Click on Flag to go to page.
The PRC's capital is Nanning. It is ruled by the elderly and paranoid Party General Secretary Hung Ching Kuo. The PRC has been steadly shrinking as its rather eccentric leader's Neo Maoist Great Leaps Backward keep beheading its intellectual and manegerial class, as well as purging its military leadership of any officers with any ability. The UKA does not have diplomatic realtions with the PRC as we refuse to cut off all trade with its "running dog revisionist" neighbors. Unless it changes leadership, the PRC will be gone in a decade.
Territory: Guanxi, Quizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian Provinces
The empire's capital is Tianjin. Very much in the fashion of the pre-1912 Chinese Empire, Imperial China is isolationist, arrogant, and chaotic. The Emperor Chi Mo lives in isolated splendor. The official government policy is to keep foreigners restricted to the coastal cities, though some do go inland anyway. Pretty much everything is for sale, including the right to disobey imperial edicts!
The Imperial Chinese 1st Dragon, 2nd Dragon, and 31st Route Armies are massed in the vicinity of the Great Wall on a line from Zangjiakou to the coast at Qiansuo. Each army consists of four or five divisions Reports from operatives in the Taiwanese Secret Intelligence Service report that these so-called "armies" are no more than the equivalent of a single second class UKA infantry division in size, backed up by several divisions worth of militia. The first line Chinese troops are armed with imported small arms and light artillery of diverse makes. The militia are equipped with anything to hand, but most would be armed with flintlock muskets and crossbows.
The Imperial Chinese Army also has a number of reserve armies in the Interior, and what little we know about them is that all the best equipment goes to the Great Wall. As far as we know, most of these interior troops are equipped with muskets and crossbows."
The Imperial Chinese air force is equipped with about 150 Snipe biplanes bought from the UKA over the past ten years or so. The level of training in the Imperial Chinese Air Force is so poor, a large number probably have been destroyed by now.
Imperial China has no significant naval units.
Territory: Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiansu, Henan, Shandong, Heibei, Beijing, and Shanxi Provinces
The empire's capital is at Shenyang. Ruled as a puppet state by Imperial Japan, it is overrun by Japanese officials, spies and police. Any Chinese dissent is crush brutally as only the Japanses can do. Foreigners are constantly watched outside restricted areas in the coastal ports.
Heilonjiang, Jilin, Lionang, and the former Russian territory from Khabarovsk to the Pacific.
We know that it exists, but have no reliable information on its borders, capital, government, or much of anything else.
Click on Flag to go to page.
Macao is a small, independent city-state ruled by a warlord styling himself "General" Chen, known for some mysterious reason as Chen the Finder. A major free trading port, Macao is one of the gateways for imported goods moving into the Chinese interior. Because of this, Macao is one of the significant hiring centers for caravan personnel and mercenary guards, and is a hotbed of information brought in by caravans and mercenaries. This also means it is rife with spies to collect this information.
Guandong Province is a no man's land, ruled by dozens of small warlords, none of who acknowlege any outside authority. The most important of these is Yong Pin Kuan, a former PRC general who set up an independant state with his division at Shantou in 2039. Low level banditry is rife, both by governments and out and out bandits. Still, the province is a favored route of importers because it bypasses the often insanely complex import regulations and tariffs imposed by the more organized governments.
The bulk of out exports are in the form of military technology. The most common weapons in that region are locally made 7.62 x 39 bolt action rifles, Japanese 6.5mm rifles, and Indonesian .303 Enflields, not to mention bows, crossbows, spears, slingshots, and sticks. A large percentage of Chinese troops will have muzzle loaders...even matchlocks! This is true for the coastal regions. We don't know too much about the interior because there are better and far safer markets. Most of UKA trade with the Chinese states currently goes through Taiwanese middlemen. We mainly sell 8.56mm Purcell Rifles, plus muzzleloaders. We have sold small numbers of the RAFA Snipe biplane fighters which have ended up in Imperial Chinese service. They will buy anything that shoots, stabs, or clubs. We buy silk, ceramics, artwork, and get cash in return.
The volume of trade with the mainland is fairly small, because they aren't that wealthy and the Indonesians, Colombians, Argentines, and Japanese have penetrated the market far more deeply than we have.
