The Serene Republic of Dai Luk

The Serene Republic of Dai Luk

Population: 2 million

Foreigners: ten thousand

Government Type: Republic

Head of State: Chan Hei

Head of Government: Chan Hei

Legislature: Republic

Upper Legislature: The Council

Lower Legislature: The House

Capital: Heung Gong (200,000)

Main Cities, by population:

- Heung Gong (200,000)

- Shun Chu (150,000)

- Bei Fung Tong (50,000)

Main industries:

-Farming (rice, spices such as pepper, corn, amaranth)

- Animal husbandry (fish, shellfish & oyster, shrimp, cow, guinea pigs, crickets, chickens)

- Fishing

- Silk textiles/textiles

- Trade

Main imports:

- Sulphur

- Iron

Main exports:

- Fish

- Spices

- Silk textiles

Currency: Gun Bei (1 Gun Bei= 40 USD)

Established in: 1200

Ethnicities: Chinese, English, Polynesians

Languages: Cantonese, English, Polynesian languages

Religions: Protestantism, Syncretic Christianity, Buddhism, native Polynesian religions

Description (work in progress)

The Serene Republic of Dai Luk are formed by predominantly Chinese Christian settlers with a group of English Protestant activists (a radical prophet leading a bunch of Cantonese Christians). Over the years, English has become the language of religion and government, while Chinese is the language that is used in trade (with East Asia) and normal use. Protestantism is the most practiced religion in Dai Luk, but more syncretic strains of Chrsitanity have started occurring, and Buddhism and Native Polynesian Religions have survived till now.

Society:

Dai Luk is a society that has the English (although the Chinese traders are rapidly catching up) forming the high class, with the Chinese being the labourers, traders and high craftsmen, and the Native Polynesians being the ones to run the spice plantations. Farms and villages are formed between Chinese and Polynesians, although due to Dai Luk being a colony so far from the actual mainland, a hybrid culture of Chinese and Polynesians are rapidly forming. Chinese influenced churches showing Chinese wealth have been forming, with statues of Jesus with Buddhist influences and made of precious materials popping up left and right, and a lot of village churches have various Polynesian demigods becoming angels or demons. This is causing a lot of concern to the conservative English religious leaders that still hold a lot of power.

Dai Luk is still ruled by Christians, but due to the need for trade to sequester wealth and buy metals such as iron in large quantities to maintain the armaments, settlers are not discouraged to settle within the lands of Dai Luk. The biggest group of people who settled are the Buddhists from China, and they have mostly settled in the interior, mostly interacting with the inland Polynesian tribes and also converting a lot of Polynesians, with copious amounts of syncretism.

Agriculture/animal husbandry

Dai Luk’s aquaculture is advanced and has benefited from knowledge transfer from Polynesian ship-building techniques, building better small ships that are less likely to sink when storms hit. This has helped with their harvesting of fish in the oceans around them, and fish is one of the exports that leave Dai Luk. Oyster farms and floating fish farms often are spotted out in the ocean, and shrimp farms are more inland.

Farmers usually cultivate rice, corn, amaranth and sweet potato, with other supplementary vegetables grown in their fields. Rice, corn and sweet potato forms the main food sources of the DaiLukan peoples, and amaranth are used in the more arid areas, and are often regarded as poor man’s food.

The livestock of Dailukan peoples includes cow/buffalo, which are used for tilling the rice fields and for milk, which have been used to make cheese, and lactose tolerance has been rapidly spreading between all the peoples of Dai Luk. Horses have been used for war, and are considered a delicacy as horses were often used for transport. Chickens and pigs are often used to deal with scraps, and they are also eaten in weddings quite often. Guinea pigs are usually kept by the Chinese merchant families, although due to these families enjoying eating these rodents, it has been associated with wealth (due to its food requirements), most villages have one herd of guinea pigs, and are usually put with chickens on fallow fields, where they consume some of the plants growing in there while the chickens also hunt for insects. Silk moths are also a major kind of livestock as silk is one of the main pillars of the economy: massive plantations of mulberries are found, and many labourers work on the silk to produce fabric. The silk moths have started to have a mutation that causes them to lose their wings, making them look different from any other strain of domesticated silk moth, and the silk made from them are particularly good, causing them to be a source of pride for the peoples of Dai Luk.

Millitary

Dai Luk has a big navy