New Hainaut


 * No longer canon, now replaced by a different, still-unnamed Central American country.

New Hainaut, officially the Republic of New Hainaut and also known as the Belgian Antilles, is an island country and unitary presidential state in the Caribbean Islands. The country got its independence on August 4th 1911 from Belgium. The country is located west of the nearby Dutch- and English-influenced island of Vasteria and has a size of 9,984 km². The country also has a population of 9,929,833 people. Its capital and largest city is Capetia.

Trivia

 * Like its neighbor Vasteria, the country is multicultural, with French, Irish Gaelic, Picard, Walloon and Patois as its main languages. The main indigenous groups in the country are the Guna and Ngabe while the Africans are of Kongo and Ambazonian ancestry.
 * The country's cultural aspects mostly match those of Quebec and Jamaica. Fiddle-playing, bagpipe bands, and champ were all borrowed from Ireland. Even the New Hainaut dialect and Quebec dialect are similar in lexicon, but the pronunciations are different.
 * Do-rags are often associated in New Hainaut with nobility, chivalry and fame, with men of all ethnicities wearing it, and sometimes pretending to be black to do so.
 * The flag is inspired by Saint Pierre and Miquelon: on top are the banners of arms of Hainaut, Picardy and Luxembourg, while in the bottom, a ship is depicted on the left sailing rightwards on a sea, with the sun rising next to it.
 * PaRappa the Rapper is the most popular video game in New Hainaut.
 * It is illegal to sell raw milk in New Hainaut, even on the black market. Being caught selling unpasteurized milk is punishable with a 500 franc fine or a prison sentence of no more than 2 years. In 2011, Chinese brokers had their house raided by the National Investigation Bureau in a sting operation and 50,000 francs worth of raw milk was seized.
 * Like Vasteria, New Hainaut has an embargo on Chinese electronics, only far stricter than Vasteria's. That means buying Oppo, Huawei and Vivo phones, even with a permit, is punishable with a 10,000 franc fine or a prison sentence of a maximum 1 year.