Chinese Heavenly Kingdom

### Ideology

Neo-Taiping Christian Theocracy, Father Ying Thought, Anti-Western Chinese Nationalism

### Interesting Fact

Xiao Long Bao, the last leader of the CHK, was in office for a whooping three days before immediately bailing on the entire country because of how hopeless the situation had become, defecting to the newly formed Chinese Federation.He would later become an influential minor political figure, being the leader of the reformed Taiping Christian Party.

The **Chinese Heavenly Kingdom** was a nation located in East Asia, coming to dominate the lands of former China after the collapse of the People's Republic of China. It's capital was located in "Tianjing", a newly created city located on the Yangzte river near its original capital of Anqing. The nation was based on the Christian teachings of Father Ying, a Christian religious leader of the Anqing Underground Churches and the kingdom's first leader. Though Ying's goals were originally benevolent, subsequent leaders would become increasingly corrupted, and fall to the decadence of the world. The Kingdom would ultimately collapse during a famine, deteriorating material conditions, and the revelation of a major sex scandal within the Taiping Christian church, where it was revealed the government was engaging in illicit sex trafficking of minors, as well as the church turning a blind eye to extreme corruption.

## A Tale of a Stock Trader (1997-2042)

Father Ying was born in Anqing, China in 1993, at the age of 0. He would grow up in urban Anqing, moving to Shanghai at the age of 19, and after graduating from university with a degree in finance, would spend the first half of his life as a wealthy day trader. He would be able to capitalize off of the rapid rise of China, and managed to successfully short the 2022 Unraveling, allowing him to profit off of the calamity. He would continue to work as a wealthy day trader at the Shanghai up until the Shanghai Market Crash of 2042, in which some badly placed bets would cost him his entire portfolio. With nowhere else to turn, Ying would attempt to commit suicide off the Shanghai Trade Center at the age of 49, but allegedly, he would hear a message from God, telling him that his life up until this point had been wasted. That he was on the road to eternal damnation, but he could still redeem himself, for God knew there was still good within him. Following this, he would move back to Anqing, and start the underground Christian church which would define the latter part of his life.

## Father Ying (2042-2075)

Father Ying would develop his theology with the help of many Protestant underground churches in Anqing. He would read up on the history of the Taiping Rebellion, and in its honor decided to name his new church the Taiping Christian Church. He would declare both east and west to be decadent and sinful, and declared that one day, God would strike both down with divine vengeance. He preached this in the form of quote, "great floods and long winters", and proclaimed there would be an enormous conflict before the establishment of the New Kingdom. He was a charismatic speaker, and had a way to relate to his audience on a personal level. His message grew far beyond the confines of Anqing. His first sermons were delivered on the newly made Taiping Radio Broadcast. Due to attention from the authorities, he had to use a voice changer, and frequently switched radio channels, though the new channels would quickly spread by news of mouth from church to church.

His first bout of activism involved showing up in person to the emerging Sinopunk and Tanping (lie flat) protests of 2043, who were protesting working conditions and economic hardships within the Chinese system, which were quickly crushed by the Chinese government. Though he wore a mask and various other articles of clothing which could shield him from China's pervasive surveillence system, he came very close to being caught, before quickly slinking back into the crowd.

During the 2040's, while his opinion on the West had not changed, he showed some level of admiration for the re-election of President Cortez, calling it "a step in the right direction", though was disappointed when her successor wasn't elected in 2048. In 2056 he proclaimed that the 4th World War was the enormous conflict he foresaw, and that the dawn of a new Kingdom was near. It was during this time he led a demonstration for religious freedom in Anqing, marching alongside Xinjiang Muslims, Anqing Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, and members of Falun Gong. The protest was quickly quelled, with several dozen people killed. Following this, Father Ying would be forced to live off the grid, on the run from the authorities, hiding house to house in the homes of his followers, of which there was now an enormous amount.

By the year 2056, there were nearly 40 million Christians in China, largely centered around his city of Anqing. After the start of the 4th World War, millions more began tuning into the Taiping Radio Broadcast, and his numbers swelled to 100 million by the end of the war. By the year 2067, shortly after the technocratic revolt by FATES, Father Ying declared the time was now, and that the time of the Kingdom was right now. Christian-aligned army groups as well as Christian militias took to the streets, and secured Anqing and the surrounding area as the People's Republic fell into into chaos. The Day of Nuclear Hail would begin in 2068, and Father Ying proclaimed this the settlement of the final accounts of the old world, and that the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom would begin building the new world. He was highly critical of the Progressive movements of the postwar era, declaring the CHK a bastion of faith in a secularizing world. He would go on to write the Constitution of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom, with the 10 commandments inscribed on top, and the entire document dripping with Christian morality laws. Father Ying would pass away in 2075, at the age of 83. It is said he was suffering from a heart condition when he died, and his medicine was being administered by his eventual successor, Hong Shao Bao. There is a widely circulated rumor that after Father Ying died, Hong Shao Bao kissed him on the cheek.

## Hong Shao Bao (2075-2108)

Hong Shao Bao took control of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom. Though originally a loyal disciple of Taiping Christian teachings, the allure of power later corrupted him. Once an upstanding young man, he gained 50 pounds during his first 5 years in power, and had his first affair in 2081. The issues of a theocratic, centralized form of government began to seriously manifest themselves after his reign, when the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom fell behind most of its competitors when it came to recovery and reconstruction. Though the sheer size of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom was enough to keep the state afloat and fend off any competitors. Though eventually the economy of the United Chinese Commonwealth (The Precursor to the eventual Chinese Federation) would surpass that of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom.

The military became weak and decadent, and Hong Shao Bao increasingly gave into his most depraved senses. The Taiping Church degraded, as government was not made more holy, buy instead the church was made a lot more unholy. Hong Shao Bao gained another 50 pounds during his tenure, and would eventually be prone to have secret mass orgies, and be engaged in serious sex scandals. The final blow would come in 2108, when during a major food shortage, a whistleblower would leak a tape held in the ASEAN archives, allegedly of Hong Shao Bao inappropriately molesting a minor. This prompted an emergency meeting of the Taiping High Council, who voted unanimously to impeach Hong Shao Bao, with the army itself being called in to force him off the throne. He would be trialed and sentenced to death, but the entire state would collapse before he could serve his sentence, instead being trialed and jailed again under the courts of the Chinese Federation

## Xiao Long Bao (2108 to 2108, the Three Day Reign.)

Xiao Long Bao was coronated on the same day Hong Shao Bao was arrested. He spent the first two days simply going through the procedures of inauguration. On the third day, he took one look at a report detailing the state of the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom, decided it was completely hopeless, hitched a private jet to the United Chinese Commonwealth, defected to the south, and asked the Commonwealth government whether they wanted to take over. Despite protests from the army and the Taiping bureaucracy, the Commonwealth, with explicit permission from their leader would take the capital as the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom spiraled into anarchy. Long Bao would eventually become an influential minor political figure, founding a small Taiping Christian democratic party within the Chinese Federation.