New and Improved Mexico is the official name of the First Mexi-American Republic and represents the third time that the descendants of European and Native American settlers have attempted to set up a lasting and functioning political state at the northern reaches of the Rio Grande river in North America. The fledgling nation is a city-island-state, based on the concept of the island city capital of the ancient Aztecs in the Valley of Mexico, with Santa Fe-style Pueblo Indian architectural features. Its 13,204 inhabitants take pride in avoiding the mistakes made by the past and present governments of old Mexico and New Mexico: namely, failing to legalize the drug trade and immigration. The result has been a small city-state not unlike Lichtenstein or Monaco in Europe: a tiny, affluent self-