Huoxia
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Huoxia is a country located in Audonia. It borders Canpei to the west, Daxia to the south, Metzetta by sea and islands to the northwest, Ugioh to the north, and the Ocean of Cathay to the east. Its name derives from the Huotan Strip, a large, tropical coastal region separated by the from the Tangsha (sometimes aenglicized as Tanxia) Desert by the Tai She Hills, which remains largely deforested due to human activities, salt flats, and short, torrential seasonal rains. Its capital is the coastal city of Nuran, which is also the largest city by size and population, and it has a total population of roughly 44 million people.
The Republic of the Great Flame 火夏共和国 | |
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 Flag | |
| Capital | Nuran |
| Official languages | Huric |
| Recognised national languages | Minzin (dialect) |
| Ethnic groups (2025) |
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| Government | |
• President | Eje Tsaka |
• First Minister | Ayan Wanggurcin |
• People's Mouth | Tao Tsaka |
| Legislature | National Body |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 44 million (2025) |
• 2025 census | 38,955,020 (territories not considered) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2025 estimate |
• Total | $653,224,000,000 (Taler) |
• Per capita | $14,846 (Taler) |
| Gini (2025) | 84 very high |
| HDI (2025) | .601 medium |
| Currency | Rini (RIN) |
| Driving side | right |
Since 1968, Huoxia has been considered by the League of Nations to be an authoritarian state, with varying periods of liberalization and crackdowns related to the often complex clan dynamics that have a controlling interest in the economy, politics, and military of the country. Regardless, Huoxia has remained a coherent, albeit corrupt, country through several recent civil conflicts and international pressure both abroad and from its larger neighbors.
History
Prehistory and Antiquity
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 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 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 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.
Huric Conquest (1320-1362)
The Huoxian people originated from nomadic peoples living in the central 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 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.
The Hurch immediately found themselves at war with Tanhai, which interpreted their presence as an intervention by the Khanate in its ongoing conquest of Zuolihi. While surprising for the Hurch, the Ayil Khanate's southern neighbor, the Degei, had already been at war with Tanhai and This resulted in the Hurch accepting a status as a confederated tribe under the Zuo banner (a practice which had existed to offset the dwindling Zuo population, but never at the scale which the mass migration of the Hurch allowed). Zuo backing, armoring, and supply allowed the Hurch to organize under several chiefs, from which the charismatic Manggai Edun was elected to lead the Hurch in battle. Alongside the army of Zuo, Huric cavalry reversed and counterinvaded western Tanhai between 1330 and 1350.
Following records of the early invasion of Tanhai are often contradictory in exact details, but the Hurch successfully instigated revolts against the Tanhese by their northern territories and began to plunder core Tanhese lands. While Manggai and his successor Manggai II avoided direct battle with the Tanhese for the majority of the invasion, instead utilizing their vastly superior mobility to depopulate the agrarian regions of the peninsula, the majority of Zuo's fighting-age men were eventually decisively defeated and mass-executed by the Tanhese High Sun Army in late 1361. The Hurch were forced into a pitched battle with the High Sun Army at Suzho Crossing, but successfully routed the Tanhese cavalry and over several days hunted and killed a large portion of the infantry. Following the battle, Manggai II attacked and forced the capitulation of the city of Tanhai before ordering a weeks-long sack and razing of the central peninsula.
Empire of Huoxia (1362-1893)
The Hurch were unable to directly populate the entirety of Tanhai, and thus implemented a tributary system similar to that of Zuo - in an ironic twist of fate, including Zuolihi itself. However, the Zuo were not able to repopulate their former homelands, nor had any connection to them in living memory, resulting in the Degei present in the region retaining their lands largely uncontested. Manggai IV, whose power only truly came from his family name, eventually instructed for the foundation of a permanent capital for the 'Empire of All-Huoxia' at the mouth of the Tangsha River, which became the city of Changsi. Permanent settlement brought with it increased interaction with Daxia, and between the 15th and 17th Centuries, Huoxia fell under the sway of the Qian Dynasty, leading to the Manggais being replaced by the Daxia-friendly Abahai Taggi I, after which Huoxia formally became a tributary of the Qian.
Visiting traders from Burgundie eventually gained special rights and personal docks in the coastal city of Sailghi Iju in 1754, taking keen note of the catastrophic destruction of the Myanga Ayil Khanate at Telmen-Uuland the similarity of the Huoxian Banners to the Khanate military. This angered both the local population and the Empire's Qian overlords, but was managed for a while by the introduction of Burgoignesc firearms and allowing the Qian army to use Huoxia as a proxy for acquiring technical information for its own Great Armament project. However, the introduction of industrialized labor, Occidental religion and philosophies, and the foreign quarter in Sailghi acting as a lure for all groups dissatisfied with the Imperial government meant that a conflagration was inevitable.
In 1863, militants attacked the Burgundine Quarter of Sailghi, beginning a military insurrection by the local Daxian and Menzhou populations which came to be known as the Sailghi Rebellion. The Rebellion was initially crushed, but a successive coup attempt by several Army generals plunged the country into the Foreigner's War, which resulted in the rise of Tsu Weigia, an ostensibly loyal officer, to a leading role in the rebel forces and ultimately causing the defeat of the Imperial government in 1893 after the Qian government elected to stop supporting the incapable Imperial government..
Republic Era (1893-present)
Tsu Weigia served as the first President of Huoxia, beginning a period of economic expansion and population growth that ballooned the local influence of the Huotan Strip from a colonial fringe to a burgeoning state in its own right rivalling the neighboring Oyashima. During this period, he abandoned his Burgundine allies in favor of Kiravian traders in order to espace the debts he had incurred in creating his state, the civil service was expanded to adequately cover the core of the country, and border conflicts with the Kloi Empire in the west were resolved in the 1896 Treaty of Tanxi. Huoxia did not participate in the First Great War, and after the Restarkist and Cananachist revolutions in the Occident, Huoxia began a period of transition to a similar model of radical republicanism. However, Tsu died suddenly in 1908, leaving Huoxia in the hands of his personal cronies and staff.
Changsi Period
After Tsu's death, the legislature voted to move its center of operations from Nuran to Changsi, both for its distance from the country's borders and to take advantage of its rapid growth compared to the historic capital, Sailghi Iju. During this transitional period, the government altered its constitution, changing its judicial branch from a council of three members to a single judge elected by the legislature directly. This gave the legislature considerable power over the government, allowing it to freely dictate policy without presidential interference. While Huoxia continued industrializing, its old guard of idealists and liberals were winnowed away by age and elections.
The Second Great War also passed Huoxia by, with the organization of a Huoxian Free Regiment serving abroad with the Capetian resistance being the only contribution the country made to the conflict.
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.
Yuhuru Rebellion
Yuhuru Hawa rebelled along with Republican Front (supported in small part by Faneria and possibly Cape) in 1978, crushed by Basun government and inland Yuhuru states turned into territories in 1982. Fhainnin (or capetian?) ambassador executed, ended(?) indirect Capetian-Fhainnin efforts to convert Huoxia to similar style of government
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.
After the Jangmu War, repression against Hurch peoples intensified, with the Tsakas also curtailing the political power of the Ciangiya where possible and expanding their personal army, subordinating the air forces to the Red Banner in 2008. The only family to escape these curtailments entirely were the Mahalr, who saw their previously moderate holdings expand into a major house, adding shipbuilding, additional arms and supplies manufacturing, and resource extraction businesses to their belongings, as well as transferring administrative authority of the city of Changsi to them directly - a privilege previously only held by the Ciangiya and the Tsaka.
1893 Sailghi Rebellion (indep.)
1978-1982 - Yuhuru Rebellion (Yuhuru+Republicans vs Basun) Basun win
1998-99 - Huoxian CIvil War (Basun vs Tsaka) Tsaka win
2004-2006 Jangmu War (Jangmu vs Tsaka) tsaka win
Geography
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Huoxia rests in the lowland cradle between two large mountain ranges, with the Daxian Arik mountain range to the south and the Hueho mountains to the north in Ugioh. The country covers the central and eastern end of a belt of lowlands which stretches west into Canpei and north into Ugioh known as the Dolong Gap, which formed one of the major migration routes of nomadic peoples in eastern Audonia. The climate of the region is largely sparsely wooded steppe in the north and interior leading into wet tropics along the coast and the southern third of the Tanhai Peninsula, which is the terminus of the geological divide.
Smaller geographic features in the region include the Tai She, a dry, hilly region which separates the northern coast from the steppe interior, and the two primary drainage basins of the river Tangsha and Lake Kocho. Lake Kocho sits on the western end of Huoxia and is fed by the Hongse and Hanbu rivers from Canespa and Ugioh, which form the majority of the country's western border. The Nenhua river in the northwest and the heights of the Hueho mountains outline the northern border, while the Tangsha splits the Tanhai Peninsula and demarcates the modern southern border with Daxia. Hydrologically, the Tangsha (from Tánggū shā, the Hundred Sands) is the most important feature in the country, and supports most of the ecology in the peninsular region.
Demographics
Huoxia's annual national census data is generally not readily available for several years after collection, nor are its officially listed figures reliable, as figures typically do not include large areas of the country due to nomadism, poverty, repression, corruption, and lack of political will. The majority of the Huoxian population of roughly 45 million lives along the coastline or along the Tangsha river, with generally poor development of infrastructure in the continental interior. Most Huoxians are poor by international standards, with extremely high wealth inequality and differing degrees of representation and rights for minority groups within the country. An estimated twenty-six percent of the population were categorized as living in poverty by League of Nations standards in 2035, disproportionately impacting portions of the population not included in census data. Education standards within the country include compulsory primary and secondary education, though these services are largely underfunded or otherwise defunct in conflict regions; roughly 80% of the population is believed to be passably literate in Tanhese-script Huric. The population of Huoxia overwhelmingly follow Tanhese folk beliefs, with communities of Protestant Christian and Confucian belief largely existing without issue, though several Hurch shamanistic practices, including open-air cremation, are illegal.
Ethnic groups
The largest ethnic groups in the country, the Menzhou and Tiauska, both claim descent from the Hurch tribes which invaded the Tanhai region in the 14th Century; the Menzhou are interrelated with the Tanhese, whereas the Tiauska are primarily descended from Daxian colonists and captives. Smaller groups of Tanhese, Hurch, Metzettan, and Daxian peoples exist within Huoxia, but primarily live in the northern and western fringes of the country, with the Hurch being the majority population surrounding the western border. Though Huric is the national language and the largest ethnic groups in the country are related to the Hurch, Huoxia's government has for decades pursued a policy of discrimination and occasional outright violence against the Hurch and Tanhese. This policy began in 1982 after an attempted coup against the government failed, and military action against the Hurch was escalated following the 2004-2006 Jangmu War. Discrimination against Hurch and Tanhese people includes a lack of political representation, a ban on speaking Tanhese in government buildings, laws prohibiting Hurch from owning businesses unless they marry a Tiauska or Menzhou spouse, stop-and-question loyalty exams, and unnecessary and excessive use of eminent domain laws without compensation against targeted communities.
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Health
Huoxia experiences perennial outbreaks of cholera and other diseases, with the country's health and safety body, the People's Welfare Commission, struggling to manage a number of health and safety issues on an austerity budget since the 1980s. Privatization has largely overtaken available public health services, including basic sanitation, water management, and healthcare clinics in most parts of the country. The primary successes of the Welfare Commission in the past decades have been a decrease in infant mortality from 22 per thousand to 14 per thousand since 2000, the general elimination of child labor and early malnutrition, which have played a significant part in indirectly reducing poverty- and disease-related preventable death, and the spread of assess to potable tap water. The existing public medical sector is restricted to military personnel, government employees, and their families, is supplied primarily by the same private entities which operate the remainder of health services in the country, and largely does not exist in the western half of Huoxia. Competitive, modern medical care and effective government oversight of utilities providers are relegated mainly along the urban centers of the coast, particularly in Nuran, Changsi, and Sailghi Iju
Politics
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.
Huoxia's government was a well-coordinated and functioning republic from its breaking with Daxia in 1949 until the 1960s, during which the government saw a rapid increase in corruption and a series of amendments to its constitution which concentrated power heavily into the Head of State. While technically still a republic, it is highly thalassocratic and dynastic in nature, with the last two presidents having been father and son. Family politics in the country are the primary cause of the country's long living memory of civil conflicts, including the 1978-92 Yuhuru Rebellion, 1998-99 Huoxian Civil War, and 2004-2006 Jangmu Rebellion. Currently, the major government faction consists of the Tsaka, Doron, and Mahalr Hawas, while the Ciangiya Hawa leads the opposition party along with the Jangmu and Tankai Hawas. Of these, the Jangmu and Tankai are the weakest, with the Jangmu being harshly penalized and experiencing inner power struggles following the 2004-2006 war, and the Tankai supplanting the once-powerful Basun Hawa after 1999.
National Government
Huoxia's government is split into three branches, with a single-chamber legislature called the National Body (or National Embodiment depending on translation) composed of exactly one hundred members. Appointments and election to the National Body are an eclectic mix of local elections, position assignments, and hereditary positions; of the hundred members, sixty-eight are elected and forty of those are elected by the people in elections of wildly varying complexity and trustworthiness.
The executive branch and judicial branches are each headed by a single member, with the President being an incredibly strong position with the power to unilaterally veto Body decisions, write laws, and levy taxes without legislative input. The President is both Head of State and Government and leads Body proceedings in normal circumstances, and is elected from within the party with a majority of seats. The judicial branch's leader, the People's Mouth, has the ability to veto Presidential decisions and put them before the Body for a vote as well as managing lower judges, but is appointed by the President. The legislature is lead by a First Minister who also heads the cabinet and acts and an aide to the President. Since 1968, the President, People's Mouth, and First Minister have all been from the Red Party.
Local Government
Huoxia is broken into seven States, one Province, three Territories, and two City Administrative Zones. States elect local leaders and members to the National Body, the country's capital Province contains the capital of Nuran and is administrated directly, but retains the right to elect Body members, the CAZs are assigned governors (typically along traditional family lines) and elect Body members, and the Territories have appointed military governors and no representation. The Territories were States prior to 1982, at which point the end of the Yuhuru Rebellion destroyed the only major Hurch Hawa in the country.
Political Parties
Huoxia has two legal political parties: the Party for Huoxia (Reds) and the People's Representation Organization (Yellows). The political ideals of each are nearly identical except in which oligarchs support them, with both being nationalist, militaristic, protectionist, and to an extent xenophobic in rhetoric but not in practice. The PRO in particular has claimed itself at times to be a Bairdist, Socialist, Pro-Occidental, Pro-Varshani, Islamic, Jewish, Internationalist, and Bannochist party at various times to various foreign groups to attempt to gain support. Of the two, the Party for Huoxia has been the primary party since 2006 and held 61% of the Body as of 2025. The PfH is largely a hereditary party run by the Tsaka Family, who have held power since 1999 after taking party leadership from the destroyed Basun Family.
Oligarchs
The economy of Huoxia is inextricably linked with its political status, with the oligarchs largely drawing from the Six Families (or Hawa) with the exception of a few bright entrepreneurs and businessmen. These newcomers often end up adopted into a Family, and as a result create large conglomerates that dominate the majority of the economy. The most notable are:
- Thousand Embers, a silica and glassware manufacturing, coal mining, and energy production conglomerate run by the ruling Tsaka Family;
- Changsi Industry, a parts and machine manufacturing corporation and defense manufacturer owned by Cuyen Ciangiya;
- Doron Health, a chemicals, medical manufacturing, and processed food conglomerate run by the Doron family;
- Mahalr Steelworks, a defense manufacturing company owned by the Mahalr family;
- Sainho a livestock and agricultural conglomerate run by the Tankai and Ciangiya families;
- Jangmu Jotska, a fishing company owned by Ceng Jangmu.
Internal Police
In lieu of an Occidental-style police force, Huoxia's government maintains two paramilitary organizations under the umbrella of the Huoxian Armed Forces - the Eyemben, a militia and street-level enforcement organization, and the Yasa, the internal intelligence service of the country. The Yasa are singularly responsible for foreign and domestic intelligence operations, and generally oversee political prosecutions within Huoxia as well as being involved with a number of internationally-condemned activities such as extrajudicial killings, deportations, chargeless detainments, torture, and more. The Eyemben act more as a conventional gendarme or police force, but double as the military's personnel reserve.
Economy
The Huoxian economy is somewhat diverse, but its export market primarily consists of glass and silica products, coal, and manufactured parts, along with a textile industry which forms a large part of the market available to smaller, independent families. The country imports a large amount of grain to supplement local food production through a state-controlled dole, as well as high-grade oil, cobalt, agricultural and manufacturing machinery, and media. Huoxia is often approached as a movie shot destination by film studios, and Nuran Airport serves as a major connection point for airlines not allowed to land in Danehong as well as for cargo transit across the Ocean of Cathay.
Economic troubles from the wars of the 2000's largely impacted minority communities and the lower echelons of the elite, leaving the small but growing middle class in relative island of stability. State programs centered on bolstering political support for the Red Party have proven somewhat effective at growing local economies, although the pace of growth is outstripped by the growth of oligarchic businesses, as truly independent ownership is difficult without international sales and contacts.
Military
National Salvation Through Self-Defense Forces All-Control Commission (Short: Army Control Commission)
National Salvation Through Self-Defense Forces War Materials Commission
National Salvation Through Self-Defense Forces Security Commission
The Huoxian Armed forces are broken down into four branches: the Falimben, or 'The Gathered', a revolutionary guard organization with control over the major naval and aerospace assets of the country personally loyal to the President; the Eyemben, or 'The Mass', a volunteer militia and internal security force; the Kūwaran, the actual Army of Huoxia; and the Yasa, the country's primary intelligence service.
The Huoxian Armed Forces are partially capable of supplying themselves with armaments, with the notable exception of cutting-edge technologies and naval elements such as ships and complex electronics. Some of this was supplied by Varshan from 2005-2012, with much of the remaining area filled by Daxian and a few Occidental manufacturers. Since 2012, Huoxia has attempted with minimal success to create indigenous next-generation fighters and tanks. The military operated 34 last and current-gen fighter craft as of 2022, as well as 76 obsolete and trainer craft and approximately eighty to a hundred twenty helicopters. The navy operates sixteen vessels, fifteen of which are corvettes or missile boat craft and only one of which can be classed as a destroyer.
Falimben
The Falimben Guard are personally loyal to the Tsa Hawa, and are entrusted with the best equipment, as well as the large naval assets and air forces/advanced air defenses and chemical weapons stocks of Huoxia. It operates a number of modern and near-modern systems, and is approximately three-quarters the size of the regular Army by manpower; Guard members receive more pay, considerably more prestige, and are generally allowed to harass members of the Army and general public. The Falimben is the force most often directly employed to suppress the regular local uprisings in the country's interior, as it generally does not recruit Hurch members despite claiming to allow volunteers of any origin.
Kūwaran
The Army of Huoxia is a majority-conscript force which maintains a stock of last-generation equipment and fielding several operational units called Banners, organized by color. Banners are roughly analogous to large occidental regiments or brigades, and are trained to fight symmetrically against foreign invaders. The Army has been the least politically involved of the branches of the Armed Forces since 1999, and is almost universally of secondary importance to the Guard due to legal restrictions on its use internally. It is the only branch of the Huoxian Armed Forces which swears loyalty to the Republic itself and not the President.
Corruption is a significant issue in the Army, as it is largely inferior in pay, prestige, political standing, and is not regularly exercised. The Guard has increasingly taken over the duties normally relegated to the Army, leaving it hollowed-out of quality personnel and mainly extant as a first line of defense to absorb initial attacks by foreign powers, with the Eyemben being equipped to mobilize large numbers of civilians and either provide a large force quickly or supplement rapid expansion of the Eyemben ground units.
Paramilitary Forces
The Eyemben and Yasa protect the Huoxian state's internal stability and political elites, but both play a role in national defense as well. On several occasions, Eyemben volunteers and previously conscripts have been used as auxilliary forces to the regular Army and Falimben Guard, used for distraction attacks, asymmetrical fighting forces, and occupational units. The Yasa fulfils the role of a Joint Staff organization during wartime, directly managing concerted operations between the three field forces Huoxia maintains.