Republic of Free China

The Republic of Free China is a nation located in Macau (a former Portuguese Colony) which is South of South China and West of the Legation Cities.

## History

### Before World War I

The Republic was declared on 1 January 1912 after the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Qing dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China. On 12 February 1912, regent Empress Dowager Longyu signed the abdication decree on behalf of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, ending 5,000 years of monarchy in China. Sun Yat-sen, the founder and its president, served only briefly before handing over the position to Yuan Shikai, the leader of the Beiyang Army. Sun's party, the Kuomintang (KMT), then led by Song Jiaoren, won the parliamentary election held in December 1912.

### World War I

However, Song was assassinated on Yuan's orders shortly after and the Beiyang Army, led by Yuan, maintained full control of the Beiyang government, who then proclaimed himself Emperor of China from 1915 before he was deposed by the Japanese with aid of the Fengtian Government, Puyi's Kingdom in the Manchu Homeland and the Kingdom of Korea. After that the Kuomintang (KMT) was exiled to Macau where they created a Government.

### After World War I

The Second Boxer Rebellion occurred as the Republic was fighting on the side of the Opposition against Japan.

## Government

The National Government governed under a dual-party state apparatus under the ideology of Dang Guo, effectively making it a one-party state; however, existing parties continued to operate and new ones formed. In February 1928, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 2nd Kuomintang National Congress held in Nanjing passed the Reorganization of the National Government Act. This act stipulated the national government was to be directed and regulated under the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, with the Committee of the Nationalist Government being elected by KMT Central Committee. Under the national government was seven ministries – Interior, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Transport, Justice, Agriculture and Mines, and Commerce. There were also additional institutions such as the Supreme Court, Control Yuan, and the General Academy.

With the promulgation of the Organic Law of the National Government in October 1928, the government was reorganized into five different branches or Yuan, namely the Executive Yuan, Legislative Yuan, Judicial Yuan, Examination Yuan as well as the Control Yuan. The Chairman of the National Government was to be the head-of-state and commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army. Chiang Kai-shek was appointed as the first Chairman of the National Government, a position he would retain until 1931. The Organic Law also stipulated that the Kuomintang, through its National Congress and Central Executive Committee, would exercise sovereign power during the period of political tutelage, and the KMT's Political Council would guide and superintend the National Government in the execution of important national affairs and that the council has the power to interpret or amend the organic law.

## Military

The Military is an army that contains 1,000 Militias that are the size of a large city all under command of Chiang Kai Shek and the Government. These Militias are armed with outdated guns and outdated vehicles and artillery pieces.

## Foreign Relations

* Bad Relations with the Empire of Japan, South China, Fengtian Government and the People's Republic of China.