Hocolesqua
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| Motto: Just some good ol' boys, never meaning no harm | |
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| Region | Texas |
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| Capital | Point Pleasant |
| Official Language(s) | none official, English, Spanish, and German by custom |
| Leader | President Martin Blue Corn Holzgrief |
| Population | 2.6 billion (late 2007 estimate) |
| Currency | Copenhagen Tin (CT) |
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Hocolesqua, officially but rarely styled The Commonwealth of Hocolesqua, is a state in the region of Texas. Located in the Shawnee River Valley, its territory includes the Miami Hills, the San Chicharron plateau, and Lake Constance (Hocolesqua). Hocolesqua is a developed country with a mixed economy dependent on heavy industry, including automobile manufacturing, and resource extraction, especially uranium mining.
History
Hocolesqua was probably first settled by nomadic Indian hunters at the end of the last ice age. Archaeological sites dating back to approximately the 3rd Century BC have been excavated on the San Chicharron plateau, giving evidence of a hunting lifestyle dependent on large game including American bison. The modern history of Hocolesqua began with the forced removal of the Shawnee and Miami Indians from the Ohio Country to the southern central plains, starting in the late 18th Century AD. The Shawnee and Miami who made the journey west formed a political coalition out of necessity, social and cultural fusion soon resulted from their shared experience. The resulting composite tribe took the name of Hocolesqua (lit. "cornstalk"), a Shawnee chief who led the early resistance to British, then American encroachment. The Hocolesqua lived the first truly settled lifestyle in the area, bringing staple crop agriculture from the east, along with European firearms and metal tools adapted to native living.
A long-neglected backwater of first the Spanish colonial empire, then newly-independent Mexico, the territory of the Hocolesqua saw little outside influence other than an occasional mission by Jesuit priests to convert the local populace, and a few Mexican cattle ranches on the plateau. Close European contact resumed with the settlement of Texas by immigrants from the United States and a party of Germans who had previously passed through the range of the hostile Kiowa, finding the Hocolesquan natives merely passive-aggressive (likely due to their earlier mistreatment), but tolerant.
When Mexico abolished its federal constitution of 1824, Hocolesquans rose in revolt with the rest of Texas to protect their local sovereignty. No official Hocolesquan government yet existed, but a cooperative effort between the natives, the European and American settlers, and the local Mexicans established a militia to assert Hocolesqua's claim to independence.
Government
Military cooperation between the different ethnicities of early Hocolesqua led to loose confederation, and a mutual recognition of Hocolesqua's 9 counties, which are its chief subnational entities. These include: Girdy County, Jefferson County, Swabia County, Dixon County, Kanawha County, New Tyrol County, Seguin County, Kekionga County, and Prophet County.
The federal government is composed of a unicameral legislature (the Landtag) with representation apportioned by population. The law of Hocolesqua mandates that legislators be elected democratically, serving for a 4-year term. Re-election is possible, but no legislator may serve 2 consecutive terms. The chief of state and government are held jointly by the President, who is elected by a national popular vote to a single 6-year term, with no re-election possible. Matters of interpretation are left to a Judicial branch made up of the 5-member Supreme Court of Hocolesqua and the lower federal courts, all of which are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Judicial Subcomitte of the Landtag, then the vote of the full Landtag.
An interesting aspect of the Hocolesquan government is that unlike most modern federal republics, it has no single written constitution, rather the Landtag was assembled by necessity, then passed the laws which outlined the running of the government and its various offices. While this could theoretically lead to a volatile power structure in the federal government, custom and tradition are considered basic guides of legislative conduct. This is also counterbalanced with the independence of the counties, which hold most powers of taxation exclusively. In practice, the counties maintain the federal government out of goodwill and mutually recognized benefit.
