Khitai

Khitai, officially known as the Khitan Federation and in complete the Liberal Federate Republic of Khitai (Khitan: khitaì zho liànban gonyegò), also nicknamed Siberia in popular culture; is a country which encompasses Northern, Northeast and Inner Asia, with small portions of its territories located within Europe. Khitai borders China, Korea and Japan to its southeast; Kamenistan to its south; Russia to its west and Persia to its southwest, the country also possesses a maritime border with Alaska to the very far east (Profound East). It currently is the largest country in the world, its territories can fit half of Africa. The country is also the last remaining colonial empire, possessing Indonesia and East Malaysia as its gateway to the rest of the world.

Khitai is the third most populated country, with a population of over 600 million. Its national and political capital Xikin exceeds the 9 million in terms of population, but its financial and economic center is Hailinkian.

Khitai derives from a combination of religion, racial identity and ethnic pride, and also legendary tales associated with the country as well as the mass immigration which occurred during climatic changes in the 21st century, essentially from China and Myanmar. If we don't take into account its legendary history, the country has passed from colonized, wild lands to a technological and cultural hyperpower then superpower in a century.

Today's situation
The year is 2255, also simply said "255" in informal terms, Siberia and Australia are the world's only superpowers, both being artificially engineered during the Dark Century, specifically the Apocalyptic Wars. Siberia is home to many creations which would otherwise be considered, to a certain extent, unacceptable in the 21st century, such as 'plants', 'androgynes', 'airskin' and an artificially coded society.

Plants, in the context of the 23rd century are a type of flower which usually grows best in continental climates but also in oceanic, subtropical and to a certain extent, tropical climates. Plants do not have any nutritional values but they continuously convert carbon dioxide into smoke, usually agreeable to smell which can be ingested, effects often include intense pleasure, increase in agility, cognition and sometimes cause non-psychotic hallucinatory effects. Negative effects however will often cause weight loss, and more rarely, odema, a form of excessive accumulation of fat, although half as dense and heavy (ex: severe odema is equal to being simply overweight), such substance is called Airskin and is not taken into account when measuring weight. however, the universal effect is loss of appetite. The reason such plants can be allowed for use, even for children to some extent, is the perpetual cancellation of its effect thus making long-term effects impossible.

Androgynes are a type of male with almost entirely female characteristics, they have the same reproductive capacities as a male, their voices tend to be highly similar to the pitch of a stereotypically effeminate male and they might grow sideburns but no beard or mustache and generally have no breast, slightly enlarged hips are common and a female face and neck is quasi-universal. They also tend to be grow male-like strength and develop the same way as typical males even in the most subtle aspects. Their roles have been clearly defined within society by the Domestic Church through conditioning and taking children away from parents since birth. Societies in general, even the most conservative ones as well as most right-wing political extremists, tend to accept androgynes without hesitating on the artificial aspect. There are rare instances where extremists refuse to accept androgynes in relation to the Domestic Church.