(IN PROGRESS!)
GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMY
Udugu is a people's republic with a communist economy. Political power is vested in the hand of the Halmashauri. The first level of Halmaushari, the Halmaushari Watu, are local councils with elected regular members and rotating seats upon which all members of the community are expected to serve. The next level are the Halmaushari Kata, for the region (Kata), which are made of representatives of the H. Watu. The national Halmaushari Taifa is made of five representatives from each Kata. The decisions of any council can be overruled by a majority dissent of their constituent councils, or by a majority dissent of their people.
Each Halmaushauri also is in charge of coordinating the production of the Kiwanda, Shamba, and Kundi, the factories, farms, and service worker groups. The KSK groups democratically run their workplaces.
The army, or Jeshi Watu, is under civilian rule of the Halmaushari. The courts, Mahakama, are run by the Halmaushari but are independent of them. Other political parties are allowed, but the democratic and communist nature of the country are enshrined in the constitution, or Katiba-Sheria.
HISTORY
Udugu's history stretched back to the proud Udugan tribes that have lived in the region for thousands of years.
Udugu was colonized in 1870, by a foreign power the natives refer to as the Adui-Wageni, though they called themselves a different name. They came with their more advanced weaponry and industrial power and quickly overcame the Udugan tribes, establishing the colony of Warania, though the native people never called it such. The Adui-Wageni gave all the land to their landlords, sold the natural wealth to their companies, and drove the dispossessed tribes people to work on plantations and in factories for the profit of the Adui-Wageni capitalists.
In 1890, the Kabila Umoja Rebellion came into being as the tribes united under the leadership of Kiongozi Chuma and fought the invaders in the city of Mti Damu. They won that battle, and spread across the country, but were crushed in 1892 at Mto Nyeusi.
In 1945, the scattered unions of Udugu's growing cities came together to form one labor federation- Wafanyakazi Uhuru. The WU, allied with the Communist Party and other socialist groups.
In 1950, leaders from various Udugan groups met in a field outside of the city of Mfalme for the first convention of Baraza Taufa Ugudu, or BTU, the council for the coordination of Ugudan self-rule. The BTU opted to move the WU tactics of strikes and sit-ins out of the factories and into the country as a whole, staging mass peaceful demonstrations against colonial rule.
In 1960, a new challenge to colonial rule emerged- the Jeshi Umoja Nyekunda, a rebel army that preached anti-imperialism, council democracy, and communism. The JUN grew in the countryside, but made allies with the WU and the BTU. Initially, there was tension between these groups. The WU, backed by the Chama cha Kikomunisti (Communist Party) of Ugudu, was more western-influenced, farther removed from the rural people, and did not support the long, guerilla war that JUN advocated. The BTU, meanwhile, was split between a socialist majority and a liberal minority, and advocated a continuation of the peaceful resistance campaign. However, the JUN won these factions over, and the Adui-Wageni were first driven from the countryside into the cities, and then, in the cities, found they could not resist the increasingly militant WU.
Udugu won its independence in 1963, with the surrender of colonial troops at Ngome Mwamba. It has since been under the rule of the Udugan Democratic People's Republic.
