Between about 3000 and 1000 BCE, speakers of Austronesian languages began spreading from southern East Asia into Southeast Asia and the various islands of Oceania. By around 700 AD, the first Austronesian-speaking peoples settled on the southernmost peninsula of Mu. These peoples began to gradually migrate northwards for the next two centuries, before they appeared to stop in the valleys of central Mu.

19th century depiction of North Yinesian natives near a Tuapolalu, or temple

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After a long pause, archeological evidence shows that people once again began moving up the continent, and had reached the easternmost coast of what is now Lingang by around 1100 AD. By this time, the migrants had begun to form their own culture and spoke a dialect similar to, but distinct from, the ones of their Austronesian forbearers, which has been identified as the Yinesian dialect, or language. This can explain the linguistic and cultural divide separating southern Austronesian Mu, and the northern Yinesian Mu.

It is estimated that by around the early 1500s, a complex civilization was present in what is now the state of Goranshire, which referred to itself as Konoban. This civilization was ruled by a king, the Kono, who was allegedly a descendant of one of the Four Supreme Beings of nature. The Konoban Kingdom was notable for its large stone constructions, roads, and apparent use of writing and symbols, and there is evidence that the Konoban peoples were charting the stars by the time European explorers discovered their society around the 18th century.

Ruins of the Konoban capital, Kam-Te-Tali.

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European settlement

The continent of Mu was first discovered by Europeans in the summer of 1768, when James Cook first landed on the Southern Peninsula as part of his First Voyage. He and his company would attempt to trek inland, up the peninsula, and through rugged forests and hills, before abandoning this method in favor of trailing the coast, as the constant presence of mosquitoes and thick mud were wearing on the expeditionary crew. Cook's crew made many stops along the eastern coast of Mu, surveying the land and recording the presence of native peoples. A skirmish in February 1769 between the indigenous Konoban peoples almost cost Cook his life, however a native guide that had been accompanying the men led him to safety. After word of the discovery of a new continent in the south Pacific Ocean spread throughout Europe, many instantly became fascinated with the notion. Some speculated that the lands Cook had found was an extension of the fabled Terra Australis.

Naming of Mu

A second voyage by Cook from 1776-1781, however, dispelled this notion, and proved that Cook had indeed discovered a new continent. The continent was simply referred to as Terra Pacifica, until the name Mu was coined by a British-American antiquarian named Augustus Le Plongeon. He got the name "Mu" from Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, who, in 1864, mistranslated what was then called the Troano Codex (now called "Madrid Codex") using the de Landa alphabet. Brasseur believed that a word which he read as Mu referred to a land that had been submerged by a catastrophe. Le Plongeon identified this lost land with Atlantis and, following Ignatius Donnelly in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, identified it as a continent that had once existed in the Atlantic Ocean.

The popularization of the name Mu was further encouraged by people such as James Churchward, who also claimed in a series of books that Terra Pacifica was indeed the lost continent of Mu. Though there is no archeological evidence that suggests the land ever had any ties to any Old World civilization, the name was so ingrained in the minds of the Western public that by the 19th century, most maps were referring to the new continent officially as Mu. With these legends came tales of lost empires, of gold, and riches of long dead civilizations. This excited many ambitious explorers, who sought to make names for themselves by taking these possible riches for themselves. And thus followed the so-called "Scramble for Mu," which saw various seafaring European empires colonize all of Mu by the mid 19th century.

British expansion

European settlement of Mu began in earnest by the late 1780s through to the early 19th century. By 1790, permanent European settlements began to appear on the Southern Peninsula, as European states began sending Christian missionaries into the continent in an attempt to convert the natives. Some indigenous accepted the faith of the settlers, while others violently resisted, leading to violence between Europeans and Mu natives. The loss of its American colonies spurred the British Empire to seek out new areas to exploit. Among the first places settled was northeastern Mu, referred to as Lingang by that time. The first permanent colony of what would soon become Lingang was founded on the far northeastern coast, by a host of British settlers and explorers, in 1795. The settlement was named Strautenburg, after a particularly courageous protestant German settler who was among them.

British officers raise the UK flag over newly settled territory in northwest Mu.

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As the 18th century transitioned into the 19th, the population of Britain's eastern colonies began to grow, spurred by a relatively mild climate, high birth rates, and steady settlement. The British continued to expand into other areas of the continent in the early 19th century, initially along the coast. They established a settlement along the Simera River, to the southwest of Strautenburg, which would later become a major trading hub. The British push into the tropical deep south was hampered by the presence of virulent diseases and nigh-impassable rainforests, causing most settlements to be located primarily on the coasts or river plains. This allowed certain remote native peoples to remain mostly undisturbed until the turn of the 20th century. Thus, most of the focus in the early and mid-19th century was centered around the milder northeast regions of Lingang.

In 1815, a British expedition sought to subjugate the neighboring Konoban Kingdom to the west, which had managed to stave off European interference thus far largely in part to their sophisticated combat tactics, ferocity, and extensive trade with the French to the north (who had been supplying them with firearms and artillery). The British Conquest of the Konoban consisted of two conflicts, the First (1815-19) and Second (1830-32) Anglo-Konoban Wars. The first war (fought primarily to not only pacify the threat of the indigenous kingdom, but to remove a major French trading partner and weaken their grip on trade in the region), resulted in the failure of the British military against the Konoban, but heavy losses substantially weakened the natives, and put them in a more precarious position than they had started with. The second war occurred a decade later, and though a reformed Konoban army incurred heavy losses upon the British, the latter empire was able to gain victory due to a changing of tactics and lack of French support. The conflict culminated in the Siege of Konoban City in 1832, whereupon the native capital was slowly surrounded and cut off, and subsequently sacked and destroyed.

By around 1827-35, the British colonies had already been formally organized into the Dominion of Lingang, which was made up of the individual burgeoning colonies in the northeast and southern coasts. Each colony individually gained responsible government, thus managing most of their own affairs while remaining part of the British Empire. In the colonies themselves, though governed by a colonial Premier and maintaining elections among free white males, power was largely situated in the hands of wealthy landowners and families, who controlled much of the wealth in the Dominion. Over the decades they had come to form a de facto elite class, referred informally among the populace as "Lords." Though Britain had outlawed slavery by 1833, many Linganese natives remained on the farms and plantations of these Lords for very low wages, or were sometimes forced to work by way of penal labor or work contracts.

Critics at the time charged the landowners of having perpetuated slavery after its abolition, however the actions taken against these Lords by the Crown was initially ineffective at restraining their power and influence. The Lords usually coalesced into guilds or unions to protect their interests. The largest and most influential elite union was the Crown Land Guard, which controlled much of the economic activities in Lingang, and claimed to have been granted special protections by the British Crown.

Around the mid-19th century, Lingang was facing increasing social and economic worries. The dominance that the Lords had displayed over the colonies was a source of embarrassment to the British crown, however remembering the sting of spectacularly losing America, the British Empire sought to avoid direct conflict with the colonies. The colonial government was granted effective independence in the form of total home rule, following the Federation Act of 1855 that federated the colonies, and essentially allowed the Dominion to govern itself, though the two countries would share monarchies, and Lingang would share a special association (or "Commonwealth") status with the Empire.

Unrest, First Civil War, and the National Party

As part of a new wave of reforms, the Linganese government began to severely crack down on the powers of the Lords, exposing criminal operations and dissolving estates. This caused considerable unrest among the elite and upper classes of Lingang, who blamed the new government of being too ineffective, and of not being able to handle the growing economic crisis caused by the strangling of the flow of wealth in the country. The president, Harry Orwell, became the target of ire from not just the Lords and upper-middle classes, but from the lower classes as well, who blamed him for apparent weak leadership and the tanking economy.

The unrest in Lingang seemed to come to a head by the end of the 1873, when, amidst a major riot that had reduced New Victoria City to chaos, the Governor of New Victoria, Charles Deacon, was captured by the Crown Land Guard and killed after failing to secure enough privileges to the union. In response, the federal government cracked down on the city, imposing a curfew and arresting citizens in mass numbers. This seemed to serve as a casus belli for the Crown Land Guards and other Lords of the nation to fight back using physical force, and on 12 June 1874, an armory was attacked in southern Kirkland, and thus igniting the First Linganese Civil War.

Civil War

Taking advantage of the pandemonium caused by numerous popular uprisings in the cities, the Crown Land Guard launched a series of preemptive attacks against federal forts and bases, managing to secure a number of victories by early 1875. They had merged with the Linganese Christian Union, an influential party that claimed to represent the nation's Christian heritage, and together were known as the Traditionalist Alliance. Their goals were to overthrow the federal government and install their own which would be more favorable to their views.

Vincent S. Lawford, the Deputy President, yet highly sympathetic to the Traditionalist uprising, was seen as the inevitable candidate to lead the new government once the CLG/LCU alliance would take the government. Lawford would later agree to fight for the Traditionalist side. In response, Parliament impeached Lawford and removed him from office. He was later charged with treason. However, the perceived legitimacy of the federal government, and of President Orwell himself, had been greatly compromised due to many defections within the ruling political apparatus. Many prominent and powerful figures in the country no longer recognized President Orwell’s regime as legitimate, and sided with whatever faction they had more interests in (most joined had joined the CLG).

Lawford was briefly imprisoned, but was freed in what came to be known as the Storming of Strautenburg, when Traditionalists and Lawford loyalists attacked the capitol and attempted to siege the Parliament building in September 1879. They initially came short of these ambitions, but the movement was far from dead. The army itself was divided between Orwell Loyalists (broadly referred to as the Repblicans or Federals) and those wanting to see the Traditionalists take control of the nation.

The civil war was one of the deadliest in Linganese history, second only to the Red Revolution that would occur a century later. Upwards of 530,000 people were killed during the conflict. The war would last for seven years and ultimately resulted in a victory for the Traditionalists. On 14 February 1881, former President Orwell was stripped of his remaining powers and temporarily imprisoned. There were originally plans made to execute him publicly, however Lawford allowed him to flee the nation in exile as a show of mercy. Lawford was declared to be the Supreme Lord of Lingang on 15 April 1881, a very powerful position that overshadowed the now mostly ceremonial presidency.

The CLG set to work in making itself the dominant ruling force of Lingang. The former ruling faction, Orwell’s own Union Party, was outlawed and forcibly disbanded. The CLG declared itself to be the one and only political party of the nation, and merged with the Linganese Christian Union (LCU) to become the National Party of Lingang. The National Party completely severed all remaining legal ties with the Crown of Great Britain, and the United Federation of Lingang was born.

Lord Lawford ruled with an increasingly iron fist, making sure to eliminate members of the National Party who posed a threat to him or his plans for the nation. His personal ideology and methods for retaining power became known as Lawfordian Thought, and would go on to influence both future dictators and critics of authoritarianism in the many distant years to come. Lawford himself was greatly influenced by the French leader Napoleon.

Growth of the National Party

The National Party aimed expand the nations reach and influence greatly. A brief skirmish with the United States in 1887 over claims on the St. Alice Islands to the northwest of Lingang lasted for two days and threatened to plunge the nation once again into war, however a diplomatic solution prevented any further bloodshed, and the two nations agreed to halve the islands, which were home to valuable resources and were of strategic importance in terms of their location.

In 1892, there was growing dissent among the indigenous population, who had been stripped of their land and their rights due to the conquest of their ancestral lands by the British and the Linganese. This also caused the white population to feel uneasy, as there had already been growing tensions between them and the large influx of indigenous immigrants from other nations, who had already been flocking to recently industrialized urban areas in search of jobs and opportunities. A series of small uprisings by the indigenous against white rule occurred over the next two summers, which ultimately resulted in harsher laws against non-white Linganese. Parliament would go on to pass multiple pieces of legislation that further segregated non-white Linganese (referred to as Colored) from the majority white populace, while severely limiting their civil liberties and effectively disenfranchising the natives. A series of reservations, or "Homelands," were established in the rural deep south and far west, intended to house and separate the indigenous peoples from larger society. Most of these Homelands were neglected and became rife with poverty and crime.

In the northeast, urbanization and industrialization led to unprecedented economic growth. Inventions such as electricity and the telephone greatly affected communication, and sped up the process of urbanization. Transregional railroads and other innovations in infrastructure spurred economic growth and greater settlement and development of the deep south and the west. Advancements in medicine would later aid development of the tropical regions of Lingang by giving settlers protection against native diseases.

Lingang engaged in a series of foreign military campaigns and wars during the late 1890s through to the early 1910s. In 1898, the Linganese armed forces invaded North Parimus, a Spanish colony in northwest Mu, joining forces with the US during the Spanish-American War, gaining them access to a key port, as well as the Indoman Islands once the Spanish had lost the conflict. In 1904, covert Linganese forces overthrew the government of Etaria to the south, the last sovereign native nation on the continent, and installed a pro-Linganese government. The country was later annexed in 1910 as a territory and became the District of Caroline.

Economic and social upheaval

Rapid economic development during the late 19th and early 20th centuries fostered the rise of many prominent industrialists. As the nation shifted from being agrarian to predominately industrial, the bulk of economic growths and profit could be found in major cities. The rise of a number of industrial tycoons followed, including prominent figures such as Roger "Fella" Styworth, Earl Welburg, and Trent Jones. Lingang found itself competing for immigrants with the US, with many industries trying to attract boatloads of migrants from to their cities. Many arrived from South America and Europe, as well as from Asia, though darker skinned individuals would face discrimination in the cities. The Lords had also shifted industries, with their respective enterprises largely focusing on petroleum, steel, manufacturing, and consumer goods. These economic changes brought with them increased wealth inequality, leading to greater social unrest.

By the mid 1910s, various liberal, feminist, populist, socialist, and anarchist movements had appeared in Lingang. Organized labor began to arise in major urban areas, with New Victoria City home to the largest concentration of labor unions. These new unions were largely opposed to the dominance of the Lords and tycoons, and clashes between these opposing sides would sometimes take the form of street violence. Images of slick dressed henchmen of the tycoon bosses engaging in high stakes street firefights with hardened union members would become an iconic image of early 20th century city life, and would go on to inspire the Linganese imagination and pop culture in the ensuing years.

The National Party would begin engaging in unionbusting, covertly attempting to eradicate their influence without angering the urban population. Though they were successful in driving much of union activity underground, the unions employed asymmetrical tactics to try and evade police detection.

As the women's suffrage movement spread worldwide, it found significant resistance in Lingang. The National Party was initially skeptical of suffrage, and women's rights would only gradually improve through the early 20th century. Literate women were granted the right to vote in 1937, and full women's suffrage would be enacted a decade after.

The Great Depression and World Wars

World War I

When World War I broke out in Europe, Lingang would remain neutral. Though fighting occurred on the border between France, Belgium, and Germany's colonies in Mu, Lingang remained uninvolved. Lingang would join the League of Nations however, and remained a member until its dissolution.

With the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, Lingang's economy would suffer greatly. During this time, the nation would experience considerable social upheaval in response to the crisis. Popular media reflected this change in attitudes, with noir and crime thriller films that focused on the ire of the working class becoming very popular nationwide and across the world. In the period leading to the Parliamentary election of 1932, the new Bullelephant Party (BP), a major leftwing populist party, had a groundswell of support from agrarian and working class voters, and posed a major threat to the National Party's grip on power. Their candidate for the Presidency, an activist named Samuel Phillips, was a rising figure in national politics and was seen as a voice for the unheard working class and the indigenous. The Bullelephant Party was in a position to win the election outright, and the National Party was compelled to act.

1932 Worker Revolution

The night after the elections in 1932 saw a victory for the Bullelephants, the National Party cracked down on the BP, claiming fraud while pinning the blame on them for a series of violent riots that had occurred in the preceding summer. Party members were arrested and detained without trial, and Phillips was killed, along with other prominent populist and socialist figures in the country, in a self-coup that was known as the "Deep Dark Night." Aaron Reinhart, the Supreme Lord at the time, took additional steps to further cement the power of the National Party in the name of national security. His government banned the Umber Reader, the BP's popular newspaper, forcefully disbanded labor unions, and approved an order demanding the seizure of all weapons and explosive materials from non-militarized groups. Much of the working class, many among them affiliated with the BP, were enraged by these events, and a workers' social revolution followed that lasted until 1937. The Bullelephant Party led the revolution, which saw ordinary lower and working class citizens taking up arms against the government and upper classes. Though the government eventually suppressed the revolt, there were significant casualties and devastation of property, and atrocities committed by both sides.

World War II

Reinhart's regime remained officially neutral at the onset of the Second World War. Though the government and portions of the population (mostly the middle and upper classes) were vocally supportive of Nazi Germany and Italy, the National Party vowed to stay uninvolved, taking a similar stance as they had in the previous world war. Still, Reinhart was anxious of Japan's ambitions in Asia and the Pacific, and his fears were realized in 1941 after Japan bombed American Lemuria to the north of Lingang in a surprise attack. America joined the war very soon afterwards, and Lingang eventually followed suit in June of 1942 after the Japanese bombed Darwin, destroying a Linganese embassy in the process. Following the defeat of the Axis in 1945, Lingang joined the United Nations, and began to focus on military and industrial production as it became more involved in the affairs of its neighbors.

Rise of Welburg and Red Revolution

International military operations

As the new post-WWII world order began to take shape, the US and USSR would compete for power, prestige, and dominance in what became known as the Cold War. The two superpowers would drag several regions across the into its orbit in order to build up alliances to defend against one another, and the Asia-Pacific region was no exception. Lingang began to seek closer relations to the US, as they both opposed Third World movements that they saw as sponsored by the Soviet Union, and occasionally pursued direct action for regime change in governments that became controlled by left-wing figures.

The first successful socialist revolution occurred in the newly decolonized Iloto Republic. Anxious about having a communist neighbor to its south to potentially re-stir socialist sentiments among its own lower classes, Linganese forces would enter the country in 1955 in order to topple what they described as a "disorderly and terroristic regime." With the occasional assistance of the United States, Lingang intervened in the politics of its neighbors in over a dozen incidents of regime change and state-sponsored terrorism against populist communist leaders, in an attempt to ensure that the decolonization of Mu did not lead to the continent being dominated by socialist states. This aggressive foreign policy of was continued by the next Supreme Lord, Tyrus Welburg, a man who had risen among the ranks of the National Party quickly in the preceding years. Welburg's methods of retaining power were greatly inspired by Lawfordian Thought, and as the 4th Supreme Lord he would reverse the policies of De-Lawfordization put forth by his predecessors.

Ashetowne Uprising

Welburg's regime was widely supported among the ruling and upper-middle classes, who praised his bombastic and emotional language about law and order, and of restoring Lingang to a state of former glory. To some members of the working and lower classes, however, his effusive cult of personality, and brutal and violent methods of suppressing dissent would once again stir unrest. The indigenous were most affected by the rise of Welburg, who reminded them of early Linganese leaders who tried to eradicate their cultures. Inspired by images of the American Civil Rights Movement abroad, indigenous Linganese began to engage in forms of non-violent protest against unequal treatment, and against the dilapidated conditions of the Homelands they had been forced onto. These protests were met with a swift and harsh response from state police, and newsreels of injured peaceful protestors would ignite a deeply rooted anger in the native peoples.

More protests would spontaneously occur in cities across the nation, as Linganese of various different backgrounds took to the streets across thousands of cities and towns in a show of solidarity, all demanding an end to the violence. Initially a movement to stop violence against the indigenous people, the protests would morph into a deafening call for democracy. An unorganized mass protest would soon produce a number of organizations dedicated to advocating for this change; The Republican Democracy Party (RDP), a social democrat organization; the Communist Party of Lingang (CPL), led by the charismatic Nicholas Levine; and a resurgent Bullelephant Party (BP), which was primarily dominated by native anarchists and anti-statists, but would ally themselves with the CPL and RDP in the coming years. Fires would be set in major downtown areas, incurring losses for businesses and corporations, and the increasing intensity of the protests saw a tenfold reply from state security forces, who sometimes fired upon the disobedient crowds with lethal rounds.

On May 17, 1964, the city of Ashetowne, Orindus, saw the largest protest in what is known as the Ashetowne Uprising. Though heavily armed, local police were unable to quell the uprising, and the military was called in to crush the dissenters, though not before protestors captured the city hall and declared an autonomous zone. As Ashetowne burned, the situation further escalated when on 28 October of that year, Supreme Lord Tyrus Welburg announced a national military campaign to end the uprisings. He made a rare, televised address to the nation, decrying the efforts of the protestors and denouncing liberalism and socialism as pathways to chaos and destruction. The brutal crackdowns involved civilians enduring curfews, prolonged detainment, summary and public executions, and the persecution of individuals thought to be connected with the pro-democracy movement. Nicholas Levine, already a well-known leftist and pro-democracy advocate who mutinied from the army, was a prime target but managed to escape capture. Levine would go on to become a prominent figure in the Communist Party of Lingang for the duration of the revolution.

Second Civil War

The situation escalated as the rebellion spread beyond the city and began to show signs of serious organization and resistance. Appalled by the violence perpetrated against citizens, and feeling a sense of comradery with the rebelling peasants (many of whom came from working families themselves), during the later half of 1965 and 1966 many individual members and soon entire regiments of the armed forces would mutiny and side with the CPL/DRP/BP alliance, which would later refer to itself as the People's Democratic Front. The ensuing civil war saw heavy casualties (numbering from hundreds of thousands to well over a million, varying by sources) and the widespread destruction of infrastructure, and the damage would only mount during the decade long conflict. The federal government was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies, while the People's Front was supported by the Soviet Union and its allies.

The war finally came to an end in 1975 with a federal victory over the rebels, who had been driven from the eastern states and forced into hiding in the sparsely populated far western deserts and inhospitable mountains, where a low level insurgency persists as of 2022. Lord Welburg publicly executed the leaders of the rebellion, and outlawed all forms of labor organization.

The Blackout

After the war, Welburg's regime focused on reconstructing the battered nation. Declaring a national emergency, Welburg instructed his government to begin Operation Homeland, and instituted several new agencies to oversee the radical reconstruction of Linganese society. One such institution was the Homeland Department, which was tasked with completely controlling the flow of information in and out of Lingang. News, radio, television, and all other methods of communication were to be strictly controlled, and contact with the outside world was so limited that almost no detailed information was available to the rest of the world from the late 70s until 1990, in a period that is referred to as "the Blackout." What reports did make it out of Lingang indicate that the National Party likely committed numerous mass atrocities against citizens who continued to resist reconstruction efforts. Changes in education radically altered the narratives of Lingang's history to fit within the National Party's accepted teachings. Any person who dared to dissent was quickly removed, their records expunged, and were never heard of again in a wave of mass incarcerations, while forced labor and reeducation camps were common.

By the time that Reconstruction was declared successful in 1990, Welburg had managed to transform Lingang into a totalitarian police state. Though legislated racial segregation and the indigenous Homelands had been done away with during this period, there were still significant social and economic barriers faced by non-white citizens. Most of the indigenous population still lived in poverty, and society at large faced an ever-widening wealth gap between the rich and poor.

Reports of atrocities in Lingang caused the international community to strongly condemn Welburg, and the country became politically and economically isolated. The country gained the nickname "Hermit Kingdom," a moniker shared with only North Korea. Sanctions against the Linganese government severely damaged economic growth in the 1980s and early 90s, forced it to resort to autarky, with debatable success. It was during this time that some corporations and Lord estates were nationalized, and were eventually merged to form LinCorp in 1991, which is now the largest corporation in Lingang. LinCorp facilities and establishments quickly spread nationwide, and essentially became a monopoly with scant competition. LinCorp was granted permission to begin operating company towns in the still underdeveloped District of Caroline, with the government providing the necessary infrastructure. The presence of good paying jobs and new high-end towns caused a massive influx of immigration into the District, and by around 2005 Caroline's population had nearly tripled to over 580,000, with the bulk of the residents being employed by LinCorp and living in company housing. The CEO of LinCorp, Dan Kingston, was appointed as governor of Caroline in 2002, cementing the District's transformation into a de-facto corporatocracy, though legally still a part of Lingang.

Contemporary events

At the dawn of the 21st century, Lingang was looking to stimulate an economic recovery, and mend its reputation that was tarnished during the Blackout years, though with initially limited results, as the Welburg regime refused to make significant democratic and social reforms. Increased terror attacks beginning in the early 2000s from the insurgency in the west saw the largest mobilization of military forces since the Red Revolution, though news of the conflict typically never reaches the average citizen in areas unaffected. By 2006, LinCorp was growing rapidly, spurred by investments from the state and from business and trade abroad, bringing significant gains to the Linganese economy. By the end of the decade, Lingang was close to once again being classified as a developed economy, though progress has stalled due in part to the Great Recession.

"New Era"

In December 2012, Lord Welburg passed away, and his daughter Hanna Welburg was elected by the National College to succeed him in January 2013. She became the first woman to become Supreme Lord.

Hanna Welburg's policies mainly revolved around continuing economic growth and fostering new relationships with the international community. The National Party attempted to put a kinder face on the Linganese government, and the country committed to eventual democratization at a worldwide summit in 2015, though some interpreted this as a hollow promise, as following the summit the National Party seemed to be operating business as usual. By the late 2010's, Lingang began attracting foreign business from corporations such as Amazon and Nestlé, and was engaged in a minor trade war with China. In 2017, US President Donald Trump reopened diplomatic relations with Lingang, effusively praising Hanna Welburg's leadership, though relations have deteriorated some under the Biden administration as of 2022.

Lord Welburg's policy during the COVID-19 pandemic can best be described as zero-tolerance, characterized by harsh curfews and restrictions.