South Arcasia

South Arcasia, officially the United Republic of Arcasia, is a country in, constituting the southern part of the Arcasian Island and sharing a land border with North Arcasia. From 1949 to 1989, South Arcasia claimed to be the sole legitimate government of the entire island until the Treaty of Vaucluse was signed on 19 November 1989. It has a population of 27.34 million, of which roughly half live in the Federal District.

At the onset of the Cold War, Europe was divided between the Western and Eastern blocs. Like, Arcasia got divided into two countries; the neoliberal Western-aligned United Republic of Arcasia and the socialist Eastern-aligned Arcasian Democratic Republic. Initially, both states claimed an exclusive mandate for all of the island, representing themselves as the sole nation of the island until the Treaty of Vaucluse was signed, where the United Republic of Arcasia and the Arcasian Democratic Republic recognized each other as sovereign states for the first time.

Thanks to Arcasia's history of slavery, ethnic tension and high inequality are South Arcasia's contemporary problems compared to its northern neighbor, where ethnic tension and inequality are a thing of the past. Far-right terrorism is also a major problem in South Arcasia, and there have been reports of terrorist attacks organized by far-right groups throughout the past decade.

South Arcasia is a  with an executive presidency, meaning that the President is the popularly elected head of state and also the head of government. South Arcasia is consistently listed as one of the richest countries in the world by GDP per capita, one of the countries with the highest standard of living, and is ranked in the Top 20 in the world for its in 2021.

South Arcasia is a founding member of the, which became the in 1993. It is also a member of the, , and.