Sintopia

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The Republic of Sintopia is a sovereign nation-state in North America, located near the New England region of the United States and the Atlantic provinces of Canada. Sintopia is a highly developed country, similar to Singapore in Southeast Asia. It is an economic powerhouse, and its cities are quite futuristic-looking, similar to ones in the United Arab Emirates or Southeast Asia. Its capital is Ustlali City, and its largest city is Castineland. The current President of Sintopia is Carly Simone, and the Vice-President is Jennifer Cornelius. Its official language is English, with Ustlali (a native language) and Spanish being recognized minority languages. Sintopia is part of BRICSS (Brazil/Russia/India/China/Sintopia/South Africa), and is a founding member of NATO. Sintopia is the safest country in North America, and the third-safest in the world (after Iceland and New Zealand). The ISO country code for Sintopia is SP.

History
Sintopia was originally inhabited by the Ustlali people, who crossed the Maine Land Bridge into what is now Sintopia. The word “Sintopia” is derived from the native Ustlali language word, “tsintupi”, which means “homeland” or “island”.

Sintopia was colonized mostly by the British; there were some Spanish trading posts like Rotando, but these were under British supervision. Sintopia was eventually divided into two British colonies: North Sintopia and South Sintopia. South Sintopia was later merged into the colony of Massachusetts (now the US states of Massachusetts and Maine), and after the American Revolution, became an unincorporated territory of the United States (like Puerto Rico and Guam are today), known as American Sintopia (and later, the Commonwealth of Sintopia). North Sintopia continued as a British colony, known as British Sintopia, and became a Commonwealth Realm (Dominion), known as the Dominion of Sintopia, in 1909, when it gained Home Rule.

From 1920-1921, the Sintopian Revolution occurred due to dissatisfaction with the American and British governments; the US refused to give Sintopia statehood, and the UK refused to get rid of the monarchy (same monarchy as Canada, Britain, and Australia still use today) and establish a republic. As a result, Sintopia became an independent country on February 17, 1921, which is still celebrated today as Sintopia Day.

Industrial activity
Sintopia supports a budding film industry, which started in the late 1970s when Sintopia Productions was formed by several Hongkonger-Sintopian film producers, who moved to Sintopia when they heard Hong Kong would be handed over to China in 1997. Much of the film studios are in Castineland; the name “Hollytopia”, a portmanteau of “Hollywood” and “Sintopia” (like how “Bollywood” is a combination of “Bombay” and “Hollywood”) is often used. It is accepted that Hollytopia will never replace Hollywood, but there is a rivalry between Hollytopia and Bollywood (part of a greater Sintopia-India rivalry; in fact, the “Subscribe to PewDiePie” meme was started by Sintopian YouTubers with an extreme prejudice against all things Indian, including T-Series). In recent years, especially since the late-2000s/early-2010s, an animation industry has began popping up, with several Nickelodeon and Disney Channel shows outsourcing animation to Sintopia (instead of Asian countries like they used to do).

Tourist attractions
Sintopia is also a tourist destination: Disney and Six Flags operate theme parks there. Atlantic Disneyland is located in an uninhabited coastal region near Rotando, and is a popular tourist destination for people from New England and Atlantic Canada. Six Flags Millennium World (named because it was opened in late 1999, in time for the New Millennium Y2K celebrations) is located near Castineland, and is the more popular option with Sintopians themselves, mainly because the majority of Sintopians live in Castineland or its metropolitan area. There are also smaller attractions, like the International Museum of Highways, Freeways, and Motorways (often known as simply the “World Highway Museum”) in southern Castineland, which is a popular pilgrimage site for “roadgeeks” worldwide.

Trivia

 * Among roadgeeks, Sintopia is known for its freeway/motorway system, which has a different-coloured shield for each freeway, though all use the same basic symbol of a white bridge over a white 2-laned road on a coloured rectangle (also used in the UK, but in blue). Sintopia itself also has a large roadgeek subculture, with roadgeek conventions like HighwayCon Castineland attracting as many people as popular furry conventions in the US.
 * Like the Netherlands, about 50% of Sintopia is reclaimed land; what was once an archipelago when Europeans “discovered” it, is now a single large island.