Amestris



"Amestris could've joined the Coalition of the Red Star to battle against us Grand Alliance forces, which sounds more like an opportunity than being just a plain-old direct encounter or something. It's just damn true when the USRAC War did happen, just because that country joined the New Central Powers instead of the regular Coalition. That's just great. Now why could Amestris be advanced to fight against us when Edward Elric and the other Fullmetal Alchemists would grind us down after the Belkan Grey Men framed some heroes for harming these types of alchemists, and even the normal people of that country?"

--Su Ji-Hoon, Amestris In Flames

Amestris (アメストリス, Amesutorisu) is a country that serves as the principal setting of the Fullmetal Alchemist series.

It is a unitary state under the rule of a parliamentary republic, with a population of about 50 (fifty) million. The Head of State is the "Führer" (大総統, Daisōtō in Japanese, a form of "Generalissimo") who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Military, who also consecrates the role of Head of Government.

It seems the country was composed by several former nations, quite diverse in culture and religion, but incorporated by the expanding state of Amestris. The administrative regions of the country seem to reflect those differences. The country has five administrative divisions: South Area, West Area, North Area, East Area and Central Area.

The East Area is the most diverse, sheltering a nation of a different ethnicity called Ishval. The province of Ishval is ethnically and culturally different of the rest of the country: the people there being religious; most of them renounce alchemy, which brought many conflicts with the Central Government in the past and has culminated in the Ishval Civil War.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, they are first appeared in during the World War III that they are formerly joined the Coalition of the Red Star to battling against the Grand Alliance.

Until the USRAC War, when the New Central Powers have exist, they also joined them that they will have advanced technology and started the advanced era after Edward Elric and the Fullmetal Alchemists have joined the New Central Powers since the Belkan Grey Men framed some heroes for harm the Fullmetal Alchemists and Amestrians