Costa Bravo
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Free State of Costa Bravo Estado Libre de Costa Bravo | |
|---|---|
 Flag | |
| Motto: "Trabajadores, unite!" | |
Anthem: The Internationale/La Internacional | |
| Capital | Nuevo Puerto Hércules |
| Official languages | None |
Local languages | a la brava |
| Ethnic groups (2019) | 29.0% European 18.6% South Asian 16.0% African 10.9% Asian 9.6% Polynesian 8.9% West Asian 7.0% other |
| Religion (2019) | 33.1% Liberational Catholicism 20.8% Buddhism 13.0% Hinduism 10.4% Islam 10.4% no religion 7.6% Judaism 4.7% other |
| Demonym(s) | Bravo |
| Government | Democratic confederalism (Devolved council democracy government on a confederated model with syndicalist traditions) |
| Stages of sovereignty | |
• Discovery by Europeans | 1522 |
• Colonization by Spain | 1580 |
• Ceded to Great Britain | 1714 |
• Independence | 1812 |
• Abolition of the directory system | 1991 |
| Area | |
• Total | 54,700 km2 (21,100 sq mi) |
• Water (%) | 6.9 |
| Population | |
• 2019 census | 5,001,250 |
• Density | 98/km2 (253.8/sq mi) |
| GDP (PPP) | estimate |
• Total | ƒ800 billion |
• Per capita | ƒ54,821 |
| GDP (nominal) | estimate |
• Total | ƒ700 billion |
• Per capita | ƒ35,934 |
| Gini |  .13low |
| HDI |  0.933very high |
| Currency | Costa Bravo Florín (ƒ) (FLO) |
| Time zone | UTC+3:00 (UTC) |
| Date format | dd-mm-yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +666 |
| Internet TLD | .cb |
Costa Bravo, officially the Free State of Costa Bravo or Estado Libre de Costa Bravo, is a confederal democracy located on a chain of islands spanning the South Atlantic and Southern Indian Ocean. Costa Bravo was formerly a colonial subject of Spain and Great Britain. It won independence from Britain in 1812. The current form of government dates to 1991 following a period of civil war.
Costa Bravo is governed from the ‘bottom-up’. Every community, ethnicity, culture, religious group, intellectual movement, and economic unit is autonomously organized as a political entity. All issues of daily life are decided on by the members of these organizations in consensus decision-making and direct democracy. Issues are put to the vote in an endless stream of referendums. This political apparatus is highly digital: votes are cast by citizens ‘on the go’ with their personal smart devices and computers. Political participation and voting are mandatory for all citizens. There is no head of state, but a ‘Representative’ may be provisionally appointed to conduct diplomacy on the people’s behalf (for example).
There is no official language. Media and daily conversations are in code-switched English and Spanish. This vernacular is called a la brava, or Bravo Spanglish.
The islands that are now part of Costa Bravo were colonized by Austronesian peoples between 500 to 1200 CE. Austronesian settlement of the islands lasted less than a century. Europeans independently discovered the islands on 1 April, 1522, when Juan Sebastián Elcano, the Basque Spanish explorer who completed the first circumnavigation of the world, was forced to shelter on Costa Bravo after being lost in a storm. The islands were claimed by Spain and colonization began in 1580.
Costa Bravo is the most remote nation in the world. In the 20th century, Costa Bravo played an outsize role in the Cold War as one of the leaders of the Third-World movement, a coalition of progressive non-aligned countries in the Global South. By the Cold War's end, Costa Bravo ranked as one of the most developed countries in the world, but to this day remains in the political sphere of developing countries.
Etymology
The name "Costa Bravo" is a corruption of the original name, which dates from the Spanish discovery of the archipelago during the first circumnavigation of the world. Noting the tumultuous waters and rocky coastline of the region's many islands, crewmember of the Victoria Antonio Pigafetta dubbed the place Costa Brava, Spanish for "furious coast". The name first appeared in Maximilianus Transylvanus's De Moluccis Insulis. The shift from Brava to Bravo occurred shortly after the British takeover in 1714, when the evolved form began began appearing in administration records. The original name continued in vernacular use until the early 19th century.
In contemporary Latin language accounts of the original discovery, the name is sometimes given as Ora Pravo, meaning "crooked coast" or "wicked coast".
Inhabitants of Costa Bravo are known as Bravoes.
History
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