Zeng

The Principality of Zeng is the largest Member in the Confederated Peoples although its lead over the second largest Member, Farinor is small one. Like Farinor, Zeng has 58 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and three seats in the Confederal Senate. This makes Zeng one of the most politically important Members in the Confederated Peoples.

Elections in Zeng are contested by all the major Confederal political parties although Democratic Concordance, the Conservative Democratic Party, the Progressive Democratic Party and the Labour Party dominate. The Communist Party is also influential locally and is represented in the legislature. The current government is a coalition between the Progressive Democrats and Labour.

Zeng is of great economic significance to the nation. The economy is rapidly growing and this growth is especially strong in the high-tech sector. However, Zeng also maintains a strong manufacturing base. It is a leading consumer of steel, concrete and oil and a leading producer of manufactured goods, information technology and agricultural products.

History

In 1982, the Danaan High Kingdom officially claimed a large island located to the south of Dana and outside the Islands of Mists. Aboriginal Danaan navigators had referred to the island as Zeng for reasons which are not now known and this was the name the Danaans used. The island was discovered to be hospitable for settlement and early settlements were established.

The first settlements were fairly representative of the Danaan population but settlement soon came to be dominated by people of Chinese extraction and Confucians both from the Danaan High Kingdom and from elsewhere. This was likely because the land reminded them of their ancestral lands and because they, like many other human groups, felt alientated during the period of the Fae.

In 1990, I Ma-huan, a Danaan nobleman, was created Prince of Zeng and the Principality was admitted the the Danaan High Kingdom as a principality in its own right and not just a claimed territory. That year, Zeng created its own constitution providing for a system of constitutional monarchy. With some amendment, that constitution still governs Zeng today.