Pigville

Pigville is a resort town located in western Dream County, along the southeast coast of Lake Technoblade. It is the largest town and county seat of Dream County. It is part of the Pigville-Swineton-Golon-Colon micropolitan population area.

History
As the Athenians moved eastward in the 1800s, Unitary Athens annexed several territories that had not previously had permanent population. However, the Alvin Mountains posed a significant challenge to development. A group of pig farmers decided to settle in modern-day Pigville in 1873, in a relatively flat area near the large lake known as Lake Technoblade today. The hilly region eventually became a.

Two distinct settlements developed - one near the lake and one farther east in a valley. The settlement near the lake had an economy heavily based on pig farming and fishing, while the eastern settlement had an economy heavily based on logging and coal mining.

In 1970 after the foundation of the Athens Federation, the eastern, impoverished part of Pigville was granted its independence from the Town of Pigville, and was renamed Swineton, whilst losing its status as an incorporated community. Lacking a county-level government, Pigville no longer was able to perform road maintenance for Swineton, and the unincorporated community has struggled. After the Pigville-Swineton split, the western portion, Pigville, saw a rapid rise in tourism in the 1980s due to the town's presence in the MCYT community. Pigville's population increased by more than 300 percent from 1980 to 2010. Pigville began to transition from a historically working-class economy to an up-and-coming, tourism-based economy.

Politics
Pigville, for much of its early history in Unitary Athens, supported the Athens Liberal Party. After the decline of the ALP, working-class voters for the Athens Socialist Party became a strong force in the town. The ASP controlled Pigville's mayor seat from 1953 to 1987, with the ASP winning as much as 76% of the vote in 1969. In 1987, the town briefly voted for the Athens Conservative Party in the mayor election, before the ASP regained control of the mayor position in 1991. Pigville retained two ASP senators consistently every year from 1957 to 1999. In 2007, the town took a sharp shift rightward, as the Athens Conservative Party won by more than 12 points. The ACP's dominance continued for the next decade. In the last few years, however, the ASP has been able to regain some support, likely a result of the town's changing economy from working-class to tourism. Svetlana Ferrarat got 44.7% of the vote in the 2021 Athens Federation presidential election runoff, the greatest share of the vote for an ASP presidential candidate in the town since 2003.