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Name - United Provinces of Buenaventura (English) / Provincias Unidas de Buenaventura (Spanish)
Capital - Ciudad Broderick [Tucson] Pimeria
Administration
Head of state - Executive Council (collective)
Head of government - Executive Councillor of General Affairs Maria Walsh Gutierrez
Legislature - General Audiencia - Senate, Chamber of Deputies
President of the Senate - Joseph Shoemaker
President of the Chamber of Deputies - Francisco Armando Lopez Müller
Judiciary - Supreme Council of Judicature
President of the Supreme Council of Judicature - William Wagner
Form of government - Federal republic under a democratic directorial triramic constitution
Form of law - Brougham Code (commercial), Cambacérès Code (civil, commercial, procedure)
Demonym - Buenaventuran; Buenaventurano
Geography
Area - 5,535,855 km^2
Largest cities
-San Francisco, North California - 5,220,000 (city), 9,082,000 (metro)
-Monterrey, New Leon - 3,270,000 (city), 7,524,000 (metro)
-Matamoros, New Santander - 2,769,000 (city), 5,435,000 (metro)
Time zone - TMP-07:00, -08:00
Currency - Buenaventuran peso
Demography
Language - English, Spanish
Population - 72,162,000
Density - 13.04 /km^2
Symbols
National festival - Independence Day (May 5) - commemorating the Declaration of Independence (1867)
Anthem - Al Grito de Sacramento
Motto - Aurum in pace, ferrum in bello
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Provinces
| Rank | Province | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North California | 13,846,000 |
| 2 | South California | 6,602,000 |
| 3 | New Leon | 11,286,000 |
| 4 | North New Vizcaya | 11,924,000 |
| 5 | South New Vizcaya | 1,521,000 |
| 6 | Comancheria | 221,000 |
| 7 | Northern March | 628,000 |
| 8 | Texas | 13,275,000 |
| 9 | New Santander | 8,893,000 |
| 10 | New Mexico | 2,341,000 |
| 11 | Pimeria | 1,567,000 |
| 12 | Yuta | 234,000 |
| 13 | New Extremadura | 1,624,000 |
| Total< | 73,962,000< |
Largest Cities in Buenaventura
| Rank | City | Province | Population | Metropolitan population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Francisco(a) | North California | 5,221,000 | 12,046,000 |
| 2 | Monterrey | New Leon | 3,270,000 | 7,524,000 |
| 3 | Matamoros | New Santander | 2,769,000 | 5,435,000 |
| 4 | El Paso | North New Vizcaya | 2,534,000 | 4,924,000 |
| 5 | San Diego | South California | 2,150,000 | 4,602,000 |
| 6 | San Antonio | Texas | 1,623,000 | 2,912,000 |
| 7 | San Patricio (b) | Texas | 1,408,000 | 2,705,000 |
| 8 | New Darmstadt(c) | Texas | 1,251,000 | 2,396,000 |
| 9 | Tampico | New Santander | 1,115,000 | 1,958,000 |
| 10 | Conalia(d) | Texas | 1,059,000 | 1,403,000 |
...Ciudad Broderick [Tucson] Pimeria - 530,000
(a) Stretches south to (and not including) San Mateo, and includes Oakland Berkeley, and the East Bay south to (and not including) Hayward
(b) Austin
(c) Fort Worth
(d) Houston
-Buenaventura is a country spanning Texas, the Mexican Cession, and Northern Mexico, which won its independence from Spain in 1864-7, and by today it's a bilingual English-Spanish country
-As Buenaventura's largest city (esp. following independence), SF got built up by the government as a large city and, following the 1906 earthquake, it got the Haussmann treatment of getting a lot of densified mid-rises (and expanded into its suburbs), creating a city that rivals St. Louis and Montreal to be North America's second city north of Mexico (first being New York) and is also by far Buenaventura's densest city
-Buenaventura has an economy deeply centred around oil; here, more tumultuous Arab wars of independence cut off the oil trade from them in the 50s, spiking the cost of oil but their exports make their return and the cost of oil comes way down in the 60s, with first beneficial and then very detrimental effects, and after prices return to "normal", the country desperately fights Dutch disease and diversifies by protectionist economic policies. It later benefits from sun belt growth, including some degree of migration (complicating ethnic politics)
-Monterrey is Mexico's second city in OTL, but here it gets to absorb the role of some of Texas's cities, and its economy centred from an early date around industry (thanks to nearby coal and iron deposits) means it's not as affected by oil glut as other cities, making sure it grows against other large cities to become Buenaventura's second city (with a large metropolitan area)
-The Rio Grande saw larger-scale use as it is entirely within one country here and northern Mexico's considerable oil reserves see investment in tandem with Texas's, benefiting Matamoros and giving it railroad investment and, following the 1900 hurricane, it outpaces Galveztown as Buenaventura's main Gulf port (rather than Houston doing this), resulting in a southward "Texas Triangle"
-With the Owens Valley being in a different province from LA, the LA Aqueduct never gets constructed, resulting in the city being considerably smaller
-With a smaller LA, San Diego benefits and it has a film industry (smaller than Hollywood but there's also a Spanish one for this bilingual country) because California is simply a great place to set up one and SF is too populated to set it up there
-But note that Tijuana's OTL rapid growth has to do with it being a border city - it not being one here means it's way smaller
-El Paso here is roughly the same size as OTL's El Paso-Ciudad Juarez area, but here its economy is a fair bit different and owes more to the large Rio Grande trade as well as industrial development (coming considerably earlier without Mexican wars to its south)
-In contrast, the OTL Texas Triangle is generally a bit worse off due to all the buildup of industry and oil trading elsewhere
-San Antonio was extremely important under Spanish rule and here it keeps its importance, thus its population is the same as OTL despite a less large Texas triangle
-The importance of trade routes to New Mexico and from there to California in this country gives Austin (here founded by Irish settlers, hence the name) more importance, and it turns into a metroplex along with San Antonio
-The Spanish did not build up Dallas-Fort Worth terribly, considering it too close to the border, but following the oil boom a small town quickly turned into a large city; nothing like Dallas-Fort Worth sprang up, however
-Houston (as the name signifies, named by Irish settlers after Daniel O'Connell) is far smaller than OTL, but it still benefited from rail links and the downfall of Galveztown, making it a sizeable city
-Tampico rises initially due to the oil, but later it also obtains wealth as a port as well as a border city, resulting in a diverse economy by the modern day
-Santa Fe's central location made it the country's capital and this resulted in it being built up as a city - it also gets people from a smaller cross-border Sun Belt migration, making language politics testier