Tangguria

The implementation of neoliberal economic policies throughout the remainder of the 1990s led to somewhat rocky economic growth, a trend that has since changed over the past decade as Tangguria has since transformed itself into an urbanised and industrialised economy. However the primary and secondary sectors, dealing with extraction of raw materials and manufacturing of consumer goods, remain the major sources of income within Tangguria due to its many large resources of coal, gas, and several other ores and minerals, as well as the constant yet modernised production of agricultural goods such as rice, coffee, and cotton. Within the past decade Tangguria has also gained a small but fast growing tertiary sector, mostly focused on telecommunications, financial services, pharmaceutical goods, and higher education, the last of which has seen Tanggu universities portrayed as centres of learning for students from across the world.

Despite being one of the fastest growing economies, inequality remains a pervasive issue within Tangguria, and is often raised alongside concerns over the alleged marginalisation of minority committees such as the Gidan in Tangguria's west, the corruption of the government and legislature, and the destruction of democratic processes by the incumbent Tanggu National Sovereignty Party. Despite these tensions within Tangguria, the country maintains amicable relations with the majority of its neighbours, especially those to the south. Even Tanggu relations with Stasnov, despite ideological differences, have been listened to by both parties. Tangguria is an active member of various international organisations such as the ... .

Ethnic groups
Tangguria recognises 23 distinct ethnic groups within its territory. The two largest of these groups include the Tanggu and the Hua, both of which constitute 82% of Tangguria's total population. Both the Tanggu and the Hua have historically intermingled and borrowed from one another, whilst also maintaining their own ethnic traditions and customs. One of the distinguishing factors that separates the Tanggurian Hua to Hua elsewhere is that within Tangguria the Hua use the Tanggu arlesianisation in their names. For example, a Hua who might be known elsewhere as "Zheng Zhicheng" would be known in Tangguria as "Jeng Jiceng" despite the name being pronounced the same. The Hua dialects within Tangguria are slightly influenced by the Tanggu language, but speakers are still intelligible to Hua elsewhere. Since 1957 the Tanggu script has been used to write both the Hua and Tanggu languages, which has also brought the two groups closer together. The majority of Tanggu and Hua hold at least a conversational understanding of the other's language.

The name of "Gidan" was introduced in the late Jin period as an all-encompassing term for the nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes in the area, the majority of which are not descended from the old Qidan. In fact, it is thought that only two of the six "Gidan" groups (Dagur and Haragidan) have ancestry dating back to that period, with the rest being other para-Nongoric or !Turkic peoples that have accrued similar cultural traits, even similar languages and religions from close interaction over centuries. As a result, it is very difficult to attach one single ethnic or even linguistic meaning to the name "Gidan". The various Nongor-... peoples that lived in Western Tangguria were identified altogether not due to their distinguishing languages or ethnicities, but rather their lifestyles. The nomadic peoples included the Qarlugs, Barga, and Nongor, who travelled across Tangguria and central Vesposerica, while those who were settled in cities or small communities became known as Gidan, whether they were Alats, Haragidan, Tonggan, Dagur, Sarg or Basimi.

The Gidan are separate to, but are often confused with, the Musu people who are a large ethnoreligious group mostly made up of Hua-speaking ... adherents, who live mostly in the west of Tangguria. This confusion mostly comes from the fact that most Gidan groups are also adherents of ..., which makes them seem similar from the viewpoint of many Tanggu and Hua. The ancestry of the Musu, whose name derives from the common ... personal name "Muhammad", includes Hua who lived on the Jade Road as well as central Vesposerican traders and some city-dwelling tribes. They were tolerated much more by Hua empires and by the Jin compared to the Gidan, due to their speaking of a Hua language. As a result, many Musu achieved high ranks in the Jin government, and were regularly governors of the Jin's western regions.