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The Kingdom of Nanching (commonly just Nanching) is a sovereign state located entirely in the region of Oceania. Nanching is an island nation composed of several major isles and numerous smaller ones located in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific Oceans. Though it shares no land boundaries with any other nation, Nanching has maritime borders with the nations of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to the north. With a population of 34 million and a land area of about 3 sq mi million, Nanching is the world's 40th and 6th largest nation in those respective statistics.

Nanching is a unitary constitutional monarchy with a government based strongly upon the Westminster system. The monarch of the nation, the head of the House of Ching, rules with the respect of the Parliament. In this sense, the monarch only has the power to give assent to enactments passed by the Parliament and act in other more ceremonial roles as well, with the real power of governance being left to the Minister Regent. The Minister Regent presides over the collective ministries, acting as a major source of domestic political power. While the monarch holds the power to dissolve both the Parliament and the ministries, this must be done with either the approval of the Minister Regent for the former, the Parliament for the latter, and the collective populace as a whole for both at once. This form of government was adopted after Nanching's independence was granted by the United Kingdom in 1911, with the wholly democratic system implemented in 1920.

The nation's contemporary populace of British and Chinese descendants were first introduced into the region around the 1760s, when the territory was claimed for the United Kingdom. Under the leadership of the Fathers of Oceania in the late 1820s, the territories of Australia and New Zealand were merged into a single British protectorate, the Colony of Oceania. From then on out, strong movements of autonomous rule were granted by the British Parliament, with a strong emphasis being placed on the equality of all who settled in the lands of Oceania. Strong bonds were formed with the British ports in China in 1876, leading to a wave of Chinese immigrants that led to the first steps of modern Nanchinger culture. Oceania was granted Commonwealth status in 1901 by the British parliament, and this saw a higher volume of immigration from China as that nation's became politically and socially unstable. In 1911, the ousted Qing dynasty of China was offered asylum in Oceania, where their new presence saw massive reforms of social and political status. The new polity, known from then on out as Nanching, broke away from the Commonwealth, a negative relations inducing action that was quickly mended with the Britain-Nanching Friendship Act, 1912. The society and culture of the nation began to rapidly change during the early 20th century, with stable growth of the population and economy seeing a fusion of British and Chinese culture. World War I further unified the nation socially, as Nanchinger forces easily occupied German colonies in the Pacific with combined British and Chinese descended units. The interwar period saw a stunt in economic growth followed by political and economic reforms that would provide for a more socialist outlook on Nanching's political stance. The aggression of the Japanese in World War II brought about further social unification, and with victory emerged a national identity of Anglo-Chinese unity and cooperation allowing for the further implementation of more egalitarian enactments. Nanching was neutral throughout the Cold War, though some Western nations criticized it as leaning too far towards the left, and the country was even labelled a "hybrid communist-monarchist state" by some far-right politicians in the United States. In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, Nanching's socialist structure became much more prominent, emphasizing a balance between free enterprise and social harmony.

The economy of Nanching is largely centered around socialist policies, with the government holding a large amount of power in domestic and international market affairs. The state is able to provide free housing, water, electricity, food, and transportation to those in need of all or some of those welfare services. Furthermore, education and healthcare are both entirely universal and free, though some private education institutions do exist in the country. The strong welfare state has given way to high taxes, which are commonly justified by the very high standard of living residents enjoy in Nanching. Primary and secondary economic activities are considered to be the strongest features of the economy, with an emphasis on the production of agricultural and basic industrial goods to other nations. While those features of the economy are the most prominent, other industries in secondary and tertiary economic activities also have a sizable presence in the domestic economy. Strong government intervention in the market has led to decreased globalization of the Nanchinger domestic economy, an effect seen largely as positive in internal politics as it prevents overt monopolization and control of the local economy by foreign corporations. Nanching commonly ranks high in polls of civil freedom, standard of living, and distribution of wealth, though it ranks lower than average on polls of economic freedom and cost of living.

The country holds good relations with most other nations across the world. Nanching's largest partners in international politics are the United Kingdom and China. The country is a member of the United Nations and the Pacific Forum, an it is an observer of the Council of Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Though it willingly participates in some international organizations, Nanching refrains from allowing large amounts of globalization, with much of the populace believing that a boundary should be maintained between international and domestic politics.

Etymology
The English word Nanching was developed from the Anglicized phrase Nanqing, which roughly means Southern Qing in Han Chinese. The name comes from the presence of the Qing dynasty fleeing to the Commonwealth of Oceania in 1911, and the resultant government of that arrangement officially changed the nation of the nation to the Kingdom of Nanching. Though at first the movement was not supported by some citizens, the term has become an enduring feature of the unique fusion society that formed as a result of British and Chinese cultural mixing. The demonym for the noun Nanching is Nanchinger, which was influenced by the demonyn of the noun Hong Kong, Hong Konger.