Activity+1+(Basics+of+Country)

Country Name- Duas Insulas -> Our country has two islands and we thought that our name should incorporate this. We looked up this name, two islands, on a translator site and came up with this. We chose Latin because many countries, including our own real one, have their mottos and important sayings in Latin.

﻿Capitol City Name- Urbis Opes -> We wanted our country to radiate success and what better way than for your capitol city to be named "City of Wealth"? However, that would make out for a pretty horrible name so we decided to translate it, once again, into Latin. We were thinking about possibly putting this city in a natural harbor so as to make it a prominent port in the world or putting in the middle of the island so as to be a LARGE market for medicinal and various other types of plants.

National Animal- Poison Dart Frog -> When I think of a tropical rainforest, I automatically think of these bright little amphibians. They are pretty much the poster "child" for the rainforset. Also, they, with their small size, are quite deadly. We thought that this represented us well because we are very small but if messed with, we are deadly.

National Symbol- See down at the bottom (#1) -> We chose this because it represents our islands and our large, large volcanic mountain. Obviously, the mountain is the tall, acicular shape in the center. However, you may be wondering about the stars and why we have them. Well as you can plainly see, there are two of two different sizes. These two different sized stars represent the big and little islands that compose our country.

National Slogan- Fortuna Fidem -> Continuing with our trend of Latin, we obviously translated our slogan. As previously stated, we want to have a prosperous country and what better way, other than of course stating it in the capitol city name, to express this than making it the slogan? So our slogan, as Fortuna Fidem, means "Faith in Fortune".

National Flag- See down at the bottom (#2) -> We designed this to nascially wrap up our country in a nutshell. We have our symbol in the top left which is kind of reminiscent of the stars on the American Flag. Our stripes represent the ocean (blue), rainforest (green), and our national animal (red).

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