If it's all right with you, Jason:
Nation Name: Jin (or Bunjin)
Government Type: Theocracy
Capital: Jianye (modern Nanjing)
Holy City: (Putuoshan island off Zhoushan--the little specks off the coast near the mouth of the Yangtze)
Location: Yangtze river delta
Economy:
Revenue: + (Tax Rate)
Stability:
Clergy: Strength/Loyalty
Peasantry: Strength/Loyalty
Legacy:
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Background:
It is thought that the two characters used by the Jin peoples to describe themselves, the 'Bun Jin', were originally written as 萬晉 - 'ten thousand' or 'myriad' 'Jin'. Sometime in the Spring and Autumn period, however, contemporaneous with the rise of ancestor worship and the veneration of Matzu, the characters used shifted to 文晉 - 'literate Jin', the term used by the itinerant priests and teachers who spread veneration of the Bunjin pantheon, the doctrine of Master Wen, and mostly importantly, the irrigation and flood-control techniques that allowed two crops of rice a year.
The development of a true writing system, able to fully represent the Jin dialect in its entirety, carried the Jin across a tremendous organizational divide. Writing allowed the promulgation of the Jin calendar, surprisingly accurate for its time; accurate timekeeping granted the ability to plan in advance. Writing allowed the efficient collection of taxes, the distribution of royal orders, and the creation of institutions capable of surviving longer than a single human lifespan.
-J. Jia, China in the Spring and Autumn
