Ling Chinaball

Ling Chinaball will be a countryball of Asia.

The start
Ling China was born in a complicated way however stands out of by its glorious history after the foundation. Ling's foundation originated from a general of the Chinese army who had fought in the war and was a very popular figure in his region, he was the well-known master Chang.

The Chinese government of the time was getting very weak after the defeat in two wars against Mengjiang and Japan. The Japanese invasion of China ended up with the loss of the most parts of northern provinces and occupation of most parts of Hebei, which made nationalism grow in the country. This led the government to intensify capitalist policies in the hope to get some merit internationally, but on the the other hand, made a lot of people angry. Following the crisis, the power of foreign groups and companies in the country increased since they promised to rebuild China, but in the end they were just parasites and the debt increased as well.

Chang who even being part of the army was not a sympathizer of the government, was one of the first to talk about a regime change, which caused his expulsion of the army, after being expelled he was condemned for treason. Condemned by the authorities, he was able to escape prison with the help of some officers who sympathized with him. As a well known man of the people who helped the poor and preached the end of inequality in China that increased after they abandoned communism, he managed to join an armed popular front that spread rapidly across China.

Japan began to face resistance in occupied Korea and other occupied territories after it decided to provoke the Russian Greater SFSRball. Japan managed to win the confrontation at the end with the Russian campaign in Korea being stopped, but it let the campaign against China aside and focused on eliminating the rebellious.

Launching a reaction
The Great Chinese Civil War started as a major rebellion, Chang managed to just like Mao form an United Front against the government. His first main move was to crackdown on so called “liberal cliques”. The “liberal cliques” were municipal and in some cases provincial governments that supported a Western like system and could be either supportive or opposition to the government, but at the end they all were against the United Front. Hong Kong was the most famous “liberal clique” in China. During the Southern Campaign, Chang put an end to the liberal rule in Hong Kong after a violent battle.

The general had most of popular support, his history of being a patriot that dedicated his entire life to help the people and struggle against corruption and imperialism gave him the support of most peasants and workers. He defined his political ideology as socialism, traditionalism, and nationalism, preaching against capitalism, monarchism, and fascism. Becoming known as heavenlism, a Socialist theory that elevated the working class to the center of the society.

Heavenlism was still vague though, so it absorbed the already existent in China Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought as well as the entire Chinese socialist experiment. In relation to theoretical communism, it was not made clear, rather he let people free to decide about it, following the tendency initiated by Deng Xiaoping. The People’s Swordball was a faction of the Heavenly Movement that was inclined to the original Maoist tendency. He received support from Russian Greater SFSRball also.

Capitalism was put out as the main enemy, being it not described simply as an economic model but an evil social enemy. Defining the liberal system as an anti-people movement to benefit the parasitic classes, he saw no option but eradicates capitalism from China

Regarding other ethnic minority groups, Chang received support from Tibetans and Uyghurs in which he promised autonomy.

After uniting the opposition into the Heavenly Movement that was the entire opposition united in a political and military organization. He then led major campaigns against the corrupt government and after two years he was victorious.

The first reforms
Following the victory of the Heavenly Movement, Chang became the general secretary of the Heavenly Movement and leader of China, then the process was: Creation of a people's republic inspired by the values of the Chinese socialist culture. A new modernization and industrialization must take place seeing that due to war and the Japanese invasion China became backward in this subject plus agrarian and rural reform following the economic reform. Autonomy for the Tibetans and Uyghurs as long as they swear allegiance to the revolutionary council. Retaking Chinese protagonism in the international scene was also important following the expulsion foreign imperialist organizations of all kind.

With the economic aid of Russian Greater SFSRball, the main tasks were to modernize industrial sectors and start full mechanization of some, reform the communes, create cities, revive patriotic socialist feeling (Confucian led social policies), plus improvements in the military and a massive nationalist agenda.

New NATOball tried to sabotage the Chinese development many times, by infiltrating it and telling Japanese Unionball to continue its offensive against China, which would be one of the causes of more conflicts in the following years.

War against Mengjiang
After defeating the former government. The former general and now leader of China had full support from the Chinese and also non-Chinese people. China was being rebuilt from the civil war, the economy began to barely work again, infrastructure was being rebuilt, but then in this situation a thing that made them really happy happened. Mengjiang and Japan went to war, and the war ended in stalemate but this event made both potential Ling enemies really weak.

The Heavenly Movement had denounced Mengjiang many times as a feudal tumor, there had been numerous clashes in the border between the two armies and the irredentist feeling in China toward Mongolia grew, as they considered the loss of it s result of a period of weakness. With the Mengjiang army weak after a defensive war against Japan, the Chinese couldn’t take advantage.

Most Mongols actually didn’t see Ling with bad eyes, since Chang himself was known to be a very pro-Mongol figure in terms of culture and internationalism. Many Mongols also disliked the fact that the Mengjiang government allowed international conglomerates that fled China after the revolution to settle in the country as well as Chinese dissidents.

Then a man named Khadagh emerged as a popular leadership in Mongolia against the Mengjiang rule. Khadagh and his army were however defeated when they tried to rebel in Inner Mongolia and fled to China were Chang received him. Chang then proposed the creation of a Greater Mongolia, as according to him, Mongol and Chinese people are part of the same family. Khadagh then joined the Heavenly Movement and led a new army against Mengjiang.

Greater Mongolia province was created under the leadership of Khadagh after defeating Mengjiang and Japan. The rule of Khadagh was considered very authoritarian and with a hard personality cult around his figure, he imposed hard social reforms and killed most landowners and former collaborationists of Mengjiang, plus expelling the foreign conglomerates and seizing foreign private property. He also had clashes with the Buddhist clerics that had connections with the former Mengjiang rule.

The revenge against Japan
During the war against Mengjiang, most of the Chinese territory wasn’t affected by the war. After solving the problem with Mengjiang, the last problem that still remained was Japan. China was still rebuilding itself from the civil war.

Japan had just finished the campaign of purging rebels in Korea, most part of Korea was destroyed during this rebellion. Japanese forces in mainland Asia were weak after lots of wars and rebellions, a huge Chinese rebellion against Japan in the north had happened some years ago that failed and ended up in many casualties, mostly Chinese but also Japanese.

Russian Greater SFSRball had ambushed the Japanese at their attempts of invading all of Siberia and put them to run after difficult months of combat, this gave China the perfect chance to attack. Chang had asked the Russians to continue fighting together in its military offensive, and its leader Aleksandr Mikhakitsin had agreed to. China then declared war against Japan for invading Chinese and other people lands, swearing that it would remove Japan from mainland Asia. Korea that was under Japanese occupation was also aided by the Chinese and Russian troops. Later the United Koreaball emerged ane became one of Ling's best allies. Ling also backed militant groups against Japan in the Philippines and Vietnam.

At the end the reasons Japan continued fighting China for so long instead of leaving it after losing in Manchuria was that New NATOball feared for more Chinese support to the revolutionaries in PR Australiaball, that was known for having many Chinese-Australians with close relations to the Chang government and associates of the People’s Swordball. And since NATO wanted to destroy Australia at any cost, the Japanese war against China was boosted in order to keep China busy. Many Japanese even in the army were actually against the war.

The campaigns against Japan only ended after the Chinese liberated Taiwan, that was the territory under longest Japanese occupation in Asia, and later took the Diaoyu Islands. The victory against the Japanese imperialists and mainly the takeover of the Diaoyu Islands were a reason of pride for all Chinese people inside and outside China, the islands had an important meaning in the Chinese nationalist spirit. There the monument known as "Eternal Victorious Motherland" was built, it consists of two Chinese soldiers, a modern communist one and an ancient knight warrior one raising their gun and sword in the direction of Japan, the monument is featured on the flag of the People’s Swordball.

Golden phase
Ling would increase its dominance when defeated the rebellious islamists and separatists in Southern Xinjiang later called Nanjiang. There, a group of Islamist rebels organized themselves after the defeat of Mengjiang and Japan, making opposition to their Kazakh and Kyrgyz neighbors. Chang solved the Uyghur issue after crushing the rebels and putting the region under the leadership of Bahtiyar, an Uyghur revolutionary socialist and nationalist who helped Chang during his political journey.

Chang was a pioneer in spreading Pan-Asianism, they didn’t defend the creation of a single country for all Asian people but rather a political organization that could boost integration. So his great creation was FEAUball, a political organization for countries of the Far East.

Ling also stated that all overseas Chinese living in FEAU member countries would have automatic citizenship of Ling China, so overseas Chinese can benefit from Chinese government programs and contribute to the economy of both their country of residence and China, receiving many benefits.

During the late of his rule, Chang declared that he would be supporting anti-capitalist movements around all of the world independent of branch and defending freedom and independence for all oppressed people. This decision increased the power of the People’s Swordball in his government. Ling China became the most powerful socialist country in the world and one of the leaders of the International Socialist Blocball.

This led to what many described as the first "Neo Maoist" era of Ling. Chang's government at that phase was characterized for anti-Americanism and support for world socialist movements. His support to communists in Oceania, Africa, Latin America, and India plus support to revolutionary movements in Europe and Middle East together with his close alliance and friendship with Russian Greater SFSRball has made his government been classified as supporter of international terrorism by the West, that on the other hand supported groups that the Chinese classified as terrorists like the WIT, IFU, CDC and the Korean PDA.

Chang also commanded interventions to save countries from Greater Indiaball that he considered a threat and a major enemy of an unified Asia in cooperation. China helped Maoist Nepalball, Greater Sinhalaball and the communists of the Northeast Unionball that were affiliated with FEAUball, then making agreements with India to prevent further clashes. Still on the foreign interventions, Chang sent thousands of troops to help stabilize its neighbor Union of Socialist Myanmarball.

Ling tried many times throughout history to improve its relations with Japan which were historically very complicated, Sino-Japanese relations were really damaged since the wars. Ling always called for the rebirth of Japanese society and a smash of cultural capitalism that according to Ling had plunged the country into a cradle of immoralities.

In Japan however, the opinions about Ling were very divided, while a part of the left supported Ling as a fellow Asian socialist comrade in arms against capitalism, the right and another part of the left as well saw Ling as a Chinese despot who wanted to control Japan. During an uprising that took place in one of the Japanese prefectures with possible connections to Ling backed groups in the country relations were broken.

Things got worse with the public support Chang gave to Ainu and Ryukyuan nationalists, inviting them to attend meetings in China. Later Japan accused Ling of helping in the foundation of the JRL, the communist group that commanded many attacks against the Japanese government including the bombing of the Yasukuni Shrine. Ling on the other hand accused Japan of backing separatists and anti-government organizations. This dispute between the two had effect in both Japanese and Chinese societies.

After Chang death
After Chang died a large mausoleum was built to him in the capital, his cult of personality continued being perpetuated through statues and government propaganda.

However, the post-Chang years had many variants, it was characterized by the decrease of the power of the People’s Swordball and an emergence of a potential revisionist group called the jiangists that didn't classify themselves as revisionists but rather reformists of a system that would supposedly be harming itself.

Jiang claimed China did few to no development after Chang times and that it needed to continue the glory of the Heavenly Revolution in a new era with some reforms. That however made the most conservative sects of the Heavenly Movement angry, because it included an open soft transition to a liberal democratic-inspired model keeping someway the Confucian values and the socialist welfare state part. Also, jiangists mostly despised Mao which made their relations with the communists inside the Heavenly Movement even worse. Jiang defended the idea of Ling leadership in the International Socialist Blocball as a transition process which led to much controversy.

During these times many policies in Ling varied and new ones were approved or stayed for a short time, there was no definitive order in which side the council of the sages should officially support, and this led to one considerable decrease on the level of state authoritarianism.

Ling also fought against the will of the jiangists a very violent 2-year war when on the Korean peninsula, his allies of United Korea were under attack by the the rebels of the Cheongug movement, which was the first anti-communist movement to rise in the region after years. The jiangists however later supported the war efforts as some Korean Chinese decided to support the Cheongugs and other anti-government groups, rising up against Ling.

Fall
The fall of Ling began when New Soviet Unionball a great ally of China that safeguarded its border entered in collapse after an internal conflict that escalated to a civil war. The Chinese leadership in this period tried to save the Soviets by leading a so called military “intervention” in support of the government. The Chinese army was sent to different Soviet republics (mainly in Central Asia and the Caucasus) in order to crush the rebels, but this only made the population of those places angrier and following many incidents they decided to withdraw from that mess in order to prevent something huge that was coming.

The result of the Soviet tragedy was the rise of the Merkezi Khanateball that was initially just an islamist movement but evolved into a threat that took a lot of territories in Central Asia and invaded Xinjiang following the beginning of an insurgency. After more than 100 years, Ling lost its dominion over the provinces of Southern Xinjiang and parts of Greater Mongolia, it would create a huge domestic crisis.

Protests started asking for reforms and even a regime change. The reformists had been trying to force Liu Xiaowen to resign as general secretary of the party since the end of the war in Korea, his leading role in the pro-Soviet intervention had made he lost a lot of support inisde of the party, and was in face of this that the jiangists took the opportunity to in novemeber of 2394 waste him out after manipulating their dominated people’s congress to finally do so. After taking power, the reformists put Liu in jail and announced a series of so called “liberal reforms” that would include the end of the people's democratic dictatorship, therefore a formal regime change.

As a reaction to the reformist takeover, many protests started all over China in order to defend the legacy of communist China against a Western backed color revolution, more than 10 million people went to the streets all over China in one week in order to something been done and China not collapse entirely into a huge civil war like the Soviet Union.

A strike against the people's congress was held by the People’s Swordball who offered to take the power in order to save the socialist motherland. Then, a man named Wong founded the more radical anti-revisionist movement inside of the party, accusing Liu of being a coward that allowed the reformists to grow instead than just putting a "bullet at their heads", saying the party's main mistake was allowing them to exist and gradually buy their reactionary Western bourgeois views on "liberty and freedom". This movement was a hardcore socialist and patriotic one that claimed to defend the pure revolutionary legacy of Chang, it increased the participation of the People’s Swordball and other revolutionary groups.

Wong seized the power during april of 2395, supported by the military and together with his militia, he opened fire against a section at the people’s congress and killed the former general secretary and most of his appointed cabinet for being a revisionist traitor. It was the birth of the Sun Chinaball, that was officially the remnants of Ling China and a continuation of it through a new view of the thought.

Ideology
Factions:
 * Heavenlism
 * Communism
 * National Communism
 * Marxism Leninism
 * Maoism
 * Market Socialism (for a while)
 * Chinese Nationalism
 * Left Wing Nationalism
 * Left Wing Populism
 * Tridemism
 * Anti Capitalism
 * Anti Imperialism
 * Anti Americanism
 * New Democracy
 * Anti West
 * Anti Revisionism
 * Reformism
 * Traditionalism

Friends
United Koreaball: One of my best bros, together we made heavenlism strong! Fuck capitalism!

New Vietnamball: My great Viet friend, proud of you!

Second Federal Republic of Yugoslaviaball - Good Slavic friend, he also hates Western capitalists like me maybe we can into remove terrorist kebab sometimes!

Great People's Republic of the Philippinesball: One of my closest allies, I helped him purging those liberal pests getting rid of invaders and imperialist pigdogs now you are free together with the rest of Asia!

New Thailandball: He soon became one good ally, but he also has lots of problems with his neighbor, I did try to fix it but I don't know if I really succeed.

Kouanchao Laoball: This guy is a good friend, unfortunately, faced civil war thanks to dirty burger fingers trying to avoid my political project, later I helped him grow and the results were positives.

New Kampucheaball: Also a good friend but stop seeking for confusion with Thailand, remember we must live in peace.

Republic of Nusantaraball: I helped him stabilizing, is one of my best friends and richest countries in the southeast, he knows I will always help him.

Maoist Nepalball: I saved him from Indian invasion and we became great friends, he likes my ideology.

Union of Socialist Myanmarball: I do understand he has tons of problems but I helped him a lot, I'm really happy that the revolution I supported there seems to have succeeded in bring peace to his lands.

Greater Lankaball: I saved him from India claws, he became a good ally since then.

Northeast Unionball: I saved him from India just like I saved the others and solved his problems with Myanmar, now I want him to live in peace and prosper.

Sovereign Republic of Iranball: He is a good friend. Even if he is Shia and most Muslims in my lands are Sunni I will defend him if some rat tries to do something against him.

United Arab Republicball: I like this guy, he deserves everything he has for kicking zionist imperialist rats, we have close relations.

Russian Greater SFSRball: Best friends and allies we cooperate in different areas and defend each other from the psycho capitalists.

Byelorussian-Ukrainian SRball: Son of Greater Russia, one of best friends as well, keep good work till your full union is completed.

PR of Central Africaball: You are an important ally in the big African continent, I will help you develop and protect you from the enemies.

Socialist Confederation of the Greater Antillesball: Best ally in Latin America.

Enemies
NAUball: You are an imperialist capitalist pigdog and the origin of all evil in the world! I will never be one of your puppets, also don't you dare to influence Asia.

Second British Empireball: Hong Kong isn't yours and will never be again! Stop crying you piece of imperialist scum! your old degenerate empire is dead! This is a Chinese century!

Japanese Unionball: This guy is my enemy basically all the time. I knew he was lost so I tried to support the socialist revolution to happen in his lands but his government is capitalist garbage who is proud for doing genocide and attacking us in past, fuck off. There are some good guys there but unfortunately, they couldn't get the power, damn it!

Nazi Americaball: yuo are fascist scum!!! I HEARD YUO STRANGELY TOLERANCE TO CHINESE PEOPLE!! DON'T TRY TO KILL POOR MINORITY RACES DAMN NAZIS!!! DON'T DARE TO ATTCAK MY FRIENDS!!

Provinces

 * Hebeiball - One of the most important provinces because holds the settle of the government.
 * Taiwanball - It is very developed, has some military bases as well.
 * Anhuiball - Sort of a developed province, many important politicians are from there.
 * Gansuball - Not really a rich province but is of cultural importance, it used to be small but after Qinghai was split and ceased to exist, the parts of the Chinese majority were added to this province.
 * Henanball - It is also a province with relevance for being considered the birthplace of the Chinese civilization and the cultural center of China.
 * Sichuanball - This province had a giant economic growth and was the example of the whole Ling.
 * Yunnanball - It is a very diverse and cultural province, not really good in GDP, but is full of natural resources.
 * Hainanball - Used to be a poor island province but was turned into a potential economic area.
 * Guangxiball - Sometimes referred to as the Zhuang province, even though they are not the majority, Zhuang culture has influenced this province.
 * Shandongball - It is a really rich province, full of industries.
 * Zhejiangball - Another one of the most important provinces, Chang was born there. The province is also an economic power in the whole of China. It has many cultural monuments including one giant statue of master Chang.
 * Ningxiaball - It is well known for being the heart of the Islamic community in China, the biggest mosque in China was built there by Chang.
 * Manchuriaball- It was actually created by Japan after they occupied it from Siberia, but later Ling incorporated after the war against Japan.
 * Shanxiball - Used to be two provinces, Shanxi and Shaanxi but they were united.
 * Fujianball - It is a very important place in China, holds a lot of industries.
 * Jiangxiball - It is a very old province, not really rich but of cultural importance. It is one of the provinces where the revolution started.
 * Hunanball - It is a rich province, also one of the military centers.
 * Guizhouball - It is one of the most diverse provinces of Ling, lots of different ethnic groups live there.
 * Jiangsuball - It is one of the most important provinces, probably the second or third one.
 * Guangdongball - It is probably the most important province, is the richest one and also the most developed one. Holds lots of industries and technological poles.
 * Hubeiball - The economic hub of central China.

Autonomous Provinces

 * Greater Mongoliaball - Famous for the steppes and Mongol culture, Mongolia is divided into two main blocs, the Inner one that is mostly Chinese and is the economic center, while the Outer is mostly Mongol and still keeps some nomadic traditions. Kadagh the first Mongol leader worked to promoted a mingled Mongol-Chinese nationalism.


 * Nanjiangball - It is the remnants of old Xinjiang. Ling divided it into Chinese areas to Gansu and Mongol ones to Mongolia after they kicked the invaders. The Uyghur province was infamous around the world for the authoritarianism of its leaders.


 * Tibetball - It used to not be very developed but it prospered after the reforms Ling proposed there to make Tibet a modern nation.

Chinese folk religion and irreligious
Around 70% of the Ling population either follow traditional Chinese religious beliefs or are irreligious/convicted atheists.

It’s difficult to determine the number of atheists seeing that many people who classify as irreligious also visit temples and follow some tradition like ancestral worship or just Confucianism in its philosophical way. But over 60% don’t believe in a god.

Most parts of the population independent of religious follow Confucian philosophy in some way, there is a major Confucian spiritual and philosophical organization in the country. Some groups that determine themselves as exclusive religious Confucians include the Confucian church and others.

Taoism is also followed by at least 40% of these people in some way, be it philosophical or incorporating some folk religious elements.

Around 10% of these people also follow or are members of some salvationist folk sect, these sects mix more than one religious traditions of China into one folk sect. These groups are represented by diverse organizations and recognized by the government in the folk sect.

Buddhism
Around 30% of the population declares to be Buddhist. Most people who follow Buddhism in Ling also usually incorporate it with some traditional Chinese religious beliefs, making this number probably much larger.

Buddhism was mostly modernized and entered a new era in Ling times, it had a rebirth. There are many reformed and restored monasteries and temples around the country. The major Buddhist organization of the country unites the different sects under the leadership of a Chinese master plus Tibetan and Mongol lamas.

Most Buddhists in the country (around 95%) adhere to the traditional Chinese Buddhist sect, which is of Mahayana school. The other 5% follow the Vajrayana school, this includes Tibetans and Mongols following the Tibetan branch of it.

Christianity
Around 3% of the people identify with some Christian branches. There are two Christian major organizations in the country, one Protestant and a Catholic one.

During Ling rule, Christianity in China entered into a full sinicization process, followed by a decree that ordered all churches to be built in Chinese architecture instead of Western ones. Some Christians occupied high ranked offices in the government. Protestantism is by a small difference more practiced than Catholicism.

Just like Buddhists, Chinese Christians also follow traditional philosophy plus Christian values and practice some folk rituals like ancestral worship.

Islam
Islam is followed by around 1,5% of the population. The Sunni branch is the most followed one, sometimes with Sufi elements.

Part of these Muslims are members of the Chinese Hui ethnic group, in which some members occupied high ranked offices in the military and government.

Huis are deeply rooted in Chinese nationalism, so the government gave them full control over Islam in China. Hui also follow Confucian and other Chinese philosophy together with Islam. The Hui military officers became known for persecuting members of Salafists and other sects that were against the government.

Uyghurs are the other group of the country that follows Islam. Among them, Islam is usually very secular too, as it is guaranteed by the authoritarian pro-Beijing Uyghur government.

National ones

 * New Year
 * Chinese New Year
 * Qingming Festival
 * Labour Day
 * National Day
 * Anniversary of the Revolution
 * Dragon Boat Festival
 * Confucius Birthday
 * Mid-Autumn Festival
 * Establishment of the People's Republic of China

Regional and special ones

 * Chung Yeung Festival
 * Dongzhi Festival
 * Lantern Festival
 * Buddha's Birthday
 * Eid al-Adha (Muslims and their provinces)
 * Eid al-Fitr (Muslims and their provinces)
 * Mawlid (Muslims and their provinces)
 * Christmas (Christians)
 * Birthday of Genghis Khan (Mongolia)
 * Naadam (Mongolia)