Pulia

Pulia (Pulian: Puǉa, Italian: Puglia), officially the Republic of Pulia (Pulian: Republika Puǉa, Italian: Repubblica di Puglia), is a country on the heel of Italy. Ethnic Pulians are South Slavs, and the Pulian language is a mix of Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Italian, with a little Turkish.

Foundation
In the early 19th century, some people from the Ottoman Empire (mainly South Slavs) visited the Kingdom of Two Sicilies using boats. Although most of them came just to visit, some of them decided to settle there, and even found their own civilization and country. They declared independence from Two Sicilies, and decided to call it Puǉa, after the region it was on, Puglia. Later, it decided not to join the newly unified state of Italy, and continue being an independent state.

World War I and the Pulian Revolution
Although Pulia kinda backed Serbia in the conflict with Austria-Hungary caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, they stayed neutral for a while in order to maintain loyalty to Italy, who was in the Central Powers at the time. But when Italy switched to the Allies after being promised Ottoman lands, Pulia finally joined the Allies, contributing to the war a bit.

During and after the war, a republican uprising started, aiming to replace the monarchy with a republic. This led to the Pulian Revolution, and the Republicans were successful, abolishing the monarchy and installing a republic in its place.

Fascism
In 1939, Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy invaded Pulia as part of their expansionist policy. Pulia went fascist and joined the Axis because of this. However, in 1943, when the Kingdom of Italy dropped fascism, Pulia gained independence, dropping fascism as well and restoring the republic. Pulia stayed neutral for the rest of the war.

Yugoslavia
When Josip Broz Tito became the President of Yugoslavia in 1953, the at-the-time President of Pulia liked him a lot, and so did a lot of Pulians, so they decided to join Tito's Socialist Yugoslavia. Many people lived happily in this rule.

With the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Pulia gained its independence in April 1992, and has been independent ever since.