Creating a basic overview of canon for new players.
Homo sapiens originated in Tiandi roughly 200,000 years ago, on the continent of Miju (African continent). From there, they expanded to colonize all the major landmasses of Tiandi, and had managed to displace and then replace all other human species.
Following the end of the last glacial period c. 12,000 years ago, cereal grasses began to flourish and many humans began to gradually settle down as they began to farm. Some areas domesticated animals and became pastoral societies, although many people remained as hunting-gathering societies. In some areas where food was relatively abundant and easy to obtain, hunting-gathering peoples settled down and established sedentary societies, although retaining their mode of economic production. Sedentary societies and agriculture allowed for the accumulation of wealth, the specialization of labor, and for stratified societies. Large domesticated mammals allowed for a secondary products revolution, but also for the crossover and spread of deadly diseases such as smallpox, measles, and influenza originally not present among humans.
Agriculture developed independently in several areas of the world, such as Cheongju (South American continent), southwestern Uju (North American continent), Jungju (East & Southeast Asian continent), Yoju (Middle Eastern, North/South/Central Asian continent), and some others. Human migration and trade resulted in the diffusion of crops, animals, diseases, technology, and culture, though some areas of the world remained geographically isolated from the rest of it.
Beginning in the 1400s, various countries in Sinju (the East Asian portion of Jungju) began to explore the world and take over various areas in order to secure trade routes and wealth, in competition with other Sinju nations. These states included Jeongmi (Korean), Meisaan (Cantonese/HK/Guangdong), Akitsukuni (Japanese), Nomyokuni (fictional culture, Chinese & Japanese blend), and others (Hokkien, Hakka, Fuzhouese, Shanghainese, Jeju, North Chinese, etc.).
In the 1700s, the industrial revolution began in Jeongmi, and Sinju powers or settler colonies virtually all of Tiandi by the 20th century. These nations significantly altered the political, economic, linguistic, and cultural aspects of these nations. The resources of these nations were siphoned off to Sinju, and goods from Sinju flooded markets in the colonies, resulting in a huge gap in the wealth between the imperial powers and their subjects, and a huge technological and economic boom that has been largely sustained to the present.
The 1930s and 40s saw a massive world war called the Eulhae War, in which nations such as Jeongmi and Meisaan prevailed over Akitsukuni. The heavy destruction wrought upon Sinju resulted in stronger calls for independence among colonies and a large inability to retain them, resulting in the independence of virtually all colonies in the following decades. Although independent, Sinju nations retained a significant amount of control and influence over them through global institutions such as the World Bank, through military interventions, Central (E. Asian & E. Asian cultured) dominated global media, and business ties.
Th largest of these empires was that of Jeongmi's - the global presence of both its empire and its settler colonies meant that Korean has become the lingua franca of the modern world.
In the following decades, non-Sinju nations have been quickly catching up in terms of wealth and power, and Central political, military, and economic dominance have eased somewhat. The current geopolitical situation pits wealthy liberal democracies, led largely by the Sinju Union, against authoritarian capitalist nations somewhat, though ties are heavy and they grow increasingly interconnected through trade, media, and immigration.
