Add New Song V3 profile: steampunk corporate constitutional monarchy

Technology: STEAMPUNK variant
- World leader in steam/mechanical/pneumatic/thermal (600yr deep)
- Behind in electricity (Western innovation, just importing)
- Mechanical computers mass-produced (punch-card programmable, differential analyzers)
- Pneumatic city-wide control systems (clocks, mail, lighting, signals)
- Aluminum dependency (needs electrolysis → must import)
- Cities: steam-scrapers, pneumatic tubes, gear computing halls, coal smog

Political system: Corporate constitutional monarchy (unique)
- Industrial Advisory Council (工咨会) = real legislature, corporations hold seats
- Emperor = figurehead with dormant nuclear powers
- Civil service = pure executor, no independent power
- ~50k people control 200M+ nation through corporate representation
- Workers/peasants/small business = ZERO political representation

Social crisis: extreme urban-rural scissors
- Mega-cities (steampunk metropolises) vs mechanized mega-farms vs empty frontier
- Corporations own BOTH factories AND farmland
- Worker movements growing, proto-socialist cells

5 core gameplay pillars:
1. Technology transition (steam vs electric)
2. Social reform (worker representation, labor law, land reform)
3. Recover Liaodong (Jianzhou irredentism)
4. Maritime empire management (Malacca, SE Asia, Australia, Bengal)
5. Pollution/public health crisis

Military: world's largest navy (steam turbine), accurate gunnery (mechanical fire control)
but no radio coordination (signal flags/semaphore vs English/German radio fleets)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+# New Song (新宋 / Song Dynasty) — V3 Start 1836
+
+## Basic Info
+- **Official Name**: 大宋 (Great Song) — claims unbroken continuity from Northern Song (960 AD), nearly 900 years
+- **Capital**: Hangzhou (临安, "Temporary Peace" — was the Southern Song wartime capital in 1600s, became permanent)
+- **Head of State**: Emperor (天子, Son of Heaven — constitutional monarch, "reigns but does not rule")
+- **Head of Government**: Grand Chancellor (宰相, head of civil service — executes policy, NO independent power)
+- **Real Power**: National Industrial Advisory Council (全国工业咨议会, "国工咨会") — corporate representative body, de facto legislature
+- **Government Type**: **Corporate constitutional monarchy** — the world's only government where CORPORATIONS hold sovereign legislative power. Emperor is figurehead. Civil service is executor. Corporations decide.
+- **State Religion**: Secular Confucianism (state ideology) + Buddhism/Daoism (popular). No state church.
+- **Technology Tier**: 1 (STEAMPUNK VARIANT — world leader in steam/mechanical/thermal/pneumatic. Behind in electricity.)
+- **Population**: World's largest (~200-300M? Columbian Exchange population boom)
+- **Literacy**: Extreme split — near-universal in urban steam-cities, very low in rural frontier
+
+## Technology: The Steampunk Empire
+
+### What Song Leads In (600 years of steam/mechanical refinement)
+```
+  Steam engineering:     World's most efficient steam turbines, high-pressure systems, 
+                         steam-powered naval propulsion unmatched
+  Precision mechanics:   Clockwork-grade industrial machinery, sub-millimeter tolerances
+  Pneumatic systems:     City-wide compressed air networks (clocks, mail, lighting control,
+                         traffic signals, factory automation)
+  Metallurgy:            600 years of alloy research → special steels, bronze alloys, 
+                         advanced casting. EVERYTHING except aluminum (needs electrolysis)
+  Thermal engineering:   Heat exchangers, refrigeration, industrial heating — world's best
+  Mechanical computing:  Mass-produced mechanical calculators in every government office, 
+                         bank, insurance firm, university, military ship
+                         Programmable punch-card engines (beyond Babbage Analytical Engine)
+                         Mechanical differential analyzers for engineering/science
+  Fire control:          Mechanical ballistic computers on warships → world's most accurate naval gunnery
+  Steam agriculture:     Steam tractors, threshers, pumps → mechanized large-scale farming
+```
+
+### What Song Lacks (Western innovations it missed)
+```
+  Electricity:           Just imported from Europe. Demo power stations in Hangzhou/Nanjing.
+                         No grid, no widespread adoption.
+  Aluminum:              Cannot produce (electrolysis required). Must import. Strategic dependency.
+  Telecommunications:    Low-speed telegraph exists but network sparse compared to England/Germany.
+                         No telephone. Pneumatic tube mail substitutes within cities but not inter-city.
+  Electric motors:       None → all factories steam/water powered
+  Electrochemistry:      Minimal → no electroplating, no electrolytic refining
+```
+
+### The Steampunk Aesthetic
+```
+  Song cities (Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai-equivalent, Guangzhou):
+  ├ Massive steam pipe networks along streets (heating + factory power distribution)
+  ├ Pneumatic tube mail systems (compressed air capsules carrying messages/small packages)
+  ├ Pneumatic flip-panel street signs and station boards (air-driven mechanical displays)
+  ├ Gas + steam luminous lighting (not electric but bright — heated element systems)
+  ├ Steam elevators in 10-15 story buildings (steel-frame "steam-scrapers")
+  ├ Mechanical clock towers with pneumatic citywide synchronization
+  ├ Perpetual coal-smoke haze ("the Breath of Industry" — 工业之息)
+  ├ Punch-card computing halls in government buildings (click-whirr-clack of gears)
+  └ Visually: brass, steel, glass, steam clouds, gear motifs — NOT neon/electric
+  
+  Contrast with European cities (London, Hamburg):
+  ├ Electric street lights (clean, bright, no smoke)
+  ├ Telephone wires
+  ├ Electric tram systems
+  └ Visually: copper wire, glass bulbs, clean(er) air
+  
+  A European visitor to Hangzhou: "Magnificent but CHOKING. 
+  Their machines are more beautiful than ours, but the air is unbreathable."
+```
+
+## Territory
+
+### Core China (directly governed)
+```
+  ├ Jiangnan (江南): Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai-equivalent — the economic/political heart
+  ├ Central China: Huguang, Jiangxi — agricultural + developing industrial
+  ├ South China: Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi — maritime trade, shipbuilding
+  ├ North China: Recovered after civil war (~1650). Old industrial zone rebuilt but secondary to south.
+  │  "Rust belt" feeling — once the industrial heartland, now overshadowed by southern new-build cities
+  ├ Sichuan: Recovered, semi-autonomous historically, mountain basin. Agricultural.
+  ├ Yunnan → Burma corridor: Song province, gateway to India/Indian Ocean
+  └ Western Protectorate (Hexi + Eastern Xinjiang): Recovered. Military frontier zone.
+```
+
+### What Song Does NOT Control
+```
+  ├ Jianzhou Republic (Liaodong/Manchuria): LOST since 1650. Song's greatest irredentist wound.
+  │  "Protected republic" status = Song saves face but doesn't control it
+  ├ Mongol Khanate: Independent, former economic colony
+  ├ Korea: Independent (Song cultural orbit but sovereign)
+  ├ Tibet: Status unclear (loose Song influence? Independent?)
+  └ Eastern Chagatai remnant: Western Xinjiang, squeezed, possibly being absorbed
+```
+
+### Overseas
+```
+  ├ Malacca: Direct fortress. Strait chokepoint. The overseas crown jewel.
+  ├ Vietnam / Burma: Autonomous provinces within Song system. Functionally independent.
+  │  Local administration, Song-appointed governors (with little real authority). 
+  │  Similar to Jianzhou's "protected" status but from the other side.
+  ├ SE Asian Chinese polities: Nominal Song sovereignty, actual independence.
+  │  Borneo republics, Sumatra kingdoms, Philippine port cities.
+  │  They fly Song flags but govern themselves.
+  ├ Australia (eastern/northern coast): Growing settler colony.
+  │  Song migrants. Semi-republican self-governance. Acknowledges Emperor.
+  │  Mineral exploration underway. Still small (~100-200k?) but growing.
+  ├ Eastern Bengal (宣慰司): Held since ~1720s. Gateway to India via Burma Road.
+  │  Blocked from westward expansion by English Bengal.
+  └ Various minor Pacific trading posts
+```
+
+## Political System: The Corporate Republic Under an Emperor
+
+### The Industrial Advisory Council (工咨会)
+
+**City-Level Councils (市工咨会):**
+- Every major city has one
+- Seats allocated to registered enterprises by scale (revenue/employees/tax contribution)
+- Big company = many seats. Small company = few or no seats.
+- Manages: city infrastructure, local tax rates, labor policy, port management
+- Hangzhou/Nanjing city councils = more powerful than most countries' governments
+
+**National Council (国工咨会):**
+- Representatives from the largest ~50-100 national corporations
+- The Heavyweights: Great Song Railway Corp (大宋铁路), Jiangnan Textile Combine (江南纺联), 
+  Southern Seas Trading Company (南洋商社), Lingnan Mining Group (岭南矿业), 
+  Imperial Steamship Lines (帝国轮船), Hangzhou Precision Works (杭州精工), etc.
+- Sets: national trade policy, tariffs, foreign policy direction, military budget, infrastructure priorities
+- Council Chairman (工咨会主席) = de facto most powerful person in Song
+- Re-elected every 4 years — but "elected" by corporate voting weight, not citizens
+
+**What the Emperor Does:**
+- Signs legislation (usually automatic)
+- Ceremonial: rituals, Confucian rites, Heaven-worship, legitimacy symbol
+- Constitutional powers EXIST but are DORMANT:
+  - Dismiss Chancellor
+  - Veto Council decisions
+  - Dissolve Council in emergency
+  - Supreme military command
+  → A strong Emperor could theoretically recentralize everything
+  → But no Emperor has tried in 170+ years
+
+**What the Civil Service Does:**
+- Executes Council decisions. Runs the bureaucracy.
+- Staffed by examination system (科举 evolved into civil service exam)
+- Professional, competent, but NO independent policymaking power
+- The Chancellor is a senior bureaucrat, not a political leader
+
+### Who Has Power vs Who Doesn't
+```
+  HAVE POWER:
+  ├ ~50-100 major corporations (through Council seats)
+  ├ ~10,000 corporate executives/major shareholders
+  ├ Council Chairman and inner circle
+  └ = maybe 50,000 people control a nation of 200+ million
+
+  DON'T HAVE POWER:
+  ├ Factory workers (tens of millions — ZERO representation)
+  ├ Displaced peasants / urban poor (tens of millions — ZERO)
+  ├ Small merchants / artisans (too small for Council seats)
+  ├ Intellectuals / teachers / scholars (unless they own a company)
+  ├ Military officers (budget controlled by Council — military = contractor)
+  └ The Emperor himself (in practice)
+```
+
+### Corporate Seat Competition (every 4 years)
+```
+  This is Song's version of "elections":
+  ├ Not citizens voting for parties
+  ├ CORPORATIONS competing for Council seats
+  ├ Seat allocation based on: revenue? employees? tax paid? → formula is contested
+  ├ Corporations expand/merge/acquire to increase their seat count
+  │  → Buying a company = buying its political seats
+  │  → Corporate merger = political alliance
+  │  → Corporate war = political war
+  ├ Trend: consolidation → fewer, larger mega-corporations → oligarchy deepening
+  └ V3 mechanic: Corporate Election events every 4 years
+     → Player influences which corporations gain/lose seats
+     → Shapes national policy direction for next term
+```
+
+### The Strongman Path (集权路线)
+```
+  In principle, one person could recentralize all power:
+  
+  Method A — Emperor's Coup:
+  ├ Strong Emperor + allied military + popular support (workers/peasants)
+  ├ Invoke emergency powers → dissolve Council → rule directly
+  ├ Precedent: Song had powerful emperors for 600+ years before the Council era
+  ├ Risk: corporate class has the MONEY — can fund counter-coup, bribe military
+  
+  Method B — Corporate Dictator:
+  ├ One CEO/tycoon controls enough corporations → dominates Council
+  ├ Also captures Emperor (bribes/controls imperial household)
+  ├ Also monopolizes Chancellor appointment
+  ├ = dictator wearing corporate-democratic clothes
+  ├ Risk: other corporations resist → corporate civil war?
+  
+  V3: Both paths available as late-game options
+```
+
+## Economy: Steampunk Industrial Capitalism
+
+### Structure
+```
+  Heavy industry (steel, machinery, shipbuilding, railway equipment):
+    Concentrated in coastal mega-cities. World-class. Steampunk peak.
+    
+  Light industry (textiles, ceramics, consumer goods):
+    Strong but facing competition from European electrical manufacturing
+    
+  Agriculture:
+    Mechanized commercial farming (steam tractors) on consolidated estates
+    Owned by the SAME corporations/families that own the factories
+    Highly productive per-acre but employs very few people
+    
+  Trade:
+    Malacca → Indian Ocean → global maritime trade network
+    Silk Road (via Western Protectorate) → Central Asia → Ilkhanate → Europe
+    Song is the world's largest TRADING nation even if not the richest per-capita
+    
+  Finance:
+    Hangzhou = East Asia's financial center
+    Mechanical computing gives Song banking a data-processing edge
+    Insurance industry (actuarial mechanical computers) = world's most sophisticated
+```
+
+### The Aluminum Problem
+```
+  Song can make every alloy EXCEPT aluminum (needs electrolysis = needs electricity)
+  → Must import aluminum from England/Germany/Ilkhanate
+  → Strategic vulnerability: aluminum is increasingly important for advanced machinery/vehicles
+  → V3: Aluminum Import dependency = diplomatic leverage for Western powers
+  → Solution: either develop domestic electricity (costly transition) or secure reliable aluminum supply through diplomacy/trade agreements
+```
+
+## Social Crisis: The Scissors (城乡剪刀差)
+
+### Urban Extreme
+```
+  Mega-cities (5-10 cities of 1M+ population):
+  ├ Steam-scrapers, pneumatic mail, mechanical computing halls
+  ├ World's most advanced infrastructure
+  ├ BUT ALSO: Overcrowded workers' districts
+  │  ├ Coal smog (far worse than London fog — 600 years of burning coal)
+  │  ├ Slums next to steam-scraper penthouses
+  │  ├ Child labor in factories
+  │  ├ No labor protections (Council represents owners, not workers)
+  │  ├ Disease from overcrowding + pollution
+  │  └ Growing ANGER — worker movements, secret societies, proto-socialist cells
+  └ The city is simultaneously the world's most advanced and most unequal place
+```
+
+### Rural Extreme
+```
+  Countryside:
+  ├ Land consolidated by urban corporations → mega-farms
+  ├ Steam tractors work the fields → few workers needed
+  ├ Former peasants already left for the cities
+  ├ Remaining: hired agricultural workers (seasonal, poorly paid)
+  ├ No pneumatic systems, no computing halls, no steam-scrapers
+  ├ Dirt roads, traditional housing, kerosene lamps
+  └ 100+ years behind the cities in living standards
+  
+  Frontier (Sichuan, Western Protectorate, northern border zone):
+  ├ Barely industrialized
+  ├ Military garrisons
+  ├ Indigenous/minority populations
+  └ Another world entirely from Hangzhou
+```
+
+## Core Gameplay
+
+### 1. The Technology Transition (蒸汽vs电力)
+```
+  Journal Entry: "The Electric Question" (电力抉择)
+  
+  Route A — Steam Maximalism: Push steam/mechanical to absolute limits
+    +: cheaper (no infrastructure rebuild), plays to strengths
+    −: long-term ceiling, competitors pull ahead in communications/computing
+    
+  Route B — Electric Transition: Import Western electrical technology, rebuild
+    +: future-proof, catch up in telecommunications
+    −: astronomical cost, massive unemployment in steam industries, cultural resistance
+    
+  Route C — Dual Track: New installations = electric, existing = steam
+    +: gradual, lower social disruption
+    −: slow, two incompatible systems
+    
+  Each route has different economic/social/military consequences
+```
+
+### 2. The Social Reform Question (社会改革)
+```
+  Journal Entry: "Voice of the People" (民声)
+  
+  → Can workers gain representation in the Industrial Council?
+  → Can small businesses get seats?
+  → Land reform: break up corporate mega-farms?
+  → Labor law: working hours, child labor, safety standards?
+  
+  Each reform faces FIERCE resistance from the corporate Council
+  But failure to reform → worker unrest → strikes → possibly revolution
+  
+  Routes:
+  A. Gradual reform (add worker delegates to Council → slow, corporate resistance)
+  B. Emperor's intervention (invoke imperial power to force reform → risky, may backfire)
+  C. Revolution (workers overthrow the system → industrial damage, chaos, possible civil war)
+  D. Maintain status quo (corporations happy, workers increasingly radicalized → time bomb)
+```
+
+### 3. Recover Liaodong (收复辽东)
+```
+  Journal Entry: "The Lost Heartland"
+  
+  Jianzhou Republic holds Liaodong — Song's oldest industrial zone
+  Every Song patriot knows: "Liaodong is ours"
+  But: Jianzhou is heavily fortified + has international support (England)
+  
+  Routes:
+  A. Military reconquest (massive war, high cost, uncertain outcome)
+  B. Economic absorption (tighten the "protectorate" → strangle Jianzhou economically)
+  C. Accept reality (politically toxic but saves resources for other goals)
+  D. Wait for Jianzhou to weaken (internal crisis? Mongol raids? Japanese war?)
+```
+
+### 4. Maritime Empire Management
+```
+  Malacca: secure (direct fortress)
+  Vietnam/Burma: drifting toward full independence → hold or let go?
+  SE Asian polities: nominal subjects, actual strangers → formalize independence or tighten control?
+  Australia: growing but needs investment → develop or neglect?
+  Eastern Bengal: strategically important (India access) → defend or trade away?
+  
+  Overstretch vs underreach: Song can't manage everything from Hangzhou
+```
+
+### 5. Pollution and Public Health (环境危机)
+```
+  600 years of coal-burning → the worst air pollution in human history
+  
+  Hangzhou/Nanjing smog: visibility drops to meters on bad days
+  Lung diseases: epidemic among factory workers and urban poor
+  Water pollution: industrial runoff into rivers (Yangtze? Qiantang?)
+  Soil contamination around old factory sites
+  
+  V3: Public Health events, mortality rates, productivity loss
+  Solution requires: cleaner technology (electricity?) or emission controls (expensive)
+  Corporate Council resists regulation (costs money, reduces profit)
+```
+
+## Military: The Steam Armada
+
+```
+  Navy (蒸汽舰队):
+  ├ World's largest navy by tonnage (but NOT by technology)
+  ├ Steam turbine warships: most powerful engines, heaviest armor
+  ├ Mechanical fire control: most accurate gunnery (punch-card targeting)
+  ├ BUT: no wireless communication between ships (relies on signal flags + semaphore)
+  │  → English/German fleets with radio = better coordinated in battle
+  ├ Submarine development? (possible — steam-mechanical, not electric)
+  └ Centered on: Malacca fleet, East China Sea fleet, Australian patrol fleet
+  
+  Army (陆军):
+  ├ Massive (huge population → huge conscript pool)
+  ├ Well-equipped (domestic weapons production)
+  ├ But: not as mechanized as Jianzhou (Song has manpower, doesn't NEED machines)
+  ├ Steam-powered artillery tractors, armored trains
+  └ Weakness: communications (no radio → army relies on telegraph + courier)
+```
+
+## Flavor
+
+### The Oldest Empire, The Newest Crisis
+- Song claims 900 years of continuous dynasty (960→1836) — the world's longest-ruling house
+- "We invented industry. We invented computing. We invented the modern world."
+- But: the world Song invented is now being surpassed by Western electrical civilization
+- National anxiety: "Are we still the greatest? Or are we becoming the greatest MUSEUM?"
+
+### The Mechanical Monks
+- Buddhist monasteries adopted mechanical computing for astronomical/calendar calculations
+- "Mechanical monks" — monks who maintain temple computing engines (click-click-click of prayer-wheel gears)
+- Computing and spirituality merged in Song culture in a way the West doesn't understand
+- Flavor events: mechanical temple installations, algorithmic divination debates
+
+### Tea, Steam, and Steel
+- Song culture: tea ceremony (ancient) + steam engineering (modern) + steel craftsmanship (both)
+- Master engineers have the social status of artists
+- "A well-tuned steam engine is a work of art" — the aesthetic of precision
+- Flavor: engineering competitions, master-craftsman culture, apprenticeship traditions 600 years deep
+
+## Relationships
+| Country | Relationship | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| Jianzhou Republic | **Lost territory / protectorate** | "Liaodong is ours." Permanent irredentist wound. Protected republic = face-saving fiction. |
+| Japan | **Pacific rival / wary respect** | Japan forced open by Jianzhou, not Song. But Japan's Pacific empire threatens Song's interests. |
+| Korea | **Cultural satellite** | Former tributary. Independent but in Song's orbit. Song cultural gravity pulls constantly. |
+| England | **Primary global rival** | Naval competition, Indian competition, Australian competition, technology competition (electric vs steam). But also: major trade partner. |
+| Ilkhanate | **Historical rival, trade partner** | Malacca Wars (Song won). Cold peace. Silk Road trade continues. Ilkhanate has electricity Song needs. |
+| Germany | **Technology source / competitor** | German electrical technology = what Song needs to import. But Germany is also a trade rival. |
+| Mongol Khanate | **Former colony, nuisance** | Nationalized Song mines. Raids Song border. Too small to threaten but annoying. |
+| Australia (own colony) | **Growing asset** | Chinese settlers. Mineral potential. Needs investment. Kalmar/England eyeing west coast. |
+| SE Asian polities | **Nominal empire** | Fly Song flags, govern themselves. Fiction of sovereignty. |