Qingcheng

Qingcheng (青城/Qīngchéng) officialy the "Federal Republic of Qingcheng" (青城联邦共和国/Qīng chéng liánbāng gònghéguó), which mean in Sichuanese "City of Azure", is a souvereign state in Kesh. The country is located at the south of Kodeshia and at the north of Nanling. The main coast of Qingcheng is along the Tethys Ocean. The main language of the country is Sichuanese, while there is a minority in the north speaking the Kodeshian Guoyu

After many civils conflicts, the country is now a federal authoritarist democracy, divided into 7 states. The capital city of Qingcheng is Chenghua, which is a coastal city and also own a state. The moto of Qingcheng is "Wèile zǔguó, wèile mínzú", which mean "For the motherland, for the nation."

The country is having a good stability as the people agree most of the time with the government. There is a bit of corruption in the government, but this one is sometimes regulated by the justice when there is abuse. Political opposition is possible only for the legal politicals party, as most of the left-wing party are illegal. There is freedom of expression (until what people says could not be considered as communist propaganda). Demonstration are legal if they are approved by the governor of the concerned state. Politics is mainly controled by right-wing party, as the only allowed socialist party is more of left-centrist party than a real left-wing party.

History
Qingcheng was by the past, part of the Kodeshian empire. The country succeed sometimes to broke free during short times, before being integrated again.

The apparition of the "Qingcheng" title
It's during the Zu dynasty (256 BCE - 420 CE) that we found in writing the first uses of the name "Qingcheng" as it mean "city of azures". It was used for the cities on the actual of Qingcheng. This name appeared because of the warmer climate there, and was used by the merchants as the way to designate the area.

The Six Kingdoms (CE 712 - 786)
During the period of Six Kingdoms, an equivalent of the actual state of Qingcheng was free under the dynasty Yan (燕). But then, it was integrated in the powerfull Xie dynasty and remained into the Kodeshian empire until his independence war.

Independence from Kodeshia (CE 1528 - 1531)
The state of Qingcheng was part of the Kodeshian empire from the north, as there was local Qingchenese nobles. During the Zhou dynasty (CE 1237 - 1531), the nobles of the south coast, with merchants and some independentist groups, sicks of the Kodeshian supremacy, staged an uprising and succeed to counter the imperial army in the actual state of Zhonghe (中和), and then succeed to push north. While the independentist army was going further in the north, more local noble rallied the army with their troops, growing more and more stronger. A last battle happened on the river Minjiang (岷江), but both sides suffered many loses. The main imperial was beaten a second time, and so the Kodeshian emperor agreed to set free the Qingcheng kingdom, but refused to give all the claimed territories. This defeat made the Zhou dynasty weaker against his opponents inside Kodeshia. So, when the Liang Dynasty came against the Zhou dynasty, Qingchenese nobles supported the Liang dynasty. The new Emperor Liang take the throne of Kodeshia, and because of his help, agreed to give Qingcheng total independence with all their territories claims.

The throne of Qingcheng was given to the most powerfull noble and general of the Qingchenese army during the independance war, and so the Xu (徐) dynasty take power in Qingcheng. But even at this time, the monarchy was not absolute, as the cities had big parts of autonomy, and were able to choose theirs leaders.

Government
The Qingcheng government working on a federal system with a strong central power. The states own a part of autonomy in executive actions, in order to manage and follow the president goals for the country. But the laws and decisions of the central government remains the most important. The main counter power of the central government is the justice, which have the order to keep an eye on the government and make sure there is no abuse of power, or anticonstitutionnal action. 100 judges of the country are randomly choosed in order to elect a council of judges. This council can vote the amendment, or begin an impeachment again the president. A parliament of 30 members is choosed by half the President, and the other half by the electoral college of governors. The parlimentary are choosed in order to keep control of the army, and so that neither the governors or the president tried to take control by the army. But the parlimentary also assist the council of judges in the votes of amendment and impeachment.

Central Government
The president is elected for life by the electoral college of governors. He got a strong executive power and take many decisions as he want, as long as they are not against the constitution. If the president want to make a new law in or against the actual constitution, he must make a amendment which need the approbation of the judges council and the parliament. Because the president is elected for life, the only way he can cease his presidency is by leaving his post or being impeached. In order to be impeached, the parliament and the judges council need to vote with both 60% of the majority the impeachment. If the vote succeed, a referendum will begin and the people would finaly decide if the president must be destituted. The president give to the governors goals that they must reach, and must help them to reach those goals. The central government also have a strong influence on the state of the capital city, Chenghua.

Federal Government
Qingcheng government is divided into seven states. In each state is elected a governor by the people. Those 7 governors will take part to the electoral college which is electing the president. But only the president can choose the availables candidates for the governors elections. Those states have a huge economic autonomy, and can make laws for their states, but those new laws must be approved by the president. The national laws are always superior to the states laws, which mean a state can't make a law opposed to national law. The governors received objectives by the president for their states that they must try to reach, but they can also take actions for different goals, as they can justify it to the president. The borders of each states are drawn on the river and natural topography in the idea to distribute the natural ressources between states. The only particularity is the capital city of Chenghua which got his own state because the city was too rich, and so need his own management of ressources and goals.

Geography
The country is mostly made of hills in the south, and of small mountains in the north. The country is mainly divided into 3 different climate, with a equatorial climate on the coast, a temparate oceanic climate in the middle of the country, and a arid climate in the north.

Demographics
With Chenghua being the capital city and the bigest city of the country, Qingcheng got a stable demography with a fertility rate of 1.7 kids per women. Immigration represent a very small part of the population as the country does not attract many migrants. There is an unequal population repartition on the country, as the density is more important on the coast than in the deep north of the country. This can be explained by the presence of mountains in the north, and the coast being richer.

Language
Sichuanese is the most important language of the country, and the only official language in the main goverment. The second present language is Kodeshian Guoyu, as there is a kodeshian minority in the country. Guoyu is accepted only in the state of Zhimin (致民) in some parts of the admnistration, as the Kodeshian minority mostly live there.