North Italy

Nation's name: Repubblica Italiana (Italian Republic)

Capital: Rome

Language: Italian

Birthday: March 17th

National flower: Daisy

Human name: Feliciano Vargas

Height: 172cm (5'8")

Age: 20 (appearance)

The beloved and favorite grandson of the once great Roman Empire, North Italy, better known as just "Italy," can be described as nonetheless, a failure in following in his grandpa's footsteps and a complete crybaby. He is often called "Veneziano" because he represents the northern half of the country. He has short reddish-brown hair with a curly ahoge that sticks out on the left side of his head, and brown eyes. In earlier artwork, Italy's hair was colored a medium shade of brown and his eyes were colored grey.

As a child, he spent his days with his grandpa until he passed away. Afterwards, he was taken to live in Austria's house along with Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire, who did not know of his true gender and developed a crush on him. His gender was often mistaken because he was always seen wearing dresses. Even Austria did not know of his gender, and did not find out until Italy had a giant growth spurt and his voice changed.

His official blood-related brother is South Italy, more commonly called "Romano." It was confirmed that Romano is the older of the two, and that they are not twins (despite some assumptions by fans). The two weren't raised together, and since Italy apparently inherited all of their grandfather's traits (and good looks, according to Romano), they are on somewhat bad terms. Italy loves his older brother very much, but Romano seems less than enthused to even admit that the two are related. Despite this, Romano does actually care for Italy, as revealed in some instances where he showed dismay for various reasons, most often being the fact that Italy admires and spends time with Germany more than he does with him. It should be noted that Italy calls his brother "Romano," and Romano calls Italy "Veneziano" (most likely to avoid confusion between the two).

He considers France and Spain to also be his older brothers, going so far as to refer to them as "Spain-niichan" (Big Brother Spain) and "France-oniichan" (Big Brother France). Spain, who was in control of Romano at one time, wanted nothing more than for Italy to come and live in his house, a dream that he still has even to this day. Nowadays, France, who fought against Italy in WWII, still has a pleasant relationship with him and often gives him (usually bad and inappropriate) advice at times.