Libirachi Empire

The **Libirachi Empire**, officially the **Fox Dynasty**, is a sovereign imperial state located across Eurasia and is the largest nation both in the world and in human history, stretching from the Japanese islands in the east to the Balkans in the west. Under the leadership of the ruling Fox family, the Fox Dynasty has expanded massively into south east Asia and cracked down on the already limited rights possessed by citizens. At 17820.234 km in length, the Libirachi Empire's boarder with the Bovido Imperium, Persia and the Russian Federation is the world's longest.

As an imperial monarchy with a *de-jure* democratically elected president, the Fox Dynasty is regarded as an authoritarian dictatorship, with a vast array of organisations under the banner of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR) devoted to ensuring the regime's ongoing existence. Despite it's adherence to the New-Think political ideology, the Libirachi regime increasingly draws its power from psychological and physical control over the population, with civilians regularly subjected to propaganda in the form of posters, televised speeches and heavily altered depictions of history in order to instil devotion to the state; though not unique in this feature, COMPNOR's use of propaganda is regarded as one of the most effective in history.

Ruled by a unitary government from the capital city of Beijing, the Fox Dynasty is able to exert it's influence over much of Afro-Eurasia through an extensive network of political, economic and military relations, ensuring that the Libirachi government is able to manipulate global events and establish puppet regimes around the world to further it's goals. Only three states have ever come close to ending the Fox Dynasty's hegemony, that being Bovido Has during the Has Wars, the Confederacy of Independent Nations during the Libirachi Civil War and the Bovido Imperium during the Conquest of Africa; though still remaining powerful, the United States of America is largely regarded as a spent political force by many politicians and pundits within the Libirachi regime, and American control over affairs in the Sino sphere has fallen significantly since the Coronation of Fox II in 2024.

The area now known as the Fox Dynasty has been populated since the Neolithic ages, with civilisations in the North China plain and the middle east being among some of the world's first. Following the reestablishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1194, crusaders from Europe began to traverse the Asian continent under the leadership of Eskabar Libirachi, an English nobleman. Under Libirachi's guidance, a protectorate under the English crown was established at the nest of the Indian, Mongol and Nepalese empires, which would later grow under the leadership of successive rulers. In the late 1500s, the Zenhai Dynasty absorbed the Ming Dynasty into it's fold, before it's successor the Santaro Dynasty embarked on the creation of an efficient civil service in the mid 1700s to serve the needs of the regime.

In the late 1700s, the Santaro Dynasty was overthrown by the powerful Libirachi family, who installed their own dynasty; this regime would later also be overthrown, during the Libirachi War of Revolution, with the creation of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi bringing a new republican system to the Asian continent. Under the new republic, the state came under the leadership of successive authoritarian dictators, before once again being overthrown by members of the armed forces and the government, who founded the Fox Dynasty.

Various Libirachi governments have historically suffered from frequent bouts of political instability before protracted periods of authoritarian rule; since the end of the Libirachi Dynasty alone, the nation has undergone three civil wars in 1870 - 1871, 1945 - 1950 and 2022 - 2024. As well as this, there have also been armed takeovers of government in the form of coups d'état in 1970 and 2019, with a self-coup in 2033 conducted by the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order.

The large, corrupt, moralistic and well-organised government prioritises Defence, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while the eradication of organised religion and internal security are devolved to the largely autonomous Commission for the Preservation of the New Order, a secretive organisation loyal only to the Empress. The nation's legislature, the Libirachi National Congress, meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beijing. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51.8%, although most of the tax is redistributed back to the population through expansive social welfare systems and a nation-wide reinvestment program.

## Etymology and Vexillology

 Main article: List of Libirachi Flags

Over the 800 years of Libirachi history, many different nations and dynasties have claimed to be the sole regime of the region, with the modern transcontinental empire being the latest of 8 governments to take up the name Libirachi Empire. Largely unused within the actual nation until the 21st century, the term Libirachi Empire was coined in April 1812 by British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, just a month prior to his assassination, to refer to the Libirachi Dynasty, and the term continued use following the Libirachi War of Revolution in order to refer to the Imperial Republic of Libirachi, despite the regime not being a formal empire. With much of the population holding Eskabar Libirachi as the founder of their nation, the population of the nation became to be known as Libirachi by the time of the founding of the Imperial Republic and the term remained fairly common abroad for much of the 20th century. Following Nathan Jackson's election as President in 2010, a movement to distance the republic with the internationally used "Libirachi Empire" began to emerge, but following the collapse of the republic in 2019 and the formation of the Fox Dynasty, the debate largely stopped; nonetheless, there is debate as to whether to address Libirachi leaders as members of the Libirachi Empire or specifically the dynasty, with the Empress Fox personally ruling in favour of a joint solution whereby internationally the Libirachi Empire is recognised as the name of the nation, and the Fox Dynasty is the formal legal title of the regime.

## History

### Birth of a Nation

As the Christian crusades raged across Europe at the start of the Medieval Era in the west, a ragtag group of soldiers, explorers and missionaries left behind by the Forth Crusade in Constantinople under the command of the knight Eskabar Libirachi from England set out on a journey eastward, escaping through the Ottoman territories to enter the Tibetan provinces and the Mongol strongholds of Asia, becoming the first major expedition to make a home within the east. Forming a small territory within the nest of the Tibetan, Indian and Mongol peoples, the Dependency of Libirachi, so named after its leader, remained as a part of England until 1230 when the province declared itself independent from the English King Henry II. Little is known about the mysterious founder of the Libirachi Empire, except from his death in 1230 and that he was a kind and benevolent leader who foraged close ties with the native peoples, graciously accepting Han and Mongol people into his province as equal citizens to white men in order to grow and prevent a raid from both the Mongol and Indian empires to the north west and south east respectively. With the death of Duke Libirachi in 1230, the Grand Marshal of the Duchy’s armed forces, Stanford Rightly, ascended to the Duchy and promptly declared the province independent via message to King Henry II of England, proclaiming himself King Stanford I of the Libirachi Empire in honour of his deceased friend and promptly set about establishing a proper army rather than the previous militia which had protected the province prior to the matter, as well as beginning a formal process by which the runaway state became a legitimate regional power, with the army consolidating power as the state began to expand into local principalities, using their Han ambassadors to make the regime seem more favourable to the neighbouring villages showing that both white and Han peoples could work together, forming a collective union as the Libirachi Empire.

In order to allow for easier communication between all the different tribes and peoples within the fledging nation, the two languages of Mandarin Chinese and English began to be merged together slowly, creating the language of Aurbesh which began to emerge in the years after King Stanford I took power, coming to its present formation in the 1300s although as with every language the speech and writing patterns of the language have evolved in the meantime to its current form. As the two cultures of Han and White cultures began to grow apart in the coming centuries, English became the language of the upper classes, whist Mandarin ended up being the language of the working classes whilst the middle classes adopted Arubesh as a representation of their correspondence between the two major classes, although it should be noted that both Han and White people were parts of all three classes of society.

With the death of King Stanford I in 1270, his son Stanford Rightly II ascended to the throne and set about creating the state institutions such as officially creating the post of Grand Marshal as the head of the army and the deputy within the nation, before using the said army under the leadership of Visly Longwood to repel the hordes of the Mongol Empire, culminating in the final defeat of the Mongols in 1323 when they officially retreated from the Libirachi boarder and acknowledged the nation as an independent state. Managing to live for an above average life-span with the aid of the local medicines, King Stanford II began to slowly devolve power over to Visly Longwood as he began to age, beginning a precedent whereby each family who holds the royal throne is entitled to remain as a noble family (by the time of the 2019 Proclamation of the New Order there were 4 high noble families, that being Libirachi, Rightly, Longwood and Santaro ) and a system of the Grand Marshal becoming the prince regent of the nation until the death of the previous monarch. Ascending to the throne in 1346, Visly Longwood became Emperor Visly and post-houmously bestowed the title to his three predecessors, turning the Kingdom of Libirachi into the Libirachi Empire and beginning a process of territorial and political expansion as the nation came into a new form as an empire. With much of the records of the Longwood dynasty destroyed during later civil wars, this dynasty is largely a patchwork of historical guesswork compiled in the late 20th century which collectively forms a cultural dark age, not dissimilar to that of Europe 3 centuries prior, but what is known for concrete sure is that by 1407 Visly’s health had deteriorated and as he grew steadily more unpopular within the empire, his son and Grand Marshal Henrik Longwood took the throne. Edging out the boarders of the nation out into the territories controlled by various Indian empires, Emperor Henrik began to assimilate parts of local cultures and religions into the cultural forefront of his Libirachi Empire, whilst also beginning the Libirachi fascination with state controls and restriction of individual rights. Dying in 1457, Henrik was replaced by his son Samuel Longwood who became Emperor Samuel and continued his father’s push into the Indian territories, greatly expanding the nations boarders but stopping short of assaulting the Ming Dynasty regime, fearing the might of the Wanil Emperor in China. After 46 years of relative stability, Emperor Samuel passed away on March 15, 1503, beginning a shift back to the core noble families; after the death of Samuel Longwood, no Longwood family descendant would command full power over the nation until Fidel Longwood during the presidential civil war of 1870-71 and then followed by Ashford Longwood and Pearce Longwood in 1871 and 1912, respectively.

### Santaros and Stagnation

    Following the death of Emperor Samuel Longwood in 1503, the Rightly noble family re-gained the Libirachi throne with the coronation of Anton Rightly as Emperor Stanford III, beginning the second Rightly Dynasty. Beginning the start of a largely peaceful reign with a promise to re-invigorate the army as a powerful fighting force and bring a sense of stability back into the region. With the start of the second Rightly Dynasty came the rise of the Lord Administrators, appointed members of the nobility who took the place of a prince regent to rule the nation at the behest of the Emperor, such as happened to Emperor Stanford III when he eventually ended up incapacitated by old age and physical illness in the 1540, allowing Lord Keet Rightly to take up the position of head of state for the last decades of Stanford’s reign before his son Istanbul Rightly came of age in 1567 and took the throne as Emperor Istanbul I. Solidifying the new boarders of the Libirachi Empire as a young monarch, the Imperial Army began a prolonged assault on the Ming Dynasty in China, overthrowing the Chongzhen Emperor and cementing the Libirachi Empire as the largest empire in history (at that point at least, the British Empire would ultimately knock the Empire from that podium in the 19th century before the Empire reclaimed the title in the 20th century). With the death of Istanbul in 1620, Lord Administrator Damien Rothchild the Elder (also commonly known as Damien Rothchild I) took over operating control of the empire until Emperor Istanbul II came of age in 1646. The tale of Istanbul II is an interesting one, and several historical scholars have suggested that he wasn’t even the child of Istanbul I, with some extreme theories going as far to suggest he was a non-person, a lowly member of the imperial household selected to pretend to be the emperor, and that the real Istanbul II died sometime between 1620 and 1635 leading to a replacement being selected to officially reign whilst members of the nobility pulled the strings behind his rule. As such, for 29 of 75 years of his reign Istanbul was either dead or “unable to rule”, and following his death in 1593, a succession of Lord Administrators tried to keep the hands of the nation away from the Santaro house which was garnering large support within members of the imperial household and the nobility as a whole, leading to the eventual formation of the Santaro Dynasty in 1595.

    Uniting the various regional warlords together under the reign of the new Emperor Jillios I, the new Santaro regime began to establish the first signs of a unified bureaucracy to act systematically and efficiently at the behest of the emperor, starting with the Imperial Treasury and the Royal State Ruling Authority, which dealt with the monetary matters and began to formulate an exchange mechanism between all the various warlord currencies whilst the Royal State Ruling Authority managed matters of internal affairs and was responsible for formulating foreign policy at the behest of the emperor. At the same time, the creation of the Imperial Army Central Office in 1721 meant that the wartime capacity of the nation was greatly boosted and the Libirachi Imperial Army (LIA) began to act more as a unified fighting force to secure the regime in the region. With the death of Emperor Jillios I in 1754, Emperor Jillios II was crowned as the new monarch and continued his father’s quest in improving the welfare of the populace, before in his latter years embarking on a plan to curb the power of the nobility and the regent families in favour of his own imperial government, although this attempt was marred by opposition from the Libirachi family, direct descendants of the nation’s founder and the highest noble family in the nation. As the Libirachi family and other former royal families began to raise their personal armies, the political struggle formed into a military struggle and with little in the way of a centralised armed force to defend him, Emperor Jillios II abdicated the throne on June 24, 1792, before being executed only 5 days later on June 29 as the Libirachi family took power within the nation in the capital of Beijing. The era of the Santaro Dynasty and the Second Rightly Dynasty (also known as the forgotten dynasty) became known as one of the few parts of Libirachi history in which the state activity pursued and combatted the deeply rooted corruption within the state, and began to opt for one of the first forms of socialism anywhere in the world before the collapse of the two successor dynasties meant that the Libirachi (or Georgian) Dynasty returned to the capitalist system of production, which would eventually end up being repealed thanks to the brutal mis-management of it and as a consequence virtually Libirachi regime following the creation of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi in 1852 has been socialist to some extent, with more conservative leaders like Ashford Longwood on one end of the limited spectrum and others like Jacob Zuma on the other end in the theory of authoritarian communism.

### Georgian Dynasty

With the coronation of George Libirachi, the Libirachi family patriarch, as Emperor George I on June 29, 1792 the nation began to return to its aristocratic heydays as the economy continued to flourish under a new capitalist system, leading to immense corruption within the great offices of state, whilst the Emperor began to distance himself from the day-to-day running of his regime in order to distance himself from the responsibilities of running a nation. Born into the noble Georgian Dynasty in 1771, George II was the son of George I, the man who had overthrown Emperor Jillios II in 1792, and a direct descendant of Eskabar Libirachi, the founder of the Libirachi Empire. After his father’s death in 1830 from a heart attack whilst attempting to pacify rebel forces in China who were protesting the crashing Yen. George ascended to the throne, implementing a radical and failed economic revolution which saw the value of the Yen plummet to zero, and hyperinflation rose in the empire. It was only when his minister for finance introduced the new Imperial Mark into circulation that anything was solved. Unfortunately, he was unable to see his legacy, as like his father, he was killed by a sudden heart attack in 1834. Taking the throne from his father, George Libirachi III witnessed the beginning of the collapse of the empire, with several regions breaking bonds with Beijing over the 1830 - 40s. Using his master negotiation skills, George attempted to reunify the Empire, which had been falling apart since his grandfather had seized power from the Santaro line of emperors. However, no negotiator could have dealt with the flurry of anger which soon escalate into the first Imperial Civil War, and George III was forced to acknowledge the succession of many of the frontier states (Imperial India, Imperial Nepal, west Imperial China) in the late 1830s. His time on the imperial throne was relatively short-lived, lasting only 9 years before he was blown up by a group of Ranjerian terrorists in 1843.

    Replaced by his son, George Libirachi IV, the fourth member of the Libirachi (Georgian) dynasty in 14 years to take the throne. Continuing his father's re-unification work, Libirachi enlisted the assistance of Stanford Rightly, descendant of King Rightly I and Marshal of Mongolia, to help pacify the rebellious states. However, Rightly had been secretly uniting the breakaway nations into an alliance to topple the Emperor and in 1840, Stanford Rightly IV orchestrated the separation of the Imperial Frontier into 8 separate countries (Hun Empire, Crandiilistine, Khatlon, Locor, Polyapere, Stritenapere, India and Elaxia) and enacted a considerable amount of control over the new regional governments, through the usage of governmental delegates. When Rightly established the Confederacy of New Libirachi in 1843, he began relying on these new countries for supplies and soldiers, while using his great personal wealth to fund his expansion. As time progressed, each of the new governments merged with the Confederacy leadership, and in 1845, the Rebel Alliance was founded as a membership group for the successor states. In 1845, Ashford Longwood ordered the invasion of Mongolia (which had been reclaimed by the Empire in 1842) which culminated in the Battle of Ulaanbaatar (1849), when the whole of Imperial Mongolia fell to the Alliance. Over the next three years, the Alliance would wage war against the empire's forces, winning almost every battle in the ensuring war of attrition. The civil war came to an end in 1852, when the Alliance Army encircled Beijing and stormed the Forbidden City, executing Emperor George IV and as such the Imperial Republic of Libirachi was declared on 27th August 1852, and Stanford Rightly IV was declared as the first President of the Libirachi Empire and his Grand Marshal Ashford Longwood was appointed as the Vice-President of the Libirachi Empire. A second battle in Beijing was fought later that year against George IV loyalists, but was quickly quelled. The Alliance was dissolved on 30th August leading to the forceful dissolution of the Imperial Frontier nations as the newly formed Imperial Republic marched its occupying armies into the capitals of the nations and seized them as their own territory.

### Revolution and Presidency

#### Revolution

    Following 4 years of secretly gathering forces and integrating into one entity, the Rebel Alliance began their uprising in 1849 with an attack on Imperial Forces in Mongolia controlled by Marshal Ashford Longwood, leader of the Longwood family army. Despite a defeat on the battleground, Duke Stanford Rightly was able to secure a victory by enticing Marshal Longwood to throw his family army behind the Alliance leadership and granted Longwood control over the entire Alliance Armed Forces. Now boasting a sizable army, the Rebel forces made a second concerted effort again at the Battle of Ulaanbaatar in April 1849 and managed to destroy the severely weakened Imperial forces there thanks to the defection of the Longwood family army from the Libirachi Dynasty.

    In the aftermath of the Battle of Ulaanbaatar, Rebel forces began a long march to the central south of the Chinese regions, invading Tibet in September 1849 under the direct leadership of Ashford Longwood and smashed through the armed forces of the Libirachi commander Brigadier Kalen Barto in order to install a rebel government in the region, causing a domino effect as forces in the region began to retreat back to protect the imperial heartlands as the dynasty began to crumble. Initiating the Beijing Campaign in January 1850, Grand Marshal Ashford Longwood and Marshal Azriel Janda led the slow charge towards Beijing and the imperial palace, marching across Asia in order to try and make it into the capital of the floundering nation, as more and more family armies began to defect to the rebel alliance. Entering the city of Beijing in 1851, the Alliance army was repelled back from the capital although a second assault the following year would yield more success as Longwood led the Revolutionary Army of the Alliance into the Forbidden City on August 26, 1852 where Emperor George IV and his privy council were brutally murdered by members of the army, bringing about an end to the Libirachi Dynasty.

#### New Republic

    With the death of Emperor George IV on August 26, 1852, the Alliance Grand Council took control over the nation as a military junta, before the Imperial Republic of Libirachi became the official title of the new regime under the leadership of the inaugural President Stanford Rightly, forgoing the flag of the Alliance for a new design and seal. Proclaimed from the the Forbidden City on August 30, 1852, the Imperial Republic took over the nation, with a President replacing the Emperor as head of state, although the nation retained its title as the Libirachi Empire despite not having a monarch. Founded from the ruins of the Libirachi Dynasty, the Imperial Republic took over land controlled by the former Empire and the Alliance, merging the two armies together over the span of the next decade. Elected almost unanimously in 1852 by Alliance High Command, General Stanford Rightly was proclaimed President on August 30, 1852 before dissolving the Alliance the same day with all former members becoming absorbed into the empire, with rebel states forcefully occupied by the Imperial Guard and former Alliance Army to keep them in tow with the Beijing government.

With Duke Rightly's proclamation of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi on August 30, 1852, the new republic began to be hashed out haphazardly, with new institutions being introduced in the months after the proclamation of the republic, such as the office of Vice President of the Libirachi Empire in December 1852 which was granted to Grand Marshal Ashford Longwood upon the creation, and in 1853 the Libirachi National Congress was created with the Vice President acting as the chief presiding officer. Establishing the Constitution of the Libirachi Empire in 1852 as the principle law document of the new republic, Stanford Rightly set about introducing term limits and elections, the first of which being the 1852 Libirachi Presidential Election in which President Rightly was the only candidate for office. Conducted between April 24 and May 17, 1856, the Beijing Spring was a self coup by President Rightly in which the Constitution of the Libirachi Empire was re-written by the Libirachi National Congress in order to remove term limits in the run-up to a planned May 20 election which was scrapped by decree of the Congress on May 17, with the LNC instead ruling that President Rightly held the right to serve as he pleased for the sake of the nation, so long as he continued to hold the confidence of the Congress and the Imperial Army, in effect setting the precedent that Presidents could rule almost indefinitely within the right of law. In 1864, Ashford Longwood was removed from the Vice Presidency as Stanford Rightly began to reform the nation in his vision, attempting to limit the power of his deputy through his dismissal from the title of head of government, instead replacing him with Theodore Rothchild, whilst splitting the office of Vice President and Chairman of the Congress and granting the latter title to Azriel Janda.

Upon his death in 1870, Stanford Rightly had created a cult of personality around himself, framing his leadership as being that which saved the nation from despair and failure at the hands of Emperor George IV and the Libirachi Dynasty, forever solidifying himself in history as the man who saved the nation from stagnation in the 19th century and rose the nation out of a tyranny, although state propaganda frequently glosses over the numerous failures of President Rightly in order to paint the picture of a noble statesman. As the founder of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi, Stanford Rightly established one of the longest lasting Asian republics and in doing so cemented a legacy as a nation builder too, although following the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état and the dissolution of the republic in favour of the Fox Dynasty, the Libirachi family managed to secure vengeance with the systematic dismantling of the remaining institutions created by Rightly, although over the 167 year history of the republic much of the original constitution and organisations had been rewritten and rebirthed, most notoriously during Eshter Morgan's presidency.

#### Longwood presidency

Following the death of President Stanford Rightly in 1870 following a gunshot wound, Vice President Theodore Rothchild laid claim to the presidency and assumed control over the Libirachi National Congress on July 4, 1870, causing Grand Marshal Longwood to lead his armed forces in an uprising against the President and beginning a civil war within the nation as the army began to fight against the republican forces of the President from their city fortress of Shanghai. With the death of President Rothchild in October 1870, and his successor President Azriel Janda in December 1870, the Libirachi Republic was taken over by Feidel Longwood, brother to the Grand Marshal, until in October 1871 when Longwood and the Imperial Army stormed Beijing and overthrew his brother, ending the civil war decisively with the destruction of the only other major opponent to the LIA. Having secured the Presidency in 1871 with the execution of his brother Feidel, President Longwood sought to establish the nation as a military dictatorship, closing the National Congress in vengeance for their support of the previous administrations during the war, and in it's place created the Imperial Ruling Council alongside the newly formed Revolutionary Party; likewise, Longwood began destroying records of the Presidencies of Rothchild, Janda and his brother in order to secure himself in historical records as the true successor to Stanford Rightly, a myth which is still perpetrated by Libirachi propaganda and records which decline to count the presidencies between Rightly and Longwood as formal tenures.

Bringing his wartime ally Gorden Tobiet into government as the Vice President, Longwood set about demolishing the constitutional right to local governance and instead replaced much of the civilian government across the nation with a network of Marshals and other enlisted officers of the Libirachi Imperial Army, ensuring that all effective leadership would be conducted by generals and officials loyal to him, whilst figurehead Governors elected through the Revolutionary Party served to present the illusion of choice to the populace of the nation. With the Imperial Ruling Council ruling over the nation, Ashford Longwood began to attempt to solidify his position as the head of the nation and from 1880 onwards the Imperial Army began to conduct a Pacification of the Western Reaches, cracking down on remnants from the Libirachi War of Revolution in order to consolidate the president's power over the nation. Over the space of 27 years, the pacification campaigns eradicated much of the resistance to the Imperial Republic of Libirachi and with the defeat of the Kuomintang in 1907, the pacification came to an end as President Longwood's health began to deteriorate. Having made his son Pearce the head of the Imperial Ruling Council in 1905, President Ashford Longwood started to rely more and more on the IRC, with his son's role slowly growing into that of a head of government by the time of Longwood's death in August 1912, allowing Pearce Longwood to secure the presidency with minimal effort.

### High Republic

#### New Longwood era

Entering into politics as a member of the Imperial Ruling Council as part of his father's Revolutionary Party in 1901, Pearce Longwood became a renowned councillor in the early years of the new century, serving his father loyally in the council, which served as a replacement for the Libirachi National Congress which was shut in 1871 following the Shanghai Uprising of 1870-71. Serving as Chairman of the Ruling Council between 1905 and 1912, Pearce Longwood acted as the head of government during his tenure and upon the death of his father in 1912, Longwood was inaugurated as the third President of the Libirachi Empire on August 5, 1912.Taking over power from his father the day after his death, Pearce Longwood became the third President of the Libirachi Empire aged 50, making him the youngest President of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi at the time. Following a sombre military state funeral for Ashford Longwood in early September 1912, President Longwood began setting out a new infrastructure plan to unite the nation together, connecting the political capital of Beijing with the western reaches which had been subjugated under his father's regime, allowing for greater trade between all regions of the Libirachi Empire. To keep order along these new roads and rail lines, the army was expanded to match the occasion and military control over several regions began to intensify, leading to an outwards push into the imperial protectorate of Russia which became a fully integrated part of the empire following it's 1735 occupation. Following 7 years of leading the Imperial Ruling Council under the presidency of Ashford Longwood, Pearce Longwood brought back the Libirachi National Congress in 1915 and slowly began reintroducing elements of local rule to deal with the task of governing a vast continental republic, devolving powers to regional governors across the 1910s and 1920s in order to grant them regionalised powers for provincial governance.

Likewise, the National Congress began to legislate on behalf of the Revolutionary Party as the party began to form the National Front, a group of secondary parties which served as a *de-jure* opposition to the revolutionaries, but in reality served no purpose other than to present the façade of democracy. Despite this, Longwood attempted to grow democratic establishments for ranks under the presidency, ensuring that the President would remain as a *de-facto* dictator over the nation whilst allowing for a democratic National Congress to legislate for itself. Appointing his wife Jane to the office of Vice President in 1912, Longwood became a proponent of women's rights and in 1920 signed into law the Gender Equality Act of 1920, making the Libirachi Empire one of the first nations in the world to allow women's suffrage, although like many other such policies at the time, only women over 30 who either owned land or were married would be allowed to vote for members of the National Congress. With the resignation of his wife Jane in 1925 following a bout of illness, President Longwood appointed his aide Eshter Morgan to the rank of Vice President the same year and as Vice President Morgan began to cultivate her own political style as a loyal deputy to the most powerful man in Asia, Longwood's health began to deteriorate in the 1930s. Having made his last public address in 1932, Pearce Longwood eventually succumbed to old age and illness following a bout of influenzia, and on July 23, 1933 died in the Presidential Palace in Beijing, ending 63 years of Longwood family rule over the Libirachi Empire with the assentation of Vice President Eshter Morgan to the presidency.

#### Morgan Era

After a regal inauguration ceremony, Eshter Morgan quickly set about solidifying her position of power, dissolving ranks such as the Vice President and the Cabinet, placing her as the sole wielder of power in the nation. Having appointed herself Protector of the Empire, she used the military to transform the country into a one-party state, killing hundreds of freedom of speech protesters in Tiananmen Square when she sent the military in to crush demonstrations. Taking over the reigns of the Libirachi Imperial Army, the ongoing Cold War with Bovido Has grew increasingly antagonistic as the Libirachi Empire began to cause boarder skirmishes during the 1930s, sending patrols over the Bovido boarders and claiming parts of their land to be Libirachi property, leading to all out fighting in 1938 and Bovido Archbishop and Emperor Caanan Ujung was quietly removed and replaced behind the scenes in the same year, leading to Matthew Aquilla taking up the mantle and pursuing a more peaceful solution, ceding land to the Libirachi Empire in 1942 and the establishing the Joash Boarder on mainland Asia, which at the time was the largest fortified land boarder in the world. Having proven her mettle in the 1938 Libirachi-Bovido Boarder Skirmishes, President Eshter Morgan began to use her newfound political capital to embark on a socialist redistribution of wealth and land in 1940 under the proclamation of a "Cultural Revolution", stripping vast parts of the federal system favoured by her predecessors and the nation's founders in favour of a more centralised governmental system, inadvertently throwing thousands across the nation into poverty as the chaotic centralisation of power saw those resistant to the plans being removed from office and thrown into holding camps for harbouring "anti revolutionary ideologies".

With as many as 1.2 million detainees being held in some form of holding camp, the government of Eshter Morgan began to find itself shorted by a lack of capable party members to govern the nation, and the Progressive Party gradually began to conduct insurgent warfare against the government under the leadership of party chairman Xi Kanna, using the party's membership of the National Front to hide it's actions; having their connection to rebel groups detected in 1944 following a foiled assassination attempt on First Minister Jacob Zuma, the Progressive party was expelled from the Libirachi National Congress and for the most part the political organs of the party were dissolved by the state, but with notable officials like Chairman Xi escaping the arms of the Imperial Army, the party was able to begin anew in the wilderness of Inner Mongolia, where the party formed into a formidable fighting force. Returning back to the forefront of Libirachi internal affairs in 1945 with the capture of an armed convoy headed for Beijing, the Progressive movement began to carry out guerrilla warfare against the state, forcing the Libirachi Imperial Army to fight a war of attrition against their foes, draining the resources and moral of the Libirachi soldiers in the process. Later the same year, a brutal prison riot at Imperial Holding Camp 456 led to the liquidation of the entire roster of detainees, including children, leading to outrage as the story began to make its way to the civilian population, and many joined up arms with the Progressives to topple the Morgan regime

Battered and bruised by 4 long years of war, the government of President Eshter Morgan cease to function and be dissolved by February 1949, with the Presidium being founded in March 1949 to act as a ruling council instead as the National Congress likewise began to resist Morgan's edicts and was forcefully closed on May 4, 1949. Eager to try and project her own personal power, President Morgan began holding large scale rallies in Beijing as the insurgents began to encircle the city, leading to a fateful speech on June 28, 1949 when Morgan was assassinated on the balcony of Tiananmen gate by a sniper team led personally by Chairman Xi Kanna, leaving the government in disarray and even further internal turmoil. Electing the young First Minister Jacob Zuma to the office of General Secretary of the Revolutionary Party in a closed door meeting on the same day as Morgan's death, the party began to purge itself in seeming preparation for self-exile, but with Zuma at the helm they instead began to perpetuate the lie that Eshter Morgan had indeed survived the assassination attempt, but was receiving medical treatment within the Forbidden City. This so-called "Great Lie" allowed the Zuma government to claim to act on the president's behalf and function as if they were her chosen deputies; indeed, the party even went to the effort to use heavily edited footage and drive around the president's personal train to attempt to show the president was alive and moving about. Despite governing for 7 months in the name of the assassinated president, the government of First Minister Jacob Zuma began to crumble as the insurgency encroached around Beijing, leading Zuma and his government to flee the capital and set up a rival government in the Libirachi mountains of Tibet. Capturing the capital city of the Libirachi Empire on February 13, 1950, Chairman Xi Kanna was inaugurated as the fourth President of the Libirachi Empire, formally ending the presidency of Eshter Morgan who still held the title legally, making her the only president to rule posthumously

#### Kanna Years

Battered and bruised by 4 long years of war, the government of President Eshter Morgan cease to function and be dissolved by February 1949, with the Presidium being founded in March 1949 to act as a ruling council instead as the National Congress likewise began to resist Morgan's edicts and was forcefully closed on May 4, 1949. Eager to try and project her own personal power, President Morgan began holding large scale rallies in Beijing as the insurgents began to encircle the city, leading to a fateful speech on June 28, 1949 when Morgan was assassinated on the balcony of Tiananmen gate by a sniper team led personally by Chairman Xi Kanna, leaving the government in disarray and even further internal turmoil. Electing the young First Minister Jacob Zuma to the office of General Secretary of the Revolutionary Party in a closed door meeting on the same day as Morgan's death, the party began to purge itself in seeming preparation for self-exile, but with Zuma at the helm they instead began to perpetuate the lie that Eshter Morgan had indeed survived the assassination attempt, but was receiving medical treatment within the Forbidden City. This so-called "Great Lie" allowed the Zuma government to claim to act on the president's behalf and function as if they were her chosen deputies; indeed, the party even went to the effort to use heavily edited footage and drive around the president's personal train to attempt to show the president was alive and moving about. Despite governing for 7 months in the name of the assassinated president, the government of First Minister Jacob Zuma began to crumble as the insurgency encroached around Beijing, leading Zuma and his government to flee the capital and set up a rival government in the Libirachi mountains of Tibet. Capturing the capital city of the Libirachi Empire on February 13, 1950, Chairman Xi Kanna was inaugurated as the fourth President of the Libirachi Empire, formally ending the presidency of Eshter Morgan who still held the title legally, making her the only president to rule posthumously

Having spent nearly 40 years as a major public figure within the Libirachi Empire and 20 of those as the nation's leader, Xi Kanna finally succumbed to a variety of ailments on January 2, 1970 after suffering from two major heart attacks the previous month and a third lethal on January 2, ending the turbulent regime of Xi's presidency. With no strong successor ready to assume the presidency, the title remained vacant for nearly 8 days as in-fighting among the Progressive party led to widespread chaos in Beijing and afar as the government made the premature decision to announce the death of Xi Kanna on January 3, 1970 leading to the infighting only growing in tenacity in the following days. Word of President Xi's demise quickly got out, traveling as far as the Mongolian plains where former First Minister Jacob Zuma and his Libirachi Revolutionary Party remained in exile following the Tiananmen Uprising of 1945-1950; by January 7, Zuma had built up an army on his travel southward to Beijing, massing many thousands in size. Fearing both for their lives and of another civil war, the National Congress voted by majority to dissolve itself and invite Jacob Zuma to take up the presidency; with the Libirachi National Congress dissolved, much of the Progressive party fled the nation and went into exile, and upon the inauguration of Zuma on January 10, 1970, the Congress was reinstated with a new Revolutionary Socialist majority, ending the crisis as now-President Jacob Zuma began to consolidate his power.

### Fall of the Imperial Republic

#### Stagnation

    Despite governing for 7 months in the name of the assassinated president, the government of First Minister Jacob Zuma began to crumble as the insurgency encroached around Beijing, leading Zuma and his government to flee the capital and set up a rival government in the Libirachi mountains of Tibet. Capturing the capital city of the Libirachi Empire on February 13, 1950, Chairman Xi Kanna was inaugurated as the fourth President of the Libirachi Empire, formally ending the presidency of Eshter Morgan who still held the title legally, making her the only president to rule posthumously. Spending the next two decades in exile, Zuma usurped the presidency from the progressive party upon the request of the National Congress, fearing an all out war with the reformed Revolutionary party, which had become the Revolutionary Socialist party during it's exile period

Having assumed the presidency in 1970, Zuma set about swinging the nation leftwards and re-structuring the nation, creating institutions like Imperial Intelligence and the Imperial Security Bureau which would later become tentpoles of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order in later regimes. Likewise, a major revamp of the economy ensued and led to major socialist redistribution of finances, causing widespread damage to the livelihoods of large swathes of the population, as wealth re-distribution became subject to increasing taxation in order to prop up the regime. Having brought into existence the major security arms of the nation, President Zuma began a widespread set of purges to flush out opposition, with a red terror reigning down upon the population and purging thousands from high ranks across the nation, leading to rebellion groups forming across the nation, with notable opposition coming in the form of counter-revolutionary speaker Nathan Jackson, who's outspoken criticism of the Zuma presidency led to several decades being spent in prison, although following Jackson's 2004 escape from a high security prison alongside fellow dissident Spencer Davis, the regime struggled to keep the revolutionary movement down and ultimately the original Libirachi Revolutionary Party would be re-founded under the control of Jackson and Davis in 2008.

With an unofficial political party challenging his regime, Zuma began to crack down even more on the dissidents, although by this point old age and a plethora of illnesses meant that Jacob Zuma had become a hollow shell of his original political prowess and as such much of the administration was running itself, with different ministers fighting amongst themselves to try to covet power and secure their own succession after Zuma's death, leading to a fragmented and fractional government prone to messy infighting. With political leaders such as Laura Fox (Minister of Defence; *2009 - 2010*) and Xi Jimping (Minister for Internal Affairs; *2010*) advocating for an election to prove Zuma's mandate for office, the president capitulated to the younger generation of leaders, and as such the 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election became the first truly democratic election in nearly 200 years; subsequently Zuma was legally ousted from office on April 17, 2010 and by the end of the week most other nations recognised only the Jackson Administration. Having been deposed constitutionally, Zuma was sentenced by a kangaroo court to serve the remainder of his life in prison, a move acclaimed as a show of Jackson's desire to modernise and reform, although just 6 months later, the new president signed an executive order mandating the execution of Jacob Zuma on October 20, 2010.

#### Growth

     Having won the 2010 election, Nathan Jackson ousted incumbent President Jacob Zuma and ordered the arrest of his predecessor on his first day in office, whilst purging the ranks of the government's upper echelons of members of Zuma's Revolutionary Socialists in favour of loyalist Revolutionaries in a radical shake-up. Producing economically liberalising measures in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Libirachi Empire began to prosper under Jackson's rule, whilst crack-downs on dissident groups ensured the stability of the new government. As a program of releasing the nation from the socialist measures placed by Zuma got underway, the Jackson began to initiate a more sustainable environmental plan under the new Minister for the Environment, Laura Fox, which allowed the nation to convert from fracking and fossil fuels in exchange of next-generation nuclear power plants and natural fuels, such as wind, water and air. As the political sphere saw significant shake-ups, the military also saw radical change over the first five years of Jackson's rule, allowing him to control the nation through force, whilst in Beijing, the constitution was radically altered to remove constitutional term limits imposed by the Kanna Government and the Imperial Cabinet grew in power to delegate responsibilities of state away from the presidency. Whilst allowing smaller businesses to establish themselves, the Jackson administration nationalised the largest corporations, allowing the government great sway across the world, with Libirachi companies like Huawai responsible for maintaining essential parts of overseas internet and broadband systems. Using chemicals such as the MC14 drug, which diminishes brain functions and makes victims suggestible, the new government began experimenting with new technologies to keep the population subservient, with mixed results, before resorting to re-writing the Patriotism Laws inherited from Xi Kanna's regime. While cultivating the return of the Quokka into the national parks dotted across the nation, the Jackson regime promoted Environmental minister Laura Fox to the ministry of education and propaganda, where she began to grow a support base amongst members of Imperial High Command in the later years of Jackson's presidency.

Elected into office in April 2010, President Nathan Jackson ended the 40 year dictatorship of Jacob Zuma with his inauguration and immediately set about introducing the Mandate to the People Act of 2010 in the Libirachi National Congress, which passed by decree before the congress was re-opened following elections in August. As only the second democratically elected leader of the Libirachi Empire, Nathan Jackson's victory in the 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election proved that democracy could work within the nation, with the true aim of the Jackson administration being the eventual democratisation of the nation as specified in the unpublished *Route To Freedom* roadmap of 2019, which was ultimately due to be published after the completion of the *Patriot Act of 2019*, although as history knows this was never the case thanks to the Libirachi Civil War of 2019. Following the Xi Kanna and Jacob Zuma regimes, the government power pretty much stayed the same until the Jackson administration began to attempt to cause systematic change of the nation in the 2010s, attempting to rein in the power of the Libirachi Imperial Army and effectively bring democracy to the nation, with Jackson’s Revolutionary party storming the 2010 National Congress elections. Despite this urge to do good, the Jackson administration was continuously foiled by members of the LIA who eventually rose up in a coup in 2019, placing former education secretary Dame Laura Fox as the new President in what was largely viewed at the time to be a puppet regime.

As part of the Jackson Doctrine favoured by the Foreign Office, the Libirachi Empire began an invasion of Iran in 2019 which resulted in small-scale nuclear warfare and the ensuring fallout which wreaked havoc in the province of Ranjor within the Western China, Lower Stan Provinces and Iran oversector, leading to the disfranchisement of Grand Marshal Edward Mandelson and Marshal Ashton Morre and the execution of the former. Having escaped from Imperial custody, Morre escaped to the mountains of Western China where he began accumulating a conglomeration of dissidents and rebels. Whilst having to deal with the loss of some of his most loyal officers, Jackson attempted to push a new Patriotism Act based on Xi Kanna's original, but with the rights of military personnel severely downplayed and the role of High Command delegated to the President's inner circle, all the while reducing the importance of commissioned military officers in favour of a new army of shocktroopers loyal only to the President. Reacting with outrage to these proposals, IHC joined with the Minister of Education to hold a coup against Jackson's rule, uniting the various disfranchised sections of the military with their distaste of the President. With a quick swoop on September 24th 2019, all major cities in the Empire fell under marshal law whilst the Libirachi Imperial Army marched on Tienanmen Square and the Presidential Palace in the Forbidden City, engaging in skirmishes against the Presidential Guard as they attempted to break into the Presidents residency. By 6pm on September 25th, the Army had cut through to the forbidden city, where the Imperial Government was based. Much to the horror of the Army, they were greeted with a 200 strong deployment of Imperial Guards, and a 300 strong contingent of Presidential Guards - the President's personal security force. The ensuring battle lasted a solid hour, by which time it was beginning to go dark in Beijing. With the Guard dead, a black Cadillac pulled up outside the Libirachi Government Building, and a black clad figure emerged, flanked a contingent of loyal soldiers as she entered the building. Laura Fox had arrived, and was determined that this miniature civil war wouldn't fail. Marching though the building, the LIA met even more resistance from a further deployment of Presidential Guards, in a firefight that shredded the Presidential Congress room (used for important speeches and announcements - and the former home of the People's Congress, a relic from the 1850s abolished in 1933).

While the Guard was distracted in the Congress room, Fox and her escort made their way through the building, killing those in the way and shooting the occasional light to scare workers. They arrived at the Presidential Office, informally known as the round room, where President Jackson, oblivious to the situation, was working on new legislation to abolish the rebellious military. The escort smashed through the doors, and fired wildly into the room, eliminating the Presidential Guard. Fox marched in, and shot Jackson where he sat - twice in the chest, and once in the head - killing him instantly. All that remained of Jackson's support base surrendered the next day, officially supporting the new regime. Propaganda was issued to the people to re-assure them that the military might they had seen was just a exercise drill, albeit a large one, and that the government was as stable as ever. Only those in the Forbidden City knew of Jackson's death, and it was the new government's intention to keep it that way. The leaders of the coup (Surpeme Commander Kanan Garel, Education Minister Laura Fox, Deputy Minister of Defence Xi Jimping, Damian Hurst, Grand General Cassio Tagge and military adviser Bowen Shi) began to plan how the new government would be declared, and the LIA generals were keen to have a singular plan of action for the Declaration of the New Order.

As only the second democratically elected leader of the Libirachi Empire, Nathan Jackson's victory in the 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election proved that democracy could work within the nation, with the true aim of the Jackson administration being the eventual democratisation of the nation as specified in the *Mandate to the People Act of 2010* and the unpublished *Route To Freedom* roadmap of 2019, which was ultimately due to be published after the completion of the Patriot Act of 2019, although as history knows this was never the case thanks to the Libirachi Civil War of 2019. Following the Xi Kanna and Jacob Zuma regimes, the government power pretty much stayed the same until the Jackson administration began to attempt to cause systematic change of the nation in the 2010s, attempting to rein in the power of the Libirachi Imperial Army and effectively bring democracy to the nation, with Jackson’s Revolutionary party storming the 2010 National Congress elections. Despite this urge to do good, the Jackson administration was continuously foiled by members of the LIA who eventually rose up in a coup in 2019, placing former education secretary Dame Laura Fox as the new President in what was largely viewed at the time to be a puppet regime. Proving her nay-sayers wrong, President Fox managed to pull the army under her thumb and began to set about consolidating power, before passing the *Assent Bill (2019)* which granted the President's choice of regent the right to take the throne of the Libirachi Empire. Selecting herself, Fox was crowned as Empress Laura Fox on November 11th, 2019 and appointed fellow coup leader Xi Jimping as a replacement President, bringing the 167 years of the Imperial Republic to an end. Remembered as a staunch democrat fighting against all sides and often members of his own government for progress, Nathan Jackson is remembered as a martyr in the cause of Libirachi Democratisation internationally and by historians, whilst state propaganda paints a different picture of Jackson as a corrupt official who's poor handling of the nation left the armed forces no choice but to depose him and replace his regime with that of Laura Fox. Regarded as one of only a handful of the nation's leaders to properly attempt to bring about the introduction of free elections, even members of Jackson's own cabinet such as Alastar Brigman and Ashley Young actively worked against his campaign for freedom and ultimately continued to serve in the new order after its formation in 2019.

### A New Order

    With the death of President Nathan Jackson in September 2019, the nation briefly stayed under Marshal Law until September 27th when Laura Fox was declared the new President of the Libirachi Empire. Under Fox's presidency, the controversial Patriotism Bill was revoked and a meeting of the Libirachi National Congress granted the *Assent Bill (2019)* which granted the President's choice of regent the right to take the throne of the Libirachi Empire. Selecting herself, Fox was crowned as Empress Laura Fox on November 11th 2019 and appointed fellow coup leader Xi Jimping as a replacement President. Having legally secured power as the first regent since the abolishment of the monarchy in 1852, Fox set about solidifying her power base, purging both the state bureaucracy and military of Jackson supporters and reshuffling the corridors of power to firmly place her as head of state. Pursuing an aggressive foreign policy, the new regime frequently came to odds with the neighbouring economic and military superpower of Bovido Has, as well as the foundling Persian Republic in the middle east, over international policies and regime changes, actively supporting the Zander administration in the United States of America whilst attempting to topple the Cameron government in the United Kingdom.

     Under the Presidency of Xi Jimping, the Libirachi Empire returned to the economic liberalisation which became standardised during the reign of President Jackson, while continuing to clamp down on individual freedoms with the guidance of Empress Laura Fox. Taking over the governmental responsibilities granted to the Empress, Xi built his first cabinet from the remnants of Nathan Jackson's last, uniting various officials under his banner and using a poetic sense of justice to imprison the very officials who blocked his rise through the political ranks. As only the second President from the Libirachi Han community, Xi Jimping set about re-defining the overlooked Equality Act of 1952 which would further the rights of selected ethnic minorities (or in this case, majority) in the constitution. As the Libirachi Empire settle into its new political order, a familiar face from the Jackson era, Ashton Morre - the disillusioned marshal of Ranjor, returned at the head of a terrorist organisation calling itself the Hǔnluàn, roughly translating as the Storm of Blood in Arubesh, and began a series of terror attacks against key assets of the Libirachi Empire over the winter of 2019 - 20 before they were tracked down to the mountain ranges of western china and destroyed their headquarters in a blitzkrieg of fire, leaving Morre presumed dead. Unknown to the Fox regime, Morre survived the incident and rebuilt his organisation in the Persian Republic with the assistance of Penny Fox, daughter of the Empress, in exchange for assassinating Bovido Hassian Archbishop Hazael Buller as part of her plan to achieve control over the Libirachi Empire from her mother. With the death of the Archbishop on March 29th 2020, the two Asian superpowers came to loggerheads, both being unaware of the true culprit of the assassination, and declared war on each other on April 1. As the conflict began to escalate, the Hǔnluàn seized control of the Persian Republic and retreated from the conflict, whilst the nation of Obadiah Has joined the foray. Within months of the conflict, the Bovido Hassian army attempted a daring attack on the Libirachi capital of Beijing, the first such attack from a foreign nation and only the 6th such battle since the city became the capital, in which they successfully managed to capture President Xi Jimping, although he was later rescued by the 7th Naval Legion Fleet under the command of Grand Admiral Rithnuro Thrawn. Enraged by the brazen assault on their capital, the Libirachi Empire launched its 2nd Libirachi Occupation Army and the 7th Fleet to take the Bovido Hassian capital of Makassar, defeating the Lord's Grand Army and executing the Bovido Hassian Emperor on May 15th 2021. However, after a missile strike on Imperial High Command in January 2021, the Libirachi Empire resolved to invade the Persian Republic to topple the regime of Ashton Morre, who turned to Penny Fox to receive additional assistance, although the request was rebuffed and ties between the two were broken. Having toppled and left Morre for dead, the Libirachi Empire turned its full attention to the invasion of the Tokyo Bovido led by Bovido Hassian Archbishop Syli Dean. Over the rest of 2021, the Libirachi Empire pressed home the assault on Tokyo, before crushing the regime and turning its focus to Obadiah Has and the Bovido Line, which were the last main remnants of Bovido Has in east Asia. In the months that followed, the Empire aggressively destroyed lines of demoralised soldiers, as the christian holdouts crumbled in the wake of the superior Imperial Army.

### Dissent and Civil War

 Main article: Libirachi Civil War
With the Has Wars coming to a close, a plot was formed in Persia under the leadership of the new President, Almac Docu, a former Libirachi politician in exile for rebelling against the government; under a cloak of darkness, a set of assassins infiltrated Beijing and poisoned Empress Laura Fox in the evening of May 27th 2022, leaving the nation without a head of state. Taking over *de-facto* power, President Xi Jimping connived a meeting of the Shadow Council, consisting of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Cassio Tagge, Grand General Guo Tijjan, Grand Moff Chen Bingde, Minister of War Damien Salamander, Minister of Defence Alastar Brigman and Director General of COMPNOR Penny Fox which unanimously selected the *late* Empress' daughter as the new regent of the Libirachi Empire, although she refused to waste time and resources on a coronation until after conflict stopped, instead taking over as Head of State from President Xi and the powers associated, despite not holding an official title with the authority to take the post. Meanwhile, as news of the Empress' death trickled out through the military command structure, several regions rebelled against the regime, such as the splinter nation of New Libirachi and *self-proclaimed* Grand Moff Alex Pandion's Imperial Fraction which seized control in the Lower Stan Provinces and Iran after failing to seize control in his oversector of Eastern China and the Acquired Provinces of Bovido Has. Whilst the Libirachi Empire continued its fight against the Bovido Line, the separatist groups united with Persia and several eastern European nations to become the Confederacy of Independent Nations, with Docu as its President. Facing a real threat of invasion, the Empire formed an alliance with the Russian Federation and Canogally to form the Union of Aligned Nations with Fox as its Chairman. Taking the throne as a regent following the death of her mother, Penny Fox took leadership over the Libirachi Empire and the Imperial Army as the paramount leader of the nation as the Confederacy of Independent Nations under the leadership of Almac Docu continued to keep dividing the only recently re-proclaimed Libirachi Empire, before the regent formed her own Union of Aligned Nations in rebuttal to the CIN’s warmongering.

### Reign of the Empress Fox

Following the conclusion of the Libirachi Civil War in November 2024, regent Penny Fox was coronated as empress and began to embark on a spree of reforms to the Libirachi political system, beginning with the introduction of a new constitution and a new method of elections for the office of president. Similarly, the nobility system was massively expanded upon and the Imperial Privy Council was established to manage the imperial court in the Forbidden City, which began to form the centre of real political power within the regime. In August 2026, a group of conservative politicians and army leaders attempted to depose the Empress Fox in a coup d'état after they discovered that the empress had a secret queer relationship with health secretary Freya Sherman, but the coup was put down after 3 days and it's leaders were purged from the political elite of the nation, whilst the Same-Sex Relations Act of 2026 legalised gay and lesbian marriages in a landmark constitutional change. In 2027 the global economy collapsed in a banking crisis, giving the Fox regime the opportunity to expand it's economic diplomacy through the newly established Sino-Scandinavian Development Fund; at the same time, the economic catastrophe was used by agents of the Fox Dynasty to destabilise enemy states and install more loyal regimes in nations, such as Vladimir Putin in the Russian Federation or Vanessa de Rouge in Canto Haven. By 2030, a power struggle between President Damien Salamander and Empress Penny Fox had resulted in the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order becoming an increasingly politically powerful entity in the support of the empress, going as far as to topple the Salamander regime in a constitutional coup in 2033. In place of Salamander, COMPNOR leader Karyn Voor was elected president and as head of the Revolutionary party; with a new president in power, Penny Fox begin a culling of the Libirachi Imperial Army, officially being placed as the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces following over 800 years of army separation from the central state authority in 2033, as well as the creation of the Central Military Commission in 2034 which integrated the presidency and COMPNOR into the leadership of the armed forces, whilst placing Fox as the chair of the commission and thus the leader of all armed forces within the nation.

Within months of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order's coup in July 2033, the neighbouring Bovido Imperium launched an invasion of the Islamic Emirate of Egypt and triggered a series of mutual defence pacts between north African nations and the Eurasian Union of States; as such, the Fox Dynasty and it's allied states found themselves at war with the Bovido Imperium, which was able to swarm across northern Africa, conquering the United Arab Republic and subjecting the North African Federation to a state of occupation. Faced with military impotence, Penny Fox ordered a purge of the armed forces in May 2034 and established the Shanghai Pact mutual defence pact in January 2035. With the armed forces tamed, the Fox Dynasty launched a mass campaign against the Imperium and was able to bring about the dissolution of the North African Federation, whilst launching an invasion of the Bovido capital; following a Bovido attack on the United States of America in January 2037, the western-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation joined the war in alliance with the Shanghai Pact.

## Geography

The Libirachi Empire's landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts in the arid north to the subtropical forests in the wetter south. The Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate the more advanced eastern parts of the Empire from the rest of its land. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third- and sixth-longest in the world, respectively, run from the Tibetan Plateau to the densely populated eastern seaboard. The Libirachi Empire has a coastline stretching along the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as the Bohai, Yellow, East Libirachi and South Libirachi seas. The Libirachi Empire connects to the Eurasian Steppe which has been an artery of communication between East and West since the Neolithic through the Steppe route – the ancestor of the terrestrial Silk Road

The Libirachi Empire is one of 13 megadiverse countries. By one measure, the Empire has over 34,687 species of animals and vascular plants, making it the third-most biodiverse country in the world, after the Bovido Imperium and Colombia. The country signed the Rio de Janeiro Convention on Biological Diversity on 11 June 1992, and became a party to the convention on 5 January 1993. It later produced a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, with one revision that was received by the convention on 21 September 2010.

## Politics

 Main articles: Politics of the Libirachi Empire and Elections in the Libirachi Empire

The **politics of the Libirachi Empire** takes place in a framework of a socialist republic run by a single party, the Libirachi Revolutionary Party, headed by the General Secretary. State power within the Libirachi Empire is exercised through the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR), the Revolutionary Party, the National Congress and their provincial and local representation. The state uses Internal Reference, secret documents produced by Xinhua News Agency, similar to US's President's Daily Brief, though delivered to most of its officials according to the level of secrecy of the information, a major source of information of the society. Since the founding of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi in 1852 and then the Fox Dynasty in 2019, the government in Beijing officially asserts to be the sole legitimate government of all of mainland Asia, below the boarder with the Russian Federation, and up to boarders with the Persian Republic, Belarus and Loxenia.

Each local Bureau or office is under the coequal authority of the local leader and the leader of the corresponding office, bureau or ministry at the next higher level. Congress members at the county level are elected by voters. These county-level Congresses have the responsibility of oversight of local government and elect members to the Provincial (or Municipal in the case of independent municipalities) Congress. The Provincial Congress, in turn, elects members to the National Congress that meets each year in March through to November in Beijing. The ruling Revolutionary Party committee at each level plays a large role in the selection of appropriate candidates for election to the local congress and to the higher levels.

The Emperor of the Libirachi Empire is the paramount leader and head of state for the Libirachi Empire, the chair of all . The President of the Libirachi Empire is the head of government, presiding over the Imperial Cabinet. As a one-party state, the General Secretary of the Revolutionary Party holds power and authority over government, but they are appointed to the post by the Empress who is officially non-aligned with any political parties, but holds *de-facto* power over all parties and the offices of party general secretaries report directly to the Forbidden City and the office of the Emperor.

Libirachi's population, geographical vastness, and social diversity continues to frustrate attempts to rule from Beijing, and has done for centuries, although with the rise of COMPNOR in the 21st century this job has been made easier through modern controlling techniques, allowing the regime to go as far to mould the thoughts and actions of it's population. Economic reform during the 1980s and the devolution of much central government decision making, combined with the strong interest of local Revolutionary Party officials in enriching themselves, has made it increasingly difficult for the central government to assert its authority, as well as the control of the Imperial Army in vast areas of the nation - this lack of central control was among the factors responsible for the downfall of the presidency of Nathan Jackson and the eventual 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état. With the rise of the Fox Dynasty, devolution in certain parts of the nation was repealed and a larger state government became responsible for the running of the nation, with a streamlined bureaucracy responsible for the effective running of different Over-Sectors, which in effect are the size of small nations due to the vast enormity of the Libirachi Empire, and each Over-Sector has a Moff responsible for it's management, giving regions a military force which reports directly to the President and Empress, with the Empress able to supersede any orders issued by the office of the president or any cabinet members. Central government leaders must, in practice, build consensus for new policies among party members, local and regional leaders, influential non-party members, and the population at large. However, control is often maintained over the larger group through control of information which is directly managed through COMPNOR, meaning that the Director General of Imperial Intelligence, the *de-facto* leader of the entity, wields immense power within the political structure and reports directly to the throne, meaning that even members of the Imperial Cabinet could theoretically have information withheld from them if the Empress so wished.

Elections within the Libirachi Empire are a decidedly unique Libirachi affair, introduced properly for the first time in 2025 following the conclusion of the Libirachi Civil War, and act as a façade of democratic election for the President of the Libirachi Empire in order to broadcast the supposed democratic credentials of the nation to the world. In order to secure a majority required to form a government (1500 out of 2980 Congress votes required to win Presidency), a presidential hopeful must secure a majority of seats for their party within the Libirachi National Congress or a coalition of cross-party members willing to vote for a candidate; the candidate with over 1500 votes automatically becomes the president, or in the case where a majority is not granted, then the two candidates with the highest count of votes then would be entered into a run-off election. President Damien Salamander was the first president to be subjected to regular presidential elections, each giving the winner a 5 year term in office, winning both the 2025 and 2030 Presidential Elections before being ousted in 2033 when COMPNOR detained and arrested vast swathes of the 2199 members of the Revolutionary party in the National Congress, replacing them with COMPNOR political agents, whilst also detaining and arresting President Salamander in the Hall of Revolution where the Congress held a conformation vote to replace Salamander with the Minister of Propaganda Karyn Voor, securing the backing of Empress Penny Fox, who actively encouraged the self-coup within the government as the divide between Salamander and Fox grew following the 2030 election, appointing Karyn Voor as a successor president on July 27, 2033.

## Military

 Main articles: Libirachi Imperial Army and Armed Forces in the Libirachi Empire

With 39 million active troops, the Libirachi Imperial Army is the worlds largest standing army, by a significant margin, and reports directly to the Central Military Commission of the Libirachi Empire, following nearly 200 years of being granted nearly full autonomy from the central state government from the establishment of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi in 1852 and the creation of the CMC in 2033 during the presidency of Karyn Voor. The LIA consists of the First Legion, the Imperial Occupation Legion, the Sky Core, the Naval Legion and the Special Forces, serving as the interior defence, ground invasion, aerial combat, naval and special forces divisions of the army respectively. The control of the Libirachi Imperial Army is layered and each force has an internal hierarchy which culminates in the Joint Chiefs, where leading members of the Libirachi Admiralty, Sky Core, Occupation Legion and First Legion meet to deliberate day-to-day operations of the LIA, whilst the Imperial High Command is attended by the leaders of the divisions, that being the Grand Admiral, Grand General and Grand Moff and is chaired by the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, although since the title was granted to Empress Penny Fox in 2033, the IHC has been chaired by the Minister of War or in substitution the Defence Secretary.

The Imperial High Command is held to account through the Central Military Commission which is led by the President of the Libirachi Empire and has membership including the Director General of Imperial Intelligence, the *de-facto* leader of COMPNOR, the President of the Imperial Privy Council, representatives relevant to the meeting which can be switched out based on need and on occasion members of the National Congress who specialise in army matters. The CMC can legally call any official at any rank within the LIA before it's jurisdiction and both the Imperial Security Bureau and Vindicta have the means to arrest and detain any official who refuses to comply with a CMC summons in order to force their participation in a commission session, whilst the Commission can sentence anyone brought before the body to receive a judiciary trial, or if the Empress so wishes the Vindicta has the power to execute anyone condemned by the body.

As a result of the Libirachi War of Revolution in 1845-52, the Libirachi Imperial Army has always maintained a high degree of autonomy from the central government of the nation thanks to the leadership of Grand Marshal, and later President, Ashford Longwood who motioned for the independence of the army from any political party or leader in order to theoretically prevent the armed forces being used against the peoples of the Libirachi Empire, although it is generally seen by historians as a power mover by Longwood in order to cultivate an army loyal to him, granting him effective *de-facto* power over the nation as the head of the only national standing army. Demonstrated by the internal conflicts following the death of President Stanford Rightly in 1870, the armed forces remained loyal to the Longwood family under Ashford, and later his son Pearce when he assumed the presidency in 1912. Under the leadership of President Eshter Morgan between 1933 and 1949, the army increasingly became a tool of the Libirachi Revolutionary Party, especially during the 1938 Libirachi-Bovido Boarder Skirmishes and Tiananmen Uprising where they followed orders from party headquarters rather than the official government channels.

Over time, the Imperial Army began to become detached again from party channels under the leaderships of Xi Kanna and Jacob Zuma and by the time of the presidency of Nathan Jackson the armed forces maintained a high level of autonomy, with forces in Shanghai even rebelling in 2015, before overthrowing Jackson in 2019 and installing a new regime, which itself began to struggle with the armed forces in the Libirachi Civil War and then later on during the Wahngso Crisis, whilst in the late 2020s, the regime of Empress Penny Fox had to wrestle with an increasingly reluctant armed forces, leading to the 2033 Libirachi Coup d'état removing the government of Damien Salamander and creating the Central Military Commission under the government of President Karyn Voor.

## Monarchy

 Main article: Emperor of the Libirachi Empire
    The **Emperor of the Libirachi Empire** is the current head of state within the Libirachi Empire. After the original line of Emperors was ended in 1852, they were replaced by a President, but their linage was ended in 2019, when Laura Fox became the new emperor after assassinating President Nathan Jackson. As the Head of State, the Emperor is responsible for the duties formerly held by the President, including ceremonial roles such as opening the National Congress every November, speaking at the Libirachi Rally and appointing a head of government every Congress (although it usually remains as the same person until a regime change or they fall out of favour).

## Presidency

 Main article: President of the Libirachi Empire
    The **President of the Libirachi Empire** is the representative from the Emperor who makes day-to-day choices about the general running of the Empire. They can mobilize the Libirachi Imperial Army at command, and are granted the title "Grand Marshal of the Army" in times of war. Following the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état, the President became a figurehead position, with the head of state powers going to the new Emperor. Originally, when Stanford Rightly overthrew Emperor George IV, the president became the head of state with the right to make executive binding orders for the people. With the demise of democracy in 1933, the President became even more powerful, seizing control of the Army off the Peoples Congress, allowing the President to wage war as she saw fit. With the rise of Xi Kanna, politics took a more hap-hazard route, with all power diverted up to the Presidential office, a factor which helped Jacob Zuma and his successor Nathan Jackson oppress the people of the Libirachi Empire. Many Presidents have their own cabinet, which operates on their behalf, making decisions in their own areas of skill, while ultimately deferring to the President on state matters.

## Society

### Nobility

Over more than 800 years of history, the Libirachi Empire has been ruled over by 7 dynasties, with each one bringing its own host of ruling families to power to fill roles in privy councils and imperial courts. In a rare twist, former royal families are permitted high status and are permitted to exist, with there currently being 4 families, that being Libirachi, Rightly, Longwood and Santaro, granted the right of being High Families, with the patriarch of each taking up the hereditary title of Duke, whilst there are also 4 politically appointed duchies for Wuhan, Shanghai, Ulaanbaatar and Taipei, as well as the title Duke of Beijing which is awarded to former Presidents of the Libirachi Empire under the Fox Dynasty following the creation of the Imperial Privy Council in 2025 for the first anniversary of the Empress Fox's reign. With the abolition of the Libirachi Dynasty and the monarch in 1852 following the Libirachi War of Revolution and the execution of Emperor George IV, the newly founded Imperial Republic of Libirachi greatly reduced the influence of the nobility, but still allowed families to keep their titles; indeed the inaugural Libirachi president Stanford Rightly kept his title as 17th Duke Rightly until his death in 1870, whilst the second president Ashford Longwood kept his position as Marshall of the Longwood army until his death in 1912, despite the family armies of the nation being integrated into the Libirachi Imperial Army in the 1860s. Over the High Republic era of the Imperial Republic, the royal families would become further side-lined under the presidencies of Pearce Longwood and Eshter Morgan as the titles became nothing more than honorary peerages, before even further radical steps were taken under the presidency of Xi Kanna which completely broke apart the concept of family courts and saw many patriarchs killed, with family villas, assets and property seized by the state in large sweeping confiscations. Continued by successive governments, the suppression of the nobility was only legal repealed following the 2019 coup which saw the Imperial Republic overthrow and replaced with the Fox Dynasty under Empress Laura Fox, although after centuries of deconstruction and oppression, the High Families were largely scattered across through all wakes of life. As descendants of the Libirachi Dynasty, the Fox Dynasty began to re-establish the old systems and in 2020 during the early stages of the Has Wars, the Court of the High Families was brought back with Dr Damien Rightly, Eleija Longwood and General Franz Santaro as the patriarchs of their respective

### Equality

#### Ethnicity

With the arrival of white colonists from England in the early 1200s, the lands which became known as the Libirachi Empire began a racial hierarchy of white supremacy, owing in part to the brutality displayed to the locals upon even the slightest questioning of the society they lived in. As the rise and fall of dynasties continued across the centuries, the ethnic imbalance evened out, but the indigenous Han people still outnumbered the colonists on a ratio of 6:1, sparking many riots and uprisings, although racial equality movements achieved their first successes during the Libirachi War of Revolution when the Rebel Alliance regarded them as equals in their fight to overthrow the monarchy, allowing for greater diversity in the new Presidential empire, with Xi Kanna appointed the first Han leader of the Empire in 1950. Under Kanna's regime, all native races were considered equal in legislation enshrined in the constitution, and whilst the heads of the nation remain mostly white, all offices of state have seen holders from all races, highlighted by the appointment of Xi Jimping to the presidency in 2019.

#### Gender

Beginning its history as a colony from the largely patriarchal nation of England (later United Kingdom), the Libirachi Empire continued these practices, gaining approval from the native population who also practised a similar method. As time went on, 15 emperors passed without a single female leader of the Empire. Unlike the indigenous Han populace, women were not granted equality within the Presidential empire and only in the early 20th Century were women allowed to participate in politics. Despite this, under the leadership of President Pearce Longwood, Eshter Morgan became the first woman to hold a significant political title, eventually replacing Longwood as the President until her death in 1949. Despite her demise, Morgan's legacy remained in Libirachi Politics, and in 2019 Laura Fox became the first female Emperor of the Libirachi Empire, succeeded by her daughter in 2022.

### Language

Founded by English explorers and soldiers in the 1200s, much of the language remains, although it evolved in a similar fashion to that of other English speaking nations, and it is generally seen as a language of the higher classes, as compared to Mandarin which is largely used by the lower classes and the peasantry. Devised in the 1300s as a method of communication between the local population and the white colonists, Arubesh combines drawing styles of Mandarin with the letter formation and alphabet style of English, and was adopted as the official language later on, but it is far from the main language in the nation, leading to the decision to publish documents in Mandarin and English, whilst the Yen notes use Arubesh in its capacity as the official language of the Libirachi Empire

### New-Think

 Main article: New-Think

New-Think, also known as Political Theory on the Act of Liberal Authoritarian and Writings of the Empress Fox, is a political and socio-economic theory encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management of enterprises as espoused by socialism whilst also including authoritarian tendencies from more right wing schools of thought. New-Think espouses the importance of state control in the personal lives of citizens whilst also allowing for individual control in the economy in a western style capitalist economy. A key part of the Fox Dynasty of the New Imperial Era, the principle of New-Think re-structured the internal operations of the Libirachi Empire from the first half of the 21st century, with the theory penned by Libirachi Empress Fox II as part of her platform of reform and rejuvenation offered as part of her coronation address in 2024 following victory over the Confederacy of Independent Nations in the Libirachi Civil War of 2022 - 2024. First introduced as a school of thought in the late 2020s in the Libirachi Empire by Empress Penny Fox, New-Think was forcefully introduced in the decade after it's creation, with principle architects including Karyn Voor of the Imperial Ministry of Propaganda, the Minister of War Alexander Fowle and the Foreign Secretary Xiao Chen. As a surveillance state, the Libirachi Empire emboldened it's Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR) to begin to influence all levels of society, with the governing Revolutionary Party of Libirachi being slowly phased out of office as COMPNOR officials began to take offices of state, a process which began in 2023 with the appointment of Army Division for Advanced Weapons Research (ADAWR) Director Freya Sherman to the office of Health Secretary in the Damien Salamander II Cabinet.

With COMPNOR officers beginning to fill the ranks of the Libirachi bureaucracy, Fox turned her attention to the liberalisation of social standards, with the Same-Sex Relations Act 2026 beginning a wave of inclusive policies which allowed members of the LGBT and ethnic groups to be legally treated as equals as part of an ongoing move towards Assertive Globalism, another key theory of New-Think which advocated the spread of Libirachi cultural, economic and political structures into other nations by moving the empire's political sphere more towards the liberalism of the west in order to make the regime seem less hostile. Likewise new political structures were put in place, allowing for "free" elections in 2025, 2030 and 2033 although it is generally regarded that these elections were sham elections due to the dominance of the Revolutionary party and the Imperial Army within the National Congress, meaning that the Empress Fox could choose her president by proxy through the party body of the Revolutionaries, basically meaning that the semblance of democracy on such a high level was merely a façade to ingratiate the democracies of Europe and North America. In a form of trying to be all things to all men, the New-Think ideology is fundamentally based on hiding one's strength and biding time for the right moment to pounce on enemies, meaning that the diplomatic strategies opted for by the empire are very different depending on the nation that is currently at the crosshairs of the country, with different faces presented; for example in countries like the United States of America and Avalonia the more democratic sides of the nation are placed at the forefront (although the personal relationship between Väldeminister Ada Nilsen and Empress Penny Fox caries much of the diplomatic relations with the latter) whilst in places like Corporate Republic of Dunsteen and ST Joseph's Devotees which have earned the ire of the regime, the military might and power of the armed forces is placed on full display, with Libirachi naval vessels prodding at the national boarders of the Devotees to test their mettle whilst severe economic sanctions are in place against the CRD.

### Propaganda

 Main article: Propaganda in the Libirachi Empire
    Used extensively throughout the Libirachi Empire, propaganda is used to inspire soldiers into combat, indoctrinate civilians into the political regime, instruct the population on new laws or to inspire awe of the Head of State. Much of the propaganda is either in Mandarin or English to appeal to the two main classes of people; the middle class which is predominantly white and primarily speaks English and the lower class and peasantry which are mostly Han and primarily speak Mandarin. Different leaders have utilised propaganda in separate ways, with the Xi Kanna government choosing to forgo it and the Jacob Zuma government overly reliant on its propaganda. Later leaders struck a better balance, with the Nathan Jackson government preferring to use large military parades rather than televised announcements and the Laura Fox regime opting to use large public broadcasts from the Forbidden City. Learning from her predecessors, the Penny Fox regime made extensive use of military parades, televised broadcasts and propaganda posters, using the *Might*, *Order* and *Glory* slogans on posters across the nation in a propaganda campaign to demonstrate the capability of their new leader.

### Sporting

Despite the isolated nature of the Libirachi Empire, the empire still boasts considerable power in international sporting, such as the state sponsored Libirachi Patriots team of soccer players which acts as the national team for events such as the World Cup. Banned from participating in Olympic games in 1984 after a doping scandal, the Libirachi Empire re-joined the competition in 2012 and hosted the 2028 Olympics in Beijing, which was used as a platform to thrust the recently re-unified empire back into global affairs after several years of reconstruction following the Libirachi Civil War.

### National Anthem

   The national anthem of The Libirachi Empire is entitled Glory to the Empire. Originally written as a patriotic piece in the 18th century, Glory to the Empire was adopted as the national anthem by then Emperor-for-life Stanford Rightly III, as part of his quest to unite the fractured empire into a single force of power. After the collapse of the first empire in 1852, the leader of The New Order, Stanford Rightly IV, adopted it as the march for his warrior legion. Several revisions to the lyrics have been made over the years, but have remained sung within the Arubesh language since the 1500s when it was translated by Beijing scholars.

### National Animal

The Quokka was discovered in the 1800s by Imperial traders on a large island now part of the nation Canogally. These traders brought large numbers of these fascinating creatures back to the empire, where they expanded in population growth. Because of their frequency, and association with the Imperial image, the Empire adopted them as their national animal in 1900. In the wild, its roaming is restricted to a very small range in the south-west of The Libirachi Empire, with a number of small scattered populations. One large population exists in the Jackson Forrest and a smaller population on is at Imperial Lake. The islands are free of certain predators such as foxes and cats. In Jackson Forrest, quokkas are common and occupy a variety of habitats ranging from semiarid scrub to cultivated gardens. Prickly Acanthocarpus plants, which are unaccommodating for humans and other relatively large animals to walk through, provide their favorite daytime shelter for sleeping. Additionally, they are known for their ability to climb trees. Like most macropods, quokkas eat many types of vegetation, including grasses and leaves. A study found that *Guichenotia ledifolia*, a small shrub species of the family Malvaceae, is one of the quokka's favoured foods. Jackson Forrest visitors are urged to never feed quokkas, in part because eating "human food" can cause dehydration and malnourishment, both of which are detrimental to the quokka's health. Despite the relative lack of fresh water in the forrest, quokkas do have high water requirements, which they satisfy mostly through eating vegetation. On the mainland, quokkas only live in areas that have 600 mm (24 in) or more of rain per year

## See also

* List of Leaders of the Libirachi Empire
* List of Presidents of the Libirachi Empire
* List of Governors of the Imperial Frontier
* Libirachi Imperial Army
* Libirachi Rally
* Libirachi Policing Core
* Quokka