San Marino (Empiretalia)

Description

San Marino is a microstate that lives in the Italian peninsula, specifically in North-Central Italy. He is very cheerful and almost always seen with Centro or Vatican, otherwise alone in his solo comic strips. He acts like a stereotypical surfer or cool-beach-guy despite not having a beach of his own (He's kind of salty because he always wanted a beach in his territory). He’s charismatic and has a decent sense of humor. He never really gets angry or sad, but when he does, he overreacts.

Historical Facts

He's Roman Empire's younger brother and Papal State's best friend. He seems to be closer with Vatican and Centro because of their ties to his, now gone, friend.

Appearance San Marino has very light brown hair, or otherwise shown as orange. He always wears sunglasses over his eyes or on his head, even if he’s inside his house or at nighttime. He cares a lot about his appearance and will dress nicely at any given time, otherwise he just stays informal in his normal attire. He doesn’t really have a uniform because of his neutrality, but he still keeps a soldier uniform for VERY important meetings: a dark blue jacket with two lines of golden buttons with matching black pants with an orange stripe on them. Underneath the jacket, he wears an orange shirt, its sleeves are partly visible since the jacket has a bit shorter sleeves that end with a golden stripe. Unlike other countries, he doesn’t wear boots, he wears simple black and shiny shoes underneath the pants. On the jacket, he wears a white ornament that all the guards wear, he also wears pure white gloves in contrast of the main dark color of the uniform. A thing he doesn’t really like about his uniform is the hat: an old-styled black and bronze helmet with on top a bunch of feathers of the colors of his flag, he refuses to wear it most of the time since he claims that that helmet would make him a joke among the other countries in the world meetings he is sometimes afraid of.

Personality and Interests San Marino is a happy guy with a pacific past. He’s laid-back and loves to go on trips to meet other countries. He’s an extrovert and has no problem opening up to anyone he sees since he’s so used to the small and safe territory of his. One thing he doesn’t like about his territory is that it doesn’t have a beach, whenever he visits N. Italy, S. Italy, C. Italy or Crete for the weekend, he can’t help but feel jealousy towards them since he’d love to see the sea any day. It’s because of this passion of his that he wears a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses every day. He always keeps a smile on his face most of the time, but he’s not afraid to show grief, fear or anger at any time, he stays true to himself and everyone around him. One of his flaws is that he can’t put weight on the things that happen around him, if someone gets hurt, he’ll just try to play it cool regardless of the pain the other is feeling. He isn’t very good at giving advice but can put a smile on others’ faces whenever he wants since he can be funny at times. He has a passion for travelling and discovering new places. Discovery and amazement are what drives him to meet all the other countries he is friends with. He seems to be always asking for Centro’s help when he’s in need since she is the closest country to his and the one who protected him and helped him the most. He’s very fashionable when he needs to be and loves to sing, every year he enters the Eurovision Song Contest but never managed to win one, even if he claims it doesn’t bother him, he’d always be in a bad mood after losing once more, but he never gives up: he always tries his best every year until the end of times. Not only does he love to sing, but he's fairly good at playing the guitar too and is secretly admired by Centro that would love to learn from him one day and become as skilled as him in playing the guitar.

Relations San Marino, despite being cheerful and an extrovert, doesn’t have many relations, but the ones he has are strong and meaningful to him… Or so he says.

Central Italy Him and Central Italy bonded over the years. He was one of the first people to meet her when she was first born, after the fall of the Papal State, much to Vatican’s dismay. He always says he wants to protect her, even though, by being neutral and a micronation, he never was able to do so, while Centro protected him from further harm caused by England. He usually pulls pranks on Centro, sometimes going as far as to post the pranks on the web. She sees him as her hyper older brother, despite not being siblings. Anytime San Marino asks Centro to have some more land, she declines, but that doesn’t stop him from asking her each and every time the “territory” discussion is mentioned. Nonetheless, Centro doesn’t hate him as much as she claims she does.

Vatican City San Marino and Vatican City have a very hard friendship. Vatican is secretive and wants privacy in his house, while San Marino respects none of that. Vatican, resigning to the fact that San Marino will never go away, allows him to join in on his activities as the main guard of his boss, the Pope or as the main converter of people. San Marino often helps Vatican spread the word about new comings of the Pope in Rome or other catholic events that San Marino doesn’t care about, but is more than happy to help his friend out with his job. The two used to be very close, San Marino even approved of Vatican's independence and helped him through tough times. He doesn't seem to be thanked at all though.

America San Marino and America had history of being good friends, even giving Abraham Lincoln the honorary citizenship of San Marino. He still holds a grudge against England and so did America, the only difference is that America accepted the bad things England had done and moved on.

South Italy San Marino often visits South Italy because of the beautiful beaches that he owns. S. Italy doesn’t really mind him being there, but runs into him a lot, questioning how much time he spends there and why. They ended up being good friends because of all of their mutual friends, even if S. Italy doesn’t show as much excitement as San Marino does for anything.

Roman Empire

San Marino and him were brothers. Not much is known about their relationship since San Marino was just a kid when Rome was alive.

Quotes "Yeah, yeah. . . I knew the great Roman Empire, did nonno visit you? You poor thing."- San Marino to Germany after the episode where Germany and Rome met. "So what if we didn't win last year!? This year will be different!"- Every time San Marino joins Eurovision ever. "Why do I wear them? Huh, well because I look great in it."- When someone asks him about the Hawaiian shirt he always wears. "Oh, ciao mia bella, come over any time!"- San Marino to Centro any time she comes over. "I'M NOT PART OF ITALY! I'M OLDER, DAMN IT!" – Him whenever somebody mistakenly calls him Italian.

"Yes. We speak Italian. There's no weird other language here, don't worry-" Everytime someone asks him what language he speaks.

Trivia

-He’s the third smallest European country, being surpassed only by Monaco and Vatican City.

-He hates the fact that he doesn’t get recognized at world meetings by other countries.

-He mentioned that he would love to have a bit of sea in his territory but knows that Central Italy won't allow him to get what he wants. That's why he looks like a stereotypical beach guy.

-He's so fascinated by torture devices that he has a museum dedicated to all the torture methods throughout history, it even includes wax statue recreations and pictures of how the torture devices were put to work.

-He's much older than he looks (Around 1700 years old). He's the oldest, still alive, Republic in Europe.