It may be a USA Brazilian thing, the diaspora is quite large.

North America was built by the train, it was later destroyed for the car.

I am trying to picture it, but I think the sunwise convention only works in the Northern hemisphere.

I have a Kobo Libra 2, I quite enjoy it for borrowing books from the public library.

Most republics afaik have “Republic” in their name. I don’t think that’s the problem.