New Chinese Empire

The New Chinese Empire is the dominant power on Earth in the 22nd century of the superhuman future setting of the Aeon Trinity roleplaying game by White Wolf.

Origin
The Chinese Communist Party had collapsed by 2018 due to unrestrained capitalism and the economic disruption brought about by the collapse of the Three Gorges Dam. Taking power was an alliance of university activists and rural revolutionaries, who formed the New Chinese Empire (NEC) in 2022.

The NCE turned inward to develop its infrastructure, economy, and society. China benefited from its isolationism during the Aberrant War. Many Chinese aberrants (super beings) had left China by 2030 as they perceived it as being a dull backward place and in 2035 government policy made it official, excluding aberrants from China. Which spared China most of the horrors that devastated Western Europe and the United States during the Aberrant War.

Aberrant War
During the period between of the Aberrant War between the super beings and humans from 2048-2061, China steadily became stronger. Unable to challenge the powers of the Aberrants, the NCE focused its efforts toward outer space. In 2053, China became the first to land a manned spacecraft on on Mars and in the next year the Chinese began to build space colonies and orbital factories. They were secretly equipped with thermonuclear missiles to protect them from the aberrants. China accomplished the aforementioned by making great sacrifices. They diverted vast national resources from other sectors, resulting in the death of 14 million to hunger, disease, and accidents.

In the year 2061 the Aberrant War ended when the Chinese made their "Earth Strike Ultimatum" in which they demanded that the aberrants leave planet Earth or face nuclear annihilation. The aberrants left Earth, promising to return one day. Once it was confirmed that there were no more aberrants on Earth, the Chinese fleet stood down. Western Europe and North America had been devasted by the Aberrant War and Western civilization was now a shadow of what it used to be with economic, military, geopolitical, and technological power now centered in China and other powers outside of the West.

Interstellar Exploration
Over a decade later in 2072, the Chinese built the first human interstellar ship. In 2103, the first humans with psionic powers (psions) were created and the psi-orders were established by the Psions. One of these psi-orders formed an alliance with China, becoming the Ministry of Psionic Affairs. In 2104, the aberrants (who had mutated into monstrous forms) returned as they started to attack Earth's intersolar colonies. A few years later in 2107, China made first contact with an alien race, the Qin and established diplomatic relations with them in 2108.

New Chinese Empire
China is the dominant human power in both Asia and in outer space, running most of eastern Asia. Beijing allows each government outside of China a high level of self-governance, the only requirement is that China is to remain their political patron and main trading partner.

Korea & Philippines are the exceptions to the rule, having been made full partners by China in its commerical space efforts and in all technology in 2014. Korea is a semiautonomous branch of the Chinese civilization with a deep space industry and computer research facilities in northern Korea. Quezon in the Philippines is the HQ of the biotech research program and one of the top training facilities for psions around the world.

A poor and desperate Russia leased Siberia to China which got the Russians the technology it needed to develop its economy, while the Chinese got the mineral resources and grain of Siberia. Many Russians were not happy about the deal and therefore Russian rebels and mercenaries are harassing Chinese operated mines and shipments heading toward China. Mercenaries hired by Russia and the Chinese military are dealing with the outlaws. The Chinese also face an insurgencies in Xinjiang and Taiwan, and hardcore anti-psi Maoist factions.

Imperial System
The empire is a bureaucratic state ruled by is ruled by scholars who passed the competitive examinations which tested their knowledge of economics, modern psychology, information theory, and Chinese literary classics among other things. From among the ranks of the scholars, an emperor is elected for a single 12-year term and by law the emperor needs to listen to the advice of the scholars.

Ministry of Psionic Affairs
The psi-order was established by Rebecca Bue Li in the Philippines and years later she established an alliance with the Chinese government. The Ministry receives the full backing of the Chinese government and it in turn became a cabinet-level ministry in the Chinese government (and Rebecca Bue Li gets a seat on the Beijing State Council). It has offices in most areas of the Chinese sphere of influence, its agents operate throughout human space, and every space ship that leaves a Chinese operated launch site carries one psi officer, minimum.

Branches:


 * Office of Semiotics (The Mandarins): Devotes it's psionic abilities toward benefiting society. They study alien races, translate programs and documents from other cultures, and mediate international disputes.


 * The Psi Institues: Control the psi training branch which is the best among the ps orders. They operate from campuses in the Philippines and China. It locates and recruits latent and nonaffiliated telepaths across human space.


 * Office of Psionic Security: They are China's psionic police force and early warning system. Who operate secretly within the population, monitoring the people's surface thoughts for seditious and criminal urges, and Aberrant signs. It's agents are empowered to have them brought to the courts or taken to a psychiatric care facility.