-note that government land inside this is under direct control of congressional law

Name - State of Anacostia (English)

Country - United States of America

Capital - Washington

Head of state and government - Governor --------

Legislature - State Assembly

Speaker of the State Assembly - --------

Judiciary - Court of Appeals

Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals - --------

Form of government - Constituent state of the United States of America under a democratic presidential triramic constitution

Form of law - Brougham Code

Demonym - Anacostian

Area - 259 km^2

Largest city - Washington

Time zone -

Language - None; English (unofficial)

Population - 3,532,000

Density - 13,637.07 /km^2

Anthem -

Motto - Deeds, not Words

-technically, Anacostia is one big city which shares its legislature with the state

-but this is simply a legal fiction to avoid a city and state sharing same legislature

-and in practice municipal powers devolved onto regional boroughs which are the same city

-center of the National University of the United States of America

-mostly made (as with most post-liberty war architecture) of concrete but some spectacular buildings

-building on National Mall, center of the Smithsonian

-rest of Smithsonian south of it

-body retrieved postwar

-modelled on Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, on National Mall (but much smaller)

-underneath, made of reinforced concrete

-source and source2

-made in 1880s

-in what is in OTL the location of the Old Naval Observatory

-truly colossal and opulent neoclassicalism

-but made of concrete painted white to prevent the price tag from being too big

-district that looks like various world landmarks

-and ransacked the world's artifacts for replicas

-entrance with two towers topped with ziggurats

-with it having been made at the peak of "Mesopotamania"

-then pool

-then gate, to steps up, to other gate

-gate 1, to Washington, Jefferson, and Webster

-gate 2, to Bancroft, Winter Davis, and Wentworth

-at steps, terraces, within which is stuff

-then opens to roman-style buildings

-buildings center at what looks like heap of rock

-on top of it is Parthenon replica and two buildings on sides of it

-Parthenon replica is a hall devoted to the the presidents

-with statues to all the presidents except American Presidents > 1865-1868 George Washington Woodward (People's) [impeached, removed from office]

-who gets damnatio memoriae in form of empty pedestal w/ plaque saying "This is the spot of George Wash. Woodward, hung for crimes"

-divided all into sectors containing replicas of world monuments all in their own Courts

-akin to a year-round World Expo

-a special emphasis on Mesopotamian monuments

-but also Chinese, Indian, Turkish, Moorish, Roman, and German monuments replicated

-all so that American visitors can see the world here, without having to travel abroad

-serves as sort of a permanent national World Expo

-and a remnant of the World Expo > 1887 Constitution Festival (Washington) for which it was originally established

-each state has a pavilion and they can put what they want there

-additional National Pavilion

-source

-original "White House" turned to rubble during Liberty and Union War (1868-76)

-new President's House built at Meridian Hill to provide new space

-within large parkland

-built postwar near Meridian Hill

-for easy access to President's House

-includes assortment of other houses (in typical Reconstruction era style) for cabinet secretaries

-literally just regular large-sized townhouses from the late 19th century

-used as the national museum

-reconstructed, but because Aquia sandstone largely used up instead they use red sandstone from Seneca Creek and then whitewashed

-following old design of destroyed house but with more grandeur to fill stuff

-only somewhat destroyed during Liberty and Union War, some cannons fallen in

-rebuilt with original materials soon afterwards

-with Statue of Freedom at top constructed with Phrygian cap as refutation to slavery

-note: make black and white and reduce quality

-great garden strip with vast Centennial Avenue constructed through it

-erected in memory of war effort and assassinated presidents

-crosses directly into Centennial Avenue

-on both sides, huge neo-Gothic tower gates

-each topped with statues of George Bancroft and John Wentworth, respectively in memorial

-designed after the Roman Pantheon

-to various personalities

-but largely to Washington, Jefferson, Webster, and Winter Davis who get massive statues in center

-and each state has right to send a statue of a great personality into it

-constructed in 1840s

-triumphal arch with equestrian statue in the center

-grand and sweeping, on the National Mall

-large-sized marble replica of Puritan town house, with colossal statue of Webster inside

-and stuff from his speeches on display

-in honor of American Presidents > 1879-1887 Curran Emmet (Justice)

-an Irish-style round tower made of marble with statue at the base

-on National Mall

-colossal 850 feet obelisk devoted to war

-constructed in 1914

-with memorials to Liberty and Union War (1868-76), Antillean War (1880-4), and International Interventions > Intervention in Grao-Para (1897-8) inside and at its base

-colossal colosseum built on model of Roman one

-except large enough to hold 180,000 people

-and made of concrete

-statues placed on colosseum of national heroes

-in total 388

-is "America's front lawn"

-hosts:

-political rallies

-presidential inauguration

-held outside since American Presidents > 1869-1870 George Bancroft (Justice) † in 1869

-fairs

-voting

-Sports > National Cricket League final match

-with seats placed at the bottom

-a vast column made from cannons, other scrap metal seized from intervention in Zanzibar

-in honor of the great victory

-decorated with great plaques to war in fashion of old column

-centers Zanzibar Park in Arlington

-built by step-grandson of George Washington

-later owned by Robert E. Lee, a general who allied with Richmond Government during Liberty and Union War (1868-76) but died early on in war

-postwar nationalized and turned into war and George Washington monument

-stages of rapid growth

1. 1840s - grew from a set of villages to a real town with Union Canal, and monumentalism followed

2. 1880s and 90s - rapid growth in wartime, and government being in debt means made with cheap concrete

3. early 20th century - better financial situation sees non-concrete buildings

-booming city with massive national infrastructure

-as well as National University of the United States of America > Smithsonian Institution, the anchor of the American university system and has turned it into the center of a Crystal City

-a lot of mid-rises, with concrete buildings dating from post-Liberty War Period

-Anacostia coast

-incorporated as a town in the Webster era

-largely residential

-extends to Pentagon City

-broadly is Anacostia's second downtown core

-around Arlington House

-bridge means development crosses this soon, first city (aside from Alexandria) to be incorporated on south side of Potomac

-incorporated in 1880s

-broadly extension of Washington due to early bridge

-Bluemont

-named after rail junction

-Williamsburg

-named after an installation during the Liberty War

-across from Chain Bridge