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The Late Qian era saw renewed attention on the island by metropolitan authorities due to its perceived vulnerability to naval attack during the [[Second Great War]]. One of the junior commanders of [[Daxia]]n forces during the [[Stenzan War of Independence|Peratran War of Independence]], General [[Tang Jun]] was appointed as Imperial Viceroy in place of a bureaucrat to prepare the island for the possibility of attack. Tang Jun imposed a heavy handed military government which at first led to periodic outbreaks of civil disobedience and [[Green Army|armed rebellion]]. Eventually Jun's grip was tightened enough that finally order was restored across all of the island. Tang Jun successfully defended Zhijun during the course of the war and maintained it as a crucial naval base to prevent Allied encroachments. The end of the war and the collapse of the Qian dynasty with [[Hongli]]'s abdication in 1946 left Tang Jun at a crossroads: accept the new government led by the army putschists or declare Zhijun's autonomy or even independence. In the end his loyalty to the dynasty and his personal antipathy for [[Qiu Heng]] resulted in him publicly rejecting the new government as illegitimate, furthermore declaring that Zhijun was still under the authority of the Qian dynasty and would remain a separate entity until the imperial family was reinstated to power. Tang Jun was able to prevent a takeover of the island thanks in part of his good relations with the commanding officers of the [[Australis]] Naval squadron, which was one of [[Daxia]]'s strongest fleets. The mainland government declared Jun a traitor and criminal but were unable to mount an effort to oust him that had any real chance of success. In the meantime Jun maintained the fiction of Qian loyalty by continuing to don the robes of an imperial viceroy and printing money with [[Hongli]]'s picture, all the while he toyed seriously with the idea of declaring total independence. The crisis was only resolved in 1950 when [[Qiu Heng]] sent secret messages to the commanding officers of Tang's fleet, threatening their families in the mainland with arrest and worse unless they sailed the fleet back to [[Daxia]]. The threat worked and suddenly Tang Jun found himself bereft of his shield at sea. Faced now with the real possibility of invasion, Tang Jun filled a passenger plane with all the currency he could from the regional treasury and flew to exile in [[Takatta Loa]]; afterwards he was lampooned in the press as the 'flying kitty'.

The end of official Qian control and the transition to the new Republic did not signify any softening of oppressive policies. The Hluttaw demographic was squeezed out of public life and deemed suspiciously apathetic to the Republic and harboring of pro monarchy sentiments. Former Hluttaw members of Tang Jun's forces eventually gathered into an armed group called the [[Green Army]]. This group started the Hluttaw rebellion that lasted from 1957 to the late 1980's in what was the longest and most severe period of unrest on the island leading to increased militarization. The end of the Hluttaw Rebellion came about after a degrading and splintering of the [[Green Army]] allowed a negotiated settlement to take place and the co-optation and installation of [[Green Army]] bureaucrats as part of the island's administration and their institutionalization as part of the [[Daxia]]n government. The new peace brought increased attention and federal funds to develop the island, with the [[South Seas Development Company]] building sugar refineries and the government increasing infrastructure spending that resulted in port facilities, waterworks, power stations, paved roads, schools and entertainment facilities being built. The increased amenities coupled with fiscal and monetary incentive began attracting more people to move the islands.

The [[Party of Daxian Democrats]] kept the political arrangement reached with the [[Green Army]] until 2010 when it began a process of 'political standardization' as a guise to remove the [[Green Army]] from power. The reasons for this decision were the [[Green Army]]'s rampant corrupt practices, its attempts to marginalize the [[Daxian people|Daxia]]n majority in favor of the Hluttaw and even placing legal obstacles for the [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] operating on the territory. [[Prib Dodd]] likened the strategy employed against the [[Green Army]] to removing ticks from a dog, ranking members of the [[Green Army]] were constantly being assassinated with car bombs. On early 2011 the [[Australis]] naval squadron based on Zhijun went out to sea on purported exercises before turning their weapons on the [[Yishi]] government quarter. Faced with such firepower, then District Chief [[Hun San]] followed the example of Tang Jun before him and capitulated, he acceded to the political standardization and stepped down.

Zhijun is ruled officially by the Zhijun Regional Administration chaired by a District Chief who serves as the executive. The District Chief is nominated by the Chancellor of the Republic of [[Daxia]] and ratified by the local legislature. The current District Chief of the regional administration since 2028 is [[Deng Darro]]. The legislature is formed by a single chamber, which is the Zhijun Territorial Assembly which is formed by four hundred members, which are subject to popular vote every three years. Previously there existed an upper house that was called the Command Council and its fifty members were all active duty officers of the [[Green Army]]; the Command Council was abolished in 2011 during the political standardization process. As of 2034 all traces of the former dominance of Zhijun's political institutions by the [[Green Army]] have been effectively wiped clean, the organization has been liquidated as a political organization and most of the members who were either in the public administration or in the legislature, the so called 'soldier-bureaucrats', have been pensioned off. The local branch of the [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] is ascendant under [[Deng Darro]], who even enlarged the Zhijun Territorial Assembly to include an extra one hundred members in order to pack it with more of his loyalists.