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'''Xisheng''', officially '''Xisheng Province''' is an overseas province of the [[Daxia|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'Taka]]n Empire and [[Chimoche]] kingdom were overtaken by the 1860's and reduced first to vassal states and later turned into administratively subordinate enclaves.

Successive [[Daxia]]n regimes have worked extensively to rebalance the demographic makeup of Xisheng away from native [[Crona]]ns, even so [[Daxian people|Daxians]] only constitute around 17% 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 [[Daxia]]n culture is ascendant. Xisheng is the most militarized province on [[Daxia]], given its location surrounded by [[Urcea]]n possesions and the only recently defanged [[Varshan]].

==Geography==

==History==
===Classic period===
[[File:Pacal_the_Great_tomb_lid.svg|thumb|Carved funerary lid of the tomb of the Umatz Tlipoca VI known as the Peacemaker.]]
Xisheng is inhabited by many groups but most of them point to a common ancestor originating from what is now central [[Varshan]]. The various [[Ixa'Taka]]n peoples who lived in the eastern shore of the Nysdra have done so since at least the late 800's BCE, after displacing local Venua groups under the guidance of their proto-monarch, Tlipoca. The ancient Ixa'Takans appear to have upheld a system where they were ruled by an absolute monarch known as the Umatz. According to the Chokma stele, construction of the great city of Rixis begun in 875BCE on the orders of the 6th Umatz, a ruler only named as Enetzin and known to be of the line of Tlipoca. It is this ruler that seemingly set down the base of a state, the social order and military that would be needed for imperial growth. The city of Rixis is believed to have risen in the following centuries to establish its primacy and expanded its territorial control by building sister cities. In time, cities such as Mezro and Tolon grew in importance and wealth and served as regional bases for further growth. These other cities were never ruled directly by the Umatz but by lesser kings anointed in Rixis, not quite puppet rulers but neither fully autonomous. Their loyalty was often secured through royal marriages, sacred oaths to the gods of [[Ixa'Taka]] and the military might of the Umatz, often times they were also blood relatives of the Umatz such as royal cousins and nephews. The result was that Ixa'Taka created something that resembled an empire in outward appearance, but was in truth was a brittle construct and its longevity depended in great measure on the talent and charismatic rule of successive Umatz. An important challenge of the classic period was recurrent the Kimor struggle for independence. Kimor was one of the earliest colonies of Rixis and had grown over the years into a very powerful city, its nobles did not see themselves as subservient to Rixis and they chafed at even the slightest notions of foreign control.

In 1112 the supposed puppet ruler of Kimor, king Shagur I led a first schism that would eventually end with the Chimor declaring themselves a separate people. This schism was fueled by the murder of Shagur's son on the orders of the king of Mezro and the Umatz of Rixis siding with him. The cause of the murder is suspected to have been a dispute over a woman's attention. Taking advantage of the kings grief, the nobles of Kimor egged him on to declare the city's independence from Ixa'Taka. The dispute led to a break-up of [[Ixa'Taka]]'s quasi unified domain as some cities sided with Kimor instead of with their overlord in Rixis. Kimor expelled the Umatz's tax collectors and marched to war against Mezro, which called on Ixa'Taka for aid. Gaining entry to Mezro by treachery, the army of Kimor rampaged through the city. Shagur ordered the captured king of Mezro to have his hands and feet tied up, then he was thrown off from the steps of the great pyramid of the city. When he reached the bottom and was discovered to still be alive, he was carried back up before being flung down a second time. By the time relief arrived from Rixis, the city was completely looted and heavily depopulated. Kimor's army was laying siege to Tolon when it was overtaken by the army of Tlipoca VI who along with Tolon's defenders soundly defeated the attackers. After a short siege, Kimor opened its gates and surrendered and Shagur was forced to abdicate but otherwise the Ixa'Takans did not feel the need for harsh retribution. A regent was appointed to rule over Kimor and the city was now considered to be part of the Umatz's domain proper. In 1156 the regent of Kimor was overthrown and killed in a popular uprising, the nobles of the city raised a supposed son of Shagur as Shagur II although historians believe the man to have had no royal blood and to simply be a convenient figurehead. The second Kimor War lasted for much longer than the first as Shagur II successfully went on the offensive, capturing many cities loyal to Rixis and replacing their kings with new nobles. Tlipoca VI was by this time an exhausted old man and his sons squabbled between themselves often. Effective control of Ixa'Takan forces was bestowed on Hakkar, the chief priest of the Blood God. 

Hakkar enacted a bloody campaign that saw hundreds of people in recaptured cities sacrificed to the Blood God while not being able to deliver a knockout blow to the army of Kimor who studiously avoided open battle. Hakkar sacked Kimor a second time, threw down its walls and managed to scatter much of its population but Shagur II retook it the next year. Hakkar's penchant for sacrifice of civilians made Ixa'Taka unpopular in cities that had formerly been loyal and the nobles he had put in place to rule them were thrown out in 1165. Tolon, Chokma and Atil joined the rebellion of Kimor and their combined army defeated and killed Hakkar in 1167. The defeat of this army convinced the elderly Tlipoca VI to agree to a treaty that released Kimor from its bonds to [[Ixa'Taka]]. The other cities that had joined Kimor did not push for full independence but agreed to be ruled by their own elected kings, paying tribute to Rixis. This treaty put the Ixa'Takan Kimor problem to rest and allowed it to focus on other affairs, but it also turned that city into a future rival. The Kimor would rename themselves as the [[Chimoche|Chimor]] people to display their uniqueness as a separate people.

===Varshani Potentate===
[[File:Máscara_de_Xiuhtecuhtli_Cultura_Azteza-Mixteca_Ars_Summum.JPG|thumb|Jade mask worn by third Varshani Potentate, Vresidot Shaggath who reinstated blood sacrifices at the Fane of Buruso]]
The schism in the [[Ixa'Taka]]n empire did not go unnoticed by [[Varshan]], only a few years later it started incursions into the former's southernmost territories as far as the Mountains of the Sun. At first these territorial intrusions involved only a few hundred men at any one time and were either ignored or thrown back easily enough. By the 1200's [[Varshan]] began to openly attack the Ajaw settlements that paid tribute to Ixa'Taka during its [[The Hunt (Varshan)|the Hunts]], prompting harsher responses. An army commanded by a nephew of the Umatz Janab I pushed the invaders out and then invaded north [[Varshan]] for five months before being annihilated in battle by the Zurg's royal army. The following century would see a pattern of territorial encroachment by [[Varshan]] and temporary alliances by [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] to push back on these advances. By 1230 all the lands south of the Mountains of the Sun had been lost to [[Varshan]] and in 1245 the Ixa'Takans sealed a marriage alliance with the Zurg whereby they became a tributary state and adopted [[Arzalism]]. By abandoning their wartime alliance with [[Chimoche]] they also got to achieve a historical revenge against them for their multiple rebellions, Ixa'Takan troops played an important role in the Varshani subjugation of [[Chimoche]]. 

The [[Varshan]] Zurgs decided to appoint high caste noblemen from [[Anzo]] as potentates over both [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] to oversee their kings, observe that Arzalism was practiced and tribute delivered on time. This period of history is known as the Varshani Potentate and it is characterized by local historians as unusually harsh and bleak. The potentates were often fanatically religious and looked down on the locals as lacking zeal in their Arzalist devotions. A great deal of resources were poured into building new temples and the [[Blood Fane of Buruso]] was said to glow red at night due to all the blood shed on its steps on the orders of the Potentates. The seeds of rebellion against the Potentate came in 1581 when the 13th Potentate, Kangar Dun Talmoc, ordered the destruction of the temples of the local deity Tlaloc, a local god of rain and bountiful weather worshipped as an aspect of the Arzalist Rain God. The forceful destruction of his shrines incensed both the commoners and nobles of [[Ixa'Taka]] and [[Chimoche]]. A low level revolt with sporadic murders of Varshani soldiers and the harassment of Arzalist priests began as a result of this action. This morphed into a full fledged uprising when the Potentate Kangar Dun Talmoc and several Anzo dignataries were attacked and killed by an angry mob in the central plaza of Rixis, an event possibly organized by the Ixa'Takan Umatz himself.

The following conflict was named in the annals of [[Varshan]] as the War of Serrated Teeth, a bitter conflict that raged for decades and is an example of a preindustrial population engaging in something reminiscent of total war. The priesthoods of the Old Gods of [[Ixa'Taka]] and [[Chimoche]] whipped their peoples into a religious fervor to expel the occupiers and destroy the Potentate. The animosity against [[Varshan]] was so great that soon the Potentate and his apparatus had to flee the great cities of the region and head south, too many of the officials and priests employed by the Potentate were being targeted and murdered by regular people who then simply melted back into the population. Kangar Dun Talmoc's successor, the 14th Potentate Razoxtin Zun Malat immediately requested the support of the Zurg to put down the popular rebellion. Underestimating the seriousness of the situation and with favorable omens of victory from the priesthood, only a small Varshani army was deployed. Harassed all the way through their march in Ajaw region, the [[Varshan]]is were ambushed and destroyed by an [[Ixa'Taka]]n army shortly after crossing the Mountains of the Sun; the dead were decapitated and their skulls piled up in grisly towers as a grim warning. The War of Serrated Teeth went on for thirty years throughout various phases and intensity, at one point [[Varshan]] had reconquered most of the territory until civil strife and plague back in the interior forced them to withdraw; it was never able to fully restore the Potentate before the arrival of [[Daxia]].
===Arrival of Daxia===
[[File:Qiancav14.jpg|thumb|Daxian cavalry marching through the gates of Rixis during the War of Serrated Teeth. The distorted faces are typical of Qian artwork of the period.]]
In 1609 the first explorers from [[Daxia]] arrived in the shores of western [[Ixa'Taka]] during a period in which Varshani presence had been pushed back south. After securing their foothold on the island of [[Cao]] and clearing it of pirates, the [[Daxia]]ns sailed eastwards and came in contact with [[Quetzenkel]] and [[Varshan]]. The latter were particularly unwelcoming of the strange looking, yellowish dignitaries and ordered them to leave. On [[Ixa'Taka]] however they were gladly received with honors as a possibly ally against [[Varshan]], against who the War of Serrated Teeth still raged. The Ixa'Takans were eager for an alliance for word of the defeat of the pirate lords of [[Cao]] were welcome news all around the Nysdra. The [[Daxia]]ns required land for ''some small settlements'' and ''gold trinkets of some value'' before agreeing to getting involved. [[Daxia]]n requirements were vaguely worded on purpose, the definition of the word 'some' would be stretched as necessary to filch the Ixa'Takans of as much as possible. The [[Pinghai]] Compact obliged [[Daxia]] to aid [[Ixa'Taka]] and to a lesser extent [[Chimoche]] in their struggle to retain their independence from [[Varshan]] in exchange for the aforementioned boons. The compact did not specify what form [[Daxia]]n aid would take, the locals possibly expected immediate dispatchment of [[Daxia]]n troops, the Qian were planning no such thing and instead transported guns and offered to train the forces of the Umatz in their use. The use of firearms was a turning point in the War of Serrated Teeth, forcing back a [[Varshan]] that lacked similar technology. In the last year of the war, the [[Daxia]]ns participated actively in the field of battle with its cavalry. The horse was unknown in [[Varshan]]'s domains and they frightened its warriors, cavalry charges were used to great effect. The War of Serrated Teeth ended with [[Varshan]] retreating from all traditional Chimor and Ixa'Takan lands and stopping its slave Hunts but there never was a peace treaty concluded between the sides. 

While the war was drawing down [[Daxia]] turned back to its new holdings in the Shengoi peninsula where it constructed the fort city of [[Pinghai]] as the first of many spots deemed desirable for settlement. Over the next decades the Daxians would rapidly expand through the peninsula, creating new settlements and bringing in larger waves of settlers. In 1645 the Daxian settlements were organized into the [[Pinghai]] Department and Wen Rong was appointed as the first Governor General. Wei Rong was highly disdainful of the [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]]ns and endeavored to secure more agricultural land at their expense. The Chimor under king Falcao IV fought back at these attempts, starting the first Qian-Chimor War. The Chimor achieved some early tactical victories but the arrival of reinforcements from [[Cao]] turned the war against them and they were forced to negotiate, having to surrender all Chimor territory up to the Urgall Depression and thus losing the access to the Nysdra Sea they had previously possessed. Following the war, the Daxians began using tactics meant to sow division among the nobility of [[Chimoche]]. They bribed several important noble families and bankrolled the overthrow of Falcao IV and his replacement by his uncle, Tamazro. Tamazro was not accepted by the cities of eastern Chimoche and a civil war over the throne went on for twelve years until Tamazro's death and the enthronement of Falcao IV's son, Tizroc III, who was a minor at the time. The constant infighting and a tactical alliance between [[Daxia]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] led to the Second Qian-Chimor War in 1712, Chimoche was soundly defeated and most of its territory was occupied by [[Daxia]] as a buffer zone. King Tizroc V and the royal clan were interned in [[Pinghai]], this would be known as the [[Captivity of Weeping Sores]]. The Chimoche royal bloodline would continue to exist under Daxian tutelage for almost 300 years until the creation of the [[Chimoche]] Autonomy, the release of Tizroc V's descendants and their reappointment to rulership.
[[File:Golden Captives5.jpg|thumb|19th century depiction of the captivity of King Tizroc V in [[Daxia]] with his family. The 300 year captivity of the Chimor royalty is called the [[Captivity of Weeping Sores]]]]
In 1645 the Qian dynasty began enacting a reorganization of its [[Crona]]n holdings by creating the [[Pinghai]] Department covering modern Xisheng as a separate territorial unit from [[Cao]], court bureaucrats reasoned that in this way the Chimor identity could be more easily diluted and suppressed under the rule of the well oiled and fully staffed administration of coastal [[Daxia]]n settlers. The viceroy in [[Cao]], a certain Shu Ao resolutely refused to cede control of Xisheng to the newly appointed governor [[Wen Rong]], arguing that the territory was not secure enough to rule itself. He detained Wen Rong's ship while it was in transit from Cao and arrested Rong and his entourage, this was the start of what is known as the Two Hats Incident named so because of Shu Ao's ambition to wear both the hat of Viceroy of [[Cao]] and the hat of Governor General of the [[Pinghai]] department. While imprisoned Wei Rong managed to have his writ of appointment and a plea for help smuggled to Xisheng. [[Wei Rong]]'s missive was received by the commanding officers of Xisheng's territorial forces, some of said officers argued that an expedition had to be launched to free the new governor while others were against as they felt Shu Ao was still their superior. In the end the deliberations resulted in a copy of Wei Rong's missive being sent to the mainland, asking for clarification and instructions on who should the garrison obey. While letters were exchanged by long sea voyage, Shu Ao also busied himself by contacting his allies in court, trying to have them revert the appointment of [[Wei Rong]]. After eight full months finally the Qian court resolved to uphold its own decision and commanded the Xisheng forces to depose Shu Ao, which was done bloodlessly as Ao's [[Cao]] troops surrendered without fighting. Never again were the two territories joined together again to prevent an overmighty local ruler from straying into autonomy. Xisheng's caste system first emerged in this period, proposed to the imperial court by settler elites although they were already implementing highly discriminatory policies unofficially.
===The Model Colony===
[[File:Pyramid of the Sun, Rixis.jpg|thumb|The former Pyramid of the Sun of Rixis, the top of which was deconstructed and replaced by the Qian administrators with a [[Daxia]]n style structure known as the Palace of High Munificence and used as the seat of the Governor-General.]]
The 18th century brought great prosperity to Xisheng, nestled safely on the edge of the [[Nysdra Sea]] as it was and protected by [[Cao]]'s presence to the west. The [[South Seas Development Company|South Seas Trading Company]] and its local branch, the [[Xisheng Trading Company]] began investing heavily in the territory as a strategy to diversify their investments in light of the [[Daxian Polynesian Wars]] that were still raging in the southern oceans and [[Australis]]. The settler elites(精英) and the [[Xisheng Trading Company]] began together the acquisition of vast tracts of land further inland of historic proportions, the development of said territories made easier and cheaper by the inexhaustible pool of manpower in the form of Chimor and Ixa'Takan peasantry. The caricature of the wealthy Xisheng Daxian landowner being feted by a hundred [[Crona]]ns comes from this period when there were around four hundred natives per single [[Daxian]]. The territorial expansion of the colony was paused during this period as the Central Bureau of Expansion considered that moving further east into [[Nanzitolclatl|Nanzitolclatl]] territory would risk increasing the native population to uncontrollable numbers and a direct border with the [[Coscivian]] colonies further east was not desirable. Thus the decision was made that [[Nanzitolclatl|Nanzitolclatl]] would remain a buffer entity for at least seventy years while the territorial consolidation of the Pinghai Department continued. During this period the position of Viceroy was reverted to Governor-General and lobbying began to take place, mostly by the settler elite, to introduce limits on how long one individual could serve in the position. Previous Viceroys remained in office for as long as they could politically maneuver to keep the confidence of the central bureaucracy, starting in 1728 the Qian decreed that henceforth there would be an upper limit of fifteen years for anyone serving as Governor-General of Xisheng. Later still this period was reduced to ten years and eight years by the late 1880's.

From 1750 to 1830 approximately fifty new towns were founded on the territory, important cities such as the port of Yuzhen in the Bay of Honghai, Tuzicheng and Luwei on Chimor territory, Goumao and Chouma southeast by the Ajaw lands and Hewen as a garrison town northeast of Rixis. Rixis itself was completely transformed from the former capital of [[Ixa'Taka]] into a center of Qian power, the majority of its original population was pushed outside the city boundaries and later pushed even further into outlying villages to farm there and work the new mines and plantations. The Pinghai Department at this time also became one of the main 'tributaries' that fed the vast stream of slaves that were sent into the [[Southern slave trade]].
===Army of Conquest fief=== 
===The Deluge===
attack western territories of [[Nanzitolclatl|Nanzitolclatl]], addition of southern territories
==Government==
===Executive===
The Governor of Xisheng is the executive official with the broadest authority in the running of the province. The governor is personally appointed by the Chancellor, the only informal requirements for the office is to have a registered domicile in Xisheng for at least a period of ten years and valid membership in the [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]]. The governor runs the province in accordance with Daxia's Basic Law and local legislation, he can veto the latter if it contravenes the Basic Law. The governor does not have direct authority over the Autonomies, on this he serves as more of a liaison with mainland ministries from which the Autonomies receive their funding. While Autonomies have internal security forces, in case of a serious emergency or threat to public order, the governor is authorized and expected to intervene with the forces under his purview to regain control the situation.
===Legislative===
[[File:XishengLegis.png|thumb|Main chamber of Xisheng's Colonial Senate]]
The Colonial Senate is the unicameral legislature of Xisheng, a successor body to the deliberative Settler Commission that existed under the Qian administration. The Colonial Senate is composed of fifty six members, elected to terms of five years; there is no established limit on the number of terms that members can serve which has historically resulted in a Senate that is filled with members of a few select political dynasties. The Colonial Senate is not nearly as toothless as mainland legislative bodies, it has the power set spending priorities and modify budgets for Xisheng's administrative departments and has specialized organs to carry out audits. 

Use of its auditing power has led to clashes with several governors, in 1999 the Colonial Senate building was besieged by police at the direction of then Governor Wang Ruchi in a bid to stop the Audit Board from convening to review the government's accounts; the governor was eventually ordered by the Ministry of Interior to lift the police blockade.  While the governor is named by the central authorities, the senate has at times toyed with codifying for itself the power to remove governors; invariably it has backed down from confrontation with the center but the issue pops up semi regularly during political campaigning.
===Autonomies===
Historically the segregation of ethnic [[Daxian people|Daxians]] from the conquered groups living on Xisheng was something that happened organically and not as a result of a top down dictate from local governments. Certain degree of intermixing was even tolerated as a way to promote social harmony and foster supporters of [[Daxia]] from people of mixed background. The [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] put a stop to this status quo immediately upon taking power, clamping down on race mixing and beginning a policy of urban isolation of minorities by driving them into delineated pockets to live in. In 2015 the Law on Autonomies was passed by the legislature, this law provided for the creation of quasi autonomous administrative regions within Xisheng for certain ethnic groups known as Autonomies. There are currently only two existing designated Autonomies, the [[Chimoche|Chimor]] Autonomy and the Ixa'Taka Autonomy, homeland of the Chimor and [[Ixa'Taka]] ethnic groups respectively. 

The areas covering these two autonomies were originally subdivided into regular districts. The law provided for the carrying out of special census to ascertain the specific ethnic demographics of districts with high numbers of Chimor and [[Ixa'Taka]]n inhabitants and authorized their merging together to form the Autonomies. People in these special administrative zones do not possess [[Daxia]]n citizenship, only a form of reduced citizenship. They have a small tax burden, may not vote in elections outside the Autonomies, are exempt from military service outside [[Crona]], may not intermarry outside their group, etc. The Autonomies have their own semi-sovereign governments and are allowed various traditional trappings of statehood such as its own flag and symbols, control of its budget and within certain constraints; police forces and a defense force of its own. Autonomies have minimal budgets allocated by the Ministry of Finance, instead they have control of their own natural resources and discretionary powers to gather revenue from them in addition to separate taxation systems.
===Politics===
While the primacy of the [[Party of Daxian Democrats]] has never been in question in the region, local interests have traditionally been strong enough that the politics of Xisheng are more dynamic than those of mainland [[Daxia]]. The local [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] structures are dominated by competing interest groups; elections in the state have competition between different candidate slates all running under the [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]]. The special interest groupings with influence and positions within the party in Xisheng are broadly as follows:
* '''Association of Daxian Mobilized Committees'''- The Association is a body that has its origins on groups of self defense by [[Daxia]]n settlers during the Qian colonization, previously known as the Association of Daxian Settlers on Xisheng. Its members usually had basic weapons training to defend their communities from native Cronan attacks and also served as auxiliaries for Qian regular troops during conflict. After the Qian era and the start of the regional political primacy by the [[Army of Conquest]], the association was allowed to keep their weapons provided they helped with the suppression of dissidents. The association achieved an official recognition of their armed role in with the introduction of the Law on Special State Formations in 1959; it renamed the association and gave it a legal basis for existing as an armed body under state supervision. This status was accepted by the new [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] governments in exchange for increased surveillance of the association and the integration of its leadership cadres into the Party. The practical result from this is by the late 2010's the party structure in Xisheng has itself been colonized as more association members become card carrying party members. The association's influence is felt in various local party organs that are of importance in crafting policy, they are especially active in curtailing the sovereign powers awarded to the autonomy zones of [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]]. They have also been pushing internally for central government permission to settle parts of the [[Zanoma Regional Administration]], territory that is officially part of [[Varshan]].
*'''Coordinating Council of Fig Producers'''- The Coordinating Council of Fig Producers (CCFP) is one of the leading private enterprise groupings of Xisheng, pulling together the largest fig producers of the state, as such it holds a great degree of economic influence. As part of the Party's consolidation of power, economic groups like the CCFP were invited to add their input on economic matters; they were also invited to discreetly fund party activities in exchange for government contracts. Through strategic donations and establishing personal relations with people in key bureaucratic positions the CCFP has achieved a chokehold on the province's economic and tax policy bodies. It is their influence that has been blocking the entrance of fruit imports from the [[Zanoma Regional Administration]] as council figures argue they would unfairly disadvantage local producers. The CCFP is only occasionally aligned with the Association of Daxian Mobilized Committees, the latter represents many small agricultural cooperatives as opposed to the council being a representative of the interests of large, industry-leading companies.
*'''Anti Varshan League'''- The Anti Varshan League (AVL) is a grassroots, non-profit lobbying group. They consider [[Varshan]] to be a dangerous entity that cannot be allowed to exist, their main objective is its partition into a dozen smaller nations. The AVL is one of the main supporters of the establishment of the [[Zanoma Regional Administration]], they see the autonomous region as a future model region for the dismemberment of [[Varshan]]. Accordingly the Anti Varshan League constantly tries to pressure the Xisheng administration to strengthen the capabilities and budgetary resources available to Zanoma while also maintaining a strong and paternal [[Daxia]]n influence over it. The AVL also opposes all efforts by the [[League of Nations]] and other occupying powers at rehabilitating and normalizing the reestablishment of an independent [[Varshan]].

==Demographics==
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Xisheng is home to many local ethnicities whose ranges of habitation have fluctuated over time; their locations affected by various [[Daxia]]n 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|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]]. There are plans to carve an autonomous region for the Nuun and transplant all the remaining Varshanis inside it so the Nuun majority keeps them in check.

Xisheng has never been as widely and intensively settled as [[Cao]] was. [[Daxian people|Daxians]] constitute a mere sixteen percent and are outnumbered by [[Crona]]n 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 such as hilltops.
===Daxian policies towards Cronans===
*'''Land Seizures and property expropriations'''- The [[Daxia]]n state routinely strips non-Daxian residents of both their land and any properties they build. The common argument used for these actions is that Cronans either have no proof of ownership, consistently fail to to pay land and property taxes or never had rights to the land they inhabit in the first place e.g. they built on land owned by the State.
*'''Fertility cap''' - To address the current demographic disadvantage of ethnic [[Daxian people|Daxians]], authorities have come up with a number of solutions and schemes to disadvantage and dispossess Cronans and permanently stunt their demographic growth. Native Cronan (e.g. Ixa'Takan, Chimor, Ajaw, Varshan, Nuun) families are required to acquire a special child permit that both entitles and limits them to having one child only. Violation of this regulation carries a lengthy jail sentence for the parents and the destruction of any additional children. In cases where the birth of two or more children is outside the parents hands(such as the case of twins and so on), the extra child is taken away by the authorities and placed in foster care.
*'''Ghettos''' - Non-Daxians may not constitute over 15% of the population of any settlement with the status of 'City'. This percentage of a city's population is confined to live in separate, walled off neighborhoods or ghettos. People living in the ghettos require valid work permits issued by their employer in order to leave and must return to the ghetto before 12pm or be arrested if caught outside. Ghettos are provided with rationed utilities and consumer goods of inferior quality. This policy does not apply to all native settlements or within the [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] autonomies.
*'''Caste system''' - The government of Xisheng has rolled out a system of racial categories to determine the social and legal standing of the inhabitants of the province. This caste system is best represented by a pyramid with [[Daxian people|Daxians]] at the very top with full rights and special protections and following them in descending order are Rusani, Chimor, Ixa'Takan, Ajaw, Nuun and Varshani. In the case of relations between a Daxian and someone of a lower ethnicity that result in a child being born, the Daxian parent has the option of paying a significant fine to have the child registered as fully Daxian or leave it with the non-Daxian parent to be registered with his or her ethnicity; regardless of the choice the non-Daxian parent is subject to arrest. Children of mixed Cronan descent are entitled to be registered with the caste of the father.

==Economy==
[[File:Figs,_khari_baoli_market.jpg|thumb|Dried Xisheng figs in a market]]
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 Development Company|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, especially into the [[Zanoma Regional Administration]]. Corn is also a crop commonly grown in Xisheng, first having been introduced during the period of Varshan domination; Xisheng produced 1.3 million bushels of corn during 2030. The native peoples of Xisheng have grown and consumed corn for thousands of years; a staple of their diet is a type of very thin flat bread made from corn called a ''tortilla''.

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 total exports. Gold mines operate under a 60/40 revenue sharing agreement between the government and private mining companies. Xisheng produces on average ninety five tonnes of gold on an annual basis, forty of which are extracted from the open air Chicxulub mine. Another growing sector that is a big earner of foreign exchange currency is the home appliances sector, a number of companies have established plants in the province mass producing affordable smart tv's, microwaves, toasters, refrigerators, stoves and juicers. These appliance companies rely on the cheapness of the labor in Xisheng and government subsidies to offer competitive pricing. The Daxian armed forces are also a driver in economic activity as the region is the most militarized in the country, the provision of services to military bases are economic lifelines for many smaller towns and companies.
==Culture==
===Landmarks===
====Blood Fane of Buruso====
Main article: [[Blood Fane of Buruso]]
[[File:TikalTemple.jpg|thumb|View of the Blood Fane]]


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