Greece

Greece, also known as the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, bordering the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The country is bordering Albania,  Bulgaria,  Turkey, and FYROM/Republic of  North Macedonia. Greece also shares maritime borders with Cyprus,  Egypt,  Italy, and  Libya.

Greece is currently not a very well-known character in the CountryHumans fandom but is slowly becoming more popular. In reality, they're world famous for the Acropolis, Greek mythology, their rich history, and global influence from ancient times.

Male
Most of Greece's appearances resemble Greek mythology or ancient Greek Culture as most of the world is only really taught that era. Greece is usually seen in a golden laurel wreath which symbolises victory in the myth of Daphne and Apollo. All of the Greek Gods  from Ares to Aphrodite are frequently portrayed in them too,  they're usually wearing a white chiton, but the Greeks actually wore all sorts of colours and white is only really seen like that due to the painted statues have lost their colours. Around their waist a gridle or belt is usually seen keeping their clothing up. Like the ancient Greeks and plain leather sandals often with wings as a sort of homage to Hermes the god of thieves and the messenger of gods or give Greece a trident or golden armbands to compliment their clothing.

Sometimes people sort of modernize them, like instead of a chiton they have a white dress shirt and some black slacks, but have a somewhat similar colour scheme and feel to the Ancient appearance.

Female
Much less popular, female Greece is seen in similar outfits to the male version, they're usually seen in modern day clothing such as hoodies, sneakers, dresses, and t-shirts. Most of them do keep a resemblance to the "white colour scheme" sometimes giving them a sun-hat.

Personality
Greece is mostly a proud mess. The Greek economy is suffering and is in massive debt and the events of World War II still affect them but they are very proud of their rich culture that has influenced the entire world and their rich culture and has somewhat of an ego, but overall they've grown quite tolerable due to the millions of tourists that visit the country and they're quite clever. They tend to not plan ahead.

Interests

 * Mythology, Mostly Greek but enjoys other types like Norse as well
 * History
 * Tourism
 * Olives
 * The Olympics
 * Sports
 * Theater
 * Wine
 * Cheese
 * Cats

Flag meaning
There is a white cross from their previous flag and 9 blue and white stripes for the syllables e-leu-the-ri-a-i-tha-na-tos which means "Freedom or death"

Nicknames

 * Hellas
 * Graecia
 * European Dominica (Due too debt)

Other Symbols

 * Animal: Dolphin
 * Bird: Phoenix
 * Laurel branch
 * Violet
 * Olive Tree
 * Owl
 * Colours: Blue and White
 * Vergina Sun
 * Double Headed Eagle
 * Bay Laurel
 * Meander
 * Mt. Olympus

Origin of languages
Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece. It has a long and well-documented history the longest of any Indo-European language spanning 34 centuries.

Etymology
The English name Greece and the similar adaptations in other languages derive from the Latin name Graecia (Greek: Γραικία), literally meaning 'the land of the Greeks', which was used by Ancient Romans to denote the area of modern-day Greece.

Third Hellenic Republic (1974-Present)
WIP

Organizations and Affiliations

 * European Union (EU)
 * United Nations (UN)
 * OSCE.
 * The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
 * Council of Europe.
 * Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)
 * International Maritime Organization (IMO)
 * United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (U.N.E.S.C.O.)
 * International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)

Government
The government of Greece is a Parliamentary Republic. The President, elected by Parliament every five years, is Head of State. The Prime Minister is Head of Government. The Ministerial Council, consisting of the Prime Minister, Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Ministers without portfolio, is the collective decision-making body that constitutes the Government of Greece.

Diplomacy
Africa:


 *  Algeria
 *  Democratic Republic of Congo
 *  Egypt
 *  Kenya
 *  Morocco
 *  Nigeria
 *  South Africa
 *  Sudan
 *  Tunisia
 *  Zimbabwe

North and South America:


 * Argentina
 *  Brazil
 *  Canada
 *  Chile
 *  Cuba
 *  Mexico
 *  Panama
 *  Peru
 *  United States
 *  Uruguay
 *  Venezuela

Asia:


 * Afghanistan
 *  Armenia
 *  Azerbaijan
 *  China
 *  Georgia
 *  India
 *  Indonesia
 *  Iran
 *  Iraq
 *  Israel
 *  Japan
 *  Kazakhstan
 *  Kyrgyzstan
 *  Lebanon
 *  Pakistan
 *  Philippines
 *  Qatar
 *  Saudi Arabia
 *  South Korea
 *  Syria
 *  Thailand
 *  Turkey
 *  United Arab Emirates
 *  Vietnam

Europe:


 * Albania
 *  Austria
 *  Belgium
 *  Bosnia and Herzegovina
 *  Bulgaria
 *  Croatia
 *  Cyprus
 *  Czech Republic
 *  Denmark
 *  Estonia
 *  Finland
 *  France
 *  Germany
 *  Vatican City
 *  Hungary
 *  Ireland
 *  Italy
 *  Latvia
 *  Lithuania
 *  Luxembourg
 *  Malta
 *  Montenegro
 *  Moldova
 *  North Macedonia
 *  Norway
 *  Poland
 *  Portugal
 *  Romania
 *  Russia
 *  Serbia
 *  Slovakia
 *  Slovenia
 *  Spain
 *  Sweden
 *  Ukraine
 *  United Kingdom

Oceania:


 * Australia
 *  New Zealand
 *  Samoa

Geography
Greece features a vast number of islands - between 1,200 and 6,000, depending on the definition, 227 of which are inhabited - and is considered a non-contiguous transcontinental country. Crete is the largest and most populous island; Euboea, separated from the mainland by the 60 m-wide Euripus Strait, is the second-largest, followed by Lesbos and Rhodes.

The Greek islands are traditionally grouped into the following clusters: The Argo-Saronic Islands in the Saronic gulf near Athens, the Cyclades, a large but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea, the North Aegean islands, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey, the Dodecanese, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey, the Sporades, a small tight group off the coast of northeast Euboea, and the Ionian Islands, located to the west of the mainland in the Ionian Sea.

The climate of Greece is primarily Mediterranean, featuring mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. This climate occurs at all coastal locations, including Athens, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Crete, the Peloponnese, the Ionian Islands and parts of the Central Continental Greece region. The Pindus mountain range strongly affects the climate of the country, as areas to the west of the range are considerably wetter on average than the areas lying to the east of the range.

The mountainous areas of Northwestern Greece as well as in the mountainous central parts of Peloponnese – including parts of the regional units of Achaea, Arcadia, and Laconia – feature an Alpine climate with heavy snowfalls. The inland parts of northern Greece, in Central Macedonia and East Macedonia and Thrace feature a temperate climate with cold, damp winters and hot, dry summers with frequent thunderstorms. Snowfalls occur every year in the mountains and northern areas, and brief snowfalls are not unknown even in low-lying southern areas, such as Athens.

Phytogeographically, Greece belongs to the Boreal Kingdom and is shared between the East Mediterranean province of the Mediterranean Region and the Illyrian province of the Circumboreal Region. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature and the European Environment Agency, the territory of Greece can be subdivided into six ecoregions: the Illyrian deciduous forests, Pindus Mountains mixed forests, Balkan mixed forests, Rhodope montane mixed forests, Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests and Crete Mediterranean forests.

Family
Greece's family depends on the person's view:


 * Roman Empire — step-parent
 * Georgia — sibling
 * Armenia — sibling
 * Italy — half-sibling or non-relative
 * Portugal — half-sibling or child
 * Romania — half-sibling or child
 * Spain — half-sibling or child
 * France — half-sibling or child
 * Malta — child
 * Cyprus — child

Friends

 * WIP
 * Ethiopia — "my orthodox sole-sibling in Africa."
 * Cyprus — "I would do anything for you and i love your accent."
 * Italy —"We've shared a long history together, we pretty much can get along even though my olive oil is the best not theirs."
 * Portugal — "Same as Italy"
 * Spain — "Same as Portugal and Italy"

Neutral

 * Serbia
 * Belgium
 * Germany — "I do have a dept to pay off so there's that."
 * North Macedonia — "We've had an argument when it comes to their name and haven't improved much since."
 * Turkey — "I know that the past is the past and that somehow you're no longer them, our relations aren't that bad in general, I just can't forget those days at your authority."

Enemies

 * England

Past Versions

 * Macedonian Empire
 * Macedonia
 * Kingdom of Candia
 * Governorate of the Ionian Islands
 * Septinsular Republic
 * First Hellenic Republic
 * Kingdom of Greece
 * Second Hellenic Republic
 * Greek Military Junta — enemy

Cyprus
Greece thinks of Cyprus as more of a part of them. They love their little heir and they would do anything for them. They both mostly speak the same language.

North Macedonia
Greece and North Macedonia or Rupublic of Macedonia have had a political dispute because Greece says that the name Macedonia is historically inseparable from greek decent and most macedonians are not greek let alone Hellenistic in any way. They have resolved the conflict since with an agreement that the country shold rename it self to Rupublic of North Macedonia.

Turkey
Historically, they had a lot of drama and arguments with each other because of the Ottoman Empire, They felt horrified.

Italy, Spain and Portugal
They shared for many years the Mediterranean and seafaring culture. So they are very similar, however, sometimes they do argue with each other about who has the best olive oil.

Trivia

 * The word "lesbian" is derived from the island of Lesbon where the Greek Poet Sappho came from
 * Greece would most likely follow Eastern Orthodox as a religion
 * Greece’s official name is the Hellenic Republic. It is known as Hellas or Ellada.
 * Currency: Greece adopted the euro, the EU’s common currency. Before that, Greece’s currency was drachma and was Europe’s oldest currency.
 * Greece is a member of the European Union since 1981 and of NATO since 1952.
 * Greek is one of the oldest spoken languages in Europe since it has been spoken for more than 3.000 years.
 * Greece has about 9,000 miles of coastline.
 * The first Olympic Games took place in 776 B.C.
 * Greece is the place where democracy was born. But democracy in ancient Athens was significantly different from modern democracies. It was both more participatory and exclusive, and there were no political parties in Athenian democracy.
 * Greece (along with Cyprus) has the longest national anthem in the world by length of text. It is called "Hymn to Liberty" (🇬🇷: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν) and written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 and has 158 stanzas. Its first three stanzas were adopted in 1865 as the official anthem, and later they removed the last stanza making the official anthem 2 stanzas long.