Daqin

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**Daqin** (Daqinese: *Romania*), officially the **People's Republic of Daqin**, is a country in West Yuanxi and North Heidi. It is the world's most populous country with a population exceeding 1.5 billion. Daqin spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders sixteen countries by land, tied with Buryad as having the most of any country in the world. It is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two semi-autonomous special administrative regions. The administrative capital of Daqin is Roma, while the most populous city is Constantinople and the largest financial centres are Mons Calpe and Olisipo.

The *Republican Era* was the era of classical Daqinese civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom and the establishment of the Roman Republic in its place, traditionally dated to 509 BC. Daqinese society at the time was primarily a cultural mix of Latin and Etruscan societies. After the Gallic sack of Roma in 387 BC, the Republic conquered the whole Italic peninsula in a century and thus became a major power in the Mediterranean. Their greatest strategic rivals were the Punics in Carthage, against whom the Republic waged three wars. The Roman Republic defeated Carthage at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, becoming the dominant power of the ancient Mediterranean world. It then embarked on a long series of difficult conquests, conquering Macedon, the Seleucid Empire, Lusitania, Numidia, the Pontics, the Gauls, and Egypt. Tensions at home coupled with ambitions abroad led to further civil wars. After a generation, the Roman Republic fell into civil war again in 49 BC between Julius Caesar and Pompey. Despite his victory and appointment as dictator for life, Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. Caesar's heir Octavian and lieutenant Mark Antony defeated Caesar's assassins in 42 BC, but they eventually split. Antony's defeat alongside his ally and lover Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and the Senate's grant of extraordinary powers to Octavian as *Augustus* in 27 BC–which effectively made him the first Roman emperor—marked the end of the Republic.

The first two centuries of the *Imperial Era* saw a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana (Roman Peace). The Empire reached its greatest territorial expanse under Trajan (98–117); a period of increasing trouble and decline began under Commodus (180–192). In the 3rd century, the Empire underwent a crisis that threatened its existence, as the Gallic and Palmyrene Empires broke away from the Daqinese state, and a series of short-lived emperors led the Empire. It was reunified under Aurelian (270–275). Diocletian set up two different imperial courts in the Greek East and Latin West in 286; Christians rose to power in the 4th century following the Edict of Milan. The imperial seat moved from Roma to Byzantium (Constantinople) in 330. The Migration Period, involving large invasions by Germanic peoples and by the Huns of Attila, led to the decline of the Western Roman Empire. With the fall of Ravenna to the Germanics and the deposition of Romulus Augustus in 476 by Odoacer, the Western Empire finally collapsed. The Eastern Empire survived for another millennium with Constantinople as sole capital, eventually recapturing Roma and the western shores of north Africa from the invading Germanic tribes. The Eastern Empire completed the reunification of Daqin in with the conquest of the last remnants of the Frankish Empire, leading to the beginning of the *Byzantine Era* in 668. Aside from periodic dynastic changes, the Byzantine period of Daqin remained mostly peaceful, fostering the growth of Daqinese philosophy, literature, art, and religion. This changed when the Magyars launched a series of invasions on the woefully unprepared Daqin, leading to its total conquest and subjugation by 1250. This ushered in the period known in Daqin as the *Era of Barbaric Domination*, in which Daqinese affairs were dominated by successive waves of foreign control and influence. A brief period of home rule after 1553 ensued after the Magyars were overthrown by the Medici, but Daqin soon fell to Germanic rule in 1572. The capital was moved to Parisium, and the Gausi Dynasty greatly expanded Daqin's imperial holdings. In the 1800s, Daqin began to rapidly lose prestige, and was forced to cede land to countries from Zhonglu; the most notable being the lease of Mons Calpe, effectively giving eastern powers total control over the entrance to the Sea of Daqin. Furthermore, Daqin was forced to into ceding land and signing unequal treaties by the eastern powers, and was humiliated in war by successive defeats to Nihon, Choson, Jurcheny, the Mongol Empire, and Albion.

In 1912, the last imperial dynasty in Daqin was overthrown and the Republic of Daqin was established. The Republic saw consistent conflict for most of the mid-20th century, including a civil war between the Republican Government of Daqin (led by Fluvius Fas-Robur's Romanitas) and the Daqinese Labourist Party (DLP; led by Crinis Stagnum), which began in 1927, as well as the Second Romano-Albanese War that began in 1937 and continued until 1945, therefore becoming involved in World War II. The latter led to a temporary stop in Daqin's civil war and numerous Albanese atrocities such as the Matritium Massacre, which continue to influence Daqin-Albion relations. In 1949, the DLP established control over Daqin as the Republican Government fled to the islands of Sardinia and Corsica. Victory in World War II and the establishment of the labourist regime in Daqin ended the Era of Barbaric Domination, and began what many in Daqin refer to as the *Equalist Era*. Early equalist rule saw two major projects: the Great Leap Forward, which resulted in a sharp economic decline and massive famine; and the Cultural Revolution, a movement to purge all non-communist elements of Daqinese society that led to mass violence and persecution. Beginning in 1978, the Daqinese government began economic reforms that moved the country away from planned economics. Economic reform continued to strengthen the nation's economy in the following decades while raising Daqin's standard of living significantly. From 1990 to 2022, Daqin's gross national income per capita had grown from $330 to over $12,850, making Daqin about to reach the threshold set by the World Bank to become a high-income country.

Daqin is a unitary one-party equalist republic led by the DLP. Victory in World War II granted it one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Daqin ranks poorly in measures of democracy, transparency, and human rights, including for press freedom, religious freedom, and ethnic equality. Making up around one-fifth of the world economy, Daqin is the world's largest economy by GDP at purchasing power parity, the second-largest economy by nominal GDP, and the second-wealthiest country. The country is one of the fastest-growing major economies and is the world's largest manufacturer and exporter, as well as the second-largest importer. Daqin is a nuclear-weapon state with the world's largest standing army by military personnel and the second-largest defense budget.