United Great Lakes

The United Great Lakes ( listen) or Federal Republic of Great Lakes, (commonly shortened to as UGL) is nation in North America, around a series of interconnected freshwater lakes called Great Lakes. United Great Lakes is a federal republic consisting of six states and one Federal District. The six states are in northeastern North America, between Ontario, Minnesota, Eastern Kingdom and New York.

Surface of United Great Lakes is 798,114 km2(Water 217,033 km2) (Land 581,081 km2). Over 27% of surface of United Great Lakes is water.

The Capital of United Great Lakes is called Detroit, which is only Federal District in the nation.

Etymology
The name United Great Lakes dates back to the 1986. Name comes from the Republic of Great Lakes, which was country between Wisconsin and Michigan.

United States of America
States of Michigan was founded in 1837 and State of Wisconsin was founded in 1848. They both were part of USA since they declared Independence, but later they became states.

In the early 20th century, Michigan became the center of the automotive industry.The three major car manufacturer, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, their headquarters were in Detroit. Factories attracted labor from Europe and from the southern parts of the United States. In 1920, Detroit was the fourth-largest city in the USA.

Great Depression and 1973 oil crisis treated Michigan's industry and caused a lot of unemployment. After the oil crisis, small and efficient Japanese cars began to conquer market share.

The Economy of United States collapsed tragically in 3rd February 1986. It caused Inflation which collapsed the banks. After weeks, USA collapsed.

Republic of Great Lakes
After USA collapsed, current senators and representatives formed provisional government for the Michigan. After a month, Michiganian government decided to form a country with Wisconsinite provisional government.

The name Michigan-Wisconsin didn't get many votes in the name referendum, but later the government announced that the new country is called Republic of Great Lakes or commonly used as Great Lake Republic. Republic of Great Lakes declared independence in 7th March 1986.

Canadian Crisis
In 1989 independency of Quebec rose up and Quebecers wanted independence referendum, which ended in positive results. Government didn't like the results. Quebec declared independence in 1990.

This caused huge crisis in Canada, Territory of Yukon wanted to join in Alaska Republic and southwest Ontarians wanted to be part of Great Lake Republic.

Crisis ended in 1992. Ontarians joined the Great Lake Republic, Yukoners joined to Alaska. After hundreds of consents, Quebec gained autonomy but stayed in Canada.

Federal era
After begin six years of Republic, Great Lake Republic were reformed into four states. The new name were Federal Republic of Great Lakes, but people decided to call it United Great Lakes. During the reform, United Great Lakes were not really lucrative. But in 1997, economy started to slowly rise up.

Modern era
In the early days of 21st century started very well. The Economy was rising and industry started to run. In 2005, State of Hurona voted to being divided into two states. The Supporting won and Hurona was divided into new states; Supronia and Superior.

Geography
The landscape of United Great Lakes is multi-cultural landscape. Usually people think that the landscape is just lakes, but there are a lot of forests and farmlands.

The National Animal of United Great Lakes is western moose. Western moose is standard symbol for UGL. You can find western moose everywhere, like in Great Lake Dollar.

Climate
United Great Lakes has a hot summer humid continental climate. It's caused the Lakes. In inner-Michigan and inner-Wisconsin there are a warm summer continental climate. United Great Lakes belongs to temperate zone, so it has all seasons. During winter, tempatures goes somewhere at -5°C and in summer, it goes somewhere at 23°C.

States
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Congress
The Congress of United Great Lakes has divided to Senate and to House of Representatives. The 24-member Senate exercises supreme legislative authority. It may alter the constitution and ordinary laws, dismiss the cabinet, and override presidential vetoes. Its acts are not subject to judicial review; the constitutionality of new laws is assessed by the 222-member House of Representatives. The Current Prime Minister of United Great Lakes is Lenny Harris.

In Every state, people chooses 4 persons to Senate and 37 persons to House of Representatives. The Congress will be changed every four years.

President
According to the Constitution, the President of United Great Lakes is the head of state. Direct, one- or two-stage elections are used to elect the president for a term of six years and for a maximum of two consecutive terms. The current president is Ryan Scott; he took office on 7th January 2042.

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Relations
United Great Lakes is nation, who is friendly to another nations. United Great Lakes doesn't have any enemies or any conflicts between other nations. Even the Congress says that United Great Lakes don't judge nations because their ideology, United Great Lakes is not a friend of Socialists.

United Great Lakes has signed three alliances with another nations. UGL also belongs to MG9, what is an economical organization between seven nations.

Energy
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Transport
In United Great Lakes, you can travel with many vehicles. You can take cruises or ferrys in the Lakes, you can take a train, you can travel by airplane or just drive with car. In big cities, you can use public transport (like Metro's etc.) If you want to go to foreign countries, you will need a passport. UGL has really good Highways all around the country. There are also lot of Routes, which are near of the Lakes. These highways are called Lake Routes.

An Official Airline of United Great Lakes is called Great Lakes Air. It has large fleet and it's home airport is Detroit International Airport. It was Founded in 2043, when The Congress of United Great Lakes designed the new airline for UGL. The American Airline Group helped the Congress.

There are currently two Metro's in United Great Lakes. The cities are capital Detroit and Toronto. The Detroit Metro has 4 lines and Toronto's Metro has 5 lines. Detroit's Metro is longest metro system and it also the busiest. It connects the Detroit's Metropolis.

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Demographics
The population of United Great Lakes is currently about 25,500,000. The largest cities are Toronto, Detroit and Milwaukee.

Languages
The Official language of United Great Lakes is English. But in United Great Lakes, they have different kind of dialects. They have American English, Canadian English and mixture of those two: Canerican English. There are also some Indians with their own languages and French minority, mostly people from it comes from Canada.

Religions
United Great Lakes is religion-free country. You can be part of any religion that you support. The largest religion in UGL is Christianity with 85%. 80% of Christianity are Lutherism, and 20% are Catholic, who mostly live in Supronia. The 14% are Atheism, and 1% is other religions such like Islam or Buddhism.

Music
United Great Lakes is land of Electronic music. There are many DJs in the nation. There is also famous music festival in Milwaukee called Electic Festival.

United Great Lakes has participated in Mappervision Song Contest six times and won 8th edition. The 9th edition will be hosted by United Great Lakes and it take place in Joe Louis Arena, Detroit.

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