South American State

South American State, (WC: ) also known as New South America, was a country that existed in Earth in the parallel universe called "Pete's World". South America was originally made up of independent nations, which by the 21st century had unified into a single state called New South America. (PROSE: )

In 2004, the South American State reported that 265,000 people had gone missing. Pete Tyler, using an alias known as Gemini, linked these disappearances to Cybus Industries and sent this information to the Preachers on an encrypted broadcast. (WC: )

While escaping from the Cybermen, Mrs. Moore revealed that Gemini had been sending the Preachers information on John Lumic's South American operations. Pete Tyler admitted that he was Gemini, and mistakenly thought he was broadcasting to the security services. (TV: )

Lumic stated he had Cyber-factories on all seven continents. (TV: ) Following his death, a global war broke out between humans and Cybermen which included South America. (GAME: )