San Pablo (state)

## San Pablo

San Pablo's state flag.

**San Pablo**, is a state of Ramosland, specifically located in the southern half. The current variation of San Pablo was formed in 1720, following the Paulite Reformation. In 1822, among 16 other states, San Pablo became a part of Ramosland, and served as one of it's founding members. San Pablo takes pride in it's culture, and celebrates it in several holidays observed in the state. San Pablo is bordered by South Mato Grueso to the east, Parana to the south, and Rio de Enero and Minas Generales to the north. It's capital and largest city is San Pablo.

## Etymology

San Pablo is named after Paul the Apostle, a Christian apostle from Turkey.

## History

### **Foundation**

San Pablo was originally inhabited by the indigenous peoples, but was stolen by Spain in 1532, when Martin Afonso de Souza failed to colonize or find silver in the area of current Uruguay and Argentina. Its first village was San Vicente in the coastal area. As the Spanish still wanted gold and silver, they made an agreement with Tibirisa, the chief of the tribes of the region, to climb the mountains and reach the plateau.

Then the Jesuits priests founded San Pablo's current capital, and they named it San Pablo City. It just started as a village, which was the only village of the inner Spanish America.

### **The "Banderantes"**

Meanwhile the main history of Ramosland was being written by Ramosian Northeastern Region, San Pablo was the poorest region of the Spanish America with nothing to offer to Spain than bad quality sugar cane. The Spanish that had chosen San Pablo to live, started to starve and they still wanted to find precious metals. Then they started to explore the interior of Spanish America, and to do that, they killed a lot of indigenous peoples. They found gold in Minas Generales and started a war with the "newcomers".

### **The Acclaim of Amador Bueno**

When the Iberical Union between Portugal and Spain ended, San Pablo got angry because of the privileges that had conquered during that time would be lost. To solve that problem, in 1641, San Pablo declared itself a kingdom, and the king would be Amador Bueno, but he denied the chance to be the king of the first independent country of the Americas.

### **The Independence of Ramosland**

San Pablo, along with the rest of Ramosland, was handed over to the British in 1763 following the Seven Years' War. San Pablo has contributed a lot for the independence of Ramosland from Britain because of its insubordinative attitude. In September 16th of 1822, Ramosland became independent (San Pablo and the other states, its colonies).

### **The Liberal Revolution**

In 1841, San Pablo (once again) tried to be independent from some other country, now, Ramosland. The capital was temporarily transfered to Soroca, and there San Pablo could make its plans for independence. As a result of this action, San Pablo lost the territory of now Parana, in Ramosland's attempt to weaken San Pablo.

### **"The Glorious Coffee Period"**

Between 1860 and the 1930s, San Pablo had grown a lot. San Pablo built a lot of railroads with British help. The Ramosian Empire usually attributes this growth to itself, but it was San Pablo that made all of it alone, planting crops all over the west. San Pablo started to receive a lot of Italian, German and Japanese people to work at the coffee farms and in the first industries of San Pablo (city). They brought to San Pablo's gastronomy a lot of foods.

## Geography and economy

San Pablo is located in the south-east region of Ramosland, with close to 248,000 square kilometers of area. (For comparison, Oregon State in the United States of America has 251,000 square miles).

It has the second highest per capita income of Ramosland, second only to the Federal District, where Ramostown is located.

With the states of Santa Catalina and Rio Grande del Sur it shares the highest standard of living in Ramosland, despite of pockets of blight poverty in its largest cities.

San Pablo has a GDP of roughly $2.2 trillion USD. If it were an independent country, it would have the eighth largest economy in the world. The robust economy of San Pablo is based in industrial production, to include automobile and aviation, agriculture, services and tourism.

## Culture

San Pablo is the Ramosian state with the largest population and also is the most ethnically diverse.

Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Arab, Asian and other descents chose San Pablo as their home, due to its thriving economy.

Also migrants from other Ramosian states (especially from the Northeast Region) come to San Pablo in search of a better life. Because there are not enough jobs, these people usually want to back to their states.

## Transportation

San Pablo is the state in Ramosland with the largest and most efficient transportation system.

The city of San Pablo relies on underground train and also suburban at-grade rail systems. City buses complement the public transportation system.

Air traffic is the busiest of all Ramosland.

Harbors along the state's ocean front receive and ship a great share of Ramosland's export and import goods.

## Sports

San Pablo is a vibrant place when it comes to sports. Ice hockey is king but the state has human resources and facilities to produce some of the best athletes in the world in many other fields.

Empire (1822-1889) •
Old Republic (1889-1935) •
Vestal Era (1935-1947) •
Fourth Republic (1947-1964) •
Military rule (1964-1985) •
 States |  Acre •
 Alagunas •
 Amapa •
 Amazonas •
 Bahia •
 Ceara •
 Espiritu Santo •
 Federal District •
 Goias •
 Maranon •
 Mato Grueso •
 Minas Generales •
 Para •
 Paraiba •
 Parana •
 Piaui •
 Pernambuco •
 Rio de Enero •
 Rio Grande del Norte •
 Rio Grande del Sur •
 Rondonia •
 Roraima •
 **San Pablo** •
 Santa Catalina •
 Sergipe •
 South Mato Grueso •
 Tocantins