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Florida chuckled weakly at Luz Maria when she compared him to California. "He is a little odd sometimes, but he really isn't that bad, Maria. You should give Alta a chance, si?" he advised although he knew getting Mexico and Alta California to reconcile was like asking Texas to surrender his canons. It just wasn't going to end well. Rutilio quickly gave up on that and instead smiled innocently at her when she mentioned causing trouble. "Us? Cause trouble? We are the very models of good behavior~! All we've done so far is get most of our floor drunk on a school night... nothing bad~!" he said sweetly before turning his attention to California when he rose to the defense of his paparazzi.

Eh, Landon did have a point. There were times when his paparazzi were useful although Florida felt that the cons outweighed the pros. "True... but I will never forgive them for spreading pictures of me sleeping on my porch with an alligator," Rutilio huffed unhappily. "It took forever to reassure travelers that the gators in the Everglades do not usually hang out in people's neighborhoods or houses! People were scared of my Northern regions for months."

As he suspected, getting Mexico and California to get along was an impossible goal. The ironic thing was that when they argued Rutilio could really see the resemblance between them. Stubbornness and that tendency to act out against authority seemed to run in all Mexican blood.

"I will be good," Florida promised Mexico as she patted him on the head. Although his definition of good might be a little different from what she and others had in mind. As Luz Maria sat down he turned his attention to his brother and Georgia. The Floridian's face lit up like Christmas.

"Oh! How rude of me! Alta, this is my new friend! I have decided to call him Kartlos," he said cheerfully even though that was far from a nickname considering it really was the Georgian's name. "I found a Georgia with a better personality than Peaches. He has yet to try to hit or threaten me!" Which was amazing considering how Rutilio and Christian were almost constantly picking at each other and bickering like a pair of high school girls.

Florida glanced at Georgia. "This is Alta, but you should probably call him California or Landon," he said almost as if correcting his little brother when he introduced himself. Rutilio had known both of the Californias when they were kids within the Spanish empire so it sometimes confused him to just say California. Alta came more naturally to the old colony.

Florida chuckled when Landon called the State of Georgia pretty. That would really light a fire under the trap character's butt if he heard someone say that. Either way, Rutilio was glad Kartlos and California were at least trying to get along now that he'd introduced them properly.

However, that shiver a few moments ago concerned Florida. He'd heard nasty things about Russia and he certainly hadn't been a fan of the nation during the Cold War, but to see how much it still effected Georgia made him frown a little. Hopefully Russia wouldn't try anything funny while they were all at school together. Surely not.

... Then again, it had only been a few years since the giant nation had put tanks on Kartlos' borders, right? Maybe there was more cause for concern than Rutilio wanted to acknowledge. Still, Florida couldn't help smiling when the Georgian claimed he would never hit or threaten him unlike the other Georgian he knew.

"Now that we are friends we can all hang out together and have fun, si?" he said more than asked cheerfully. "There is no need to worry about any bullies trying to mess with us as long as we stick together~!" Hopefully even Russia would be hesitant to try coming near Kartlos considering two of the top most influential states in the American Union had buddied up with him.