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大金天下殿万岁!
May the universal harmony of the Great Jin last for ten-thousand years!

In this, the third month of the 13th year of the Jianyuan era, the Dangjin Huangshang has decreed that a special report on the status of the Empire is to be comiled and released to the public, detailing the disposition, demographics, and administration of His great Empire, the Vast and Harmonious Jin state.

With this decree from the Dragon Throne the Grand Secretariat has instructed the Three Departments, in conjunction with the Six Ministries, to conduct a grand census of the population and assemble the public budget for dissemination. Further, the Ministry of Rites, which compiles the dynastic histories of the great previous dynasties as well as records the happenings in the prosperous and harmonious past of the Great Jin, to prepare an official history brief to accompany the report.

Through this, the Dangjin Huangshang knows that the glory of the Great Jin will become known throughout the world and the radiant harmony of his house will proliferate through all-under-heaven.

May the Emperor reign for ten thousand, ten thousand, ten ten thousand years!

Table of Contents

1. 疆土 - Territory (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14610612&postcount=2)
2. 政府 - Government (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14611671&postcount=3)
3. 人 - Demographics (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14617257&postcount=4)

疆土
Territory
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The territory of the Great Jing Dynasty covers a vast span of land, from the Guang in the south Guandong in the north, and from the eastern provinces on the sea to the far reaches of Turkestan in the west. The Gobi and Ordos desert mark the northwest boundaries of the state with the Mongolian steppe, with the Tibetan plateau and the Himalayas seperating the Empire from the Indian subcontinent and the southeastern tropical areas. The Pamirs mark the furthest western boundary in Chinese Turkestan. The Yangtze and the Huang He are the two main rivers in China proper.

The land is divided administratively into provinces and territories, administered from the capital of Jingshi (Manchu: Gemunhecen) in the north-east near the mouth of the Huang He river.

1. 18 Provinces of Central China
Zhili
Henan
Shandong
Shanxi
Shaanxi
Gansu
Hubei
Hunan
Guangdong
Guangxi
Sichuan
Guizhou
Jiangsu
Jiangxi
Zhejiang
Fujian
Anhui
Jiaozhi (Annam)

2. Manchuria (Three Northern Provinces)
Heilongjiang
Jilin
Liaoning

3. Protectorates of the West (Turkestan)
Anxi (Tian Shan and Pamirs)
Anbei (Altay and Khingan Mountains)
Dongyi (Khitan)

政府
Government
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The government of the Great Jin is an autocratic Imperial state headed by a hereditary Emperor and administrated politically by the leaders of the Three Departments and Six Ministries. The Emperor holds complete power in all matters of government and state, but by tradition and evolution of political thought the management of the government is left to the state officials of the Imperial Council, who rule by dispensation of the Emperor. The two official languages of the state are Han Chinese and Manchu, and each office usually has dual-lingual titles for positions and ministries.

The basic unit of currency is the yuan (元, 圓), divided into 10 mao (毛), each mao is divided into 10 fen (分). Currency smaller than 1 yuan are minted in coin, while paper banknotes are issued in denominations of 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, and 500.

The national anthem of the state, adopted in 1911, is Gong Jin'ou (鞏金甌), "Solidify Our Golden Empire."

Chinese Lyrics
鞏金甌，
承天幬，
民物欣鳧藻，
喜同袍，
清時幸遭。
真熙皞，
帝國蒼穹保。
天高高，
海滔滔。

English Translation
"Solidify our golden empire,
Underneath the aegis of heaven,
All of civilization will cease to toil,
United in happiness and mirth,
As long as the Qing rules.
Our empire is emblazoned by light,
And our boundaries are vast and preserved.
The expanse stretches infinitely,
The sea brims with turbulence."

科举 - The Examinations

The Imperial Examinations are the only method for gaining entry into government office, and before one is allowed to serve at any level of government one must hold one of the three degree levels of examination. Reformed during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor, the Examinations included Western-style learning and education skills and are considered equivalent to any University degree from a Western institution of higher learning. In the modern day, the examination requires knowledge in philosophy, history, writing and language, mathematics and hard and social sciences, and prosaic knowledge. The difficult nature of the exams make the highest echelons difficult to achieve, but ensures that only the best candidates enter government.

There are three levels to the Examination:

Shēngyuán (生員); licentiate, administered at exams held in the county level each year.

Jǔrén (舉人); a provincial graduate, administered at the provincial level every three years

Jìnshì (進士); a metropolitan graduate, administered in the capital every three years

天子 - The Emperor

The office of Emperor is referred to by many titles, with each individual ruler possessing a regnal temple name; it is considered offensive to use the personal name of the Emperor during his life. The current Emperor is of the Manchu house of Yehenara, with the regnal style of Jiaqing. In casual speech it is polite to refer to the Emperor as the "Dangjin Huangshang," which translates as "the reigning emperor of the present day."

三省 - The Three Departments

The Three Departments are the administrative capstones of the government, divided in the Secretariat (中書省) (Dorgi yamun), the Chancellery (門下省), and the Department of State Affairs (尚書省). Each office fulfills a different role in the political sphere; the Imperial Council ( 军机处; coohai nashūn i ba) is typically counted as part of the State Affairs Department with the Grand Secretary and the Imperial Chancellor sitting as members of that council.

六部 - The Six Ministries

The Six Ministries administer the various specific facets of state organization under the auspices of the Three Departments. Each Ministry is headed by one President ( 尚書; Aliha amban) and two vice presidents (侍郎; Ashan i amban).

Ministries

Personnel (吏部; Hafan i jurgan)
Finance (戶部; Boigan i jurgan)
Rites (禮部; Dorolan i jurgan)
War (兵部; Coohai jurgan)
Justice (刑部; Beidere jurgan)
Works (工部; Weilere jurgan)

The Foreign Affairs Bureau (外务部), though technically an independent Ministry, operates under the auspices of the Department of State Affairs, and as such is not counted as part of the Six Ministries.

理藩院 - Court of Colonial Affairs

The Court of Colonial Affairs (Tulergi golo be darasa jurgan) oversees the administration of military protectorates and colonial areas subject to the Jin Empire.

人
Demographics
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The Great Jin has a population of 1.414 billion, comprised native & naturalized citizens and resident nationals (including those on the path to legal resident status). The population is divided into multiple recognized ethnic groups (and several unrecognized) designated by the central government, though the Ministry of Personnel keeps records there is little actual policy regarding membership in ethnic groups.

The dominant ethnic group in the Jin are Han Chinese, comprising roughly 90% of the population. There are 60 official minority groups, though the actual numbers are skewed due to the affiliation of many minorities as Han.

The major groups in the Jin are The major minority ethnic groups are Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uyghur, Tujia, Yi, Buyei, Dong, Yao, Korean, Bai, Hani , Kazakh, Li , and Dai .

Religion

The Great Jin has adherents of most major and many minor religions in the nation, but the largest are Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, Folk Taoism & ancestor worship, Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism (in decreasing order of size).

Confucianism, the dominant political and moral philosophy of the state and people, is not a religion.

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嘉慶帝
Jiāqìngdì
Sayishiyaltu Yirugertu Khaan


The Emperor of Order who Observes the Heavenly Rituals with a Solemn Fate, Destined to Unify, Establishes with Extreme Talented Insights, Admires the Arts, Manifests the Might, with Great Virtue and Vast Achievement, Reaches Humanity, Purely Filial!

Year of Birth: September 5, 1933
Ascension to the Dragon Throne: November 13 1963

May he reign for ten thousand, ten thousand, ten ten thousand years!