China

China, or the Federal Republic of Chinese States, is a nation state in the continent of Asia and inhabits parts of the old world countries of China and Korea, under the leadership of Supreme Leader Chen Bingde from the capital city of Beijing, where the two national leaders preside over a nation of 54 million citizens and an army of 700 thousand which rivals that of former Asian state, although it is largely inferior to that of China's largest rivals Elexia and Japan. Founded from the remnants of the People's Republic of China in the aftermath of the Great Disaster, the Kingdom of Manchu expanded throughout southern Asia, before being toppled by the Fen-Su remnants led by Zhang Cho in 2541. As a cold war with Elexia expanded, the Fen-Su collapsed under the pressure of the Elexian army, leading the Fen-Cho to seize power in the leftovers of the Chinese empire in 2638. While the Fen-Cho dominated the nation, a growing sect of warriors under the Brotherhood of Fury continued to attack the foundling establishment, before taking power in 2810 under Chen Bingde.

Flag
Following the collapse of the Brotherhood of Fury in 2850 following the death of Chen Bingde, the newly formed Federal Republic of Chinese States created a flag combining the Yin, Yan, Blue and Red of the various Chinese and Korean nation states to represent the ever-changing population and social demographics of the FRCS.

Name
The word "China" has been used in English since the 16th century; however, it was not a word used by the Chinese themselves during this period in time. Its origin has been traced through Portuguese, Malay, and Persian back to the Sanskrit word Cīna, used in ancient India.

"China" appears in Richard Eden's 1555 translation of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. Barbosa's usage was derived from Persian Chīn (چین), which was in turn derived from Sanskrit Cīna (चीन). Cīna was first used in early Hindu scripture, including the Mahābhārata (5th century bce) and the Laws of Manu (2nd century bce). In 1655, Martino Martini suggested that the word China is derived ultimately from the name of the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE). Although this derivation is still given in various sources, the origin of the Sanskrit word is a matter of debate, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Alternative suggestions include the names for Yelang and the Jing or Chu state.

The official name of the modern state is the "Federal Republic of Chinese States" (simplified Chinese: 中华民国联邦共和国; traditional Chinese: 中華民國聯邦共和國; pinyin: Zhōnghuá mínguó liánbāng gònghéguó). The shorter form is "China" Zhōngguó (中国; 中國) from ' zhōng'  ("central") and ' guó' ("state"), a term which developed under the Western Zhou dynasty in reference to its royal demesne. It was then applied to the area around Luoyi (present-day Luoyang) during the Eastern Zhou and then to China's Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Qing. It was often used as a cultural concept to distinguish the Huaxia people from perceived "barbarians". The name Zhongguo is also translated as "Middle Kingdom" in English

Manchu Dynasty
As the embers of the Great Disaster began to settle in the winter of 2345, the People's Republic of China fractured with the loss of Beijing and Shanghai, as floods raged across the lower settlements in southern Asia, submerging the acquisitions gained during the late 22nd century. Whilst the Japanese Empire pushed west into northern China, the fractured remnants of the PRC re-organised themselves into the Kingdom of Manchu in 2354, ruled by the Zakan king Jol in the Manchu vally. Re-cooping their forces in the ensuing decades, the Manchu Kingdom emerged as a dominant force in Asia, fending off against attacks from the resurgent Japanese Empire and expanding into the island chains of southern Asia once more. As part of a nationalist push, the boarders of the Kingdom of Manchu were cut off for the rest of the world, allowing China to grow back and granting time for many key technological discoveries to be made, before a brutal civil war broke out in the late 2530s between the Fen-Su and the Sal King Wei's imperial forces for control of the nation. Led by Zhang Cho, the Fen-Su were a band of warriors fighting for their rights against the increasingly oppressive Sal-Manchu regime, before Zhang Cho and Yi Zen seized control of the organisation in 2537, and led the group to a decisive victory in 2541, seizing power in the desecrated capital city of Beijing, which had only been re-constructed from ruins in 2456.

War and Loss
Now firmly under the leadership of Zhang Cho, the Fen-Su began a rapid military expansion in the west in preparation of a war with Elexia and Japan, utilising technological secrets stolen from Elexia and the European wastelands to build new weapons of mass destruction on a scale unseen since the Great Disaster. Whilst Yi Zen led the development project, Zhang Cho was secretly amassing his own personal army led by Wei Xhon to prevent Grand Marshal Yi from taking control of the nation in the event of Zhang's death. As the cold war with Elexia escalated into a full blown war in the early 2600s, Marshal Yi began moving the techtonic weaponry towards the Elexian boarder in preparation of an attack on their capital, having since taken power after the demise of Zhang Cho in 2592, although a preliminary attack on the Chinese boarder meant that the majority of these weapons were lost to the armies of Chief Sether, who used them to destroy the fortress stronghold of Vladivostok a year later. Conceding his loss to Elexia, Yi Zen was overthrown by a cabal of Zhang Cho fanatics called the Fen-Cho and Wei Xhon was placed on the throne as Emperor Wei Cho in 2638. Having lost much of the ancestral Chinese territory, the Fen-Cho embarked on an incursion war against Elexia before an attack on Vladivostok crippled the empire