Costa Palma

Costa Palma, (Spanish Costa Palma) officially the People's Republic of Costa Palma. (Spanish: República Popular de Costa Palma) is a tropical communist island state in the Caribbean sea. It is about 210 km from the coast of Belize, and 156 km from the coast of Honduras. It has 6 states: Mopan, Quinta Moro, Garilla, Yacumbres, and the northern and southern Chac Mool Jungle. The state with the biggest population is Yacumbres, the state with the less population is the Northern Chac Mool Jungle. It counts only 1.389 inhabitants. Its neighbors are Honduras to the south, Guatemala, Belize Mexico to the west, the Cayman Islands to the East, and Cuba to the north. Costa Palma's capital is Los Santos, also the largest city on the island. Los Santos counts more then 4 million inhabitants. Its seat of government is in the capital Los Santos. the nation its economy started growing after a giant typhoon hit the island. The nation has a lot of long history. The Mayans were the first people who ever set a foot on the island.

History
The Mayans who came from the West were the first people who set foot on the Island. They don't exactly know when they came on the island but the first Mayan civilisation was probably founded in like 1000 A.D during the Preclassic period. in 300 A.D the Classic Mayan period began. Here the first big Mayan cities were build, and the Mayan area was at its biggest. The Mesoamerican civilisation got in their Golden Age. But in Europe the city of Rome was looted by the Barbarians, and Europe got into its Dark Ages. The Mayas who developed themselves to great astronomers. Started constructing temples and observatories, even palaces sometimes with more then 200 rooms. The temples of the Mayans were lifted because they believed that you would be closer to the gods if you were higher off the ground. It was usual that they expanded their temples, they ruined the old ones and constructed a bigger one over it. They used to think that the Maya People were a peaceful society. Only busy with themselves and observing the planets and stars. But it turned out that they weren't that peaceful as they thought they were. for example: They had a lot of human sacrifice, they believed that the gods had to be kept alive and it was the responsibility of human kind. There were fights and conflicts all the time, but because of religious reasons. When the star Venus appeared at the morning sky, this was a sign from the gods that it was time for war. The Mayan People in Costa Palma called themselves the Xtulu peoples. Between 800 and 900 A.D the major cities in the southern Maya region all fell into decline and were mostly or completely abandoned. The postclassic period had began, just when Europe slowly was getting out of the Dark Ages. In Costa Palma this didn't had a large effect for the cities in Costa Palma, cause it was an island and only had a little contact with the Mayas at the Yucatan Peninsula. But not long after this happened, also in Costa Palma the classical period came to an end. in this Postclassical period, The Mayas in Costa Palma only knew 1 king. The biggest king was Tukal K'inich Pakun' and was the only one who knew how to conquer the whole island. In the beginning the conquering of other Maya cities were only for religious reasons, but after the Classical period most battles were meant for power. It happened often that as soon if enemy troops got into the city they took all men and sacrificed them to the gods. Tulenqua, the city of Tukal K'inich Pakun' became a destination for refrugees from other cities all over the island. The Dark Ages in Central America had began. Only 3 Mayan cities in Costa Palma remained. These were: Tulenqua, Zotec and Chichumal, all under Tukal K'inich Pakun'. Costa Palma its population fell from more then 500.000, to only 20.000. When the Spanish first arrived in the early 14th century, they brought diseases that were unknown by the Mayans. A lot of them died by these diseases. Tulenqua was first conquered in 1527. Soon all treasure from the temples and palaces in Tulenqua got destroyed or got shipped to Spain. Katholic priests from Europe came to convert the native people. Without any eye for the beauty for the Mayan alphabet and culture. All religious books got burned cause they thought it were messages from the devil. Only 3 out of all Mayan books remaied. all books in Costa Palma got destroyed.