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.

Geography
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Government
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Daxian policies towards Cronans
To address the current numerical disadvantage of ethnic Daxian, 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.