New Tenochtitlan

New Tenochtitlan, or simply Tenochtitlan, is a country located in North America, specifically Central America. The country is a "Freelancer" type of government, in which the only president of Tenochtitlan imposed their power onto it.

Tenochtitlan has only 938,000 residents, making it one of the countries with the least population in North America.

Flag
The flag of New Tenochtitlan was first used in 1835. The flag consists of a green background with a white outline, three stripes, and two irregularly placed stars at the top and two symmetrical stars on the bottom. The green represents bravery, the white representing peace, and the asymmetry representing how humanity is not as perfect as it might seem, which starkly contrasts the meaning of the previous two.

History
New Tenochtitlan was part of New Spain during the 1500s. After New Spain collapsed in 1820, Tenochtitlan was initially part of Mexico, and during the battles that followed Tenochtitlan split off from Mexico and fended itself for control over Central America. Although it failed to conquer all of Central America, it successfully fended off any attempts to conquer the nation and remained sovereign after the fall of the Spanish colony.

Initially, Tenochtitlan resented the United States because of it's Manifest Destiny policy back then. Seeing it as a state of nationalism where no sovereign state has seen before, after the Mexican-American War where the United States successfully took most of it's modern borders, Tenochtitlan grew to hate the USA further more and disallowed any entry from its citizens to the country and vice versa. However, this was easily broken; as Tenochtitlan bordered Mexico, it was easy to simply leave Tenochtitlan and into it's neighbors, then make their way into the United States. This status and loophole remain active today.

Tenochtitlan remained silent for most of it's history, avoiding wars and battles where possible. Around 1930, Tenochtitlan entered it's "Freelancer" phase, where after it became a somewhat communist country it was spearheaded by the person who took it into power. The Soviet Union (or WSSEU) took advantage of this and invited Tenochtitlan into the Comintern after it was formed, but Tenochtitlan refused due to attempting to take a neutral focus. This focus was broken after the United States invaded Tenochtitlan: although America could not take over Tenochtitlan, it was still enough for Tenochtitlan to try and undergo a democratic aim due to looming threat of a second invasion.

After the Cold War began, Tenochtitlan rapidly fortified itself and armed itself for a second invasion. However, this never came to be. As the United States decided to take in it's own affairs (getting angry with the WSSEU), Tenochtitlan's fortifications and equipment collected dust and simply became artifacts of the past. By 1970, Tenochtitlan had effectively spent half of it's GDP on wasted equipment, and it's economy started to collapse. The US tried to intervene, but as it invaded it around fifty years prior, Tenochtitlan prevented this. Tenochtitlan's economy collapsed sometime in 1980, and it was soon relying on Mexico.

In 2023, Tenochtitlan is still a whimpering mess. The Freelancer government has done nothing to fix the broken economy, and many citizens are immigrating to the US due to life being nearly impossible to cope with in Tenochtitlan.

Politics and Government
Tenochtitlan runs on the "Freelancer" type of government. This type basically means that the person who reformed or started the country now rules it independently, without any service to a higher form (with some exceptions). It is the only country in North America to use this government.

Tenochtitlan divides itself into twenty-seven "districts", of which seventeen have suffered greatly under it's current economic state. The rest are effectively fending for itself and the greater capital area has considered separating itself from the rest of Tenochtitlan.