Xisheng

Xisheng, officially Xisheng Province is an overseas province of the Democratic Republic of Daxia located in northern Crona. Early Daxian explorers arrived in the Nysdra in the early 1600's, with an imperial punitive expedition wresting possession of the island of Cao from pirates in 1606. More violent confrontations with then native Cronan kingdomgs in today's Quetzenkel and New Harren funneled exploration further east.

The fort of Pinghai was founded in 1623 in a coastal region only loosely controlled by the empire of Ixa'Taka. The following centuries saw an on and off colonization effort that nonetheless spread Daxian presence over the eastern Nysdra coastline. Daxian colonial officials routinely meddled in Ixa'Takan and Chimoche affairs by funding internal dissension, providing mercenaries to rival powers and active campaigns of economic sabotage such as the damming of important rivers to disrupt crop production. The Ixa'Takan Empire and Chimoche kingdom were overtaken by the 1860's and reduced first to vassal states and later turned into administratively subordinate enclaves.

Successive Daxian regimes have worked extensively to rebalance the demographic makeup of Xisheng away from native Cronans, so much so that today they constitute only around 35% of the total population. Furthermore Cronan peoples are confined to enclosed administrative units with various degrees of autonomy such as Chimoche and Ixa'Taka, outside of these quasi states Daxian culture is ascendant. Xisheng is the most militarized province on Daxia, given its location surrounded by Urcean possesions and the only recently defanged Varshan.

Government
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Demographics
Xisheng is home to many local ethnicities whose ranges of habitation have fluctuated over time; their locations affected by various Daxian policies designed to acquire richer and more geographically advantageous land for settlement and limit their material prosperity. The Ixa'Takan people dominated most of present northwestern Xisheng before the arrival of Daxia forced them inland. Their population of some four million currently reside near exclusively within the borders of the Ixa'Taka Autonomy and have been granted limited forms of autonomy to conduct their affairs. Following them in numbers are the Chimor people who inhabit the region of Chimoche which abuts Mid-Atrassic Crona. At a population of 3.7 million people they are the second most numerous indigenous people on the region. The Ajaw, Nuun and Varshani peoples are more recent additions, the Ajaw falling under Daxian domination in the 18th century after the March into the mountains and the Nuun and Varshani being added after the territories they lived in were cut off from Varshan and attached to Xisheng at the end of the Deluge.

Xisheng has never been as widely and intensively settled as Cao was. Daxians constitute a mere sixteen percent and are outnumbered by Cronan ethnicities by a proportion of 4 to 1, yet have the majority of the land. Daxians mostly live on the coast and in fortified cities dotted across geographically advantegous locations

Daxian policies towards Cronans
To address the current numerical disadvantage of ethnic Daxians, authorities have come up with a number of solutions to disadvantage and dispossess Cronans and permanently stunt their demographic growth.

Fertility cap
Cronan families are required to buy a special child permit and are limited to having one child only. Violation of this regulation carries a jail sentence for the parents and the destruction of any additional children.

Economy
The economy of Xisheng was primarily geared towards labor intensive agricultural production for much of the 20th century, with a particular focus on the production of figs. The fig production sector was developed and dominated by the Xisheng Trading Company, a subsidiary of the South Seas Trading Company Up to 65% of Xisheng's cultivable land was earmarked for fig tree plantations employing tens of thousands of Cronan indentured laborers under very harsh conditions. A souring of commercial relations with Varshan's Zurgs and financial losses elsewhere caused the company to divest itself from the fig business, causing a near collapse of Xisheng's provincial economy. Only around 15% of fig plantations survived long enough to modernize themselves and start diversifying their fig products into items such as jams, fig pastries, dried figs and various medicinal presentations and laxatives. These producers now control the biggest share in this sector and are boosting exports with the reopening of the Varshan market.

Important gold deposits have been known and exploited since the time of the early Ixa'Takan settlement; new discoveries and modern technologies have made Xisheng region into one of the biggest gold producers in the world, amounting to some 30% of the region's exports. Gold mines operate under a 40/60 revenue sharing between the government and private mining companies. Xisheng produces on average 95 tonnes of gold on an annual basis. Another sector that is a big earner of foreign exchange currency is the home appliances sector

thoughts
Ban salmon because people rely on it and that would be the evil thing to do. Have salmon black market. Have myth about daxians stealing child fat, it's an actual urban legend in Peru and is pervasive even today. Do small ethnic group that was formerly repressed but favoured by daxia