Free Taiwan. Free China. Republic of China. People call it many names, but the dedicated population of what has effectively become China in Exile now officially call themselves the Free Republic of China. Based in the rich city of Vancouver, and gathering an impressive amount of support from them, they are heirs to a civilization thousands of years old, but anchored in the reality that they need others to survive. That would humble others, and many assumed they would turn into just another charity case in the decades that followed the fall of Asia. But the Free Chinese are a proud people who have rebuilt their lost homeland in a new world and shouldered a greater weight of responsibility than many others ever expected of them.