>>40981966Hoshiyomites occupying that much land seems a bit weird when you consider that the total land mass of that is roughly equal to the entirety of Western and Central Europe.
About /hlgg/'s government both pre-VTE and VTE I wrote some notes on it and posted on it before.
https://rentry.org/hlgg-notes/jp/-era /hlgg/ is ruled by a council led by high priests for the various gods under the pantheon, and the executive senate under it is composed of lords and kings of nations that worship the holo gods. Modern-day /hlgg/ is governed by the Kaiser(or some other name in holo-dhennet.), with his lord-ministers (which I called stadholders before) that compose the state council, which enacts his will in various direct provinces of the Empire and its various governmental departments. Memory's a bit hazy and my brain isn't working well rn so you can just search for it in the archive.
The current lore in the archive states that the West was originally a protectorate set up by the Empire as a buffer state. And that there were originally native settlers. I think the Cfa zone would be where all the actual Hoshiyomites are, whereas further north it's mostly cultural influences.