Huggie Union

The desert tribe had underground caves with rooms, shops, and tombs. The tombs were the locations of the dead kings, and the dead kings were said to travel to the underworld. The jungle tribe would make huge villages in the trees, many feet above the ground. They also built stone cubes to put their kings in, and they were in frequent combat with the frost tribe. This did not go well for the animals in the area. This is why the population in the Spear Forests is low for some animal species, most likely.  In 1404, Hugetsvska followers fled Shadistika due to widespread civil unrest and over-taxation. Hugetsvska members wanted to distance themselves from Shadistika as much as possible. They developed a Shadistikan-based language, which is still considered a dialect of the Anklyfrayan language to this day. They called their language Huggyo because Huggyo in Advanced/Ancient Shadistikan means “We Shall Be the Only One.”  It was also named after the Hugetsvska Nuormka book. (Read more in etymology) They mainly spoke Loquensh/English, but Huggyo is sometimes used in code and official form. (Huggyo means Huggie.)

 The Huggies quickly expanded north to present-day Unisibers or Unisibersika (Huggie-Siberia), and they encountered natives. This was called “The Great Huggyo Expedition.” They put these natives (by force) into newly formed government jobs, agriculture, and security forces (military). The Huggyo Kingdom was established on November 4, 1404. Their leader was Aje (Age) Smihth (by monarchist force). Most of the natives were persecuted, intertwined with Huggie culture, or assimilated. Approximately 45,900,000 autochthonous natives are living in the Huggie Union today, 98.7% of whom live in the northern half of the Huggie Union. The Huggie Kingdom slowly grew out west before eventually declaring the west coast as Huggyo territory in 1449.

The Long War (1450-1593)

Shadistikans were upset that their civilians were leaving them and fleeing their country for another continent, so they set out on a journey to kidnap and persecute the escapees. When they arrived, Huggie forces were alerted and rushed to open fire on Shadistikan boats. This triggered the start of The Long War (1450-1593). The war consisted of various attempted conquests (approximately eighteen) of the Huggies. Eventually, running out of money and resources, the Shadistikans called for peace in 1593, agreeing to pay around $300,000 in reparations. 

Despite the act, Seamus continued west, with the army apparently trying their best not to intrude on native life. In 1660, the Doman Empire and the Huggie Empire signed a treaty to partition the unclaimed territory, and the Doman Empire would also cede the southern half of its country to become Corislever. In 1665, Seamus launched an expedition just north of Speeland, in which the island nation of Jamesland (now the Republic of James City, or James City) had set up a colony, known as New Jamesland. Seamus used diplomats and a light force to pay Jamesland about $20,000 for the land. The land had already been recognized as Huggyo the whole time, but was merely a paper claim, like most of the West. In 1670, the town of Huggietown slowly rose to become a city of fine arts, liberalism, trade, and bustling urbanism. Huggietown was considered the de facto capital, while Huggiegrad was really. In 1675, Seamus commissioned a group to help build up much of Huggietown, taking away from Huggiegrad, planning for Huggietown to eventually be the capital by at least the eighteenth century. In 1680, many public works projects taken on were finished, especially the Huggie Monument (a 600 ft tower that pointed into the sky), the Colis Trail, a long highway connecting cities, rivers, and trade hubs, especially connecting the Huggie Empire with the Doman Empire, and the House of Seamus, a massive 800,000 sq. ft palace complete with dining halls, recreational rooms, and elegancies. In 1685, the Huggie Empire experienced significant economic growth through Seamus' Literacy Act, which improved education for the masses, increased literacy rates by 35%, and spurred workforce development. In April of 1690, Huggietown officially became Huggie City and the official capital of the Huggie Empire. In June of 1690, Seamus caught an infectious disease while visiting native territories in the western empire. He suffered deeply from it and had to be treated by native "doctors" while in the west because it would not be fast enough to take him back to Huggie City. These natives supposedly had him die faster through various methods, and he was pronounced dead on June 29th, 1690.

1690-1701: Emperor Dsa-Nomen

Dsa-Nomen, or Emperor Dsa-Nomen, was the sixth emperor of the Huggie Empire. He was the first emperor of the Huggie Empire not to be of the Wolfound ancestry. Seamus directly chose him as his successor because he "managed the economy well" in certain aspects. Dsa-Nomen carried on many of Seamus' public works projects and built up Huggie City fairly well, officially moving all government buildings from Huggiegrad to Huggie City. Under Dsa-Nomen, the first boundaries were established, the early versions of mandates, states, and territories. Dsa-Nomen did not really do much for the empire, other than riding off of Seamus' success and keeping the economy well. In 1700, Dsa-Nomen celebrated the turn of the century by throwing a massive bash at the House of Seamus, inviting everyone, including serfs, soldiers, civilians, political elites, the poor, and the rich. At this party, Dsa-Nomen was kidnapped by a group of mentally deranged soldiers who overthrew his power for a day known as the Day of Infirmus. These soldiers wanted the Wolfound dynasty to return to power, but it did not happen. Dsa-Nomen was rescued by the Private Guard, and he was restored to power. A year later, Dsa-Nomen resigned for undisclosed reasons, dying shortly after.

1701-1735: Emperor Unusus

Since Dsa-Nomen had no living family, the next-in-line for emperor was Unusus Lee, or Emperor Unusus, the seventh emperor of the Huggie Empire. He was a political elite under Dsa-Nomen who was frequently loved by the Dsa-Nomen administration. In 1705, Unusus broke the Native Wars Doctrine by attacking the Phausau tribe in the northwest. Unusus claimed that the Phausau chief blew up a Huggie fishing boat on the west coast, though there is no evidence to prove this. Unusus sent Huggyo troops into the area, though the Huggies did not commit atrocities against the Phausau, who were societally expected to assimilate. In 1712, Unusus held the earliest recorded Huggyo military parade for the 100th anniversary of the Huggie Empire. In 1715, Unusus adopted a son named Maxwell Scotts, who was 17 years old at the time. In 1718, Unusus completed all of Seamus' and Dsa-Nomen's public works projects, eventually expanding Huggie City to become an enriched city of culture, fine arts, and literature. In 1720, Unusus ordered the construction of Huggie University, the famous liberal and free university that is still acclaimed to this day. In 1726, Huggie University was completed, and the surrounding Civitas Academica (commonly known as Civacada) neighborhood was completed, becoming a place for students and the rich. In 1730, Unusus aggressively expanded the control Lords had over serfs, which the serfs became increasingly common following the Great 1729, a massive economic crisis. In 1733, the serfs under Lord Bashire of the East revolted against Bashire, killing him and escaping. Unusus responded by allowing all Lords of serfs to control a small army and have even more control over the serfs. His son, Maxwell, grew a fairly large army under the guise that he owned serfs. In 1735, Unusus died of pneumonia.

1735-1752: Maximus the Betrayer, Emperor Maximus

Maxwell Lee, or Maximus, or Maximus the Betrayer, or Emperor Maximus, was the eighth emperor of the Huggie Empire. Immediately upon coronation, he gave much power to politicians who heavily favored him, or whom he was friends with. This angered many of the Whites and the army, whose commanding officers were replaced by Maxwell's henchmen. In 1736, Maxwell changed his name to Maximus to "mimic Shadistikan royalty," and in 1739, Maximus destroyed all Dsa-Nomen and Unusus shrines and statues. In 1743, Maximus took away very basic freedoms of civilians out of paranoia that they were plotting to take the government over, and in 1745, Maximus announced interest in bringing back the "glory days of Shadistika and the Wolfound dynasty." In 1747, using his private army, Maximus raided the Imperial Palace, kidnapping many political elites, shooting White troops, and installing his army in the building. This angered the populace, but Maximus now had full control of the empire, declaring the empire to be "only ruled in the hands of Maximus." In 1750, Maximus plotted a takeover of the entire empire to install himself as a Military Dictator and create the Maximine Republic. In 1751, Maximus raided military bases and the Imperial Palace once more, declaring the Maximine Republic as official. A day later, the Republic ceased to exist due to Maximus' subsequent arrest. Maximus was later freed from jail and began to start another war against the empire. Foolishly, he rode on horseback himself with two untrained soldiers, with no armor and a sword, charging at the heavily armored and armed Huggie soldiers, and died. He was remembered as a betrayer of the Huggie Empire, as Maximus the Betrayer. Even today, in the Huggie Union, he is remembered as a traitor because he opposed the Huggie people.

1752-1753: Emperor Nicholas

Nicholas Howlands, or Emperor Nicholas, was the ninth emperor of the Huggie Empire. Upon his coronation in August 1752, he condemned Maximus, as he was not in the bloodline of Dsa-Nomen or Maximus Lee.  Instead, he was chosen to serve because he was the military commander of the Huggie Empire from 1748 until his coronation. In January 1753, Nicholas was fatally shot by a pro-Maximinian. He was dead upon arrival at the hospital. He served only five months, barely accomplishing anything. During his reign, the political elites were highly unstable, as half wanted the Maximine Republic to exist and half wanted to condemn him.

1753-1803: Emperor Charles

Charles Howlands, or Emperor Charles, was the tenth and longest-serving emperor of the Huggie Empire. In 1754, Charles passed the Maximus Law banning any praise of Maximus and making it fully illegal to incite any revolution against the Huggie Empire. In 1755, Charles made Huggyo-Christianity the official religion of the Huggie Empire, making the Crown officially entwined with religion, the first time that had ever happened. In 1756, Charles spent a million dollars (adjusted for inflation, around $57,000,000) to expand Huggie University and signed a law making it completely separate from the government, allowing for the free and liberal organization known as The Free Students to take ownership of the curriculum and the school grounds. The government was in charge of maintenance of the building, grants, and Civacada.

In 1758, the Huggie Empire underwent a territorial dispute with the Doman Empire, resulting in multiple border clashes and the One Year War beginning in 1758. The Huggie Empire sent 20,000 troops, which outnumbered the 12,000 Doman troops at the border, resulting in a Huggie victory and a final recognition of the borders circa 1759. In 1762, Charles made a decision to completely open international trade. He also subsequently established the Royal Bank, a federal reserve established to use and distribute the Huggie dollar and to control inflation and interest rates. In 1765, the Doman Empire sent 5,000 troops to occupy the city of Williambrownton on the southern border. The Domans successfully occupied the city for five days before marching the majority of their troops to Huggie City to burn down the Royal Bank building. Half of it was burnt, and the arsonists escaped, free to commit a series of crimes, murders, and kidnappings across the southern Huggie Empire while making their way south to the Doman Empire once more. The Huggie Empire responded by completely burning down Williambrownton, assuming that it was filled with Doman traitors, and marched over 10,000 troops into the Doman Empire to commit mass crimes against civilians in the nation. This went on for about four months and was known as the Rightful War. The Huggie Empire ended the war in January 1766 by attacking the newly built capital of the Doman Empire at the time, Domania, burning over 30% of it. The Doman Empire surrendered and was forced to pay over $235,000 (about $10,000,000 today, adjusted for inflation) to the Huggie Empire for reparations.

In 1770, Charles ordered the construction of over seven government buildings that are still used in the Huggie Union to this day. In 1775, the economy crashed, and Charles was blamed by many. Millions of dollars' worth of liquid assets owned by the empire (many assets that were in art museums, historical archives, machines, etc) were sold to people in the empire and to other countries. This provided an artificial boost to the country's economy, but it did not work for long. In 1778, Charles and his economic adviser, Brendan Hammond, wrote a book called The Game of the Markets, proposing an idea of stock markets. Hammond defined it as a "collection of exchanges and trading venues pertaining to financial ventures. In these ventures, an individual who proclaims themself either as a 'buyer' or one known as a 'seller' can trade 'shares' of a company, practically metaphorical slices into a company denoted as a public one, or a publicly traded entity." At the time, every company or entity in the Huggie Empire was private, and Hammond suggested companies holding 

In 1914, the War of the Nations (now known as Huggie World War I) began. The Doman Empire launched an assault on the Huggie Empire to claim what was called "The Lost Doman Territory." The Domans used an extreme tactic called population replacement. Domanian forces would relocate Huggies living in cities to the rural countryside to work and replace many low-income people with higher-class aristocrats from the Doman Empire. The Doman Empire was looking far ahead of where they already were, as the Shadow Union aided the Huggie Union during HWW1. The war officially ended in 1918. The victors of HWW1 did not greatly punish the Doman Empire. 

Lasting from 1922 to 1924, HWW2 was considered by some historians a continuation of the first conflict, when the Doman Empire set out to conquer the territory they believed was theirs and their newly lost territory. They lost once again. The Domans launched a renewed campaign and grabbed an ally, the Corislever Empire, to conquer the Huggie Empire. Towards the end of the war, it was looking like the Huggies were going to lose. But with the mistake of Corisleveren bombing raids over Shadistikan islands, the Shadow Union quickly put a stop to the war. In 1939, the Doman Empire, severely weakened, saw a great ally called the Poket Union formed from the ashes of the Pokanoke Republic. The Pokets quickly swept through Tomania and Outer Kinkapaw. The Pokets saw the newly colonized Speeland from the Shadow Union in the North as a threat, so they invaded, looking to conquer all. A ceasefire deal was reached in 1940 with the newly established South Speeland and North Speeland. The North was controlled by the Shadow Union. In 1941, the Poket Union and the Doman Empire launched a massive surprise attack against the Huggie Empire using scorched-earth tactics and brutal troop lines. 

The Huggie Empire was already dealing with an ongoing civil war from the Yellowes side of the communists, who put together the White (Imperial) and Yellowe (Communist) forces to fend off attackers. The war ended in 1945, seeing the fall of the mighty Doman Empire. Following HWW4, the brutal Huggie Revolution began. The Huggie Empire fought against democratic southern Colis forces and northern Huggie Union forces. This war was also referred to as HWW5 but has since been called, offensively, the Wimpy War due to its lack of "world powers." Many see this as a lack of respect against the lives sacrificed for the freedom of their ideology. The end of the revolution ended in a split between the southern Colis and the northern Huggie Union. Their geopolitical tensions still exist to this day. 

Modern leaders

Zakov Thompson (ruling 1950-1960) was the first leader of the Huggie Union. He was the Chief Commander of the Huggyo Forces during Huggie World War 4 from 1943-1945. He led the communists to overthrow the empire through a brutal civil war called the Huggie Revolution three months after HWW4 ended. Following the war's end in 1950, Zakov Thompson declared the country as the Union of Huggie Communist Republics, under a truly mixed capitalist and communist economy called Thompsonism, which still exists today. From 1950 through 1951, Thompson started to develop Congress, consisting of the House, the Senate, and the then non-powerful Offices of the Communist Party (OCP). In the early months of 1951, he invaded Colis, ultimately failing in early 1952. In 1953, the Huggie Union was considered to have much better living conditions than it did under the empire, and was considered a beacon of socialist freedom. In 1956, Zakov Thompson publicly announced that the Huggie Union was the first nation to boast a nuclear arsenal, claiming that over 10 nuclear weapons were developed at the time. Colis followed shortly after. In 1957, Zakov Thompson unveiled Memorial Square, a massive field with monuments celebrating Huggie history and their victories in war, honoring fallen soldiers. 

In 1960, Zakov Thompson died, leaving his vice president at the time, Owen B. Jones to take over as president. However, through a series of political bribes, his inexperienced son, Zakov Thompson II (ruling 1960-1970), took power and declared himself the permanent leader. In 1961, Thompson II gradually increased his powers and started the construction of the infamous Red Wall border between Colis and the Huggie Union. In 1962, Thompson II realized the nation was not making enough money off of the agricultural sector and blamed it on the helpful fertilizing bugs, the bestapolenza bugs. He ordered all bestapolenza bugs to be killed, claiming that it was ruining cops and killing people through their food; however, this in turn led to a massive crop shortage and massacre of farmers who refused to comply. More than 17 million bestapolenza bugs were killed with harmful pesticides, and from 1963-1970, over 3 million people died due to the newly manmade famine, pesticides, and other reasons relating to crop management.  In 1963, Thompson II ordered the arrest of over 300,000 people who refused to change their language from Huggie to Loquensh, and other political rivals. In 1965, Thompson II stripped all power away from the House and Senate, handing it over to the OCP, handpicking five pro-Thompson II individuals. Vice presidents who served during the 60s (Owen B. Jones, Burt Been Jr., Nicky Johansen) were considered the last true hopes of democracy, as Thompson II never touched the election process there. These vice presidents championed a sort of secretive freedom under the oppressive Thompson II and a "hope of democracy." In 1967, Thompson II ramped up border security at the Colisian border, often having soldiers pillage nearby Colisian towns and shoot anyone who got near the border. In 1968, Thompson II revoked citizenship rights from more than 1.9 million native Huggies, 900,000 of whom died due to the lack of services and government care. In 1969, Thompson II launched a brutal invasion into the border of Colis called the "Colis Liberation War," with both sides committing heinous war crimes against each other. Thompson II would launch bombing raids, pillage nearby border towns, firebomb military bases, and forcibly remove civilians. Colis would respond with the same. Thompson II created a massive carving in the southeast "hook" of the Huggie Union called the Military Controlled District under immense paranoia. The Military Controlled District has not received statehood at all, nor will it ever likely, though it is not nearly as militarized today as it once was. It acts as a state, but is considered a territory. In 1970, Thompson II passed due to heart and lung complications with no successor.

The OCP overrode the original constitutional presidential succession laws to place a Thompson in charge, as they were expected to under the Thompsonist ways. They found that his direct son, Zakov Thompson III (now Peace-With-All Thompson), was not fit to rule and was an "anti-totalitarian hippie." The next in line was a prominent nephew politician named Zachary Thompson (ruling 1970-1972). He assumed office in 1970. Just weeks after taking office, Thompson signed the Revoking Act, which undid every law that Thompson II had made during his entire term. He started a process known as "dethompsonization." Zachary Thompson led the most liberal version of the Huggie Union since Zakov Thompson's reign. Zachary Thompson made his political career about denouncing his uncle and undoing his "fascist" ways. In 1971, Zachary Thompson saw the Huggie Union's economy, which was formerly forcibly held back by Thompson II's economic laws, rise to an actual normal developing rate. In 1972, Zachary Thompson was assassinated along with his Secretary of Defense. What followed was two years of chaos and no direct person in charge of the Huggie Union.

During the two years when there was no president in power, Congress and the offices of the Communist Party were a mess, and they were considering appointing the vice president or Zachary Thompson's son, Jalen Thompson. In 1973, 17-year-old Liam Souza made his way into the Zakov Thompson memorial and delivered his 1-minute speech, saying

"I should enjoy life just as well as the next person. If you want this to happen, this 'enjoyness', then you must stop doing your nepotist ways; stop believing the nepotist ways. Whether you're disabled, able, old, young, communist, Colisian, you should have the freedom of a great leader. Help us this year, help us, oh God help us."

In late 1973, Souza was invited to a debate with his political rival Oauhu Kelly, and he dominated the debate, easily winning all votes from Congress, the Senate, and the offices of the Communist Party for Souza to become president. Liam Souza took the oath of office on March 22nd, 1974, shortly after his 18th birthday. Immediately, Souza ended the Colis Liberation War, and he saw problems in the government and quickly built up congressional and senatorial power. He passed a renaming of Thompson City and Thompsongrad to something else through Congress, which voted on it. The majority, in response to a liking of Liam, renamed the cities to Souza City and Souzagrad. Souza immediately improved education and built up large universities and health facilities in these cities and other cities. Souza is known for having a long-term approach and became increasingly unpopular in the 1990s. A group of extremist far-right men attempted an assassination on Souza, burning much of the Nogorograd Hall in Nogorograd in 1997. Souza was not injured. Souza helped improve relations with Colis a lot. In 2023, Souza started an unpopular losing war against the Corridor Islands. 

In April 2025, Liam Souza stepped down as president to become Head of the Union, or practically the ruler of the country. Political backlash was severe, and multiple lawsuits are against him right now. Souza is a polarizing leader who has become increasingly authoritarian since 1997.

Politics

The Huggie Union consists of one main Communist Party, under which the Conservative Party and Liberal Party function, which are considered two factions. These political factions are key to controlling Congress. Congress consists of 700 House members, 200 Senate members, and 10 Adviser members. There are two other branches in the Huggie Union: The Executive Branch and the Offices of the Communist Party (OCP). The Executive Branch consists of departments like the Agricultural Department, the Defense Department, and the Energy Department. (There are many more). The OCP consists of five permanent supreme council members who have absolute and elite authority over the Huggie Union. Following Thompson II's death, Zachary Thompson came in and removed all his appointed five members and put in different politically oriented members. Souza gradually removed these members during his tenure, replacing them with more pro-Souza members. (Infamously, Souza started a fake marital scandal against former council member Lorum DeVonte, which forced DeVonte to resign.) Recent laws passed by Congress have made it possible for a new party to take over the Communist Party, and laws are attempting to be passed to remove the OCP. The President can serve for life, which means that the Vice President has their own elections, ones that are costly and highly publicized, similar to other countries' regular presidential elections. The Vice President also has a Presidential Clerk, practically the third in line to the President. If the President is unable to serve or dies, the Vice President is supposed to take over, but in all cases of the deaths of the Presidents, the OCP has somehow been able to make the next president by their choice. All members of the governing system of the Huggie Union, except the President and OCP members, align with factions of the Communist Party (i.e., Conservative, Liberal) to get elected and serve their faction.

Culture and life

Customs

May 5th: May 5th is the independence celebration holiday in the Huggie Union. Massive parades take place in Huggie City and move southwards to Souza City; military equipment like tanks and other armored vehicles are showcased during the event. 

Shoecatching: In the Huggie Union, every first day of July, children from ages seven to fifteen are expected to hang their shoes out the window on sticks to show honor to the country and the "boots that the soldiers wore to fight for independence." However, shoecatching has become a massive business for thieves who go around to take children's shoes out of their windows and sell the shoes back to them. Many poor, or more commonly known as 'googlagoog' communities, patrol the streets and beat up these thieves as a way to give back to the households they steal food from.

Life

The Huggie Union, specifically the eastern half of the country and some sprawling western coast cities, is highly urbanized. Many buildings in cities are high-rises that fit in with historical downtown buildings and new low-rise or medium-sized housing. Brutalist architecture originating in the 70s is increasingly uncommon in the urbanized Huggie Union, but was a dominant trend in architecture until the late 90s. Huggie City is considered the poster-child city of the urbanized Huggie Union and is the model that many cities across the globe have tried to copy. Rivertownes are an anomaly in the Huggie Union, solely and mainly around the Huggie River. They were usually small towns set up upon the Huggie River to send boats up and down to unload onto small, creaky docks, up ramps, and across the streets. Many of these rivertownes would eventually evolve into major cities, and the rivertownes became parts of cities like Huggie City and Huggiegrad, where there are rather rich summer houses, with exquisite white designs and typical vacation houses.

Economy

Industry

The Huggie Union is a highly industrialized country. However, much of its industry left in the late 80s to go elsewhere, like in Talus, James City, and even the Huggyo island of Porto Novo. Nonetheless, Porto Novo, the southern island territory of the Huggie Union below Colis, produces a major amount of industry for the Huggie Union, comprised of around 4 million people on a rather small island. Most workers in Porto Novo are immigrant workers looking to come into the Huggie Union because Porto Novo is a golden door for immigration in the Huggie Union. Industry now in the continental Huggie Union mainly takes place in the Midwest, with large factory plots owned by conglomerate corporations or government-owned subsidized plants. The Huggie Union produces wheat, cast iron, steel, rolled ferrous metals, coal, oil, electricity, paper, cement, sugar, metal-cutting machines, cars, shoes, and textiles. 

Imports 

For both imports and exports, the Huggie Union is one of the largest trade hubs in the world, mainly in Huggie City. The Big Five cities in the Huggie Union (Huggie City, Souzagrad, Huggiegrad, Kakoontown, Souza City) are all situated on the Huggie River, which runs vertically on the eastern side of the country. It is a major trade route despite being rather hard to get to from the Hukinkaspol Ocean. The Huggie Union imports a lot of things it does not produce domestically. With the recent implementation of Red Pass, which is the Huggie-Colis border passing agreement that allows every Huggie and Colisian to pass between the two countries freely without inspection and just a .99 cent fee online, industry boomed by 230%, stimulating the economy and allowing for more Colisian drivers to pass between the Huggie Union with such lax transportation policies. The Huggie Union imports tropical foodstuffs, a lot of electronic components, luxury items, watches, bicycles, food products, and appliances, to name a few.

Exports

The Huggie Union commonly exports fossil fuels of various types through the corporation Regular Oil from rigs mostly within the Military-Controlled District. The second biggest export from the Huggie Union is Electricity from lines that run to Colis, South Speeland, and Islands such as Porto Novo. Crops such as wheat and pasta are another major export of the Huggie Union; most production is based in the Midwest, where large plots of farmland are tilled by common farmers and jury-rigged biplanes carrying crop dusters with cow manure on weekly dates designated for people to clear out of the way to not get hit, called 'Housedays'. 

Resource distribution network

The Huggie Union is connected by many highway arterials, airplane routes, train systems, and more. These allow for the quick movement of freight, and as mentioned later, passengers. Power lines are dually used to export electricity and domestically transport it from location to location. Power outages are frequent in sparsely populated regions; however, since 2019, power outages have decreased by over 40% due to ongoing Department of Energy initiatives. Water is transported and owned by the Department of Energy through national and subsidized pipes. Water quality in the Huggie Union has received a B+ by the Worldwide Water Safety Fund. Inventory tracking in the Huggie Union is not regulated and varies by company, but most companies have switched to UPC barcodes, which the IPKO (International Peacekeeping Organization) runs.

Retail

Huggie citizens commonly purchase goods from a variety of stores, predominantly the B-Mart, which runs a chain of small-to-large retail locations across the Huggie Union. The government operated a chain of massive, mall-sized stores known as Huggie All-In-One Stores from 2020 through 2023, when it ultimately failed. The AIO stores sold items from boats to groceries to electronics to eyewear. 

Transportation

The Huggie Union is connected by a vast underground network of subways and an above-ground network of trains. With the train networks finally completed in the late 1800s, they were built to swiftly transport troops and materials. Around the 1930s, most of the networks became dual-use for both freight and passenger, and subway networks were constructed. In the 1960s, Thompson II deconstructed the cross-country train system to build six lanes of asphalt from coast to coast, most of which never had enough traffic to fill all lanes. In the 90s, Souza built another cross-country train line next to the highway, and thus the famed train system was rebirthed. Airports are easily accessible in the Huggie Union, flying to each state and taking international flights. The Huggie Union became increasingly car-centric in the latter half of the 1950s, and historical buildings and tree reserves were taken down to put up big box stores and parking lots. Many of the damages have been reversed, but the Huggie Union is still a pretty transportation-forward nation.

Education

College education in the Huggie Union is considered top-notch, as most of the universities in the union are privately owned or student-owned. Huggie University, owned by the Free Students (a nonprofit international education organization), frequently ranks at #1 in the world for college education. Work in the Huggie Union is generally easy to find, with small privately owned businesses to mid-sized ones usually offering good pay and good work. Larger government-owned companies or actual government jobs provide decent pay and excellent value to stockholders.

Museums, memorials, and monuments in the Huggie Union are generally grand, with the biggest lying in Huggiegrad, which is considered the "Monument and Museum Capital of the Union."

The Huggie Union is still a rather authoritarian nation. The government is mostly dictated by the Head of the Union, then the president and vice president; however, the Senate and House have a major say. 

Citizens on the modern East Coast are currently facing public works budget cuts and a housing epidemic in large cities; roughly 8.9 million people total are without conventional housing, living in tents both real and made out of tarps, abandoned subway lines, and under highway bridges. These people are commonly referred to as 'googlagoogs' (sometimes pronounced 'gig-uh-la-googs') in modern slang, and some are hostile towards housed citizens and googlagoogs outside their region, acting like "wannabe gangs surviving off of theft and homeless shelters" as Huggie City News describes it.

The Midwest

People living in the Midwest Huggie Union mostly consist of lower-class farmers; they provide 78.2% of all agricultural-related vocations in the Huggie Union. They provide almost all types of crops, from textile materials to basic cereals. Most Huggyo farmers operate using domestic low-tech oxen-pulled or gas-powered equipment from tractor companies like Pooscooter. There are a few cities in the western Huggie Union, mostly appearing sparse, with low populations, and the capital of the state it's in, with the largest city being the west coast city, Nogorograd, in West Northwest Speb. Other major western cities include Iagrad in East Northwest Speb, Borderlands in Saconta, and Campos in Birlie. Huggie Highway 1, or HH-1, runs through the entirety of the country with three lanes going both ways, remaining largely without traffic for most of the 3,000 miles. A high-speed (120 mph) train line runs next to HH-1 and stops in many towns.

Education

The Huggie education system has a mix of for-profit privately owned schools (which often exceed reasonable pricing) and predominantly under-budgeted state-run schools. The Huggie schooling system is run by the Department of Education, which controls curricula and budgets. The Department of Education is headed by an elected Secretary of Education, who, under their leadership, has about 1,000 staff nationwide. There are 30 advisors (about 1.5 per state) who work with the Secretary to decide curricula, make reforms, etc. The Department of Education is one of the few executive branch government sectors that is relatively detached from the Communist Party and receives little influence from it.

School years last roughly ~6.9 months, with schools often starting in mid-September. The Department of Education maintains a Monday through Saturday school day schedule with no breaks, except for Christmas Day. Saturdays often start later and get out earlier, and most school days are from 10 to 3, averaging in at around ~5 hours, with school lasting 180 days. Students are taught basic reading skills from kindergarten through second grade, as well as basic addition and subtraction, with the additional curricula of art and music. Third grade through fifth grade is the Elementary Age, and kindergarten through second grade is considered Juvenile Age (though Juvenile Age is often lumped in with Elementary Age). Sixth grade through eighth grade is Middle Age, which prepares you for High Age, which is ninth grade through twelfth grade. Students are highly encouraged to go to college. State-run community colleges are usually on the lower end of colleges, whereas top-dog universities like Huggie University or the Music Academy of Huggiegrad are considered worldwide elite centers of education.

Entertainment

Music, movies, literature, and video games are major industries in the Huggie Union that take major influence from the nation of Plainsboro, Colis, and the Shadow Union. Media in the Huggie Union is widely uncensored, being one of the few things in the Huggie Union that is left so open.

Music

Huggyo music tastes are a combination of Plainsboro-like pop music and nationalistic Huggeo songs that glorify Liam Souza. The Modern Huggie Union music scene is most famous for nationalistic rock artist Bob Smith, who has released more than 30 albums in the past 45 years. Bob Smith is also an avant-garde, expressive, nerd rock musician who has been making music since 1989, and has gained notoriety when he hired the Jameslandian Big Bomb crew that consisted of more than 45 people who were over 400 lb and farted during live shows, and called them big bombs. The best-selling album of all time in the Huggie Union is a best-of compilation by the Huggie Military Marching Band (or HMMB) called Nation Hits that sold more than 300 million copies, spawning the most famous version of the national anthem, "Huggie National Anthem (To the 'O Huggie, 1996 Sessions 16/40),"  and the follow-up single "Huggie Union Let Me Go (1989 Live Sessions 122/294)."

Literature and The Huggie Times 

Popular literature in the Huggie Union consists of pro-Huggyo war tales from the Colisian Liberation War, the Huggie Revolution, HWW4, and HWW5. Books such as White on Yellowe (a novel about a war veteran and his family living in the Huggie Union during the revolution), The Souzagrad Boxing (a collection of stories about the failed attempts of Colisian espionage teams operating in Souzagrad), "Whimsical Mr. Bill" (a controversial short story that cleverly hides references to humanitarian crises from various wars involving the Huggie Union written a style similar to a fairy-tale, mostly from the Thompson Era), and Corridor; 20 - 44 (a critically acclaimed dramatic war novel about the lives and perspectives of several soldiers of both sides of the Corridor Island Invasion of 2023, later made into a movie) have become Huggie Times Bestselling Books since their releases. The Huggie Times is also an uncensored, unbiased, non-partisan take on the world news, written by a variety of writers from many countries.

Video games

Video games in the Huggie Union are a major media industry, with some big titles appearing in genres like shooters, open-world, city-builders, and more. Shroom is a low-poly, campy 2D and 3D mixed shooter game that has sold more than 14.9 million copies in the Huggie Union and has since gone on to amass a cult following in the Shadow Union and James City. The game was developed when its lead developer, Jason Nicholas Hughes, was consuming foreign mushrooms. Some of the most popular titles in the Huggie Union and worldwide are games developed by James City Technology, which has developed the best-selling Corridorian Mafia series, with Corridorian Mafia IV released in 2016, selling over 140 million copies. Its successor, Corridorian Mafia V, was an underdelivering, disappointing title that amassed under 10 million purchases. Tank Builder 4, a game developed in the Titan Republic, is also a best-selling game that incorporates building in an open-world environment while also building a city.