Republic of San Marino

San Marino (サンマリノ San Marino ) is a fan-made character in the series Hetalia: Axis Powers. She is the representation of the enclaved microstate surrounded by Italy. She received the name Sofia Marinus  ( ソピア  マリヌス Sopia Marinusu ).

Appearance
San Marino is a small, short girl (who is said to be even shorter than Liechtenstein albeit still taller than Monaco and Vatican City in the European group) that resembles both Veneziano and Romano; she has dark brown hair and amber eyes, with a curved and bent curl to the right side of her head, represeting the three towers, Guaita, Cesta and Montale. Her skin tone is more similar to Veneziano's fair complexion than Romano's olive, since she is closer to the north than the south. She likes to dress formally and lady-like, often depicted in a purple dress with a chalk-white bow-tie around the golden-rimmed collars, purple leggings and beige Mary Jane shoes. Her hair is partly tied back into a high ponytail with a magenta cyclamen flower hairtie, which is San Marino's national flower. A golden, rectangle barette with the three towers of San Marino crafted on it clasped on the left side of her hair, this is her most prized possesion, the first thing she's ever made for herself when poverty had finally left her country and her people.

She's also very fit and healthy, due to thousands of years of everyday's work-out of steps-climbing.



Personality and Interests
San Marino is a pleasant, kind ( being called as a very good neighbour and being an asylum for persecution and despotism even when she's still very young and not even a country  ), polite, calm-headed and old-fashioned girl who enjoys her own wealth, however, she is by no mean shy, weak-minded or reserved ( holding diplomatic and bilateral relations with more than 170+ other nations ). Although she is still very forgetful, quite clumsy and tiny in population, in her old days she's shown to be very fiesty as she declared wars on several countries (in which she promptly just forgot about it right after that). For a country so small and defenseless in the past, she also has an incredible luck and charm that helps her gain the alliance and respect of many countries and historical figures that were willing to protect her during the war timeline when her close neighbours are clashing with each other, but instead she remained neutral and simply welcomed refugees from many different countries, the number of people which grew to be three times her original population at the time. Her past is also quite mysterious as there are a lot of myths and legends in her history, none of which are officially confirmed.

She enjoys cooking and festivals, her favorite and most popular festival is the ‘Medieval Days’ during the last weekend of July, in which her people turn back the hand of the clock and transform the historical city into a true medieval village. She also enjoyed making stamps (which are really pretty!) and usually make wine, which is white and cheese.

She also loves the 'San Marino Adventures', a popular adventure park of San Marino, where she often takes her guests to and laughs at them when they have trouble getting out of tangled (especially the Italy brothers since they are her most frequent guests) and have a rather questionable fascination for Hello Kitty (products with the design are literally scattered around her house) and a strange habit of harvesting agretto while she hikes (to make L'Agretti, a dish she also likes to make at home). She also has a fondness for all things military.

Italy
Main Article: Italy  

Although she is being taken care by Italy and rely a lot on him, San Marino is more of a sisterly figure to Italy than he is to her and cares a lot for him, although it is sometimes questioned when others saw a seemingly young girl patting on Italy's head or comforting him. Italy himself sees her as a big sister to heart and doesn't really care that she's a lot shorter than him. She also adores Italy's food and often imports them into her own country.

He is also a tad bit overprotective over her as he also agrees to 'check for danger' in the goods imported from a third-party country to her own, but not as much as Romano's own protectiveness. San Marino is often seen surrounded by him and Romano when they're together.

During WWI, Italy used to be quite hostile towards San Marino's neutrality as he think she might somehow betray them when they declared war on Austria-Hungary. During the Italian Risorgimento, she helped Italy and Giuseppe Garibaldi hide from Austria, one of the reason why she gets the frienship and cooperation treaty with him and is still independent today.

Italy often visits her home right next to his, crossing her border without having to do anything ( since there's no formal border between them, it's seamless! ) And because of him and Romano, she (who has custom unions with them) has the privilege of enjoying all the benefits that flows from EU's membership.

Lately, she's been increasingly concerned by the fact that his army sometimes went over to her border, claiming that it is only a mistake. She brushed it off, but that didn't stop her from being concerned over her independence.

South Italy (Romano)
Main Article: South Italy

Romano, in contrast of Italy, is often being seen scolding San Marino or helping out and keeping an eye on ( a.k.a 'babysitting' ) San Marino as she is quite clumsy and forgetful most of the time. San Marino however gets dissappointed that she's 'being such a child' to him even though she's the older one'. She is often surrounded by him and Italy when the three of them are together.

She tries to aid him whenever she can. Romano appears to be calmer and more mature when he acts when he's with her.

America
Main Article: America

San Marino and America are on good terms. In the past, when America was in one of his darkest moment, the civil war which threatened the viability of him being a democratic republic, San Marino sent a letter to him which caught his attention. President Abraham Lincoln was made an honorable citizen of San Marino as they are both republics - an endangered 'species' during the time and managed to raise America's spirit. Their bosses are said to be on excellent terms with each other.

France
Main Article: France  

They used to be quite closed, like an older brother to her, due to the fact that France's boss during the French Revolution, Napoleon I is friend with one of her Regent Captain, Antonio Onofri. He promised to guarantee and protect her independence, even offering to expand her territory but the offer was declined when she thought it would only cause her revenge and trouble from other countries in the future (which proved to be a right choice in the future). They are not so close now, but France is always a friend (and secretly ally at heart) to San Marino. Moreover, Napoleon I of France is also a father-figure to San Marino. She always tagged along with him whenever he visited her.

Antonio Onofri
Main Article: Antonio Onofri 

<p style="text-align:justify;">San Marino and her people called him 'Father of the Country'. The 'rebirth' of San Marino during the difficult period has been attributed to him, who befriended with Napoleon I and helped her get through the French Revolution without harm. She is seen smiling sadly and placing cyclamens on his grave.

Germany
Main Article: Germany

Germany finds it surprising that a seemingly little girl can be older than both him and Italy, but respects her. He once briefly stayed in her country, but was driven out by the Allied Forces in the Battle of San Marino, which later got her into one of her few angry moments and went to declare war on him for 25 years during WWII, tossing asides her neutrality to join the Allies (although, they didn't do anything much about it). Their relationship is not the most friendly one out there, but before the war declaration, she welcomed his Jewish citizens to her home, risking angering his boss but still managed to stay neutral; they do not talk to each other unless it's really neccesary now.

England
Main Article: England

England still has a sour behaviour towards her due to the fastest goal scored by San Marino's team during World Cup qualifier on 17 November 1993, embarrassing and shocking him. However, she saw him as a potential football coach, always looking at him with hopeful eyes when she sees him play and writes it as one of her 'Top 10 Things I Wanted'. Asides from that, diplomatically, she's in good terms with England. Even though she looks up to him, they bicker quite often.

She also used to declare a war on him, but after being questioned, she denied the fact and said that it was just a misunderstanding; they switched sides after that and turned to declare war on Germany, with San Marino only standing at the distance. England is the only person that has ever hurt her by bombing her country.

Liechtenstein
Main Article: Liechtenstein

When they first met, Liechtenstein thought San Marino was a little girl lost in the streets during the trip for the meeting between their bosses. After they found the Italy brothers, she was quite shocked when she found out that San Marino is actually even older than her brother. They are friendly to each other, but apparently, the two girls are very competitive in football.

Austria
Main Article: Austria

In 1915, she cheerfully declared war on Austria (along with Hungary), although she never turned up in the battlefield. Nowadays, Austria and San Marino relationship is neutral - not closed. Additionally, the former one treated the latter with suspicion during WWII and during the time when Garibaldi Giuseppe and Italy came to take asylum at her home, who she was helping during that time.

Russia
Main Article: Russia

After WWII, when her country had both the Communist and Socialist Parties during the Cold War, she and Russia strengthened their relationship. Nowadays, Russia came to visit her quite often, and she even has a memorial statue of the Beslan victims in his country. San Marino thought Russia was nice, while the other countries tried to convince her otherwise.

Sweden
Main Article: Sweden

Italy told the other Axis about a legend of a war between Sweden and San Marino when the two latters are talking to each other. This shocked Germany and Japan when it was told that the war is said to not have ended even until now. However, France came by and told them that it was completely false, saying that it was only an amusing popular myth.

Trivia

 * Her curl is not an e-zone, it simply represents the Three Towers of San Marino; the angled shape of her curl represents the country's extremely mountainous terrain.
 * She is the self-proclaimed oldest republic in the world. But the fact that not everyone knows that she's also the first republic too.
 * She's very very old and has been around since the Neolithic Age ( human traces in the territory of San Marino ) and so on, but she's only officially found by her 'father' since 301. If for real, she's about 7000+ age.
 * They say that San Marino has a sort of traffic of weapons like guns, as the laws about weapons are different from Italy's and it is the most unrestricted gun law in the whole Europe,so the Italy brothers go there also for that reason...Air guns is also a thing that San Marino really likes. In the Historic Center, there are plenty of <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;line-height:18px;">military and arms-ccentric stores. Anyone can buy a sub machine gun or any other light duty weapon.
 * San Marino drinks tap-wine and bottled-water. Instead of drinking wine from a glass, she just put the whole thing in a jar and drink it.
 * She is one of the first nations to issue Disney stamps!
 * Her people have one of the highest live expectancy, along with Japan and Switzerland, they place 1st.
 * Some stamp collectors said that the country solely exists to sell stamps to collectors. This is...somewhat true 50 years ago but today her philatelic programme is devoid of excesses and of very limited importance to the nation's economy. Still she enjoys creating stamps.
 * She royally sucks at sports, especially soccer in which she has one of the worst football team in the world. Though she still takes pride in her ability to play soccer and is proud of her national team. She also has her moments of glory ( especially the famed fastest goal at 8.3 sec against one of world's giants, England ). Although, she is quite good at baseball and enjoys (mostly watching) racing immensely.
 * San Marino was only at the height of a 8-year-old child up until 1463, where she entered an alliance against  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.046875px;">Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini who was later defeated. She grew a little after that (a result after Pope Pius II gave the country castles and the towns of Fiorentino, Montergiardino and Serravalle). Later that year she grew to her current height and had not grow since then (after the town of Faetano joined the republic on its own accord).

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