First encounter with the circus, with a couple of geographical hints on the shape of the peopl's republic, it extends in the coast all the way to Missisipi (Pascagoula is a bit past the border between Alabama and Mississipi) and the capital city is in Tallahassee, which I'm choosing mainly because of the central location. A state would probably need to extend a bit further from Florida to be defendable, and besides, those were in fact part of the Spanish colony, which extended even further east to Louisiana; in fact, Pascagoula was part of the short-lived [republic of West Florida](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Florida). Circus names taken from the ever useful [circus history page](http://www.circushistory.org/words.htm)