United Great Lakes

The United Great Lakes or UGL is nation created by Finn Mapper. It appears in 2nd episode of Future of North America. United Great Lakes is a federal republic consisting of four states. The four states are in North America, between Ontario, Minnesota, Eastern Kingdom and New York.

Surface of United Great Lakes is somewhere at 868,000 km2, (water 244,106 km2) (Land 624,044km2) The Capital of United Great Lakes is called Detroit.

Revolution
The idea for United Great Lakes started in Michigan in 2041. There was some nationalists who wanted that the whole Great Lake's people are one nation. That idea spread all over the Great Lakes. Later, nationalists declared war to their leaders. Nationalists took over Michigan. Then they helped nationalists of Wisconsin. Then they took over Toronto and last, they took Supronia. All leaders surrendered and escaped. (Canadians to Canada, Americans went to Illinois and Minnesota).

One nation
In 28th November United Great Lakes gain independence. The Flag was made by Michigans. Coat of Arms was made by Canadians. One man, Ed Coleman composed the National Anthem,"Land for Lakes". First Parliamentary elections held in 5th January 2042. First Prime Minister, Lenny Harris was selected. Presidential elections was held in 7th January. Ryan Scott, man from Toronto won it and became the First President of United Great Lakes.

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

Language
The official language of United Great Lakes is English. But in United Great Lakes, they have different dialects. They have American English, Canadian English and mixture of those two: Canerican English.

There are also some Indians with their own languages and some French speaking from Canada.

Example for Canerican:

Example for American English:

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.

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.

The Great Lakes
Of course, in UGL they have a lot of lakes. The most popular five lakes are Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.

Lake Tower
The Lake Tower (Form. CN Tower) is a 553.33 m-high (1,815.4 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years. It is now the 4th tallest tower in the world and remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Toronto (state), attracting more than two million international visitors annually.



Crystal Tower
Crystal Tower, known as Crystal of Detroit (42°20'04.3"N 83°03'19.1"W) is a skyscraper in Detroit, United Great Lakes. It is the tallest man-made structure in the world, standing at 930.2 m. Construction began on 12th February 2059, with the exterior of the structure completed on 2nd November 2065. The building officially opened on 28th November 2065. The tower's architecture was performed by Finn Smith.

Crystal Tower is the most popular attraction in United Great Lakes. There are more than six million international visitors annually.

The Lakes
The Great Lakes itself are good attraction in the country. They are always around you and you can take many cruises in there.

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.

Cars
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.



Airlines
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.

Metro
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.

Shipping
The Official Shipping Company of United Great Lakes is called Lake Lines. They have currently 14 ships all around the Lakes.

The Headquarters can find in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lake Lines has ships to big cities like Toronto, Detroit and Greenbay.

Railways
The Official Railway Company of United Great Lakes is called Lake Railways. It's operated by Great Lake Transport. The main stations are: Toronto Railway station, Detroit Railway station, Sudbury Railway station. Headquarters can find in Toronto.

Music
United Great Lakes is land of Electronic music. There are many DJs in UGL. There is also famous music festival in Milwaukee called Electic. Also, Spotify is most famous app in UGL. There are more 10 million registered users in Soptify from United Great Lakes. United Great Lakes has participated to Mappervision Song Contest two times.

Congress
The Congress of United Great Lakes has divided to Senate and to House of Representatives. The 60-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 300-member House of Representatives. The Current Prime Minister of United Great Lakes is Lenny Harris.

In Every state, people chooses 15 persons to Senate and 75 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.

Laws
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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 MG7, what is an economical organization between seven nations.

Allies
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