Soviet Union . I know because we just learned about this if it’s wrong please let me know .
...information, social credentials, personal reinforcement, and INFLUENCE.
Appropriations: Allocate Money
Agriculture: Oversee Federal agriculture programs
Foreign Relations: Oversee diplomacy
Armed Services: Oversee military.
Another name for the Great Plains = Great American Desert
Haley is experiencing "relative deprivation".
Relative deprivation is a term in Sociology that describes a social status conflict within a person's head. They feel like they have been deprived of something that someone else has and they make a social decision to try and get it. It's almost like the old slang term, "Keeping up with the Jones'".