Liberty (State)

The State of Liberty, also known as Liberty or Liberty State, is a fictional state in the United States of America. It is an east coast state and will appear in Grand Theft Auto IV - The Rockstar Series and The Outlaw’s Saga - Grand Theft Auto: Renegade.
== Description ==
The State of Liberty is an East Coast state, located roughly south of New Jersey, southeast of Pennsylvania, east of Alderney, northeast of New Guernsey, and north of Delaware. Liberty is split into three distinctive region: Liberty City, the most populous city in the state, the Carraways, a peninsula, and Upstate, the rural area north of Liberty City. It shares a metropolitan area with Alderney, within the West River Region. The northern part of the state is more of wilderness and small towns, with smaller counties and such.
== Geography/Influences ==
=== Geography ===
Liberty is known to be a Mid-Atlantic state, being on the Atlantic Coast. Its geography is mostly predictable: a city with little nature outside of the Middle Park region of Algonquin, Liberty City, and an upstate area with more trees and diverse nature. The state is divided by rivers, including the West River, which splits Liberty from Alderney as far as north. Although in Liberty City, there appears to be ocean, but although it is hidden, there is a rural area extending further north from both Algonquin and Bohan, leading into Upstate Liberty, and a large island peninsula known as the Carraways extending further east of Francis International Airport in Dukes. Upstate Liberty also has mountains as shown on the license plate.
=== Influences ===
Liberty is almost purely based on the real-life state of New York, with Liberty City being based off of the boroughs of Manhattan (Algonquin), Brooklyn (Broker), Queens (Dukes), and the Bronx (Bohan), with a similar layout to how New York shares its boundaries with New Jersey via the Hudson River (the West River). The Carraways are based off of the Hamptons and Long Island, also located east on a peninsula from New York City, but the name itself comes from the Great Gatsby character, Nick Carraway, who coincidentally lived in Long Island. Upstate Liberty is based off of Upstate New York, with inspiration from Westchester, Albany, Fulton, and Essex Counties as well as the Buffalo region of New York. However, considering its boundaries with the real-life state of New Jersey, it shares a similar geographic placement with South New Jersey. Upstate Liberty also has mountains that are based on the Adirondack Mountains.
== History ==
=== Founding ===
=== 1987 ===
In 1987, Carl “C.J.” Johnson moved from Los Santos, San Andreas to Liberty City to get away from his family after an incident that costed his brother, Brian Johnson’s life. He lived in Liberty City for the next five years.
=== 1992 ===
In 1992, Carl Johnson did some car theft work for Joey Leone until he was called back to Los Santos after he received word from his brother, Sean “Sweet” Johnson that their mother, Beverly Johnson was killed. He never returned. However, two criminals, Claude and Catalina, eventually arrived in Liberty City and began their criminal career for the next nine years.
=== 1998 ===
After hiding out for years, Antonio “Toni” Cipriani returned to Liberty City to resume his role in the Leone Crime Family.
Roman Bellic from Yugoslavia eventually moved to Liberty City, where he started a cab company on his own.
=== 2001 ===
In 2001, after a bank robbery that led to a betrayal. by Catalina, Claude escaped custody and began hunting down Catalina, working with multiple gangs and crime syndicates.
=== 2008 ===
In 2008, Niko Bellic, Roman Bellic’s cousin, immigrated to Liberty City to escape from Serbia, partly to get away from Russian criminal Ray Bulgarin, and to find two of his old comrades as he believed one of them betrayed him.
=== 2009 ===
In 2009, Chinese playboy Huang Lee retuned to Liberty City to gift his late father’s sword to his uncle, Wu “Kenny” Lee, but the sword was stolen after a failed assassination attempt and he goes to great lengths to recover the sword.
=== 2013 ===
In 2013, the Bellic Car Service in Liberty City is still active. Franklin Clinton’s cousin, Tavell Clinton, lives in Liberty City. Brucie Kibbutz moved to Los Santos from Liberty City.
=== 2017 ===
In 2017, Joel Wallace, a former resident of Alderney, engaged in a shootout in an old office and construction site in Algonquin to escape the LCPD, shortly after his father’s burial in rural Alderney.
=== 2023 ===
In late 2023, Joel Wallace stole vehicles and sold them to Yusuf Amir, some with Liberty State plates on the back.
=== 2025 ===
Joel retuned to Liberty City to seek new partners for his business in Leonida.