Los Angeles
Free Democratic Republic of the Island of Los Angeles 3 official names
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| Anthem: The People's March | |||||||||
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| Capital and largest city | Playadiestat | ||||||||
| Official languages | Conversilha Engelpraaten Agnian Serran | ||||||||
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| Demonym(s) | Angelean | ||||||||
| Government | Unitary Parliamentary Republic | ||||||||
| Ricardo Johansen | |||||||||
| Willem Aalves | |||||||||
| Luzia Faria | |||||||||
| Legislature | Grand National Congress | ||||||||
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| Established | |||||||||
| 1540s AD | |||||||||
| 1671 AD | |||||||||
| 1756 AD | |||||||||
| 7 April 1801 | |||||||||
| 15 April 1972 | |||||||||
| 2 March 1986 | |||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 2023 estimate | 30,200,000 (11) | ||||||||
• 2015 census | 29,092,321 | ||||||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2022 estimate | ||||||||
• Total |  $1.18 trillion | ||||||||
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| Gini (2022) |  31.8medium | ||||||||
| HDI (2022) | 0.900 very high | ||||||||
| Currency | Angelean Valero (V͇) (AVA) | ||||||||
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy | ||||||||
| Driving side | right | ||||||||
| Calling code | +80 | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | LA | ||||||||
| Internet TLD | .la | ||||||||
Los Angeles, officially the Free Democratic Republic of Los Angeles, is a sovereign country comprised of the Island of Los Angeles and numerous smaller islands. It is one of the largest island states on Manala, with just over 30 million people. It has a diverse climate, with tropical regions in the southern half and northern tip separated by a highland, where the ocean and higher temperatures play a moderating effect on the country's climate. Further east, this highland turns into dry desert.
The ancestors of Indigenous Angeleans came from an unknown location. Some recent evidence has led historians to theorize that roughly 30-40,0000 years ago indigenous groups arrived by sea from Alanna and began forming their own cultures and groups, but there is no evidence of a signifigant seafaring civilization in Alanna at this time. By the time of the arrival of Serran explorers in the late 1500s the indigenous tribes had maintained some of the longest known cultural traditions in the world. Alannan explorer Mbku Kalenene was the first known nonnative to arrive in what is now Los Angeles in 1401, but he arrived in the desert portion of the country and decided never to return. Onslander explorer Jeroen Vlootman discovered some of the more habitable portions of the island in 1529 and reported them back to the Onslander Empire, which settled some small trade outposts in the south over the 1540s, most notably what is now the town of Jerostad. These Onslander settlements struggled in the tropical climate and with raids from Alannan pirates posing a major issue. A Ndibeanyan chain of settlements was established in the 1560s, but were abandoned by 1580 due to a greater need for troops and resources back home in one of the internecine wars in what is now in Alanna. It would not be until 1600 that that the Serran explorer Álvar Hernando de Paoloa discovered the island for the Serrans and named it Isla de Los Angeles, or Los Angeles for short. In 1607, Paoloa returned with a colony and established the colony of Nueva Serran City]. Several years later, in 1615, Agnia established its own colonial holdings on the east of the island. As the nonnative population grew the native populations were increasingly displaced. Smallpox and warfare had cut the native population down to roughly 15% of its numbers before the arrival of the Serran colonies. By 1630, Agnia's colony, mostly due to the much more moderate weather and valuable resource deposits, had grown rapidly, outstripping both Serran and Onslander colonies on the island. seized the colony from the Serrans. It is about this time that the language of Conversilha developed as the island became a trading hub. In 1671, Serro annexed the Agnian colonies with the support of Onsland. The peace would last until 1756 when, as a part of the Six Years War, Onsland and Serro fought over territory in Los Angeles and the Furbish Islands. Onsland won, and annexed the Serran colonies. For the first time, all of the island was under the political control of a single power.
However, in the late 1700s, when Onsland began to fall to the newly unified Alannan Empire, the restless Los Angelean population saw its chance. In 1805, as a part of the Gagian Revolution, which distracted other colonial powers, the ongoing war between Alannan and Onsland, and the ongoing independence conflict in the Furbish Islands the colony of Los Angeles revolted. Despite a proposal to make Los Angeles an autonomous territory of the Furbish Islands, both sides rejected the plan. Los Angeles would slowly democratize over the 1800s, moving from an aristocratic society dominated by wealthy colonial interests to a more egaltarian democracy. In 1839, a new and fully democratic constitution was adopted. Despite not participating in either of the first two Great Wars, a Gagium-backed coup toppled the democratic government and replaced it with a communist puppet state. Despite being nominally communist, Los Angeles support for the Third Great War was lacking and the country's participation was initially limited serving as a safe harbor for Laurillac Pact forces. As casualties increased for the Laurillac Pact, a small number of Los Angelean troops, about 1.3 million, served in the conflict, mainly in the navy and army. In 1979, Los Angeles withdrew from the Laurillac Pact. A joint invasion by Alanna and Inglaterra was attempted, but failed. After the war, Los Angeles was not occupied and returned to democracy, despite keeping much of the symbolism and positions established during the communist government. Los Angeles has since maintained a stable liberal democratic parliamentary government and wealthy capitalist market economy.
Politically, Los Angeles is a unitary parliamentary republic. Eight provinces serve as administrative divisions. The population of just over 30 million is relatively urbanized and heavily concentrated along the southern and eastern coasts. The capital and largest city is Playadiestat, but other major cities include Jerostad, Nueva Serran City, Paoloa, and Santa Maria. Los Angeles's population is highly diverse, with large numbers of Serran, Agnian, and Onslander populations in addition to a mixed ethnic group called Eilandpersoonian. An interesting trait of Los Angeles is that it is the largest (and one of the only) nations with a creole as an official langugage; the language of Conversilha is primarily based off of Agnian-Serran vocabulary, but has signifigant influence from Onslander, Gagian, Fluvian, and various Alannan languages. Additionally, while the colonial languages of Onslander, Serran, and Agnian are all present, Los Angeles has its own distinctive dialect and accent. Of note, the Onslander dialect, called Engelpraaten, reflects what has been called a halfway point between Eilandwons, spoken in the Furbish Islands, and conventional Onslander, spoken in Alaoyi.
Abundant nature resources, a well-developed industrial economy, tourism, and a vibrant agricultural sector generates most income in the country.Los Angeles's status as a large port of call, popular vacation destination, and outsized influence in the manufacturing of luxury products make the country into one of the wealthiest on the planet, with a GDP per capita of $39,202. It ranks highly in the Human Development Index, quality of life metrics, democracy, health, education, civil liberties, and economic freedom. It is a member of the TBD MILITARY ALLIANCE with Alaoyi and the Antarctic Circle States and has a close relationship with the Furbish Islands. It is a founding member of the Global Community.