Hitoku: The Golden Path of The Rising Sun

Hitoku is the official language of Mugekenaga and star product of Hoifon Yun, with 27 million native speakers, and other 57 million L2/L3/Ln speakers. Its biggest settlement is located on Mugekenaga, an artificial island located 60 km away from the coast of Nagasaki.

Hoifon Yun: the minds behind the state.

Hoifon Yun is a multinational communication and goods provider company headquartered in Mugekenaga. Amongst its provided products is the starship and flag product of the company: the Hitoku conlang, selling nearly 3.3 billion dollars in products and licenses around the world yearly.

As of now, January of, Hoifon Yun stands as the most powerful incorporated company in the world, employing nearly 13.3 million people, and with presence in more than 200 countries.

Origins: a sweets producer

Having started in the outskirts of Tōkyō, Hoifon Yun started in the year 2E6D (1885) as a sweets producer, gaining a lot of traction with a unique technique of sugar treatment that took advantage of the industrial revolution that Japan was experiencing at the time, which today is known to cause a slight addiction to the oldest products.

In 2E84 (1908), the company had already presence in most of Japan, and moved the headquarters to the Kyūshū region, where it started to also produce food in a more balanced way in Saga. Shortly after, it also did the firsts installments on foreign countries, successfully penetrating the Russian and South Korean market on the year 2E89 (1913)

The rise of Hoifon Yun

The growth of the company was evident during the start of World War II, as the company became one of the first providers of food and materials for the imperial army, but it skyrocketed after the bombardment of Fukuoka in June 19, 2EA9 (1945), where the company offered charity food, shelter and employment to the affected people, and received support and gratitude from the government for the contribution. There was an attempt for the company to be acquired by the Japanese state, but was rejected, and it continued as it was. By the time of the year 2EAE (1950), Hoifon Yun had a strong presence in the entirety of North East Asia, and provided with more than 900 million dollars worth of various food products to more than 70 countries.

The company kept growing at an exponential rate, constantly releasing new products and strongly and strategically building a strong international presence. The first step in american soil was given during the year 2EB8 (1960), where it became the first official provider for the future Apollo program, developing techniques of food conservation for space travel. Hoifon Yun simply kept growing stoplessly, as the products it produced kept evolving and the buyerbase kept increasing.

The translations of the future.

During the year 2EEC (2012), Hoifon yun started the extremely secret development of a constructed language homonym to the company. Said language was intended for top secret communication and document writing, things like plans and formulas. However, due to a security error, part of the language leaked out to the public, and as such, thousands of documents describing product ecosystems, political organizations and top secret formulas, were suddenly readable. Hoifon Yun, acting quickly, decided to take the market saturation path: renamed the language, polished and changed enough for it to be novel but not much to match the original documentation, and publish the entirety of the language documentation, shifting the focus whilst the original documents were destroyed or translated to a different code language; Hitoku was born. An enormous publicity campaign started, as the language started to gain the hearts of the language geeks, eventually moving to the mainstream media for enough time to gain truly loyal followers, a Hitoku culture was being born before its very eyes.

The birth of Mugekenaga

Once the first tonne of material was moved, there was no going back. 3C km (60 km) away from the coast of Nagasaki, the project started, the construction of an artificial island where Hoifon Yun could reside and provide with shelter to the employees of the company. The island would have a maxima diameter of A km (10 km) and 40 km² (64 km²), starting the project in the year 2EF6 (2022), the island would be habitable by the year 2EF8 (2024), and would be completely finished by the year 2EFE (2031).

The island would be equipped with highly modern, city-like infrastructure, with thousands of housing units, economic districts, workspaces and of course, Hoifon Yun’s administrative complex, occupying nearly 10% of the entirety of the island.

The island would be capable of providing housing and stable job to nearly 12000 people, which would be permanent residents of the city of Mugekenaga, which means “State of good life”.

The rise of the floating city

The city was designed as a youth trap, designed to be attractive for youth with high connectivity, affordable housing and efficient public transportation, this was not only to encourage employees to move there, but also because it was expected to build a population.

The first stable, non-employee population to move in were the hardcore part of the Japanese Hitoku fandom, people looking to use the dedicated infrastructure to develop their knowledge and usage of Hitoku.

The population grew steadily for years, going from a first year of nearly 1000 (4096) people, most of the employee base of the administrative complex and a few hundred geeks, to nearly 1F00 (7396) living on the surroundings of the complex, including the entirety of the employee base and a couple thousands of followers and a few hundred young residents attracted by the quality of life if the city.

The city kept growing until hitting 3000 (12288) people living in there by the year 2EFC (2028).

During those four years, Hitoku has been slowly and gradually replacing the originals English and Japanese as the lingua franca, providing the young ones with accessible and quality education in Hitoku, including programs to learn the language. By the time the first 3000 (~12500) mark was hit, the speaking population was between 2500 (~9500) and 3200 (12800).

The life in Mugekenaga

Today’s 2F01/02/03 (February 3rd, 2033). People live their lives in the island of Mugekenaga just like any other people, except that their lives… they are permeated by Hoifon Yun. All of the food that the population consumes, every infrastructure project, every importation, every manufactured project, is brought to you by Hoifon Yun. All of the 27 million people live surrounded by Hoifon Yun, speaking Hitoku. Welcome to Mugekenaga, the most advanced city state in the world.

