Huánán

**South China** (simplified Chinese: 华南; traditional Chinese: 華南; pinyin: *Huánán*), officially the **Kingdom of Huánán** was a country located in East Asia and a member of the **EPA (Eastern Prosperity Association)****.** It existed during **Centuria 5.0.**

## Kingdom of Huánán

### Native Name

華南

The Flag of Huánán

### Motto

"We are addicted to opium and hookers, please buy our tea."

### Capital

Guangzhou(Administrative), Hong Kong(Parliamentary), Taipei (National).

## Overview

**Huánán**was ruled by the **House of Chai**, a cadet branch of the **House of Othae**. While it was nominally an independent vassal of **Zhōngguó**, it served more as a regional government of **Zhōngguó**that is restricted to the southernmost provinces of **China**.

## History

### Origins

The current members of **Huánán** had originally belonged to **China** in **Centuria 4.0**, the predecessor to **Zhōngguó** and were part of the **Chai Clan** which eventually diverted from the **House of Othae** to become the **House of Chai**. The **Chai Clan** led by Lord Chaild Moelister had risen to power roughly 2 weeks into **Centuria 4.0** in which Lord Chaild Moelister had convinced Emperor Othae to begin colonisation efforts on Taiwan, from there on Chaild Moelister and the rest of the **Chai Clan** established the settlement of Taipei on the northern section of Taiwan, the settlement of Taipei grew at such a tremendous rate that Lord Chaild Moelister was appointed as the Governor of Taiwan and spearheaded the creation of the **Colonisation Yuán**, the colonisation administrative department of the Chinese government.

### Rise in power

As the **Chai Clan** grew, so did the **Colonisation Yuán**. **Tibet**, a neighbouring state of **China**,had recently collapsed as it's leader abandoned the nation, and so the **Colonisation Yuán** sent an expedition to Lhasa, the capital of **Tibet** and found it barely ruined. Eventually, word of Lhasa made it's way to Emperor Othae and he authorized Lord Chaild Moelister and the rest of the **Colonisation Yuán** to begin colonising **Tibet** and so the **Chai Clan** formed the vassal Kingdom of **Chinese Tibet**. Major efforts were placed into rebuilding and upgrading Lhasa and in the meantime, Lord Chaild Moelister had also convinced the Emperor to colonise Singapore too. Not only did Lhasa and the rest of **Chinese Tibet** become fully self-sufficient but Taipei had grown to be a thriving oriental port city, growing a variety of plants and gaining riches by shipping overseas goods back to Mainland China.

### End of the Golden Era

The abrupt ending of **Centuria 4.0** had utterly devastated the **Chai Clan** and the **Colonisation Yuán** as all of their efforts had gone to waste, many members of the **Chai Clan** felt unmotivated to come back to **Centuria 5.0**, as they had lost all their progress, but Lord Chaild Moelister had rallied the former members of the **Chai Clan** and the **Colonisation Yuán** together to come back to Centuria 5.0 with the promise of forming their own nation and becoming more powerful and richer than before. Soon enough the **House of Chai** was established as Othae and Chaild Moelister had come to an agreement to split **China** into North and South with the newly formed **Kingdom of Huánán** reigning over the Southernmost provinces and the **Empire of Zhōngguo** ruling over the North.

### Formation of Huánán

The new Emperor Chaild Moelister sought to reclaim Taiwan and the Southern provinces of **China**, and so the **House of Chai** set up a temporary base in Kaohsiung, Taiwan as it had a large flat area as opposed to the surrounding jungle overlapping most of South and Southeast Asia. Soon after they began constructing Hong Kong.

### The Second Golden Era

During **Centuria 5.0**, the **House of Chai in** **Huánán** experienced an economic and cultural renaissance, observing great relations with many other Asian nations including nations that were not member states of the **Eastern Prosperity Association**. It had quickly become one of the most developed nations on the server, boasting its position as the first country in the Eastern Hemisphere to have a town and a city and all of this development had even culminated in **Huánán** surpassing the economic output and rate of urbanization of its vassal overlord **Zhōngguo**.

### The Legacy of Huánán

After the collapse of **Zhōngguo,** **Huánán** persisted on, continuing to exist past the rest of China's collapse. The **House of Chai** had learned an important lesson from the fate of **Zhōngguo.** Realising that their northern neighbour had fallen due to a lack of defence structures and a strong military, **Huánán** expanded upon various projects envisioned by the great scientist and friend of Emperor Chaild Moelister, BustyBillCosby, who had rigged the entirety of Hong Kong's streets with dispensers filled with uranium, that would flood the streets with radiation and destroy any invading army. Hong Kong was also rigged with copious amounts of TNT underneath every road and building, making it so that the **Kingdom of Huánán** could always destroy the great city in an instant if it fell into enemy hands. Bunkers in the town of Taipei were equipped to house the citizens of **Huánán** underground if Taiwan ever came under siege. Thanks to these measures, the **Kingdom of Huánán** had managed to survive with all of its territory intact until the end of **Centuria 5.0.**

## Foreign relations

The **Kingdom of Huánán** was a member of the **Eastern Prosperity Association** and as such, it had diplomatic relations with the majority of Asia and Oceania.

### Allies

**Zhōngguo** - Tribitary Vassal Overlord

**Malacca** - Personal Union

**Cambodia** - Ally

**Aotearoa** - Ally

**Atchison** - Ally

### Trade partners

**Zhōngguo** - Collective resource sharing

**Okinawa** - Spruce log exports