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By 2016, the Liaotung Empire largely covered the OTL Manchuria and Outer Manchuria, spanning from the Yellow sea to the Stanovoy Mountains, From Sakhalin to the Hulunbuir Grassland. Having lost some of its grandeur after the Liaotung Civil War, and the loss of Korea, it reshaped itself as an economic hegemon within the region. Afterwards, it has been the most advanced industrial power in East Asia for nearly a century, and has been economically dominating the region until recently eclipsed by the rise of the Chinese Empire.

At Bohaipolis, the Imperial Capital, "Liaotopia" is the informal name given to the residence quarter of the Tai Xue, or The Imperial University of Liaotung. Its number of residents, comprising of the elites of all races within the Empire, has been divided strictly by quota, according to the proportion of population within the Empire: 65% Chinese, 15% Koreans, 9% Jurchen, 5% Russian, 4% Mongol, and 1% Muslim and 1% Other Minorities.

In the Central Agora of Liaotopia, a debate has been waged among the students. Watching over them was a bronze statue of the Empire's founder.
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