Planicia

Planicia (Spanish: Planicia) (pronounced /pləniʃə/, /planisia/ in Spanish) officially known as the Federation of Planicia (Spanish: Federación de Planisia), is a sovereign state in South America. With a population of 55,000,654, it is the 25th most populous country.

Planicia is a federal presidential constitutional republic with a President as the head of state and a Vice President as it's deputy.

Etymology
"Planicia" derives from the Portuguese word "planícies" meaning "plains". It was given by Portuguese explorers during the era when Planicia was a viceroyalty of Spain. "-ia" is a Latin feminine suffix, which is commonly put after names. It means a wide variety of things, but in this case it could mean "land of", so "Planicia" roughly means "Land of Plains", and Planicia would be referred to as a female.

War of Independence
For many slave owners and wealthy land owners, the Spanish were unfair to them. They wanted to have power over everything instead of the king, but the king of Spain would threaten many landowners seeking to revolt with harsh corporal punishment.

However though, Spain was then invaded by Napoleon and turned into a puppet state. Like other Spanish colonies, Planicia revolted. Wealthy land owners fought against their colonizers. Due to French occupation, Spain was weakened and couldn't send more troops to intervene. Thus, Planicia gained independence.

Period of Oligarchy
For 30 years since the independence revolt, it was an oligarchy ruled by the upper-class citizens. Many people weren't even allowed to do simple things, and slavery was extremely common. The leaders quickly started becoming richer than they were before, and slave shopping was a very big industry for the upper-class in this time period.

Brazilian Invasion
Planicia was invaded by the Brazilian Empire in 1824, due to Planician claims on Uruguay. With European weapons, after 6 months of heavy war on both sides, Planicia won and gained Uruguay. This would weaken Planicia though, with heavy casualties and half of their manpower lost. As a result, the country was weakened.

Planician Civil War
On October 23rd 1826, Juan Marcos and 200 other rebels took control of the city of Espera and declared the oligarchy to be illegitimate. Within days, the rebels had taken an entire province. The leader quickly sent 3,000 troops to deal with the situation, but another rebel faction sprung up in the north, the APP (Anarquía Para Planicia, Anarchy For Planicia) with the goal of bringing Anarchy to Planicia.

Eventually, it became a long conflict that lasted three years, with heavy losses on both sides.

War with Paraguay
After the post-war recovery, Planicia was becoming a stronger country, even rivaling some European powers. When Paraguay invaded Brazil, Planicia knew Paraguay wouldn't be able to win, so they entered the war on Brazil's side. Within 6 days, Planician troops were in Asuncion. 3 days later, after having to deal with guerrilla warfare by Paraguayan troops, Planicia claimed victory over Paraguay. Planicia, following the war's results managed to gain all of Paraguay.

Interwar Period
Planicia bought land in the Gran Chaco from Bolivia.

Politics
Planicia is a federal constitutional presidential republic, like the United States. Before the Planician Civil War, it was an oligarchy ruled by the wealthiest people, including ones that had slave plantations. But after the civil war, presidents have been elected. The country has seen political stability since.

A lot of Planician politicians have technical backgrounds, which would technically make the country a technocracy. The President of Planicia is the head of state and government, while the Vice President of Planicia is their deputy. The legislature has 723 seats.

Geography
Planicia is located mostly in the Rio de la Plata, a strategic region known for it's extremely high soil quality. In the northern area, the climate is usually hot and humid with rainy summers. The northern region's temperature ranges from 2 degrees celsius to 41 degrees celsius and an annual mean of 20 degrees celsius or above. The middle and lower parts of the country are subtropical. to temperate and have a 70 percent humidity level. The mean rainfall is 44 inches.

Plant life
Plant life in Planicia is diverse. In the east upper Parana basin, there are many forests with valuable evergreens, such as the Parana pine tree, valued for softwood lumber. The west area is mostly grassland used for cattle. In the flooded areas are plants in the wetlands like the hyacinth, amazon water lily, trumpetwood and guama. Along rivers and streams are palms like the muriti, carandá and various species of quebracho trees. The quebracho trees are valued as a source of tannin. In the Gran Chaco, there are clusters of bushes, trees and savannas, with drought-tolerant thorny shrubs. East of the Gran Chaco, there are lapacho trees and evergreen shrubs known as "llex paraguarienis", known for their leaves which are used to make yerba maté, a tea-like beverage popular in South America.

Animal life
Planicia is home to the rare La Plata dolphin, many species of sea turtles, catfish, surubí, manduva, patí, pacu, corbina, pejerrey, meat-eating piranhas and the dorado or the mahi-mahi, resembling a salmon, it is also the official animal. There are many reptiles in Planicia, there are two caiman species, iguana lizards, rattlesnakes, water boas, yararás, frogs, toads, and freshwater crabs. It is also home to many birds and herons and storks.

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Economy
The GDP of Planicia is 2.456 trillion, and it's GDP per capita is 44,654, close to Japan's. Traditionally, Agriculture was a very big industry, but over time, exports from Europeans started the industrialization of Planicia.

Languages
The official language is Spanish. In the areas closest to Brazil, there is a large Portuguese speaking population. Spanish is the first language of many, but soon they learn English for trade purposes. Signs are monolingual in most areas, but in the Portuguese speaking areas, they are bilingual: Spanish and Portuguese.

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