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 Romano's dark brown hair and amber eyes of Veneziano, with a curl similar to Seborga. 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 fancily and lady-like, often depicted in a purple dress with a chalk-white bow-tie around the golden-rimmed collars, purple leggings and beige doll 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 golded, 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.



Personality and Interests
San Marino is a pleasant, kind, very polite, calm-headed and old-fashioned who enjoys her own wealth. 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. She also has an incredible luck and charm that helps her gain the alliance and respect of many countries 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.

She enjoys baking 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!), wine and cheese.

Italy
Main Article: Italy  

Although she is being taken care of by Italy, San Marino is more of a motherly figure to Italy than he is to her, although it is sometimes questioned when others saw a seemingly young, short 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 orders 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 hide from Austria, one of the reason why she's still independent today.

South Italy (Romano)
Main Article: South Italy

Romano, in contrast of Italy, is often being seen scolding, although helping and keeping an eye out for 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 seen surrounded by him and Italy when the three of them are together.

She tries to help him out whenever she can. Romano also seems to be calmer and more mature when he acts toward San Marino. This may be due to her 'serenity'.

America
Main Article: America

San Marino and America seems to be on good terms. In the past, president Abraham Lincoln is an honorable citizen of San Marino as they are both republics - an endangered 'species' during the time. Their bosses are said to be on excellent terms with each other. She's seen curtsying and talking happily to him when they saw each other.

France
Main Article: France  

They used to be quite closed 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. Surprisingly, France does not seem to hit on her asides from the first time they met and is more respectful and gentlemanly than romantically. 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 

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 weird and shocking that a seemingly little girl can be older than both him and Italy, but acts surprisingly respectful to her (letting her pat him on his head). He once briefly stayed in her country, but was driven out by the Allied Forces in the Battle of San Marino.

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 looked up to him, they bicker quite often, but more of a teasing way than real insulting.

She also used to declare a war on him, but after being questioned, she denied the fact. 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 the Italy brothers and her went to see Switzerland. After they found the Italy brothers, she became shocked when she found out that San Marino is actually even older than her brother. They became good friends after that.

Austria
Main Article: Austria

San Marino was believed to have declared war on Austria, but similar to England's situation, she didn't remember anything when questioned and denied it with an innocent smile. Austria treated San Marino with respect, though with some suspicion during WWII and during the time when Garibaldi Giuseppe came to refuge at her home.

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 and it does not connect to the Napoleonic War at all.

Trivia

 * No-one knows if her curl also acts as her erogenous zone or not, simply because none of the guys dare to do it, only Liechtenstein has ever touched it, but she never tells.
 * They say that San Marino has a sort of traffic of weapons like guns, as the laws about weapons are different from Italy's, so the Italy brothers go there also for that reason...

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