So imagine the Qing Dynasty as pre-Saucekuum msmg. Despite having a lot of power and population, it’s unstable and a lot of groups both inside and outside fight for control. Now imagine the abdication of Puyi as the saucekuum, and the Republic of China as modern msmg. It isn’t very powerful and thus two parties arise, the Communists are most users, while the Nationalists are Toady and her alts. Constant wars occur between the two factions, until Japan (Devesto) appears and attacks msmg, causing both sides to unite and battle them.
Now, this next part is speculative, but imagine that we finally get rid of Devesto and resume the warring, ending with Toady migrating to a new stream and calling it the real msmg with backup from the Sitemods, while most users continue to rule msmg, though in an attempt to modernize our humor, many users leave. Finally, imagine that now tensions between the sitemod-backed Toady msmg and the original msmg are rising.
Congrats, that’s 1900s-Now Chinese history in msmg terms!