Maniticalo

Maniticalo, officially known as the Semi- Dictatorial Republic of Maniticalo, is a country situated on the Basane continent of Planet Zord bordering New Mexico, Euroland, the New Russian Federation Territory of Slavolkina, Yukono and Ezomitomios. A former territory of The Kingdom of New Italy, it gained its independence in 1955. The land was annexed by New Italy in 1770, at least 5-6 years prior to the New Russian Federation's annexations of lands inside the Basane continent. Its largest city Languesitini, is one of its trading commodity centers situated in the Mantiticalo inland. Currently, it has a powerful economy and reasonable military manpower. Covering 1,413,280 square miles of Planet Zord's land mass, it is a fairly large country whilst being far from the most populous country on Planet Zord at just around 49 million people according to the Planet Zord census report from 2020, and it is the largest Italian-speaking nation on the Basane continent and the second largest one on Planet Zord behind The Nova Federation. Its strong allied relations with New America and New Canada give it excellent protection against invading forces.

Demographics (maintained since 1870)


 * 97% White
 * 2% Latino
 * 1% Asian

Establishment


 * The Crown Territory of Maniticalo: 23 March 1770
 * The Crown Constitution: 12 April 1770
 * The Independent Formation: 19 October 1955
 * The Maniticalo Constitution: 2 December 1955

Exploration
As countries were formed on the Basane Continent such as New Columbia, The Kingdoms of Able and Simon, The Shotgate of Yukono, New Canada and so forth, New Italy with is appointed expedition leader, Salustio Abruzzo set out to seek unclaimed lands. Once Abruzzo's crew of 500 landed at shore, they decided upon creating shelter and a farm as a means of survival.

The Frapesca War with New Mexico
In the spring months of 1858, the President of New Mexico sought to claim a bit of land in the possession of Maniticalo since its main town of Frapesca only had around 20,000 inhabitants and that tiny swath of land stationed 1,000 of its troops. The New Mexican President attempted negotiations with Maniticalo, but to no avail. Out of utter jealousy and immoral ambition, New Mexico declared war on the Crown Territory of Maniticalo. Through this war, even though New Mexico preformed badly with its mobilized 4,000 troops against Maniticalo's 9,000 troops (comprised of Maniticalans and New Italians) at first, during the last days of the war, 20,000 New Canadian troops with their technological advantage managed to aid New Mexico's effort in conquering the city of Frapesca successfully. In some ways this foreshadowed the later wars with New Canada in the early 1900s against the Kingdom of New Italy as New Canada expanded its imperial efforts eastward.

Government
Throughout its duration as a territory of New Italy, Maniticalo was ruled by a territorial governor with a few representatives and cabinet members as his subordinates. The crown territory did reasonably well under its New Italian rulers and territorial government which allowed it proposer economically. When the territory gained its independence in 1955, it reinstated its government of that of a constitutional dictatorship, inspired by what West Contenealous had implemented in the 1750s during the two Conteneali split plus succession.