Xinjing

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Photograph of Xinjing
Details
Population	2.88M
State GDP	$2.12B
GDP/C	$736
Culture	Dongbei

In-Game Description

Despite the presence of the Emperor and his palace paying homage to a millenia-old tradition, the New Capital was formed at every stage of its being by the things which spelled the end of the Mandate of Heaven. Founded as a village at the dawn of the nineteenth century as the battering ram of commerce broke down the Willow Palisade, it was initially known as Changchun, or 'long spring', prayer more than description in the frigid northern climate. The real history of Xinjing, however, begins with the railroad. As the terminal destination of the Mantetsu line, the city would rapidly expand in size and influence, though it would grow cleaved in two- a town for the railway, and a town for the Chinese. When the Kwantung Army rode forth and Japanese planners cut a new state from whole cloth, Xinjing was to be their masterpiece. Instead of the choking plumes and ravenous foundries of the rest of Manchukuo, it was to be a city of libraries, gymnasiums and greenery, across an area greater than that of Tokyo. Even now, in the wide central streets, where the colonial bureaucrats live and work, where the palace gazes listlessly at its subjects, the success of their design continues to bear fruit. But in the clouds of smoke growing around the edges, the cracks in which the natives are condemned to reside, lies a different city, where a thousand screams are silenced every hour.