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Name: The Qing Empire (清共和國)
Capital: Beijing
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Status: Superpower
Racial Composition: 75% Kiedran Wolf, 20% Kiedran Fox, 5% other

Divergent History: The counterbalance to American/British domination in the Modernkinds world, the Qing Empire grew from the tattered remnants of the Qing Republic in the early nineteenth century. A brief incursion by British troops (later recalled to deal with the rising threat of Napoleon) awakened the Chinese people to the possibility that they might become just another province in one western empire or another, leading them to pursue a massive modernization program under the visionary leadership of their new Empress, Dowager Cixi.

With this revitalized spirit, the Chinese nation experienced a revival, fueled by a yearning for the golden age of the Chinese Empire. However, in the 1830s they came to realize further expansion would come at a price, which would need to be paid in new lands and resources. Seeing the Japanese to their east were growing in strength, the Empress wisely chose to turn her steadily growing armies eastwards and northwards, allying with the peoples of the Himalayas to begin a massive campaign of expansion throughout the Middle East and northern India while simultaneously invading the Russian Empire with her new Japanese allies.

By 1855, the new Chinese Empire would stretch from her homeland to eastern Russia and central India (stiff resistance from the Indians and their new allies in Southeast Asia in conjunction with continuing guerrilla activity in occupied Russia would convince the Empress to abandon further southward and northward expansion), reaching to the border of the Ottoman Kiedran Foxes, then occupying central Iraq. By then, Napoleon’s armies had overrun the Balkans and were now looking to add the Turkish mainland to their list of conquests, and so the Ottomans were forced to turn to these newcomers in hopes of working out a deal to save their nation.

The gambit worked perfectly, though at a cost. Napoleon was turned back just short of Istanbul, but in return, the Chinese Wolves gained the foothold they needed in the Ottoman government to begin the assimilation of Turkish lands, formally annexing them and transferring all but regional governmental administrative powers from Ankara to Beijing in 1911.

The death of the Great Empress in 1878 was met with a week of mourning still honored in Chinese lands to this very day, though her passing paved the way for new constitutional reforms in Beijing, leading to a balance of power struck between a Grand Council of Elders, selected from various lands under the Empire’s control, and the Empress’ successors. Still, some in the Chinese homeland regard the Emperor as nearly a god in mortal form, and there is a somewhat powerful movement to return all power and authority in Chinese government to the hands of the Emperor (though there is evidence that this movement is backed by funds from the Emperor’s personal coffers). Despite this, the Qing Empire is still one of the most advanced and modernized nations on Earth, fielding the largest army ever to march across its surface and holding the dubious honor of being one of the four nations known to possess nuclear weapons.

Kiedran, Basitin, and other references to Twokinds are properties of Tom Fischbach. You can find him at [link]

Made using MS Paint and [link]

Description
Part of my Modernkinds timeline ([link] )

Next: The Republic of Hyperabad ([link] )

Previously: The European Union [link]

Profile:

Name: The Qing Empire (清共和國)
Capital: Beijing
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Status: Superpower
Racial Composition: 75% Kiedran Wolf, 20% Kiedran Fox, 5% other

Divergent History: The counterbalance to American/British domination in the Modernkinds world, the Qing Empire grew from the tattered remnants of the Qing Republic in the early nineteenth century. A brief incursion by British troops (later recalled to deal with the rising threat of Napoleon) awakened the Chinese people to the possibility that they might become just another province in one western empire or another, leading them to pursue a massive modernization program under the visionary leadership of their new Empress, Dowager Cixi.

With this revitalized spirit, the Chinese nation experienced a revival, fueled by a yearning for the golden age of the Chinese Empire. However, in the 1830s they came to realize further expansion would come at a price, which would need to be paid in new lands and resources. Seeing the Japanese to their east were growing in strength, the Empress wisely chose to turn her steadily growing armies eastwards and northwards, allying with the peoples of the Himalayas to begin a massive campaign of expansion throughout the Middle East and northern India while simultaneously invading the Russian Empire with her new Japanese allies.

By 1855, the new Chinese Empire would stretch from her homeland to eastern Russia and central India (stiff resistance from the Indians and their new allies in Southeast Asia in conjunction with continuing guerrilla activity in occupied Russia would convince the Empress to abandon further southward and northward expansion), reaching to the border of the Ottoman Kiedran Foxes, then occupying central Iraq. By then, Napoleon’s armies had overrun the Balkans and were now looking to add the Turkish mainland to their list of conquests, and so the Ottomans were forced to turn to these newcomers in hopes of working out a deal to save their nation.

The gambit worked perfectly, though at a cost. Napoleon was turned back just short of Istanbul, but in return, the Chinese Wolves gained the foothold they needed in the Ottoman government to begin the assimilation of Turkish lands, formally annexing them and transferring all but regional governmental administrative powers from Ankara to Beijing in 1911.

The death of the Great Empress in 1878 was met with a week of mourning still honored in Chinese lands to this very day, though her passing paved the way for new constitutional reforms in Beijing, leading to a balance of power struck between a Grand Council of Elders, selected from various lands under the Empire’s control, and the Empress’ successors. Still, some in the Chinese homeland regard the Emperor as nearly a god in mortal form, and there is a somewhat powerful movement to return all power and authority in Chinese government to the hands of the Emperor (though there is evidence that this movement is backed by funds from the Emperor’s personal coffers). Despite this, the Qing Empire is still one of the most advanced and modernized nations on Earth, fielding the largest army ever to march across its surface and holding the dubious honor of being one of the four nations known to possess nuclear weapons.

Kiedran, Basitin, and other references to Twokinds are properties of Tom Fischbach. You can find him at [link]

Made using MS Paint and [link]