The Mayan Empire is a Parliamentary Monarchy made up of 19 provinces and six other territories. It is mainly located in OTL Mexico/Latin America, with territory in OTL California, Northern Peru, Northern New Zealand, and Madura. It is bordered to the south by Burgundian colonies, to the east by Brandenburgian, Venitian, Hellenic, and Russian colonies, and to the north by a Chinese colony. It shares colonial borders with Japan. It was founded in the year 600, as the Mayan city-state of Chichen Itza. Beginning in 1450, it began expanding into bordering regions of similar ethnicity. When it had absorbed all of the Mayan city-states, the country transformed into the Mayan Empire. The Empire then began expansion into Zapotec city-states, and eventually into unoccupied territory.