Lotoces

**Lotoces,** formerly known as the **Republic of Orchid Isle**, is a small island nation west of Orchid Isle. It was discovered in 1745 and was made as a province in Orchid Isle but was separated from the country in 1803, being named Lotoces after the word Lotosas in Orchid Isle meaning ‘hibiscus’.

## Culture

### Native Culture

Hut construction, delectable feasts, and travelling the entire island by cattle are all examples of cultures. But which one is the most stunning of them all? hibiscus cher picking. The shoeblack hibiscus is the most prevalent of the island's natural 100 hibiscus species. There are hibiscuses everywhere, but Lotoces has twice as many as Orchid Isle despite the latter being considerably larger. The island's native Farma have historically made herbal drinks with hibiscus to cure heart disease and body temperature. Many Paranians and Owandanese individuals around the world came to the island to obtain hibiscus treatments for their homeland because the island was so revered for the flower.

### Modern Culture

There is no present national culture on the island because there are so many different ethnic groups there. Filipino culture is widely practised throughout the island. On the country's western coast, where the traditional nipa hut culture still thrives and the historic town of Golden Maries has over 40,000 of them housing only 1-2 people, is where the majority of Filipinos dwell.

## Geography

The island is located in the tropics, but due to its proximity being quite north (same with most Herethearian Islands) than the other tropical islands, it can be considered subtropical. The island is abundant of plants and trees with around 95% of the island being covered in forest, the capital, Port Samore, even has some natural ties to its building and environment set. The island is mainly very sunny and hot during the spring and summer and very rainy, but hot and humid during the autumn and winter.

### Flora and Fauna

The island has around 1,200 species of plant (122 hibiscus, 30 orchid, 80 trees, and many, many others), the island’s name literally means hibiscus due to the hibiscus being so common in the island alongside the orchid. The island, due to being separated from large quantities of land, has a very small diversity of wildlife, but still QUITE diverse, insects include crickets, centipedes, cockroaches, cane spiders, black widows, flies and many species of large butterflies.

#### Birds

Birds are very diverse in Lotoces, the national animal is a bird, the macaw, which was last killed in 1906 in Lotoces by hunters, some common lowland birds (both native and introduced) include the white ibis, wood stork, palmnut vulture, grey go-away bird, sayaca tanager, ashy tailorbird, bee hummingbird, the pygmy owl, wild turkey, chicken, the warbler, and the whistling duck, up the higher elevations in the country, more introduced birds that rather thrive in cooler environments can also be found alongside cooler environment plants; they are the blue jay, cardinal, robin, mockingbird, and brown thrasher.

#### Mammals

All mammals on the island are introduced from other countries and are most common in the lowland forests on the western shore of the island. Mammals such as the wild boar, water buffalo, mongoose, black rat, house mouse, ricefield rat, variegated squirrel, common raccoon, nine-banded armadillo, white-tailed deer, armored rat, red fox, and water opossum are all present in the nation, though all; except the mongoose, black rat, and house mouse, are very rare and have populations below 100 confined to the lowland forests of the nation.

#### Insects

Insects on the island include the brown centipede, western honeybee, malachite butterfly, monarch butterfly, cockroach, common house fly, punchinello butterfly, praying mantis, yellow crazy ant, firefly, spotted lanternfly, longan lanternfly, and tropical paper wasp.

## Demographics

40% of the island's population is Asian, 23% is Black, 21% is White, 10% is Indigenous, and 6% is mixed-race. Filipinos hold the distinction of being the largest ethnic group in the nation, making up approximately 92.50% of the Asian population and 37% of the entire island's population.