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Hattiesburg is a city-state located in the southern portion of the former U.S. state of Mississippi.
Hattiesburg was one of the few towns in its region that survived Doomsday. It was the capital of a provisional Mississippi state government that lasted from October 1983 through April 1986, then became an independent citystate that has lasted to the present.
An estimated 133,000 live in Hattiesburg proper and the surrounding region. Its territory extends roughly 30 miles in all directions from central Hattiesburg, but also extends south to former Bay St. Louis on the Gulf of Mexico. Hattiesburg's constitution is based on both the United States constitution and the Mississippi state constitution, with a governor as head of state and a bicameral legislature.
Hattiesburg's economy is agrarian, and like many survivor communities in the former U.S., reflective most of a 19th-century society. Conservatism and Protestant Christianity are heavily influential in Hattiesburg, despite the presence of a small, secular community centered at the University of Southern Mississippi campus.
Despite potential and significant differences between the Protestants and the secular university leaders, both sides have worked well together over the years. That cooperation was considered key in defusing tensions in neighboring Natchez in the early 1990s, and in more recent years preventing tensions in nearby Selma and New Montgomery, Alabama, from exploding into war.
The League of Nations was impressed enough with the organization and influence of Hattiesburg in the region that the LoN opted to make it a regional headquarters. Over the next five years Hattiesburg will become a military and economic base for the former mid-South, as well as a base for further exploration of the region.
It is not a member of the League of Nations, although it is considering membership. One complication is that most people, including many in government, consider themselves to be citizens of the United States. There is a small, but growing, movement to apply for statehood in the provisional U.S. government that is a part of the North American Union.
History
Doomsday
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Provisional State of Mississippi
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Conflict with Natchez
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The New Confederacy raids
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The Selma War
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2000s
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League of Nations contact
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Economy
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Demographics
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Culture
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International relations
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