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Canpei, oficially the '''Republic of Canpei''' (Corummese:新都共和国) is a country in southern [[Alshar]]. It borders [[Rusana]] and [[Corumm]] to the south, [[Tanhai]] to the east and [[Udon Khai]] to the west. The name Canpei can be roughly translated as 'the broad north' as the region was known to the Corummese empires to the south, a sort of last frontier before transitioning to the barbarous, nomadic northern steppes. The capital of Canpei is the city of Brink, which is located roughly in the geographic center of the country, next to the Hongse river. Canpei has a population of around thirty two million people. Canpei has a mixed economy with elements of state dirigisme coexisting with free market capitalism, economic inequality is one of the highest in the world. Most of Canpei's exports use Corummese ports and the nation is very reliant on remittances from [[Corumm]]. Canpei is a presidential republic consisting of six provinces. Canpei is classified by the International Liberty Index Foundation as a flawed democracy with worrying downward trends on issues such as corruption, speech and media freedoms and free and fair elections.

Canpei's history is deeply enmeshed with that of its southern Corummese neighbor as the latter began expanding into the area in the early 8th century. Expansion into the plains was slow at first but gathered pace as nomad tribes were either pushed further north or brought to heel by military or diplomatic means.  

Canpei is a bastardization of the word Guangbei, which is a Corummese term that means "broad-north". The region got its name for the seemingly endless plains and for the fact that for hundreds of years it was the northernmost limit of Corummese regional influence.

====Corummese Intervention====

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'''Zuiyuan''': The majority group in Canpei is a group of people called Zuiyuan, which is a term that only distinctly emerged in the mid-1800's. Roughly signifying 'northerners', the Zuiyuan are assumed to be comprised of the descendants of Canpei before the Zhong reconquest of the province, that is the original settlers who intermixed with the native nomad populations. Those that came after the fall of the [[United Cities]] were traditionally seen as colonizers and treated with suspicion since they displaced the locals from most positions of power and influence. The independence movement and first governments of Canpei were dominated by the Zuiyuan but after the Corummese invasion, policies that disadvantaged other groups were dropped. Corummese anthropologists do not recognize the Zuiyuan as a distinct group, instead using the term of Plains Corummese.

'''Corummese''': For political purposes, the Canpei government separated part of its population fron the main Zuiyuan group after independence. Those whose descent did not go back far enough in time were barred from self-identifying as Zuiyuan and therefore had less standing before the state. This system of tiered citizenship eventually became intolerable for Corummese on both sides of the border, leading to the collapse of the post-independence government by armed force. Today Corummese are just over 20% of the population, have equal standing to other ethnic groups and due to their connections to [[Corumm]], are a very significant economic and political force.