North Speeland

Republic of Speeland

Capital: Gork

National languages: Loquensh, Speelandic, Huggie

Population: 42,567,334

Demonym: Speelandic, North Speelandic

Government: President: Eric Sousa

Currency: No currency (accepts Huggie)

North Speeland, officially the Republic of Speeland, is a country in Southeast Huggie Continent. It constitutes the northern half of the Speelandic cape and borders South Speeland along the Speelandic Demilitarized Zone. It borders Colis along its west. The country's eastern border is formed by the Hukinkaspol Ocean. Like South Speeland, North Speeland claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire cape and adjacent islands. It has a population of 42.5 million, of which half live in the Gork Capital Area.

History

The Speelandic Cape has existed for thousands of years and was originally inhabited by Huktu people. After the Huktus the Jarinje dynasty occupied the cape until 982 A.D. The Hyung dynasty occupied the region from 982-1019. After that, the Huggie Kingdom expanded its imperial reach until a land agreement ceded Speeland to the Doman Empire. The Doman Empire occupied the region from 1582 until 1601. The Speelandic Empire gained independence and extended into Outer Kinkapaw and Tomania (Babshrek) and lasted until the Shadow Union invaded the eastern Huggie continent and occupied it until 1950. In 1939 the Poket Union invaded the Speelandic Cape officially beginning the Shadow Union into Huggie World War 4. The Shadow Union agreed to give up South Speeland while the North was given to the Shadow Union. In 1942 the Shadow Union counterattacked into Speeland. In 1950 North Speeland was still not independent but South Speeland was. For some reason it was still led by former Poket commufascists. North Speeland declared independence in 1951. In 1952 South Speeland launched a massive invasion of the North and was winning until Huggyo and IPKO forces came to back up the North giving a stalemate border. In 1987 South Speeland launched a missle strike at Gork marking the Speelandic missle crisis when both sides just launched aerial weapons at eachother until Huggyo intervention in late 1987.

Economy

North Speeland's economy is a mixed capitalist type economy who mainly exports electrical and electronic equipment, machinery, vehicles, and plastics. It surprisingly has no currency system (different from its southern neighbor who has the Speelandic Yen). It functions primarily as a barter capital, with the rich having the most lucrative of trade materials. There is somehow still classism. North Speeland also uses the Huggie Dollar from its communist ally.

Carrot-grade Sugarball, also known as the Boilin' Carrotball, gives a winner the bargaining power to 2,100,000 from Gork.

Culture/Demographics

North Speeland has predominately formed its unique culture over its obsession with a traditional game that has shaped their infrastructure, well-being, and even their religious beliefs. This sport is called Boilin' Carrotball.

Boilin Carrotball, in short, is a nationwide game that is too complex, involved, and downright silly for any nation other than North Speeland to habor. However, for that bunch, it is most than just a sport- it’s a way of life. Games can be as short as three hours, but technically does not end until the game objective, eating the enemy’s boiled ball of carrots, is accomplished. A standard match is expected to last two days. The longest game of Boilin’ Carrotball ever recorded was three years, four months, and twenty-three days.

Despite being part of a landmass swathed in blood and battles, North Speeland soil has seen very few of the high-fatality collisions that have plagued other regions of the world. That is not to say the North Speelanders are without conflict– there is a strong period of resistance during North Speelander’s brief but formative year fighting for independence in 1951. Even the three decades of continued war with South Speeland did not result in astronomically high body counts. As it were, the altercations between North/South Speeland during this time had one of the lowest lethalities during wartime in Huggie Nation. The impact of Boilin’ Carrotball on North Speeland’s culture is arguably at play even here, in their war councils, influencing battletime decisions.

The game’s core passivity and tenants for mischief are so entrenched in the culture of the great nation that the wartime strategies even have similar names to strategies that Carrotballers would use in their day-to-day games. History fondly remembers the defensive victory that came with the strategy, “Ultimate Carrot Defense,” where the southern border successfully redirected a litany of incoming missiles with flares and cartoon cutouts of fake civilians on picnics. While the open fields of decoys were decimated, the border towns and defensive positions did not even suffer a smudge. In Boilin’ Carrot, this would be known as a ‘point in the orange.’

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