Chinese Federation

### Interesting Fact

Each of its 9 founders studied abroad, to various countries, and would bring back the ideologies and ideas they learned in said countries.

The **Chinese Federation** is a country located in East Asia, largely succeeding the earlier People's Republic of China and Chinese Heavenly Kingdom. Established in accordance to the principles of "Harmonic Universalism", the nation is a democratic, egalitarian republic with a tradition somewhat similar but distinct from Western liberalism.

## History

Originally starting out as a regional power recovering from the ruins of a shattered China, its large population and eventual re-industrialization would lead it to rapidly ascend to the status of world power. In 2142, in the aftermath of the Roasian Invasions and the collapse of Pax Africana, it would eventually join what would become known as the "Asian Quadrilateral" of the world's new dominant powers, alongside ASEAN, India, and the Islamic countries. In 2108, the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom finally collapsed from internal tension, and the Chinese Commonwealth in the south eventually took over. The Commonwealth was led by the so called "Council of 9", a group of Chinese political leaders and intellectuals educated in various parts of the world, who had come together to bring about a democratic vision to China. The leader of the bunch formulated the ideology which would eventually be known as "Harmonic Universalism".

## Principles of Harmonic Universalism

### FREEDOM

The government will leave you alone, unless it would contradict or harm any of the other values listed here. An individual's life is their own, and it's not government's place to dictate how people live their lives when not harming or affecting anyone else. The government will be quiet, and mostly will be in the background, leaving the people to do their own thing. A great amount of power has been delegated to the states, though in practice most of the states also practice Harmonic Universalism.

### UNIVERSALISM

The government and its people should strive to be color-blind. We are all people, and all people are equal in the eyes of the law. Though national security and borders still exist, the nation's vision is a globalist one, involving reaching out to all people of the world, being first in humanitarian aid and peacekeeping missions. They wish to promote the general principles of Harmonic Universalism abroad, but also recognize that no single plan is perfect for all nations, and that everyone will have their own interpretation and destinies.

### MUTUAL AID

Though the principle of freedom has generally made the government pretty uninvolved, one of the few rights the government does reserve the right to involve itself in is the welfare of the people. Proposals such as a universal basic income or negative income tax are present for the sake of alleviating the suffering of its poor. The government provides much of what is considered "necessary" for human life.

### HARMONY

There is a harmonic balance to be kept in society and its well functioning. So it is the government's job to promote harmony by reducing racial, ethnic, class and religious tensions as much as possible by promoting pan-Chinese and pan Universal unity. Inclusivity and racial tolerance is taught in schools, while Chinese nationalism and especially Han nationalism is seen with suspicision, as these tend to go against the values of universalism.

## Council of 9

The Council of 9 went to different schools, developed different ways of thinking, and eventually created the dominant political parties of China. The leader of the Council of 9 went to university in Singapore, and there developed the ideas of Harmonic Universalism, creating the Harmonic Universalist Party. A kind of centrist party that promotes all of the above virtues, and is usually (but not always) the plurality and ruling party. He became the first leader of China, and his death nearing the end of his third term is always seen as a tragedy.

Beyond the centrist Harmonic Universalist Party, there exists two broad "wings", and usually the Harmonic Universalist Party plays kingmaker to figure out which coalition gets to rule. These two wings are known as the Liberal Wing and the Technocratic Wing. 2 of the Council of 9 were educated in Nigeria, and from there developed the ideas of liberal democratic federalism that is the backbone of the Liberal wing of the party. This includes the Liberal Democratic Party, which while generally economically liberal, is less aggressively pro-free market than the technocrats I will soon talk about. So their role is usually promoting social justice, social liberalism, shrinking the size of government, and curbing the excesses of the technocrats.

2 of the Council of 9 were educated in the East African Federation, and from there developed the ideas of corporate futurism, of a fusion between private market and government interests with a form of hyper capitalism. The thought of these two figures eventually became the Futurist Technocratic Party, a hyper capitalist accelerationist party, who grows the size of government, creates fantastical business opportunities, but whose excesses have to be curbed severely by the Liberal wing, lest things spin out of control. 1 was educated in Dravida Nadu, learning economically progressive and center-left economic thought, and creating the Social Democratic Party of China. Which is unaffiliated with either wing, instead preferring to do it's own thing.

1 was educated in America, creating the Innovation Party, basically like the Liberal Democratic Party but with considerably more free-market ideology, but none the technocracy and also liking small government. They usually ally with the Liberal Coalition. 1 was educated in Japan, creating the People's Democratic Party. Which was mostly a mix of competant technocratic individuals running the top, but delegating more power to the decentralized local level using democracy at the lower level. They too would be considered independent.

And 1 was educated in France, but specifically De Gaulle University around the orbit of Venus, creating the Frontier Party. This party was essentially a single-issue party focused on the expansion of space colonization, seeing China's destiny among the stars. Outside of this group, there would be smaller parties whose origins are outside the Council of 9, such as religious fundamentalists from the old Chinese Heavenly Kingdom days, smaller Christian democratic parties, and other extremist and niche parties.