation and stocking, and those who did not manage to hide in a safe place were disintegrated or killed during the Great Fires, and those who managed to survive turned into ghouls - most of which were mindless ferals, with the radiation in some areas so intense that they became special types of ghouls.
Months after the initial blasts, remnants of government authorities emerged, doing their best to contain the situation and re-establish order. However, their efforts were too little and too late. Not long after their emergence, these authorities began to collapse, leaving the wasteland to fend for itself devolving into a state of anarchy, while the remnants of the PLA isolated themselves from the outside world indefinitely. In the years following the war, the Oriental Wasteland was largely ignored, allowing raiders, slavers, ghouls, and many more creatures to ravage and loot the ruined city. Tight-knit underground communities within the Subways would be established, barely surviving on tunnel rats and the remaining emergency rations.
=== 22nd century ===
As the Oriental Wasteland approached the 22nd century, it was the remnants of the PLA that first attempted to re-establish what was left of the heart of China. The remnants sent out heavily-armored explorers into its ruins to assess the situation. While the Oriental Wasteland was still heavily irradiated, it was certainly less irradiated and more habitable than it was half a century ago, allowing the Remnants to venture out creating makeshift outposts that attracted settlers and refugees. Growing communities formed around the outposts, and to better help protect and grow these communities, the Remnants turned these outposts into settlements, becoming a safehaven for refugees. Human settlement boomed, and many traveled to the region either by radio broadcast or word of mouth from passing traders in hopes of finding better opportunities. Drifters joined up with the PLA and those who did not like their iron-fisted rule settled in independent settlements. 
However, those who were less lucky were ambushed by raiders or feral ghouls. The growing number of human settlement also brought an increase in violence, as raider groups, strengthened by new recruits, began launching raids on weaker settlements. The death of higher leadership within the remnants and internal problems brewing within the PLA at the time. 
The looming power vacuum continued to affect both the Remnants and the stability of the wasteland. Increasing numbers of attacks from raider groups each day and the waning support of the populace for the Remnants bolstered insurgent armies which began to consolidate their forces in preparation of an insurgency, disgruntled elements of the Remnants began to rally under a new, reformist banner, and rumors of movements in the abandoned regions up North formerly controlled by American forces pre-War caused mass hysteria. A large-scale revolt organized by the peasantry which ended in a massacre would serve as the catalyst for the Beijing Spring - followed by the bloody First and Second Oriental Wars between the Three Armies, the Remnants, and the Survivors.
When the dust settled, the Oriental Wars achieved nothing but bloodshed and loss, setting back the Oriental Wasteland, its factions, and its people years. The Survivors would retreat up North, the Remnants began to lick their wounds, and the Three Armies consolidating what remained of their horde.
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