Laurentia

The Federal Republic of St. Lawrence (Republic du Saint-Laurent in French and Forbundsrepublik St. Lawrence in Danish) is a federal republic that is in North America, that is located just near (northern) United States and (southern) Canada.

Government
St. Lawrence is a federal republic, just like the United States. The president is the head of state and the chief of the government. The president resides from the Maison des Résidences (Residential House) in Norwich.

Demographics
Although St. Lawrence is primarily made up of humans, many other ethnic groups have joined the country in the past years.

Population (by species)
67% of STL is made up of humans, 12% of Toads, and 11% Yoshis. Those are the majority, but around 4% are Koopas, 2% Bob-ombs, 2% Shy Guys and/or Bandits, 1% are Bumpties, and the remaining 1% are Piantas.

Population (by language spoken)
St. Lawrence, just like Canada, is a multicultural country, many foreigners working or studying here.

Note: This only counts humans, though.


 * Majority languages:
 * English (77%)
 * French (13%)
 * Minority:
 * Danish: 6%
 * Filipino: 0.5%
 * Bahasa Melayu: 0.5%
 * Chinese (either Mandarin or Cantonese): 0.5%
 * Punjabi: 0.5%
 * German: 0.5%
 * Japanese: 0.5%
 * Spanish: 0.5%
 * Native Indian: 0.5%

Provinces
St. Lawrence is divided into 19 provinces and 1 capital region, the Laurentian National Capital Region. All provinces' names are named after North American or European places and cities, while one is named after a known location from the Mario franchise.

Here is the list of provinces (from coast to coast), and its capital:


 * Trois-Rivières: Murdochville
 * Folsom: Stratford
 * Louisburg: Edmonton
 * Antwerp: Berkeley
 * Bridgeport: New Potsdam
 * Baie-Comeau: New Liberty
 * Chaleur: Edison
 * Oakwood: New Richmond
 * New Schefferville: New Schefferville
 * Rosemont: Rivière-du-Loup
 * Westmount: Westmount
 * Laval: New Ottawa
 * Taschereau Island: St. John
 * Shawinigan: Perrot
 * Sarasaland: Byzantine
 * Pittsburgh: Noank
 * Noranda: Côte-Nord

Television
Most of St. Lawrence's TV networks are international counterparts of American TV networks.

For full info about TV in the country, see Television in St. Lawrence.

*= indicates an international counterpart.


 * Central Television Network*
 * NewsWorld*
 * Central Sports Channel*
 * HTV
 * TSW Television Network
 * Nickelodeon*
 * Cartoon Network*
 * Disney Channel*
 * Télévision réseau de central*
 * Canal Info*
 * Canal Découvre*
 * Arte*
 * ITV Network*
 * PhiNet*
 * Koopa Troop Television Network*
 * NBC*
 * CBS*
 * ABC*
 * STLTV/ABN STL* (ABN stands for American Broadcast Network, fyi)
 * Game Channel*
 * Rainbow Dash Network*
 * HBO*
 * CNN*
 * Sky News*
 * Laurentien Français Télévision
 * Auto Focus Network
 * Racing Sports Network
 * ABS-CBN*
 * TVA
 * MTV*
 * 3sat
 * TV5Monde*
 * FOX*

Radio

 * Central Radio*
 * Radio réseau de central*
 * Bell Radio
 * Radio N24

English

 * Norwich Citizen
 * The Norwich Times
 * Murdochville Journal
 * St. Lawrence Today
 * Westmount Gazette

French

 * Le Devoir
 * Le Monde
 * Journal de Trois-Rivières



History
''Editor's note: This only tackles about the white man in St. Lawrence. The only known mentioning of the Native Indians here are they went onto a part of St. Lawrence during the Ice Age.''

Discovery and colonization
When John Cabot, a Genoese navigator working for England, discovered (probably) Cape Breton Island in 1497, he also sailed to what is now the provinces of Chaleur and Oakwood, in St. Lawrence's largest island, Consul Island. The following year (1498), Cabot again returned, this time discovering Baffin Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and also the second largest island of St. Lawrence, Bayer. Before he returned to England and died, he sailed across what is now Oakwood Strait.

In 1519, Max Franklin, an Englishman, sails to what is now the southern part of Trois-Rivières. He then claimed the land for England. A few years later, in 1534, when Jacques Cartier, a Frenchman, before he even discovered Quebec, he sailed to where Cabot sailed in 1498, and discovered two of St. Lawrence's islands on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Anticosti and the Magdalen Islands. The following year, in 1535, Cartier and his party stayed in the northeastern part of what is now the Laurentian NCR. A few years later, now this time in 1578, Jean Rivard, another Frenchman, claimed most parts of the western Consul Island, and also the islands of Shawinigan, Magdalen, and Anticosti.