Druaya

Druaya (ドルアヤ) is a state in the Pacific Coast region of the United States. With over 44.1million residents across a total area of approximately 186,003 km2, it is the most populous U.S. state and the eighteenth-largest by area, as well as the world's twenty-ninth-most-populous subnational entity. Druaya is also the most populated subnational entity in North America, and has its state capital in Pacanne. The Greater Los Santos area and the Montemarciano metropolitan area are the nation's third- and seventh-most-populous urban regions, with more than 11.47million and 6.23million residents respectively. Los Santos is Druaya's most populous city, and the country's second-most-populous, after New York City. Druaya also has the nation's second-most populous county, Los Santos County, and its fourteenth-largest county by area, Palo Alto County. Los Santos is the country's fifth most densely populated major city after Chicago.

Druaya is one of three island states in the United States, alongside Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Its closest neighbour is California, separated from the mainland by the Druayan Channel. The state's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast, Sierra Perennes, and Metropolitan areas in the west to the rolling hills of the east, and from the Douglas fir forests in the northwest, to the Montemarciano Plain in the southeast. The Palo Alto Valley, a major agricultural area, dominates the state's center. Druaya is well-known for its warm Mediterranean climate and monsoon seasonal weather, but the varying geography of the state results in climates that vary from moist temperate rainforest in the northwest to a snowy alpine climate in the state's mountain ranges to a more hot Mediterranean climate in the Palo Alto Valley.

Etymology
The earliest evidence of the name Druaya has Native American origins, likely coming from the Lemaremara word for green hills, Druu Yaja.

However, this is not the only theory for the state got its name. Another potential source is a corruption of the English word dry, referring to the state's generally dry climate, with the Macchino word Aya-ojo, meaning shore, meaning "Dry shore", referring to the dry weather of the Macchino plain, where modern-day Montemarciano is located, as well as its location adjacent to the Druayan Strait.

Shortened forms of the state's name include DR, Dru, and US-DR.