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The area of modern Huoxia was first inhabited by humans approximately two million years ago, though similarly to modern Daxia and Canpei, a complete archaeological record is difficult to establish due to a long history of settled cultures in the region and overlapping sets of fragmentary remains or later human activity in many cases destroying archaeological sites. The earliest concrete records of history in the area originate from Zuo, a state on the southern coast of the Tanhai peninsula in Daxia which existed between the 11th and 4th Centuries BCE. The Zuo were a people bordering the Xie Dynasty in Daxia and the [[Daxia#Era of Chaos Period (685 BCE-475 CE)|Chaos-era]] state of Jin, and served as a usually amenable trading partner and a barrier to the Yuegi, a confederation of pirates and warlike peoples on the eastern coast of the peninsula and the Metzettan Islands. However, the area would not be dominated by the Zuo, but the Tanhese, a neighboring state which in 331 BC began aggressively expanding into Yuegi and Zuo territory. The Tanhese, through a combination of religious fervor and early biological warfare, decimated and later deported much of the Zuo people inland. Following the formation of the Tanhai Empire (internally referred to as the Empire of All-Under-the-Sun), significant trade and cultural exchange began with the nomadic peoples of central Alshar and the state of Cao in southern Daxia. Huoxia, the Tanhese name for the Tanhai Peninsula, originated during this period, literally translating as 'Great Flame' and more appropriately as the Lands of Noon in reference to Tanhai's location between [[Metzetta]] and [[Audonia#Daria|Daria]]. Tanhese armies, though never approaching the numbers seen in the South during the Daxian Chaos Period, attacked Upper Jin repeatedly and with fewer than fifty years of peace total between 229 BC to 552 AD. After Jin was reduced to a Caoan satellite, Tanhai turned to campaigns to fully unify the northern end of the peninsula and convert the states and tribes of the neighboring regions to the Tanhese Solar Faith, following which a period of internal heresy wars and intermittent conflicts with the reestablished State of Zuolihi in the west commenced. Notably, in the 7th Century AD, the [[Degei Confederation|Ayanga Khanate]] invaded contemporary Zuolihi and former Zuo, capturing the southwestern end of the Peninsula before being reduced to a client of the Shang Dynasty. Tanhai eventually recaptured the region in the 1180s from the Zhong Dynasty, which was preoccupied by warring with the [[United Cities]], and enslaved the Degei tribes descended from the Ayanga.[[File:DiezAlbumsArmedRiders II.jpg|left|thumb|Painting depicting the expulsion of the Hurch from the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate|Myanga Khanate]]]]

The Huoxian people originated from nomadic peoples living in the central [[Audonia#Dolong|Dolong]] region of Audonia collectively known as the Hurch. These peoples were related to other nomadic groups from western Dolong, as well as the Paozi and later Suizung peoples of Canpei. Huric historical significance began with the creation of the [[Myanga Ayil Khanate]] in 1206, of which the Hurch were a tributary people, providing soldiery for the Khan's early conquests. This state of affairs ended with the conversion of Myanga XII to Islam in 1318 and pressure being placed upon the Khanates tributaries to convert or pay {{Wp|Jizya|Jizyah}}, which the Hurch refused for reasons which are not recorded in detail but likely primarily revolved around Islam's banning of the practice of cremation. Following this refusal, Khanate troops attacked and drove the Hurch across the Hanbu River into northern Zuolihi.

====Postwar Period====

Amendments to the constitution favoring legislators' personal fortunes and interests exponentially degraded the power of the other branches of government throughout the 1940s and 1950s, with a new party, the Party for Huoxia, officially becoming the primary opposition to the People's Representation Organization in 1960. While the PfH was a blatant puppet of the Basun family, a powerful banking and mining clan, it found a large support base in the middle class and the fringes of society left behind by the Assembly. The PfH eventually gained the presidency in 1968, causing the legislature to force through a quickly-written amendment to the constitution making the President an official elected by the legislature itself, the same as the Chief Justice. However, the Assembly elections of 1970 saw the PfH beat the PRO by a single representative, allowing the simple majority rule the Assembly had altered the constitution to create for itself to backfire spectacularly. In a single month, the Chief Justice and First Minister both became Basuns, joining the President in total rule with a plurality in the Assembly. The PfN immediately redrafted the constitution to ban opposition parties outside of the unpopular PRO, which remained strong enough to present a serious challenge in a civil war. The Basuns quietly bought off much of the military command staff, heading off a coup attempt by PRO-aligned officers, and both renamed the legislature the National Body and replaced the position of Chief Justice with the 'People's Mouth', a largely honorary position appointed by the President.

''1998-99 Huoxian Civil War between Basun and Tsaka families''

====Modern Era====

Fighting in the far west continued, as with food from the east stopping during the war, starvation wracked western primarily Hurch areas of the country. While not entirely intentional, it is considered by some countries to be a genocide by the Huoxian government, and up to 200,000 persons were killed by hunger during the Zuo-Huo War. This lead to a crisis with terrorist activity from Hurch militants, and in 2004, the Yellow Party won national elections in a surprise victory, installing Cigu Jangmu as president. President Worekko Tsaka refused to abdicate, and instead ordered the National Body stormed, initiating the Jangmu War. Fighting primarily took place in Nuran itself for the first three months between the Red Banner Division and the legitimate government's Purple Banner Division, with the Jangmu Hawa retreating to the west piecemeal afterwards with the tacit support of the Tsaka's rival family, the Ciangiya. The Ciangiya continued funneling information and small caches of supplies to the Jangmu and Hurch rebels through the Tangsha Desert until regular patrolling by the Red Banner Division made travel extremely dangerous. In March 2005, the White and Green Banner Divisions broke through rebel roadblocks, circumventing the track-breaker teams the militants used to prevent rail resupply and taking the city of Tanxi, leveling much of it in retaliatory actions against stiff local resistance. The Jangmu clan surrendered with terms that severely limited their power afterwards, with the country's lone military shipyard being transferred to the Mahalr Hawa along with a number of other assets being broken up or redistributed to Worekko's loyalists. In mid-2006, organized Hurch resistance was suppressed enough that the conflict ended in a victory declared by the Tsaka government.

The politics of Huoxia are largely dominated by the Six Families (Great Families, or Hawa), an informal alliance of the largest Menzhou and Tiauska tribal cliques predominant in business and the bureaucratic systems of the country. One of these Families, the Tsaka, is effectively a dynastic family leading the 'Reds' Party, while the opposing 'Yellows' are composed of a collection of oligarchs who regardless typically work with the Reds due to business and social intermixing.

====National Government====