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People's Collective of Kunlun

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The People's Collective of Kunlun, formerly the Autonomous State of Kunlun, is a Spacer republic in L4. Comprised of seven colonies following Operation Boswilger, it is the most populous of the Compact's member states. It is the second founding colony to the Sovereign Colonies Compact, its governing ideology the foundation of the alliance's guiding principles. Owing to its vast industrial capabilities, Kunlun is a key participant in the development and manufacture of Compact mobile fencers.

Governance of Kunlun is managed as a de-facto familial dictatorship by the nation's founding revolutionary, Chen Chengyang. While many of the authoritarian restrictions and regulations regarding democratic elections, free expression and assembly, travel and labor rights are described as temporary measures intended to be lifted once the crisis ends, many doubt the political dynasty will release their grip on power easily.

History

Prior to its independence, Kunlun was a group of colonies under a hybrid-market model between the Union State government and conglomerates. While the colonies were governed in name by the Union State central government, their maintenance was the responsibility of the conglomerates as a practicality. Conglomerate mismanagement of Kunlun, thus, diminished the image of the Union State in the eyes of the colonies' inhabitants.

As conflicts of interest between the increasingly ambitious conglomerates and the Asterian authority reared their heads, the conglomerates increasingly backed political dissidents, long been nurtured by the lax atmosphere of the colonies. Led by activist Chen Chengyang and funded by the conglomerates, a new secessionist movement New Mankind Movement was formed under the Five Principles of Mankind, a set of guiding principles defined by Chen emphasizing that the space colonies should have the rights to “self-governance, self-sufficiency, self-possession, self-expansion and self-determination” independent of Plateia, if mankind were to achieve advancement towards becoming a truly galactic species.

Utilizing resources provided by the conglomerates, Kunlun began underground arms research for an uprising, most notably the modification of humanoid space construction suits into a class of combat armors that would come to be known as Mobile Fencers. The research bore fruit as the Hongjun Zhanshi (红军战士; Red Army Warrior, CFA reporting name MF-19 “Hong”) line of mobile fencers, coinciding with similar contemporaneous developments in Grensland.

Clashes would lead the Union State government to order the arrest of Chen in RC 0108, forcing him to seek asylum in Grensland. The order, however, escalated hostilities between the central government and Kunlun citizens, leading to rising support for the New Mankind Movement within the Kunlun colonies. Following Chen's flight, the Union State tightened control, signaled interest in direct administration of the colonies, and demanded the conglomerates reaffirm loyalty to the State. Under assistance from the CCN, Chen Chengyang ultimately returned to his supporters in late RC 0109, launching the long-anticipated uprising in the Colony War. Lasting from RC 0108 to RC 0114, the war resulted in Kunlun's victory. While Kunlun's effort in defending L4 from Union State offensives forged a bond with other colonies, perception of oppression by Chen's supporters also exacerbated the rift between them and opponents to Chen in the colonies.

Following their victory, the conglomerate-dominated provisional government of Kunlun, the National Council, declared the formal independence of the Republic of Kunlun from the Union State. However, in the new government, Chen acted as a mere figurehead, and Kunlun joined the CCN. The revolutionaries were enraged, but Chen conceded to popular support for membership and went into exile.

In subsequent years, the now-unregulated conglomerates of Kunlun transformed into oligarchic monopolies, holding the rein over its citizens' lives. High inflation coupled with regular unpaid “voluntary overtime” became the norm for Kunlun. Worries of Union State persecution were replaced by corporate death squads and media manipulation, to which the CCN turned a blind eye. The boiling point came in RC 0117 when protests in Kunlun were met with violent suppression by corporate death squads. The incident, dubbed the Central District Massacre, broke down the uneasy association between the conglomerates and the numbers of Chen's revolutionaries still in government. Within a week, all-out civil war broke between the conglomerate oligarchy and Chen's loyalists. The CCN, fearing Union State influence in Kunlun, intervened in the name of its member Republic of Kunlun - the conglomerates.

The CCN's decision further disillusioned the Kunlunese to Plateian power. Thus, in RC 0119, Chen Chengyang returned to rapturous welcome in the midst of his Grenslander allies' Operation Boswilger. Chen's decision to found the People's Collective of Kunlun and a new National Council prompted defections from the oligarchs' private armies, and turned the conflict into one directly between the newborn People's Collective and the CCN. As the success of Kunlun and Grensland prompted a growth in numbers of sympathizers in the space colonies, the Sovereign Colonies Compact was founded on the basis of the cause of Spacer independence.

Rid of its great monopolies, the fledgling People's Collective was left with a power vacuum, filled by a strenuous balance among the revolutionaries between Chen's loyalists and those suspicious of his motives. Through his indisputable reputation and popular support, the self-made dictator had promised a return to democracy after the conclusion of armed conflict - a vow welcomed by some, doubted by others who had observed heavy nepotism within Chen's government, and still resented by those in Chen's clan.